Senior GOP staff warn of 'rabid' young Republican cohort
Not only did they absolutely beg for this, they made it so that “merit” was synonymous with being white so now you’re stuck with precisely the kind of moron who believes that. www.politico.com/news/magazin...
Shaenon K. Garrity657"They want mass deportations, no new wars, and the American worker and family uplifted." In other words, they want classy Nazis, and instead they're getting tacky Nazis. How sad for them.
Silly B Man216This is also why their justices can’t write for shit (and conversely why Jackson’s brilliance shines like the god damn light of Eärendil)
SlugTales113My only disagreement is that he left out "entitled." They're also gifted with an entirely delusional positive self-esteem.
LBJ Again76Seems related to the state department's recent graphic of Africa, in which its creator wasn't aware that the Ivory Coast is a coastal country.
Paul Arzooman57Just looking at this administration, the Republican Party and the associated right wing groups, it's like a society of people simply saying "yes" to whoever is in charge until they can stab them in the back for personal gain.
Pete Davidson48If I recall correctly, this started back in or around the tea party days. I think I read it in @stevebenen.com's book. Republicans in both houses of congress reshaped staff by getting rid of policy staff in favor of PR staff and the shift was drastic. Feels like we've reached the final stage.
Dave Levitan816“Only the dumbest racist dipshits want anything to do with us” is very dark and also very funny
geoffrey64anyone taking even a casual look at young/college republican clubs knew what they were incubating for at least a generation
Sahoni, Official Re(a)d Wolf18Yeah, when you spend decades being the snide white supremacist party and think every brown person is there doesn't deserve it and must be conspiracy you end up with forum chuds, nepo babies, and just plain shallow idiots. Fascism is historically the politics of morons.
𝕋𝕙𝕖 ℍ𝕚𝕤𝕥𝕠𝕣𝕪 𝕠𝕗 ℂ𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕒 ℙ𝕠𝕕𝕔𝕒𝕤𝕥14Classic case of, “ We did it! … Oh no . . .”
Aaron Ross Powell14A month before the election, I wrote about people in DC already warning about the quality of young GOP staffers falling off a cliff, and predicted it would keep getting worse. www.aaronrosspowell.com/3m2znbd5z4k2p
sina13the party of buckley, ailes, and fuentes •______•
Stephanie Allen11“”Five, eight years from now, if we’re reliant on people with this view of the world, we’re in serious trouble.””
Soumya Rangarajan, MD, MPP10“communications staff now outnumber policy staff in certain House and Senate offices — a reflection, they said, of members prioritizing “clicks and clapbacks in the ‘way too online’ X,” which “doesn’t advance the conservative agenda one bit.” FWIW my office has 2 comms and 6 #policy staff with me
Connor, the Healer DM 🔜 TBA9Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty. Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
Zeroisanumber9Feels like anyone who watched Young Republican clubs diving down the manosphere and racism rabbit hole over the last 15-20 years coulda seen this coming.
Yeesh. Amazing quote in this story by Kathy Gilsinan: www.politico.com/news/magazin...
Chrysostom102That’s not fair. The current GOP does not have a generation of rabid incompetent idiots. The current GOP has several generations of rabid incompetent idiots. It’s important to get these things right.
Jason Lee40On the left I've also wondered how things might be different if the Hill paid reasonable wages for experienced professionals, and probably also provided a housing stipend. Imagine if STEM professionals spent some time in DC helping build policy and laws for our electeds.
CRobertBuchanan19Granting anonymity for this kind of shit is anathema to journalism. Some GOP hack wants to launder their fascism by blaming interns and staff and not the Nazis that hire them? So you give them anonymity?
Ghost of Lepa Radić6Building a political party predicated on the belief that an all-powerful wizard picked you and your country above all seems to foster this type of imbecility.
quilterace.bsky.social5From terrible colleges like Liberty and Patrick Henry. They are “ Christian “ white supremacists.
jordancurran.bsky.social5This is absolutely true. I read the books about this administration and I think about the informed expert discussions on complex issues that used to happen when I was a federal executive.
🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾31So what they are saying is that a non diverse , ageist , ideologically uniform group of people is a bad thing If only teh government hadn’t built a way of adjusting for that … thag they destroyed
Steve Schulz17Oh, so they’re saying that recruiting your top government jobs from the school shooter sections of 4chan is actually a BAD thing. Huh.
whet moser12i was told we were building a new meritocratic system
Problematic Otter11Also this is a delightful burn
Mark Histed9And this is related too. Where do “the organizations that bring young [rightwing] staffers to DC” get their money? From the same billionaire class. The “organizations” are often thinktanks. That includes the antiscience thinktanks like Paragon. Billionaire money is crushing the public interest.
