‘If we ever had a leak of this chat we would be cooked’: 7 months of shocking private messages among rising GOP leaders

The Young Republicans have found the best way to help this whole thing blow over.

Young Republicans chapter plans to host far-right German leader after ‘I love Hitler’ chat​

A New York City-based Republican club will honor a far-right German leader at its annual gala — just eight weeks after its statewide counterpart was disbanded over a group chat in which members praised Adolf Hitler.

The city-based New York Young Republican Club’s gala will recognize Markus Frohnmaier, a political leader from the Alternative for Germany party.

Months before his visit, the club appeared to play up the party’s controversial place in German politics. In August, it published a statement calling for a “new civic order” in Germany and declaring “AfD über alles,” an adaptation of a phrase associated with the Nazi party.

Germany’s Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, the country’s domestic intelligence agency, has labeled the AfD extremist, alleging the party holds an ethnic, racial conception of the German people that violates core tenets of the country’s democratic order.

Frohnmaier, the deputy chair of AfD’s parliamentary group, will be an “honored guest” at the club’s Dec. 13 gala, which will also feature GOP Reps. Andy Ogles, Mike Collins and William Timmons, according to the group’s website.

“It’s deeply concerning that the New York Young Republican Club is planning to honor a regional co-chair of the far-right extremist AfD party at their upcoming gala,” Todd Gutnick, a spokesperson for the Anti-Defamation League, said in a statement. “The German AfD party has a disturbing history that includes antisemitic and xenophobic rhetoric. AfD has embraced the antisemitic ‘Great Replacement’ conspiracy, and its current leader, Alice Weidel, has denounced Germany’s dedication to Holocaust remembrance as a ‘guilt cult.’”

“AfD doesn’t only push in anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim ideas and policies, but they have used tactics straight from Germany’s Nazi-era — including antisemitic actions by its members and use of Nazi slogans,” Seth Levi, the [SPLC] chief strategy officer, said in a statement.

Frohnmaier also responded to POLITICO with a statement, saying, “I categorically reject the claim that we use antisemitic or xenophobic rhetoric.”

Three years before this scandal, there was a very similar one with the Young Republicans of North Dakota. Fortunately for them, the YR live in a consequence-free environment.

A Forgotten Young Republicans Scandal Shows How Hard It Is for Party Elders to Control Young Troops​

The 2022 group chat with bigoted messages led to few consequences.

In retrospect, Port said, the 2022 scandal and its aftermath show that the conservative youth movement is working exactly as designed: The norms that first develop in Young Republican group chats gradually become the reigning attitudes the GOP. “This is the culture that we’re living though right now,” Port said. “People are so locked into their partisan teams that ‘accountability’ looks like giving in to the other side.”

“People are so locked into their partisan teams that ‘accountability’ looks like giving in to the other side.”

That seems especially true for this administration. People on the right seem afraid to criticize in any way, lest they be seen agreeing with the opposition. Can’t have that.

Much easier to stick one’s head in the sand.

GoldenBoy89 said:

“People are so locked into their partisan teams that ‘accountability’ looks like giving in to the other side.”

That seems especially true for this administration. People on the right seem afraid to criticize in any way, lest they be seen agreeing with the opposition. Can’t have that.

Much easier to stick one’s head in the sand.

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So true!

It’s fine to hold reprehensible views if you never aire them! —Oscar Wilde, (probably)

Are we missing the elephant in the room.

Someone accessed PRIVATE messages, went through 2900 pages of messaging to come up with the crux of this thread.

And no matter be sees an issues with it?

Let’s do the same systemwide

Start with Chuck Schumer. Let’s publish all his private messages.

If you object. Why?

Always in His Presence said:

Are we missing the elephant in the room.

Someone accessed PRIVATE messages, went through 2900 pages of messaging to come up with the crux of this thread.

And no matter be sees an issues with it?

Let’s do the same systemwide

Start with Chuck Schumer. Let’s publish all his private messages.

If you object. Why?

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Yeah, why focus on what we know was said when we could postulate on what the Dems could maybe be saying in their group chats.

Always in His Presence said:

Someone accessed PRIVATE messages

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Nobody 'accessed' them. Like bombing plans for the Houthis, they were shared with someone, who shared them further.

Always in His Presence said:

Are we missing the elephant in the room.

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There is a lot of racists and bigots in the young republicans? That's the elephant I keep seeing from this.

Always in His Presence said:

Someone accessed PRIVATE messages, went through 2900 pages of messaging to come up with the crux of this thread.

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As noted by @essentialsaltes these were not hacked, but *LEAKED* by someone who was on the chat.

Always in His Presence said:

And no matter be sees an issues with it?

Let’s do the same systemwide

Start with Chuck Schumer. Let’s publish all his private messages.

If you object. Why?

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Private messages of politicians have been leaked before, my only concern would be if they were hacked or something like that.

Always in His Presence said:

Are we missing the elephant in the room.

Someone accessed PRIVATE messages, went through 2900 pages of messaging to come up with the crux of this thread.

And no matter be sees an issues with it?

Let’s do the same systemwide

Start with Chuck Schumer. Let’s publish all his private messages.

If you object. Why?

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This reminds me of an ancient joke:

What’re you doing in the middle of the street?
I lost a quarter! (This tidbit ought to age the joke nicely)
So you lost a quarter in the street?
No, I lost it behind the couch but the light is better here!

Pommer said:

This reminds me of an ancient joke:

What’re you doing in the middle of the street?
I lost a quarter! (This tidbit ought to age the joke nicely)
So you lost a quarter in the street?
No, I lost it behind the couch but the light is better here!

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Reminds me of an old joke about a cop finding a dead horse on Kosciuszko Street.

-- A2SG, remember it from Abbott and Costello, but it's probably older....