You’d think they’d learn. The Young Republicans had a signal chat where they thought everything was confidential among themselves, so they indulged themselves in profanity, misogyny, and racism while they were discussing their strategy for taking over the YR organization. Ha ha, it was leaked, and these unpleasant young men have been exposed. They were revealed to be repulsive people who hoped to be the future of the Republican party.
The 2,900 pages of chats, shared among a dozen millennial and Gen Z Republicans between early January and mid-August, chronicle their campaign to seize control of the national Young Republican organization on a hardline pro-Donald Trump platform. Many of the chat members already work inside government or party politics, and one serves as a state senator.
Together, the messages reveal a culture where racist, antisemitic and violent rhetoric circulate freely — and where the Trump-era loosening of political norms has made such talk feel less taboo among those positioning themselves as the party’s next leaders.
Read the linked article if you really want to know what they had to say. I can say that at least the organizer has “apologized” for the disgusting conversation.
“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.”
Classic. He’s apologizing that people were offended, and further is suggesting that the logs were faked. He was just ridiculously bigoted, he’s been caught, and now he wants to conjure up some plausible denial.
Giunta was the most prominent voice in the chat spreading racist messages — often encouraged or “liked” by other members.
When Luke Mosiman, the chair of the Arizona Young Republicans, asked if the New Yorkers in the chat were watching an NBA playoff game, Giunta responded, “I’d go to the zoo if I wanted to watch monkey play ball.” Giunta elsewhere refers to Black people as “the watermelon people.”
Hendrix made a similar remark in July: “Bro is at a chicken restaurant ordering his food. Would he like some watermelon and kool aid with that?”
Hendrix was a communications assistant for Kansas’ Republican Attorney General Kris Kobach until Thursday. He also said in the chat that, despite political differences, he’s drawn to Missouri’s Young Republican organization because “Missouri doesn’t like f–s.”
They’ve all got the same old tired racist “jokes”. Cancel ’em all. Hendrix has already lost his position in Missouri, despite, hypothetically, Missourians not liking homosexuals.
Flush all their careers away for being racist, and the one thing that might condemn them in the eyes of their fellow Republicans, being tech-stupid. Future Republicans are expected to be racist and savvy about communications — fortunately, they all seem to be ignorant idiots.
He wasn’t sincere at all. He only said “sorry” because he got caught. That’s all.
Imagine how offensive you have to be to get fired by Kris Kobach.
By coincidence I had just read the Politico article about these jerks. I hope the stink of fascism we find here sticks to these clowns and ends their political careers. “I love Hitler” writes one of these morons. These are self described Trump supporters.
Their political careers are now on hold until they put in some time as analysts on the new CBS News.
Can’t say I did not see something like that coming given the current state of the GQP.
Millennials and Zoomers huh? I thought the Xers were the source of all the rot now given our lead addled brains.
@3 Give it five years and they will have all slimed their way back into politics. They’ll even accuse those who brought up their shitty past as bullies.
god i thought this was about college republicans at first, not people holding office
The excreable Peter Giunta looks rather old to be a “Young Republican”, but apparently they accept members between the ages of 18 to 40.
He too has been fired from his job as chief of staff to a GOP member. Dude is the epitome of neckbearded incel. *photo at link
https://www.silive.com/politics/2025/10/staten-island-republican-fires-chief-of-staff-over-alleged-antisemitic-comments.html?outputType=amp
“They were revealed to be repulsive people who hoped to be the future of the Republican party.” I’d change “hope to be” to ‘are.’ This toothpaste ain’t going back in the tube.
(Maybe instead of toothpaste, I should’ve said Preparation H?)
Funny that all the men in the article look like the kind of people that Pete Hegseth would like to kick out of the army, beards and all. Will public officers ever be held to the new absurd standards as military ones? Rhetorical question.
“Missouri doesn’t like f–s.”
the rest of the civilized world doesn’t like people who are fucking assholes.