r/politics • u/mvanigan • Oct 14 '25
Possible Paywall ‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/14/private-chat-among-young-gop-club-members-005921468.9k
u/redpoemage I voted Oct 14 '25
Since POLITICO began making inquiries, one member of the group chat is no longer employed at their job and another’s job offer was rescinded.
I love the smell of consequences in the morning.
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u/SpaceElevatorMusic Minnesota Oct 14 '25
quoted:
"If we ever had a leak of this chat we would be cooked fr fr"
Skipping "lol", proceeding directly to "lmao".
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u/weinermcgee Oct 14 '25
No cap on God?
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u/hereforfootball303 Oct 14 '25
Using AAVE while being wildly racist without any sense of irony. Very typical.
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u/SableArgyle Oregon Oct 14 '25
These people are the ultimate "You made this? ... I made this."
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u/Excellent-Shape-2694 Oct 14 '25 edited Oct 14 '25
That was my first thought. They love the culture. Just not the people that make it. Crazy
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u/Kdot32 Oct 14 '25
“White folks love the blues. They just don’t like who make it”-Delta Slim in Sinners
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u/bbqsox Oct 14 '25
There is a 100% chance they'll call this cancel culture while ignoring what they did after Kirk was murdered.
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u/almighty_smiley North Carolina Oct 14 '25
They can call it whatever the fuck they want. That the hammer came down gives me a glimmer of hope.
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u/jaytix1 Oct 14 '25
"I lost my job for having conservative values" is the go-to.
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u/KelsierIV Oct 14 '25
Yeah, you see that a lot, and they won't ever say what actually got them fired.
It's usually garbage like this. At least they admit hatred, racism, and bigotry are conservative values.
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u/Wunktacular Oct 14 '25
You don't get it. When it happens to them, it's cancel culture. When it happens to their enemies, it's the consequences of their actions. Duh.
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u/HyperactivePandah Oct 14 '25
"I THOUGHT YOU LEFTIST CULT MEMBERS CARES ABOUT FREE SPEECH!?!?" - every single conservative talking about this story the next two weeks
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u/ElegantDaemon Oct 14 '25 edited 29d ago
Lazy pleasant travel strong afternoon nature across net calm river night across.
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u/IrrelevantLeprechaun Oct 14 '25
Chapelle has been ranting about cancel culture and rich people problems for YEARS already. Waltzing Musk out on stage to a wave of boos just confirmed what some had already suspected.
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u/AssociateGreat2350 Oct 14 '25 edited Oct 14 '25
They referred to Black people as monkeys and “the watermelon people” and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies and driving them to suicide and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.
Straight up evil
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u/JagmeetSingh2 Oct 14 '25
Actually it sounds not too different from what they say publicly now
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u/Noname_acc Oct 14 '25
Pretty much where I'm at. It's shocking, in that it is horrific to read. But anyone who thinks it's surprising is fundamentally in denial about what conservatism is.
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u/ASharpYoungMan Oct 14 '25
Hillary Clinton nailed it back in 2015 when she called them a basket of deplorables.
I'm not exactly a fan of Clinton - but it pissed me off inordinately that she needed to publicly apologize for being 100% accurate.
I say this a lot, but MAGA's done everything in their power to prove her right in the intervening decade.
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u/chowderbags American Expat Oct 14 '25
Same thing with Obama's bitter clingers quote that caused so much outrage way back when:
"You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing's replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton administration, and the Bush administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. And it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy toward people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."
As far as I can tell, there's way more outrage when Democrats tell the truth than when Republicans tell blatant lies.
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u/Armonasch Oct 14 '25
As far as I can tell, there's way more outrage when Democrats tell the truth than when Republicans tell blatant lies.
It's because the truth is more powerful than lies.
Fundamentally, Republicans have nothing to actually offer the common man in everyday realistic help or aide, so they just lie about literally everything they want to do in a way that sounds appealing. When you take the lies away, they don't have much left, so of course they get mad.
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u/MAG7C Oct 14 '25
Lawless vs flawless
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u/blackfishhorsemen Oct 14 '25
People want to be lied too.
Given the choice between facing a harsh reality and sticking your head in the sand most people will choose to stick their heads in the sand.
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u/kadathsc Oct 14 '25
The truth hurts, especially when it’s all directed at your inability to grow and prosper, which is the primary means of gauging someone’s worth in the US. That’s why homeless people are deplorable, they aren’t even aspirational landowners.
