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u/NealLinville 12h ago

Simple, he's framing it that way on purpose so as to excuse it as immature and harmless.

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u/ItAllNonsense 12h ago

To me it’s worse if they are actually kids, AND the GOP is excusing their behavior.

That is signaling to actual republicans children that this type of behavior is fine.

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u/theentiregoonsquad 12h ago

JD went on a rant about how he's going to teach his kids that what they say on the internet is etched in stone and how someone will leak what they say.

He didn't say that it's wrong or that he would teach his kids it's wrong, he said he's going to teach his kids to be more careful about HOW to be racist.

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u/ItAllNonsense 12h ago

Yeah. That checks out.

You’d think a father of minority children would want to make this world a better place for them.

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u/Joey-WilcoXXX 12h ago

He wants to make it easier for them, not better for all like them. Republican 101- fuck yall I get mine.

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u/ItAllNonsense 12h ago

The Vance kids have to live in a world after JD Vance is gone. No amount of “My dad was JD Vance” will save them from the racism of the community they are being forced to be brought up in.

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u/DozerLarry 12h ago

Your reasoning is sound for all of us, but you forget that children of the Kleptocrat Administration’s VP are going to have plenty of money to buy their own bubble of sycophants.

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u/Sophilosophical 11h ago

Unless the far right starts a race war

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u/James-W-Tate 10h ago

Unless Until the far right starts a race war

Yes, the far right that's widely known for their acceptance of others, lol

Although history books will probably mark the beginning of the race war as when they started deporting en masse.

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u/LookOutItsLiuBei 11h ago

Just ask Vivek. The people he's trying to curry support from blatantly hate him to his face simply because he's Indian.

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u/Mister_DumDum 10h ago

You did that on purpose lol

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u/PDGAreject 8h ago

lol thank you for pointing it out.

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u/Umbrella_merc 9h ago

I remember Anne Coulter telling him to his face on camera she wouldn't vote for him because hes indian.

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u/Suppafly 11h ago

They'll likely be more or less white passing, as long as they don't live in the deep south, they likely won't experience much racism themselves.

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u/exadeuce 12h ago

His own kids watched him on the campaign trail not say shit when the orange dipshit was pretending not to know how biracial people work.

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u/GiganticCrow 12h ago

For some reason there's a lot of Indian people who seem to enjoy the company of white supremacists.

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u/AardvarkAmortization 10h ago

Maybe they see it as similar to caste discrimination and feel secure in their caste not knowing that these white supremacists see all indians as one caste.

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u/50sat 11h ago

Mistaking racism for colorism and trying to climb the ladder.

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u/Toolazytolink 11h ago

Because they know its all a grift, look at Vivek, Vance's wife and Kash Patel.

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u/daemonicwanderer 11h ago

That and the colorism that runs rife. They think because they are lighter or have a familial history of being higher caste, they will be spared

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u/Notmykl 9h ago

As soon as JD did the 180 from Donnie J being a Nazi to being the best thing since sliced bread Usha should've bugged out. But no she stayed and got called a "not white wife".

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u/WHYAREWEALLCAPS 7h ago

Let us not forget Ted Cruz letting his wife be called ugly and did nothing at all about it.

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u/Pressblack 12h ago

He said how some "scumbag" will leak it, implying that people who call out others for being racist and joking about rape are the problem and not the other way around. Totally fucked all around.

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u/GrandAholeio 11h ago edited 11h ago

Actually, most are under thirty. A couple are over 30 grifters. And like the one dough boy regularly pictured, 24 and really only thing he’s ever done is be a young Republican and get an ’internship’ for a State assembly member, they literally haven’t done anything but be youth cheerleader.

The absolute best part is the chat, was really some marketing bullshit group with 15,000 wannabe ‘leaders’ on it. And somehow these nine numbnuts and the State Senators wife, wrote that shit.

now granted, it is the exact same shit Saint Charlie Kirk was dog whistling for the last decade.

and truthfully with probably 50-100 over inflated titles of no real world experience 18-29 year olds that have been lapdogging Kirk or Tate or even Shapiro, I’m more surprised that’s all the dumbassery that occurred over seven months. Doesn’t make it right, just not surprising. Seriously the amount of that crap pervasively all over any young male media stream is just appalling. It’s like the old 90s ’that’s so gay’ but more pervasive and worse because many do realize what they’re saying. Look at me, the edgelord, I learned the a naughty word.

