GOP Embraces Diversity with BLACK Nazi
Republican Party stands behind history-making gubernatorial candidate
Sept. 20: Danger, Mark Robinson! … Vance and pre-existing conditions … Sanders seeks to block arms for Israel … One (1) poll shows Cruz cruising to a loss …
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The deadline for candidates to withdraw from the North Carolina gubernatorial race was last night at midnight, but the Republican Party is so committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) that it’s keeping Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson (R-NC) on the ballot.
Robinson said yesterday that he’s not withdrawing, despite CNN’s report that he once said he’s a Black Nazi. Robinson denied the report, apparently aware of its potential political damage, since Republicans have a mixed record of electing candidates who are Black and/or Nazis. Feature or bug remains to be seen.
CNN says it found a number of statements Robinson made using an alias between 2008 and 2012 on the political discussion message board “Nude Africa.” The greatest hits:
Fantasizing about when he was 14 and violated women’s privacy at a public gym shower: “I sat there for about an hour and watched as several girls came in and showered … I went peeping again the next morning, but after that I went back the ladder was locked! So those two times where [sic] the only times I got to do it! Ahhhhh memories!!!!”
His time as an aficionado of transgender pornography: “I like watching tranny on girl porn! That’s fucking hot! It takes the man out while leaving the man in! … And yeah I’m a ‘perv’ too!”
His indifference to a celebrity’s abortion: “I don’t care. I just wanna see the sex tape!”
Responding to news of a white woman’s claim she was raped while intoxicated: “...the moral of this story….. Don’t fuck a white bitch!”
His aesthetic assessment of the new Martin Luther King, Jr., national memorial: “Get that fucking commie bastard off the National Mall! … I’m not in the KKK. They don’t let blacks join. If I was in the KKK I would have called him Martin Lucifer Koon!” (Robinson denied attempting to integrate the KKK.)
His nicknames for King: “commie bastard,” “ho fucking, phony,” and a “huckster” who’s “worse than a maggot.”
His nicknames for short Muslims: “little rag-headed bastards.”
His nickname for gay people: “Fags.”
His 2012 dissertation, a comparative analysis of Pres. Barack Obama and Adolf Hitler: “I’d take Hitler over any of the shit that’s in Washington right now!”
Responding to no one asking him anything relevant: “I’m a black NAZI!”
His willingness to diversify his staff with non-union labor: “Slavery is not bad. Some people need to be slaves. I wish they would bring it (slavery) back. I would certainly buy a few.”
His review of the “Good Times” sitcom: “[T]he show itself was a bunch of heb [sic, he apparently meant the antisemitic slur “Hebe”] written liberal bullshit!”
His review of a photo of a male couple kissing after one returned from a military deployment: “That’s sum ole sick ass faggot bullshit!”
The weird thing is, Republicans keep reminding us that Republicans freed the slaves and Democrats were the racists, so shouldn’t Robinson be running as a Democrat?
In some ways, though, it’s not surprising that Republicans are rallying around Robinson despite accusations of tokenism, racism, and sexism. The private remarks he denies making are barely more scandalous than what he’s said publicly…as part of his campaign.
Robinson reportedly is one of the country’s few Black Nazis, the first to hold his current position as lieutenant governor and would be the first Black Nazi elected as governor if he wins. Just by running, of course, for the first time he’s giving a generation of young Black Nazis the chance to see a candidate who looks like them.
This particular glass ceiling has stood for generations in the U.S. and is rarely even challenged. If Robinson does shatter it, he will join a long history of Nazi glass-breaking that goes all the way back to cultural milestones such as Kristallnacht.
Republicans are so proud of their diverse candidate field that they’re running an ad campaign reminding folks how close Trump is to Robinson.
(Correction: The ad campaign is actually being run by Democrats reminding folks how close Trump is to Robinson. TFN does not regret the error.)
In keeping with the Republican commitment to Nazi DEI, the party leader yesterday pre-blamed Jews for his possible loss in November, diversifying an antisemitism with anti-antisemitism.
Referring to his current poll standing among Jewish voters, former Pres. Donald Trump said, “The Jewish people would have a lot to do with the loss if I’m at 40%. I mean, think of it, that means 60% voting for [Vice President] Kamala [Harris].”
The remarks were controversial among Republicans not for the explicit scapegoating, but because Trump is supposed to be claiming that he’s winning and won’t lose, and he’s supposed to be claiming that if he does lose it’ll be because it was stolen. Trump’s new remarks make Jew-blaming the only scenario in which Trump is admitting the possibility of a legitimate loss.
Trump was speaking at a “Fighting Antisemitism” event organized by Israeli-American casino magnate Miriam Adelson.
Just like whenever Trump uses antisemitic language to smear Jews who don’t vote for him, the Jewish Council for Public Affairs condemned the speech, saying, “Trump continues to label Jews who don’t support him as disloyal and crazy, to play into dangerous dual loyalty tropes.”
