In a bombshell story that came out on Politico just a couple of hours ago, apparently a group chat among leaders of the national Young Republican organization has been disclosed which paints several of them in an unfavorable light:
Leaders of Young Republican groups throughout the country worried what would happen if their Telegram chat ever got leaked, but they kept typing anyway.
They referred to Black people as monkeys and “the watermelon people” and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies and driving them to suicide and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.
and..
The group chat members spoke freely about the pressure to cow to Trump to avoid being called a RINO, the love of Nazis within their party’s right wing and the president’s alleged work to suppress documents related to wealthy financier Jeffrey Epstein’s child sex crimes.
and..
Mixed into formal conversations about whipping votes, social media strategy and logistics, the members of the chat slung around an array of slurs — which POLITICO is republishing to show how they spoke. Epithets like “f—-t,” “retarded” and “n–ga” appeared more than 251 times combined.
That’s kind of ironic, considering the earlier post below involving Minnehaha County Commissioner Cole Heisey declaring Native American Day “as a mistake.”
And let’s not forget some of his prior issues, such as taking the stage with the Proud Boys. Among other things:
I note it, because just like the people who are the focus of the Politico article, Cole Heisey is chairman of the South Dakota Young Republicans. And Vice-chair of the group? State Representative Logan Manhart, who had his own controversy over racially tinged comments that went national a few months back:
I can’t help but wonder out loud if South Dakota’s Young Republican leadership participated in the sometimes racist chats of the group being cited in the article. Which makes me think that the group has gone downhill quite a bit since my time as Chairman over 2 decades ago.
We were glad to be able to get enough people together for a meeting at the time. Now? I find myself at times repulsed that they think that people like this think they might be the next generation of Republican leaders.
But considering the quality of who is in charge, and the kind of rhetoric which passes as acceptable.. maybe it would be ok for it to go back to being dormant for a while? At least until such a time when adults can be in charge of the group, and it’s more about getting Republicans elected than this kind of trash.
Absolutely disgusting. Completely unacceptable.
I quit the GOP the instant the Trump family put themselves in the leadership. A party has something for all the partisans – anything involving Trump only kicks everything upstairs to Trump. Anyone who didn’t quit when Trump took over, I have no sympathy for. You’re using his lust for power to leverage your own little ambitions. There is no larger moral movement at play in the GOP in this era, no great improvement to continue the great work of previous generations. There’s just a series of effective lies for the moment, while Trump tariff-taxes us into a shriveled husk.
We have to eradicate the Trump stranglehold on the GOP by leaving the party in droves, and bringing true fear to the GOP officeholders currently avoiding and abdicating their duties to support Trump. I don’t see another path back to freedom.
oh boo hoo
If you can’t act now, can’t get out to pull power from Trump, don’t complain later. Don’t say “I didn’t know.”
I am trying to figure out what freedoms you think we’re losing here
“I took away the freedom of speech” – Donald Trump
Now, throw in the hatch act violations, military in the streets allowed to profile and demand papers, people disappearing, the complete dismantling of checks and balances while the courts do nothing. 20 billion to Argentina. Failed trade wars making farmers into welfare queens. There isnt a single positive economic indicator right now. So much winning.
Now, post a link so we can all hear the quote in full context. Something you libs love to withhold since it defeats your political agenda.
As a South Dakota Catholic School System Grad I am disgusted by the behavior and extremely offensive comments by Cole Heisey! Did he skip out of classes physically, mentally of blow them off at to the teachings and history of the Catholic Church especially in South Dakota? Our teachers covered the positives and went over the tragic history and mistakes made. The arrogance and ignorance of this young man is shocking!
As a fellow young Republican, and friend of both these young men, I want to clarify where the average young conservative stands, or should stand if we tailor our message correctly.
Firstly, I disagree with Cole about renaming Native Americans Day.
Native Americans did more for us than Colombus did, and Colombus’ ill-documented evil far outweighs his well-documented ‘good intentions’. The same can not be said about Native Americans without a bit of venom left on the tongue.
On an anecdotal level, I can’t imagine caring enough about Colombus Day being renamed to Native Americans day to even say something about it unless I had some underlying animus toward Natives, or a massive crush on Colombus, the latter sentiment being of one I have never felt from anyone on the right or left.
