Recently, a group chat of leaders of Young Republican groups across the country was leaked to Politico magazine, and it is a doozy:
The messages published by Politico on Tuesday span seven months (between January and August) and include chats from Young Republican leaders in New York, Arizona, and Vermont. According to the outlet, William Hendrix, the Kansas Young Republicans’ vice chair, used racial slurs, and Peter Giunta, who at the time was chair of the organization, said people who did not vote for him to become chair of the Young Republican National Federation needed to “go to the gas chamber.” “Can we fix the showers? Gas chambers don’t fit the Hitler aesthetic,” Joe Maligno, general counsel for the New York State Young Republicans, wrote. “I’m ready to watch people burn now,” Annie Kaykaty, New York’s national committeewoman, added.… According to the outlet, epithets like “f****t,” “retarded” and “n**ga” appeared more than 250 times in the chat logs. Luke Mosiman, the chair of the Arizona Young Republicans, asked in one chat whether others were watching an NBA game, and Giunta responded that he’d “go to the zoo if I wanted to watch monkey play ball.”
So, while everyone else are denouncing this and the folks involved have lost their jobs and opportunities for advancement in the Republican party, JD Vance, our "beloved" vice president decided to defend them.
Aside from playing the "what about this Democrat who did blah blah blah" game, Vance also attempted to minimize the fact that these were adults who said those awful things (which you can see in the above graphic.)
First, according to Mediaite, Vance claimed that it was a "college group chat. Then:
On Wednesday’s edition of The Charlie Kirk Show, Vance addressed the controversy and again characterized the group chat’s members as “kids” and “young boys”:. . the reality is that kids do stupid things. Especially young boys, they tell edgy, offensive jokes, like that’s what kids do. And I really don’t want us to grow up in a country where a kid telling a stupid joke, telling a very offensive, stupid joke is cause to ruin their live. And at some point we’re all all gonna have to say enough of this BS we’re not going to allow the worst moment in a 21-year-old’s group chat to ruin a kid’s life for the rest of time. That’s just not okay. Like, we live in a digital world, this stuff is now etched in stone online. We’re all going to have to say, you know what? No, no, no. We’re not doing this. We’re not canceling kids because they do something stupid in the group chat. And if I have to be the person who carries that message forward, I’m fine with it."
Again, these were not kids. These are grown-ass men and women making Holocaust jokes, calling Black people monkeys, and slurring LGBTQ folks with the "f" word. But either way, to minimize what they said is not exactly the best course of action Vance should have undertaken. Seems to me that maybe Vance should have made a quick condemnation and then shut his mouth. He only made things worse for himself and his party. But I doubt he cares.
From this incident, we can get a full understanding why Trump chose Vance to be his VP during his second term. As seen by his actions on January 6, Trump's last vice president, Mike Pence, actually had a conscience and knew when it was time to break from Trump. I'm sure that Vance knows when to break from Trump too, but the question is would he?
Probably not.
He's no doubt driven by his desire to replace Trump as president (either by election or Trump doing everyone a favor by dropping dead), that he's willing to act like as a rabid dog in his defense of Trump and the GOP. And apparently, he doesn't care what lie he has to tell or how far he has to twist himself to justify their actions.
But sooner or later he is going to have to pivot because no one wants a rabid dog in the White House. Have you ever seen what they do to the furniture?
Image taken from Politico article.
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