MAGA Gov Candidate’s Ugly, Hateful Rant: “Some Folks Need Killing!”
https://newrepublic.com/article/183443/mark-robinson-north-carolina-gov-candidate-hateful-rant-killing
MAGA Gov Candidate’s Ugly, Hateful Rant: “Some Folks Need Killing!”
https://newrepublic.com/article/183443/mark-robinson-north-carolina-gov-candidate-hateful-rant-killing
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Just planning a few little light locker-room death squads.
What a loving Christ like statement to say in a church!
I hate that this is being normalized
I love how these assholes who call for violence pretend they won’t be instantly targeted by the other side once it starts.
“The other side” owns weapons, too. They just don’t make it their entire identity.
Support Josh Stein, the Dem nominee and our current excellent two-term Attorney General!
This guy is downright repulsive. Please, fellow NC voters, do not let him become our governor.
It’s time to WAKE the EFF UP, people! Every….single….day another one of these cult members is espousing violence.
Vile and disgusting republican:
“[W]e now find ourselves struggling with people who have evil intent. You know, there’s a time when we used to meet evil on the battlefield, and guess what we did to it? We killed it!…When the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, what did we do? We flew to Japan! And we killed the Japanese Army and Navy!…We didn’t argue and capitulate and talk about, well, maybe we shouldn’t fight the Nazis that hard. No, they’re bad. Kill them. Some liberal somewhere is going to say that sounds awful. Too bad. Get mad at me if you want to.
Some folks need killing! It’s time for somebody to say it. It’s not a matter of vengeance. It’s not a matter of being mean or spiteful. It’s a matter of necessity. When you have wicked people doing wicked things, torturing and murdering and raping. It’s time to call out, uh, those guys in green and go have them handled. Or those boys in blue and have them go handle it…
We need to start handling our business again…Don’t you feel it slipping away?…The further we start sliding into making 1776 a distant memory and the tenants of socialism and communism start coming into clearer focus. They’re watching us. They’re listening to us. They’re tracking us. They get mad at you. They cancel you. They dox you. They kick you off social media. They come in and close down your business. Folks, it’s happening…because we have forgotten who we are”
Take this seriously. If you live in NC, and you are anyone the GOP doesn’t like, they’re going to come after you. This could legitimately be a life or death election. According to him, just criticizing conservatives online is enough to be killed.
>“Some folks need killing!” Robinson, the state’s lieutenant governor, shouted during a roughly half-hour-long speech in Lake Church in the tiny town of White Lake, in the southeast corner of the state. “It’s time for somebody to say it. It’s not a matter of vengeance. It’s not a matter of being mean or spiteful. It’s a matter of necessity.”
That Jesus really needed a Snickers, he was always angry and hated everyone.
Imagine his surprise when he finds out after the MAGA takeover it’s his family and folks.
Yeah, they pretend it’s not really murder because their made up intent is now punishable by death.
Until they come for you…. and there’s no one left to fight for you…
Milosevic talked like that once.
Have you wondered why this rhetoric isn’t sinking his candidacy?
Typical GOP rhetoric now. Really disturbing
pretty quick jump from “rape and torture” to not liking your posts on Facebook.
So this church was holding a political rally where killing members of the opposing party was endorsed? Is that how that went?
So that church holding political rallies for active candidates is paying taxes….right?
Well he laid down the challenge. Is someone going to take his words at face value?
Edit: hypothetically. Seems like a leopards ate my face post in the making.
A black man saying this is crazy 😭
Christian reich
Keep telling ppl seeya in the camps, they laugh and thinks it’s hyperbolic….. 🦅🇺🇸🦅🙏
“Robinson’s call for the “killing” of “some folks” came during an extended diatribe in which he attacked an extraordinary assortment of enemies. These ranged from “people who have evil intent” to “wicked people” to those doing things like “torturing and murdering and raping” to socialists and Communists. He also invoked those supposedly undermining America’s founding ideals and leftists allegedly persecuting conservatives by canceling them and doxxing them online.
