The controversial lieutenant governor of North Carolina who is now running for governor has made controversial statements in the past, such as wanting to go back to a time when women couldn’t vote and condemning homosexuality in the harshest terms, calling them ‘filth’. He has made appealing to the evangelical Christian community a key part of his message. But now comes along a new report from CNN revealing that he has said and done things in the past that might make his Christian supporters cringe. They were so bad that CNN is not publishing the most graphic details.
Mark Robinson, the controversial and socially conservative Republican nominee for governor of North Carolina, made a series of inflammatory comments on a pornography website’s message board more than a decade ago, in which he referred to himself as a “black NAZI!” and expressed support for reinstating slavery, a CNN KFile investigation found.
Despite a recent history of anti-transgender rhetoric, Robinson said he enjoyed watching transgender pornography, a review of archived messages found in which he also referred to himself as a “perv.”
…Many of Robinson’s comments were gratuitously sexual and lewd in nature. They were made between 2008 and 2012 on “Nude Africa,” a pornographic website that includes a message board. The comments were made under the username minisoldr, a moniker Robinson used frequently online.
…Now campaigning for governor, he says he supports a so-called “heartbeat” bill that would ban abortion when a heartbeat is detected – approximately six weeks – with exceptions for rape, incest and health of the mother.
But writing as minisoldr on Nude Africa in December 2010, Robinson said he did not care about a celebrity having an abortion.
“I don’t care. I just wanna see the sex tape!” Robinson wrote.
In another thread, commenters considered whether to believe the story of a woman who said she was raped by her taxi driver while intoxicated. In response, Robinson wrote, “and the moral of this story….. Don’t f**k a white b*tch!”
Robinson, who would become North Carolina’s first Black governor if elected, also repeatedly maligned civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., attacking him in such intense terms that a user accused him of being a white supremacist.
“Get that f*cking commie bastard off the National Mall!,” Robinson wrote about the dedication of the memorial to King in Washington, DC, by then-President Barack Obama.
Now it appears that Robinson, who is married, also had an account on the website Ashley Madison, a site where married people go to find others who want to have extramarital affairs.
Creepy Donald Trump desperately wants to win North Carolina and may have hoped that Robinson would help him. He has gushed over him in the past, calling him better than Martin Luther King.
Trump: Mark Robinson is Martin Luther King on steroids. He is better than Martin Luther King pic.twitter.com/GFPWV0zhXx
— Kamala HQ (@KamalaHQ) September 19, 2024
Creepy Trump is expected to campaign in that state on Saturday and now it is not clear if he will invite Robinson to appear with him. We should not be surprised if there is an announcement that there were some ‘schedule conflicts’ that prevented it.
Meanwhile, some Republicans in North Carolina, alarmed about how Robinson might drag every Republican down with him, are calling for him to be replaced, no doubt hoping that a Biden-to-Harris-type transition might give them a similar rise in fortunes. But given how late in the game it is, replacing him would be extremely complicated, especially since he shows no signs of agreeing to leave. So they are likely stuck with him.
The Harris-Walz campaign has lost no time pushing the idea that Robinson and creepy Trump are the best of friends.
Best friends ❤️ pic.twitter.com/baS5sRfzIo
— Kamala HQ (@KamalaHQ) September 19, 2024
The Daily Show‘s Ronnie Chieng had more on Robinson’s activities, and also had more about the Springfield cat story.
When I was a kid, we had a cat that would disappear for up to two weeks at a time. My guess is that she was two-timing us with another family. Strangely enough, my parents never once claimed she had been stolen and eaten by immigrants.
Considering the purpose(s) of a porn site, what could make comments there “gratuitously sexual”?
Though it won’t stop them talking about it, I was relieved to hear Dump say he’d be visiting Springfield in two weeks.
@3. This is a good thing. Trump also said he attends to visit Aurora, Colorado (the Venezuelan gangs BS). The fact he plans to visit Ohio, a red state and then Colorado, a blue state is remarkably stupid. Trump is wasting valuable resources and time better off used in the handful of swing states, so this is a good thing. Let him chase ghosts so Harris can do the heavy lifting in the swing states. I hope he continues to waste resources and further alienate moderate and independent voters.
My fear is Trump’s visits in those places will turn into riots of his supporters.
@3,4,5
Trump often promises things he’ll deliver in the next two weeks: https://www.youtube.com/watch/6Pt2q-Cp5W4
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We had one of those cats, the people concerned were convinced she was their cat even though we’d had her from a kitten. They did change their minds when we said they should pay the vet bills then, cat was a fighter and needed regular vet trips for wounds received. Quite how they thought she got treated before they learned she was our cat I’m not sure.
Jörg @6: Exactly. Hence my relief, knowing he’ll never go there. I guess my joke was too subtle…
I don’t view the long-buried past actions and social media posts of such a disreputable person as being nearly so scandalous as the fact that he was able to get to the position of lieutenant governor of a state of five million voters, as well as the candidacy to be elected governor, when there is such ample evidence of him shooting his mouth off on the record as a politician. Just going back a couple of months to June 30 of this year there is an entire litany to stochastic terrorism and incitement of violence that he delivered to a church audience including the words, “some folks need killing”, which suggests to me that Robinson alone isn’t the problem; there is an entire network of amoral, asocial enablers who see people like Robinson as viable leaders, and a public so inured to shitty politicians that there is nothing that will stop them pulling the lever.
My guess is, there are a whole army of Robinson clones. Like him, they have enough sense to not flaunt their downright fascist views openly, and many of them are to be found at various levels of public office. He is just the one who got found out.