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"IDK who needs to hear this, but a consensual gangbang is not a rape": Nancy Mace posts it, and the reply section answers

On the night of October 8, 2026, Rep. Nancy Mace posted on X: 'IDK who needs to hear this, but a consensual gangbang is not a rape.' Most replies read it as a comment on the Cornell Chi Phi lawsuit. The reply section answered with a wave of 'I defer to your expertise' and 'speaking from experience' jokes. On her first recorded call with Ali Berg, in April 2024, Mace told Berg, who said she had no memory of the night, 'There's no way in hell you consented to it based on what I saw.' Her own words, side by side.

"IDK who needs to hear this, but a consensual gangbang is not a rape": Nancy Mace posts it, and the reply section answers

At 9:19 PM on October 8, 2026, Rep. Nancy Mace posted this on X:

Nancy Mace's October 8, 2026 post on X: "IDK who needs to hear this, but a consensual gangbang is not a rape." The post, captured logged out the next morning. X marks it "Last edited." By then it showed about 669,000 views and 1,300 replies.

Her post does not name a case. It went up as the Cornell fraternity lawsuit was in the national news, and most replies read it as being about that case. As the Associated Press reported on October 3, a woman identified in court papers as Jane Doe has sued Cornell University and seven former students, alleging she was given ketamine and assaulted at the Chi Phi fraternity house in October 2024. The men deny wrongdoing. No one has been charged. The Tompkins County district attorney declined to file charges, and Gov. Kathy Hochul then named New York Attorney General Letitia James special prosecutor for a renewed criminal investigation. Those allegations are unproven.

Her own words, two years apart

Mace has talked about consent before, on tape. On April 6, 2024, she placed a call of about 44 minutes to Alexis "Ali" Berg, a former employee of the company of Mace's ex-fiancé. FITSNews published the full audio on June 7, 2026. Every line below is verbatim from that public audio, with the time it is said.

Side by side: Mace on the April 6, 2024 call, "There's no way in hell you consented to it based on what I saw. None, zero," and her October 8, 2026 post on X Left: a line Mace speaks to Berg on the recorded call (FITSNews audio, 28:10), set beside her official House portrait. Right: her October 8, 2026 post, captured from X.

On the call, April 6, 2024:

  • 17:41, Mace: "I believe you were assaulted, and I, and I believe that he filmed it, and, um, you were passed out from what I could tell."
  • 18:06, Mace: "I've been a victim. I do a lot of advocacy work for rape victims. I'm rewriting law."
  • 18:19, Berg: "Can you, can you tell me what you mean by assaulted?"
  • 18:23, Mace: "You appear to be passed out on the couch at one point. Um, and he had photos of you passed out on the couch. Um, but then there's a video."
  • 18:36, Berg: "Oh my God."
  • 21:17, Berg: "Like, honestly, I have no memory of any of that. I told you what I remember."
  • 23:41, Mace: "I've survived a rape at 16."
  • 28:10, Mace: "There's no way in hell you consented to it based on what I saw. None, zero."

On X, October 8, 2026:

  • "IDK who needs to hear this, but a consensual gangbang is not a rape."

On the call, Mace told a woman who said she had no memory of the night that she believed she had been assaulted, and that there was "no way in hell" she had consented, "based on what I saw." On X, about a case she is not part of and a night she did not see, Mace posted that a consensual gangbang is not a rape. Her post states a general rule; it does not say what happened at Cornell. Readers can judge the two side by side.

The assault Mace describes on the call is her allegation. It is unproven and contested, and the people she names deny it. What each side has filed is public: Bryant's December 22, 2025 opposition in Berg v. Bryant says on page 5 that a "scheme to extort money from her former fiancé" is "on full display in the April 2024 recording" (the filing), and Mace's December 19, 2025 answer says on page 10, "Mace denies that any conspiracy existed or that Berg was targeted" (the filing). No court has ruled on either.

The record she brings to the word

Mace has made her own account of rape a public part of her career, in her own words:

  • April 24, 2019, South Carolina House: "For some of us who have been raped, it can take 25 years to get up the courage and talk about being a victim of rape." (dispatch)
  • November 19, 2024: "I'm a victim of abuse myself. I'm a rape survivor." (dispatch)
  • February 10, 2025, House floor: "Mr. Speaker I rise today ready to call out the cowards who think they can prey on women and get away with it." (dispatch)
  • September 2026, to Tara Palmeri: "I don't know that I would recommend women come forward, because you're not going to get what you seek out of it." (dispatch)
  • September 2026, to Tara Palmeri: "I think Tara, it's really ugly to rape shame a woman for her political choices." (dispatch)

The reply section

Then there are the replies. More than 1,300 of them came in overnight, and a large share took the same two routes.

The "I defer to your expertise" wave

Four replies: "I defer to your expertise on these matters," "I defer to your substantial expertise in these matters," "i will defer to your many gangbangs as evidence you know what you're talking about," and "I'll defer to you on gangbangs" Four replies, captured logged out. Crémieux's drew about 1,000 likes, the most of any reply that morning.

  • @cremieuxrecueil: "I defer to your expertise on these matters."
  • @icemanpls: "I defer to your substantial expertise in these matters…"
  • @awareness_tiger: "i will defer to your many gangbangs as evidence you know what you're talking about"
  • @JustElliot2: "I'll defer to you on gangbangs"
  • @tonybalogna: "I trust your expert testimony"
  • @bkp6908: "The expert has weighed in"
  • @0tChomp: "Expert testimony right here, fellas."

