Showing posts with label Ted Lieu. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ted Lieu. Show all posts

Friday, March 06, 2026

I Didn't Say It ...

Bill Clinton, enraging the GOP by releasing a full breakdown of his Epstein deposition:

"I just finished testifying in front of the House Oversight Committee. I did it for two reasons. First, I love my country, including our Constitution and America was built on the idea that no person is above the law, even presidents, especially presidents, and that we should all live under the same set of rules. This kind of democracy requires every person to play their part and I hope that by being here today, we can bring ourselves just a little further away from the brink and back to being a country where we can disagree civilly and we can search for truth and justice, and that it outweighs the partisan urge to score points and create spectacle. The second reason I was there is that the girls and women whose lives Jeffrey Epstein destroyed deserve not just justice, but healing. They've been waiting too long for both. Though my brief acquaintance with Epstein ended years before his crimes came to light, and though I never witnessed during our limited interactions any indication of what was truly going on, I offered the little I do know in the hopes that it would help prevent anything like this from ever happening again. I also have to say something personal. Republicans made Hillary testify yesterday, and she had nothing to do with Jeffrey Epstein. Nothing. She has no memory of ever even meeting him. She neither traveled with him nor visited any of his properties. So whether ten people or ten thousand people were subpoenaed, concluding her was simply not right. So here's what I told the committee: First, I had no idea the crimes Epstein was committed. No matter how many photos they show of me, I have two things that at the end of the day matter far more than any interpretation of 20-year-old photos. I know what I saw, and more importantly, what I didn't see. And I know what I did, and more importantly, what I didn't do. I saw nothing and did nothing wrong. As someone who grew up in a home with domestic violence, not only would I not have flown on his plane if I had any inkling of what he was doing, I would have turned to him myself and led the call for justice for his crimes, not the sweetheart deal that he got. But even with 20/20 hindsight, I saw nothing that ever gave me a real pause. We're only here today because Epstein hid it from everyone so well for so long. And by the time it came to light with his 2008 guilty plea, I had long stopped associating with it. When the video of my testimony today is released, I hope it will motivate everyone to go in front of Congress to say what they know. I hope it will motivate the Justice Department to finally release all the files and to ensure that this never happens again. The survivors deserve that."

Forcing Clinton, a former president, to testify means that Cankles, the real predator and child rapist and friend of Epstein, fair game and should be forced immediately to explain his Epstein relationship under oath.

The same goes with calling Hillary; the committee picked the wrong First Lady: drag that Slovenian Hooker into the room.

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Zohran Mamdani, New York City Mayor, on Cankles’ illegal war:

“Today’s military strikes on Iran—carried out by the United States and Israel—mark a catastrophic escalation in an illegal war of aggression. Bombing cities. Killing civilians. Opening a new theater of war. Americans do not want this. They do not want another war in pursuit of regime change. They want relief from the affordability crisis. They want peace. I am focused on making sure that every New Yorker is safe. I have been in contact with our Police Commissioner and emergency management officials. We are taking proactive steps, including increasing coordination across agencies and enhancing patrols of sensitive locations out of an abundance of caution. Additionally, I want to speak directly to Iranian New Yorkers: you are part of the fabric of this city—you are our neighbors, small business owners, students, artists, workers, and community leaders. You will be safe here.”

This is how a leader responds; Mamdani listens to We The People and knows we don’t want a war. And then he assures the people of NYC, including Iranian New Yorkers, that he will work to keep everyone safe.

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Pat Ryan, Democrat Congressman from New York, taking on GOP Senator Markwayne Mullin for his interview with Fox News where he discussed what war is actually like:

“Hey [Senator Mullin] what the  actual fuck are you talking about? Did I miss the part of your bio where you served in combat (or served in uniform at all??). Call of Duty doesn’t count. I served two combat tours in Iraq. I’ve seen what happens when a lying, chicken-hawk President beats the war drums. I ran for Congress and serve on the Armed Services Committee because I refuse to let the country I love repeat those mistakes. It’s why we passed the War Powers Act (after Vietnam) in the first place. So that before the President sends our troops into harm’s way, he has to make his case TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.”