For Logan’s #WhiteBoySummer comments, I give him a pass simply because it’s a meme among niche rightwing/Libertarian groups intended to trigger leftist race warriors.
I DO hope, however, that we are all on the same page about being Christian Nationalists – NOT White Christian Nationalists. There is ZERO elbow room for racism at any capacity in South Dakota politics. White people are not “a” people, we are individuals tasked with empowering other individuals to pursue happiness and create order of a world filled with chaos.
My skin may be white, but I will NEVER identify as a white ____, and neither will this state or our party. We are Christian first, American second, for our rights derive from God himself on no basis of race, environment, or nature, but from the nature of our breathing souls as children, all created equal. Each man should be empowered to be a nation unto himself, and the ruler of his domain. This is how our forefathers intended it, for all men.
You may want to retake your Jr High, High School and College Government classes. This isn’t a country built on Christianity and our Framers were quite clear about that all through history. Just because you identify as a “Christian Nationalist” doesn’t mean this country was built on that pillar.
The 1797 Treaty of Tripoli, initiated under President George Washington and signed by President John Adams, explicitly states, “the Government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion”.
“ When fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.” – Sinclair Lewis
Do you see the problem here with your interpretation? You are talking about fascism not the founding of America.
Oh yee of little education.
Article 11 of the 1797 Treaty of Tripoli sums it up for my argument.
As a republican myself, and a Christian, It’s sad to see today “GOP” try to erase history. When I served in office, at numerous levels, numerous times; we looked back at history and made sure the mistakes made before would never be made again. We made damn sure that we represented ALL people, even those that didnt vote for us. We made sure we understood everyday, that we work for the people, even those that voted for other person. And we got along with the other side, we didnt try to makeup new rules or laws to try and erase them. We did our job, and did it damn well.
Soon, the actual GOP will regain the power, work across party lines, care for everyone, work to regain the trust of all people, and finally rid this nonsense the current GOP leaders spew of hate, anger and lies.
Or it won’t. The Whigs stood for something until they didn’t. They got replaced and erased.
I thought Logan was just a big Foreigner fan.
Great more race war stuff.
I thought we were constitutional and pro-free speech?
Another Doedite.
You are free to be racist. We are free to trash you for being racist. That’s how free speech works, you utter dingus.
Hmmm… I wonder who their national role model and inspiration is? Could it possibly be the guy who currently resides in the White House? The guy who still claims he won in 2020 and is scheming to run again in 2028? The guy who built the foundation of his political career on a racist lie about Barack Obama’s birthplace and citizenship – while you all chuckled and smirked and played right along and didn’t call him out? The guy who wouldn’t recognize the truth if it hit him in the head? The guy who every single current Republican officeholder in this state sucks up to ceaselessly in their desperate bids to get re-elected? Yep. That’s the guy. Hope you’re enjoying what he hath wrought in my former party and across this land of ours.
Quit the GOP, as many of you who can hear the warning bell, quit / register elsewhere ASAP. NOW. This party must pay a price, must fall, must atone for their easy landslide of lies trying to bury us all quickly.
The decline of the trump gop continues.
This is the type of people the GOP is courting so this absolutely tracks.
My son was invited by a friend to TAR camp this summer. We are a conservative family and raised conservative but even he recognizes the trajectory plot politics in SD and he and we as a family chose not to send him. I always thought a 3rd party was a 3-4 generations off but feel it may be closer than that on the horizon.
“If your pilot is a she and she looks ten shades darker than someone from Sicily, just end it there. Scream the no no word,” Giunta wrote.
Hmm that’s pretty similar to a comment another guy made about pilots with dark skin…
Careful, they want to celebrate his birthday and name schools after him.
It’s not similar, it’s the same.
It’s a feature of the Nixon southern strategy, not a bug.
These guys need to break off and form the white nationalist party. Get the F out of the GOP.
You have it backwards, this is the GOP now.
Yeah, the gop decided selling out of the klan was less reprehensible than reaching out to court liberals, so here we are.
GOP “leadership” has failed so badly they can’t even steer their own ship these days.
Yes. Leave now. Free yourself to free others.
I am a life long republican, a Reagan Republican if you will. I don’t recognize this radical Republican Party in SD right now. It is embarrassing.
I hope the young republicans that said these things can be identified and removed.