Liz Cheney just tweeted: The 2020 presidential election was not stolen.

[Nevilledog]

Link to tweet

Tweet text:
Josh Jordan
@NumbersMuncher
This is 100% true and many people in power who know better are exploiting Republicans voters to boost *their* own power and influence - and it's causing real damage.

Liz Cheney
@Liz_Cheney
The 2020 presidential election was not stolen. Anyone who claims it was is spreading THE BIG LIE, turning their back on the rule of law, and poisoning our democratic system.
7:45 AM · May 3, 2021

[multigraincracker]

1. Strange times we live in.

All of the cops are criminals and all the sinners saints.

[nolabear]

13. Boy, that lyric is really pertinent isn't it? But it's a good reminder there's no b/w.

It's easy among people you imagine think exactly as you do to concretize every "other" into a two-dimensional object, but people are complex and astounding.

[COL Mustard]

15. Good For Liz

She's at least honest about it. There's a lot about her to dislike, but ya gotta give her credit for saying this.

[Iggo]

23. Most peculiar, momma.

[raccoon]

40. Is that you, Mick? That's a great song. Nt

[multigraincracker]

41. Well, let me introduce myself.....

[SoCalDavidS]

2. Most repubs Couldn't Care Less What She Thinks

She is going to have a huge fight trying to save her seat next year.

[Volaris]

12. Maybe...this statement puts her smack square in the Lincoln Projects wheelhouse,

And they will make a point (and an example, if they can) of KEEPING her in that seat, and they will fire off as many big guns as they need to..they will WRECK any right-side trumpcult primary challenger. Remember, these are lifetime republican campaign operatives and they know what they're doing. They will bring the Sharp Knives, and will absolutely use them to fuck them some rats.

For what it's worth, I'm glad shes not a cultist. I AM pissed that the iteration of the republican party were forced to defend now, is Bush/Iraq2.

[cilla4progress]

14. Your lips to

the universe's ear....

Atheist prayer.

[Eyeball_Kid]

3. Liz is making her move. She's going to split from the current GOP and...

take a number of Republicans with her.

Her views and those of McCarthy and the Trumpers are seriously incompatible. There is no way that the two factions can compromise. Cheney is making an "ideological" stand of sorts. She's saying that the truth of the election matters, with no equivocations.

Cheney really has no other choice, now that she made her position very clear by a public declaration. When Cheney makes her break and takes several GOPers with her, the GOP is doomed to chronic election losses on a national scale, and those losses will eventually "trickle down" to state legislatures and municipalities.

In a way, Trump hastened the demise of the GOP. He exposed the GOP as a fascist, white supremacy organization. Liz would rather muffle that noise and blanket the GOP's agenda with high-minded "principles." IOW, Cheney knows the value of euphemisms and PR. This drama is just beginning.

[moonscape]

39. 'A number of Republicans' might be counted

on one hand. I’m not sure there are more than that with her courage.

That said, while skeptical, I wish her success for the sake of the country and so once the breakaway party is a success I can go back to despising her.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

4. Liz Cheney is not a nice person but she does live in the real world

The GOP is now the party of the former guy and is purging sane persons

Link to tweet

[Nevilledog]

5. Yup.

Link to tweet

Tweet text:
Amanda Carpenter
@amandacarpenter
·
May 3, 2021
If true, let's be 100 percent clear about what's happening. You have to be a liar to be in good standing with the leadership of the GOP.

It's that damn simple.

Scott Wong
@scottwongDC
Replying to @scottwongDC
Ally to @GOPLeader McCarthy sends a text just now: "There is no way that Liz will be conference chair by month’s end"

Echoes comments by Rep. @Lancegooden over the weekend https://thehill.com/homenews/house/551261-gop-frustration-with-liz-cheney-at-a-boiling-point…

Amanda Carpenter
@amandacarpenter
The fact that people are going after Liz Cheney for having the AUDACITY to say what happened on January 6 happened, while these guys give shelter and cover to folks like Matt Gaetz is sick.

Don't do this.
8:07 AM · May 3, 2021

[peggysue2]

8. Bill Kristol and Liz Cheney?

Talk about strange times!

The fact that I, a liberal Democrat, supports the current efforts of a former Neo-con and the daughter of Darth Vader is strange indeed. But there you go, two Republicans who are fighting within the Crazy Pants Party (though I think Kristol left the Republican Party) gain my salute.

Breathtaking.

Strange times make for strange bedfellows in the war against autocracy and fascism.

