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.”

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— 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.