J.D. Vance tells us to "grow up" about leaked Hitler-loving group chat

"The reality is that kids do stupid things, especially young boys," the VP said today, referring to a group of Republicans ages 18-40.

I don’t know about you guys, but I did not need to read the repulsive leaked texts of a “Young Republicans” group chat this week in order to know that many young Republicans these days are outright women-hating white supremacists. Nevertheless, POLITICO confirmed our suspicions yesterday with a horrifying report on thousands of private messages between Young Republican group leaders across the country that referred to rape as “epic,” referred to Black people as “monkeys” and “watermelon people,” fantasized about sending their political opponents to gas chambers, and straight-up said, “I love Hitler.”

At any other time in modern American history, this would have been such a massive scandal and stain on the GOP that the all major leaders of the party, including the president, would be expected to forcefully condemn it. Instead, today, the Vice President told us to “grow up” and stop “pearl clutching” about the overtly Nazi fantasies of his peers.

“Grow up!” he said on the Charlie Kirk show. “Focus on the real issues. Don’t focus on what kids say in group chats... The reality is that kids do stupid things, especially young boys — they tell edgy, offensive jokes. That’s what kids do.”

The Young Republican National Federation, mind you, is a 15,000-member political organization for Republicans between 18 and 40 years old. At 41, Vance is only one year too old to be one of the “young boys” he’s defending in these group chats. He’s also married to an Indian woman, which happens to be one of the specific demographic targets of the group chat’s racism:

Usha Vance’s unfortunate choice of spouse aside, we are left to wonder whether the vice president is downplaying these “edgy, offensive jokes” because he recognizes how offensive the comments actually are and wants to distance himself and his party from them, or because they simply reflect his own worldview at this point. I’d argue the latter—that since his days of negatively comparing Trump to Adolf Hitler and calling Trump “reprehensible”, Vance has been steeping so hard in the Nazi cesspool of X that he is now basically just a klansman without the hood. Recall that he personally spread the wildly racist and debunked lie during the 2024 campaign that Haitians in Springfield, Ohio, were eating people’s pets. It hardly gets more white nationalist than that.

I suppose it’s good, at the very least, that this administration has come around to being pro-"free speech” and defending people’s right to make offensive jokes without provoking some kind of government response. OH WAIT sorry—just checking my notes here—okay no, it looks the Trump administration announced yesterday that it has revoked the visas of at least six citizens from Argentina, South Africa, Mexico, Brasil, Germany, and Paraguay for comments they made about Charlie Kirk. So, to recap: It is fine to openly praise a guy who murdered 6 million Jewish people; it is not fine to criticize one racist podcaster who was shot by one person. We are only free to say things the administration generally agrees with, like that rape is funny and that “f****ts” should “stay in the closet.”

I can only imagine what we’d be hearing right now if Trump finally freed our shadow president, Stephen Miller, to express his “truest feelings” about why he’s so enjoying invading Democratic-run cities.

My vote is to let Steve say it. Get him some real evil lighting and a microphone and maybe some ecstasy and tell him this is a safe space to express his darkest desires. Once we’re sure that every voters is crystal clear on what we’re dealing with, we won’t need any more pity pieces about how Trump voters were tricked into thinking the price of groceries would go down.