Twitter isn't real life, but it can give one a strong whiff of the putrescence of today's Republican party. The "Fuck Liz Cheney She's a Commie!" replies go on and on and on like all over social media, which is unsurprising. Any Republican capable of growing opposable thumbs and climbing down out of the Treasonous Idiot Tree did so political eons ago.
The reprogammable zombies who remain have been too well trained over too many decades by Republicans like [checks notes] -- hey whaddya know! -- trained by Republicans like Liz Cheney to automatically relegate to the status of dirty, commie Trump-hating, baby-murderers --
-- anyone who tries to tell them anything they don't want to hear.
Which is why, regardless of her flawless record of despicable Conservative vileness, the meatheads immediately ran her out of the Republican party the minute she told them something they didn't want to year.
You've got to admit, Liz & Company did a really bang-up job of turning the Republican base into a mindless doomsday machine with no "Off" switch.
And now she's been brought in as something akin to a trick shot artist in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. A sideshow act hired on to entertain the faithful, and maybe audition for a bit part in a possible Harris administration.
The rubes will ooh and they will ahh and it'll get her booked on every Sunday show, and in the end, it won't mean a thing, because go ahead and paint me a picture of the Republican voter who, after a decade of Trump lies, corruption, racism and madness, is still all-in on him. Nothing has budged them. Not Trump's sexual predation. Not the felonies. Not his COVID debacle. Not J6. Not defiling Arlington. Nothing.
What's more, following their decades of now-hardwired Conservative media conditioning, they will reflexively reject anyone who even tries to tell them anything they don't want to hear. However ultra-uber-super Conservative that person might have been up until they said a Bad Thing about Trump, the moment they break bad on the Il Douche is the moment they get automatically sorted into the Dirty Commie Deep State Liberal Media Conspiracy pile.
So paint me a picture of that person suddenly saying to themselves, "Y'know I was gonna vote for Trump a third time, but that Cheney endorsement turned me right around! Now I'm voting for the Communist!"
However, like the Lincoln Project scam in 2020, should the Harris/Walz ticket win in November, you can damn betcha that ol' Liz will use her juice with the legacy media and her juice with the Never Trump media to lay claim to as large and undeserved a slice of cake as she can grab.
Because, at the end of the day --
Kamala Harris is a radical liberal who would raise taxes, take away guns & health insurance, and explode the size and power of the federal gov’t. She wants to recreate America in the image of what’s happening on the streets of Portland & Seattle. We won’t give her the chance.
— Liz Cheney (@Liz_Cheney) August 11, 2020
-- she's still a fucking Cheney.
G'd morning DG and BG!
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You've surely thought of this, but please - PLEASE - screenshot and save that tweet, or even just bookmark its location in Wayback or IA.
You know Ms. Cheney will quickly delete it the moment it starts re-trending on Xitter.
Thanks for all you do.
As you allude to in your post, if you replace every instance of the word "democracy" with "the Republican Party" everything Liz et. al. says suddenly makes a lot more sense, given their history. Republicans built their Doomsday machine with no off switch because they could not imagine The Mule showing up and just taking it away from them. I occasionally think there might be some vestige of awareness democracy has some value to the Republlican party, but I always remember who she learned the Dark Art from, and re-realize no, she just wants to be positioned to claim salvage rights when her party hits those rocks just ahead.
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