Posted on 10/16/2025 4:40:21 PM PDT by DoodleBob
The public release of a Young Republican group chat that included racist language, jokes about rape and flippant commentary on gas chambers prompted bipartisan calls for those involved to be removed from or resign their positions.
The Young Republican National Federation, the GOP’s political organization for Republicans between 18 and 40, called for those involved to step down from the organization. The group described the exchanges, first reported by Politico, as “unbecoming of any Republican.”
Republican Vice President JD Vance, however, has weighed in several times to speak out against what he characterized as “pearl clutching” over the leaked messages.
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After Politico’s initial report Tuesday, Vance posted on X a screen grab from 2022 text messages in which Jay Jones, the Democratic candidate in Virginia’s attorney general race, suggested that a prominent Republican get “two bullets to the head.”
“This is far worse than anything said in a college group chat, and the guy who said it could become the AG of Virginia,” Vance wrote Tuesday. “I refuse to join the pearl clutching when powerful people call for political violence.”
Jones has taken “full responsibility” for his comments and offered a public apology to Todd Gilbert, who then was speaker of Virginia’s House of Delegates.
Vance reiterated his initial sentiment Wednesday on “ The Charlie Kirk Show ” podcast, saying when asked about the reporting that a “person seriously wishing for political violence and political assassination is 1,000 times worse than what a bunch of young people, a bunch of kids say in a group chat, however offensive it might be.”
Vance, 41, said 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.”
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TurningPoint they are not!
“If we ever had a leak of this chat we would be cooked fr fr”
Is it just me, or is that particular chat smelling kind of ripe?
This was an obvious set up. Timed for the Va Governors race and beyond. Now that it has been fed to AP look for it to blow. Classic dirty trick that clicks all the buttons
Looks staged.
It also feels a bit disingenuous to refer to them as a “bunch of kids” when many of them are in their 30s (and one is only a year younger than Vance himself) and they include sitting State Senators and administration staffers.
AssPress at it again.
When democrats stop murdering people I will take their “outrage” more seriously. Republicans are right to condemn this type of speech but to treat it as more than youthful jack-assert that deserves correction is silly.
Have any denied?
Thay said, nobody put a gun to these idiots’ heads to type this crapola.
Yes these messages are repulsive. Are any of these people is running for state Attorney General, or for any office at all?
Yes, they suggested that the text was edited, and I believe them.
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.”
Somebody wants to redirect the national conversation.
The Trump Admin. is having too many successes.
Time to throw a Monkey Wrench into the works!
See what happens.
Conclusion: Ignore.
Keep on frying those Bigger Fish.
How about if they are all bogus?
Agree.
There may be bigger fish to fry on the other side but these guys are on our side. Is that what our side wants? These guys, all of them need to be cashiered, publicly cashiered.
I don’t know, honestly.
Besides, “the usual suspects “ are outraged, so I don’t take it too seriously.
It’s the “Outrage du jour”. Next week, it’ll be something else.
Real text exchanges can’t have the same “voice” from both sides.
As the writing books say: If all the voices in the dialogue are the same it means it is the writer’s voice.
First using the word “Nigger” is no different than the word “Cracker” or “Honkey” If the people it’s referring to use it when refferring tho themselves, fair game.
Second, I have yet to meet a true conservative, MAGA or anyone else right of center that is also an anti semite. Regardless, if any of this crappola is legit, doesn’t matter as the people involved are pissants devoid of power within the party and are destined for it to remain that way.
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