Young Republicans Eerily Similar to Old Nazis
Republican office-holders and party officials revealed talking shit about Jews, Black people, rape, gas chambers, the usual
Oct. 15: N-word and pretty much every other letter-word proliferate in Young Republican group chat … U.S. military carries out another illegal boat murder … Trump’s cease-fire showing cracks even faster than most things he claimed to have built … Trump guts Education services for America’s disabled kids to secure nomination for Nobel Cartoonish Villain Prize …
A group text of a dozen Young Republican leaders hoping to take over the national organization reveals them using language everyone assumes old Republicans use in their text messages, except without periods.
The group includes elected officials and at least one official in the Trump administration who just earned himself a big fat promotion, young man.
The texts also sound a hell of a lot like the text messages of Nazi Germany leaders.
Republican leadership qualities on display in the messages sent by the Republican Party leaders of tomorrow include:
Racism
Sexism
Homophobia
Misogyny
Antisemitism
Violent threats
In other words, even in these phone-obsessed times of ours, today’s crazy GOP kids are still completing the whole set. Politico, which obtained some 28,000 texts, counted more than 250 instances of epithets including the b-word for Latinos, the c-word for women, the n-word for Black people, the r-word for developmentally disabled people, and the f-word — the hateful f-word about gay people, not the awesome and beautiful f-word referring to the consensual act of love from which The Fucking News derives its name.
The Young Republicans also discussed using psychological techniques to make rivals commit suicide. But, y’know, kidding! Meet your future Republican leaders, America…!
Peter Giunta, chief of staff to state Assembly Member Mike Reilly (R-NY) and at the time chair of the state Young Republicans, endorsed by Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) for his “tremendous leadership” to head the Young Republican National Federation:
Discussing his leadership race wrote that “everyone that votes no is going to the gas chamber.” But didn’t mean it literally.
Black people were “the watermelon people,” and as for watching an NBA game, “I’d go to the zoo if I wanted to watch monkey play ball.”
Gave a virtual tour of his rivals’ states: “Minnesota - f----ts; Arkansas - inbred cow fuckers … Maryland - fat stinky Jew … Rhode Island - traitorous c---s who I will eradicate from the face of this planet.”
“If your pilot is a she and she looks ten shades darker than someone from Sicily, just end it there. Scream the no no word.”1
A group of teenage Republicans was “mega based” (that’s praise) because “They support slavery and all that shit.” It wasn’t immediately clear what other shit accompanies slavery.
“I love Hitler.” In reference to uber-Nazi Adolf Hitler, because apparently “Hitler 4 Eva” would have been too ambiguous.
Vermont state Sen. Samuel Douglass (R-VT), chair of Vermont’s Young Republicans:
Corrected a statement that a woman was Indian by saying, “She just didn’t bathe often.” But said it ironically.
In an exchange with his wife, future Labor Secretary Brianna Douglas, said that a rival’s Jewish colleague screwed something up, to which Brianna responded, “you’re … expecting the Jew to be honest.”
Bobby Walker, then a staffer for New York State Senate Minority Leader Rob Ortt (R-NY), now chair of the New York Young Republicans, and right up until Tuesday in the running to, um, run Republican Peter Oberacker’s congressional campaign:
Referred to rape as “epic,” presumably except when it happens to him or Rob Ortt. But was just being meta.
Crapped on POWs and wounded veterans, saying, “I prefer my war heroes not captured” — a call-back to Trump’s own dismissal of the late Sen. John McCain’s (R-AZ) five-plus years in a Vietnam prison — and calling Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX), who lost an eye as a Navy SEAL in Afghanistan, “eyepatch McCain,” which don’t deny some of you politically incorrect Newsfuckers are gonna use that line at some point.
Used and was the target of the f-word. The bad f-word.
Joked about bombing a convention of rivals. “Just kidding,” he added, in case “our assigned FBI tracker” saw the text.
New York Republican National Committee (RNC) member Annie Kaykaty:
Wrote, “I’m ready to watch people burn now,” although in her defense, she was responding to New York Young Republicans General Counsel Joe Maligno saying, “Can we fix the showers? Gas chambers don’t fit the Hitler aesthetic,” which on second thought is a terrible defense.
Maligno:
Referred malignontly to 19th-century Chinese railroad workers as “ch--ks.”
William Hendrix, communications assistant (until last week) to Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach and vice chair of Kansas Young Republicans:
Used variations of the n-word a dozen times. Y’know, ironically.
