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Far-right North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, the Republican frontrunner for to become the state's governor, has far more extreme conspiracy theory beliefs than were previously known, the Huffington Post revealed this week.

According to the report, Robinson has pushed a number of bizarre theories on Facebook, including that the music industry is controlled by Satan. He claimed that Beyoncé's songs sound like "Satanic chants" and that, "Her songs sound like they say stuff like 'satan laughs as you rot in hell' if play them backwards. SUPER WEIRD!!!!!"

 

 

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Steven Greene, a political science professor at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, said Robinson simply “represents the culture war id of the Republican Party.”

“He is the Republican Party writ large,” Greene said. “One of the major themes of Trump’s campaign could be considered a conspiracy theory, which is that the 2020 presidential election was stolen. Republican primary voters have shown they are very, very willing to, shall we say, be comfortable with their political leaders holding conspiracy views.”

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/republican-mark-robinson-conspiracy-theorist-north-carolina-governor-race_n_64df8cabe4b0ce7f01203a6b

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1 hour ago, cactusflinthead said:

Far-right North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, the Republican frontrunner for to become the state's governor, has far more extreme conspiracy theory beliefs than were previously known, the Huffington Post revealed this week.

He's obviously got some mental health issues, but it'd help if a lot more people around him would challenge him on the stupid shit.

When people claim the moon landings were faked, point out that the Soviet Union tracked the landing, congratulated the United States on it, and even hosted Neil Armstrong on a tour afterward. If they pull the "I haven't researched it" bullshit, ask them what research they can do to prove whether we landed or not, ask them if they are going to fly to the moon to prove it wrong, because otherwise there is no research they can personally do to prove it one way or another.

Everybody treads lightly around these nuts, and that just reinforces their beliefs, because nobody directly around them challenges them all that hard.

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4 hours ago, cactusflinthead said:

Far-right North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, the Republican frontrunner for to become the state's governor, has far more extreme conspiracy theory beliefs than were previously known, the Huffington Post revealed this week.

According to the report, Robinson has pushed a number of bizarre theories on Facebook, including that the music industry is controlled by Satan. He claimed that Beyoncé's songs sound like "Satanic chants" and that, "Her songs sound like they say stuff like 'satan laughs as you rot in hell' if play them backwards. SUPER WEIRD!!!!!"

 

 

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Steven Greene, a political science professor at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, said Robinson simply “represents the culture war id of the Republican Party.”

“He is the Republican Party writ large,” Greene said. “One of the major themes of Trump’s campaign could be considered a conspiracy theory, which is that the 2020 presidential election was stolen. Republican primary voters have shown they are very, very willing to, shall we say, be comfortable with their political leaders holding conspiracy views.”

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/republican-mark-robinson-conspiracy-theorist-north-carolina-governor-race_n_64df8cabe4b0ce7f01203a6b

"Look look look... see this ad for Jameson in Sports Illustrated... if you look carefully the ice has images of demons.  Look.  Can you see it?  Right there... squint... "

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17 hours ago, Biff Tannen said:

I should send this to the in laws that just watched Sound of Freedom, just to get their reaction.

 

The replies on that tweet are some of the scariest shit I’ve ever read on the Internet.  It’s depressing as fuck to know there’s that many people out there that believe shit like that and who are aggressively against things like sourcing information.  Fuck me running.

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1 hour ago, Snake Diggity said:

The replies on that tweet are some of the scariest shit I’ve ever read on the Internet.  It’s depressing as fuck to know there’s that many people out there that believe shit like that and who are aggressively against things like sourcing information.  Fuck me running.

yeah, granted twitter is more like an echo chamber, but the fact that most of the replies were not calling that account an effing idiot and were in fact nodding their heads is pretty pretty scary.

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2 hours ago, Snake Diggity said:

The replies on that tweet are some of the scariest shit I’ve ever read on the Internet.  It’s depressing as fuck to know there’s that many people out there that believe shit like that and who are aggressively against things like sourcing information.  Fuck me running.

half or more of those 'people' are bots or trolls. still, there are way too many people who believe completely terrifying shit.

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I'm watching "All In" with Chris Murphy and a couple of panelists are saying most of the idiot R votes actually think the 2020 election was stolen but he'll win this time because Biden is senile.  

So, it's almost a given they will nominate him because they are convinced -- despite the well known "headwinds" -- he'll win.

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Try that in a small town?

