‘The View’: Whoopi Goldberg Has a Message for JD Vance About Young Republicans’ Racist Texts Reaction
The View cohosts had a lot to say about the bombshell Politico report about Young Republican leaders’ leaked texts containing racist, anti-Semitic, and misogynistic screeds, as well as JD Vance‘s attempt to dismiss the severity of the issue.
After reviewing footage of Vance reacting to the release by saying, “Grow up. I’m sorry. Focus on the real issues. Don’t focus on what kids say in group chat. The reality is that kids do stupid things, especially young boys. They tell edgy, offensive jokes, like that’s what kids do, and I really don’t want us to grow up in a country where a kid telling a stupid joke, telling a very offensive, stupid joke, is caused to ruin their lives, and at some point we’re all gonna have to say enough of this B.S.”
Whoopi Goldberg started off the discussion by clarifying, “So just so we’re clear, some of the members in this chat are between the ages of 24 and 35, so they’re not kids… So these are adults. And I have to say, is this the way you want young Republicans represented in this country?”
Alyssa Farah Griffin was the first to answer by saying, “No,” and revealing that she was once in leadership for a similar group and would have fired anyone saying similar things before adding, “I think that speaks to two things. There is a dark underbelly in our politics that has allowed racism, it’s allowed hate, it’s allowed misogyny, and we’ve just kind of normalized it on the right, and there’s not enough folks who are willing to just call it out for what it is. And then secondarily, there is this crisis of young men. This is almost universally Young Men of a Certain Age. I don’t want to stereotype them, but they don’t look like guys who have a lot of friends, who are have girlfriends, have intimate relationships. I don’t mean this to be mean, but the facts speak for themselves. If you don’t have community, and you live online, mostly, you can be radicalized to hate people you don’t engage with, people you don’t have empathy for people. It’s very scary, and leaders need to wake up to it.”
Joy Behar then piped in with a timely joke, saying, “We’ve said this on the show that the frontal lobe does not get developed until you’re 25. What’s Trump’s excuse?” She then had a more serious tone and said, “The Republican Party needs to deal with this. They need to find their better selves, find their better angels.”
Sunny Hostin, for one, was ready to play the told ya so game. “I hate to say it, but I’m not surprised that that chat exists… They checked every white supremacist bigot box. They were antisemitic, they were misogynistic, they were homophobic, they were racist. It was stupid. They were dumb. But my lived experience as an afrolatina in this country helps me tell the uncomfortable truth about this country with real clarity, and that’s why I wasn’t surprised. And I think many people would like to deny that lived experience. I’ll say it again, because I’ve said it on the show many times. Trump’s rise, in part, was based in racism and white supremacy. Remember, those of us who said that, when I said that, and those of my friends that said that, were accused of hyperbole and racism ourselves. I wish that wasn’t true, but it is true. And when I say things like that, when I say that white supremacy is thriving on the right, when I say the future of the Republican Party embraces white supremacy, please believe me the first time, and only look at this chat as your proof that it is alive and well in the Republican party.”
Haines also criticized the VP for his reaction, saying, “I think it’s dangerous that JD Vance would conflate sophomoric, immature behavior with pernicious, vile, unacceptable [words].”
When Griffin then tried to deflect by pointing to the leaked messages of a Democratic office candidate who reportedly ideated violence against Republicans, Goldberg brought the issue back to the beginning.
“Here’s the bigger problem. If you can’t admit that there is a problem at all, this is part of the reason why women and gay folks and folks of a different hue get so angry. It’s because the vice president isn’t denouncing this. He is a man who is married to an Indian woman… And I want to say to him, if you read these, JD, would you be comfortable saying to your wife, get over it or calling it a joke, or calling it not funny? It’s not. There’s nothing funny about this. And let me just say one more thing, because people need to remember, a lot of those jokes went away because the people they were being made about did not like them and stopped going to see the people who were telling? When you recognize that your audience is diminishing, you’ve got to look at your material, and if your material is bad, it’s telling you go taller, do better.”
“Since when is racism, antisemitism, bigotry, homophobia, funny?” Hostin pondered.
“It never was,” Haines answered.
“It wasn’t funny for years to people,” Goldberg agreed.
When Haines then noted that one of the people involved in the texts issued an apology, Goldberg said it was “too late” and added, “When you get caught doing something, when you get caught with your pants down, the thing is not to explain why your pants are down, the thing is to pull your pants up.”
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The View panel should read “The Taster” by V. S. Alexander and note the similarities between our current officials and the Nazi regime. When our current leader condones hatred by saying what he does about those that disagree with him. It is somewhat understandable why these young republicans think the way they are.
