You probably heard of the scandals swirling around Mark Robinson – the Lt Governor of North Carolina and current candidate for governor. Its pretty nasty stuff he’s accused of but he’s denying it entirely. Someone, therefore, is lying – Robinson or CNN which broke the story. CNN does have a history of lying – of essentially being a comms shop for the DNC so I don’t see why anyone should just automatically accept their word on it. Maybe they are telling the truth – but how about a grain of salt here?
That is not how a lot of people on the Right decided to go – Never Trump, obviously, but even quite a few regular GOP/Right voices immediately spoke up to totally condemn Robinson and the overall GOP for nominating him. Based on a CNN story. About something he allegedly did 15 years ago. Isn’t that just par for the course? We’re being lectured again about decency. But what, exactly, is decency?
Robert K Massie in his masterful Nicholas and Alexandra (about the last Czar of Russia) discussed the overall influence of Grigori Rasputin noted that while he was a bad man who did many bad things, unlike other 20th century monsters he didn’t organize the murder of millions nor build a Cult of Personality around himself. He stole, but he also gave away. He’d debauch a duchess, but he’d also send a poor girl to school. He advised badly, but was also against Russia going to war against both Japan in 1904 and Germany in 1914. What this points out is that things can have a bit of nuance in them and that nobody should rush to judgement. We do have to really drill down and decide what is right and wrong. What is decent and indecent.
To our opponents, we are indecent. From Trump on down we’re just these vile people who must be stopped at all costs. We’re deplorable, right? To our opponents, what Robinson is accused of doing just highlights MAGA’s overall depravity. They accept at face value the accusations and have immediately mounted their high horses to point at us and say, “how dare you! How could you besmirch Our Democracy with this man? Repent!”.
Did you know that for 2023, Nancy Pelosi’s stock portfolio experienced a 91% increase? She’s beating Warren Buffet as an investor. By a lot. But here’s the funny thing, before she entered politics she was just a housewife in San Francisco. Never worked at an investment bank. Since then, she’s been kinda busy, right? I mean with the whole politics thing and rising to become Speaker. Where did she find time to learn to be such a stellar investor?
Of course you know what’s happening here – she, or her third-party cut-outs, are using her inside knowledge to position her portfolio for the best gains. She’s done this all along as far as can be determined. She got into office and the money just started to roll in. She’s continuing to do it. But here’s the thing, her estimated worth is $240 million. Even considering how pricey it is to live in California, that’s quite a bundle. But she’s not stopping. She’s 84 years old and still raking it in as if she’s counting on living to 100. And wants her great-great-great-great-grandchildren born rich.
Isn’t that a little indecent? I mean, as far as earnings go the most she ever made was 223.5k annual as Speaker. She’s worth $240 million. Didn’t someone once say that there comes a point when you’ve earned enough? This wizened crone who has been a barnacle on American politics since 1987 seems to me to have earned enough. But she just keeps at it.
But that’s mere financial chicanery. Not the exact sort of thing Robinson is accused of, right? I mean, the Feds managed to obscure what happened in the Paul Pelosi case and make out that the assailant was some right wing zealot (they are so common in San Francisco, don’t you know?) so we can’t officially categorize whatever Paul was up to with what Robinson allegedly wrote on a message board (writing things on a message board is always far worse, right? I mean, doing something is nothing…it is when you write something that you really get into evil…hey, I’m just trying to understand Decent People Values here).
One thing I do note about our Decent People is that, for the most part, they are ardent supporters of the Ukraine war. Nobody really knows how many have died in the war as both sides are brazenly lying about it but a mid-level estimate would put it at around a million dead between the two sides about evenly split. We’re told we have to keep this up and there’s no possibility of any compromise peace…the Ukrainians must fight on until all of Ukraine’s internationally recognized territory is cleared of Russians. How that is to be accomplished when at the moment it appears Russia has 3 to 1 manpower superiority is never explained. But fight on they must! Decent People say so!