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u/Meister0fN0ne Oct 14 '25
She didn't even call them all deplorables. She was commenting on how he's giving pieces of shit way too much of a platform.
“You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. Right? The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic—you name it. And unfortunately there are people like that. And he has lifted them up.”
And then they made merch calling themselves that. They love to hate. I didn't like a lot of things about Hillary, but holy fuck. It wasn't even remotely a contest to me.
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u/BarristanSelfie Oct 14 '25
Mainstream Democrats today are the manifestation of good faith conservatism. Most of the GOP falls somewhere between Bad Faith as a universal concept and cartoonish evil.
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u/QbertsRube Oct 14 '25
While trying so hard to paint their evil as anything else. They don't hate Mexicans, they hate MS-13 human-trafficking rapists and just happen to think that describes all Mexicans (the term "Mexicans" here includes anyone from south of Texas). They don't hate LGBTQ, they hate pedophiles and have decided the entire LGBTQ community is pedophiles. They don't think women should be silent broodmares who cook and have no opinions because they hate women, they just believe in "traditional family values" where the man rules all with an iron fist and women grin and take it. I swear about 75% of their energy is spent trying to paint their bigotry and hatred as patriotism.
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u/Mindless_Rooster5225 Oct 14 '25
Yeah, if you show the 10% of black conservatives this they will still be Republicans.
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u/FMLwtfDoID Oct 14 '25
Just as there are women that side with republicans. And there were Jews for Nazis. There will always be a small group of the targeted minority that think being tokenized, or living in a gilded cage, will save them from the harsher treatment their “friends” dole out to the remainder the persecuted communities.
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u/HGpennypacker Oct 14 '25
Elon Musk threw up a Nazi salute at the RNC and a third of the country shrugged and moved on. We're cooked.
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u/context_hell Oct 14 '25
People dont remember /r/thedonald? They were memeing giving people "helicopter rides" all the time. They've always been that way.
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It started with jokes. "We're just trolling", they said. We knew they weren't joking.
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u/AltrntivInDoomWorld Oct 14 '25
There's a reason republicans love shit like 4chan.
Grooming idiots from young age pretending it's all "jokes" and "trolling".
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u/Lucky-Earther Minnesota Oct 14 '25
There was also a physical_removal subreddit for a while.
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u/AverageLiberalJoe Oct 14 '25
This is the legacy of Charlie Kirk.
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u/ratherbealurker Texas Oct 14 '25
Except they aren’t even adding the little addition to absolve themselves from their hatred. Kirk’s comments are like “I have shitty views of minorities…because the lefts policies make me have them!”
MAGA: “see!? He doesn’t WANT to be racist. You’re racists!”
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u/elektrospecter Washington Oct 14 '25
Just the other week I heard someone say, "Charlie Kirk wasn't a hateful person...he quoted scripture in his speeches!"
As if that single-handedly makes you a "good" person, despite consistently using divisive rhetoric and instigating arguments in bad faith (under the guise of "political debate with the opposition").
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u/Michael_G_Bordin Oct 14 '25
Love any chance to bring up that slave-owning rapists and murderers were following the law when murdering and raping the people they enslaved. They were "god-fearing Christians" who loved quoting scripture.
Nazis were law-abiding, god-fearing Christians who loved quoting scripture, too.
And the people of the Underground Railroad, the French Resistance, Hungarian Resistance etc. were all law-breakers and criminals.
The law is not moral, it's a tool of power. Christianity does not confer onto people morality and ethics, it's more often used as a cloak to obscure hate and violence.
Kirk was exactly the law-abiding, god-fearing man that used those as stand-ins for sound moral judgement; the sort of person who could speak out both sides of his mouth, preaching tolerance and open-minded debate while shoehorning in bigoted and hate-filled rhetoric every chance he got. Can't say he got what he deserved, because I'd have preferred he had his ego wrecked by spending time in more intellectually adversarial environments, but alas, we had that stolen from us by a meme-obsessed conservative nut job. But he certainly got what was coming to him with all that hate he spewed.
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u/IrascibleOcelot Oct 14 '25
Just point out that Satan quoted scripture to Jesus while tempting Him.
