MLK Was An Inferior Pastor And ‘Communist,’ Said Top GOP Candidate For N.C. Governor
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America squashed their beef with Britain but no one is trying to restore the image of Benedict Arnold. He was from America.
France squashed their beef with Germany but not many in France are trying to restore the image of Nazi collaborating Vichy government. They were French.
Traitors are always viewed as the lowest of the low.
We know you down with that c00n paradigm.
He is a tool of WS. Eventually when his usefulness is over, they will break him. They will then raise up another tool to use, because there seems to always be people ready and willing to be used.
I wonder what his extended family thinks of him? Does he go to family reunions, and is he welcomed with open arms?
I wonder what his extended family thinks of him? Does he go to family reunions, and is he welcomed with open arms?
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this guy is going to make Jesse Lee Peterson blush
this guy is going to make Jesse Lee Peterson blush
MAGA Gov Candidate’s Ugly, Hateful Rant: “Some Folks Need Killing!”
Mark Robinson, the GOP nominee for governor in North Carolina, has a long history of incendiary comments. But he may have topped himself this time.
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MAGA Gov Candidate’s Ugly, Hateful Rant: “Some Folks Need Killing!”
Mark Robinson, the GOP nominee for governor in North Carolina, has a long history of incendiary comments. But he may have topped himself this time.
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North Carolina Lieutenant Governor Mark Robinson speaks at the Faith and Freedom Road to Majority conference in Washington, D.C., on June 21.
Mark Robinson, the extremist GOP nominee for governor in North Carolina, appeared to endorse political violence in a bizarre and extended rant he delivered on June 30 in a small-town church.
“Some folks need killing!” Robinson, the state’s lieutenant governor, shouted during a roughly half-hour-long speech in Lake Church in the tiny town of White Lake, in the southeast corner of the state. “It’s time for somebody to say it. It’s not a matter of vengeance. It’s not a matter of being mean or spiteful. It’s a matter of necessity!”
Robinson’s call for the “killing” of “some folks” came during an extended diatribe in which he attacked an extraordinary assortment of enemies. These ranged from “people who have evil intent” to “wicked people” to those doing things like “torturing and murdering and raping” to socialists and Communists. He also invoked those supposedly undermining America’s founding ideals and leftists allegedly persecuting conservatives by canceling them and doxxing them online.
In all this, Robinson appeared to endorse lethal violence against these unnamed enemies, particularly on the left, though he wasn’t exactly clear on which “folks” are the ones who “need killing.”
Robinson, a self-described “MAGA Republican,” has a long history of wildly radical and unhinged moments. He has linked homosexuality to pedophilia, called for the arrest of trans women, pushed hallucinogenic antisemitic conspiracy theories, endorsed the vile “birther” conspiracy about Barack Obama, described Michelle Obama as a man, hinted at the need to violently oppose federal law enforcement and the government, and posted memes mocking and denying the brutal, violent assault on Nancy Pelosi’s husband, among many other things.
His latest rant is yet another example of an ugly game widely played on the MAGA right, one supercharged by Donald Trump. It entails hinting that right-wing political violence is necessary and justified because a ubiquitous, all-seeing, all-powerful leftist threat—one that is pure invention—is already supposedly attacking and persecuting conservatives on a mass scale.
Here’s what Robinson said (bold mine):
Robinson might try to argue that he only meant that our enemies during World War II—and torturers and murderers and rapists today—deserve “killing.” But the sum total of his remarks plainly suggests otherwise. He seemed to analogize the need to kill World War II enemies to the need to kill enemies in the present, enemies who harbor “evil intent,” enemies conservatives are struggling against “now.”
What’s more, Robinson described those enemies in very broad terms. He suggested that conservatives will lose the spirit of 1776 (meaning their country) to enemies who harass them on social media and elsewhere unless they are prepared to unleash the army and cops to “handle” (i.e., kill) them. These appear to be the “folks” who “need killing.”
Indeed, when Robinson predicted that liberals will say “that sounds awful,” and “too bad,” he himself appeared to anticipate that his call for “killing” would be perceived as a call for political violence.
The Reverend Cameron McGill, the Pastor of Lake Church, confirmed to me that he and Robinson expected these remarks about “killing” to be “scrutinized,” but defended them.
“Without a doubt, those he deemed worthy of death [were] those seeking to kill us,” Pastor Cameron said in an email, adding that Robinson “certainly did not imply the taking of any innocent lives” and that the rest of his speech was “non-controversial.” There was no formal media presence during the speech, the Pastor confirmed.
Video of the speech was clipped by a Democrat, who took it off Lake Church’s video of the event on Facebook, which is still there in full. The Democrat flagged it for The New Republic. You can watch it here:
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This tendency on the right to invoke an infinitely hallucinogenic and malleable leftist enemy to justify in advance the political violence that the right itself wants to unleash on its enemies is a near-daily occurrence. Another ripe example came just this week from Kevin Roberts, president of the Heritage Foundation, the brain trust behind Project 2025’s radical blueprint for MAGA authoritarian rule under a second Trump presidency.
“We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be,” Roberts declared.