Of course, these Decent People never seem to mention the Sudan Civil War. Heard of it? Probably not. But it started about 18 months ago. Nobody really has any clue how many have died but its well past 100,000 for certain while millions of people have been forced into refugee status. There is also massive amounts of just plain murder, rape and robbery going on as all authority has broken down. Not making the nightly news. The leaders of the conflict are not being invited to address Congress. Billions of dollars are not being appropriated. Why is one horrible war demanding our effort but another horrible war not? Can’t say for certain but I do note that no President’s son ever got a 50 grand a month, no-show job in Sudan. In fact, I haven’t heard of anyone in the USA getting paid by the Sudanese…and though our Ruling Class is entirely made up of Decent People (they are dead certain about this), they seem to be a little selective in what they care about…and where cash is placed on the table always seems to command their attention.
Dunno. Maybe I’m being weird here. I mean, if the accusations of Robinson are true then he wrote things. How can I possibly compare that to millions of people fleeing their homes ahead of genocidal enemies? I should be more like Decent People, I guess.
But you make that turn and you set up your shrine to Mitt Romney (once Hitler II, now Revered Republican – I’m sure him being anti-Trump has nothing to do with the switch) and you try to wash all that MAGA off…but then you suddenly remember that the Decent People are in favor of abortion until birth. Of open borders which has created a new slave trade with all its attendant horrors. The Decent People don’t seem to care much about the number of Americans dying each year of drugs. They say they want to solve homelessness but we look at where they’ve poured money into it and see…bums defecating on the streets which are filled with garbage and boarded up shop windows. They are the Decent People, right? They do think its wrong to poop on the sidewalk, don’t they?
Or maybe I just don’t have the wit to understand it – maybe I’ve been wrong my whole life? Maybe Decency is ignoring drug-addled zombies as I make my way from gated home to guarded bistro? Maybe Decency is ignoring pathetic graves in the Ukrainian steppe while greedily following Raytheon’s stock performance? Maybe Decency is saying one thing and doing the opposite? All we can say for certain is that Decency is not writing things on a message board. That is beyond the pale. Of that the Decent People are quiet certain.
I mean, being Decent People is not hard. And look at the rewards you get for being one of them – you know, things like invites to Diddy’s parties.
Oh, wait; scratch that. Been a sudden change. Sure he was given an MTV Global Icon award – but that was last year. I mean, forget that he’s been a star since 1990 and has appeared with just about every prominent person in the USA at one time or another and had honors showered upon by the largest American institutions…absolutely none of the Decent People had any idea what he was up to! Complete mystery! Nobody dropping by Diddy’s house ever noticed the 700+ dildos. He’s now accused of all manner of horrors and looks like he’s going to spend the rest of his life in jail (and depending on how “Epstein” this whole thing is, that might not be very long). And none of the Decent People had anything to do with it! Just like Maxwell being convicted of selling kids, there are no purchasers to be charged! The Decent People are sure of that. Diddy did horrors and nobody but Diddy. Stop looking!
And remember to condemn the guy who wrote down some stuff in 2009 when he was a complete nobody working at a furniture factory. He’s the real bad guy! Not the rich and famous hanging out with the guy facing massive charges. Give the Decent People a break – Mayor Adams’ has revoked Diddy’s key to New York City. What more do you want?
America will be saved when at long last everyone who ever wrote a nasty note is destroyed and the Decent People who didn’t know anything about Cosby, Epstein and Diddy are free to govern America unhindered.
Or, maybe not?
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From an excellent article about the role of General Milley in the January 6 riots:
The list of people terrified of another Trump presidency is growing, as more comes out about the Deep State efforts to destroy him, starting with #RESIST, an insurrectionist movement joined by many upper-level military officers as well as members of Congress. I don’t remember if Milley was openly part of this but I wouldn’t be surprised.
Well that’s treason if he defied Trump’s order. I know Trump “requested” National Guard, but did he have the authority to “order” it there? Nevertheless, there is nothing that Trump did, or say, that would have incited that riot. That was purely deep state shit.
Good call. I don’t think Trump had the authority to order the National Guard without first declaring a national emergency. What I found so important, though, was the willingness of flag officers to defy their Commander in Chief. Milley stated his intent to “fight” the new president “from the inside”. That is, to sabotage his administration out of political allegiance to his opposition. That was, after all, the stated goal of #RESIST, a movement which came far closer to meeting the definition of “insurrection” than the J6 riots did.
