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This week’s leak of an internal Young Republican Telegram channel wasn’t some anonymous 4chan cesspit or a fever swamp thread from rando incel with anime avatars.
It was a private chat populated by state and national elite Young Republican leaders, men and women in their 20s and 30s already working in politics, already drawing government paychecks, already courting donors and staffing offices, casually swapping “I love Hitler” riffs, Holocaust gags, rape “jokes,” and racist slurs like they’re passing canapé trays at a fundraiser.
Let’s be absolutely, painfully clear about what landed: thousands of messages across months, not a stray outburst or two. This is just one of hundreds of Telegram channels, Signal chats, Discord groups, and email chains with this kind of tone and moral filth.
Names in this chat you’d find on state party org charts and legislative payrolls show up again and again, marinating in bile. There’s Peter Giunta; until yesterday a rising New York YR figure and a legislative chief of staff, talking about sending internal opponents to the gas chamber.
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There’s Bobby Walker, vice chairman of the New York YRs tossing in “epic” rape quips. There’s Kansas YR vice chair William Hendrix, a man who has never felt the touch of a live woman unless she was tied in his basement masturbatorium, using racial slurs like punctuation.
This wasn’t a slip of the mask.
This is the face of today’s rising class of MAGA GOP leaders.
The fallout was immediate because it had to be. Jobs already lost. Offers rescinded. Entire chapters scrambling. In Kansas, GOP leadership pulled the plug on the state Young Republicans after their chair and vice chair were tied to the chat. The national YR federation demanded resignations.
The “nothing to see here” routine wasn’t going to cut it with 2,900 pages of receipts.
And spare me your “doctored screenshots” hedging garbage, you trashfires. When your defense is that the Holocaust memes were for the lulz and perhaps should have been edited for clarity, you’ve already detonated your credibility.
For the record, several of the principals have apologized while sprinkling in the usual “out of context” and “smear campaign” self-pity.
Why not own it, YRs? This is who you are. This is the “fuck your feelings” mindset writ large...

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