Howard Eissenstat9This matches what I see in my students... the latest crop of conservative students are just hopelessly online, hopelessly guided by vibe and ideology, regardless of how smart they may be. The same might be true of my progressive students, but not nearly to the same degree
Tim Byrne9A hilarious admission that you can't actually find intelligent and competent people who have ideologies which accord with Republicans.
J. D.6With apologies and a bit of scorn to Oliver Wendell Holmes II, frankly, one generstion of these rabid, incompetent idiots is enough.
2strong2silence.bsky.social5You could say that about any business. This is why Gen X is exasperated. What the hell is wrong with you young folks? Don’t come at me with all your nonsense. I’ve seen you have meltdowns at changing a damn password.
Marya5It really is astonishing and yet here we are.
Senior Republican congressional staffer on trying to recruit new policy experts: “We have a generation of rabid, incompetent idiots.”
E.J. Fagan279New Heritage staffers are “More MAGA than Trump.”
elia ayoub126At least one of those interviewed is a straight up Nazi, so maybe it was a bad idea for the GOP to actively seek to appeal to Nazis?
Meh Pluribus Unum (Alli) 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈103Politico is using "young Republican talent" for "Nazi youth" here.
Black Eagle Polycule89I got detention in high school once for referring to the young Republicans club as the Hitler youth and refused to apologize. I actually hate how vindicated I am with that.
Tomato Szn84If only there was some kind of lesson about the consequences of sowing and its effect on reaping.
Holden Disperra, #1 Ally of the LGBTQ community65The problem these Heritage ghouls don’t understand is that you don’t need experts for cringe subjects like “Middle East policy” or “Economic development”. The America of the future needs experts in semen retention and skull measuring
Mark Copelovitch116🎼 The Finding Out is the Har…dest…Part 🎶
Ben Ansell76Those of us with some connection to the trend among Republicans twenty-somethings will not find this enormously surprising
New Flesh 🇵🇸 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈29I’m sure it has nothing to do with our decades-long assault on education, devaluing liberal arts, fostering suspicion of expertise, love of quacks, and underfunding schools.
Brooke Harrington26"rabid, incompetent idiots" who think they are God's gift to humanity and violently reject any information to the contrary... It's the arrogance and Dunning-Kruger delusions of grandeur that make them dangerous. Cf: the DOGE boys
emmylou harris's baseball pager 🗽🫱🏿🫲🏻22they're all trying to find the guy who did this
Tom Roberts19Yet to meet a young tory spad whose brain is not visibly dripping out of his ears
M. Belanger12Republican (noun) Willfully ignorant people constantly complaining about problems they themselves have created
Kat4Obama8“'Everyone knows what the problem is: The organizations that bring young staffers to Washington, D.C. have spent the last decade prioritizing blind ideological loyalty instead of competence or intelligence,' said a senior GOP congressional staffer."
Publius Maximus7In 2009, the GOP thought Paul Ryan was an intellectual heavyweight. This is a LONG STANDING PROBLEM in the GOP.
Gregory Hays6Okay, but I think we're entitled to a picture of the senior staffer wearing his hotdog suit.
Party that spent the last decade grooming and funding and encouraging blind nazi ideologues to run for office and government positions : uh oh
ice.cream.assassin35“We have a generation of rabid, incompetent idiots," a GOP congressional staffer from a different generation of incompetent idiots told Politico.
Benj19After the party spent several decades convincing their base that school & higher education is a waste of money, a gateway drug to empathy beyond immediate family, and a denizen of apostasy.
Zig Zag Wanderer13Oh no they’re in serious trouble, what a shame
From where I sit they've been steadily eating the seed corn of being some kind of Burkean conservative in favor of fascist flirtations since the Eisenhower administration, so, excuse me while I play this tiny violin for the swordsmen dying by the sword
"The Epstein Ballroom" at 1600 Brownshirt Ave2these are the type of republicans which sometimes run for office as democrats maybe they don't like trump, but they still like business more than your right to healthcare, clean water or a living wage
Matthew Triponey1Probably some fun to be had looking through the social media profiles of the young adults named in here who are saying "There totally isn't a Nazi problem," if you feel like destroying your mental health for the day.
A.R. Moxon2235The Republican Party has gone full mask-off Nazi; meanwhile the media narrative being pushed 24/7 is “ahhh! Democrats are being taken over by socialist radicals!!” and their terrifying examples are Miss Rachel, a doctor who wants you to have healthcare, and the friendliest mayor in American history.
WhiteRoseAFA35Nazis are taking over the MAGA, who took over the tea party GOP, who took over the Dubya neocons, who took over the old GOP. The new wave of radicals always take over the GOP and the old wave always seems dumbfounded.