And one complaint is that Trump was “authoritarian”. Gee, I thought that was the job of a Commander in Chief, as well as of a general, etc. They are the bosses, they make decisions and issue orders, relating to the military chain of command.
Milley is the kind of general who would have lost us WW II by fretting that Eisenhower and Roosevelt and Churchill were being “too authoritarian” and would have fought them “from the inside” and undermining their efforts.
Milley is the same as John Kelly, the infamous man who said Trump called veterans “suckers and losers”. They are Deep State saboteurs protecting the Oligarchy.
I just read that nine of those who just came out supporting Harris also signed that laptop letter.
When people support someone whose policies are blatantly unconstitutional, not to mention harmful to the nation like her economic policies, I have to think of them as having personal interests contrary to the best interests of the nation.
So what did Robinson allegedly say in those posts?
I can’t get too wound up about any of this. For one thing, “The posts were made under the username “minisoldr” from 2008 to 2012”. That’s a long time ago, and I think people evolve, grow and mature. For another, in spite of the hysteria and hyperbole about “sexually graphic stories” the only one described (even by NBC, an active member of the Complicit Agenda Media we could expect to focus on the juiciest bits) is that when he was 14 he allegedly peeped on women in gym showers. Leave it to the Left to work itself up into a frothing frenzy over hearing that a 14-year-old boy tried to sneak looks at naked women! So that is one part of the claim I dismiss with a “so what”? with a fairly high level of confidence that every one of these now-shocked Dem males had, at that age, at least one copy of a purloined Playboy under his mattress or had peeked at a sister’s pajama party.
If he did call himself a “black NAZI” what did he mean by that? Given that the word “NAZI” is used very casually, this calls for some explanation. I, for example, have referred to myself as a “word Nazi” or a “grammar Nazi” when chiding people here on the blog for spelling and grammatical errors. A whole Seinfeld episode was about a “Soup Nazi”, so-called because of his unbending rules on how to order soup.
If it referred, in context, to hating Jews then this would put him right in the heart of the New Democrat Party, and while it wouldn’t appeal to Republicans it would make Dem pearl-clutching pretty hypocritical.
So that leaves the comment on slavery, which, while on its surface is pretty dramatic, does demand some exposition. It strikes me as a raw, unfiltered partial idea, which could, if allowed to develop in discourse, lead to something legitimate. For example, I believe that there are people in this country who already live in a version of slavery. Note the word “version”. This is because millions of Americans already subscribe to a watered-down version of slavery, dependent on an authority figure (“master”) for housing and food and basically everything in their lives from cell phones to clothes, and being wholly obedient to instructions on what to think and how to vote. They are not truly slaves in that there are no ownership papers, and they have the freedom to step away from this voluntary bondage, but they are controlled by the entity providing for them. Discussing this and its implications is the kind of discourse that used to be encouraged in this country and is now immediately quashed or taken out of context to be used later as a weapon. It sounds like something that might have come out of one of these discussions, perhaps the idea that some people would prefer to sign onto a modified slavery contract just for the security it offers and the observation that this really wouldn’t be much different than what we already see.
I remember long nights of discussions when someone would throw out a raw, somewhat unformed idea and we would dissect it, analyze it, pick it apart and often find that it led to an understanding of something. That kind of thing was probably the most important part of my college years, and these days it seems impossible because of the way social media let people now pounce on such an idea fragment and freeze it in time as a complete belief system, making development of a more complete idea impossible.
I’m not defending Robinson because I don’t know enough to take a side on what he actually did say and don’t have the slightest idea of what he really meant by it. But I do see in this brouhaha the elements of a concocted pseudo-scandal with nasty political fingerprints on it, which makes me dismiss it as unimportant.
Your view on the “Black Nazi” thing is in line with mine – when you see free born American citizens clearly craving to be slaves it can cause a sense of outrage. It was a dumb – indeed, disgusting – phrase to use but I can see where it comes from…the man was working his a** off making furniture and trying to go to college and do something useful with his life (after growing up poor) and he could look around and see so many people who just wanted Uncle Sugar to take care of them. It outrages me on a daily basis…and when I was younger might I have posted something stupid about it? Sure. I didn’t, but I could have.
And then you contrast these words with that Democrats do, you can see where the real moral issue lies…not in Robinson saying something dumb, but in what people are doing to destroy the USA.