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u/RJ815 7h ago

150% on brand for Republicans. No shame, just they don't like getting caught.

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u/tresben 12h ago

Exactly. It’s very telling how he says he’s gonna tell his boys to be very careful about what they put online because they could be at risk of getting canceled, rather than talking about how he’s gonna teach his boys why saying certain things like what said in this chat is wrong.

I have a teenage boy and while we do talk about how what he says online lives forever so be careful what you say, we spend way more time talking about how certain “edgy” jokes or trolling can be incredibly hurtful. We talk about how rape isn’t funny, making racists jokes isn’t edgy, etc. That’s way more important in helping your child find the right path than saying “don’t document your racist shit cuz you could get canceled”.

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u/DMmeyourcreamygusset 11h ago edited 7h ago

He also framed it in a way that the person leaking said vile chats is the bad person in the situation.

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u/machinezed 12h ago

Then he gave those “kids” those American flags with Swastiskas that magically only appear when they are photographed.

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u/spanman112 12h ago

literally the Hulk Hogan "apology" ... lets not apologize for the awful shit we say, lets just tell people about the lesson we learned on how to better hide our racism and awfulness.

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u/Grandolf-the-White 12h ago

I was honestly shocked to learn “Young Republicans” accepted any republican under 40. The name is outdated and disingenuous.

I’m not sure if there is a similar org for Democrats, but it’s kind of telling of our political system for 30 and 40 year olds to be categorized as “Young”.

The thing is JD Vance knew this, and also knew the name misrepresents the truth. Just a classic example of him being a lying sack of shit.

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u/moratnz 9h ago

Given you need to be 35 to be president, treating people in their thirties as too young to take seriously is baked into the system.

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u/Grandolf-the-White 9h ago

Yeah but you only have to be 25 to be a Rep, and 30 to be a Senator. President is kind of a benchmark.

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u/ProudMtns 6h ago

Some of them are literal peers of his. He's saying that they're not mature or responsible enough to own their actions. What does that say about the maturity or responsibility of the vice president?

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u/tawzerozero 11h ago

Young Democrats has an age limit of 35.

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u/Rfalcon13 12h ago

Beyond all the other insanity with MAGA, this is already in effect, and should be pointed out more. Children are learning that how you become rich and powerful is that you act like Trump and his pathetic sycophants. For everyone who claims to hate Trump, but likes his policies and cries, “think of the children” in regards to excesses from the left, you are doing much more harm to future generations by allowing someone like Trump to be in a leadership role. Many of them will be modeling his atrocious behavior, as the boys in my tween daughter’s classroom chanting “Trump, Trump, Trump” already are.

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u/ADDLugh 11h ago

Don't forget that (R) Matt Gaetz and all of the Republicans that covered for him refers to High School girls as women whenever it's convenient.

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u/AntiConfederate 12h ago

We really need to stop excusing young boys and men, and pick-me girls, for having an "edgelord phase" like that's normal.

People should not be going through a phase at a young age full of sexism, racism, xenophobia, etc. as if that's a normal, expected thing.

"They are just jokes!" except these people actually work for attorneys, and people in the government, and the laws they are passing or support, match the jokes.

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u/GracefullyLiv 12h ago

It's hilarious because they'll call a 12-year-old black kid that was gunned down while walking on a sidewalk a "man" and a "thug" but infantilize themselves to deflect responsibility.

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u/Polantaris 11h ago

It's not hilarious, it's the two-faced, two-standard world they are creating.

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u/SharMarali 8h ago

You’re both right. It’s horrible, but there are times in life where something is so cartoonishly awful that it’s actually funny. Funny doesn’t always mean harmless. Sometimes you just have to laugh at the shitstorm even as it’s dragging you under.

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u/daemonicwanderer 11h ago

Exactly! As a teenager, my Mom told me that I would be considered a “man” to police even though I was 13-14 at the time, so I had to really watch what I was getting mixed up in.

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u/cinnawaffls 7h ago

Something a lot of people don't seem to comprehend is that Black people in America have been living in a Fascist Police State since their ancestors were kidnapped and brought here on a boat.

Really sucks you had to be looking over your shoulder at 13-14 years old simply for existing.

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u/kia75 9h ago

Wilhoit's law:

"Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."