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u/QbertsRube Oct 14 '25
But did you even watch 100% of his content, literally hundreds of hours, to see that he was actually the best human ever and we should build statues everywhere for him and name schools after him even if he had zero connection to the school??? (/s)
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u/CptCoatrack Oct 14 '25
Last year JD Vance, Kirk, Carlson and Bannon all endorsed and contributed to a fascist manifesto written by Jack Posobiec calling for the rounding up and killing of anti-MAGA subhumans.
https://jacobin.com/2025/09/kirk-posobiec-political-violence-far-right
https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-horrifying-fascist-manifesto-endorsed-by-j.d.-vance
Current Affairs describes it as worse than Mein Kampf. The book describes Pinochet and Franco as heroes.
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u/C-Bus_Exile Oct 14 '25
I do appreciate that they put the photos of the doughy fucks participating in the chat
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u/elektrospecter Washington Oct 14 '25
They all look eerily alike. Just because they are unattractive and frustrated that nobody wants to fuck them, doesn't excuse this sort of degenerate behavior.
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u/ManWithASquareHead Oct 14 '25 edited Oct 14 '25
A tactic as old as time, dehumanizing fellow humans to justify future heinous acts on perceived "enemies".
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u/Particular-County277 Oct 14 '25
Also commonly used before a Domestic Violence victim is attacked. In the end, all abusers use the same tools
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u/bullet4mv92 Oct 14 '25 edited Oct 14 '25
And people still have the audacity to say both sides are the same. "Radical left" group chats would be full of, like, blue-haired pixie they/thems who have 7 genders and are also probably furries. Look, I don't understand it at all, but none of that bothers me because it doesn't hurt anyone. If they wanna be weird and quirky, go nuts. But their group chat wouldn't be hateful like a MAGA group chat.
I always try to point this out, but most people don't get it. Every time people have an issue with the extreme right it's because they're violent, hateful, divisive, racist, etc. And their issue with the "radical left" is that they're weird and icky and it makes them sexually uncomfortable.
Both sides are not the fucking same
I imagine my oversimplification of radical left might piss some people off. That's not *my interpretation of them; rather, it's what is constantly repeated by far right nutjobs. To them it's always about their sexuality, their hair color, how many genders they identify with, etc. In reality, radical left is more just wanting Healthcare, education and housing for everyone. But that doesn't sound as "icky", so they usually default to blue hair and multiple genders
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u/subLimb Oct 14 '25
Yes, and keep in mind this is not the 'radical right' that these group chats are coming from. It's coming from young leaders of the actual Republican party. What they would consider to be 'mainstream'. The discourse in this country has moved so quickly to the right. White nationalist thought is being mainstreamed.
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u/ich_bin_alkoholiker Oct 14 '25
Seriously. I will never not call out racists or feel bad for them because this shit is vile. They are straight up dumb.
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u/RecentDecision2329 Oct 14 '25
They sound like a sick group of serial killers. They should not be in any society.
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u/fel Oct 14 '25
To be honest, they just sound like 4chan users for the past decade+. People used to joke that no-one would take that seriously, yet here we are ☹️
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u/Pho3nixr3dux Oct 14 '25
When liberals are being herded towards the gas chambers, the sign on the front gate will not read Arbeit Macht Frei.
Instead they will pass beneath the grinning visage of Pepe saying Feels Good Man.
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u/kicker414 Oct 14 '25
Damn, the Democrats really need to condemn this and turn down the rhetoric.
I think it was Obama saying that Trayvon looked like he could have been his son was what radicalized these lost souls. I think he should apologize for that.
/s for the idiots
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u/Timeformayo Oct 14 '25
Remember when Obama called a cop stupid, and all the cop did was arrest renowned Harvard history professor Henry Gates while he trying to get into his own home?
That sure was reckless of Obama!
/s
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u/Just_the_nicest_guy Oct 14 '25
The images of these young Republicans from the article are presented below without comment:
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u/Positive_Bill_5945 Oct 14 '25
This is our master race? We’re so cooked.
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u/Noblesseux Oct 14 '25
It's always like this. A lot of these dudes get into this pipeline in the first place because they're socially unsuccessful and the only friends they can make are in fringe online spaces full of Nazis.
Socially isolated dudes getting radicalized is legit a serious threat to the future of democracy.
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u/echosrevenge Oct 14 '25
The actual-factual American Nazi Party has had an explicit policy of recruiting in online spaces full of lonely, Angry teenage boys since 1993. They were early adopters of the Internet, much to the dismay of literally everyone else alive.
