‘I love Hitler’: Young Republicans’ racist chat

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   IslandBitesposted 2 days ago

   Leaders of Young Republican groups throughout the country worried what would happen if their Telegram chat ever got leaked, but they kept typing anyway.
   
   They referred to Black people as monkeys and “the watermelon people” and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies and driving them to suicide and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.
   
   The 2,900 pages of chats, shared among a dozen millennial and Gen Z Republicans between early January and mid-August, chronicle their campaign to seize control of the national Young Republican organization on a hardline pro-Donald Trump platform. Many of the chat members already work inside government or party politics, and one serves as a state senator.
   
   Together, the messages reveal a culture where racist, antisemitic and violent rhetoric circulate freely — and where the Trump-era loosening of political norms has made such talk feel less taboo among those positioning themselves as the party’s next leaders.
   
   The exchange is part of a trove of Telegram chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than seven months of messages among Young Republican leaders in New York, Kansas, Arizona and Vermont. The chat offers an unfiltered look at how a new generation of GOP activists talk when they think no one is listening.
   
   The group chat members spoke freely about the pressure to cow to Trump to avoid being called a RINO, the love of Nazis within their party’s right wing and the president’s alleged work to suppress documents related to wealthy financier Jeffrey Epstein’s child sex crimes.
   
   There's a lot more. Everybody should read this. Disgusting.
   
   https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/1 … s-00592146

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      Credence2posted 2 days agoin reply to this

      “Since POLITICO began making inquiries, one member of the group chat is no longer employed at their job and another’s job offer was rescinded. Prominent New York Republicans, including Rep. Elise Stefanik and state Senate Minority Leader Rob Ortt, have denounced the chat. And festering resentments among Young Republicans have now turned into public recriminations, including allegations of character assassination and extortion.”
      
      
      In a statement, Ortt called for members of the chat to resign.
      “I was shocked and disgusted to learn about the racist, anti-Semitic, and misogynistic comments attributed to members of the New York State Young Republicans,” Ortt said. “This behavior is indefensible and has no place in our party or anywhere in public life.”
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      Hmm, why am I not surprised. I always say that Republicans are fundamentally no good….. and all of this is acknowledged by their own kind.
      
      I wanted to see how the Right defends this behavior, yet keep asking me why I cannot support them.
      
      If this can happen in New York, what passes for conversation in reactionary red states where Republicans are in charge?
      
      So, yes, indeed, I read it.

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   IslandBitesposted 2 days ago

   NEW YORK — Two more members of a Young Republican group chat strewn with racist epithets and hateful jokes stepped down from their jobs Tuesday after POLITICO published an exclusive report on the Telegram exchanges.
   
   Peter Giunta’s time working with New York Assemblymember Mike Reilly “has ended,” the Republican lawmaker said. Giunta served as chair of the New York State Young Republicans when the chat took place. Joseph Maligno, who previously identified himself as the general counsel for that group, is no longer an employee of the New York State Unified Court System, a courts spokesperson confirmed.
   
   Another chat member, Vermont state Senator Sam Douglass, faced mounting calls for his resignation as well, including from the state’s Gov. Phil Scott, a Republican, and Douglass’ fellow Republican lawmakers, who called his statements “deeply disturbing.”
   
   In a bipartisan outcry, members of Congress and other political leaders from around the country said they were appalled by the contents of the group chat. The board of directors of the National Young Republicans said every member of the chat “must immediately resign” their state organization.
   
   YET...
   
   J.D. Vance  pushed back against the outrage, minimizing what was said.

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   Willowarborposted 2 days ago

   MAGA logic- Calling some Republicans deplorables/garbage is off limits but calling black people monkeys is acceptable...got it.

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   Willowarborposted 2 days ago

   The Vice President of the United States refusing to condemn Nazis should be a much bigger story in the news.
   
   It's scary to think that so many are comfortable with this language...

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   IslandBitesposted 2 days ago

   Young Republicans' offensive group chat: Who is involved?
   
   LINK

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      Willowarborposted 2 days agoin reply to this

      Lol...Vance is calling them kids.

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         Credence2posted 2 days agoin reply to this

         Kids, huh, more like “Hitler Youth”
         
         Note how conservatives avoid these issues like the plague, acknowledging that bigotry has to have a considerable part of their makeup.