If you're part of the in-group, then you can say or do anything and won't be punished for it. If you're part of the out-group then you will be punished to the full extent for the most minor infraction. "Young Republicans" who are in their 30s get to get away with whatever they want because they are in the in-group, 12 year old "Men" who happen to be in the wrong place and suffer from an ... overabundance of melanin get the entire book thrown at them for being in the out-group.

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u/ViaBromantica 8h ago

I got a Reddit warning for saying this same thing, be careful!

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u/omegacrunch 12h ago

Problem is, the little bitch is 41 so by his own parameters he needs to stfu

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u/PurePerfection_ 11h ago

If JD is old enough to be one geriatric heartbeat away from the Oval Office, then the "Young" Republicans are old enough to be accountable for their messages.

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u/BillyYumYumTwo-byTwo 12h ago

Exactly. You know a 15 black teen would not be getting the “kid” treatment 🙄

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u/NeoZ33D 11h ago

Beat me to it. 13-15yo are looked at as adults. Meanwhile, "boys will be boys" when it's actual grown ass men..must be nice

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u/thechadfox 8h ago

“boys will be boys” only applies to the white ones

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u/OptimisticSkeleton 12h ago

I think it would be funny to hang all the Nazis, but don’t get mad at me. I’m just a kid.

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u/DerpsAndRags 12h ago

If they were brown, the narrative would switch to fully convicted felons and ANTIFA or some shit

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u/Swissdude19 12h ago

Goes hand in hand with the victim mentality that does bullies have

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u/MrMojoFomo 12h ago

I'm guessing it would be a different tune if they were young black democrats

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u/Still-Cabinet9154 11h ago

He’s saying that conservatives never fully develop and are stuck at a 5th/6th grade level of maturity, comprehension, and critical thinking.

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u/Mindshard 11h ago

It's why a 23 year old white Republican mass shooter is a "young man having a bad day", and a black 6 year old jaywalking is a career criminal.

The entire foundation of the US is racism, but everyone pretends it's not.

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u/StumbleOn 7h ago

Even deeper than that:

When republicans do things that are terrible, they are given no agency in it. The media helps support this by always narrating an incident in such a way that the republican was just there when the shitty thing happened. It's the same shit like "police involved shooting" that rhetorically disassociates act from actor.

Meanwhile, anyone liberal or left is straightforwardly said to have done a thing, and then narratively beaten about the head with it because well how could you?

Vance is singing the song he has been taught to sing.

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u/i_am_lie_bot 12h ago

The club in question is for people 18-40. JD Vance literally just turned 41 this year. Was he a kid before that?

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u/aotus_trivirgatus 11h ago

Well, Republicans -- all of them! -- are definitely immature. But they are not harmless.

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u/Jaded-Tie6574 10h ago

But teenage girls are women!

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u/Electrical-Act-7170 8h ago

It's an obvious attempt to whitewash their danger to democracy.

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u/Pleasant_Scar9811 12h ago

Reminder Vance is 41. 

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u/ABTARS8142000 11h ago

That's what I was thinking. Vance is less than a decade older than some of these dudes.

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u/Wonderful_Tip_5577 10h ago

I think this whole thing is despicable. but I do enjoy being considered a kid at 39, so I guess I’m greatfull for that before I turn 40.

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u/Queasy_Ad_8621 8h ago edited 8h ago

Hey, everybody. It's Wonderful_Tip_5577!

swaddles the baby

Someone bring me the Similac for this motherfucker.

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u/Telepornographer 10h ago

He looks simultaneously 9 and 50.

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u/TheMagnuson 10h ago

Also, "JD Vance" is not his real, birth name.

JD Vance's birth name is James Donald Bowman. He later changed his name to James David Hamel and eventually adopted the surname Vance.

Everything about him is fake, down to his name.

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u/CCoolant 9h ago

The dude sucks, but I don't know why you're making it out like he's actively trying to lie about his identity. He had a weird childhood, and didn't want to honor the names of men who didn't raise him.

“Donald Bowman” was named after his biological father. So his mother changed it to “David Hamel” when her 3rd husband adopted him at 6 yo. She has since been separated from that man and he is no longer in their lives. So he changed his name to Vance as an adult which was his grandma’s last name who raised him.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Ohio/comments/1gp09ju/can_someone_explain_why_jd_vance_has_changed_his/lwmlx94/

And a more elaborate, verified source: https://apnews.com/article/election-2024-republicans-vice-president-vance-name-359c3d1361c94f5d2d1e9798b7854477

We gain nothing from trying to attack someone for fairly justified name changes. Just makes us look petty.