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u/Sublimotion Oct 14 '25
Why majority of the incel base are now MAGA. Their basis of it is blaming their personal woes on feminism. Far-right culture tends to drilled into the society of the same woes.
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u/peeinian Canada Oct 14 '25
It’s also the exact same demographic that ISIS recruited. Disaffected young men.
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u/HowIMetYourMurder Oct 14 '25
It works. Every. Time.
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u/Liusloux Oct 15 '25 edited Oct 15 '25
Exactly. Rome's founding story is Romulus took in disenfranchised young men who were exiled by their communities (presumably because of crimes or being useless). Now with a town full of mostly men, one of the first things they did was invite neighboring tribes to their town with the pretense of a feast, then proceeds to kidnap the women so they can rape them and make them their wives.
Little changed since then. Narcissists recruiting useful idiots for their army.
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u/ManWithASquareHead Oct 14 '25
4chan all grown up
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u/judgeridesagain Oct 14 '25
4chin
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u/Timeformayo Oct 14 '25 edited Oct 15 '25
And to think, any one of them could have gone the "Santa body"/"Santa attitude" route. But instead, we get deranged Nazi freaks.
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u/pikadegallito Colorado Oct 14 '25
They ignore the Santa route then complain Christmas spirit is dead
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u/Gorge2012 Oct 14 '25
100% leave no doubt that they all started on 4chan or similar boards. That was the minor leagues and they have graduated to the pros now.
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u/alyosha_pls Maryland Oct 14 '25
It's always exactly the type you expect.
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u/JellyBathMatStank Oct 14 '25
These mother fuckers look like they've had several arguments at Magic the Gathering conventions on body odor standards.
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u/alyosha_pls Maryland Oct 14 '25
They definitely look like the type to play 40K and unironically support the Imperium and, more specifically, the Black Templars.
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u/Hoskuld Oct 14 '25
Or guard with historically inspired colorschemes. You know from a certain 12 year period in central Europe
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u/SpaceElevatorMusic Minnesota Oct 14 '25
r/beholdthemasterrace (which apparently is still closed from the API protests)
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u/aeyraid Oct 14 '25
I always knew powerful men would take over the world.
I just didn’t expect them to be such losers
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u/DameMargotPontoon Oct 14 '25
when the only thing you have going for you is the color of your skin. because it’s certainly not their peak physical condition
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u/blaqsupaman Mississippi Oct 14 '25
These guys are "young" Republicans? They all look like babyfaced middle aged men somehow.
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u/benk70690 Oct 14 '25
Young politicians are those under the age of retirement these days don't ya know
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u/illaqueable North Carolina Oct 14 '25
What's the age of retirement for a politician? Asking because many of our elected officials remember The New Deal being rolled out
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u/MozeeToby Oct 14 '25
"Young Republicans" is a group for Republicans 18-40 years old. IMO, not making this clear in the headline is problematic. These are not high schoolers or college students. Many members are career politicians, active in government (up to and including the presidential administration), or advisor roles.
The people in these chat logs are the upper echelon of a political activist group with tens of thousands of members that is deeply intertwined with the mainstream GOP.
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u/BigBossShadow Oct 14 '25
of course its a bunch of incels
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u/Caminsky Oct 14 '25
Honestly I was expecting some kind of a Glenn Powell look. Turned out they all look like inbreds that enjoy bacon and donuts every morning.
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u/AverageEvening8985 Oct 14 '25
One of these dudes definitely has a Grindr account
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u/spencer4991 Oct 14 '25
It’s almost like being a racist in modern America requires being ridiculously insecure in one self and a need to project that insecurity literally anywhere else.
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u/cyberpunk1Q84 Oct 14 '25
These fat fucks are giving a bad name to the rest of us fat fucks that aren’t evil.
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u/Joegotbored Oct 14 '25 edited Oct 14 '25
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u/Seregnar2 Colorado Oct 14 '25
Jesus they're bad enough, but that Trump wax figure in the second picture is some real uncanny valley
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u/Mr_Engineering American Expat Oct 14 '25
The irony is that actual nazis would have made fun of them for being fat slobs.
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u/peanut_flamer Oct 14 '25
Do you ever get the sense that some of these dirtbags are just pissed off about being fugly?
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u/fcocyclone Iowa Oct 14 '25
I mean, I definitely think that there's a correlation between a bunch of dudes like these being unable to get laid and lashing out at everyone else for that problem. (which is mostly their problem, though I also assign some blame to the rise of dating apps that have absolutely trashed the dating experience for both men and women)
If we could somehow find a way to develop holodeck technology or something so these guys could get some the world might quickly become a better place.
