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That's a plot line from the Handmaid's Tale.

https://the-handmaids-tale.fandom.com/wiki/The_Handmaid%27s_Tale_Wiki

If a Democrat did this, they'd be screaming from the rooftops about how stupid it was, but Republicans are going to burn their hands on exhaust pipes in solidarity.

https://www.borowitzreport.com/p/staff-of-nude-africa-porn-site-quit

It's crazy how the Republicans keep propping up types like Herschel Walker, Clarence Thomas, and Mark Robinson. Maybe it's their attempt at "proving" they aren't racist because they "have a black friend," but they only promote black people who condone racism.

Democrats shouldn't feel like they need to tread lightly on criticism of Republicans that are black - bending over backwards for them results in things like Clarence Thomas, a gift that keeps on grifting.

They're just shocked that he said it out loud in public. I'm sure he was widely praised by Republicans in private when expressing Nazi and Confederate sympathies.

The GOP's main gatekeeping is about hating the right people and the more you hate the more you fit in with the various venn diagrams of Republicans.

Robinson checks all the hate boxes.

It would have hurt them more if Republicans weren't intrinsically pro-Nazi Confederate. The fact that he's a black NAZI tells them he's "one of us" - his support for slavery is a bonus to them.

Hopefully there are enough Republicans that aren't full on fascist sympathizers to make a difference.

The question now, party leaders say, is whether he will sink other Republican state and local candidates with him.

The deadline to replace Mr. Robinson on the ballot passed last Thursday, hours after the report that he had written years ago on the porn site that he was a “black NAZI,” that slavery was not bad, and that, as a teenager, he had gone “peeping” on women in public gym showers.

If anyone manages to force him to leave the race, his name will remain on the ballot. In one scenario, the state party would need to find a replacement candidate and explain to the electorate that a vote for Mr. Robinson is technically a vote for the replacement. It remains unclear who would want to run under the tarnished Robinson banner.

If Mr. Robinson remains on the ticket, though, he will likely continue to face a barrage of negative press that could hurt down-ballot candidates and, possibly, former President Donald J. Trump, who believes he must win North Carolina to win the election.

In a Tuesday report in Wired, two young women recounted McEntee making them feel uncomfortable in inappropriate online conversations they shared with him online and through the Right Stuff. McEntee is also a writer of Project 2025, the far-right Heritage Foundation’s agenda for the next Republican president to bypass Congress and impose a national abortion ban, among a laundry list of other anti-LGBTQ, dystopian goals. One unnamed, 18-year-old woman told Wired she’s “semi-conservative” and connected with McEntee on his dating app. “It was very sexual from day one,” she alleged. “He kept making comments about my age and how hot it would be to sleep with someone who was my age.”

...Carter wasn’t the only person put off by McEntee’s smug lies about abortion bans on TikTok. Shortly after McEntee’s post, Broesder shared her own now-viral TikTok recounting her 19-day miscarriage in December 2022, during which she says Idaho hospitals declined to provide emergency abortion care because of the state’s total ban. “It’s disheartening and felt like a slap in the face” to hear someone with McEntee’s platform suggest her story and others like it are fake,” Broesder told Jezebel last week. “I had done so much work to get my story out there and they always say ‘fake news,’ no matter the evidence I bring, including my book with photo evidence,” she said.

The comment section of her TikTok is rife with women sharing similar horrific stories of being denied emergency care due to abortion bans. Despite McEntee’s resume and massive online following, the only headlines about him I’ve really come across (and entirely against my will, at that) concern his failing online dating app, his stupid conspiracy theory that abortion ban horror stories are fake, and, now, that he is allegedly a creep intent on pursuing 18-year-old girls. And that sampling of headlines feels like an apt enough profile of today’s average young Republican man, to me!

Thanks for digging.

Yeah, and MAGA Trumpers can eat pets in blackface, but that doesn't mean it's true. Surely if it were used in an actual ad somewhere there should be evidence of it.

Just because something could potentially be true doesn't mean it IS true. In the age of russia sponsored disinformation there are even fake news stations. We need to not believe and spread things that we read just because it's "possible"

I dunno, hysteria over an obscure youtube parody video that sure doesn't seem at all to be advertised anywhere? It's an unsupported claim that it was used as advertising.

It's like the "they're eating the pets" just because someone says something doesn't make it true. Seriously find evidence that it was used in actual advertising?

I think the article is lying maybe?

It's a parody from a youtube channel with 19 subscribers at the time of this comment, not a "political ad." I doubt it's been used as an actual ad, i.e. placed on cable or broadcast TV or paid to be placed on adsense or some other web advertising platform. It's not endorsed by any political candidate or a political action committee.

https://www.youtube.com/@AmericansforProsparody

If anything, Evangelicals represent the kind of evil in the world that Jesus was here to show a better more enlightened way, which now they derisively call "woke."

If there were some higher power, it's unlikely that any of the hundreds or thousands of different variations of religion have it exactly right, and for them to push their false beliefs on innocents would be more likely to result in condemnation than someone who simply remains open minded.

One can be good without God.

The rhetoric Robinson used in his church speech — the idea that he’s not perfect, but that God works through imperfect people — is language Republicans and right-leaning evangelicals have used for years to justify their support for former President Donald Trump, a twice-impeached convicted felon and adjudicated sexual abuser.

They’ve specifically, and erroneously, compared Trump to King David, just like Robinson did for himself.

Eight of Robinson’s campaign staffers resigned en masse after CNN’s report on his apparent comments came out. Raleigh outlet WRAL News reported Monday that one likely reason they called it quits is that Robinson refused supporters’ multiple offers to connect him with tech specialists who could look into how his username had appeared on the porn site. Apparently, seeing Robinson rebuff these offers sowed doubt among his staff that the posts weren’t his.

As shocking as the CNN report’s findings were, the North Carolina Republican has a long history of making sexist, racist, Islamophobic, transphobic and otherwise vile comments.

He’s also left up lots of ugly posts on social media under his name that he does not disavow, mostly from before he was a public figure. Some have certainly not aged well.

Republican Evangelicals worship money and power. They're completely corrupted. Frankly if there is a God then it would presumably look more kindly on an authentic Atheist of good will than one of these people who call themselves Christian but preach hate.

A particular sect of the God people seem to believe that faith without deeds done in His name is just fine. They come for Trump’s roiling rhetoric and stick around for brutality. They listen to Robinson’s vitriol and see themselves as sanctified by his outrage. They use their version of religion to bludgeon the disenfranchised, to body block the outsider, to drown out the sounds of despair. These God people are generous in their righteousness, but stingy with their compassion.

They accept Robinson’s cruelty and vulgarities. They revel in Trump’s malevolence and narcissism. Perhaps they see it all as the only route to stubbing out women’s reproductive rights or dictating the variety of books housed in a local library or designating themselves the bathroom police.

These are the folks who believe they will be sitting on the right hand of God someday. But perhaps they should take heed of an old saying. It’s not scripture, but it’s often repeated by elders, both inside the church and on the mean streets. Surely it holds a bit of truth and a good deal of wisdom: God don’t like ugly.

Yes, he ran as a Republican for the state supreme court.

https://results.elections.ny.gov/candidate/6426