Wrote that, “Bro is at a chicken restaurant ordering his food. Would he like some watermelon and kool aid with that?”
Referred approvingly to the Missouri Young Republicans, writing, “Missouri doesn’t like f--s.”
Arizona Young Republicans Chair Luke Mosiman:
Wrote of a political foe, “RAPE HAYDEN,” although it wasn’t clear why he used all-caps because who uses all—oh, RIGHT.
Also in the chat, but not especially chatty, was Michael Bartels, a senior adviser to the Small Business Administration who didn’t make a big deal out of senior advising his junior Republicans to stop talking like senior Republicans.
But apparently, old Republicans are a bit more woke than they campaigned last year. After Politico reported this vile shit on Tuesday, Giunta was fired and Maligno lost his job working for New York State.
Gov. Phil Scott (R-VT) is calling for Douglass to step down as Assembly member. And, I mean, even among modern Republicans, who could possibly defend this stuff?
Obviously, the guy who said Haitian immigrants took over an Ohio town and ate their pets is gonna stick up for this shit. Vice Pres. JD Vance posted, “I refuse to join the pearl clutching.”
How come? Because a Democrat said something worse!
Vance’s pearls were denied his gentle clutch because the Democratic candidate for attorney general in Virginia texted about how Republicans would only drop their support of guns when people they cared about got dropped by guns.
Apparently Vance missed the part about Walker bombing an entire convention full of Republicans. Not to mention the planet-eradicating-from.
Weirdly, many of those involved appear to have adopted minor variations on the Vance personal aesthetic:
The fired young Republicans are expected to be recruited by ICE.
U.S. Military Murders Six More People on Trump’s Unlawful Orders
The U.S. government slaughtered six more people in international waters on Tuesday without even the courtesy of a “stop or we’ll shoot.”
The killing was carried out by U.S. Southern Command, led by Admiral Alvin Holsey, one of America’s rising serial killers.
Pres. Donald Trump posted Tuesday, without posting a shred of evidence Tuesday, that the victims were “six male narcoterrorists.”
I’m still at work reporting on the sources of Trump’s putative “intel,” and if you missed my live chat with national-security reporter Seth Hettena on Monday, he explained that these claims are just laughable on their face because it’s virtually impossible to get granular, real-time intel on who’s in these boats. There are no manifests, Hettena explained. Except destiny, obvi.
In a quaint throwback to the rule of law, however, it turns out you’re also not allowed to murder actual six male narcoterrorists. Yup! You trivia-loving Newsfuckers might already know that murdering criminals also counts as murder!
And when you see corporate media reporting that these killings have “raised questions” about their legality, you should know that this is a lie. There are no questions, just tons of very clear answers. Or, as I like to put it, it’s raising questions about why they’re lying. (I have answers, if anyone’s interested in me doing a live chat to discuss.)
Trump’s Middle East Peace Showing Cracks Even Sooner Than Most Things He “Built”
Pres. Donald Trump on Monday predicted that last week’s Middle East peace, which apparently doesn’t include Yemen, would last a long time. The way he told white tenants that his buildings would and the way he told white investors that his business ventures would.
Trump on Tuesday demanded that Hamas disarm, and — oh this is interesting — said that if they don’t, the U.S. will do it for them. Y’know, like with a war. Huh!
While calling for Hamas to disarm, Trump simultaneously said he had no problem with Hamas killing rival gang members and retaking control in areas where Israel has withdrawn. “That didn’t bother me much, to be honest with you,” he said, trying something new.
Also, one of the dead bodies Hamas turned over to Israel turns out not to be an Israeli hostage but a Palestinian, so apparently Amazon is handling the shipping and fulfillment.
Israel says Hamas is violating the cease-fire deal by not returning all the dead quickly enough. Also a violation of the cease-fire, though you wouldn’t know it from most corporate media: Israel not ceasing firing. According to al Jazeera, the Israeli military is continuing its attacks, which include firing, and are continuing to cease Palestinian lives.
Here are just some of the other complaints from residents of Trump’s latest property deal:
Israel is still holding 115 prisoners captured during raids on hospitals; in other words, doctors and nurses.
The deal to allow in full the humanitarian aid that Israel swore it was always allowing in full has now been cut in half. Israel says it will allow in the life-saving aid in full when Hamas provides the dead bodies.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu still says the war isn’t over until Hamas is dismantled, and Hamas currently remains mantled.
And if you’re thinking it would be churlish to deny Trump credit for getting the job done, Trump posted on Tuesday that “the job IS NOT DONE.”
