Rick Wilson urges 'humiliation and incarceration' for the GOP's 'grubby sellouts' who propped up

[Roisin Ni Fiachra]

Trump fpr 4 years

“Let’s be honest with one another, though; most of you enjoyed every moment of Trump,” Wilson writes. “You boasted that the world had changed. You bragged that finally there was a Republican badass who gave no f*cks and owned the libs. All we had to give up to get there was everything that defined the center-right party for generations. You were just fine with the executive orders, the lawlessness, the statism, the betrayal of alliances around the world, and with that f*cking clown as the leader of the party and the country.”
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Wilson predicts there will be calls for goodwill and healing as Joe Biden enters the White House, but he urged the new administration and Democratic lawmakers not to fall for that trick.

“The other side will work daily to sabotage not only a legislative agenda but the nation itself,” Wilson writes. “Remember, the Trump GOP is shorn of all ideological and philosophical pretense, and even when Trump leaves office, it’s not over. His cultists’ reign of terror will shape elected GOP members as long as he and his foul spawn walk the earth unpunished.”

“Only exposure, pain, humiliation, and (inshallah) incarceration will lead to a moment of reckoning for the GOP,” he adds. “It should start at the top and work down from there.”

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/11/rick-wilson-urges-humiliation-and-incarceration-for-the-gops-grubby-sellouts-who-propped-up-trump-for-4-years/

Hallelujah, brother.

[Sinistrous]

1. And a full-throated AMEN to that!

[DeminPennswoods]

2. Wilson never minces words

Even better, he knows the minds of the GOP.

[Illumination]

3. Absolutely, we can't let this behavior continue, otherwise it becomes the norm! Corruption MUST

be punished!..... ..... ..... .....

[StClone]

51. I like that but

For Cons/Rs it is already the norm and it started as the party's "implicit" platform years ago under Nixon's pardons, Reagan...Trumpism.

[Joinfortmill]

4. Yup, I'm with him.

Let Biden take the high road while his the AG kicks ass.

[Best_man23]

5. I don't want President Biden to go after tRump and his cronies

What I want President Biden to do is appoint an AG, who would then appoint a hard-ass Special Prosecutor, who would then hire a team of even harder, subpoena-hitting attorneys and investigators who will go after the tRumpists with search warrants, hand carts (to haul off evidence), and plasma cutters (to open locked filing cabinets and safes).

I don't want much, but I do want this.

[PJMcK]

13. That's the way to do it

Biden should keep his hands clean but hire the toughest prosecutors to take on this existential task.

Without accountability our democracy will fail.

[jaxexpat]

15. I follow that to a point and this is that point.

Whereas President Biden need not burden his term pursuing Trump's stench trail, after all, SIMPLE JUSTICE should be sufficient for that task, he is also the Democratic party leader. It is in that capacity that he can and should applaud, publicly, loudly and often, every effort that uncovers the lawlessness that IS (save for a very few) the current crop of Republican Senators and congresspersons. Their hypocrisy and perversions of good order as they thwart the will of the people (and they WILL do this) should be written at the top and closing of every speech he gives. ONLY if he knows a crime is public and provable should he publicly and personally support prosecution for the crime and the felon.

Unity? There can be no unification with some of these people. It would be as if a law-and-order mayor chose to fight crime by encouraging law enforcement to join forces with criminals. NEO-Republican voters will naturally fall away, losing interest, chasing other butterflies as soon as being a Trump supporter is not a "thing"; like ice melting, returning to its faceless homogeneity with scotch. Those that don't should be summarily brought up on the appropriate weapons charges, fined and sent on their way into obscurity. Nothing left to unify with in either closed case. The remaining Republicans, those misguided, misinterpreting, perpetual installations of misunderstanding await the justice of geology as they obstinately retain their ridiculous, unyielding pose; subducted, along with their perverse platitudes, while the earth's crust moves incrementally, crushing, mixing and recycling their essential non-political biometry.

Or then we could just let them take over again in 2024.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

47. "It would be as if a law-and-order mayor chose to fight crime by encouraging law enforcement to

join forces with criminals."

