"All members of the Young Republicans are between the ages of 18 and 40.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"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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https://jill.substack.com/p/the-gops-nazi-youth

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"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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[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"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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[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"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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[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"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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https://www.thebulwark.com/p/jack-smiths-not-so-subtle-message-no-kings-timothy-snyder-totalitarianism-young-republicans-vra-redistricting

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"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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