"VILE TEXTS EXPOSE GOP ROT"The Young Republican Telegram chat wasn’t private chatter. It was a window into a party teaching cruelty as culture; mocking decency and betraying the voters who trusted it.The truth didn’t leak; it detonated. For seven months, a group of Young Republican leaders across New York, Kansas, Arizona, and Vermont typed freely in a private Telegram chat; convinced no one would ever see their words. What spilled out was more than offensive; it was a blueprint of moral rot. They joked about putting political opponents in gas chambers; fantasized about sexual violence and openly praised slavery. “Everyone that votes no is going to the gas chamber,” Peter Giunta wrote as if announcing a campaign platform. Bobby Walker described rape as “epic.” William Hendrix tossed around the n-word like it was punctuation. Joe Maligno casually suggested, “Can we fix the showers? Gas chambers don’t fit the Hitler aesthetic.” This isn’t the idle cruelty of teenagers. These are grown men and women in positions of political influence; state chairs, congressional aides, campaign operatives, the very people shaping policy and strategy in Trump’s America. They laughed at genocide and celebrated sexual violence; training themselves to measure loyalty by the depth of their depravity. And they did it openly; because the Trump-era GOP had made cruelty safe, normalized and politically useful. JD Vance, in his blind loyalty to Trump, isn’t creating this culture; he’s defending it. In doing so, he is doing what Democrats could not; alienating the minority communities that delivered Trump the 2025 election. Vance’s moronic, shrugging dismissal of these texts signals that the party values loyalty to the base’s most extreme impulses over the voters who crossed lines of history to support Trump. Communities who believed in the promise of inclusion are now being mocked; their trust weaponized as a punchline. Inside the chat, cruelty was a game. Giunta told a colleague about a darker-skinned pilot landing his flight: “If your pilot is a she and she looks ten shades darker than someone from Sicily, just end it there. Scream the no no word.” Hendrix joked about a Black customer ordering watermelon and Kool-Aid. Walker targeted opponents with threats; mockery and fantasies of death. They were training themselves to act without conscience; to see opponents, and in some ways the voters themselves, as disposable. And they weren’t silent in their pride. “Great. I love Hitler,” Giunta typed and the group reacted with emoji applause. Racial, sexual and antisemitic slurs were flung with abandon; the n-word; homophobic epithets; and terms for sexual assault peppering thousands of messages. The culture was so saturated in hate that even mentions of winning votes were entangled with fantasies of torture and murder. This isn’t a “few bad apples” scenario. It is a structural failure of values; amplified and rehearsed in private so it can flourish in public. The chat shows what happens when a party encourages loyalty through fear, extremism and moral inversion. Leaders of Young Republican groups worried what would happen if their messages were leaked; yet they kept typing, laughing, daring each other to go further. This is the new GOP: cruelty as currency, depravity as skill and loyalty measured in willingness to dehumanize. The consequence is immediate and clear. Minority voters who supported Trump in 2025; the very coalition that swung the election, now face a party that treats their humanity as expendable. Vance and his enablers shrug; deflect; and normalize. By excusing these horrors as “bad jokes,” they are quietly dismantling the bridges of trust built by the last election; eroding the coalition Trump relied upon for his win. Where Democrats struggled to hold that coalition together, the GOP is tearing it down from within. These messages, in their horror, should serve as a moral alarm. They aren’t just words; they are rehearsal for the erosion of decency, the architecture of cruelty being passed to the next generation. The party’s future leaders are learning that loyalty is demonstrated not by competence or ethics; but by how far they