Rick Wilson absolutely scorches Trump and his supporters with the flames of a 1000 suns

[KelleyKramer]

I have heard his name before but don't know much about this guy. His twitter tag says he is a Republican

But this post here, to me, sums up everything about the remaining Trump supporters .....

Link to tweet

Rick Wilson:

You should bottle all the flop sweat rolling off of you and sell it to your credulous followers as a cure for their various manges, trailer-mold rashes, weeping sores, ring- and hookworm infections, crotch-rot, and scabrous unidentified skin diseases.



Donald J Trump

Jeff Sessions said he wouldn’t allow politics to influence him only because he doesn’t understand what is happening underneath his command position. Highly conflicted Bob Mueller and his gang of 17 Angry Dems are having a field day as real corruption goes untouched. No Collusion!


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[Vinca]

1. Whoa! I didn't think he could get angrier than he was on Bill Maher. I was wrong.

[Cha]

2. LOL! Perfect reply to the Fraud's STUPID

IMBECILIC Tweet.

Can imagine his "Flop Sweat" as he tweets "No Collusion!!111"

Mahalo, Kelley

[KelleyKramer]

4. I had to read it again when posting..

Laughed even harder the second time

That's not just a burn, it's scorched earth!


Keep your head above water, Mahalo!

[Cha]

6. I burst out laughing!

We're doing fine on Kauai.. Mahalo, Kelley.. Just appreciate we dodged a hurricane

[Angry Dragon]

3. okay Trump

[octoberlib]

5. He's a GOP operative who despises Trump.

His book Everything Trump Touches Dies is currently # 1 on the NYT Book Review. Wilson is a master at insulting Trump and his base.

[Cha]

7. Nice title..

Too bad it's our country and Planet.

That's why all hands on deck are working extra hard to get rid of him.

octoberlib

[octoberlib]

12. Hi, Cha!

[calimary]

22. Yes we are, Cha. Yes we ARE.

[VOX]

8. Rick Wilson's an interesting guy, a longtime Republican strategist who's done some harsh ads...

Including one particularly below-the-belt spot from the 2008 presidential campaign that hammered Obama’s connection to the Rev. Jeremiah Wright with the tagline: “Barack Obama: Too Radical, Too Risky.”

But that said, as a "Bull Moose" Republican, he wanted nothing to do with Trump, ever. He helped start the Never Trump movement. It cost him plenty to do so, loss of business and contacts, etc. And he's still not afraid to go after liberals. However, most liberals like him (even over their own objections), and respect him, and he reciprocates.

Wilson's that rare bird who can separate politics from his own interpersonal stuff. He's also funny as hell.

[NewJeffCT]

9. When he started the Never Trump movement

some Deplorables types also stalked & harassed his teenage daughter as well. Classy group.

[VOX]

11. Absolutely reprehensible, but unsurprising. If the current mess ever gets cleaned up, I'm hoping...

That the current "Never Trump" Republican media standouts (some are *former* Republicans now) like Rick Wilson, Max Boot, Steve Schmidt, Michael Steele, David Jolly, Jennifer Rubin, David Frum, among others, can hopefully help inform a better time in the future when left and right can resume civil discourse and bring out their better sides. (I know, most Republicans have NO better sides!)

But as long as there's so much $$$$$$ in politics now, what I wrote above seems like a pipe dream.

[NewJeffCT]

16. The media seems to like airing "Never Trump" Republicans

over most Democrats, it seems.

Ana Navarro is a big one as well.

[JHB]

24. Here's to hoping, but odds are they'll snap back to their comfort zone...

...as soon as they have the chance.

[PatSeg]

15. Out of this nightmare,

Rick Wilson and Steve Schmidt as well have emerged as scathing and witty in their criticism of Donald Trump. They both have a way with words that we rarely hear from republicans, who mostly just recite scripted talking points.

Inadvertently, Trump has brought people together in ways we couldn't have imagined pre-Trump.