In all this, Robinson appeared to endorse lethal violence against these unnamed enemies, particularly on the left, though he wasn’t exactly clear on which “folks” are the ones who “need killing.”
Robinson, a self-described “MAGA Republican,” has a long history of wildly radical and unhinged moments. He has linked homosexuality to pedophilia, called for the arrest of trans women, pushed hallucinogenic antisemitic conspiracy theories, endorsed the vile “birther” conspiracy about Barack Obama, described Michelle Obama as a man, hinted at the need to violently oppose federal law enforcement and the government, and posted memes mocking and denying the brutal, violent assault on Nancy Pelosi’s husband, among many other things.
His latest rant is yet another example of an ugly game widely played on the MAGA right, one supercharged by Donald Trump. It entails hinting that right-wing political violence is necessary and justified because a ubiquitous, all-seeing, all-powerful leftist threat—one that is pure invention—is already supposedly attacking and persecuting conservatives on a mass scale.
Here’s what Robinson said (bold mine):
We now find ourselves struggling with people who have evil intent. You know, there’s a time when we used to meet evil on the battlefield, and guess what we did to it? We killed it! … When the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, what did we do? We flew to Japan! And we killed the Japanese Army and Navy! … We didn’t argue and capitulate and talk about, well, maybe we shouldn’t fight the Nazis that hard. No, they’re bad. Kill them. Some liberal somewhere is going to say that sounds awful. Too bad. Get mad at me if you want to.
Some folks need killing! It’s time for somebody to say it. It’s not a matter of vengeance. It’s not a matter of being mean or spiteful. It’s a matter of necessity! When you have wicked people doing wicked things, torturing and murdering and raping. It’s time to call out, uh, those guys in green and go have them handled. Or those boys in blue and have them go handle it.…
We need to start handling our business again.… Don’t you feel it slipping away? … The further we start sliding into making 1776 a distant memory and the tenets of socialism and communism start coming into clearer focus. They’re watching us. They’re listening to us. They’re tracking us. They get mad at you. They cancel you. They dox you. They kick you off social media. They come in and close down your business. Folks, it’s happening … because we have forgotten who we are.
Robinson might try to argue that he only meant that our enemies during World War II—and torturers and murderers and rapists today—deserve “killing.” But the sum total of his remarks plainly suggests otherwise. He seemed to analogize the need to kill World War II enemies to the need to kill enemies in the present, enemies who harbor “evil intent,” enemies conservatives are struggling against “now.”
What’s more, Robinson described those enemies in very broad terms. He suggested that conservatives will lose the spirit of 1776 (meaning their country) to enemies who harass them on social media and elsewhere unless they are prepared to unleash the army and cops to “handle” (i.e., kill) them. These appear to be the “folks” who “need killing.”
Indeed, when Robinson predicted that liberals will say “that sounds awful,” and “too bad,” he himself appeared to anticipate that his call for “killing” would be perceived as a call for political violence.
The Reverend Cameron McGill, the Pastor of Lake Church, confirmed to me that he and Robinson expected these remarks about “killing” to be “scrutinized,” but defended them.
“Without a doubt, those he deemed worthy of death [were] those seeking to kill us,” Pastor Cameron said in an email, adding that Robinson “certainly did not imply the taking of any innocent lives” and that the rest of his speech was “non-controversial.” There was no formal media presence during the speech, the Pastor confirmed.”
It’s sickening that this kind of behavior has become the normal.
How on earth was this guy elected to Lt Governor?
FBI? Hello?
“We now find ourselves struggling with people who have evil intent. You know, there’s a time when we used to meet evil on the battlefield, and guess what we did to it? We killed it! … When the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, what did we do? We flew to Japan! And we killed the Japanese Army and Navy! … We didn’t argue and capitulate and talk about, well, maybe we shouldn’t fight the Nazis that hard. No, they’re bad. Kill them. Some liberal somewhere is going to say that sounds awful. Too bad. Get mad at me if you want to.
