Rick Wilson on The New York Times

[speak easy]

[BoRaGard]

1. "Dems now in disarray." - Times

[chowder66]

2. He had me at feces castles. lol

[GopherGal]

3. "He had me at feces castles" - so not anything I expected to read today!

LOL

[chowder66]

4. I roared when I read that!!!

[emulatorloo]

6. He really has a way with words.

[chowder66]

7. Sure does!

[shrike3]

8. LOL. No one like Rick.

[Trueblue Texan]

9. I canceled my subscription after the "Biden painting Trump as a felon" bullshit. nt

[happy feet]

23. Cancelled mine

Told them due to their biased treatment of Biden and love fest w Trump.

[live love laugh]

53. NYT Republican owners will profit from Trump's kickback tax cuts ...

Your little subscription cancellation probably means very little to them.

[Trueblue Texan]

57. But it means a lot to me. nt

[calimary]

10. OMG!!! Another Quote of the Week!

I just have to figure out how to use it in an upcoming Call to Action email. Each one of those issues starts with a quote. Do I use “crap” as is, or modify it to “c**p”?

[RussBLib]

11. just a bit of overstatement...

...we live in hyperbolic times

https://russblib.blogspot.com

[markodochartaigh]

20. Because when so many people

minimize the danger that authoritarianism poses to the US, hyperbole can sometimes be a tool to wake them up.

[DinahMoeHum]

12. He also did a substack "This Is Why I Blocked You"

https://therickwilson.substack.com/p/this-is-why-i-blocked-you

(snip)

You’re posing in your Ford F-150 wearing knockoff Dollar Store Costa sunglasses, a goatee, Punisher or FJB shirt, and a faux tough-guy expression.

B****, you’re an insurance adjustor who lives in an overpriced 3/2 ranch house in a fading suburb with a hausfrau design sense and Live Laugh Love posters, not Rip from Yellowstone. That’s why I blocked you and why your wife is banging her Pilates instructor.

(snip)

Go to the above link for more laughs.



P.S. that Pilates instructor is probably female. - DMH

[Joinfortmill]

13. You go, Rick!

[samsingh]

14. this is true - someone has told the reporters to do this every time

[sop]

15. And if Joe even gets one fact wrong, the NYT will write "Biden's clearly suffering from advanced dementia."

[Evolve Dammit]

21. They really do have it in for Joe. I don't get it, unless you really want fascism and a supreme dicktator.

[Irish_Dem]

26. The think they will get richer under fascist GOP rule.

They are sadly quite mistaken.

[Evolve Dammit]

29. I think you are right. And the judiciary will be completely irrelevant including SCOTUS.

[Irish_Dem]

30. Yes, there is no need for an independent judiciary under fascist rule.

Don't even need to go to law school to be a judge under the GOP.

[Evolve Dammit]

31. Have you read "Strongmen"? The author is on MSNBC occasionally and has done great research on the rise of

fascism. I haven't had the intestinal fortitude to read it, but might. She is very knowledgeable and sorry I don't remember her name.

[Irish_Dem]

32. Her name is Ruth Ben-Ghiat.

I have not read her book, but listen to her videos and interviews.
She quotes her book and talks about how she chose this research topic (fascism).

I love her, she is great. Very knowledgeable and understands completely
what is in store for the US.

I know, her book is not for the weak of stomach considering we may be
looking at our own imminent future.

[Evolve Dammit]

33. yeah. daunting stuff for sure. I have to take it in doses.

[Irish_Dem]

34. Listen to her interviews and videos.

Then you get small dose treatment.

She is matter of fact and calm.
So it is hard to get too agitated listening to her.

[Evolve Dammit]

35. the whole topic is so disturbing. My grandfathers farm in Poland was the Nazi/Russian front line. Totally destroyed. nt

[Irish_Dem]

37. Yes I know.

My Irish lines came from Ireland, over 1000 years of total repression, murder
and starvation at the hands of the oppressor (British).

Their religion and language made illegal.
Forbidden to learn to read or write or be educated.
Only menial jobs at best.
Strict, draconian laws.

The Irish came to the US for freedom at long last.
And now here we are again.

Yes it is so disturbing.
This is not what our immigrant ancestors wanted for us.

[Evolve Dammit]

39. My whole life I thought we had "evolved" beyond this senseless barbarism. Guess I was gravely mistaken.

[Irish_Dem]

43. Yes we have been quite foolish.

I too thought Americans had evolved to a higher level of civilization through hard work,
tears, sweat and blood. The progress came at a great price.

I thought progress was linear and we would keep evolving in an upward direction.

We have been quite wrong.

Progress is apparently fleeting, cyclical, one step forward, two steps backwards.

And the world can quickly be plunged into a deep dark age.
Or even worse.

We face an existential crisis with climate change.
And instead of dealing with it, the world is now doing a serious arm's race
including nuclear proliferation amongst unstable countries.