are willing to embrace the grotesque. And here’s the hard truth: it’s working. Silence, laughter and complicity are the new virtue. Vance isn’t the author of this rot; he is the symptom. The disease runs deep, and the people who made Trump president are watching as the party’s moral compass is erased; one vile text at a time. If these messages don’t shock us into action, it is because we have grown numb to the grotesque. And if we allow this normalization to continue, the cost won’t just be political; it will be the quiet erosion of a country that once believed in decency, equality and human dignity. This isn’t a leak, a joke or a scandal. It’s a blueprint for betrayal. Betrayal of values, of voters and of the country that trusted them to lead. ________________________________________________________________________ YOUNG REPUBLICANS AREN’T JUST SHOCKING; THEY’RE A WARNING WE CAN’T IGNORE RIGHT NOW IS THE TIME FOR YOU TO JOIN THE FIGHT! SUBSCRIBE. READ. SHARE. RESTACK. Yeah, I know; you’re tired. This shit is exhausting. Guess what? Me too. But I’ve spent the last 8 years throwing punches in the dark so truth could get a little daylight. And now I’m asking you to step into the ring with me. Because if you’re still reading this, you already get it: We are not passive observers of the downfall. We are the resistance. We call out the liars. We drag corruption by the collar into the sunlight. We say the quiet parts out loud; and we don’t flinch. But here’s the truth: I can’t do this solo. Not anymore. The storm is already here. We are standing in it. And it’s wearing stars and stripes like camouflage, preaching “freedom” while it sells fascism at retail. So let me ask you: Because this is not a scroll-and-forget read. This is a living, breathing, fire-breathing movement; and movements don’t move unless you do. We need to be louder than spin, tougher than propaganda, and impossible to gaslight. So if you believe truth matters; if you’re sick of the bullshit, if you’re ready to stop screaming into the algorithm and start pushing back with purpose, this is your next step. HERE’S HOW YOU PUT YOUR FOOT ON THE GAS:
And yeah; Founding Members? The first 240 of you will get a signed, numbered, limited-edition Substack version of Revenge. That’s not just a collector’s item. That’s receipts. Proof you didn’t sit this one out. But let’s be clear: This isn’t about a book. You want to make a difference? Then make it; right now. Because if we don’t fight for truth, no one will. They can’t drown us out. Let’s be so loud, they wish we were just angry tweets. Let’s go! COMMENTS: ALL WHO POSTED SHOULD BE CALLED TO RESIGN JUST AS VERMONT IS DOING! (Also note that the article originated from our loacl PBS STATION: WBUR - that's why PBS & NPR funding is crucial.) Vt. Republican state senator faces calls to resign after posting racist messages in group chat October 15, 2025 Peter Hirschfeld, Vermont Public excerpt: A first-term Republican state senator from Orleans County is facing pressure from members of his own party to resign after a story published by Politico Tuesday detailed his involvement in a racist text chat between members of Young Republican chapters in four states, including Vermont. Samuel Douglass, 27, was part of a historic red wave last November that saw the GOP pick up six seats in the Vermont Senate and reconfigure the balance of power in the Legislature. Last week, Douglass was one of six Republican lawmakers nominated for “Legislator of the Year” at the Vermont GOP’s Awards Night in South Burlington. On Tuesday evening, Republican Gov. Phil Scott called on Douglass to resign after a leaked group chat showed Douglass and his wife using racist and antisemitic language with fellow young Republicans from across the country. “The hateful statements made in this group chat are disgusting and unacceptable,” Scott said in a written statement Tuesday. “The vile, racist, bigoted, and antisemitic dialogue that has been reported is deeply disturbing. There is simply no excuse for it. Those involved should resign from their roles immediately and leave the Republican party — including Vermont State Senator Sam Douglass.”
