Back in August, our nation's non-Ambassador to the UN, Representative Elise "Elsie" Stefanik, enthusiastically accepted a "Congressperson of the Year" award from the New York Young Republicans.
Wait, from whom?
If the name "New York Young Republicans" is ringing an unsavory bell, maybe it's because you just learned that the organization's vice chair recently said on Telegram that he thought rape was "epic," while its general counsel wondered in the same chat if gas chambers "fit the Hitler aesthetic." One of its national committee members responded with "I'm ready to watch people burn now."
There's more, of course. With these Republican haters, there's always more. They're part of 2,900 horrendous pages of slop that POLITICO obtained and published yesterday. Since then, some Republicans have been scrambling to distance themselves, including Elsie herself. But so far, too few Republicans are. Vice President JD Couchfucker Vance even tried to say that anyone offended was just "pearl clutching."
New York Governor Kathy Hochul wasn't buying it. "The deflecting and nonstop excuses are bullshit," she said. "Everyone from the President down must forcefully condemn this."
Yes, but. With the possible exception of Vermont Governor Phil Scott, we have yet to find anyone in the GOP whose outrage isn't performative. (Elsie, for example, simply couldn't help herself: She denounced the chat but also accused POLITICO of printing a "hit piece.") And besides, who's truly shocked? After 10 years of Benedict Donald, are we surprised that the next generation of Republican leaders engage in violent, racist, misogynistic and anti-Semitic rhetoric?
That's the important point: The folks on this Telegram chat are not a bunch of rapey frat boys. As we said, they are the next generation of the GOP. They're the guys (and a couple of gals) who are coming up directly behind Vance, Stephen Miller, Josh Hawley, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Tom Cotton, Mike Johnson, Steve Scalise, etc.
And don't tell Pete Hegseth, but a lot of these Young Republican foot soliders look pretty fat, too. We cats HISS.
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