Among the right-wing audience members listening to Trump, however, his remarks didn’t cause much of a furor disturbance.
ISRAEL Meanwhile, it’s not just Democratic Jews who hate Jews, according to Trump. So does at least one independent Jew. A Jewish senator!
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is preparing resolutions to block the U.S. sale of an additional $20 billion in arms to Israel. “Much of this carnage in Gaza has been carried out with U.S.-provided military equipment,” said Sanders, who unlike other senators did not mean that in a good way.
The resolutions have little chance of passing. If they do become law, however, they’ll be legally binding on Pres. Joe Biden, giving him no legal option other than to totally ignore them the way he’s ignoring existing laws that already prohibit the sale of U.S. weapons to kill civilians.
BLACK VOTERS NOT VERY DIVERSE For all the talk about an exodus of Black men to the Trump campaign, his overall support from Black voters appears to be similar to its past levels: Teeny-tiny. (h/t)
A new Fox poll finds that 82% of Black voters support Harris, while just 12% are on Team Black NAZI.
Harris has relative soft spots in the Black electorate, however. Among young Black voters, only 75% back Harris, while 16% want Trump to win. Black men over 50, however, favor Harris over Trump by a margin of 88% to just 10%. Black men over 50, it’s worth noting, have seen some things.
GOP Governor Hits Trump, Vance, for Fuzzing Springfield
As your diligent, foresighted TFN wrote earlier this week, former Pres. Donald Trump and running mate Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) have fuzzed the city of Springfield, OH.
Fuzzing is when you call officials for help, and the official response is to restore order by attacking you. In the past, fuzzing consisted of people getting shot after someone called the cops because they thought they saw a prowler or someone they cared about was having an episode of some kind.
But since Springfield asked Vance in July for federal aid to house its new Haitian residents, Vance and then Trump responded by, well, fuzzing the entire city.
Gov. Mike DeWine (R-OH) has pushed back. Sometimes forcefully, sometimes Republicanly. But today’s he’s got a whole-ass op-ed in the New York Times about this fuzzing (that he doesn’t call fuzzing). Before I read it, I vowed to myself that “If he does not name Trump and Vance I will not even cover it.”
Newsfucker, he named them.
“As a supporter of former President Donald Trump and Senator JD Vance, I am saddened by how they and others continue to repeat claims that lack evidence and disparage the legal migrants living in Springfield. This rhetoric hurts the city and its people, and it hurts those who have spent their lives there.
“...their verbal attacks against these Haitians — who are legally present in the United States — dilute and cloud what should be a winning argument about the [made-up non-existent politically useful crisis at the] border.
“...our people and our history deserve better than to be falsely portrayed.
“I am proud of this community, and America should be, too.”
It’s a flawed-but-laudable start. DeWine goes on about his personal experience with Haiti and Haitians, which is a bummer because it means yet again Republican compassion arises from only direct empirical evidence rather than the ability to abstract that everyone is human even if you personally with your own eyes haven’t met them and shared your Christian faith.
And DeWine makes it sound like no city could have prepared for the Haitian influx. Which is not what his fellow Republican, Mayor Rob Rue, says. As I’ve written over on the Jonathan Larsen Substack, Rue says Springfield could have prepared…if city officials knew that local businesses were secretly planning to bring in so many workers.
Still, a good start that could be a game-changer. Shame-detection sensors on standby!
Vance Diagnosed with Pre-Existing Condition
Sen. JD Vance (R-OH), the Republican vice-presidential candidate, has been diagnosed with a pre-existing condition that’s proven politically fatal for other sufferers.
Vance began showing symptoms this week, first on Meet the Press. Vance’s mouth was observed to emit a strange, oozing sound that tests showed contained elements of deregulating health insurance. Left untreated that can metastasize, leading to people with pre-existing conditions not being able to afford health insurance, which means they can’t afford health care, which means they can’t afford to stay alive, which means they don’t.
Republicans are genetically disposed to the congenital pre-existing condition of an uncontrollable urge to remove protections for pre-existing conditions. The condition reached near-epidemic stages when then-Pres. Barack Obama tried and then succeeded at forcing insurance companies to cover people with pre-existing conditions.
Despite their recent opposition to masks, Republicans were able to get their pre-existing pre-existing condition condition under control by finally managing to keep their mouths shut.
This new outbreak began, as Politico reports, when Vance, the new Patient Zero, endorsed deregulating health care so that insurance companies could offer separate plans to health people and sick people. Health-care plans just for sick people would, of course, be so expensive that people wouldn’t be able to afford it, which means they die.
Vance’s prognosis is unknown, and it’s unclear whether he has any insurance against opening his mouth again.
Trump Somehow Takes Stock Market to Record Highs
The Dow Jones Average and the S&P 500 both closed at record highs yesterday, thanks somehow to former Pres. Donald Trump, who was president more than three years ago and in theory might be president four months from now.