How and when did we get to this? It is the 1930’s all over again, only it is happening within our own country. The depravity is growing like a fungus that seems to have no cure, unless we stop it. Build this community. Be active in badgering people to register to vote, and then actually go out and do it. Every blue seat counts. We are all in this together. Thank you Michael: This vomitus of rot should be stamped out immediately , everyone of those young and old spewing this sewage should be taken through a few of the death camps in Germany and Poland and shown the piles of human bones, shoes and hair of the less fortunate one of that era. When I listen to some of the vile vicious upper echelon of the MAGA republican party I understand where it is coming from The MAGA republican party is rife with Nazi propaganda and racial slurs. The White Supremacist , Christian Nationalist movement are all just mimicking the Nazi playbook. Its rumoured that Trump has Mein Kampf on his bedside table. His often spoken slogans, "poisoning the blood of our people" "the enemy from within" "vermin" are all Nazi slogans. They can tamp it down but they will never change. Vote all of them out. The Heritage Foundation cabal, Stephen Miller, SS Homan , Trump and his ilk are all vile vicious wasted human flesh. . So well written! The Moral Left is now all the more important. The behavior of these monsters, cloaking themselves in some members-only Christian club, cannot ever (again) be normalized. Thank you Michael for naming names of these disgusting sick humans who have become like wild attack dogs in a pack! J D Vance is the leader of the pack!! Horrible for him to try and justify these posts by damaged white boys! Shockingly inhumane behavior from a party that professes to be about Christianity. This culture has always been around, quietly, secretly. But now, it's being normalized or brushed off as jokes. Who jokes about rape, gas chambers, slavery? Not me, not anyone I would associate with. I respect diversity. I embrace decency. Let's turn out in droves on Saturday! And on every election day. We have a voice. Use it! |
The “Young” Republicans echo the voices of the older Republicans who now lead this party overtly carrying the message once covertly urged in their party. This has been the credo of top leaders since the late nineties when Newt Gingrich passed his talking points out to all candidates and incumbents running for office. Very simple bullet points that covertly outlined a racist and misogynist ideology. Tanya Melich’s book, THE REPUBLICAN WAR AGAINST WOMEN explained it so well. I lived it as the party revised their national platform to forbid the nomination of pro-choice candidates, securing the RTL for Republicans. As an elected pro-choice, pro civil rights for blacks and gays, pro gay marriage, I found myself at odds with party line votes,excusing myself from chamber rather than being included in votes I found to be diametrically opposed to my ideology. It became unbearable, so I switched parties in 1997-oddly on the same day Ellen DeGeneres “came out”! Immediately afterward, the Speaker gave me a security detail,hid my living arrangements in Albany, and after the press announcement, my family became targets of a Republican attack of hatred as all my old “friends” gathered in rallies protesting against me. All because I stated the truth: THE REPUBLICAN PARTY LEFT ME…The Democratic members of Assembly did not welcome me. I became an enemy of both parties, all because the beliefs I always held publicly were at odds with the principles I held. This “switch” alienated me from groups that should have continued supporting me as they did when I was a Republican. Apparently,it was better to be in the minority getting their support, because I was their anomaly. The next three years were bitterly lonely for me. I retired myself in 2000 when local party bosses asked me to run for Congress. Why would I pass on such an honor? My eldest daughter was very proud of me -encouraging the run! It was exhausting -trying to care for my family-going to Albany for extended periods of time. My husband had become permanently disabled adding a new obstacle to my life and career.
The Mother’s Day of 2000 I received a call from then Minority leader of the House,Dick Gebhardt telling me not to run. They would not help me if I chose to run. The incumbent R Congressman had just switched parties to Democrat and they’d be supporting him, the RTL, Conservative incumbent!
This news sealed the deal for me. The torturous decision made the writing on the wall clear. Time to leave the political world of unprincipled people and take care of my family, my most important constituency!
For me, there is no good party; except a cocktail party!
There's always one bad apple in the barrel, but, now it seems, that that one bad apple has spread to more of the barrel. I cannot understand how anyone can think that way, behave that way, or be that way. Have they never been taught any values? Do they come from families that approve of this behavior, or is it something they came up with themselves? To me, they sound like outcast. People that have no friends, the one's that were the bullies on the playground. It seems like their development was arrested at a young age, before the age of reasoning. I hope for their sake that they get some help and turn their lives around.