Bumpkin Markwayne gave an interview with Fox News where he spoke of war, and the smell of war, and how you never forget it, even though he’d never, ever been to war.

Perhaps he was talking about the war in the White House for people who don’t want to sit close to a smelly, farting, dirty diaper wearing racist rapist?

Now that would stink!

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Ted Lieu, California Democrat Representative, on the chaos and mishandling of helping Americans get out of the Middle East for Cankles’ illegal war:

“Dear Secretary Rubio: You told Americans to depart now via commercial means when you know many airports [and] airspace are closed. You must immediately schedule US evacuation flights for the stranded Americans in danger. You should have thought of a frickin’ plan first!”

Rubio, as Secretary of Foam Parties State should have been thinking of Americans in the region and had a plan to get them out before Cankles decided to drop bombs.

Nowe those Americans are at risk in this illegal war.

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Rick Wilson, political strategist, media consultant, author based and former member of the GOP, on Cankles’ illegal war:

“Just so we’re clear, the number of Americans who approve of [Cankles’] war is 27%. So we’re also clear, the number of Americans who approved of the Vietnam War at its end in 1974 was 29%”

The war will not improve his ratings, nor will it stop the Epstein scandal, all it does is prove how woefully inept and stupidly dangerous Cankle sis to America and the world.

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Pete Buttigieg, future President of the United States, on Cankles illegal war of defection:

The President has launched our nation and our great military into a war of choice, risking American lives and resources, ignoring American law, and endangering our allies and partners. It does nothing to help with the urgent problems here at home that Americans face every day. This nation learned the hard way that an unnecessary war, with no plan for what comes next, can lead to years of chaos and put America in still greater danger.”

Common sense again.

Cankles illegally started a war, and in the first hours killed schoolchildren, put Americans trapped in that region at risk, all because he wants you to stop talking about how he raped a young girl on Pedophile Island.

Make it make sense.

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Hillary Clinton, former US Senator and Sectary of State, at her closed-door testimony into the Epstein Scandal:

“You have held zero public hearings, refused to allow the media to attend them, despite espousing the need for transparency. You have made little effort to call the people who show up most prominently in the Epstein Files. And when you did, not a single Republican member showed up for Les Wexner’s testimony. This institutional failure is designed to protect one political party and one public official, rather than seek truth and justice for victims and survivors.”

Wexner has been known as a primary source of Epstein's money and power but the GOP didn’t want to question him so they went after Hillary, who didn’t know Epstein. 

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Friday, February 20, 2026

I Didn't Say It ...

Stephen Colbert, The Late Show host, revealing that CBS AKA Complete Bull Shit, refused to air his interview with Texas Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico due to bullying by Cankles’ FCC:

“You know, you know who is not one of my guests tonight? That's Texas State Representative James Talarico. He was supposed to be here, but we were told in no uncertain terms by our network's lawyers, who called us directly, that we could not have him on the broadcast. Then, then I was told in some uncertain terms that not only could I not have him on, I could not mention me not having him on. And because my network clearly doesn't want us to talk about this, let's talk about this. So, you might have heard of this thing called the Equal Time Rule, okay? It's an old FCC rule that applies only to radio and broadcast television, not cable or streaming, that says if a show has a candidate on during an election, they have to have all that candidate's opponents on as well. It's the FCC's most time-honored rule, right after no nipples at the Super Bowl. There's long been an exception for this rule, an exception for news interviews and talk show interviews with politicians. Now, that's crucial. How else were voters supposed to know back in ‘92 that Bill Clinton sucked at saxophone? But, on January 21st of this year, a letter was released by FCC Chairman and smug bowling pin Brendan Carr. In this letter, Carr said he was thinking about dropping the exception for talk shows because he said some of them were motivated by partisan purposes. Well, sir, you're chairman of the FCC, so FCC you. Let's just call this what it is. [Cankles’] administration wants to silence anyone who says anything bad about [Cankles] on TV because all [Cankles] does is watch TV. Okay? He's like a toddler with too much screen time. He gets cranky and then drops a load in his diapers. So, it's no surprise, it's no surprise that two of the people most affected by this threat are me and my friend Jimmy Kimmel. When this letter dropped, we both talked about the letter on air, and then later, Carr defended it like this: ‘If Kimmel or Colbert want to continue to do their programming, and they don't want to have to comply with this requirement, then they can go to a cable channel or podcast or a streaming service and that's fine.’ Great idea, man whose job is to regulate broadcast TV. Suggest everyone just leave broadcast TV. I can't interview James Talarico. I can't show any pictures of James Talarico. I'm not even sure I can say the words James Talarico. But what I can show you is what we always show when we have to pull material at the last minute. This tasteful nude of Brendan Carr!”

