"All members of the Young Republicans are between the ages of 18 and 40. The 'I love Hitler' guy (who also called Black people monkeys) is Peter Giunta, a man in his 30s and chief of staff to New York state Assemblymember Mike Reilly."
~ Jill Filipovic
#YoungRepublicans #JDVance #CharlieKirk #racism #homophobia #antisemitism #misogyny #Nazi #fascism
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The GOP's Nazi Youth
Trump has given his followers permission to be the worst and impunity from consequences.Jill Filipovic
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William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •"I can’t find the age of Bobby Walker, the vice chair of the New York State Young Republicans, but he was recently touted by his organization as 'a veteran GOP strategist from Albany.' Samuel Douglass, a Vermont state senator, joined in a conversation in which Walker mocked a friend who 'dated this very obese Indian woman for a period of time;' Douglass added, 'she just didn’t bathe very often.'”
#YoungRepublicans #JDVance #racism #homophobia #antisemitism #misogyny #Nazi #fascism
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William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •"When he noted a procedural error made by a Jewish colleague, his wife Brianna Douglass — who sits on the national committee of the Vermont Young Republicans — chimed in to say, 'I was about to say you’re giving nationals to [sic] much credit and expecting the Jew to be honest.'
Many of the participants in this group chat are older than the recent college grads who staffed up DOGE and dismantled the federal government."
#YoungRepublicans #racism #homophobia #antisemitism #misogyny #Nazi
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William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •"There are two issues here. One is that the MAGA right has a legitimate Nazi problem. The second is that the MAGA right believes there are two standards: The ultra-permissive one that applies to them and their followers within which there are zero consequences for even the worst behavior, and the far stricter one that applies to liberals or any other perceived political opponents."
#YoungRepublicans #JDVance #CharlieKirk #racism #homophobia #antisemitism #misogyny #Nazi #fascism
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William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •"And they’re willing to use the full force of government to punish their opponents and create maximal permissiveness for themselves. ...
It is hard to overstate how much Trump and the MAGA movement have coarsened American discourse, gutted American morality, and generally turned our country into an uglier, less decent place."
#YoungRepublicans #JDVance #CharlieKirk #racism #homophobia #antisemitism #misogyny #Nazi #fascism
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William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •"The guys yukking it up in the most revolting terms in the Young Republicans chat weren’t 'young boys'—they were early-ish career Republican political professionals. Peter Giunta, one of the chat’s worst offenders, is 31. He was recently a candidate for national chair of the organization, which pulls in about a million dollars in donations a year."
~ Bulwark
#YoungRepublicans #JDVance #CharlieKirk #racism #homophobia #antisemitism #misogyny #Nazi #fascism
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Jack Smith’s Not-So-Subtle Message
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William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •"Vance, meanwhile, wasn’t just saying the chatters shouldn’t have their lives ruined—he was himself heaping contempt on the idea that anyone should even find their chat repugnant. And the 'you shouldn’t be defined by the worst thing you’ve ever said on the internet' version of JD Vance seems somehow to have forgotten what he was up to just weeks ago, when he encouraged ratting out people who made tasteless posts about the death of Charlie Kirk to their employers."
#YoungRepublicans #JDVance
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William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •"The Vice President of the United States just told America that professional political operatives saying 'I love Hitler' is what kids do. ...
Vance knows exactly what he’s doing. He’s not confused."
~ Mike Brock
#YoungRepublicans #JDVance #CharlieKirk #racism #homophobia #antisemitism #misogyny #Nazi #fascism
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The Great Moral Inversion
Mike Brock (Notes From The Circus)William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •"He’s deliberately establishing that truth is what power says, that moral standards are weapons against enemies and suspended for allies, that the only principle is tribal loyalty to power."
#YoungRepublicans #JDVance #CharlieKirk #racism #homophobia #antisemitism #misogyny #Nazi #fascism
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William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •"IS THERE A PLACE in the Republican operative class for people who 'love Hitler'? How about those who like making jokes about black people eating watermelon?
That’s the debate consuming the MAGA movement this week…."
~ Will Sommer
#YoungRepublicans #JDVance #CharlieKirk #racism #homophobia #antisemitism #misogyny #Nazi #fascism
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Wendizen 🇺🇦
in reply to William Lindsey • • •William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •"This isn’t a 'few bad apples' scenario. It is a structural failure of values—amplified and rehearsed in private so it can flourish in public. The chat shows what happens when a party encourages loyalty through fear, extremism, and moral inversion."
~ Michael Cohen
#YoungRepublicans #JDVance #CharlieKirk #racism #homophobia #antisemitism #misogyny #Nazi #fascism
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Vile Texts Expose GOP Rot
Michael Cohen (Meidas+)William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •"The young Republicans are the truest Republicans. A little Nazi stuff? What's the big deal?"
~ Paul Waldman
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The Young Republicans Are the Truest Republicans
Paul Waldman (The Cross Section)DB Schwein
in reply to William Lindsey • • •A few bad apples spoil the barrel.
That barrel needs to be emptied, washed out with vinegar, and left to dry for a few decades.
Finitum
in reply to William Lindsey • • •Vance really telling on himself. "Oh i'm glad the things I said aren't saved somewhere". Like what things? Not a problem we ever had with Kamala Harris. Not a problem we would have had with Tim Walz.
Guys going to have the marines performatively bomb CA & he has thoughts about political violence & terrorizing opposing parties.
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