Fascinating. Politico notes that when notified of the texts, many state-level Republicans fired or condemned these cretins. Now Vance emerges to excuse the racism, and calls the reaction to it "pearl clutching."

He seems determined to purge the party of its last enclaves of decency.

Remember, brown 13-year-olds are hardened menaces to society, but 30-something Republican Hitler afficionados in positions of power are just li’l guys.

Maybe Mike meant "stood on" Capitol Police?

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Hakeem Jeffries posted pictures of two Rep. Members posing with “Young Republicans” who were part of a racist text thread (as reported by Politico).

In response, Mike Davis (well-connected in Trump World & on the Hill) called Jeffries a “house slave” for George Soros - proving Jeffries’ point.

If you think it’s bad how Young Republicans talk wait until you hear how the Old Republicans talk.

“Kavanaugh stop” is a great phrase. Evocative, critical, memorable, and on point.

The internet tells me the term was coined and popularized by @akalhan.bsky.social and @sifill.bsky.social. A big hat tip to them.

Capitol Police are literally protecting the same scumbag assholes who refuse to pay them but are still fighting to give money to January 6 terrorists. That’s another level of evil.

Joliet, Illinois has the proper facilities and access to transportation

Democrats shouldn't let go of these Young Republican messages.

Have the right-wing defend it. The VP, JD Vance, already has, and the talking points have been delivered to the MAGA base.

They keep deflecting and doing both sides, but nothing is comparable.

Just keep it in the news.

“The Defense Department has confiscated the badges of the Pentagon reporters from virtually every major media organization in America,” the Pentagon Press Association said

so what's in the news today

What could be worse than screaming at a Capitol police officer?

This is real. Chicago today.

Integrity is what matters most.
Stenographers for this regime have no integrity

Nothing says support for Capitol Police more than refusing to mount a plaque honoring their service during the MAGA insurrection

🚨IRS, FBI, Federal Marshals, MPD, DEA, ICE, HLS, and ATF here to “investigate” this woman. Suspicious for being black? The regime has made their white supremacism clear. The time for us to reject it is NOW!

The eyes are windows to the soul. What lurks beneath the mask here is endlessly deep Stygian darkness

If you let this Administration continue to kill people indiscriminately and without due process in international waters, it won’t be long before you’re also fine with them murdering American citizens.

ICE acting like lawless thugs erodes their ability to operate without mass resistance and further damages their mission

Just constantly saying it out loud - retweeting it even! - and people still want to ignore that the whole thing is a white nationalist movement?

The first Nazis said they were joking too, it’s a strategy to get people not to take the threat seriously, and a pretty obvious one that people should be embarrassed to have fallen for.