It does not bode well for mankind.

I do believe humans are hard wired to want freedom.
But it is going to be a constant and ongoing battle to achieve it.
And to maintain it.

Humans are also hard wired to ruthlessly accumulate power and resources.
We may not survive the battle.

[Evolve Dammit]

44. Very well stated. We keep repeating the tragedy and seem unable to change the tribal revenge instincts.

And the climate change / global warming denial is just sheer stupidity.

[Irish_Dem]

45. Yes

The politicians and oligarchs have made it clear they want nothing to do with
climate change prevention.

Perhaps they know how bad it is going to be and no amount of money will change that.

Or maybe they think they will be immune from all of it.
And let the peasants pay on the back end of the damage.

Years ago the cost and trouble to prevent climate change would have
been easier. But no one wanted to take the time or trouble to address it.

So here we are.

And we clearly see the mentality of the world autocrats.
Trump, the GOP, Putin, Xi, Kim Jong Un.

They are perfectly willing to burn down as much of the world as it takes
to get what they want. The only thing that matters is power, control and wealth.

Destruction and death mean nothing to them.
In fact they enjoy it a great deal.

[Evolve Dammit]

46. Truth. Only when Magat Lago and other vulnerable areas are underwater may they re-think it? Doubtful.

He'll just move to another property and keep spewing the hatred and denial. I suspect the other dicktators will do the same.

[AZ8theist]

47. It's "Merde Lardo"

Dotard will be long dead by the time it's under water, unfortunatey.

But Uday and Kusay Dump, and the rest of their infected parasite family, will just buy their own private island with the money daddy stole from the American taxpayers.

[rampartc]

55. climate change favors the rich

who live above the rising water level and are prepared t o exploit the melted arctic.

npthing we do can change that.

[Irish_Dem]

56. Exactly. The wealthy know they can ride out climate change.

Why should they worry about the peasants who will die and suffer.

[BOSSHOG]

48. My Mom was a Murphy

Her Mom a Reardon. Partying Catholics, loved them Dearly. My Grandpa Murphy didn’t talk much about his Grandad and what he went through. But he was my hero for the first ten years of my life. I’m balanced. My Dads side is mostly Stoic Baptists.

[Irish_Dem]

49. My Irish grandparents didn't talk about it either.

Later we saw the so called houses they lived in.
My grandmother's house where she was raised is now used as a pen for pigs.

And my aunt told us about the poverty and very harsh conditions.

And then we saw my father's deep love of this country, he dedicated
his life to it. And his pride in democracy and freedom. He risked his life
so his kids could keep living free.

His kids thought it was way over the top.

We didn't realize until later why it meant so much to him to be born
and raised in America.

[shrike3]

36. Their noses are out of joint. Joe hasn't sat down with them for an interview, and so they don't know for sure if he's

fit to be president. Because they're the final arbiters of such things.

They think they'll be fine if Trump gets in because they're the New York Times.

[Evolve Dammit]

41. JHC.

[FakeNoose]

16. America's ultra-wealthy are throwing $ millions at Chump

"Here ... take my money, please!"

This country is certifiably insane and the New York Times is PART of the reason, if not MOST of it.

[58Sunliner]

17. So true. I now need brain bleach.

[Paladin]

18. Fuckin' BULLSEYE by Rick Wilson. (nt)

[Faux pas]

19. Nailed It

[Evolve Dammit]

22. Well said Mr. Wilson. And so true. MSM really has it in for Joe. Hope they enjoy their hellscape if he loses.

[jeffreyi]

24. Mr. Wilson certainly does have a way with words.

"Feces Castle." Gonna remember that one. As in, rapist, treasonist, convicted felon FECES CASTLE!

[3825-87867]

25. How Long has he been doing this?

Since he's been reading the NYT!

Feel free to use your own caption.

[Martin68]

27. Brilliant!

[Blue Owl]

28. K and fucking R

Perfect description of that shitrag

[Rebl2]

38. That's the

stinking truth!

[young_at_heart]

40. I canceled my subscription long ago

As soon as I noticed "something isn't right" I said goodbye and stopped playing "Wordle"!

[bluboid]

42. whoa, Rick... thank you for daring to go...

where others fear to tread! true genius.

[The Roux Comes First]

50. Well Said!

The "Gray Lady" has so soiled herself over the last few decades that I look closely at the details of the recipes from NYT Cooking, the only remaining portion of the paper that matters to me for poison pills.

[brush]

51. He's correct. The shady lady...er, ah...Gray Lady is in decline along with trump.

Sad.

[Gary 50]

52. There is a spot reserved in the gulag for Rick Wilson should Trump successfully steal the presidency.

[BradBo]

54. He the embodiment of "The Aristocrats" joke.

[dalton99a]

58. No truer words