[dalton99a]

20. +1

Link to tweet

[calimary]

25. BOOM!

My husband just said one more remark should be added: “and all those who followed him (trump, that is) will be derided and mocked and condemned. And shunned.”

Amen.

[Pachamama]

30. ...."Trump will go down as a coward, cheat, weakling, failure, and traitor.".....

That is what Donald Trump will be known as when he dies....

The name Trump will be used as a term worse than Benedict Arnold.....

[Grasswire2]

35. I would insert...

...in the last sentence "and a little man who has to pay for sex".

[handmade34]

10. Rick Wilson hates

#notmypresident almost as much as I do

[womanofthehills]

13. I'm reading Rick Wilson's book "Everything Thump Touches Dies"

It's not just Trump he doesn't like. He also covers the slime around Trump. It's a good read and I love his way with words.

[Raster]

17. Yes, I am also ready "Everything..."

[Hamlette]

26. I'm reading it too but he has some harsh words for Dems along the way

which I think are unfair. Wilson is just a trash talker, far as I can tell.

The thing I like about Jennifer Rubin, Steve Schmidt and Nicole Wallace is they tie into Trump but I've never heard them trash Dems (since Trump got elected and not even like Wilson before.)

I think we should put them all to work helping us dig our way out of this mess. They created this mess. Now they want the dems to come fix it. Just like we fixed the mess W left.

[Paladin]

14. Wilson is a Repub who hardly ever has anything nice to say about Repubs.

I haven't gotten around to reading his book ("Everything Trump Touches Dies&quot yet---but I will.

[3Hotdogs]

18. The problem is, Trump invents businesses -- Trump U., Trump Steak, Trump Wine.

Next will be:

"TRUMP F.S. 'For when your 'git up and go, got up an went."

[Cosmocat]

19. Fuck Wilson - he is why we are where we are ...

From his Media Dodged the "Everything Trump Touches Dies" OP ED.

Yes, in 2008 the press lost their damn collective minds. The first Obama campaign benefited from a tidal wave of largely uncritical adulation. The superlatives flowed in a ridiculous, flowery stream of praise that bordered at times on the creepy. Yes, “the One” was a media absurdity. I remember emailing a reporter this snarky note after reading one of her pieces: “Are you practicing writing ‘Mrs. Katherine Obama’ in loopy script in your mash book?” (Name withheld to protect the embarrassed.)

They spoke and wrote about Obama in terms so glowing and so toadying that it was easy to caricature the journalist class of 2008 as a group of fangirls squealing and fainting at his every utterance. That nearly mindless rah-rah remained a constant element in Obama’s coverage until he walked out of the Oval Office. Conservatives rightly mocked it, but the smarter types recognized it as an example of the normative power of media and pop culture. The two had combined in one fell swoop to overcome Barack Obama’s thin résumé, his lack of experience, and questions about his ideological underpinnings. Donald Trump wasn’t the first celebrity president. Yes, the press treated Hillary as Her Majesty the President-in-Waiting Glass-Ceiling-Shatterer-for-the-Epoch and ignored her terrible campaigns and clunky persona and the defective-robot affect she displayed on the campaign trail.

He is the type of petulant, childish, hyperbolic republican who created the environment that germinated 45.

BHO was in fact a highly competent, and charming, public servant - the media reported what and who he was, while doing its best to try to horserace him by indulging right wing bullshit over the Reverand and the flagpin.

Hillary Clinton was a decent, and extremely competent public servant, the media ACTIVELY spent decades doing the conservatives dirt for them by fomenting the idea that it was her fault that they were unhinged lunatics about her.

So, great, he is bombastic trump basher.

Yeah!

But, he was active in the unadulterated political gamemanship that created a "base" of people who primed to fall into line behind a politician who took the whip by making decent public servants into the spawn of satan.

OWN THAT, Wilson.

Then check back in.

[Zambero]

21. Contrition is good for the soul. Some on the left should give it a try,

The RW is dripping with hate, and as might be expected John McCain is the target of the day. I'll accept a contrite flipper who possesses the presence of mind to expose his party's path to destruction, any day. Conversely, will the Susan Sarandons of the world be voicing any regrets over bad decisions made and the dire consequences thereof, any time soon? I seriously doubt it.