The right is now pissed at the Rich Men of Richmond or whatever the fuck was their new anthem - they are fucking pissed at Oliver Anthony for saying we've gotta embrace diversity.

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“We’ve gotta go back to the roots of what made this country great in the first place, which is our sense of community. I mean, we are the melting pot of the world and that’s what makes us strong, is our diversity, and we need to learn to harness that and appreciate it, and not use it as a political tool to keep everyone separate from each other you know?”

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13 minutes ago, Goredho said:

That's the thing about the MAGA grift game.  If you are going to play it, you've gotta go all in and push your soul into the pot.

The ironic thing is that when he got big, he was trying people that he wasn't a right-winger.

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2 hours ago, Born to Run said:

My bad

You have to appreciate the fact that he broke MAGA's brain the moment he was singing the praises of diversity. And he praised diversity, knowing MAGA would start hating him.

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Eh, I don’t really get the outrage over the song.  It’s a poor working man’s blues lament as far as I can tell.  I certainly wouldn’t lump it into the same category as Aldean’s song which just wants to exploit hate and division.

Some of the lyrics are peculiar and misguided, though.

I wish politicians would look out for miners / And not just minors on an island somewhere

He is certainly not trying to appeal to adrenochtome kid trafficking truthers. 

Young men are puttin' themselves six feet in the ground / 'Cause all this damn country does is keep on kickin' them down.

Ok, I can understand that sentiment.  I know a lot of rural blue collar types who accurately feel like they are working harder for relatively less.  But he preceded it with this inaccurate targeting:

Lord, we got folks in the street, ain't got nothin' to eat / And the obese milkin' welfare /  Well, God, if you're 5-foot-3 and you're 300 pounds / Taxes ought not to pay for your bags of fudge rounds

Is the struggling blue collar worker really being  held back by fat diabetics on disability?  They didn’t cause urban migration.  They didn’t make the strategic decision to automate away jobs or move them over seas.  Further, are hurting blue collar workers going to be any happier with their lives if we took the fat diabetic off disability and gave that money to a skinny homeless person with a will work for food sign?

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On 8/17/2023 at 10:35 PM, DixonHur said:

I think this just about sums up the modern GQP party.   Remember this lady?

She's now running to be a US Senator from the great state of Florida.

Following her 2012 arrest and viral moment, Krentcil sought counseling for her tanning addiction on a docuseries called 10 to Tan
 

 

On 8/18/2023 at 11:34 AM, safe sex said:

She says she's going to run as a Republican with a pro-LGBTQ platform. Good luck with that

Hilariously, if you read the article, she sounds sane. She has zero shot. 

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On 8/21/2023 at 8:22 PM, Biff Tannen said:

I should send this to the in laws that just watched Sound of Freedom, just to get their reaction.

 

The replies in that twitter thread are just soul crushing. 

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On 8/22/2023 at 2:08 PM, Snake Diggity said:

The replies on that tweet are some of the scariest shit I’ve ever read on the Internet.  It’s depressing as fuck to know there’s that many people out there that believe shit like that and who are aggressively against things like sourcing information.  Fuck me running.

Yeah, I had the exact same reaction, but you posted it first. 

15 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

Try that in a small town?

The right is now pissed at the Rich Men of Richmond or whatever the fuck was their new anthem - they are fucking pissed at Oliver Anthony for saying we've gotta embrace diversity.

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Funny, this popped up on an American station last week or the week before, and listening to the lyrics, I thought it was a fucking republican take down. I mean, how does anyone here think that Rich Men, North of Richmond, actually vote?

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40 minutes ago, Goredho said:

Eh, I don’t really get the outrage over the song.  It’s a poor working man’s blues lament as far as I can tell.  I certainly wouldn’t lump it into the same category as Aldean’s song which just wants to exploit hate and division.

Some of the lyrics are peculiar and misguided, though.

I wish politicians would look out for miners / And not just minors on an island somewhere

He is certainly not trying to appeal to adrenochtome kid trafficking truthers. 

Young men are puttin' themselves six feet in the ground / 'Cause all this damn country does is keep on kickin' them down.

Ok, I can understand that sentiment.  I know a lot of rural blue collar types who accurately feel like they are working harder for relatively less.  But he preceded it with this inaccurate targeting:

Lord, we got folks in the street, ain't got nothin' to eat / And the obese milkin' welfare /  Well, God, if you're 5-foot-3 and you're 300 pounds / Taxes ought not to pay for your bags of fudge rounds

Is the struggling blue collar worker really being  held back by fat diabetics on disability?  They didn’t cause urban migration.  They didn’t make the strategic decision to automate away jobs or move them over seas.  Further, are hurting blue collar workers going to be any happier with their lives if we took the fat diabetic off disability and gave that money to a skinny homeless person with a will work for food sign?