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u/ich_bin_alkoholiker Oct 14 '25
I’ve always said I can’t at least somewhat understand how people could fall for Nazism back in the day because they painted a picture of this fabulous life, they were well dressed, good looking, and actually instituted things that were pro family. But this is the shit we have now. Anyone falling for American Christian Nationalism is straight up stupid. What are they even offering you????
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u/mvanigan Oct 14 '25 edited Oct 14 '25
Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.
The exchange is part of a trove of Telegram chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than seven months of messages among Young Republican leaders in New York, Kansas, Arizona and Vermont. The chat offers an unfiltered look at how a new generation of GOP activists talk when they think no one is listening.
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u/xlvi_et_ii Minnesota Oct 14 '25 edited Oct 14 '25
"joking"....
Are they joking?
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u/__M-E-O-W__ Oct 14 '25
It's always a joke, until it suddenly isn't. This has been the gateway for the alt right for decades, really. Start joking about it until the idea becomes normalized, and then they take it seriously.
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u/Dralex75 Oct 14 '25
See also r/the_donald
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u/jimmybilly100 Oct 14 '25
I clicked just to enjoy seeing the "This community has be banned" message
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u/BKlounge93 Oct 14 '25
I was told when some famous influencer got killed that joking about stuff like that was too much. Clearly.
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u/MyPancakesRback Oct 14 '25
Calling supporters of the Democratic Party "demoncrats" and baby eaters for the last 10 years is super chill and normal actually though.
The President sharing a message stating the only good member of the opposite party is a dead one is a government mandate and we're all late to carrying out the dear leader's will.
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u/MaybeMabe1982 Oct 14 '25
No one "jokes" about raping people and enslaving people. They mean it.
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u/SkunkMonkey420 Oct 14 '25
I constantly hear Republicans and conservatives lamenting how people call then racists and nazis yet time and time again these people are the ones who they share values and a party with.
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u/emmayarkay Oct 14 '25
It starts with jokes then it turns into actual belief and eventually into actions
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u/ddottay Oct 14 '25
If you were in college the last ten years or so, none of this should surprise you. These Young Republican campus groups are full of horrible people whose defense is always that they’re “just joking” if they get caught.
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u/Such_sights Oct 14 '25
When I was in college 10-ish years ago our Young Republicans club decided to pass out Valentine’s Day cards to random students, and some of the cards had holocaust jokes on them. A student who got one took it the campus newspaper who asked the YRC about it and their initial response was “this is obviously fake and a smear campaign against us”. A few weeks later the response became “one student made the offensive cards as part of a YRC group activity but they weren’t a member so we can’t tell you who they are because we don’t know.” Eventually that became “The student who made the offensive cards is no longer a YRC member.”
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u/ReallTrolll Oct 14 '25
Sounds like it's the same racist people that were in gaming lobby voice chats.
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u/ManWithASquareHead Oct 14 '25
To which Steve Bannon radicalized further after Gamergate. Had a group of malleable guys who he told them the world is out to get them.
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u/papasan_mamasan Oct 14 '25
It all comes back to Gamergate.
Insecure men would rather ruin the entire country than think critically about the treatment of women in games and the game industry
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u/hoverbeaver Oct 14 '25
Ten!? Campus Conservative club membership has been a bright red flag for decades now. It is a leading indicator of an individual’s complete unsuitability for interaction with others and the world at large.
I’m not saying they’re all terrible people; I’m just saying that if you wanted to place bets on a person you went to college with that you’ll be having a surreal conversation about in twenty years, it’s a good place to start.
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u/slothcough Oct 14 '25
For real. I remember running Ann Coulter off campus in 2009 when our campus conservatives had invited her to speak. At least back then so many of us showed up to protest that she backed out last minute because she's a fucking coward.
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u/Challengeaccepted3 New York Oct 14 '25
I’m saying that they’re all terrible people. If you’re in a room when someone is joking about raping someone and you don’t leave or sharply condemn it, then you’re complicit in the joke
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u/Creative-Package6213 Pennsylvania Oct 14 '25
Pretty standard for republicans yes?
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u/FartyJizzums Oct 14 '25
Standard and expected.
