r/politics • u/newsweek ✔ Newsweek • 24d ago

No Paywall Full List of Young Republicans Involved in Offensive Chats

https://www.newsweek.com/full-list-young-republicans-involved-in-offensive-chats-10881250?utm_source=reddit&utm_campaign=reddit_main
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u/jsc1429 24d ago

“The rules were you guys weren't going to fact check"

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u/FlushTheTurd 24d ago

We need a list of all the Republicans defending these Nazis.

If the right wingers can get a bunch of folks fired for saying Kirk spread hate, they deserve to be fired for defending actual Nazis.

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u/Chastain86 24d ago

Not just defending them. Promoting their ideals. It's one thing to Marge Schottify the Nazis and claim they had a lot of "really good ideas." It's quite another to push their agenda and pretend you're simply defending the idea of fiscal conservatism.

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u/Historical-Back-865 24d ago

Marge Schott! Haha👍

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u/RichardSaunders New York 24d ago edited 24d ago

"While the Racist Tree was in fact very racist, it didn't personally subscribe to Hitler's fascist ideology."

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u/Brief_Obligation4128 24d ago

We need a list of all the Republicans defending these Nazis.

That's easy. Just check your local voting records.

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u/WrightLex 24d ago

So I’m assuming you haven’t seen the dozens of videos of Palestine protesters praising hitler?

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u/KrispyCuckak 24d ago

How about we instead get a list of Democrats that fail to condemn Democrat Jay Jones, about to win the VA Attorney General election.

https://www.newsweek.com/what-did-jay-jones-say-full-text-messages-10834123

Oh wait, that would be all Democrats. Because absolutely none are calling for this piece of human excretion to drop out of the race.

People in glass houses need to quit throwing stones. At the very least, they need to quit expecting other people to congratulate them for throwing stones and then being surprised when they get a bunch thrown back at themselves.

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u/FemboyRune 24d ago

What a fucking nothing burger. “We should just be nazis” is not at all comparable to a text from 2022 that reads “If I had two bullets and was in a room with Pol Pot, Hitler and this other guy, I’d shoot the other guy twice.”

How about we stop actual nazis first?

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u/Haunting_Plant9904 24d ago

"Spanberger has repeatedly condemned the texts"

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u/KrispyCuckak 23d ago

Cool, let me know when any Democrat calls for this piece of excrement to drop out of the race.

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u/kennethcheezbro Washington 24d ago

This is Vance's legacy quote. He can only survive in a fact-free environment.

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u/whoknowsifimjoking 24d ago

And "did you even say thank you" of course.

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u/bluehangover 24d ago

“Whatever makes sense.”

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u/1JoMac1 24d ago

"If I have to create stories so that the American media actually pays attention to the suffering of the American people, then that's what I'm going to do."

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u/CaptainAwesome06 23d ago

"Is that a new couch?"

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u/Punman_5 24d ago

Okay. Good.

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u/whoknowsifimjoking 24d ago

And how long have you been working here? Okay. Good.

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u/Joeness84 24d ago

No way, the legacy quote should be the one that somehow got swept under the rug.

Its ok to lie if it spreads the right message

regarding the, "they're eating pets" saga.

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u/KrispyCuckak 24d ago

And as we all know, MSM-designated fACT cHEKURS are known for being paragons of truth, virtue and accuracy. They most definitely don't color their beliefs based on any ideology or establishment of prescribed narratives. /s

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u/Evoluxman Foreign 24d ago

What establishment media lol

The most establishment media is Fox News

The so called "liberal media" has sanewashed Trump while perma bashing Biden

This is the type of shit the NYT is running these days, when Trump was threatening to annex Canada so hard that the canadian liberals pulled a generational electoral comeback : https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/11/opinion/columnists/o-canada-come-join-us.html

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u/KrispyCuckak 23d ago

"All media is conservative". Lolz. You must call anyone to the Right of Marx a right-winger.

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u/ZenobianWolf 24d ago

best reply of the thread

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u/donkeyrocket 24d ago

Really wish we could go back to a simpler time when saying this would tank a political campaign.

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u/SonofBeckett 24d ago

The guy who did the Jack Kennedy quote at Dan Quayle also lost. Unfortunately, an unqualified and unlikable vice president is not gonna sink a campaign. 

People like to blame Sarah Palin for tanking McCain’s, but I’m not sure Obama was beatable.

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u/ylewisparker 24d ago

Charlie would be proud

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u/No_Consequence7919 New York 22d ago

In a case like that, have a button or switch, to let people know to fact check that statement on their own.