North Carolina's Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, now running to be governor of the Tar Heel State, rose to fame in the GOP by channeling the id of the typical MAGA voter. His speeches and social media presence channel a D-list shock jock mentality, filtered through a Christian nationalist lens, that's grown in popularity in the Trump era. He calls LGBTQ people "filth," "maggots," and "flies," insisting they should be forced to "find a corner outside" rather than be allowed to use public restrooms. He's denounced women's suffrage and argued that once a woman is pregnant, her body belongs to "the daddy." And before Tucker Carlson was embracing Holocaust denialism, Robinson was raving that it was "hogwash" to believe the Nazi genocide of Jews happened.

So it's no surprise that another clip of Robinson being the worst has emerged. This time Robinson is caught on camera in a 2022 church appearance, going on a tirade about how women don't need birth control because — as he gestures to his crotch for emphasis — they need to "get this under control" instead.

"You don’t lay down and act like you’re making a baby til you’re ready to have a baby," he declared in a video first published by HuffPost. He explicitly sneered at the idea of birth control. "You don’t have what you do to make a baby until you’re ready to have that baby.” He followed up by insisting the only way to be "responsible with your body" is to reserve sex for procreation.

Robinson's campaign hasn't responded to HuffPost's requests for comment, but it's safe to say he hasn't changed his opposition to birth control in the past two years. On August 26, Robinson was recorded ranting yet again about the evils of contraception, a service that has been used by over 99% of sexually experienced women. Robinson insisted birth control is "being forced on........

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