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Yeah Uh Huh. You probably know the Liberal Dem Playbook that’s at the very core of the Dem party word for word. Saul Alinsky’s: Rules For Radicals:A Pragmatic Primer. At the end he gives Satan credit and appreciation for being the best Rebel of them all. Hillary Clinton did her college thesis on it and said it was the best book she’d ever read with life changing principals. We See ANTIFA, We See Radical Liberal Dem Judges trying to Create Law instead of Interpreting it as they are supposed to, We See the Communist Mandami and Sanders and the Squad who fully supports him. And We See how Chuck Schumer has shut the govt. down because Republicans refuse to give Illegal Immigrants Free healthcare. The Lib Democrat Party and their supporters are the single most dangerous element to our Democratic REPUBLIC not Democracy as is often Wrongly cited by Lib Dems, on purpose I believe. And we will fight it peacefully at the Ballot Box. Even with Lib Dems sending out Flawed Mail in ballots in CA. And setting fire to and even stealing drop in boxes in the last election. And Illegal Immigrants voting. We Still Won !! And we’ll Win again because Light always prevails over darkness !! Thank God !!
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Vance's response ("it's just boys being stupid") is just like when trumpty-dumpty called his admission of s3xual assault just "locker room talk." Both descriptions were pitiful and inadequate (like the ones speaking them). And to go the "what-about" route, with the Democratic guy.... NOBODY is saying that his comments were OK. It's very possible to state that BOTH things are wrong and heinous.
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Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me. Don’t know who came up with that sentiment but it’s very Wrong !! Words DO hurt. And these Young Republicans should be Extremely Ashamed that is those who participated. And they Need to as best they possibly can offer a Very sincere apology. Though that won’t fix things. The hurt will still be there. But at least they used Words and though Still very wrong that’s not as bad as the Sticks and stones and bricks and fireworks and bottles of battery acid and all manner of dangerous things that BLM and now ANTIFA hurls at our law enforcement AND anyone who disagrees with them. Not to mention they have and will pounced on people they greatly out number and beat them half to death. So I’ll take the ugly words hurled at me any day over that. It’s just so strange you Never hear MSN media and news condemn these people’s actions but they readily pounce when it’s a conservative. Funny how that works.
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Someone online said this recently—don’t know if it’s a famous quote or cliche—if they get you to believe absurdities and lies, they can get you to commit atrocities. True!
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Guy believed the leftist rhetoric he shot and killed Charlie Kirk Unhinged people are like that.
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I agree with the ladies this type of bigotry and racism is not to be tolerated. It is not funny and politics is run by a whole lot of racism and their leader is in the white house and should be removed. Anyone that goes along with this racism is just as bad as the person who is doing it.
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I’m Hoping I’ve made a new friend here that is on the total opposite political spectrum than myself so these are comments are more for her than anyone else though Anyone is free to read and think on them. Things Dems Support: DEI- Where a person gets a job or promotions based on meeting certain Preferences like Gender, Race, Sexual Orientation. Instead of having skills, education, experience or all three to do the job or deserve a promotion. That’s just So wrong. There’s no real way to reason that into being right. CRT that they ( Dems) want to teach to little children. Making children secretly hate each other due to race. And/Or laying Shame and Guilt trips on little children for things that were years and years before they were born and are Not responsible for. Trans- Saying that if someone “ identifies” as something then they ARE whatever they want to identify as. This is based on the age old basis of If it feels good, Do it and it’s all OK. That’s So wrong. And NO no one is Born that way. Open Borders-A nation without defined borders is not Really a Nation only an open territory. Free Benefits for anyone and everyone. There is No Such Thing as Free !! Someone is Paying for it !! Tax the Billionaires Much More. Sounds great on the surface. But it’s fatally flawed !! If we raised taxes by a HUGE 75% it’d only be enough to fund the govt. At The Very Best 5 months !! But the Billionaires won’t do that anyway. They’ll just close their businesses Lay Off Millions of Americans
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As I was saying the Billionaires will just Lay Off Millions of Americans and take their wealth to foreign countries. As Many DID during Biden. No the Vast majority of Tax $$ comes from Working Americans and/or those ( Like Me and My Wife) worked for years and years and were Finally able to retire to a No Frills lifestyle. But We’re very Thankful for All the Lord has blessed us with so don’t want to complain. Today’s Democrats are Not even close to the President JFK Democrats, that Great President who said: Ask NOT what you’re country can do for you, but what YOU can do for you’re country. For the record I don’t agree with everything that comes out of President Trump’s mouth but for the last about 16+ years he’s been the best to pick from though he lost some. Todays GOP is Not Reagan either But they much more resemble the America I believe in than the Dems because of those things I cited there were More but I think I made my point. Think About It. China Hopes we’ll Fail from within then They can swoop in !! Many of them are Already here. I’m speaking of the Communist version Not All Chinese.