Sounds familiar. Too often we see cops hanging out with ProudBoys and the like. This country, probably like many others but nevertheless shamefully, has a history of many dirty cops. Think of those, for instance, who were in cahoots with the gangsters of the prohibition era and those who joined with those perpetrating crimes of race hatred. We have got to figure out a way to clean all that up, along with the R party.

[jaxexpat]

55. Sounds about right.

Surely there must be a distinction in the priority of enforcement between "blue laws", laws about prohibition of such as drugs, prostitution and abortion vs laws that PROTECT the general public against racism, pollution, murder, assault, robbery, extortion and other "white collar crimes".

I sincerely expect that enforcement of the latter will eliminate corruption across the board thus kneecapping the Republican party as well as the radically racist elements within your local PD.

Ever notice how "conservative" politicians ALWAYS run on strengthening "blue law" enforcement while ignoring and denying the consequence of violating protection laws, always colluding with the most successful career criminals, their main supporters?

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

56. Exactly. Add to that those same influential white collar criminals using their money/power

to make the sleazy things they do legal, or at least shield the perpetrators from meaningful consequences for their harmful activities. Which allows them to attain more power/money which they use to consolidate more money/power, in an endless cycle.

Hard not to feel hopeless about the prospects for change. Especially when its not just wealthy Rs who participate in this unjust cycle. Frustrating to read of how Dems in power let Trumps get away with nefarious real estate malfeasance in NYC because, basically, they were all in it together.

[Escurumbele]

28. I have to think that everything you laid out is exactly what the Biden admin strategy will be.

And that is why Biden has already tried to disassociate himself from "persecutions", but he knows and I feel that behind doors they are going to do what you so well expressed.

I do want ALL of those fuckers to be accountable for their treason, if that doesn't happen the future is uncertain. Traitors must be made to pay a heavy price, is the only way to eliminate future possibilities.

[DENVERPOPS]

36. They didn't nail them after Bush/Cheney

and look what that has brought down upon us...........

The lack of prosecution of that whole crowd led the RepubliCONs to even more flagrant acts of corruption and crimes against the citizens of the U.S.

[soldierant]

45. THANK YOU!

I seem to ba needing to say something like this everywhere. Thank you so much for saying here first.

If we are going to have to push, it should be the Justice Department, or possibly Congress, whom we need to push.

Presidents should not be going after political rivals, however unworthy.

[KPN]

50. That's the way any President would handle it ...

well, except tRump. Wilson isn’t calling for Biden to directly incarcerate.

[Grasswire2]

53. You forgot the battering ram for the pre-dawn raid.

Let's rock and roll!

[judesedit]

6. Please send that to Biden and Harris. PLEASE!

[bucolic_frolic]

7. Wilson should cut the code words and tell us what he means

"the lawlessness, the statism"

Greed, theft, plunder, embezzlement, exploitation, sacrilege.

Deregulation that pollutes, land leases that steal, grift written into law.

Wilson seeks only a return of his old GOP to power.

And he has no credible plan to incarcerate any of them. He's more about making Democrats look weak.

[DENVERPOPS]

37. Don't forget "Pillaging"

The amounts of money Trump, his family, corporations and the RepubliCON politicians have grifted is truly un-fathomable.........

AND, THEY ARE ALL scrambling wildly around this lame duck period to continue their out of control grifting to get as much as they can while the getting is still good........

[OnDoutside]

44. Nonsense. It continually surprises me that those who hate on TLP lack the foresight to realize that

the old GOP ain't coming back, certainly not in its current incarnation. Wilson has pointed this out repeatedly, but those attacking him can't be arsed to listen to what he has said.

[Paladin]

8. My sentiments exactly. (nt)

[N_E_1 for Tennis]

9. Never Forget.

Never forget the last four years, never forget the morass we waded through holding on to the smallest thread of sanity allowed us. Never forget the death and destruction this administration has foisted upon us.
Teach your children exactly what went on these last four years, how close we were almost a dictatorship with a healthy chunk of the populace going along willingly, even eagerly.