You sure about that?

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Titled "Videos That Make Your Noggin Bigger," it contains 49 videos with topics ranging from music videos to psychology, many from the academic and influencer Jordan Peterson, and commentary on the "decline of society."

Among them are also videos of news reports and discussions about events surrounding the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on New York City and Washington, D.C., which appear to suggest Israel was involved in or had prior knowledge of the attacks. Campaign groups say such narratives contribute to antisemitic tropes.

Dude has a whole YouTube channel full of conspiracy theory and Jordan Peterson videos. 

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57 minutes ago, Pescado_Rojo said:

You sure about that?

Dude has a whole YouTube channel full of conspiracy theory and Jordan Peterson videos. 

Eh, I dunno.  Maybe he's a gateway drug to other conspiracy theories.  But these specific lyrics do not seem to line up with the kid-trafficing adrenochrome conspiracy messaging of say Jim Caviezel and Tim Ballard:

I wish politicians would look out for miners / And not just minors on an island somewhere

Anyway, I don't really see anything offensive in any of the lyrics of this particular song.  It doesn't resonate with me, and I think some of it is kind of silly as noted in my previous post, but I am not sure why anyone is taking a culture war stand over it.

 

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7 hours ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

 

 

 

 

The time she spent making that was 15 minutes the waiter didn't get harassed about the lemon on the water glass.

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First rule of a GOP theme-song.  It ain't on the approved playlist until Trump dances to it at a rally whilst jerking off two poltergeists on stage.  

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5 hours ago, crash_davis said:

I, too, dream of being a field hand on the Trump plantation.   Except for that part when Massa Junior’s wife sends for me and a pitcher of mint juleps for her…..special….migraine…..massage. 

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https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/25/cpac-vice-chair-resigns-amid-turmoil-00113078

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The vice chair of the Conservative Political Action Coalition has resigned from his longtime position on the organization’s board and is calling for investigations into the group’s top leader and its financial practices, among other issues.

Charlie Gerow, an attorney and communications executive who has served on the board of CPAC and its parent organization, the American Conservative Union, for nearly two decades, submitted his letter of resignation on Friday. “The situation at CPAC has become such that I felt compelled to resign,” Gerow said when reached afterward.

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Gerow’s resignation follows months of turbulence at the prominent conservative organization, where Chair Matt Schlapp earlier this year was sued by a former Herschel Walker Senate campaign staffer over allegations of sexual assault. Board member and treasurer Bob Beauprez resigned from his position in May, citing concerns over the organization’s financial reports, while Randy Neugebauer and Mike Rose also stepped down from the board earlier this year.

Just last week another board member, Timothy Ryan, also resigned, according to a person with knowledge of the organization’s operations. Ryan’s resignation has not previously been reported. The series of departures by longtime board members — as well as high staff turnover within the organization in the last year — have not prompted any meaningful changes at CPAC, Gerow said.

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With his departure, Gerow is calling on the board to authorize an independent investigation into sexual battery allegations made against Matt Schlapp, as well as an independent forensic audit of the organization’s finances, he said in a statement to POLITICO.

Gerow also urged the board to obtain a written lawyer’s opinion that the organization is fully complying with its own bylaws as well as D.C. statutes concerning nonprofits. And he suggested that the CPAC board conduct a thorough review “all the exit interviews of the large number of staff who have recently left.”

 

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Thought about posting this in the Herschel thread as a follow up for Matt Schlapp, but eh.  Matt has more allegations against him of sexual misconduct from...younger men.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/08/26/matt-schlapp-cpac-sexual-misconduct-allegations/

 

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A senior board member of the parent organization behind the prominent Conservative Political Action Conference who resigned on Friday urged an independent investigation into additional allegations of sexual misconduct against chairman Matt Schlapp.

The vice chairman of the board of the American Conservative Union, Charlie Gerow, announced his resignation on Friday in a letter to other directors that called on them to authorize an investigation including any additional allegations that they or staff have become aware of, according to multiple people familiar with the letter, who spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation.

 

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Earlier this year, Schlapp was sued for alleged sexual battery and defamation by a Republican campaign operative who claimed that the CPAC leader groped his crotch during a campaign trip last fall. Schlapp has denied the claim.