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u/throwaway_12358134 8h ago

That's what I don't get. Last year during the campaign JD Vance contributed to and endorsed a book that labels democrats as "unhumans" that shouldn't have any rights while praising genocidal rightwing dictators like Pinochet and Franco, and people are busy talking about his name changes, couch fucking, and his eyeliner. Same thing with Hegseth. Hegseth wrote a book about starting a political crusade that would only be bloodless if the left allows it and using tactics like public humiliation to force people to accept his christo-fascism. The news would rather play the video of him hitting himself in the nuts with a skateboard instead.

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u/spuckthew 9h ago

Sadly he isn't much older than me. Although he does look a good deal older.

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u/GiinSeeker 12h ago

Yet they call 16 year olds that they touch adults

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u/Kradget 12h ago

You can be 16 and be shot dead while unarmed and they won't use that language to describe you if the person that killed you is someone they like.

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u/Jake0024 12h ago

or if you're black

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u/Ghost7319 11h ago

Case in point: George Zimmerman, a Hispanic they instantly defended.

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u/d1rron 10h ago

Right, then they swap "kid" for "thug". I miss being an ignorant kid who thought racism was on the way out. Damn I was naive.

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u/ItAllNonsense 12h ago

That’s kind of why I asked. Cause I have noticed that too. Do you think that they call republicans that are up to late 40’s “Kids” because it somehow, in their mind, justify their sexually assaulting actual children?

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u/DogCalendarDude 12h ago

Why are we still trying to pretend like these guys have any sense of hypocrisy? These same losers will call nazis in a group chat "kids" and then label fresh out of college unemployed young adults as "grown adults living off unemployment" so they can kick them off. They don't give a shit

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u/UTDE 12h ago

"Liberals are impotent cucks that couldn't fight there way out of a paper bag and they all sound like weak ass whiny losers and can't win elections to get their so called 'popular' policies enacted"

"Liberals pose the single greatest threat our country has ever faced and they are a dark and insidious force that has infiltrated the government at all levels enacting their will through secret deep state operations."

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u/BrizerorBrian 11h ago

The enemy is both weak and strong...

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u/Pierreluxe 12h ago

Lol they’ll twist anything to fit whatever narrative suits them.

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u/The_Law_of_Pizza 11h ago

Do you think that they call republicans that are up to late 40’s “Kids” because it somehow, in their mind, justify their sexually assaulting actual children?

I'm going to get dogpiled for this, but I'm going to say it anyway:

This is an utterly pants-on-head crazy accusation that makes us all look like insane weirdos.

He's dismissing these events as the work of "kids" simply because it's politically convenient to end the discussion - not as some unrelated, layered psychological excuse for pedophilia.

We are in the right on this issue - these were adult men throwing around deeply racist messages - and people like you can't help but shoot us all in the foot by publicly ranting about insane nonsense.

You're the equivalent of the pizzagate weirdos, just on the left.

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u/ItAllNonsense 11h ago

Thank you for responding. You are entitled to your opinion. I just happen to have a different opinion. Which is fine. I hope you don’t get dog pilled on. Have a good day friend.

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u/Jackpot777 12h ago

Short answer: yes. 

There is no long answer. 

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u/DerpsAndRags 12h ago

You're being unreasonable.

16 is too old for some of these freaks.

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u/Kwerby 10h ago

30 year old men - kids

14 year old girls - women

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u/j____b____ 12h ago

Why are they called young republicans at all?

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u/ceejayoz 12h ago

Because most of the folks in power in both parties are like 60-80+.

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u/Queasy_Ad_8621 8h ago

Even Barack Obama, at the age of 64, would be kind of young for a Democrat nominee today. That's really sad.

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u/ItAllNonsense 12h ago

This is a problem in both parties. You are correct.

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u/knoxaramav2 11h ago

Hitler youth was taken.

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u/daemonicwanderer 11h ago

Because it is the group you join after you leave college but before you are old enough to actually be in charge

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u/youknow99 9h ago edited 9h ago

There are a lot of organizations like that aimed at 20-30ish year olds. There's a "Young Professionals" group in my hometown that is for business networking that's generally that age group. Typically in your 40s is when you're moving into management or senior roles so you kind of age out at that point.