Danielle Froom 🏳️🌈24Nazis?? In MY authoritarian fascist white nationalist eugenicist party???
vibe-free lifestyle and smiling apple purveyor16not quite the same, but in some ways feels like a strange right wing mirror image of 90's left-leaning alternative figureheads who seemed poised to transform the cultural landscape but lacked the ability and understanding of how to do so. there's a similar incoherence and suicidal impulse here.
Zeno Loves You 💋 🔜 BLFC15*does everything naz1s want* *gets mad naz1s overwhelmingly support them*
leonel messy queen8Durante más de 20 años estuvieron echándole leña al fuego de chuds impresentables y niños rata con fotos de perfil de lucky star con el Sonnenrad y ahora, AHORA, se dan cuenta que perdieron las riendas del carrito bipartisano que se necesitaba para jalar el proyecto neoliberal
Sinboy [He/His]7"The organizations that bring young staffers to Washington, D.C. have spent the last decade prioritizing blind ideological loyalty instead of competence or intelligence." I have bad news for you about actual elected officials and voters too.
SirFox4When your imposter syndrome is loud... Never ever forget that the people who spent the last two decades cultivating a voting base of violent Nazi extremist shithead idiots... Are shocked, SHOCKED, to find that the up-and-coming generation of Republicans are violent Nazi extremist shithead idiots.
skyler 🌿4real Tim Robinson hot dog man quote right here: "'We have a generation of rabid, incompetent idiots[.] ... The organizations that bring young staffers to Washington, D.C. have spent the last decade prioritizing blind ideological loyalty instead of competence or intelligence.'"
The Dog Days of Ryan3GOP: Wait, so you're saying that my actions.... have... con... what's that word... consequences??
Concern is mounting among high-ranking Republicans that the next generation of conservatives consists primarily of "rabid" "idiot" Nazis, according to a new report.
We F’ing Told You So 🏳️🌈77A better headline: Rabid idiot Nazis begin to reap what they have sewn
Xavier Gonzalez26Oh, sweetie. They're already a bunch of "idiot Nazis".
Plognark17The older ones all believed the same racist nazi shit, they just knew to hide it a tiny bit better.
Jonty Edwards15They have happily fed this monster for ten years.
RN Mayhem12Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.
(╯°□°)╯︵ ∀IW11...as opposed to the reasonable, fact-centered Nazis you were hoping for. 🙄
Pablo Hidalgo39Carl Denham concerned about giant ape in city.
Alyce: Old Media Enthusiast 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🍁15Green Day warned you about this.
A Dead Sinking Rory12(Republican Party spends ~60 years basing their entire strategy on appealing to white supremacy and anti-feminism) “Oh jeez I think we beefed it guys. I think we fucked up.”
Shayna Moon (she/they)8It’s literally exactly like the election plot line in succession, they will ultimately cede their party to the Nazis (they already have) because otherwise they might lose a scrap of privilege or a woman will tell them to wear a mask or something.
Timothy8So nothing new then Republicans utilized the Southern Strategy in the 1960’s, becoming a vehicle for white supremacy, as a way to better win elections. They openly used white supremacy for decades to cater to white southern grievance politics. This is just the Klan getting mad Neo-Nazis are joining
Black.Metronome 🇧🇧 🇧🇲8"We kept blowing the dog whistle but we actually didn't expect the dogs to show up"
burning spirit GUTS... TWO 🍊💅7the next generation? brother theyre in the white house
Leon “Lee” Grayhare6It’s almost like turning your political party into a overtly fascist personality cult was a bad idea
Mags Campbell6"If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed.......and we will deserve it." Lindsey Graham, May 2016 Reap what you sow, motherfuckers.
🔞Mx Wred's haunted brain 🔞5When you do nothing but court abusers, turns out you end up surrounded by bloodthirsty idiots. Congratulations, you taught the leopards to eat faces. They don't care what face they eat so long as they're eating a face.
“We have a generation of rabid, incompetent idiots," a senior GOP congressional staffer said. "The organizations that bring young staffers to Washington, D.C. have spent the last decade prioritizing blind ideological loyalty instead of competence or intelligence." www.rawstory.com/groyper-maga/
Oh look, A PEDOPHILE LOVE FEST! Do Republicans bring their YOUNG DAUGHTERS AND GRANDDAUGHTERS FOR EVENING ACTIVITIES? Wouldn’t put it past them😡😡😡 RELEASE THE DAMN EPSTEIN FILES!!!
Loam2I'm beyond impressed with the diversity in Pedolf's cabinet.
Madannie1Two things about piggy that I find irritating, his hair and his whole being, sits like he's on the POT and his nothing but a fat slug sitting on the pot posture exemplifies what a slug he is.
Ric - POTUS is a pedophile1If that happens it might be thanks to Katie Phang.
