‘Yeah, I’m a “Perv” Too!’
North Carolina gubernatorial candidate Mark Robinson said he won’t end his campaign despite a CNN report that reads like a mad lib of campaign-killing material.
According to the article by CNN’s Andrew Kaczynski, Robinson called himself a “black NAZI” and a “perv” in posts on Nude Africa, a message board that’s ostensibly for sharing porn but also looks like a throwback to websites from 25 years ago.
But wait, there’s more. Robinson also reportedly wrote about peeping on women in public showers, being thrilled by some absolutely filthy pornography (think The Human Centipede), and called for reinstituting slavery.
“Slavery is not bad. Some people need to be slaves. I wish they would bring it (slavery) back. I would certainly buy a few,” Robinson, a black man, reportedly wrote.
The cherry on top of it all, given the GOP’s current moral panic over transgender issues, is what CNN terms Robinson’s “affinity for transgender pornography.”
“I like watching tranny on girl porn! That’s f*cking hot!” Robinson reportedly wrote. “And yeah I’m a ‘perv’ too!”
In an interview with CNN, Robinson reportedly denied that he’d made the posts on Nude Africa. After the report was published, he put out a video statement vowing to remain in the race and condemning what he called “salacious tabloid lies.”
I wanted to take a minute to address the latest outrageous lies coming from my opponent’s dishonest campaign: #ncgov #ncpol pic.twitter.com/RtteVUiozr
— Mark Robinson (@markrobinsonNC) September 19, 2024
Robinson is the current lieutenant governor of the state. According to the most recent polls (taken before this story broke, of course), he trails the Democratic candidate, state Attorney General Josh Stein, by a significant margin. He’d been endorsed by former President Donald Trump, who held a fundraiser for Robinson at Mar-a-Lago.
While the CNN report certainly goes some unexpected places, Robinson has already courted plenty of controversy on the campaign trail. At some point, Republican primary voters might want to rethink the strategy of always picking the “craziest son of a bitch in the race,” as Rep. Thomas Massie (R–Ky.) once famously termed it. You can likely add this year’s North Carolina gubernatorial election to the lengthy list of winnable contests that the GOP has lost in recent years due to elevating utterly unacceptable candidates.
Anyway, congrats to J.D. Vance for no longer being the most toxic Republican running a high-profile race this year.
More COVID-19 hypocrisy from those in power. Dr. Jay K. Varma, New York City’s senior public health advisor during the pandemic, says he attended sex parties and raves while publicly telling others to socially distance, according to a surreptitiously recorded video posted by Stephen Crowder, a conservative commentator. “I had to be kind of sneaky about it,” Varma says at one point, while acknowledging that people would be “pissed” if they knew.
In a statement to The New York Times, Varma said the video clips were “tak
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