[Hekate]

29. Yes

[Mike Nelson]

6. I don't like...

... her "Conservative" views, but I admire her taking this stand. We need a two-party system... interesting how she uses the term "The Big Lie" to describe the Trumpsters big lie. Many in media use the term, now. I like it!

[Bayard]

7. She should get her dad to take McCarthy hunting

Good to see a few can still think for themselves.

[Vinca]

9. I'm no Cheney fan, but in 2024 if she decides to primary Trump I think all Dems who can cross

over to vote in the primary should vote for her just to drive Dear Former Leader nuts. Of course, it will be no surprise if the GOP does away with primaries in the event the demented one runs again.

[BobTheSubgenius]

26. A lot of good stuff in a short post!

[roamer65]

36. I would agree.

It’s called strategic and retributionary voting.

It works!

[Schmice3]

10. She will run for President

She's gambling on the fever breaking before 2024 and Fifth Column fatigue setting in. Cheney vs. Biden or Cheney vs Harris; Either way another crossroad.

[cannabis_flower]

11. But.....

The 2000 and 2016 were!

[nevergiveup]

16. I personally can't stand her but

she is tough as nails and on this issue she is right. It would have been easier for her to jump into the clown car but she put her country first and for this I applaud her.

[moose65]

17. I agree

I'm no fan of Liz Cheney or her views on most (all?) issues, but on this one she is doing the right thing. Other Republicans need to do likewise.

[BlueNProud]

18. The fact that this is what passes for a Profile in Courage in 2021 is pathetic.

[BobTheSubgenius]

27. Excellent, albeit depressing point.

[liberalla]

19. K & R... whatever she does to bring on the GQP meltdown is fine by me!

I do appreciate the directness with no equivocation of her tweet.

[ancianita]

25. Agree. However

when she says "it's causing real damage" she's vague about the damage, even if she's not equivocating.

I can't imagine what Republican issues she'll run on, either, other than anti-Trumpism. Because the way I read the 74 million who voted? They're way past Republican conservative values -- so are the autocratic oligarchy of dark money donors -- and there seems to be no new constructive value platform for her to run on.

[appmanga]

20. Eventually...

...they're going to have to burn her at the stake.

[roamer65]

37. You don't burn a Cheney at the stake.

Then Darth Cheney comes out of the crypt and all is NOT well in the world.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

21. GOP equals Greed Over People. GQP equals Grand Quazy Party. . . . nt

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

22. She refuses to kiss the (T)Rump

Not a fan of hers but she's right in this case.

[FakeNoose]

34. I don't think she ever supported Chump

I'll admit she wasn't on my radar before last year, so maybe she said something supportive to a smaller audience, I don't know. Since she's been on the national stage, I've never heard her say anything to support Chump. It means she has her own campaign financing lined up, because she won't get anything from the national Repukes.

Not that I care one way or the other, but I admire her courage.

[ZZenith]

38. She's got all those sweet, sweet Halliburton dollars racked up from her father's rape of Iraq.

She doesn’t need any RNC dough.

[Iggo]

24. I'll say it again as nice as I can.

Anyone who doesn’t see that Liz Cheney is running for president is not paying attention.

[maxsolomon]

32. Haha, good luck to her

She hasn't a snowball's chance in hell.

[oasis]

28. Democracy in the USA will prevail because Biden's popularity numbers

are going to keep growing. Our Democratic leadership is wise enough to play their cards right.

"Trumpism" and the Big Lie mentality will fizzle and die out by the end of 2022.

[11 Bravo]

30. I still don't much care for her, but at least unlike most Republicans ...

there are some lines she just won't cross.

[RussBLib]

31. Only a few GOP care about the truth

That is truly fucking pathetically sad.

[Mr. Ected]

33. Trump didn't just threaten liberals, he and his entourage threatened democracy.

The Lincoln Project et al. jumped in to fight them. Republicans one and all. They didn't necessarily become Democrats to rise up against fascism. They simply temporarily shed their Republican skin and fought as Americans. I see Liz Cheney in the same light. Within her own ranks she sees the cancer growing and is wise to call it out, not as a Republican but as an American. That's what I find comforting in what she has just tweeted. But unlike the LP, though, she's in office, and they aren't. She will be battling the monster in situ. We may be watching the inculcation of a Republican counterattack within its own architecture, and that's something completely different. As Dems, it will be impossible for us to support her internal battle with the fascists, but we should. Not as Dems, but as Americans. That is the total scope of our support. This demon must be exorcised or we're toast, maybe not today, but someday.

[mvd]

35. She's terribly "conservative" but has a little respect for Democracy

Yes, it is a low bar, but that is what the GQP has become.