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         IslandBitesposted 2 days agoin reply to this

         Vance says young Republicans accused of racism shouldn't have their lives 'ruined'
         
         The “reality is that kids do stupid things, especially young boys,” Vance said Wednesday in an appearance on “The Charlie Kirk Show.”
         
         “They tell edgy, offensive jokes, like, that’s what kids do,” Vance continued. “And I really don’t want us to grow up in a country where a kid telling a stupid joke — telling a very offensive, stupid joke — is cause to ruin their lives. And at some point we’re all going to have to say enough of this BS, we’re not going to allow the worst moment in a 21-year-old’s group chat to ruin a kid’s life for the rest of time. That’s just not OK.”
         
         “We’re all going to have to say: ‘You know what? No, no, no, we’re not doing this.’ We’re not canceling kids because they do something stupid in a group chat, and if I have to be the person who carries that message forward, I’m fine with it.”
         
         A Republican operative who has been close to the White House said Vance’s stance is in line with that of a party that has for years felt forced to apologize for even minor transgressions.
         
         But this person said the comments reported in the story have “no place in our party and no place in the country.”
         
         "Do I think he could be more clear that the comments were not just a joke? This was not locker room speak. Let’s be clear.”
         
         This person continued, saying the chat cannot be written off as “boys being boys” and “kids being kids” because “they’re grown-a-- men.”
         
         
         MAGA like jokes about raping, burning, killing... Fun.

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   Willowarborposted 2 days ago

   This is who they are. It's just all out in the open now...
   
   American Flag With Swastika Is Found in Republican Congressman’s Office
   Representative Dave Taylor of Ohio condemned the symbol as “vile” and said his office was investigating with the U.S. Capitol Police.....LOL LIKE HE NEVER SAW IT BEFORE
   
   American Flag With Swastika Is Found in Republican Congressman’s Office - The New York Times https://share.google/jy8Ja4W7YfugU7lia

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   IslandBitesposted 39 hours ago

   Some of the "boys".
   
   
   

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      Willowarborposted 34 hours agoin reply to this

      Lol Vance is only one year older than one of the boys! The kids!

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   Willowarborposted 34 hours ago

   Left: Mike Johnson claiming he's "never heard of" the members of the racist Young Republicans chat
   
   Right: Mike Johnson taking selfies with members of the group chat in question...
   
   https://x.com/factpostnews/status/1978842818853416985
   
   Republicans have no more credibility after this.... Mike lies so effortlessly... WHAT A CHRISTIAN
   
   Why is it so hard to just denounce Hitler praise and racism?

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      IslandBitesposted 34 hours agoin reply to this

      Why is it so hard to just denounce Hitler praise and racism?
      
      We know why.

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   Willowarborposted 34 hours ago

   Vance is married to an Indian woman. He has mixed-race children. If he won’t even defend them, his own family, from white supremacist jokes and Hitler worship… what makes MAGA think he gives a damn about you?”
   
   If a man won’t stand for his own, he’ll sell out anyone. MAGA included.

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    IslandBitesposted 34 hours ago

    Vance, 41, said that he grew up in a different era where “most of what I, the stupid things that I did as a teenager and as a young adult, they’re not on the internet.”
    
    The father of three said he would caution his own children, “especially my boys, don’t put things on the internet, like, be careful with what you post. If you put something in a group chat, assume that some scumbag is going to leak it in an effort to try to cause you harm or cause your family harm.”
    
    So, the scumbag is the one leaking, not the "boys" that celebrated rape, used slurs, love Hitler. Ok.
    So, the lesson isnt do not refer to other people with slurs, do not wish harm to others, do not love a murderer... Do it quietly. OK Vance.
    
    SMH
    
    Disgusting MAGAs.

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    Willowarborposted 34 hours ago

    Ah yes, Republicans have found the real villains in the racist Young Republican chat story...the leaker and the people who think Republicans praising Hitler is bad!

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    Willowarborposted 9 hours ago

    The future of the Republican party....
    
    
    
    
    
    
    You folks need to exit the high road, like now... I never want to hear another lecture on values and morality from this bunch...

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