Thankfully, he did show us nekkid Carr.

CBS tried to spin this as a misunderstanding and rushed out a legalistic statement insisting the show had never been “prohibited” from airing the interview. It read like classic corporate damage control from a company that folded fast under a [Cankles] packed FCC and only found its courage once the backlash hit.​

And on Tuesday night Colbert came onstage with receipts literally in hand, holding up the CBS statement and mocking it as “crap” and “a surprisingly small piece of paper considering how many butts it is trying to cover,” while reading out how he had been told he could not have Talarico on or even talk about not having him on. Colbert blasted the [Cankles’] FCC and commissioner Brendan Carr as politically “motivated by partisan purposes” and framed the pulled interview as censorship from the top.

This is a stand for Freedom of Speech y’all, and Colbert is manning the front lines.

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Kristian Berg Harpviken, director of the Norwegian Nobel Institute, responding to Cankles’ extended tantrum about not receiving a Nobel Peace Prize:

“We see it as important that as many people as possible understand how it is that we work and what the principles are. Whether those lobbying for the prize are receptive to that or not is really beyond our control.”

Oh Cankles, you can whine and moan and send out your Flying Monkeys, but you are the furthest things from peace that has ever trod the Earth.

And that’s saying something.

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Gretchen Carlson, former Fox News anchor, on Pammy Jo Bondi’s epic meltdown at being questing by Congress last week:

“To use the Dow reaching 50,000 to cover up for this massive sex ring is despicable. I was so upset that somebody would try to deflect what these women and children have gone through to try and pump up [Cankles] is the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever seen.”

Bondi is a lapdog, a bitch, a puppet, a pawn and a criminal co-conspirator. I cannot wait until they come for her.

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George Orwell, perhaps forewarning the world about Pamela Jo Bondi in his novel 1984:

“She had not a thought in her head that was not a slogan, and there was no imbecility, absolutely none, that she was not capable of swallowing if the Party handed it out to her.”

It’s almost as if Orwell predicted Pamela Jo Bondi.

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Ted Lieu, California Democrat Congressman, showing the hypocrisy if the so-called Attorney General:

“Dear Attorney General Pam Bondi: since you creepily spied on the unredacted Epstein files I read, you know I read this one. Witness calls FBI’s national threats operations center and reports that a girl, who was later found dead, told him that [Candled] and Epstein raped her. When will the Justice Department interview this witness?”

But the Dow!!!!

He’s the greatest president ever!!!

We’re moving on from this!!!

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James Talarico, Democratic candidate for Senator from Texas, on the ICEstapo, Kristi Noem, and better ways to spend our money:

“ICE shot a mom in the face. ICE kidnapped a five-year-old boy. ICE executed Alex Pretti in the street in broad daylight. The agency is out of control. We have to impeach Kristi Noem. We’ve got to haul these masked men before congress so the world can see their faces. I would not vote to give this agency any more money. I would take that money and put it back into our healthcare where it belongs.”

Straight shooting common sense; no wondering what he means: he said it.

The DogKiller and her ICEstapo need to be held accountable.