The Dow closed at 522 points, 1.3% higher for the day, while the S&P was up 1.7%, above 5,700 for the first time ever including when Trump was president and hadn’t yet somehow caused today’s record highs.
The market gains followed Wednesday’s cut in interest rates, making borrowing money cheaper for banks and companies and consumers but mostly banks and companies but really mostly banks. And it was Trump who appointed Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell.
But Trump has pressured Powell not to cut interest rates while Democrats can reap any political advantages, so the cheaper cost of borrowing money couldn’t have been responsible for yesterday’s market records that Trump somehow caused.
Report: Trump Saved Thousands of Lives by Preventing Overdose Deaths
National Public Radio reports that public health data show a dramatic drop in the number of overdose deaths. The cause of the sudden decline is not yet clear, but NPR credits increasing availability of naloxone among fentanyl users who are now more educated in using it to prevent deadly overdoses, thanks somehow to former Pres. Donald Trump, who also recently caused new stock market records somehow.
Trump does deserve some credit, because the number of lives saved wouldn’t be so big if drug deaths hadn’t first soared so high starting under his administration in 2019. Here’s what NPR’s chart of drug deaths looks like:
"This is exciting," said Dr. Nora Volkow, head of the National Institute On Drug Abuse. "This looks real. This looks very, very real." Which is the kind of thing you say when you’re on drugs.
If the decline continues and is sustainable for at least the next two months, that could hand Vice Pres. Kamala Harris another achievement — on top of the stock market, declining inflation, reduced illegal border crossings, and stable job numbers — that Trump can somehow take credit for.
Crime Watch (aka Not-a-Crime-in-Florida Watch)
ATTEMPTED-ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT As your legal-minded TFN astutely noted almost immediately after when a guy didn’t take a shot at former Pres. Donald Trump, it’s not clear whether the guy broke any serious laws when he brought a rifle on his camping trip just outside Trump’s golf course, because it’s not clear whether Florida has any serious laws.
So now federal prosecutors are trying to come up with something to charge alleged non-shooter Ryan Wesley Routh with. The only obvious charges are that he wasn’t supposed to have a semi-automatic rifle — not because no one should have a semi-automatic rifle but because the law prevents people with criminal records from having them — and that the serial number was erased.
Florida’s Draconian gun laws: Machines that instantly kill people a quarter-mile away with one finger squeeze must have the right numbers written on it.
It’s technically possible that Routh violated other Florida laws, such as failing to stand his ground by firing back when a Secret Service officer fired at him, and instead of standing his ground leaving his ground by driving his car.
Camping without a permit would, of course, violate Florida environmental laws if Florida had environmental laws.
But, CNN reports, the feds want something other than Florida’s risible gun “laws” to put this non-attempted killer in a cage for a long time and spare taxpayers the much lower cost of getting the guy some help.
Reportedly, the feds are looking at shit Routh has written as proof or at least something that smells like proof that Routh wanted or intended to kill Trump. The brass ring would be evidence that Routh was in cahoots with Iran or some other terrorist, preferably Muslim, preferably from a country that would justify a war.
Campaign Watch
TEXAS Every time there’s a statewide election in Texas, Democrats dare ask aloud, “Could…this be the year?”
The answer is always no, but past performance is no indicator of future results, and tradition demands that Democrats raise their hopes and give it a shot again, so here we go!
A new poll shows Rep. Colin Allred (D-TX) in a statistical tie with Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX). And by statistical tie I mean that, technically, even though it’s within the margin of error, Allred is Allahead by one (1) whole percent. Is it possible that’s an outlier? Of course, but, again, this is the time of year when Democrats celebrate the harvest by raising hopes in Texas.
Now, Cruz should be losing if only because polling suggests most voters know that he is literally Ted Cruz.
And as Daily Kos notes, just last week, Chris LaCivita, one of former Pres. Donald Trump’s campaign leaders, wrote:
“What the hell is wrong with the Senate race in Texas ?
I think i know …and i think i know his name ….time to get some real professionals in to save @tedcruz.”
How can this be? In Texas…the secret lair of Big Oil?
Well, it turns out, Big Oil ain’t the only game in this here town.
Texas now has a whole-ass sustainable-energy industry. All told, as Texas energy guy Doug Lewin writes, a whopping 170,000 Texans work in green energy now. And that’s more than the oil and gas sector. Which means Big Oil isn’t just doing Number 2 on the planet, as of now it is number 2.
And that’s bad news for Cruz. Another recent poll showed Allred just two points behind Cruz, also margin-of-error territory. And also suggesting that while Democrats are freaking out about losing Sen. Jon Tester (D-MT), who’s lagging in his polling, it may be possible the party will keep the chamber by picking up Texas.
Who knows, but it’s almost fall, and in an election year, that’s cherry-picking season. And who doesn’t like cherries?
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