The "speaking from experience" wave

Four replies: "Speaking from experience, Madam?", "Speaking from experience, Nancy?", "Speaking from experience eh?", and "When the voice of experience speaks, I sit my ass down and listen." The same question, asked dozens of times. Captured logged out.

The one-liners

Five replies: "I'm confused...is this an invite?", "i for a second read it 'congressional gang bang'", the sticky note on the work laptop, "Come back to my dorm after the COCKS game?", and the podcast title Captured logged out.

Five more replies: Type O Negative, "a fundamental human right," Nancy Grace, the coma patient, and the "last edited" question Captured logged out.

  • @birddog171: "I'm confused...is this an invite?"
  • @eatyourpopsicle: "i for a second read it “congressional gang bang”"
  • @Cash_Nicholson: "Thank you for this Nancy. I will be writing this on a sticky note on the keyboard of my work laptop to make sure I don't forget"
  • @GL_golfwell: "Come back to my dorm after the COCKS game?"
  • @BobbyNSteve1: "“Consensual gangbang” would be a great title for the podcast"
  • @FormerlyKnownWW: "Consensual Gangbang would've been a great Type O Negative song"
  • @LizzyStarrrdust: "consensual gangbangs are a fundamental human right."
  • @whereisBarnesy: "I'm shocked that Nancy Grace decided to chime in on a story about a gangbang"
  • @JOBGUAL: "A coma patient just woke up with no knowledge of what's going on the last 30 days and reading this?"
  • @DavidMilliken: "“last edited” did you accidentally put a space between gang and bang when you first typed it and then realized, wait it was one word when I put it my dating profile."
  • @DerekMondelli: "When are the invitations going out Nancy?"
  • @tommyborumjokes: "Can ya open the DMs so media invites can go in there?"
  • @Netsultants: "Mark me down for not needing to hear it...."
  • @ThisReallySean: "Well, I didn't need to hear it."
  • @BuggySimulation: "IDK who needs to hear this, but I bet Nancy Mace knows a lot about consensual gangbangs."
  • @Disciple4Lif: "IDK who needs to hear this, but this is evil."
  • @RichCarlsen: "Shouldn't you be sending out job applications?"

The jokes are the repliers' own. Each is quoted as posted and credited to its author.

Replies that go to the record

Not every reply was a joke. Some asked who gets to decide consent, which is the question her own call raises.

Five replies: Kim Iversen, "So you're judge and jury," "And you decided this is the case how?", "How do you know it was consensual?", and "You weren't there. You don't know what happened." Replies on who decides consent. Captured logged out.

  • @FranklySpeakP: "Can anyone tell me the context here?"
  • @KimIversenShow (Kim Iversen): "Unless you consent to every single individual partner, it actually is."
  • @Karen9915341154: "So you're judge and jury and have decided this was consensual. You are repulsive."
  • @JohnnyHudSF: "And you decided this is the case how?"
  • @Bogati2017: "How do you know it was consensual? Glad you lost."
  • @AnaBeck95444: "You weren't there. You don't know what happened. You are just shaming another woman to feel superior. Shame on you."

Others went to her record as an advocate, and to her own allegations.

Four replies: "Then dont use 'rape shaming'...", "That's rich coming from someone...", "So your rape was all good??", and "So you don't stand for women after all." Replies about her record. Captured logged out. These are the repliers' views, not findings.

  • @E_Over_Under: "So you don't stand for women after all. Disappointing."
  • @ShoshanaPatriot: "I'm ashamed of you Nancy. Stop being a rape apologist."
  • @BlackSheepSynd: "Then dont use “rape shaming” when people call you on your bullshit Nancy. I've seen no records or court documents in your rape allegations."
  • @RealRayDonE: "That's rich coming from someone who has already falsely accused someone of sexual impropriety."
  • @boothesrval: "So your rape was all good?? Ok maybe STFU"
  • @kentuckygrl: "You signed Epstein #2. Yet you still support the people that enabled and protect it."

"Falsely" is @RealRayDonE's word, not Maceopedia's. Mace's allegations against the men she has named are unproven and contested, those men deny them, and the matters are still in litigation. No court has found any of her allegations false, and none has found them true.

Not every reply disagreed with her. @clemycali: "Some people have a hard time processing that engaging voluntarily in group sex is not rape." @anyanyaubong: "People need to understand that consent is the difference. If everyone involved is an adult and freely agrees, the number of people involved doesn't automatically make it rape. Consent can also be withdrawn at any time."

The replies, as a video

Her post, five replies quoted as posted, then her own words from the April 6, 2024 call.

The full audio

The full audio of the April 6, 2024 call, as published by FITSNews. The lines above start at 17:41.

The allegations Mace describes on the FITSNews recording are unproven, contested, and the subject of ongoing civil litigation in Charleston County and a South Carolina State Law Enforcement Division (SLED) investigation. The people she names, including Patrick Bryant, who denies the allegations, as well as John Osborne and Eric Bowman, deny wrongdoing. Mace denies the claims made against her in the filings above. None of the underlying matters has been adjudicated. The Cornell allegations are likewise unproven, and the men named in that lawsuit deny wrongdoing. Nothing here is a finding of fact. Replies are quoted as posted and reflect only their authors' views.

Sources and related coverage

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