If we do not denounce and hold those involved criminally accountable with in depth investigations, prosecutions and righteous punishment, the lessons we were shown will be wasted; we will prove to ourselves we cannot learn it will happen again. Next time we may not be as “lucky”.

We punish our children when they are wrong so the same mistakes, hopefully, will not be made again, we punish to teach. Imagine the spoiled brats we would raise sans punishment.

We cannot let these indiscretions just fade away, that would leave a hole the size of Jupiter in our closely held morals, nothing would matter anymore. It just wouldn’t.

[northoftheborder]

16. a more intelligent nazi could be more successful next time...beware of smooth talkers.....

[Jon King]

10. This time its about democracy.....

We let them do their thing and cause increased climate change, and terrible FCC rules, and restricting right to choose, and pack the courts and on and on. Now they are messing with democracy itself. The guilty must be investigated and prosecuted, end of story. Delaying this battle is not going to work.

[Roy Rolling]

11. Law and Order

Cultists always talk about the law, they never talk about how they failed at keeping order.

[Roc2020]

12. Yes! show everyone the that Trumpism

is a Cult void of common sense, anti decency, and works on a term I heard on CNN....a firehouse of falsehoods.

[2naSalit]

14. I agree with that entirely.

[secondwind]

17. WOW !!!!!

[DownriverDem]

18. trump/repubs

are doing all they can now to destroy the Biden Administration. We have been here before and this needs to stop. Also we need to change when a newly elected president takes office. Too much time is allowed. trump is doing a lot of damage as he goes out the door.

[llmart]

21. Which is all the more reason we need those two Georgia Senate seats.

We could begin to take back our country much more easily if the GOP was the minority party in the Senate.

[niyad]

19. YES!!!!

[Hotler]

20. No playing nice. nt

[onetexan]

23. Yup. Charge them and lock them up.

[CaptainTruth]

22. Damn right. I'm done being nice to enemies of America.

[usaf-vet]

24. I agree Wilson says what he means. But I'm sure his punishment doesn't come close.....

..... to what some of us think. Sedition and Treason should be headliners for Donnie and Moscowmitch. There are a number of GOP Senators who also cross that line. Nunes and Johnson (WI) come to mind.

As for others, the tRump kids starting with Jarvanka and the boys, all had access to our national secrets and likely traded some for financial gain. The 666 building bailouts certainly deserve a deep audit with treason on the table.

In short, the tRump name should become synonymous with the WW II tyrants that cause the deaths of millions.

As for other "GOP-grubby-sellouts" who took foreign (NRA conduit) money to stay in office to prop up tRump and his agenda, banishment and humiliation is a fair place to start but keeping incarceration and treason on the table.

I guess I'll have to leave it there because I'm fairly sure burning at the stake is frowned upon in today's civilized world.

[Evolve Dammit]

25. "...as long as he and his foul spawn walk the earth unpunished." Totally agree.

[Nitram]

26. This is not about revenge. It is about accountability, taking responsibility, and preventing similar

abuses in the future. Please proceed post haste with the humiliation and incarceration.

[Gilbert Moore]

27. Should be

Start at the bottom and work towards the top.

“It should start at the top and work down from there.”

[Greybnk48]

29. This is about righting a devastating, vicious, callous wrong

by a group of right wing thugs who almost brought down our country. No exaggeration!

If we let this slide, like we did with Bush/Cheney, and their scumbag behavior, we deserve what we get.

Fool me once, and all that.

[BobTheSubgenius]

30. Hallelujah amen.

This "episode" has to be made as unattractive as possible, to say the least. They shouldn't just be slapped on the wrist, either. Felony charges, where appropriate.

[Mr.Bill]

31. I haven't said this for awhile, so I'll say it again.

We got where we are at today because Nixon didn't die in prison.

[Hekate]

32. Amen and Hallelujah

[roamer65]

33. Wilson is on a righteous journey.

[LudwigPastorius]

34. "Remember, the Trump GOP is shorn of all ideological and philosophical pretense..."

Nice of Rick to acknowledge that the ideology espoused by prior incarnations of the GOP was pretense.

"Small government & fiscal responsibility" = "Fuck your Social Security. Give me a tax cut!"

