Just Boys Being Boys

 Last week, a group of Young Republicans had their texting chats exposed.

You know, just innocuous stuff involving...

• Mayonnaise
• Pumpkin spice 
• Trader Joe's
• Cargo shorts 
• How Hitler is awesome.

You know, normal white people stuff.

What who is what when now?

Yep, a Young Republican expressed how much they love Hitler.

The chat also included rampant racism, misogyny, anti-semitism, homophobia, so forth and so on, yada yada yada.

Well, it's descipicable shit to be sure but just an unfortunate example of the good ol' freedom of speech that Republicans love (until several million people gather in cities to protest Republican fuckery and well, buster, you're asking for a beat down!) 

Then J. D. Vance waded in with a defense: it was just boys being boys.

Well, that seems like a perfectly valid defense.

It worked well enough for Donald Trump all the time at Jeffrey Epstein's parties.

(Ooh! Did I go there again? Yaz, queen, I did!)  

A few things of note:

• The Young Republicans have a minimum age of 18 to join. That may be young but these are not boys.
• Some of these "Young" Republicans range in age up to the 40's.
• And some of these jackasses are actual elected officials serving in the American government. You know the American government that is supposed to be there for all it's citizens, not just straight white bros.  

Meanwhile, there was the kerfluffel of the Republican Congressional staffer on a zoom call with an American flag pinned up behind him.

Er, what's wrong with the that?

The red stripes were configured into a swastika.  

Rep. Dave Taylor (R-Ohio) offered this explanation:

“Numerous Republican offices have confirmed that they were targeted by an unidentified group or individual who distributed American flags bearing a similar symbol, which were initially indistinguishable from an ordinary American flag to the naked eye. My office was among those that were subjected to this ruse.”

A ruse, eh?

So just boys being boys, I guess?