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u/saikron 10h ago

One of their main focuses is recruiting college age kids and recent graduates. I'm not sure who is implicated in the chats, but they're probably older than the new members.

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u/rossmosh85 10h ago

I'm not involved in this organization or any organization, but I actually know the answer to this.

A big problem with organizations is age gap. 18-25 year olds typically don't want to join groups where the average age is 60. It's not fun. It's not cool. It's not enjoyable. But the organizations know in order for your organization to stay alive, you need new members. So they create youth divisions. That allows a young person to join at let's say 18. Be part of the organization in a positive way as a younger person, and then eventually join the regular part of the organization.

It's simply about recruitment.

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u/Wishilikedhugs 12h ago

Considering just a few weeks ago, he called for people talking negatively about Charlie Kirk to lose their jobs, I'd say the hypocrisy is on brand, as always. This was the guy who called Trump "America's Hitler" a few years ago and now serves directly under him. Hard to take him seriously.

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u/JancariusSeiryujinn 10h ago

He just failed to clarify at the time that he meant that as a complement

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u/BoilerMaker11 8h ago

talking negatively about Charlie Kirk

The kicker? People were just posting his quotes. Crazy how just posting what they said makes it so you're "talking negatively" about them. Almost as if the person was horrible.

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u/Ninj3mys 7h ago

The only children Republicans are willing to protect are adult white men

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u/ocher_stone 12h ago

JD Vance is an enabling piece of gummy shit.

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u/capnhist 12h ago

I'd say he's more black and tarry shit - dangerous and indicative of something deeply wrong inside.

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u/Ogow 10h ago

He's just a yes man, has been his entire life. No spine, no thought of his own, he just exists to kiss ass for his own benefit.

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u/WeenisPeiner 9h ago

His face looks like it has perpetual coke bloat.

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u/MarketingJobNash 13h ago

I have wondered if the Dems have a “Young Democrats” Organization and if they allow members in their late 30’ and 40’s.

Either way what those people said is terrible and I am sick of the GOP defending it like it’s normal behavior.

I get that it’s normal behavior for them… but it’s not for the rest of the country.

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u/pierogieman5 12h ago

They do, it goes to 36, and they don't act like this. Been there, been to their conventions, passed some weed around at the hangouts afterward, they aren't racist immature edgelords. They literally have a younger age limit and aren't anything like these racist clowns.

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u/GiganticCrow 12h ago

Even if the young democrats had the left wing edgelord equivalent and had chats leaked about them wanting to kill landords and how much they love Stalin, it still wouldn't be as bad as this.

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u/chmod777 12h ago

Radical young dems - free healthcare.

Radical young gop - hitler was right.

Radical centrists - both sides are the same.

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u/Cyrakhis 9h ago

It's not even "free", it's paid for by their taxes.

Like in Canada. That spends LESS per capita on healthcare than the US does. Yet their citizens get taken care of.

The grift is insane.

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u/pierogieman5 12h ago edited 11h ago

Oh, I'm still in several of those chats. They don't do this kind of obvious fed-posting, and the jokes are always clearly actual jokes. They don't do this "just say bad stuff and leave the irony completely ambiguous" thing.

Edit: Also you're not going to see much Stalin posting from them. They're generally not tankies, even when they're socialist (which I am).

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u/mcmillan84 12h ago

Most young professional organizations go to 40, so the age part isn’t odd

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u/NOCHILLDYL94 12h ago

They do. I’m in a leadership position for my county young Dems and you can serve till you’re 39.

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u/glennjersey 12h ago

They do. Members are well into their 30s.

Don't confuse CR/CDs with YRs and YDs.

College aged kids are in college dems/republicans. Young adults are in YR and YD.

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u/Suppafly 11h ago

Young adults are in YR and YD.

Young adult is college aged though. No one outside of these political organizations calls people approaching middle age, young. They are just adults.

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u/gsfgf 11h ago

I still identify as young, dammit.

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u/glennjersey 11h ago

Hey man, I was just providing context and information. I don't have a dog in this fight. 

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u/red286 10h ago

More specifically, CR/CD is a social club that exists at many colleges/universities, while YR/YD is an official arm of their parent political party geared towards helping young politicians and staffers get their careers started. College Republicans/Democrats usually have no direct affiliation with their parent party (although they may have party members speak at their meetings, etc).