Wilson seems to be pining for a return to a Republican party that he never worked for and hasn't existed in 50 years.

[BannonsLiver]

48. Meh

I don’t live in some la la land that believes we will ever be rid of these people or that Dems will always win elections. Given that there will always be opposition, it’s better that it not be made up of actual Nazis, as evidenced by the last 4 years.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

35. "Moving forward" and letting the criminals go unpunished just encourages more extremism.

[Oldem]

38. Slippery slope?

Jailing political enemies and those who harm the body politic will only lead to retaliation when the tables are turned, and they will be at some point. Jailing political enemies and those who harm the body politic for actual statutory crimes is something else entirely and should be the objective in any advanced society. Only that will set an example and have some chance of deterring future criminality in office. I have no doubt the criminality is present in this case, for dump and others in his circle but probably not for Moscow Mitch. Unfortunately, prosecution will have to take place in a state court, as by that time, all concerned will have been pardoned from federal exposure. But, then, there sits SCOTUS, and will that clown car keep a straight course if an appeal reaches them. Doubtful. Improbable. Still, an overturned conviction is better than no conviction at all.

[Ligyron]

49. They'll be jailed if guilty by a jury of their peers.

Not Democrats.

[LiberalLovinLug]

39. Rick keeps forgetting who he is talking to.

Republicans are the ones to use "exposure, pain, humiliation, and (attempted) incarceration". He thinks he's talking to the same kind of political veterans.

Democrats "move on" and then expect the Republicans to appreciate that. With moist big Margaret Keane puppy dog eyes, they look to the GOP and say please, and hand Mitch the football for us and we run towards that football sure that THIS time, he will not pull it away. I mean we are being so nice. How could he?

[calimary]

40. I'm all in with that!

If there are no consequences, there’s little motivation to follow ANY rules, or ethics, or any such thing.

There has to be a deterrent factor. Simply MUST be.

[panader0]

41. Someday, perhaps, Biden and Harris will hold a press conference in the White House,

and before Biden speaks, Harris will lean over and say, a bit too loudly, "This is a big fucking deal."
Then Biden will announce that trump is being sentenced to 10 to 20.
And his kids will be dropped over the ocean from a helicopter.

[BigmanPigman]

42. If Karma won't take care of them then the Dems must!

NO FORGIVE AND FORGET
No bringing water pistols to a gun fight
No taking the high road
No "let's work with them"
No "let's try to listen to their side of life"

Equal justice under the law applies to the GOP. Hold them accountable for 4 years of unAmerican behavior and policies. It must NEVER be allowed to happen again. They lie, cheat and steal...make them pay with jail and fines.

[seta1950]

43. Hallelujah indeed👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[dlk]

46. Works for me!

Why would we ever give Republicans a pass? To what end? Giving criminals a pass in the false name of unity is generally a mistake that only compounds over time. We've seen the criminal trajectory from Nixon to Reagan to Bush to ultimately, the in-your-face Trump crime spree. Moving forward in the name of unity has only given them a green light, and their crimes have increased in audacity and intensity. To their core, they believe they are entitled and only a serious comeuppance will slow them down. Let's not be naive.

[ancianita]

52. Rule of Law leads to all that he's talking about. Kirschner laid it out.

There is sufficient public evidence of intent and harm to

First, prosecute the pardons.

The president’s pardon power cannot be used to:
(1) pardon state crimes,
(2) remove federal civil liability,
(3) pardon impeachment, or
(4) pardon crimes that have not already occurred….
A pardon can only apply to actions that occur before it is issued, but any obstructive pardons would be a continuation of a provable conspiracy, so the crime would be ongoing.
Put another way: you cannot pardon a crime when the pardon itself continues the crime.

Second, prosecute corrupt enablers. They can all be prosecuted Federal Law Title 18, Section 3.

Our new AG and DOJ have so many to prosecute, that the news coverage will bring on all the howling humiliation we could want.

[eppur_se_muova]

54. Had to snicker at "inshallah".

"If Allah wills it". More loosely, "God willing".

That's for the Muslim travel ban.