This is Going to Ruin The Tour

The Friday Post.

Katy Perry after a taping of Jimmy Kimmel Live on February 12 in Los Angeles. (Photo: RB/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images)

The last 30 hours would make even Aaron Sorkin sitting-at-his-computer-writing-the Bin Laden episode of The Newsroom blush: Mark Robinson, the Republican candidate for governor of North Carolina (and the state’s current Lieutenant Governor) has been linked to a series of racist and slimball comments on a pornography website. In a trove of comments uncovered by CNN’s KFile, Robinson referred to himself as a “black Nazi” and said “slavery is not bad” and that “some people need to be slaves.” The far-right fearmonger Chris Rufo was revealed to have an Ashley Madison account, presumably to cheat on his wife. According to court documents acquired by the nonprofit newsroom Notus, there is now sworn testimony saying that Matt Gaetz (the U.S. representative for Florida's 1st congressional district) attended a “drug-fueled sex party” that is yet another link between the representati…