Rick Wilson: Zero tolerance for Trumpers

[My Pet Orangutan]

Rick Wilson
@TheRickWilson
When this shit is over we’re going to have to hunt down every single trump appointee who has slithered into a government job.

Link to tweet

He was right on the money.

[dem4decades]

1. I wonder when Rick decided to confront every Trumper if he had any idea it would be most Republicans

Did he know he'd have to take on his entire party?

[PJMcK]

4. Right?

Although I think Wilson is talking about the Trumpers "hidden" inside the government with the objectives of thwarting everything Biden/Harris try to do.

Root them out and fire their asses. If they can be prosecuted, so much the better.

[OnDoutside]

27. That's the thing, I think Never Trumpers were genuinely shocked at the 72m voting for Trump. They

were expecting a sizable amount of Republicans to break away, so that it would be a repudiation of Trump and Trumpism. That would then give space for the clearing out of the GOP. Instead, there is no going back for most of them.

[LudwigPastorius]

30. I would hope they were shocked.

Despite Wilson's feel-good ads, more Republicans voted for Trump this time then they did four years ago.

[OnDoutside]

36. I think that 72m is misleading and I await the research into those

numbers with interest, however a few points...

1 Over 27m more people voted this time than in 2016, how many Republicans had sat out then

2 and while 10m more voted for Republican, Democrats increased their vote by 15m. Biden will win the popular vote by 8 to 10 million.

3 What will be really interesting is WHERE Republicans increased their vote ie getting an extra 100,000 votes in Mississippi versus a more useful 100,000 in say, Virginia.

4 How many down ballot votes did Republicans get versus Trump ? Were there Republicans who came out to vote against Trump, but voted GOP downballot, and if so how many ? My suspicion is that an amount of Republican voters were energised to go vote against Trump but as they were there, voted Red below that.

You may not be aware but TLP weren't national, that picked key states, and in some states they worked only in particular counties, so I'll be interested to see the numbers in those cases too. That said, Dems like David Plouffe seemed to be very happy with their work in those areas so we'll see when the numbers come in.

[MyOwnPeace]

2. Not to worry............

they'll be easy to find - they've left quite a trail of incompetence and destruction.....

[olegramps]

3. Shit gives off a distinctive odor and easy to detect.

[Lonestarblue]

5. Anyone hired after January 20, 2017, should be suspect.

Unfortunately Trump has put many of them in civil service jobs that have protections from firing. The Biden team may need to create a few new levels of supervision to get these people far enough down the ladder that they can’t do much damage. If there are any career people left, they will know the ones to watch for sabotage, which can be a basis for firing. What a mess, and this incompetence is what Trump voters wanted. Thank God they lost because four more years of Trump would have seen a federal government totally incapable of functioning in any way.

[HUAJIAO]

6. "What a mess,...."

putin seems to have gotten what he wanted.....

[jmbar2]

14. When Japan had lifetime employment, they pushed people out by giving them "window" jobs

They would be given a window seat, but nothing to do. They had to stay in the seat all day, everyday. Under watchful eyes. Everyone else in the office knew what was going on. It was humiliating.

They withered and died from shame, or they quit.

[RainCaster]

19. In Japanese business culture...

... the seats by the window are for the lowest in the room. To be put into those seats, while the woman who takes notes sits close to the room's leader, is a huge insult.

[jmbar2]

23. I worked there in the 80s.

Not sure if it's the same now, but back then, we had a very distinguished gentleman who was a "window sitter". He was a former war correspondent, of Korean descent. He was smart, principled and extremely dignified. I always felt so bad that they treated him that way. It made no sense.

[crickets]

15. trump signed an EO that removed those civil service protections.

That may turn out to be a blessing in disguise.

[Lonestarblue]

17. I think that move was aimed at career employees who had been in their jobs a long time.

His goal is to remove career staff deemed not personally loyal to him and replace them with loyal sycophants with civil service protections to have them in place to sabotage the Biden presidency.

[AmericanCanuck]

7. Go Rick and TLP - you're great allies

[tiptonic]

8. Nuremberg Trials

Its time to start organizing our version of the Nuremberg Trails. Having a Tribunal conducted by neutral countries, is the only way to get justice.

[ForgoTheConsequence]

9. 99% of Republicans were complicit.

This guy is and always has been a useful idiot.

[DesertRat]

10. Love the idea, not crazy about "hunt down"

It sounds like MAGA language.

[My Pet Orangutan]

11. Weed out then.

Trumpers are being embedded.

[LudwigPastorius]

31. "Denazify" has a historic precedent.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denazification

"DeTrumpify" works for me.

[yonder]

12. From the link:

"Authoritarians prefer a message of "we all lie, but our lies are better than their lies," leaving no room for the truth, only the choosing of sides based on self-interest."

-Garry Kasparov

[CanonRay]

13. De-Trumpification

To re-coin and old phrase.

[Ligyron]

20. Soon it will be a synonym.

A Permanent one hopefully, to forever shame the GOP and teach future generations the dangers of populist authoritarianism.

Who knows? Maybe, “Mommy, what was a Republican ?”, could actually become a thing.

[dalton99a]

16. Absolutely.

[bucolic_frolic]

18. TLP is leading the intellectual resistance, but they are accustomed to using the levers of power

over their party which barely exists anymore. They really need to exit their Zoom production facilities and focus on operational power if they wish to remain relevant.

[MontanaMama]

21. This will be the new contact tracing.

Anybody infected with tRumpizm must be found and purged from our government.

[SWBTATTReg]

22. I think that these people who slithered into a government job w/ the intention of trying to pad ...

their bank accounts/steal what they can/etc. will all be caught. I hope that Biden offers some sort of rewards program, where outright fraud and / or crime(s) occurred so Biden's DOJ and other agencies can go after these people and nail them. The whole trump admin. is a sewer, in effect, instead of draining the swamp, trump enlarged and deepened the swamp.

[soldierant]

25. An insult to swamps

which actually do have ecological functions. Which Trump*, Trumpism, and Trumpists do not.

[SWBTATTReg]

29. Indeed!

[Lock him up.]

26. It's kind of obvious for any judge being presented with no credible evidence...

to reject these cases. They can't rule based on nothing credible, like notarized statements that require no oaths.

[meadowlander]

28. Also stop pointing cameras at them and giving them time on TV.

[DENVERPOPS]

34. One of the first things RepubliCONs did

was wipe out the Fairness Doctrine back during Reagan years????????

Then Newt declared war on NPR forcing them to do "He Said She said"

There used to be laws about ownership of media, and had strict limits, Reagan also took care of that......

Actually, Reagan was already suffering from dementia when he took office, it was Truly the HWBush/Cheney/Rumsfeld administration.
Re cycled during "W"'s administration...........

Some of us were screaming our heads off starting after Reagan took office, and that was 40 years ago. Treason during the election, Treason in the Iran Contra, Largest tax cut to the Rich ever, Largest tax increase to the middle class ever, etc etc etc.

[2naSalit]

32. I insist that such a thing be done!

As a former civil servant, I have been highly offended by this whole ugly-demon-nightmare-administration-from-hell thing. They cost me the last five years of my career. I'll never forgive them for it, and I can never forgive the brutal treatment of people in every environment of humanity. Accountability is demanded.

[Nitram]

33. This is the first time I have understood the need for a purge. And we need one now!

[DENVERPOPS]

35. Colorado's Super Max

for the top 200 most egregious RepubliCON Psychopathic Sadists........

[BobTheSubgenius]

37. True, but that can't go as far as it needs to.

And where it can't reach is the most important - the judiciary.