This far-right MAGA candidate is exposing Trump's Project 2025 lies - Alternet.org
By: Alex Henderson (Alternet. org)
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Mark Robinson in 2020 (Creative Commons) Alex HendersonSeptember 18, 2024Frontpage featured
2024 GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump and his running mate, Sen. JD Vance of Ohio, have been claiming that Project 2025 has nothing to do with them — including Project 2025's widely criticized proposals on abortion and birth control.
Project 2025 is the Heritage Foundation's detailed 920-page blueprint for a second Trump Administration, and Trump and Vance clearly see it as a political liability. But many Democrats, including presidential nominee Kamala Harris, have been calling out Trump and Vance's efforts to distance themselves from Project 2025 as wildly disingenuous — as it was put together by many of Trump's top allies. Harris, in fact, has an entire anti-Project 2025 section on her campaign website.
In a blistering article published on September 18, Salon's Amanda Marcotte slams the Trump-backed Christian nationalist Mark Robinson — North Carolina's GOP gubernatorial nominee — as a poster child for the Project 2025 agenda, arguing that his campaign underscores the hypocrisy of Trump and Vance claiming that Heritage's document doesn't represent them.
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"North Carolina's Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, now running to be governor of the Tar Heel State, rose to fame in the GOP by channeling the id of the typical MAGA voter," Marcotte explains. "His speeches and social media presence channel a D-list shock jock mentality, filtered through a Christian nationalist lens, that's grown in popularity in the Trump era. He calls LGBTQ people 'filth,' 'maggots,' and 'flies,' insisting they should be forced to 'find a corner outside' rather than be allowed to use public restrooms."
The Salon journalist adds, "He's denounced women's suffrage and argued that once a woman is pregnant, her body belongs to 'the daddy.' And before Tucker Carlson was embracing Holocaust denialism, Robinson was raving that it was 'hogwash' to believe the Nazi genocide of Jews happened."
Marcotte notes that although Trump's campaign is trying to convince voters that Robinson's views don't reflect "what Trump intends to do if he wins office," the former president has praised Robinson as "Martin Luther King on steroids."
Robinson, she adds, has expressed a strong "opposition to birth control" — and Project 2025's Emma Watters has said, "I've been very concerned with just the emphasis on expanding more and more contraception."
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Marcotte also points out that "Project 2025 has language in it that subtly lays the groundwork for an eventual ban on nearly all forms of female-controlled contraception."
"The truth is this hostility to contraception is baked right into Project 2025, which was developed by hundreds of past and future Trump advisors as a replacement for a traditional policy agenda," Marcotte warns. "Along with schemes to use executive orders to pass abortion bans without going through Congress, Project 2025 contains radical schemes to drastically restrict — and eventually outright ban — female-controlled contraception methods. This is why Republicans in Congress continue to block efforts to enshrine contraception rights into law. The end goal is to take birth control away."
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Amanda Marcotte's full Salon article is available at this link.
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Interesting. Didn't North Carolina do this to African Americans during the Jim Crow era?
He's disgusting. His wife had an abortion I understand. Another one - do as I say not as I do.
there's plenty of evidence that robinson was texturing the walls in the xxx booths around town in the past ...
A lot of these small c holier than thou fat fucking hypocrites - I heard that - I am sure he is still very popular at those places - probably a lot of dead hookers too in that hateful fat fuck's closet.
They're always the first ones found with their pants down or with children. Sick fucks.
What is worse for MAGA politicians than getting caught in bed with a dead girl?
Getting caught in bed with a live boy!
I meant to say 'phonier than thou small c christian hypocrite'
And if these ignorant fucks get their dystopian nirvana they will start that again.
Yes. Only this dumbfuck doesn't realize it or is ignoring his own history
It's easier to be a big shark in a little MAGA pond than to actually do the work to be a decent human being.
Hmmm...I don't find it hard to be a decent human being****. I for the most part keep my mouth shut in public, try not to harm others with my words or my actions, and be kind to people whether I know them or not.
***That statement will get sneers from our "friends on the right"
... yeah, me too, when I'm not packing ... /s
You're obviously not a right wing populist.
I just read this guy has a known email address on Ashley Madison…
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I read it. That's what I was talking about. He calls them filthy names just like white people did and wants them to piss outside just like white people wanted Blacks to piss outside...certainly not in one of their bathroom.