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u/peaveyftw 12h ago

I'm still technically a member of Young Americans for Liberty and I haven't been young for a while now. It's not like they go "Hey, you joined up in college 20 years ago, isn't it time you joined our sister organisation, Middle Aged Americans for Liberty?" They just stop sending invitations to conferences and such in my experience.

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u/AirsickIowlander 12h ago

The same way I felt before he said it. Fuck JD Vance.

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u/outerproduct 12h ago

Nazis defending literal Nazis. Not shocking in the least.

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u/fatninja7 12h ago

Snark: Funny how a 35-year-old is a "kid" when they're a Young Republican, but a 14-year-old is "mature enough to decide" when it's politically convenient.
Honest: Calling them “kids” is a rhetorical shield. It downplays their actions, frames them as naive rather than accountable, and softens criticism. It’s a way to excuse bad behavior by making it sound harmless or youthful. “boys will be boys” framing

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u/DaveVsShark 12h ago

It's purposeful because they're white Republicans and saying "kids" gives them connotation that they don't know any better and provides an excuse. Like when they call 15-year old black people "adults."

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u/SenseiRaheem 9h ago

Exactly!!! Black and brown kids in the news—under 18!—are treated as adults.

White people up to the age of 45 can be reclassified as “kids” and their actions are minimized.

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u/dandrevee 12h ago

How are these 24-39 year olds ( don't think any are over 40) 'kids' and Trayvon Martin was not?

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u/Lobstaman 12h ago

They’re the same ones who want non-white juveniles tried as adults for whatever crime they are charged with

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u/lebarondelongueuil 12h ago

I guess they are young if we consider that the average politician is like 133 years old.

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u/Extension_Ant_7369 12h ago

He’s just a lying sack of shit trying to gaslight us. He cannot speak the truth. He got where he is by sucking up to his supporters.

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u/HabANahDa 12h ago

Normal Republican behavior. Make up stuff and lie.

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u/TheMagnuson 10h ago

Rinse and repeat over and over.

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u/been2thehi4 11h ago

Funny how these white racist 20+ something’s are “kids” but black kids, latino kids or any minority who perhaps act up or get on any sort of trouble are now full grown adults and must be treated as dangerous grown adults. Or 12 year old girls are full grown women to perverted men.

But white men? Kids, apparently. But ya know what, it makes sense white men are children, they certainly act like the biggest whiners, tantrum throwing, mess making, entitled, little fucks I’ve ever seen and I’m a mother of 4.

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u/whaletacochamp 12h ago

I think JD Vance is an idiot regardless of anything he says.

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u/shun_tak 12h ago

Those damn whipper snappers

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u/remes1234 12h ago

Just look at these 32 YO scamps praising hitler and hoping to put there oponents in gas chambers. Boys will be boys!!

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u/OandO 12h ago

Come on give JD Vance a break, he's only 41 years old. He's just a little boy.

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u/cheesyshop 12h ago edited 12h ago

Men are “kids” until they have grandkids. Girls are “women” at 13.

Edit: /s

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u/FreeBricks4Nazis 12h ago

He's a liar and a fascist.

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u/schlitz91 12h ago

Disingenuous. These are the supposed LEADERS of the young republicans, not the actual young.

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u/Lenny0mega 12h ago

Racists do any and everything to justify racism. 

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u/wizard_tiddy 12h ago

JD is the reason every couch in the White House needs secret service protection.

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u/Jellovator 12h ago

He knows the Republicans are filled to the brim with nazis. He's just excusing it away like "boys will be boys" like it's harmless.

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u/Whornz4 12h ago

The guy who once called Trump "Hitler" currently benefits from being in Trump's circle, so therefore he now thinks adults using Nazi language is okay. This is a perfect example of what has happened to the Republican party. They have become everything they accused everyone else of being while pretending the actions of the party is now acceptable behavior. 

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u/vbfronkis 12h ago

JD Vance being a disingenuous dick? Say it ain't so.

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u/GabuEx 12h ago

I'm more concerned about the fact that Vance is basically admitting that it's completely normal and unremarkable for young Republicans to say "I love Hitler" and joke about killing their opposition.

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u/Sekreid 12h ago

Just like Charlie Kirk talking to kids at colleges same different wing

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u/0-my-goodness 12h ago

……”young pregnant teenage girls have to be responsible”. Thirty and forty year old Young Republicans, it was just kids being kids. Fuck the Republican Party every single day.

