(May 22, 2024 at 12:49 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:

Quote:WASHINGTON (AP) — In his bid to become North Carolina’s first Black governor, Republican Mark Robinson assails government safety net spending as a “plantation of welfare and victimhood” that has mired generations of Black people in “dependency” and poverty.

But the lieutenant governor’s political rise wouldn’t have been possible without it.

Over the past decade, Robinson’s household has relied on income from Balanced Nutrition Inc., a nonprofit founded by his wife, Yolanda Hill, that administered a free lunch program for North Carolina children. The organization, funded entirely by taxpayers, has collected roughly $7 million in government funding since 2017, while paying out at least $830,000 in salaries to Hill, Robinson and other members of their family, tax filings and state documents show.

The income offered the Robinsons a degree of stability after decades of struggle that included multiple bankruptcies, home foreclosure and misdemeanor charges — later dropped — for writing bad checks. In Robinson’s telling, the financial turnaround provided by the organization also allowed for his ascent into the North Carolina government.

https://apnews.com/article/robinson-gove...5b3c43d554

Typical grifting Republican hypocrite.

The Wikipedia article on this guy is - for want of a better term - hilarious.

Boru

(May 22, 2024 at 1:25 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: The Wikipedia article on this guy is - for want of a better term - hilarious.

Boru

I find it less funny and more worrisome.

(May 22, 2024 at 1:48 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:

(May 22, 2024 at 1:25 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: The Wikipedia article on this guy is - for want of a better term - hilarious.

Boru

I find it less funny and more worrisome.

I find myself unable to not laugh at the staggering hypocrisy.

Boru

(May 22, 2024 at 2:04 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:

(May 22, 2024 at 1:48 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: I find it less funny and more worrisome.

I find myself unable to not laugh at the staggering hypocrisy.

Boru

Yeah, but you don't have to live here.

It's okay. He's not good with money. Other than that he's the African American version of Archie Bunker.

It's sad how black people keep shortening their memories. It's as if they're devolving themselves back into slavery.

Politics makes strange bedfellows, as they say. I'm disgustedly amused at what people will sacrifice for a modicum of power/influence.

(May 22, 2024 at 7:13 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: Marjorie Taylor Greene Claims on X that Biden ‘Gave the Green Light To DOJ, FBI’ ‘To Assassinate Trump’



https://politizoom.com/mtg-claims-biden-...ate-trump/

It's really too bad Trump's dick isn't bigger, Then Mad Marge could actually choke on it instead of just pretending.

(May 22, 2024 at 1:12 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: So what if Biden did order seal team six to take out the donald?  Isn't that an official act?

He'd be doing the country a favor. Pity it's illegal.

(May 21, 2024 at 12:12 pm)Jackalope Wrote:

(May 20, 2024 at 6:32 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: There’s a tremendous difference between overturning a prior Supreme Court decision and repealing a Constitutional amendment, especially when Democrats have an overwhelming majority in the Washington legislature.

I mean, these loons aren’t thinking this through. Republicans are in the minority in both houses of the state legislature, and they want to give the legislature the power to elect senators.

Boru

Of course there's a difference.   Step back from the this being a Washington state issue.  It's far more complex than numbers (my home in the USA is in Washington, I am very familiar with these nutbars and what they're up to).  There is an active effort to split most of the GOP controlled areas from the state.   In addition, this Supreme court gutted part of the 14th amendment, what's to stop them from doing the same to the 17th?

When the courts, state legislatures, and Governor's seats are dominated by a minority party who has no problem with lawlessness, do you really think that the Constitution and checks and balances are going to get in their way of the national GOP for long?

The Republicans are so hell bent on gaining power and control, especially the Christian Nationalists among them, that it would not surprise me that they will pull anything to accomplish their fascist dream. We should all keep watch on other states that will have upcoming GOP conventions to see if they will openly have similar language to Washington state's GOP.