If we accept the words “Nazi” and “slavery” as metaphors, instead of in their most literal sense, we can then move on to see meanings not readily visible in static snapshots of the words.
If “slavery” is taken to mean only the legal ownership of people, especially in the concept of Leftists of meaning only black people owned by white people, then Robinson’s comment would be “disgusting” and malignant. But if taken as a metaphor for a wide range of things, from the voluntary surrender of personal dignity and responsibility in exchange for having physical needs met (as one example) to other examples of loss of agency, the use of the term could, and should, lead to discussion of different ways people can be enslaved once we move beyond that one tight and restrictive choice of definition.
So one can be a slave to alcohol, or drugs, or pornography, or hate. The Left fully endorses a kind of slavery in which a woman declares and exercises ownership of a separate and distinct human being that is not HER, with different genetics and DNA and personality and potential, to the point of deciding that it can be executed if she wants it to be. There is the virtual slavery I mentioned, above, in which people voluntarily surrender liberty to the controlling entity that houses and feeds them and entertains them with toys like cell phones and TVs.
The elaborate word games of the Left are annoying but effective, as they suck in those who have chosen to turn over critical thinking to their masters and engage in the programmed responses required of them, the faux outrage and concocted fury we see them spewing on cue, a form of intellectual slavery.
BTW, I went to links in negative articles about Robinson and found most of them to be “explanations” of what he “meant” about statements that were, in and of themselves, sometimes strident or obnoxious but hardly the stuff of sheer unmitigated evil as presented by the distortions of the Complicit Agenda Media.
In the very same comment in which you talk about “the elaborate word games of the Left,” you say, “If we accept the words ‘Nazi’ and ‘slavery’ as metaphors, instead of in their most literal sense, we can then move on to see meanings not readily visible in static snapshots of the words.”
Talk about word games. You twist yourself into a pretzel trying to defend the guy. Meanwhile, nearly his entire campaign staff has resigned. I have to say, it’s really rich to see you all defending Mark Robinson under a post titled “Decent People.
Oh, you poor silly thing, you, trapped in the muck and mire of your own personal fever swamp and stuck with the voices in your head.
I did not defend Mark Robinson, I said I was not defending Mark Robinson. I did not say Mark Robinson used the words “slavery” and “Nazi” as metaphors.
What I did say was that these are words that can lead reasonable people into interesting discussions, if the words are not taken literally. You see, a lot of people enjoy discussions of the abstract, not being slaves (see what I did there?) to blind knee-jerk assumptions of the worst in others purely because they are of a different tribe and not being oblivious to the fact that the complexity and richness of the English language depends, to an extent, on its use of metaphors.
I don’t know Mark Robinson. From what I have read about him I doubt that I would like him very much. At best he seems brash and, as I said, obnoxious, and at worst he might very well have used those words in their usual context. I don’t know. And neither do you. I, however, have no dog in the hunt because it doesn’t matter to me, while you appear to be deeply personally and emotionally invested in condemning him (and by extension anyone you can connect to him, no matter how tangentially).
I was talking about words, while you are obsessed with the man or at least of the image of the man you have chosen to see as reality. There is a vast difference.
Your obsessive bickering is so tiresome
The party of abortion on demand wants to complain about our character.
They have gone so far over the edge they have lost all concept of self awareness. Going from “it’s just a few cells” to “if the mother wants it dead we have to let it die even if it is viable and out of the womb” pretty much destroyed any pretense of morality or decency, yet they accuse us of moral depravity for realizing that killing unborn babies is the opposite of “reproductive” freedom.
Then the pro-Hamas, pro-Palestinian thing erupted, which sealed the deal for most of us. Yet they see nothing hypocritical in wishing Trump had died because he is “Hitler” while screeching on street corners in support of Hitler’s Final Solution.
They claim to be “anti-fascist” while eager to vote for a continuation of the administration that had such a cozy relationship with the pharmaceutical industry that it would have put 1930s-40s fascism to shame.
They howl that Trump “would be a dictator” while finding nothing wrong with a single man at a desk in the White House imposing edicts forcing people to inject experimental drugs or lose their jobs and liberty to travel freely.
It goes on and on…………
Who defended Robinson here? Not attacking isn’t defending.