In this, Roberts essentially said that if liberals and Democrats too vehemently resist MAGA’s intent to stock the government with corrupt loyalists to Trump and unleash mass persecution of the opposition, violence will be necessary to crush them—and if so, it will be their fault for not meekly accepting what they have coming to them. Meanwhile, Trump himself recently suggested that political violence may erupt if the presidential election isn’t conducted with “fairness” and is stolen from him, by which he really means, “if I don’t win.”
Robinson’s new comments are also notable for political reasons. They’re a reminder that the GOP nominee for governor in North Carolina is so extreme that the race to replace term-limited Governor Roy Cooper—Robinson is running against Democratic Attorney General Josh Stein—may prove competitive, even in this red-leaning state.
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This is a mental illness level of c00nery. nikkas like this need to be institutionalized and never heard from.
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Life is absurd. Lean into it.
Some mental illness can't be cured. He's seemingly pathological. He needs to be handled.
He says that stupid shyt until he is the one that that crowd of redneck peckerwood meth smoking trash gets around to killing. That man is a fool.
Fake pastor, fake Christian. He doesn't worship The Most High, rather he worships and kneels at the feet of racist white men.
North Carolina GOP candidate Mark Robinson, a harsh abortion critic, says his wife once had the procedure in new ad
The state's lieutenant governor, who is running for governor, made the revelation in a new TV ad with his wife.
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North Carolina GOP candidate Mark Robinson, a harsh abortion critic, says his wife once had the procedure in new ad
The state's lieutenant governor, who is running for governor, made the revelation in a new TV ad with his wife.
Mark Robinson has put out an ad revealing that his wife had an abortion 30 years ago.Leon Neal / Getty Images file
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Aug. 2, 2024, 2:42 PM EDT / Updated Aug. 3, 2024, 9:33 AM EDT
By Alexandra Marquez
The Republican nominee for governor of North Carolina is out with a new TV ad where he and his wife tell viewers that she had an abortion 30 years ago.
In the ad, Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson and his wife talk directly to the camera, revealing few details about the procedure beyond his telling viewers, "Thirty years ago, my wife and I made a very difficult decision. We had an abortion."
It's not the first time Robinson has admitted that he paid for his then-girlfriend, now his wife, to have an abortion. He first mentioned the abortion on Facebook in 2012, according to WRAL.
Later in the ad, Robinson says he agrees with the current abortion restrictions in North Carolina, which limit the procedure after 12 weeks of pregnancy, with exceptions for rape, incest or the life of the mother, and says "that's why I stand by our current law."
But the ad comes as news organizations and Democratic groups in the state have for months unearthed controversial comments Robinson has made about abortion, including in a Facebook Live stream in 2019, where he said, “Abortion in this country is not about protecting the lives of mothers ... It is about killing the child because you weren’t responsible enough to keep your skirt down.”
Democratic state Attorney General Josh Stein, who is running against Robinson in the race to succeed Gov. Roy Cooper, a term-limited Democrat, used the Facebook Live comments in an attack ad against the lieutenant governor in recent weeks. The ad shows Robinson appearing to say that if he were governor and had a “willing” state Legislature, he would sign legislation into law banning abortion “for any reason.”
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In a statement Friday, a spokesperson for Stein’s campaign pointed to Robinson’s previous remarks on abortion.
“If North Carolinians want to know where Mark Robinson really stands on abortion, they should listen to every other comment he’s made on the issue before today,” campaign spokesperson Morgan Hopkins said.
“Mark Robinson knows North Carolinians can’t stomach his beliefs that abortion should be banned ‘for any reason’ and that women have abortions because they ‘can’t keep their skirts down,’ so he has resorted to running from his record and misleading voters,” Hopkins added.
During the GOP gubernatorial primary earlier this year, Robinson told voters at a campaign event, "We’ve got it down to 12 weeks, the next goal is to get it down to six, and then just keep moving from there," referring to abortion, a local Fox News affiliate reported.
Robinson also referred to abortion as "murder" and "genocide" on his personal Facebook page in 2018.
Robinson’s promise in his TV ad to keep the state’s abortion ban at 12 weeks appears to mark a shift from his previous remarks.
Asked how the lieutenant governor reconciles the revelation in the ad with his past comments, his campaign spokesperson, Mark Lonergan, did not address Robinson’s previous remarks.
"The legislature has already spoken on this issue," Lonergan replied. "As governor, Mark Robinson will work to make North Carolina a destination for life by building a culture that does more to support women and families, including bolstering adoption, as well as foster and childcare."
Robinson isn't the first GOP candidate this year to publicly say his wife had an abortion. In Nevada earlier this year, GOP Senate nominee Sam Brown and his wife, Amy, told NBC News that she had an abortion in 2008.
And in addition to Robinson, GOP candidates for governor in Washington and New Hampshire, two other competitive gubernatorial races this year, are also currently running TV ads promising not to change state abortion laws if elected. The ads come as Republicans grapple with Democratic efforts to brand them as extreme on the issue.
In New Hampshire, former Sen. Kelly Ayotte tells viewers in an ad currently on the air, "No matter what they say or how many times they say it, as governor I fully support and will not change New Hampshire’s abortion law."
And in Washington, former Rep. Dave Reichert addresses the issue in one of the ads he is running on TV, saying, "As governor, I will not change Washington law on this issue."
