Rick Wilson commenting on Day 1 of the RNC shitfest:

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

...Trump’s convention is a base-only Trumpfest, a chance for the GOP’s invited grandees and the digital audience to fulfill the “Don’t be the first to stop clapping while Saddam is speaking” rule. While Biden’s DNC spent a lot of time trying to widen the window and show Republican and centrist support for the Democratic nominee (to the chagrin of the Bernie Bro demo), Trump’s convention is aggressive in its narrowcasting to the Fox base.

It featured people who love Trump, people who really love Trump, people who sport Trump leg tats, and people who will likely beat you to death if you keep looking skunk-eyed at their MAGA hat, ya filthy peckerwood. Calling it cult-like barely covers it. This is a convention about one man.

Its philosophy is adoration. Its principles are obedience and subservience. Its leader isn’t a small or big-r republican; he’s the con man who formed a cult that got bigger than he dreamed. This is a celebration of a morally vacant man inhabiting the decaying corpse of the GOP like some eternally hungry parasite. His adherents and votaries will stand at the podium, blinking slowly and praying they don’t drop a single line of praise of the Dear Leader from their remarks.

Last night set the fire. Tonight should be worse, because if there’s one thing we know in the age of Trump, it can always get worse.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/this-isnt-a-national-convention-its-a-republican-funeral-pyre?ref=wrap

[SayItLoud]

1. Well said by RW. I've come to the firm belief, that

the only personal positive future for the #TrumpCrimeFamily will be their forever crying "we lost because the election was rigged, we were cheated". That will be the basis for their new splinter party, the "tRUMP Party". They will milk this theme for every penny they can con out of his base. They will have no shame and use the rigged/cheated as their shield and justification for a crushing defeat. (IF we VOTE).

They will appeal to their base for funds to defend themselves from NYAG and others. They will live the richest lives possible on the backs of their Cult45 ers.

They MUST be defeated then pursued to the gates of Hell and held accountable.

(rant over, sorry)

[LaMouffette]

3. You are so right and that will actually be our revenge on Trump's cult members.

As you say, they will continue to waste their money on Dear Leader for the rest of Trump's obnoxious life. Just think how much money the Trumps will make off speaking engagements alone! Someone should point that out to Trump. Maybe if he realized he could make a million dollars just to show up and spew his usual idiocy for an hour or so to an adoring crowd of his fans, he might just resign to go on a nation-wide speaking tour. Then again, probably not, the very real threat of ending up in prison once he steps foot out of the White House must be weighing very heavily on his pea-brain right now.

[Lock him up.]

6. Tough to make off $peaking engagement$ from state prison...

... or Fed cells (if a RICO case can be launch from Jan. 21, 2021) for life.



RICO the tRump MOB
Over 180,000 victims soon! 'nuf!

[totodeinhere]

9. It's going to take a long time to put him in prison if the Biden Justice Department decides

to go after him. He will have a lot of resources and he will sink all of those resources into slowing down the legal process to a snail's pace. The idea will be to slow the legal process down so that it will carry over to the next administration which they hope might be more friendly to Trump. And he will have those right wing ideologue judges that he nominated to the bench there to help him.

[Cosmocat]

12. Yep

long odds that justice has the sand in the shorts to do what needs to be done IF we can get him out of there, and if he does try it will take a damn long time to get it done.

[Celerity]

17. we must make sure there is plenty of sand

[totodeinhere]

33. Thanks for the levity. We need that right now. n/t

[Whiskeytide]

10. Assuming he stays out of prison, I really ...

... don’t think the base will continue to support him once he’s out of power and is reduced to a screeching banshee on Twitter. They are fickle. He’ll be a loser at that point. And all of his political cover and interference will gone. No one will be tending him and cleaning up his messes. And the $/power interests will abandon him quickly - he’d no longer be a useful idiot to them.

So if he does speaking engagements, I’ll be places like the VFW local in Scranton, and the monthly bingo game at the Villages. There’s not going to be a lot of money there. Even Mara Lago will dry up. Would anyone spend the money and time courting his favor? I suspect he’s the kind of person everyone secretly hates being around unless there’s something in it for them.

He might mount a comeback campaign for 2024, but I think by then so many glaring flaws will be exposed that his base would shrink by half.

[Cosmocat]

14. IF we get him out of there come January he will be their 2024 nominee

He is that sick, and they are that sick.

[keithbvadu2]

26. He is trying to sell the Trump Hotel business in Wash DC.

He is trying to sell the Trump Hotel business in Wash DC.

Not going to have the value once his supporters don't have to rent rooms at inflated prices or don't even get used.

