North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper joins the MSNBC panel moments after Mark Robinson wins the state’s GOP primary for governor. Cooper says “Mark Robinson does not reflect North Carolina’s values.”

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    8 months ago

    Some quotes from the candidate:

    “There’s no reason anybody anywhere in America should be telling any child about transgenderism, homosexuality, any of that filth. And yes I called it filth. And if you don’t like that I called it filth, come see me and I’ll explain it to you.”

    He claimed that the Marvel movie Black Panther was “created by an agnostic Jew and put to film by satanic Marxists” that was “only created to pull the shekels out of your Schvartze pockets”

    This is just the tip with this guy, more can be found here

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Robinson_(American_politician)

  • HeyListenWatchOut@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    The neoliberal “we’re like the Republicans but as if it were still 1980” type Dems who have been in charge of the party for decades now should be scared out of their minds and doing whatever they can to get the apathetic would-be voters out and mobilized.

    After what the MAGA fascist lunatics did to Paul Pelosi, Tammy Duckworth, and were GOING to do to them in the Capitol were they to have caught any of them, I can’t believe these idiots still think being rich will save them from these actual fascists if they lose in 2024.

    Seriously, Jan 6th is going to end up looking instead like a dress rehearsal if Biden, Schumer, Pelosi, and all the other “3rd-way” Ds don’t stop choosing appeasing capital when given the choice of trying to attract new working-class voters or attempting in vain at appeasing Republicans (who will NEVER choose “Republican-LITE” when they can get any actual R on the ticket).

    Time is almost out. The increasingly large pile of historical comparisons are apt. The alarms are blaring.

    For the love of all that is good, stop with the half-measure “going high when they go low one-time-partial-mail-in-rebate if you apply on our barely functioning website to request to see if you qualify” legislation and just straight up illegally pass an avalanche of populist actions designed to immediately tangibly address the needs of the working class so the Supreme Court is wasting months and political capital for the Rs trying to declare it all as not-legal even though it’s awesome… as soon as possible… or risk the literal end of democracy by allowing Trump the opportunity to disingenuously claim that he would do what only the furthest left Ds might even dare to suggest.

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      8 months ago

      just straight up illegally pass an avalanche of populist actions designed to immediately tangibly address the needs of the working class so the Supreme Court is wasting months and political capital for the Rs trying to declare it all as not-legal even though it’s awesome

      Some counter-inanity, eh? The “left” I see on Lemmy feels engineered to be particularly empty-headed.

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    8 months ago

    I guess I’m confused where the Fox News 'I stand with Israel" flag outside their house crowd me marry that with Holocaust denial?

    I mean I know how they do it, without thinking, but I just want to be in the room when that question is popped.