[JHB]

27. I'm not clear on where Rick is being contrite.

[Cosmocat]

31. Right

nm

[JHB]

34. I'm glad you agree.

[Zambero]

38. Having aided and abetted Sarah Palin would certainly be cause for regret

Setting the qualifications bar down to ground zero level allowed the likes of Donald Trump to walk right over it. Once established, embraced stupidity is difficult to eliminate.

[JHB]

39. Yup. I just don't see where he regrts that.

And I'd be grateful if anyone can point me to where he renounces his actions of the last quarter century.

[womanofthehills]

40. In his book, Rick is very critical of the scum who now support Trump

He said the Republican Party needs to kick out the alt-right and the racists or their party is doomed.

[JHB]

23. Just remember he'll turn that against us the moment it suits his purpose

...just as he did before Trump.

Yes, he's witty and funny and (for now) he directs his scorching at Trump.

But, as a Republican strategist, he spent his entire career doing the very things that built Trump's base. He scare-mongered and scandal-mongered and played to all the bigotries and pet peeves, and called it "playing hardball". His job was to get Republicans elected, and there was no part of that job that involved "dialing it back." He was one of the people who painted Democrats as supervillains: utterly-corrupt, moral degenerates out to destroy the nation and all that's good and holy to get their voters all hot-blooded and into the voting booth.

But the drawback is: When you paint the story that way, it's supposed to end with you bringing the bad guys to justice. They rot in jail, or better yet get hanged or fried. Blow up the Death Star. Drop the Ring into the fires of Mount Doom. The Enemy surrenders unconditionally and their symbols get blown up.

Your audience wants this:

But they never get it.


When you tell that story for decades, continually amping it up despite its blatant falsehood, you create an expectation that you can never really deliver on. You can justify decades of investigations and re-investigations and re-re-re-re-re-re-re-investigations, but that's not going to hold up in court. So you put yourself into the position of portraying the other side as unbearably evil and an active threat, and then don't do anything about it. The base still has their hot buttons pushed, still believes every word of it, they just start thinking you're ineffectual at best, or more likely are part of the problem.

That's what Rick Spent his career building, and lo and behold, the Republican voters went for a guy who told them what they wanted to hear. Even the ones who voted for Johnson or stayed home are thanks to Rick and his colleagues, because they would "never vote for THAT woman!!!"


That's part of why he's so entertaining when he speaks: because he'll go right for the hot buttons.


So enjoy the performance, but never think he's a friend. In his eyes he's done nothing wrong. This isn't a "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" situation, it's more like "the temporarily uncomfortable creator of my enemy is the guy who will knife me in the kidneys the moment I've wrangled his hellbeast back into its pen."

[Sneederbunk]

28. Useful. Kind of like Russia during WWII.

[Zenlitened]

29. This should be an OP...

... along with the rest of your observations in this thread.

Important info for the kumbaya crowd.

This isn't a "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" situation, it's more like "the temporarily uncomfortable creator of my enemy is the guy who will knife me in the kidneys the moment I've wrangled his hellbeast back into its pen."

[ecstatic]

42. That doesn't really need to be pointed out

I'm sure the vast majority of us have common sense and are very much aware of the temporary nature of the anti-trump alliance.

[MadDAsHell]

32. I wish this could be happening in real life instead of tweets on the internet.

[oasis]

33. "Coward, cheat, weakling, failure and traitor". That's putting it mildly. nt

[luvallpeeps]

36. I'd like to design this flop sweat bottle

Oh, I think I will. Orange carnival glass?

[oberliner]

37. Do you ever watch MSNBC?

He is on all the time.

[ecstatic]

41. He is hilarious! I enjoy his appearances on Don Lemon because

he leaves it all on the floor--viciously obliterates trump's lackeys, and even throws some cursing in when needed.

[Scurrilous]

43. K&R