Rick Wilson Suspended From X After Calling on Progressives to 'Kill Tesla'

As David pointed out this morning, Democratic grifter Rick Wilson and the Lincoln Project have a habit of suggesting we should kill people they don’t like. This afternoon, Wilson had his X account suspended after posting a link to a Substack article calling on his fellow Democrats to “kill Tesla.” Here’s the tweet that got him in trouble.

🚨BREAKING: The Lincoln Project’s Rick Wilson says he has been locked out of his X account after posting “Kill Tesla, Save The Country” earlier today. pic.twitter.com/R5kSceY08q

— Off The Press (@OffThePress1) March 19, 2025

That tweet is now gone because of the suspension but he posted the same thing on Bluesky.

Kill Tesla, Save The Country open.substack.com/pub/therickw…

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— Rick Wilson (@therickwilson.bsky.social) March 19, 2025 at 4:08 AM

If you follow the link you’ll go to his Substack article which you can’t read unless you subscribe or sign up for a 7-day trial. Since I don’t want to be on this guy’s mailing list all I can see are the first two paragraphs.

Tesla is no longer just a car company; it’s a bank for fascists, a goose-stepping hedge fund bankrolling the political fever dreams of Elon Musk and his DOGE dreams of controlling the ruins of the American government as he becomes Earth’s first trillionaire and then the Emperor of Mars.

Musk’s power and wealth are inseparable from Tesla’s absurdly inflated stock price. If the Tesla bubble pops, so does Elon’s ability to keep throwing money around like a drunken Russian oligarch in a Macao casino.

This site seems to have coped over more of the text:

Here’s the political physics of it all: Pressure on Tesla is pressure on Musk. Break Tesla’s stock, and you start to break Elon’s ability to bankroll authoritarian fantasies…and if that kneecaps Trump in the process, well, boo-hoo.

This sounds like Wilson’s usual hyperbolic nonsense. Obviously, he isn’t the first person to figures this out. Tesla stock has been taking a dive all year. Democrats have been selling their Teslas and posting about it publicly for clicks. All he’s doing here is saying explicitly what lots of people are already doing, i.e. trying to punish Musk by damaging Tesla.

What makes this questionable is that Wilson is using an image of a burning cybertruck to promote his message at a moment when people are literally burning cybertrucks in protest. That particular image comes from the deranged guy who shot himself and blew up his Trump in front of a Trump hotel in Las Vegas on New Year’s Day. The image hits differently after two arsons aimed at Tesla this week.

That’s obviously not an accident on Wilson’s part and, from what I can tell, he never does say that vandalism and arson are the wrong approach. Who knows, maybe he did say it somewhere. Even if he did I wouldn’t believe him. I think the imagery is intentionally sending another message, one that he can’t put in print. And clearly people responding to him on both sides of the aisle get that.

It has a picture of a Tesla on fire, and says “Kill” and “attack.” Textbook case of violent tweet. https://t.co/KrNRwXrapB

— Tim Graham (@TimJGraham) March 19, 2025

Oh, stop. You think you can post something like this and get away with acting complete oblivious to your not-so-subtle violent imagery?

Kill Tesla
Elon has a weak spot. Attack.

Above a photo of a burning Tesla. https://t.co/u0eHARfM6m

— MeliAndee (@meliandee) March 19, 2025

Folks on the left get it too.

“What goes around, comes around.” So what comes next? What will Progressives do if people start torching Abortion Clinics? Or Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream shops? Take the Wilson meme, substitute a burning B&J’s shop for the Tesla dealer, and how do you react? Applause? Understanding? Outrage?

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— levbronstien.bsky.social (@levbronstien.bsky.social) March 19, 2025 at 11:27 AM

Burn them ALL!!!

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— stephenbruzdowski.bsky.social (@stephenbruzdowski.bsky.social) March 19, 2025 at 9:43 AM

Since I don’t want to pay you for a substack subscription, I’m unable to determine whether or not you are advocating for vandalism and violence, as suggested by the photo and article title posted here on Bluesky.

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— herronisland supports Ukraine! (@herronisland.bsky.social) March 19, 2025 at 6:49 AM

To be clear, calling for a boycott of Tesla products is fine. That’s just the left’s version of what the right did to Bud Light. And if people want to buy a Tesla just to set it on fire, that’s dangerous and stupid but it’s at least their car.

Where it crosses a line is vandalizing or setting fire to someone else’s property. That’s what the unhinged left is doing this week and what Wilson seems to be leaning into with his tweet, albeit in a way he can still deny that was his intent.

I can see why Twitter suspended him but naturally Wilson and many on the left are having a field day claiming his free speech is being punished. There’s a video out already of Wilson whining about it, but I’m not going to include it because my tolerance for him is pretty low. Here’s an example.

Silencing of your critics is straight out of the authoritarian playbook, and one step closer to the total loss of our freedoms. That’s what Elon did by suspending Rick Wilson. #RickWilson pic.twitter.com/FtWvPFix7L

— Ray Loewe (@rloewe65) March 20, 2025

In my view there’s a straight line between “free Luigi,” to “free Palestine” to “kill Tesla.” Lots of people on the left support terrorism, they just can’t say it openly. What they can do is give a wink and a nod so you know what they mean without them quite saying it.