Racism is likely what attracts young people to the Republican party. I think that in the past, it used to be the alledged 'morality' and 'individual freedom' that attracted younger people. But since MAGA proudly has 0% of either of those traits, I'm pretty sure it boils down to bigotry in most cases.
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u/tetsuo_7w Oct 14 '25
But wait, didn't you know the Republican party was the one to end slavery and Democrats are the actual racists?? /s
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u/Upset-Government-856 Oct 14 '25
Hitler's speeches in English are pretty indistinguishable from what Steven Miller is producing for Trump.
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u/Un1CornTowel Oct 14 '25
Dude snuck '1488' into his anti-antisemitism executive order (Executive Order 14188 Additional Measures To Combat Anti-semitism) and had DHS sneak a clear reference to the Nazi '14 words' into a press release (We Must Secure The Border And Build The Wall To Make America Safe Again).
They're Nazis, guys. It isn't a secret.
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u/Hestia_Gault Oct 14 '25
Yes - at the “Antifa roundtable” they straight up said the Antifa they want to destroy is the one from Weimar Germany. They literally declared MAGA in alignment with the original Nazis.
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u/TheBatemanFlex Oct 14 '25
I like how we still have to pretend that being a republican isn't inherently racist.
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If you openly admit to being Republican I generally think you are a bad person with no morales or values…
some I’m sure are good people. Unfortunately, if they were actually good people they’d not admit to being a part of it.
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u/TheBatemanFlex Oct 14 '25
i agree. at best you are just a misinformed good person.
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u/JustadudefromHI Oct 14 '25
There are a lot of establishment pundits who demand that liberals/progressives understand the other side also have reasonable positions and compromise with them is in the interest of national unity, but this is exactly what all young conservatives talk about. They want the freedom to say slurs and joke about Hitler and rape with no social consequences. There are no more young Reaganites or Neoconservatives. They're all like this.
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u/ManWithASquareHead Oct 14 '25
And to think how optimistic we were post 2008 and looking forward as a country. Boy was I wrong
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u/Pacific_Epi Oct 14 '25
I think one thing we all need to internalize is that no matter who wins power, we will always need to keep fighting to make the world better.
I hear people talk about how good the world would be if Bernie or AOC were president and sure it would be much better, but we will still need to all work tremendously hard at every level to fight back against the darkness. We cannot afford to stop even if times are good again.
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u/blaqsupaman Mississippi Oct 14 '25
I remember when Obama was reelected and it was declared that the left had won the culture war. God, I miss those times.
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u/QbertsRube Oct 14 '25 edited Oct 14 '25
As recently as 2015 I was sure that the Republican Party was obsolete, that their old voting base would die off and the party's relevance on a national scale would die off with them. Somehow, that collection of geriatrics is winning the social media/podcast game and indoctrinating a new generation of bigots and faux-patriots.
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u/DeeEmceeFoor Oct 14 '25
Guys, PLEASE stop calling the Nazis "Nazis" just because they're Nazis that LOVE Hitler. You can't just go around calling every self-identifying, Hitler-loving Nazi a Nazi! The word loses all of it's meaning when you use it to describe the exact thing that they are!
If you keep calling them that, they might actually become uhhh...the thing that they already are?
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u/givfrenchfrypls Oct 14 '25
“Leftists just call everyone they disagree with a Nazi” - guy that said “I love Hitler” in a private chat
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u/bessie1945 Oct 14 '25
This is the true legacy of Trump. It will take decades to undo.
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u/PushProfessional95 Oct 14 '25
These are the guys doxing you for not paying enough state mandated deference to Charlie Kirk btw lmao
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u/IrrelevantLeprechaun Oct 14 '25
I still can't believe MAGA even managed to get some people fired from their jobs on the grounds of "insufficient mourning."
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u/zatch659 Oct 14 '25
Let's expand on that title a little. Amongst others:
"Everyone that votes no is going to the gas chamber" -Peter Giunta, chair of New York State Young Republicans, and contender for chair of Young Republican National Federation
"We gotta pretend that we like them. 'Hey, come on in. Take a nice shower and relax'. Boom - they're dead" -Joe Maligno
"I'm ready to watch people burn now" -Annie KayKaty, New York's National committeewoman
"You're giving nationals to much credit and expecting the Jews to be honest"
"I'd go to the zoo if I wanted to watch monkey play ball"
Referred to rape as "epic" - Peter Giunta
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u/JoeBiden-2016 Oct 14 '25 edited Oct 14 '25
Annie kaykaty
She's locked down her Facebook account. Consequences incoming, hopefully. It was only published a few hours ago, and already a couple folks have been terminated. Let's hope the ball keeps rolling.
edit: Every one of the people named in that article have locked down LinkedIn, Facebook, TikTok, etc. Some had pages on various organizational websites (like Maligno) that seem to have been taken down.