Some folks need killing! It’s time for somebody to say it. It’s not a matter of vengeance. It’s not a matter of being mean or spiteful. It’s a matter of necessity! When you have wicked people doing wicked things, torturing and murdering and raping. It’s time to call out, uh, those guys in green and go have them handled. Or those boys in blue and have them go handle it.…
We need to start handling our business again.… Don’t you feel it slipping away? … The further we start sliding into making 1776 a distant memory and the tenets of socialism and communism start coming into clearer focus. They’re watching us. They’re listening to us. They’re tracking us. They get mad at you. They cancel you. They dox you. They kick you off social media. They come in and close down your business. Folks, it’s happening … because we have forgotten who we are.”
This man is the lt governor of a US state.
If he was a Democrat, he’d have been shamed into resigning by now. Instead, he’ll probably be canonized by his party.
They’re all for it until they see or are a victim of it
“Evil intent” to “wicked people”. He just described himself as one of those folks.
Huh, I remember reading in now-outlawed history texts where white folks said the same thing about Black folks.
It a not so distant past I might add. I’ll be waiting to see his face on the Leopards Ate My Face subreddit
He the wrong shade of white to be talking this shit. It never ends well for the minority does he not know history. That’s right he’s MAGA! The poorly educated.
Pretty sure this is the guy… I saw a small background expose on him, and long story short he had financial problems, and started trolling people online to feel better. It’s now his entire personality. Might be wrong, but that’s standing out for some reason.
Just the kind of stand up person that I would avoid interacting with at all costs.
Add – it was on Last Week Tonight, because of course it was.
He should he arrested and tried for making criminal threats.
He may be pontificating, joking, or whatever, but many people will hear this and take it as a call to arms.
This is why these public figures who rabble rouse in this fashion should be punished harshly.
Tax
ALL
Churches
And I’m thinking dumpf and his daddy thought the same about that black man…
> Some folks need killing!” Robinson, the state’s lieutenant governor, shouted during a roughly half-hour-long speech **in Lake Church** in the tiny town of White Lake, in the southeast corner of the state. “It’s time for somebody to say it. It’s not a matter of vengeance. It’s not a matter of being mean or spiteful. It’s a matter of necessity!”
Definitely shares the same values as Jesus Christ
They’re going to double down and defend this guy. Then more people are going to say the same thing.
And then people die.
Some folks need killing! ????? What the fuck is going on???? He’s just to stupid to realize that if they start killing gay people, drug addicts, homeless people- and don’t think that’s not who he means- it’s eventually going to trickle down to “well why not just get rid of all the poor people and minorities as well”. They have no idea what they are putting into motion. Everybody needs to study up on how the holocaust got started because they are setting up for one Here Now!
This is terrorism
This is clear as day nazi rhetoric.
> Robinson’s call for the “killing” of “some folks” came during an extended diatribe in which he attacked an extraordinary assortment of enemies. These ranged from “people who have evil intent” to “wicked people” to those doing things like “torturing and murdering and raping” to socialists and Communists. He also invoked those supposedly undermining America’s founding ideals and leftists allegedly persecuting conservatives by canceling them and doxxing them online.
There it is. Outright calling for liberals to be killed for exercising freedom of speech. Most of the doxxing comes from the right, anyway.
Not only should this man not be a candidate for -any- public office, he should be removed from the office he currently holds which is Lt. Governor of North Carolina. No public official should be calling for the death of anyone.
Republicans: “Some folks need killing”
Democrats: “Some folks need mental healthcare, let’s subsidize that”
Some voters: “BoTH SiDEs ARe ThE SAmE”
“Some folks need killing! It’s time for somebody to say it. It’s not a matter of vengeance. It’s not a matter of being mean or spiteful. It’s a matter of necessity! When you have wicked people doing wicked things, torturing and murdering and raping. **It’s time to call out, uh, those guys in green and go have them handled. Or those boys in blue and have them go handle it.…**
This psychopath isn’t just expressing a personal desire to murder other humans – he wants to call out the military, the national guard and/or law enforcement to murder people for him.
And he’s running for governor.
If churches want to be in politics, churches need to pay taxes.