Trump’s lapdog defends racist Younger Republicans as “boys,” whereas some are nearly his age—as they slur Indian ladies, like his spouse, Usha, as “soiled.” How a lot did he get for his soul?
Vice President JD Vance on the White Home.
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At first I noticed it as a “canine bites man” story. A posse of “younger” Republicans (as previous as 40) obtained caught by Politico on a 28,000-post textual content thread praising Hitler, threatening their (fellow Republican) enemies with “gasoline chambers” and “rape,” slurring Black folks as monkeys and “watermelon folks,” denouncing LGBTQ folks as “fags” and worse, and likewise insulting Indian ladies as “soiled.” Are we actually speculated to be shocked?
Politico reported the trade “is a part of a trove of Telegram chats…spanning greater than seven months of messages amongst Younger Republican leaders in New York, Kansas, Arizona and Vermont.”
Surprisingly to me, a good variety of Republicans discovered it of their withered souls to denounce these ugly fools. A number of of the responsible truly obtained fired. However somebody who caught up for them? Vice President JD Vance.
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“The fact is that youngsters do silly issues, particularly younger boys,” Vance said on The Charlie Kirk Present. “They inform edgy, offensive jokes. That’s what children do. And I actually don’t need us to develop up in a rustic the place a child telling a silly joke—telling a really offensive, silly joke—is trigger to spoil their lives.” Earlier he posted on X: “I refuse to affix the pearl clutching.”
A few issues, JD. They don’t seem to be all, and even principally, “children.” You’re 41; the creepy Peter Giunta, who began the group chat to gin up assist for his doomed bid to move the Younger Republicans, is 31. An aide to New York Assemblyman Mike Reilly, Giunta obtained fired right this moment. Giunta’s bid to run the Younger Republicans was backed by Consultant Elise Stefanik, MAGA weathervane, who’s prone to problem New York Governor Kathy Hochul, in addition to the unique Younger Republican “ratfucker” Roger Stone. Different members of the chat are elected officers, or elevated staffers of elected officers.
Politico stories 251 of the texts within the group contained racial, ethnic, antisemitic, or gendered slurs, and/or threats of violence. These will not be boys at the back of the schoolyard; these are males in positions of Republican Social gathering energy.
Politico, which can by no means be confused with The Nation, concluded: “Collectively, the messages reveal a tradition the place racist, antisemitic and violent rhetoric flow into freely—and the place the Trump-era loosening of political norms has made such speak really feel much less taboo amongst these positioning themselves because the get together’s subsequent leaders.” Certainly.
And Vance’s pardoning these offended, even violent slurs, as “jokes” goes so far as Trump himself ever has. He’s additionally ignoring an insult to Indian ladies, although that’s his spouse, Usha’s id.
Particularly, one of many creeps complained {that a} colleague was relationship “a really overweight Indian girl for a time period.”
Giunta responded that the lady “was not Indian.”
“She simply didn’t bathe typically,” Samuel Douglass, Vermont state senator and the pinnacle of the state’s Younger Republicans, interjected.
How are you, JD Vance, married to an Indian girl, insisting that’s simply child speak?
As a result of it’s not child speak. It’s on a regular basis speak in right this moment’s Republican Social gathering. Trump surfed this wave of bilge into the White Home, twice. We’re soaking in it. Vance, desperately attempting to inherit the MAGA mantle, doesn’t know he’s already drowned.
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