Trump Breaks Cease-Fire in War on Disabled Kids, Poor Kids, and Non-White Kids
Pres. Donald Trump has just laid off 466 staffers at the Department of Education, or about one-fifth of the remaining employees, although Trump may not be aware of that since he’s bad at fractions. The cuts were targeted at department divisions that help disabled kids and poor kids, and combat racial discrimination.
Divisions that serve rich white kids were largely unaffected.
The Office of Special Education serves about one in ten American children. The New York Times reports that with Friday’s mass layoffs, the office has now been cut by 95%.
According to the Times, the number of staffers there is now “fewer than a half-dozen,” meaning it’s literally just five people now. Or four or three or two or literally a one-person Office of Special Education.
If I’ve got my math right, that means at best 20% percent of all the special-ed kids in the country are being served by just one person.
Trump approved the new mass layoffs to pressure congressional Democrats to vote for Republican spending levels so that Trump can reopen the federal government and resume ignoring Republican spending levels.
Decimating the offices in question means that Trump is now violating not just congressional appropriations laws, but decades-old legislation guaranteeing federal support for America’s kids who are disabled, poor, or discriminated against. Trump is expected to keep punishing them until Democrats do what he wants.
Five Quickies
Pres. Donald Trump said on Tuesday he’s planning on making an illegal campaign contribution to openly interfere with another country’s elections. AKA, just another Tuesday. Trump said he’ll give Argentina that $20 billion bailout that will benefit rich U.S. investors, but only if Argentina’s voters give a legislative majority to the party of his buddy, President Javier Milei.
Trump is also using taxpayer dollars to interfere with the New York City mayoral election, threatening to (illegally) withhold federal funds if city voters don’t elect someone Trump likes, like disgraced former Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D-NY). Frontrunner and Assembly member Zohran Mamdani (D-NY), meanwhile, campaigned on Tuesday for the first time with Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-NY) at his side, vowing she’ll defend the city against Trump’s threats, which could involve doing to New York what he just did to two Alaskan villages…
Flooding destroyed two Alaskan villages on Sunday, killing at least one person, five months after the Trump administration canceled a $20 million grant approved during the Biden administration to mitigate flooding.
The Supreme Court finally fucked someone in dire need of fucking. The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to hear the appeal of Infowars creator Alex Jones, meaning he now officially has no appeal whatsoever. Jones was fighting, and losing to, a jury’s order that he pay more than $1.4 billion to families of kids killed in the Sandy Hook school shooting for claiming they were lying. Jones argued that he might have to sell off his toxic empire to The Onion. As the Supreme Court effectively said, don’t threaten me with a good time.
Just the day before, a new episode of Tucker Carlson’s show dropped, in which Carlson basically said the Justice Department should have intervened to protect Jones. Jones responded by shitting on the Trump Justice Department, representing yet another piece of Trump’s shittily constructed, shoddy-material coalition crumbling away.
Recommended Reading
Feeling down, Newsfucker? Want a great pick-me-up courtesy of New York City Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani, via The American Prospect’s Howard Meyerson?
Meyerson has a rip-roaring history lesson putting Mamdani in context as an outlier — exactly like New York’s most beloved past leaders.
And if you’re of a more centrist bent, it’s okay, everyone’s welcome here and we’re gonna help you get comfortable with government that actually acts like it’s the collective will of the people. Meyerson’s piece should go a long way toward helping you out with Mamdani, showing just how normal and popular Mamdani-style “radicalism” has been in the past.
Taking Action
You can get info about and sign up for the general strike at GeneralStrikeUS.com.
You can find a No Kings rally near you on Saturday at NoKings.org. This is anticipated to be the biggest protest turnout in U.S. history. And turnout matters. It tells politicians that we won’t stand for this shit. But it also gives cover to the protesters who are always out there. Showing up in overwhelming numbers means overwhelming the machinery of fascism with too many bodies for even ICE to handle. And if anyone in northern New Jersey is going, LMK!
Protest rock group Triple is on Bandcamp here and on Instagram here.
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In a touching coincidence, Giunta’s remarks became public on the National Day of Remembrance for Charlie Kirk, who also disparaged Black pilots and is now even more dead than Giunta’s future until his inevitable comeback and elected office.
I almost feel sorry for these boys. Look at them — do you think there is much in their lives besides the Young Republican brotherhood? If they could get a date, they might not have to get their macho on by being assholes to minorities and women.
The retired young Republicans are certainly the right size to be ICE agents