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Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) speaks at a campaign rally at VFW Post 92 on August 15, 2024 in New Kensington, Pennsylvania. Vance is campaigning in several battleground states as part of his campaign efforts. (Photo by Jeff Swensen/Getty Images) / Copy of painting of Adolf Hitler from the book Adolf Hitler--Bilder Aus Dem Leben Des Fuehrers.
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JD Vance defends ‘I love Hitler’ Republican comments, says boys will be boys

Vance argues loving Hitler just an edgy joke.

You may want to be sitting down for this bombshell news, but it seems that the Young Republican National Federation is infested with Nazi freaks. Shocking, I know.

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Yesterday, Politico dropped a huge drama bomb by exposing months of exchanges between the leaders and members of the Young Republican National Federation posted in a Telegram group chat, with participants ranging from 24 to 35 years old.

Those in the group chat called Black people “monkeys” and “watermelon people”. They casually discussed using gas chambers to rid themselves of their political opponents. They also praised Republicans who they considered wanting to bring back slavery. Racial slurs were commonplace, as was wishing for their opponents to be raped.

The then chair of the New York State Young Republicans, Peter Giunta, summed it all up in June by saying, “I love Hitler”. Jeez, we get it already, you’re Nazis!

But for JD Vance, a moderate amount of Hitler-lovin’ is apparently no big deal. After all, boys will be boys! Speaking on the Charlie Kirk show, he brushed all this away as just the way Young Republicans naturally converse:

“The reality is that kids do stupid things, especially young boys. They tell edgy, offensive jokes. 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 lives.”

It should be underlined that some of these “kids” are barely younger than the 41-year-old Vice President. Maybe you’d have a point if these were edgy 13-year-olds, but the youngest participant was in their mid-20s!

The Young Republican National Federation, which represented those between 18 and 40, has called for those involved in this chat to resign from their roles, saying the chat is “unbecoming of any Republican”.

The drama is delectable

Meanwhile, the drama is apparently boiling over from those involved, as one of their own stabbed them in the back by leaking the group chat:

But, as many pointed out, if you don’t want to be exposed as Nazis, maybe don’t praise Hitler and talk about gassing people you don’t like:

Republicans continue to get very sniffy about being described as “fascists” and especially if you call them Nazis. But, when we’re finding swastikas in their offices on Capitol Hill, it’s getting difficult to deny that the shoe fits. After all, as they say, if it walks like a duck, looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck…


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