Rick Wilson

“That's part of what should scare people about the economy right now, but it ain't the only part. We got a lot we got a lot of stuff going wrong. I mean, the last twenty four hours, there have been stories about, record farm bankruptcies. Right. Not great. Nobody should be happy about that. You never wanna break records with bankruptcies.”

“Maybe we would not have this this economic calamity staring us in the ass of the straits, but we do. That's part of what should scare people about the economy right now, but it ain't the only part. We got a lot we got a lot of stuff going wrong.”

“I saw a Republican friend of mine this weekend up in DC who said to me, oh, yeah. The senate's gone. Oh, it's done. I'm like, really? He's like, everything's collapsing. If he would just shut the fuck up, we might be able to pull out the senate.”

“I think that the dinner itself has had an identity crisis for the last ten years. Fifty? I'm sorry. Yeah. Go on. Some well, I'm being extremely generous about this. Right. And in the era of Trump, he doesn't ever go. He hates it. He shits on it.”

“The state senate will be a little, you you know, that path is a little more clear than the state assembly. But given everything that has been going on, across the country, people's very real frustration with Republicans in the way that Donald Trump has left folks behind, there is a possibility that we will have a trifecta, and that's what I am working towards.”

“Providers aren't getting the money to be able to pay the teachers what they deserve. Parents are often cash wrapped and aren't able to pay, especially if they have to jack up prices to be able to pay teachers. And the state has to step in at some point because this is a workforce issue.”

“I remember the first round of tariffs in 2019. I had a conversation, we were doing a farm visit and a guy I had asked the question I said, well, you know, what's the impact of tariffs here? And he said, if you're asking me if these tariffs are gonna be the death knell for rural America, the answer is yes.”

“I don't trust that we're gonna have those standards set by the federal government, not with this EPA. So as a state, we need to set a set of rules governed by the DNR. And the fact is well, I should say I say that it should be a statewide set because local governments, like, if they go and try to appeal and are turned down, they shouldn't just be able to go to another community.”

“There was a real belief that he would do something to either order them to do something stupid or leak it. And either one of those scenarios would have resulted in that that F-15 backseater either being dead or being an Iranian hostage. And they realized that it should tell you a lot that the people who actually are on the pointy end of the stick with our military do not trust their commander in chief.”

“The people in Nazi Germany who, the Germans who resisted the Nazis, they asked themselves like a very simple question. They said, can I live with myself? And it wasn't about like a set of morals or, they were just like, can I live with myself? Like, can I live with a murderer? You know, and if the answer is no, they just didn't do it. I imagine that for some people, it's that simple.”

“I think that's the top line here. He's doing this because Joe Rogan is really mad at him and has been saying that he doesn't support him on his podcast to 80 million people. And so Donald Trump is desperately trying to win him back. And so he's decided psychedelics are the way, which I think all of this should say quite a lot about Trump, quite a lot about how we got here, quite a lot about Joe Rogan.”

“Canada is, they have put, they've done elbows up. They are just done with us. We need them for tourism. We need them for trade and we're losing them. And it's just, it's such a dumb, dumb, unforced error. And you know, Donald Trump is dumb. I mean, he's dumb and he's bad at being president. And so here we go. We've alienated this country that we definitely need.”

“Cash Patel, sec drunk as I call him. Cash Patel is increasingly seen inside the FBI and the administration as somebody with a drinking problem. He is not going to win this fight because he has over a dozen sources who said, He drinking. This isn't good. It's funny because it's like you think about Cash Patel and you think about his deputy, at least until he went back to his podcast, was Dan Bondrino.”

“My son is a pollster, and we talk about this every damn Friday, where we do our polling wrap-up. And this is... It has now reached the point where no Republican in the country can feel safe. In safe seats with a plus 20 now, maybe you feel safe. But we used to define safe seats as being R plus five. I mean, even in the ballpark, we're safe anymore.”

“JD Vance is running for president in 2028 And I don't think he fired Buckley just because Tucker's saying shit about Donald Trump. I think he fired Buckley because he recognizes that when he wants to run for president, Tucker is one of those people, as crazy as you think it sounds right now when we're saying it in broad daylight, Tucker is one of those people who could be a potential candidate in a primary against JD Vance.”