In addition to that lawsuit, some board members and staffers have been told about other incidents involving Schlapp, 55, and two younger men, multiple people with direct knowledge of the situation said.

 

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In one incident, a staffer said Schlapp attempted to kiss him while drinking late after a work function in 2017. The staffer also provided documentation from that night to The Washington Post showing physical contact that the staffer said was unsolicited.

In another incident, Schlapp allegedly made unwanted physical advances on someone else’s employee during a CPAC business trip in Palm Beach, Fla., in early 2022, according to multiple people informed of the incident. The alleged victim did not respond to requests for comment.

 

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Schlapp did not respond to requests for comment.

“I will continue to pray that the difficulties they are encountering will be dealt with openly and honestly,” Gerow said in a statement released after his resignation. “I am calling on my former colleagues to authorize an independent investigation into the charges against Matt Schlapp, to conduct an independent forensic audit of the organizations finances, to obtain a written opinion of counsel that the organization is in full compliance with its own bylaws and all applicable law and to thoroughly review all the exit interviews of the large number of staff who have recently left.”

CPAC did not respond to requests for comment on the new sexual harassment allegations. But in response to Gerow’s resignation, CPAC said in a statement on Friday: “CPAC remains committed to compliance. Having a board that is unified toward the goal of defeating the left and winning on important issues and in the next election is critical to saving America.”

Longtime member Morton Blackwell said he was not aware of any other allegations of sexual misconduct against Schlapp but acknowledged “there are problems, and I am looking forward to the next board meeting so we can discuss them.”

Gerow’s resignation is the third by a member of the board’s eight-member executive committee in recent months. When ACU treasurer Bob Beauprez quit in May, he wrote a resignation letter saying he had “lost confidence” in the organization’s financial statements, blamed Schlapp for excessive staff departures and suggested that violations of the organization’s bylaws could expose the organization to lawsuits or criminal prosecution.

In the lawsuit filed in January in Virginia, GOP operative Carlton Huffman accused Schlapp of groping his genitals while driving Schlapp to his hotel in Atlanta after campaigning for Senate candidate Herschel Walker. Call logs, texts and videos provided by Huffman and his confidants to The Post and in his lawsuit matched his account, and six family members and friends and three Walker campaign officials confirmed to The Post that he told them about the alleged incident that night or the next day.

Schlapp has acknowledged drinking with Huffman that night but denied making any sexual advances. The lawsuit is in the discovery phase.

Gerow’s resignation letter also raised concerns about the organization’s potential liability for legal costs in the Huffman case, according to people familiar with the letter.

In a previous message to the board that was obtained by The Post, Gerow said he was repeatedly refused requests to inspect the organization’s finances, in particular hoping to review the insurance coverage for the legal costs. Gerow’s message said he received a response from CPAC’s general counsel, David Safavian, saying he could not copy any documents, which Gerow said conflicted with D.C. law giving the directors of nonprofit organizations the right to “inspect and copy the books, records, and documents of the corporation.”

“Any failure to comply with D.C. or other law and our bylaws potentially provides the ‘ammo’ to fire at us,” Gerow said in his earlier message to the board. “Sadly, this follows several warnings from other directors and former officers about our noncompliance with our own by laws and the laws under which we operate.”

Safavian then replied with a message, apparently intended for someone else, saying he planned to take Gerow off the board at a meeting this month.

Safavian did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

Another former employee, Regina Bratton, notified the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in January of plans to sue over claims that she was fired in retaliation for complaining about a co-worker’s sexist and racist comments. Schlapp and CPAC have not responded to questions about Bratton from The Post.

ACU was founded in the wake of Barry Goldwater’s loss in the 1964 presidential election to nurture the conservative movement. The flagship CPAC conference has become a blockbuster gathering for activists and politicians. Schlapp became chairman in 2014 and expanded into international conferences while making himself a prominent surrogate for former president Donald Trump.

 

 

 

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Accusation, confession, chapter infinity.

If you are looking for a predator or groomer, the top two places to look are 1) a church and 2) any gathering of conservative/GQP officials/leaders.

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2 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

Accusation, confession, chapter infinity.

If you are looking for a predator or groomer, the top two places to look are 1) a church and 2) any gathering of conservative/GQP officials/leaders.

I’m looking for a new job and this seems almost too easy. Maybe an investigatory journalist?  I don’t have the time, patience, money, or grades for law school. 



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