You need to try harder if you think you're gonna do a gotcha on me
Ya know...that's a really low blow saying I didn't read the article I seeded.
All some seem to have........
The article makes that statement but, doesn't provide the transcript of when or where it was said. In one instance he was referring to people teaching elementary school kids about transgenders as filth, and I would agree. They provide "nothing" tying Trump to Project 2025 other than he knows some of the people that were involved with producing it.[✘]
he's cashing in on being a traitor. to his race, the constitution, and his country ...
hate pays well for the maga
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Given all that it's totally understandable why Robinson is a maga favorite.
Use of steroids can cause psychiatric problems. Robinson is clinical proof.
... so can being praised by trump.
Doesn't use of steroids also lead to reduction of penis size?
oh yeah, and then some. small wonder the users are always in a rage ...
my Dr. uncle gave my cousin and I a lecture on them before the turn of the century. me and my cousin looked at each other and laughed. that statement was supposed to be the closer, not the abuse of injecting drugs. I avoid DIY needles.
I let medical professionals inject me I will not do it to myself (here's hoping I never have to go on insulin)
I'm retired and on medicare so I no longer have the privilege of telling medical professionals what they can do.
There was shrinkage
mushroom club meeting ...
This big joker is 'bout to be made to understand he is not Donald. He can take all that bluster he is using as deflector shield to steer people away from his own blunders in life and sat on it, Mark! I take special offense that a black man would call a black woman with two children a man. . . that is beneath the pale. It is UNPROFESSIONAL. It is a denial of truth. It is utterly disrespectful to the woman. . .and the offspring. Kick this fool to the curb! He should not be allowed in public service. . . because he is an extreme bigot!
What you gon' do, Mark? Now that Donald and the 'gang' are turning to mock you?
Your own friends want you to sit this one out. . . . HA-HA-HA!
It does appear that 'the Big-um" is about to plateau and rise no higher!
The Rothschild are a very old, Jewish family. Calling them one of the 4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse is anti-Semitic.
I think he should stay in. It will make the race interesting
I don't care what happens to this hypocrite-bum. Exception: North Carolina needs to let Mark pound sand from the political sidelines. Elect a democrat and keep on moving forward as a state! I can't stand fake, phony, transparently 'plastic' people whom only goal in life is to 'take' from others their lives, dignity, decency, and respect!
Oh, I want him to stay in so a Democrat does get elected
Here is what "gets" me about certain Blacks. . . their limited perspective. . . which involves their personal appetites and desires to be 'break-out' stars without any remorse or consideration for their brethren sufferings. Blacks, as a people, are not long removed from their problems we faced as a collective group, in this country and with a stroke of a pen. . . Mark could find himself unelectable, out of office, out of a job, and relegated back to the ranks of living from hand to mouth. . . in small 'order.' Yet, here he is short-sighted and willing to throw 'everybody' who is not conservatively following his lead under the proverbial bus.
Damn that!
All that just makes him more popular and favorable to the maga
NOTE: The authors of this article have lain out their argument that DE-N- LYING Mark is choosing to make in a video on the link (itself)! Please stroll the entirety of the link, 'Big-ums' literally invokes Justice Thomas' quote: "High-tech lynching" in the video on the link!
This man is lying. Even as he is speaking and denying the evidence. . . the article is 'pushing back' with animated 'answers' about who Mark was then as compared to now! And, it points out to his past online MONIKER on Nude Africa: "minisoldr."
Check it out!
"Big-ums" is a fraudster. Too bad CNN has to default to modesty, because Big-ums has been running his mouth in public about who deserves to live and 'Die". . .we would love to see how he felt in the past when his. . . 'wonder-stick' was playing the field.
Yes, Big-ums, be embarrassed, enough to go away. Don't be like Crooked Donald - shameless.
Mark "Big-ums" Robinson. . . is unfit to be governor of the great state of North Carolina!
I'm just gonna leave this here....
"Evangelical Christian"
thumper preacher and maga republican, the two of the basic components of any sex crime profile ...
A perfect example of MAGA unmasked, they are all a group of nut cases.
Bunch of freak shows and whackjobs and perverts.