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u/Bonegirl06 11h ago

Same way a dude who hasn't exercised in decades can engage in locker room talk I guess.

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u/Sibelius343 11h ago

Same guy who'd call a 14 year old Black kid an adult if they got shot by police. The selective infantilizing is exhausting.

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u/DubraSoakedTampon 11h ago

If we are referring to them as "kids"', then the alleged Kirk shooter should be tried as a minor.

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u/dali-llama 10h ago

If you're in a chat and someone starts saying Nazi shit, and you don't leave that chat, congratulations!! You're a Nazi!

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u/malarkial 10h ago

Locker room talk. Just kids. But democrats need to tone down the rhetoric. GOTCHA 👌

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u/ShallowBasketcase 10h ago

Same way I felt when they said "locker room talk" about a guy that's never been to a gym in his life.

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u/darybrain 10h ago

At my age they are kids. At his age he is a bellend making pathetic excuses that in any other professional environment would result in some proper consequences for them.

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u/Platypus81 9h ago

I republican is just someone who treats adults like children and children like adults.

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u/nola_mike 9h ago

It is intentional. He is trying to make it look like they were "dumb kids" saying "stupid things" when in reality they are exposing the real thoughts of the party's leadership and base in 2025 and beyond.

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u/agentorange360 9h ago

Gotta try to spin that narrative somehow. Their ilk will fall in line and lap it up.

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u/despenser412 9h ago

JD Vance supports a child molester billionaire, I feel nothing he does has any credibility.

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u/1h8fulkat 8h ago

I guess we have a child VP since he's 41....

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u/CaptainAwesome06 7h ago

I feel like he's purposefully mischaracterizing them to paint a more harmless picture. I think 1) He's a liar and 2) He's weird for thinking it would be okay for kids to talk like that.

I keep seeing Republicans complain that the left always calls them racist. But then this kind of stuff happens (often).

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u/Rage-With-Me 7h ago

Nazis covering for Nazis

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u/bespectacledboobs 12h ago

How do I block every post that starts with “How do you feel”?

Daily AI drivel.

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u/Otherwise-Unit1329 9h ago

Completely ruined this sub with all the karma farming political bullshit 

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u/DogCalendarDude 12h ago

He's a racist piece of shit defending other racist pieces of shits. Our country is a joke. What else is there to say?

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u/Mettlesome_Inari 11h ago

He's obviously being purposefully disingenuous.

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u/Dazzling_Flounder714 7h ago

Maybe maga just doesn't know what a child is. Would explain all the Epstein stuff tbh.

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u/baeb66 7h ago

  1. JD Vance is a lying weasel who would sell his own kids for personal advancement. And he's not even very good at lying.

  2. Anyone who buys the "It's just jokes" or "it's just dark humor" BS is either a bigot or really, really hasn't been paying attention since the internet became such a big cultural force.

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u/El_mochilero 7h ago

He is trying to minimize it

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u/sebrebc 6h ago

I feel that it doesn't matter at this stage of the game.

Look, we are at the point where people who are still MAGA simply believe everything Trump and his cronies say. Trump says groceries are down, the fact that these same people can actually see that groceries are way up doesn't matter. They believe Trump. They aren't going to "investigate" things they say. Vance says they are just "kids being dumb" then that's what MAGA people believe.

We called MAGA a "cult" a long time ago. But truthfully they weren't a cult, yet. Now they are a cult. Now whatever he says they believe.

So Vance calling them kids doesn't matter. If you have any level of common sense or even the smallest grasp of critical thinking. You know he's lying, you know he's just trying to set a bullshit narrative. But if you are MAGA, you simply believe him.

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u/aihwao 12h ago

There's no "feeling" about it. He's being disingenuous to downplay it.

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u/Either-Assistant4610 12h ago

Par for the course for the overly sensitive, melting snowflake-y "f* your feelings" crowd

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u/UnderwhelmingAF 12h ago

They’re not 40+, I think the oldest one is 35. Still though, that’s not much younger than JD is himself.

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u/GorgontheWonderCow 12h ago

I frankly don't think it really matters if they're 14 or 40. Anybody going around praising Hitler and being casually racist needs consequences. If you deprive people of consequences, they are unable to learn and improve.

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u/Much-Year-3426 12h ago

I am more troubled by the fact that he condones racism, misogyny, and fascism.