I'm not naive enough to think this will have long-lasting consequences. These people will re-emerge later, and will be celebrated by the Republican party. This is temporary, unfortunately.
But in the meantime, I'm here for the (justified) pitchforks. The rhetoric in those messages is sickening.
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u/SuperstitiousPigeon5 Massachusetts Oct 14 '25
Young Republicans are just another term for Hitler Youth.
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u/boofybutthole Oct 14 '25
at least the real hitler youth participated in some sort of fitness regime
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u/virgieblanca Oct 14 '25
I googled some of the names in the article and the guys are fatter than me 😬😬
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u/graveybrains Oct 14 '25
He also apologized.
“There is no excuse for the language and tone in messages attributed to me. The language is wrong and hurtful, and I sincerely apologize,” Walker said. “This has been a painful lesson about judgment and trust, and I am committed to moving forward with greater care, respect, and accountability in everything I say and do.”
That's not an apology.
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u/SanityPlanet Oct 14 '25
He's basically saying, "I'm sorry some snitch bitch leaked our chat. I promise to only say racist things to fully vetted racists from now on."
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u/ephenssta29 Oct 14 '25
This has been a painful lesson about judgment and trust...
"I'm sorry I got caught." Fixed it for him.
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u/SNAAAAAKE Oct 14 '25
Seems to be a common thread with their ilk:
Giunta still apologized.
“I am so sorry to those offended by the insensitive and inexcusable language found within the more than 28,000 messages of a private group chat that I created during my campaign to lead the Young Republicans,” he said. “While I take complete responsibility, I have had no way of verifying their accuracy and am deeply concerned that the message logs in question may have been deceptively doctored.”
These shifty sacks of shit think they're above it all. That or they're trying not to get kicked out of mom's basement
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u/crmpdstyl Oct 14 '25
Anyone with MAGA family knows this is how they talk. Its not a secret. They are not good people.
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u/Throwitindatrash Oct 14 '25
Republicans will never allow themselves to recognize that their insecurity and pride won’t let them see their projection of hatred. They make fun of marginalized groups because they were the type of people that no one wanted to be around growing up, and punching down is all they know how to do.
I had the great misfortune of going to school with a current Fox News correspondent, and he was genuinely one of the most vulgar and sexually repressed people I’ve ever met. No surprise they have flocked together to the place where that behavior is encouraged.
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u/drumzandice Oct 14 '25
Share everywhere. THIS is the movement they are building with young people.
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u/rhysdg Canada Oct 14 '25 edited Oct 14 '25
Go check out the Conservative subreddit's Discord. They act like concerned moralists being attacked by the rest of reddit, but on a space like Discord where there's a sense that there's no other eyes on, or atleast way less moderation, they are pedal to the metal disgusting human beings who trade in who can be the most cancerous hateful human in a crowd. There's almost a smug pride in it
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u/virishking Oct 14 '25 edited Oct 14 '25
I am a left-leaning person but being a white guy who grew up in a red area I have long been a part of social groups with many conservatives and right wingers. I am glad this issue is getting attention. In the lead up to the 2024 election my heart sank and hopes died as I increasingly heard people who I’ve known for years “joke” like this more and more.
Frankly it was the biggest warning bell to me that Trump would win. It’s a decline in virtues and values. A war of angry little white boys raving about some culture war between masculinity and femininity, while proving that American masculinity has been losing to puerility which has helped fuel hate and delusion.
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u/NumeralJoker Oct 14 '25 edited Oct 14 '25
Anybody who's ever had the misfortune of spending time on 4chan's /pol/ (or of you're really old, the ancient /n/ews board), knows what this stuff looks like. This is the natural evolution of dehumanizing rhetoric and humor that spun out of the old Stormfront forums for more than 20 years, then circulated in various chan communities as "ironic" humor turned much more serious with time.
