Liz Cheney made headlines this week when she boldly stated the obvious by declaring the 2020 election was not stolen despite Donald Trump‘s most recent claims that it was, and nobody was more impressed by her bravery than John McCain’s daughter.
“The 2020 presidential election was not stolen,” Cheney tweeted yesterday. “Anyone who claims it was is spreading THE BIG LIE, turning their back on the rule of law, and poisoning our democratic system.”
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.
— Liz Cheney (@Liz_Cheney) May 3, 2021
Later in the day, Meghan McCain, co-host of The View, took to Twitter to voice her deep admiration for the #3 Republican, who she called a “queen.”
“Slay queen @Liz_Cheney,” Meghan McCain tweeted, along with that iconic GIF of Angela Bassett walking away from the burning car in Waiting to Exhale.
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Slay queen @Liz_Cheney pic.twitter.com/KUKQVsavUK
— Meghan McCain (@MeghanMcCain) May 3, 2021
There is sooooo much wrong with this tweet, we don’t even know where to begin. So maybe it’s better if we let others do the talking for us.
Here are the responses…
Don’t appropriate queer culture for someone who won’t respect her own sister’s marriage
— (@joesangweid) May 3, 2021
“Slay queen”? What is this…2014??
— ✨⭐️✨ (@dandeeloins) May 3, 2021
You’re just so totally obnoxious.
— josieforonejosieforall (@josieringolevio) May 3, 2021
Digital blackface is not okay. Just no.
— mariposafierce (@mariposafierce) May 3, 2021
Stop talking like that. You sound dumb.
— Fake Housewife of Manhattan (@WinterF97376664) May 3, 2021
You love using our cultural phrases but you hate black peoples
— Darnell Gardner (@DBGardner_Sr) May 3, 2021
I seem to remember you trashing Liz a little over a month ago.
— Wendy Pacheco (@wp_SMAMX) May 4, 2021
Questionable choice of gif…
— ✨⭐️✨ (@dandeeloins) May 3, 2021
You don’t get to use gay slang when you’re a part of the party who tries to erase & harm LGBTQ.
Sit down.— Freddie (@Freddie23491583) May 4, 2021
This is why you are part of the problem
— Michael Wright (@michaelstpetefl) May 4, 2021
You confuse us Meghan
— Cindy Thompson (@lucindathompso) May 3, 2021
Most teenagers stopped saying “Queen.”
— Pfully Pfizered! (NO Stranger DMs) (@LifeInPics2) May 3, 2021
You should look up digital black face. This tweet of yours is a prime example.
— ✨The Police Started As Slave Catchers in 1704✨ (@ndlr1198) May 3, 2021
— GA dems gonna keep the Senate blue (@DemsGonna) May 3, 2021
Graham Gremore is the Features Editor and a Staff Writer at Queerty. Follow him on Twitter @grahamgremore.
Cam
Meghan inherited millions, owned her first house as a teen, has never worked a real job, was hired to ABC when her father was on the Senate Committee that oversaw all telecom companies including TV networks, and is married to the man who runs the uber-bigoted, anti-LGBTQ, right wing site “The Federalists”. Meghan routinely pushes out conspiracies from this site and it is likely that her fortune funds the site.
So not really expecting her to come correct.
BoomerMyles
AMEN. I don’t know how in the spirit of full disclosure The View doesn’t announce me-again’s relationship with this awful and biased website.
Creamsicle
TL;DR: Meghan McCain: says something dumb daily
Twitter: You can’t sit with us
bamboo_child
This is ridiculous. I prefer not to live in a segregated country…that includes memes too. What’s next? Black and white water fountains only again?
mailliw110
Nope. Gay and straight restrooms. Or Democrat and Republican. Which means you won’t be able to use neither, because you can’t be a gay Republican.
MissTerri
“Digital blackface” – Another fake outrage! NEXT!!!
Fahd
If Meghan McCain is allowed to continue on the View after her current contract, then heads should roll, and I will conclude that there is no God. I enjoy reading the Twitter pile on against her. She deserves every bit of it; she’s an entitled brat and enough time has passed since her father’s death. Her network television platform should be withdrawn.
MissTerri
I’m sure the entertainment industry will be RIGHT ON IT!!!!
Fahd
@MissTerri
No one knows profit and loss better than show business. I guess we’ll see, but I’m sure she’s on her way out – she’s pretty much at rock bottom, anyway.
dave22
We already have Sara Haines and Ana Navarro who are two intelligent non biased women on the view. Why you still allow Meghan with her biased and negative political rants and rages, and her LGBTQ hating husband to continue on this show is beyond reason. I’m sure your viewership has been affected by her because I do not know one person that has a positive thing to say about her along with her co hosts most of the time, and many times she has to be cut off so the network has to go to commercial to shut her up. This is really poor for your network.
moretruth
Among the horrible, stupid or cringeworthy things she had said, this is about 567,868th on the list. Appropriation is not a really thing (because everyone would be “guilty” down to the language you speak, the clothes you wear, the food you eat and more), and certainly not something worth getting into a tizzy over. Frankly, I think anyone that talks like that is dated, simple, frivolous and tacky, anywhere. Let’s pick better battles
ciasteczek
“Digital blackface”?? Are those people for real??
LumpyPillows
I don’t get it either.
greekboy
Frustrated fat girl with really bad taste in hair, makeup and clothes. She’ll change her attitudes when she busts down the closet door. I mean that girl will shatter that door
Kangol2
Look, I’m Black and gay and have no problem with her using the term “Slay queen.” I mean, McCain is abhorrent, unqualified for her position, and a mouthpiece for the far-right views of her plagiarist husband, and the irony of her using the phrases is as thick as the Matterhorn, since both she and Liz Cheney endlessly defend the racist, homophobic and sexist GOP.
At the same time, the phrase “slay, queen” has entered the general discourse, like quite a lot of Black gay lingo, so it’s not like anyone is going to keep it on lockdown. There is a LOT to be outraged about, like racism and White supremacy themselves, along with all of the hysteria around anti-racist programs, and so on, but a dizzy heiress using one phrase is not the end of the world. If the n-word comes out of her mouth, that’s another story.
tjay7
John McCain picked Sarah Palin because she reminded him of his daughter.
LumpyPillows
Cultural appropriation is another overreach by the looney left. It is pure nonsense. It is one of the list of stupid things our side gets hysterical over that keeps people voting for republicans.
daddytop
People keep voting for Republicans for one reason only: they are anti-abortion.
Most republicans have no idea what “cultural appropriation” even means.
LumpyPillows
Daddy, you clearly live under a rock.
Iona Lexiss
Thank you Lumpy. This is an example where democrats begin feeding on themselves……more non-issues or making something out of absolutely nothing.
xflare
Digital Black Face ,,,,,,…….
Max
I wonder what her adopted sister, who is black, thinks.
Kangol2
She’s South Asian, but good try.