[Evolve Dammit]

7. Not a rant. A definate possibility IF they actaully lose.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

2. Ahh fuck,paywall

[SunSeeker]

4. a morally vacant man inhabiting the decaying corpse of the GOP like some eternally hungry parasite

Rick WIlson sure has a way with words.

[Scarsdale]

5. Navarro is claiming that Maleria

is the modern day Jackie-O. Sure she is - IF Jackie had put a price on her lady parts and peddled herself all over NY. Tonight she is giving her speech in the Rose Garden she has destroyed.

[ChazInAz]

18. I remember Jackie.

Her low-key, rather shy delivery as she took us all on a guided television tour of the White House after she'd led the restoration project.
Elegant, tasteful and intelligent.
I was in my early teens and fell in love.

[JohnnyRingo]

8. Nail on the head

Especially the part about a cult. I think his followers are mean spirited racist xenophobes who see much of themselves in him.

[ananda]

11. Creepy, grotesque ...

and utterly bizarre.

[smirkymonkey]

13. I must say, Rick Wilson certainly has a way with words.

He completely nails it here.

[aidbo]

15. Fuck Rick Wilson. Or can't I say that here anymore?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

20. You can say whatever you want, but do you think he's wrong?

[Cha]

22. Rick Wilson is Absolutely Correct!

[Hekate]

16. Tell us how you really feel, Rick W...

The man does have a way with words.

[happyez]

19. If Trump retains power in 2021 through whichever means

What you are seeing here has a high possibility of becoming the norm throughout the country.

I'd take this as a harbinger of the future if Trump stays in il/legally.

And they don't seem to be shy about signalling what the makeup of the country will look like if they got their hands on full control over the country.

I'd say this is a warning; the good news is that they are signalling everything. And they probably aren't paying attention to what the Democrats are up to (why should they? they are going to win, so you don't need to have a Plan B, because Plan A is 100% foolproof!)

The SWOT analysis of November onwards in DNC headquarters must be gigantic at this point ....

[Cha]

21. Coke Laden SHITFEST! Well Done, Rick Wilson!

Last night set the fire. Tonight should be worse, because if there’s one thing we know in the age of Trump, it can always get worse.

TY TVO

[GeorgeGist]

23. More like ...

...Trump’s convention is a MARKS only Trumpfest.

[ecstatic]

24. It ALWAYS gets worse.

Last year this time I thought the sky was falling, and in normal times, it was. Now? I'm almost speechless. I don't have the vocabulary to describe this.

[kwolf68]

25. Centrist Republicans

Hoping to take over Dem Party. He is right in a lot of areas here, but no need to "attack the left", progressive policies are what made the Democratic Party what it is, not selling out to corporate interests.

I am glad Rick and Schmidt and Kasich are happy with Dems these days, but if they ran the show would they unleash rampant exploitation under the name of corporate freedom? Wage more war? Restrict access to health care?

To me it's about policies. I realize you can't run a far-left agenda, but it now appears we are running a "we are not him" agenda. Clinton did it and it didn't work. I do think it will work much better this time, because we see Trump in all his glory and Biden is really a likable guy.

However, this is the far-rights dream, to have the Democratic Party essentially a "moderate wing" of their own party, where they can still call us left wing commies moving the window further and further to the right until Ronald Reagan policies fit in better with our party, since the Republican Party will be full blown fascist by that point.

In short, when progressive leaders are chastised and Republican talking heads are celebrated it tells me THEY are winning, even if Joe does win the White House this year.

[melman]

27. Great post

[JI7]

29. Joe Biden is a liberal democrat with a liberal record . The so called progressives who constantly

complain are the ones who truly want Trump to win.

Many of us can see clearly through their bullshit hiding behind claims of wanting progress while supporting candidates who have done nothing to ever bring about any progress.

Biden and Harris are liberals who have a record of Progress.

[George II]

32. And Harris is the fourth most progressive of all six Senators who were candidates.....

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and NINTH overall in the Senate.

From Progressive Punch:

1 Gillibrand, Kirsten
7 Klobuchar, Amy
8 Warren, Elizabeth
9 Harris, Kamala
13 Booker, Cory
18 Sanders, Bernie

https://progressivepunch.org/scores.htm?x=43&y=10&house=senate&party=&sort=overall-current&order=down

[George II]

28. Rick speaks (writes) like an American first, an ex-republican second. That's a lesson we ALL....

....should learn.

[JI7]

30. He can support whoever he wants in the future but for now he wants Trump so lose

unlike some so called progressives .

[George II]

31. Indeed. I'll take whatever Rick Wilson has to offer.