I did consider a full-throated defense of the man but opted against it because while he does not have to prove his innocence (as your side and some on ours are absurdly demanding) it is up to him to address it so that the people of North Carolina can render judgement.
But it is ridiculous – evil, indeed – for the party of abortion to condemn anyone on moral grounds. You have no standing. You don’t get to complain about our people.
while you appear to be deeply personally and emotionally invested in condemning him…
I didn’t condemn Robinson. Read my comment again.
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Really? What did I say about him?
No more bickering. That’s your thing, not mine.
Speaking of versions of slavery, reports are coming out about virtual slavery and human trafficking involving the hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants (allegedly “legalized” by White House paperwork) being treated, if not precisely as slaves, pretty close to it.
From Asra Nomani:
There is no election fraud. There wasn’t any in 2020 and there won’t be any this time around, either. Republicans are just tinfoil-hat conspiracy theory deniers.
Or so the Leftist narrative goes. However, there is proof of intent to commit fraud this year, and it is documented. This needs to be addressed. I don’t know why it has gone on till now, nearly the last minute, when it is too late to do anything about it, but perhaps knowing about it will let us address the bogus ballots when they are cast.
“What we have found is that some of the voter rolls in the swing states are chock full of illegal aliens and other people who should not be on the voter roll.”
“All these NGOs that are processing them even before they cross the border, they’re using the address of the processing center as their voter registration address.”
According to his team, the Georgia voter rolls have
– 179,149 voters with incomplete addresses (missing apartment, unit or suite numbers)
– 114,817 voters used an invalid USPS address to register
-78,805 registered on a FEDERAL HOLIDAY (how?)
– 68,983 voters permanently moved out of the state but still remained on the roll
-Etc
If these findings are even 10% accurate, Republicans need to get to work FAST…
Any person or organization “processing” foreigners to get them registered, sometimes even before they enter the country, should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. And remember, these are almost always tax-free groups, subsidized by our own government through grants and and relief from taxation.
I just heard a report that 6 out of 10 Americans are living with a chronic disease. Could that be true?? If it is, and I have no reason to doubt it, we have deeper structural problems in this country and a lot of it stems from our food we eat and the drugs we are prescribed. I have mentioned before that I spend time in Mexico and will tell you straight up … the food in their grocery stores is a lot better than ours.
I might question the word “disease” and wonder if it should be “condition” but yes, I think overall this is probably true.
But for the immediate future I am a lot more concerned about tens of thousands of bogus ballots being illegally sent to WalMarts and abandoned warehouses, to be picked up and harvested by the Left. Example:
Wisconsin: 748,000 Identified Address Issues
Selected categories:
-Postal Service Invalid Address 11,291
-Missing or wrong APT, Unit No. 67,132
-Door Not Accessible to deliver mail 5,053
-Mailing error codes mail may not arrive 138,843
-Person is no longer at the address 14,307
-Duplicates, same name and address 1,133
-Voter left no forwarding address 16,747
-Permanently moved out of state 42,043
-Permanently moved to new WI county 56,457
-Error codes per US Postal Service 49,689
What would you bet that most of not all of these nearly 3/4 of a million undeliverable mail ballots are reported as delivered to these addresses? And how many of these people will be shown to have voted?
With this new technology, which claims to be able to tell within a day or so who has voted, maybe we can find some spines on the Right to make it clear that when false votes are proved to be included in the vote tally the state cannot legally “certify” that vote count, and any state that does will be sued and possibly prosecuted.
What would lack of certification mean to a state? I believe it would mean that state would lose its electoral college votes, which would effectively disenfranchise every voter in that state. Which should then come back on the election officials, possibly the legislatures, possibly the governors and/or secretaries of state, who were complicit in allowing false votes to be submitted and then counted by refusing to purge the registration rolls.
But that would not be our problem. That would be the responsibility of the citizens of those states, to demand election integrity and pursue whatever legal means they choose against the officials who did not do their jobs and cost them their votes.
Listen and learn. Megan details it brilliantly
https://x.com/RitaPanahi/status/1837730327957327919?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1837730327957327919%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thegatewaypundit.com%2F2024%2F09%2Fwatch-megyn-kelly-completely-destroys-liberal-host-trump%2F