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Budi

(15,325 posts)
Tue Dec 1, 2020, 01:35 PM Dec 2020

From The Rick Wilson: "We Won't Forget and We Won't Forgive What Trumpists Did to America"

Trump heads to the door before even dropping the cash on the nightstand

That's the last 4 years condensed into one sentence
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We Won’t Forget and We Won’t Forgive What Trumpists Did to America

Rick Wilson

The dark is rising for Trump’s sycophants, toadies and enablers. Their tough-guy acts and fuck-your-feelings shit-talk have become a furious whine of complaints and recriminations as a toxic slurry of rage and despair has left a stinging bile in the back of their throats that won’t go away.
Trump lost, and they can’t spin their way past it.

Even as his lawyers are all but chased out of each town where they file their absurd, doomed lawsuits, the true believers still imagine some miracle ]emerging from the wreckage of Trump’s campaign.

The media apparatus that monetized the moronic state religion of Trumpism is still pumping their slowcoach followers full of stupid, easily disproven lies.


The Professional Class of Republicans, though, know that the bitter end is here—that their dirty half-decade of personal abnegation and degradation is coming to a sick, sad finale. It would leave them with a sense of shame if they had any.
Most of the GOP, Inc. types long ago lost that sensibility.
Still, America is watching them experiencing a combination of fury and humiliation as Trump heads to the door before even dropping the cash on the nightstand

https://www.thedailybeast.com/we-wont-forget-and-we-wont-forgive-what-trumpists-did-to-america?ref=home
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From The Rick Wilson: "We Won't Forget and We Won't Forgive What Trumpists Did to America" (Original Post) Budi Dec 2020 OP
Whatever you might think of Rick Wilson, he's a heckuva writer The Velveteen Ocelot Dec 2020 #1
Him and Steve Schmidt certainly have a way with words. brush Dec 2020 #2
Wilson's style is more colloquial and obscene; The Velveteen Ocelot Dec 2020 #3
Ok. That's a good description. I enjoy them both and will stop and listen... brush Dec 2020 #5
Here. The latest from Steve Schmidt Twitter. Budi Dec 2020 #7
They are furious because THEIR Republican Party has been utterly corrupted Martin Eden Dec 2020 #9
Yes, and he's saying what I want to hear. Biophilic Dec 2020 #4
Yes i've enjoyed wilson's style of writing onetexan Dec 2020 #11
Yeah, and we won't forget how you pushed those campaigns and party you served to label all of us as Glamrock Dec 2020 #6
+1 progressoid Dec 2020 #8
Never forgive and forget the GOP BigmanPigman Dec 2020 #10

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,686 posts)
1. Whatever you might think of Rick Wilson, he's a heckuva writer
Tue Dec 1, 2020, 01:38 PM
Dec 2020

with a real gift for invective. I every time...

brush

(53,776 posts)
2. Him and Steve Schmidt certainly have a way with words.
Tue Dec 1, 2020, 01:45 PM
Dec 2020

Haven't seen much of Schmidt's writing but if it's anything like his vocal deliveries it must come close to Wilson's.

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,686 posts)
3. Wilson's style is more colloquial and obscene;
Tue Dec 1, 2020, 01:50 PM
Dec 2020

Schmidt's oral commentaries are formal and somewhat academic. But they're both pretty eloquent.

brush

(53,776 posts)
5. Ok. That's a good description. I enjoy them both and will stop and listen...
Tue Dec 1, 2020, 01:57 PM
Dec 2020

when either comes on the TV.

Martin Eden

(12,864 posts)
9. They are furious because THEIR Republican Party has been utterly corrupted
Tue Dec 1, 2020, 02:48 PM
Dec 2020

Betrayal from within generates greater anger than attacks by an enemy from without.

Wilson and Schmidt are intelligent enough to know the devolution of the GOP into a cauldron of lies began long before Trump seized control and greatly accelerated the slide into the abyss. They were GOP operatives for many years of that devolution, but Trump was a bridge too far for them.

The fact that the vast majority of GOP foot soldiers marched over that bridge flying the Trump banner is a scathing indictment of today's Republican Party.

Biophilic

(3,652 posts)
4. Yes, and he's saying what I want to hear.
Tue Dec 1, 2020, 01:52 PM
Dec 2020

I'm entirely over being the thoughtful, conciliatory ones. These people threaten my country and what I believe in. They were willing to destroy us for their own gain. No, they don't get to slither quietly back under their well-heeled rocks.

Glamrock

(11,800 posts)
6. Yeah, and we won't forget how you pushed those campaigns and party you served to label all of us as
Tue Dec 1, 2020, 02:00 PM
Dec 2020

traitors because we knew the disaster that would be caused by invading Iraq. Nor will we forget how you recommended the dog whistle racism to win elections.

Fuck this asshole!

progressoid

(49,988 posts)
8. +1
Tue Dec 1, 2020, 02:20 PM
Dec 2020

Yep. Tweets in support of Travon Martin's killer. Tweets about "the South will rise again". Etc. Fuck this guy.

BigmanPigman

(51,590 posts)
10. Never forgive and forget the GOP
Tue Dec 1, 2020, 09:25 PM
Dec 2020

and all those who brought us to this poing starting with Reagun. Our min. wage should be at $20 an hour by now, unions would be stronger, there would be less hatred, our world wide reputation would be stronger too. The GOP has fucked us for 40 years.

This isn't just about tRumpers, this is about 40 years of systematically enriching their greedy, GOP deep pockets and controlling votes and consolidating power since the population is changing.

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