Grifter Rick Wilson Whines About Lonely Night With His Cats After Getting X Ban for ‘Kill Tesla’ Post

Everybody's favorite boomer rube, virulent Never Trumper and Lincoln Project co-founder Rick Wilson, took to leftist social media to lament about his "quiet" house after getting kicked off X for threatening imagery promoting violence against Tesla.

If you haven't seen it yet, Wilson posted a substack article about attacking Tesla purely from a financial standpoint. The problem is that Rick thinks he's clever despite volumes of real-life examples that he is basically AOC with less hair.

As such, Wilson sent his post out on social media accompanied by an image of the burning shell of the Tesla Cybertruck that an Army soldier detonated outside a Trump hotel in Las Vegas on New Year's Day. The imagery itself was a call to violence when you consider the backdrop of constant ongoing firebombings of Tesla dealerships.

But Wilson, rightly suspecting that his readers aren't mentally capable of putting two and two together, had to punctuate it with a headline that reads: "Kill Tesla, Save the Country - Elon has a Weak Spot. Attack."

🚨 NEW: Prominent left-winger Rick Wilson is now calling on his audience to "k*ll Tesla" to "save the country," with a photo of an on-fire Cybertruck.

"Elon has a weak spot. Attack."

FBI! pic.twitter.com/XhF101fE3x
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) March 19, 2025

Again, what you have here is a case where Wilson thinks he's so much more clever than his political opposition. His article is behind a paywall. So he knows full well that the headline and image will create a stir while he can rest easy on the crutch of, 'Well if you read the article, you'll know that's not what I'm saying.'

The problem is that nobody would pay for the privilege of reading the pseudointellectual tripe that Rick is known for. As such, X banned his account over the very obvious threats meant to gin up already-occurring violence against Tesla dealerships and Tesla owners.

Now, anybody who knows Rick (and I'm sure most RedState readers are familiar with this) knows that, as opposed to most well-adjusted members of society, Wison tends to double down on stupidity. Unsurprisingly, he did just that, mocking "MAGA dips***s" for not understanding his complex mind. A mind with all the actual complexity involved in tying one's shoes.

Hence, he removed the paywall on his article to essentially say, 'See? I didn't mean to kill Tesla literally."

Brand Fail: Lincoln Project Adviser Rick Wilson's Week Goes From Embarrassing to Utterly Humiliating

But our intrepid warrior wasn't done there. He posted a video to YouTube saying he is developing a plan to "ruin" Elon Musk. And he altered his original call to action slightly.

“Break Tesla. Break Elon,” Wilson said in the video. “Now I’m actually writing it up as a plan. Now I’ve actually got people calling me, like, ‘Why aren’t we doing this?’ Now I’ve got people with money saying, ‘Why aren’t we doing this?’ Well, now we are.”

It's no longer kill, but rather "break Tesla." It's no longer attack, but rather "break Musk."

Look, I'm not going to point out the obvious failures of a man who co-founded an organization whose sole purpose was to keep Donald Trump out of the White House. A man who thinks he's got "people with money" in his pocket when his Lincoln Project baby ended last year with hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt.

What I will say is this: Wilson's big plan appears to involve whining about his rough week and lamenting that he's spending a lonely night in the house with his cats.

"The house is very quiet with no one here but me and the pets. It’s been a week," he wrote on Bluesky.

The house is very quiet with no one here but me and the pets. It’s been a week.

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— Rick Wilson (@therickwilson.bsky.social) March 21, 2025 at 12:36 AM

Poor fella. I mean, if you keep going around threatening to kill people and/or things, you're going to end up home alone with the cats quite often, one would imagine.

If you're not familiar with Bluesky, by the way, it's basically an Island of Misfit Toys for unhinged liberals doing as Rick does, threatening violence. In fact, one of the first comments to his post is a woman hopefully proclaiming, "I can't wait till the evil is dead and gone."

I don't encourage you to go there. It's like putting on those special sunglasses Roddy Piper had in the movie "They Live" and suddenly seeing the aliens you never knew lived among us.

This isn't the first time Wilson has used violent rhetoric and played it off as people just misinterpreting the comments or parsing his words.

The former GOP strategist in 2015 went on MSNBC and urged the "donor class" to "go out and put a bullet in Donald Trump."

Rick Wilson in 2015: The donor class has to "go out and put a bullet in Donald Trump." pic.twitter.com/cv7BoTjYvr
— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) April 8, 2018

After calling Trump voters "fascists" in 2017, Wilson said he’d like to see "fascists" hung from a tree not long after.

In 2020, he emerged from his parent’s basement long enough to tweet a message suggesting First Lady Melania Trump should “be infected” with coronavirus.

Wilson does and says some really stupid things for a self-fantasizing intellectual superpower.

This is the same man who took part in a CNN segment in which panelists mocked supporters of the president, and he called them “credulous boomer rubes.”

The arrogance, the dismissiveness, the smug cackling, the accents.

If Donald Trump wins re-election this year, I’ll remember this brief CNN segment late one Saturday night in January as the perfect encapsulation for why it happened. pic.twitter.com/8kQ6zN9AZV
— Steve Krakauer (@SteveKrak) January 28, 2020

“Donald Trump’s the smart one – and y’all elitists are dumb!'” Wilson said with a heavy southern drawl, imitating what he thought a Trump supporter sounds like.

Turns out, if Rick wanted to see what a boomer rube looked like, all he had to do was step over the cats, turn on the lights in his "very quiet" house, and look in a mirror.

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