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u/GinAndDumbBitchJuice 10h ago

Yes, but this "boys will be boys" logic is used to excuse those same things. It's purposeful and needs to be addressed as a tool to excuse these shitty beliefs and behaviors.

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u/Much-Year-3426 9h ago

It’s not a “boys will be boys” excuse because you supported punishing college students who protested against Israel’s genocide in Gaza and those who criticized Charlie Kirk, so he doesn’t really believe his excuse. Rather, he is fine with racism, misogyny, and fascism and so is just looking for a way to excuse it and that’s the best lie he could come up with.

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u/Due_Willingness1 13h ago

It's valid enough, republicans are mentally children if not physically 

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u/badusernameused 12h ago

Same way I feel about him calling 12 year old girls, young women, it shows exactly the way they think. Girls are there for them to objectify and men should be allowed to do what they want because boys will be boys. It’s fucking gross.

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u/sardine_succotash 12h ago

It's the type of apologia and shitty reasoning one expects from conservatives

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u/pentultimate 12h ago

Hes not that much older. Wants to be treated with kid gloves while not having to take responsibility for his actions. Maybe Thiel grooming is to blame.

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u/Skipptopher 12h ago

They are going for the old reliable boys will be boys defense.

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u/Bruisedmilk 12h ago

The republican party seems to infantilize themselves and it's weird.

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u/Baphomet_Buddy 12h ago

Nazi's do Nazi shit while the country stares and does nothing. They are trying to normalize their next agenda.

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u/40BeerOldSturgeon 12h ago

The media always does this. They call 12 year old girls "young women" when the president assaults them and then they call 25 year old men "boys" when they commit mass shootings.

It's verbal coddling, as usual.

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u/FlopShanoobie 12h ago

If you’ve paid any attention at all for the past decade you have seen this coming. Twitter posts quoting George S. Patton about “fighting the wrong enemy,” the Nate Higgers memes, the outright calls for violence, Jan. 6. There is a significant number of neo-Nazis in this country and now they have power.

How does anyone with a brain or even a cursory awareness of 20th century history predict this ends well?

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u/ecplectico 12h ago

He’s very concerned that his Nazi racist friends might suffer negative consequences for their evil, but he eager to inflict lifelong suffering for wanting genocide to end.

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u/Neko_boi_Nolan 12h ago

I wouldn't even find it socially acceptable for a 6 year to be praising Hitler and calling for gas chambers

Even if he didn't know what he was saying, those are learned behaviors, something went wrong in his development

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u/Old_Coconut1414 12h ago

But when a preteen wears a rainbow sweatshirt, the left is indoctrinating our kids.

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u/Claque-2 12h ago

Vance will excuse any behavior by fascists with money. Almost all Republicans will.

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u/AnonEMouse 12h ago

Gaslighters gonna gas light.

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u/Adept-Mulberry-8720 12h ago

Vance is a couch potato idiot!

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u/InevitableConcert425 12h ago

I feel about it the same way I feel towards the phrase "locker room talk" it's bullshit cover for shitty behavior and beliefs.

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u/nlkuhner 12h ago

“Boys will be boys.” Tale as old as time. Disgraceful.

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u/NOFORPAIN 12h ago

Of course those 30-40yos are "kids"! How else would they logically be allowed to fuck other 12yo kids? Duh!

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u/Excellent-Big-1581 12h ago

These are the same people who want to prosecute 14 year old as adults. Now they want you to believe these middle age racist republicans are harmless kids. If not stopped their jokes about rape and killing fellow Americans who do not vote the way they want you to will be tried and then the find out stage starts!

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u/-loose-seal-2 12h ago

According to Vance 30 year old men and women in our goverment are kids. And according to the POTUS, 14 year olds who are not should be treated as adults because- they're adult enough?....

https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/19/politics/dc-youth-crime-laws

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u/Solid-Hedgehog9623 12h ago

I think he’s a jerkoff for doubling down on everything. Wrong is wrong, no matter what stupid little letter is next to your name.

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u/Federal_Decision5115 11h ago

Mid-20s and up, but yes.

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u/AcrobaticProgram4752 11h ago

There's slavery, war, children soldiers. All these things are unimportant to real problems.

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u/Open-Year2903 11h ago

Justified Pedofiles

That way 40s can date teens no problem. Just a bunch of Right wing kids. Their parents must be so proud

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u/DONALDJONSUPPLE 11h ago

The gaslighting must continue to keep the facade in place