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Whoopi and the zoo crew very quick to forgive Jay Jones for HIS violent rhetoric But say To Late for these young men saying Stupid stuff. But it’s The View ( Hypocrites) so it figures. 🙄
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I don’t think you’re right about their Jay Jones comments.
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They didn’t condemn him that I saw. Seems they accepted his apologies. But for those guys that said Stupid and Hateful things. Which they Should be ashamed. When They tried to offer apologies Whoopi said “ To Late”. Do you see that as fair ? For the record you seem like a nice person. I Do appreciate your Civility. But Please for you’re Sake, for you’re family and friends, for the country you and they Live in. You better Know beyond the shadow of Any doubt that What and Who you are supporting is the Right path !! This country is Very close I believe to splitting right down the middle IF that happens China will Love it !! And they’ll take this country from Within and make ALL of us slaves. And they’re not gonna care at all which political party or if you didn’t support Any political party. They will Take this country and All its resources including its citizens !! We simply Don’t Know how many Illegal Immigrants entered this country during Biden. There’s an estimated 10 million they Think they know about but No Idea of how many got aways. Stop and Think about the possibilities of that !! I’m an Old veteran I Love my country and just like in my youth Still willing to Die to defend it and its Legal American citizens Regardless of political ideologies. But we are in a very dangerous zone and NO it’s Not Trump’s fault. Best wishes to you.
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Sunny Hostin is So laughable but in a perverted way. She oozes racism herself ( so does Whoopi) but as the Hypocrites they are they quickly call others on it. Neither of these wonderful ladies have ever said or done Anything wrong in their lives. Uh Huh. Sure. Right. Where was Whoopi who proclaimed herself a black Jew for years and years during the War of Israel vs Five different enemies ? She was on the view bashing Israel and Netanyahu and especially Trump. Her and her fellow cronies Hostin, Behar, Navarro, Haines and the crew. I Love how only white people can be racist!! Uh Huh Yeah Right Sure Sure. I guess they want to enroll all white people into the heavily racist CRT program. Hypocrites !!
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But BLM ( Lib Dems) and just as racist as can be are exempt. Not surprised. And ANTIFA (Lib Dems) also exempt. These young Republicans used Stupid and Hateful words. And they were Very Wrong to do that and it’s Good to call them out on it. Still it doesn’t mean All or even Most Young Republicans took part in it. The “ladies” of the view stated the first thing that must be done is Acknowledge the problem. But that didn’t happen with quite a large segment of BLM destroying property, assaulting law enforcement and innocent bystanders and the obligatory looting. Exact same thing with ANTIFA. Biden call ANTIFA “an idea”. Well that “idea” has hands, feet, and the rest of the human body and they Attack and Destroy. The phony No Kings Day #2 will take place this Saturday. I won’t be even a tad surprised if violence and destruction take place. But the largely Lib Dem Owned MSM and Lib Dem politicians will faithfully down play it as “ only a handful but Mainly peaceful protestors”. So the best word to apply to these “ ladies” is Hypocrite because they are the very definition of that.
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I know a few dozen people going, and all are great, happy people who have no intention of causing trouble. Maybe you need to get out a little more and meet real people who are not happy with what’s going on—you might be surprised to hear that many Republicans have issues too with this government taking apart our constitution and 1st amendment.
You are trying to speak for antifa when in fact there is no centralized organization or leader to it, and they don’t put out statements of their beliefs, so you really have no basis for saying they think this or that. You don’t know and neither do I. It’s hard to know if they’ve even been at a protest, no one I know who is going is antifa. Just ordinary people who love their country and don’t want to see it fall apart. The best time to stop a dictatorship is before it happens.
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Remember what YOU said in your previous comment ? Someone on the internet SAID. And you don’t know about how often I get out. Nor do you know about how much information I have access to that does not come from the internet. Just because people like you and you’re political call our President a dictator doesn’t mean it’s even vaguely true. Just like the left calling him and those of us who voted Nazis and Fascists. Had you watched FOX you’d have seen where the last “ peaceful protest” was Far from that in LA. And No it wasn’t just a small isolated incident as Liberal MSM tried to gaslight less gullible people into believing.. No one in the current admin is trying to “ tear apart” the Constitution and/or take away your freedom of speech. All that is typical leftist rhetoric. And Much more Dems have left That party than have left the GOP. Do you Honestly want to become a Slave to Communist China ? If the Lib Dems continue to destroy our country from within that’s what you will face. MSM rarely shows Anything that might be negative of the Left. But Anything and Everything they can about Trump and the GOP they think might make him and them look bad. I’m one of Three Brothers that served in our country’s military. Do you think I’d Knowingly support a Dictator ? Do you think me and my brothers appreciate being called Nazis and Fascists ? I lost my best friend and less than a month later another friend and Almost my own life Twice in service to my country. You think I don’t Love it ?
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