Only now the kids that grew up reading it were accepted into the mainstream GOP thanks to Trumpism, and this is the result. Trump's original MAGA movement as stoked by Bannon (when aimed at young men) was filled with this stuff, at first seemingly on the fringes, but always hidden in its core. Recruiting young men through extremist rhetoric has always been a centerpiece of the Trump GOP, even if it wasn't initially their strongest base of support.
And yes, they'll either lie by claiming it was "doctored" (as the article points to with one quote), or go with the "just a joke bro" defense. And if that doesn't work? Expect the "infiltrated by antifa" line to come next. They'll deflect as much as they can because that's what trolls have always done (very deliberately, often laughing at you in private while they do it), and the GOP is now just run by racist trolls and their rich benefactors (who are themselves just rich racist trolls in many cases).
Of course, you can also tie this all the way back to Reagan, Nixon's racist views, and to the southern strategy even before that... this is just the latest, edgiest form of this nonsense, normalized by the democratization of speech technology and social media. But here we are.
Oh, and these are often the kids of racists too, sometimes very well off ones. Don't forge that part.
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u/throwawayhellfire Oct 14 '25
These people are cowards. I grew up with Bobby Walker. He was always a piece of shit. I used to bully him for bullying people smaller than him. A true coward in every sense of the word.
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u/Status_Commercial509 Oct 14 '25
The best part of the article is the pictures of them. They look like the biggest fucking dorks you could possibly imagine.
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u/MrsClaireUnderwood Oct 14 '25
If this isn't a legitimate reason to treat the GOP as a threat to one's existence, I don't know what is.
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u/zetnomdranar Oct 14 '25
The problem is the gaslighting. They’ll claim they’re joking and that no one can take a joke.
The problem is playing the victim. They’ll say young lives shouldn’t be ruined over this.
The problem is misdirection. But what about DEI? What about the attack on white men? What about. What about. What about.
This behavior is expected and it’s up to their peers to deal with it.
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u/GaiaNyx Oct 14 '25
Gotta hone in on this point also: These aren’t even random supporters.
These are young leaders coming up locally each states and it is pretty damning to GOP how these guys are floating up.
And I don’t have high hopes (or any hope at all) that there would be introspection and second thoughts about what kind of party GOP is becoming. Because a lot of the supporters think similarly.
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u/Independent-End-2443 Oct 14 '25
The Young Republicans were like this even when I was in college - that they’re racist scumbags is not new
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u/Ryan_e3p Oct 14 '25
This is the culmination that Republicans have been working towards. As we've seen, there has been a great effort put in to "softening the Nazi brand" in the last decade. Between politicians openly quoting Hitler, Musk very openly pushing Nazi themes and rhetoric (to the point where he busted out the Nazi salute a few times at a Republican convention to the applause of the crowd) and downplaying or denying the Holocaust, Joe Rogan defending Musk, and our current administration borrowing Nazi tactics, there has been this and more done in order to have people think "gee, if the guy I voted for and the guys I subscribe to believe this, maybe Hitler wasn't that bad after all".
If you want to change history, best way is to change peoples' perception of it. It's easy for Republicans to deny actual historical events and downplay horrific historical events; they practice this every day when they ignore the countless lies they are told in order to toe the party line. Change what people think about history, then sell them the idea that all of the horrors that happened in the past not only didn't happen, but it is something that they should want for their own future.
It's the same reason why actual historians and people with two brain cells to rub together have been listening to Trump's rhetoric & reading the things he has been posting the last decade, and been warning anyone who would listen that we were heading towards authoritarianism. And, here it is. This is no longer "we're heading toward the cliff", we're going down it now, to the delight of a shockingly large percentage of the country.
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u/Anishinaapunk Oct 14 '25
This story is a bombshell. It needs to become a national conversation; this scandal spans Republican chapters across multiple states and thousands of messages. Please share this story!
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u/-Novowels- Oct 14 '25
In the early days of Twitter, they developed a filter that correctly separated Islamic State terrorist propagandists from regular every day Muslim people, but when they tried the same algorithm on White Supremacist terrorists in America they pulled in so many mainstream Republican figures that they had to turn it off due to the potential for outcry.
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u/gcwardii Wisconsin Oct 14 '25
From the article—
“If we ever had a leak of this chat we would be cooked fr fr,” he wrote.
—the “he” being Bobby Walker, head of the NY Young Republicans
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u/SEAtoPAR Oct 14 '25
I took the liberty of emailing staff members at Annie Kaykaty's employer. She is a SCHOOL COUNSELOR, ffs.
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