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"Although Telegram's web interface does not favor violent posts, but its platform has been used to host and spread them due to its past history of light content moderation and focus on user privacy. While Telegram's terms of service prohibit calls for violence, the platform has been criticized for being a hub for extremist groups who share violent content in private or semi-private channels that are harder for moderators to police effectively."
Just wanted to set the stage for what I described in the headline, young people who are racists, anti-semetics, rapists, homophobic and much, much more. It was a Politico exclusive with the Headline, ‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat, that exposed what we can expect from the future GOP. I have been blogging for several years, have seen Republicans say and do things that were incorrigible, to say the least, but never have I witnessed an admission like this. This shows just how stupid Republicans are; they were hoping they wouldn't get caught.
As Politico described it, "Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape." And J.D. Vance's reaction to the Young Republicans, "Vance downplays group chat messages: ‘Kids do stupid things, especially young boys.’" Here is some of what he said...
“The reality is that kids do stupid things, especially young boys,” Vance said on “The Charlie Kirk Show.” “They tell edgy, offensive jokes. That’s what kids do. 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.”
Here's a scenario of the incident...
"The messages, more than 2,900 pages of which were reviewed by POLITICO, included more than 250 slurs, an instance in which rape was called 'epic,' and one person saying 'I love Hitler.'”
How do you justify Racists, Anti-semetics, Rapists, Homophobics in any sense of these words? This is not the America I signed up for and not the America I wish to live in. It is Donald Trump's America, one that has consistently spiraled down since he returned to the White House. There was hope that, from t-Rump's actions the left would regain the House and Senate in 2026, the Oval Office in 2028 but then SCOTUS decided to come to the aid of Republicans, again, by eliminating...
"The last remaining piece of the 1965 Voting Rights Act – section 2, which empowers the federal government to protect voters from racial gerrymandering meant to dilute Black political power..."
The gist of SCOTUS' actions is...
"A neutering by the Supreme Court of the Voting Rights Act’s last remaining major provision would potentially trigger a political avalanche — an event that starts narrow but gathers momentum as it spreads across the national map."In this case, the benefit would be to Republicans seeking to maintain a majority in the House of Representatives, perhaps for many years to come."
I have said this before and I will say it again, the only way Republicans know how to win elections is to cheat, but, in this case SCOTUS will throw this and future elections in their lap. But back now to Republican desecration of our democratic ideologies. Inside the office of Rep. Dave Taylor (R-Ohio), was an American flag altered to include a swastika. You can see it here in another Politico piece. There's more...
"The flag is pinned to what appears to be a cubicle wall behind Angelo Elia, one of Taylor’s staffers. Alongside the flag — with altered red and white lines in the shape of a swastika — are pinned images, including a pocket Constitution and a congressional calendar."
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“I am aware of an image that appears to depict a vile and deeply inappropriate symbol near an employee in my office,” Taylor said in a statement. “The content of that image does not reflect the values or standards of this office, my staff, or myself, and I condemn it in the strongest terms.”
Before closing this post, I want to show you what these young American Nazis said in their tirade, but, first, reactions from a top Republican...
The Chair of the Kansas GOP party, Danedri Herbert, announced Tuesday that the state's Young Republicans chapter has been deactivated.
"These comments do not reflect the beliefs of Republicans and certainly not Kansas Republicans at large, who elected a Black chair a few months ago," the statement read in part. "As of today, the Kansas Young Republicans organization is inactive."
Here's one of the leaders of the Kansas Young Republicans, the group that was officially deactivated...
William Hendrix, the Kansas Young Republicans’ vice chair, used the words “n--ga” and “n--guh,” variations of a racial slur, more than a dozen times in the chat. Bobby Walker, the vice chair of the New York State Young Republicans at the time, referred to rape as “epic.” Peter Giunta, who at the time was chair of the same organization, wrote in a message sent in June that “everyone that votes no is going to the gas chamber.”
Giunta was referring to an upcoming vote on whether he should become chair of the Young Republican National Federation, the GOP’s 15,000-member political organization for Republicans between 18 and 40 years old.
And now some actual quotes from this dangerously misguided group...
...we are officially under consideration for a Trump endorsement.
I’m ready to watch people burn now.
you're giving nationals to much credit and expecting the Jew to be honest.
Great. I love Hitler.
I’d go to the zoo if I wanted to watch monkey (Black person) play ball.
But, within all the above quotes...
If we ever had a leak of this chat we would be cooked fr fr.
The Politico piece is well worth reading to illustrate the horrible and vicious state of the Republican Party, a situation clearly orchestrated by Donald Trump.