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Barack Obama, former President of the United States, on Cankles’ racist post:

“They ask me about [his] latest ‘post.’ We could spend the whole day reacting to every buffoonish spectacle coming out of the White House, but that’s exactly what they want: for us to lose focus. Politics used to have a limit of shame. Today, it seems the strategy is simply to exhaust our capacity for astonishment. Don’t be distracted by the noise; watch what they are doing to your rights while you stare at the screen.”

Wise words, of course, because that’s what you get from Obama at every turn.

Turn off your phones and laptops and iPads and stand up and speak up and march up and and don’t get caught up in the deflection and, what is that other thing? Oh yeah … CAST A GODDAMNED VOTE!!

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Friday, July 07, 2023

I Didn't Say It

Clare O’Neil, Australia’s home affairs minister, after Junior’s tour of the country was postponed and he blamed “cancel culture”:

“Geez, [Junior] is a bit of a sore loser. His dad lost an election fair and square—but he says it was stolen. Now he’s trying to blame the Australian government for his poor ticket sales and cancelled tour. [Junior] has been given a visa to come to Australia. He didn’t get cancelled. He’s just a big baby, who isn’t very popular.”

Junior was scheduled to speak in Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne but the events were cancelled due to poor ticket sales.

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Richard Grenell, former Acting Director of National Intelligence for Thing 45, lying about LGBTQ+ support for Thing 45:

“Rank and file gays and lesbians, regular gays and lesbians across this country, they’ve had it. There’s at least four out of ten, or I would almost argue five out of ten are supporting Republicans and [Thing 45]. They’ve just have had it with this left who are not able to sit and listen. They’ve lost their mission.”

In 2020, a poll of LGBTQ+ voters commissioned by GLAAD found that 14% voted for Thing 45 but Grenell thinks that number has tripled?

Grenell, a self-loathing homosexual, is wrong.

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Stephanie Grisham, former White House press secretary, says she saw Thing 45 show classified documents to Mar-a-Lago guests:

“I watched him show documents to people at Mar a Lago on the dining room patio. So he has no respect for classified information. Never did. You know, listening to that exchange every time, it just makes me so angry. He talks specifically that he should have declassified it, but he didn’t. So there, I think, is proof. I believe also there’s a portion of that audio where he says, you know, this is off the record. And I know [Thing 45] knows the rules of reporters and he knows if it needs to be off the record that they can’t talk about it. So I think he was covering himself in that regard.”

While I can appreciate Grisham sharing this story and perhaps even testifying, why she said nothing at the time, in the days following her seeing Thing 45 break the law, pisses me off.

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Ted Lieu, California Democrat Congressman, on Large Marge’s call for expunging Thing 45 impeachment trials:

“There is no such thing known as an expungement of an impeachment in the United States Constitution. This is totally a made-up process. It is nothing more than a glorified press release with a fake vote. And by the way, with the second impeachment, there was bipartisan support in the House and the Senate. Fifty-seven US Senators on a bipartisan basis voted to convict, the highest in US history. But you can’t just erase that. It was televised. Otherwise, people saw it. And this is more stupid stuff from a radical Republican caucus.”

And now comes word that the Freedom Caucus, the caucus of the craziest MAGAts in Congress, have voted to expel Marjorie Taylor Greene for not being crazy enough.

Both sides find her a waste of breath.

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Pete Buttigieg, Transportation Secretary, on Ron DeSantis’ campaign ad that spliced DeSantis between pictures of shirtless men while trying to paint Thing 45 as LGBTQ-friendly:

"You know, I'm going to choose my words carefully, partly because I'm appearing as secretary, so I can't talk about campaigns, and I'm going to leave aside the strangeness of trying to prove your manhood by putting up a video that splices images of you in between oiled-up shirtless bodybuilders, and get to the bigger issue that is on my mind whenever I see this stuff in the policy space, which is, again, who are you trying to help? You know, we're focused as an administration on how to get things done to make people better off."

And DeSaster is focused on discrimination and hate and racist policies and bigger government coming into people’s homes to checks their kids and the books they read.

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