I Didn't Say It ...

Stephen Colbert, on his first show back after CBS canceled his show as, perhaps, a favor and/or a bribe to The Felon:

“Folks, I’m gonna go ahead and say it: Cancel culture has gone too far. Over the weekend, it sunk in that they’re killing off our show. But they made one mistake: They left me alive. On Friday [The Felon] posted, ‘I absolutely love that Colbert got fired. His talent was even less than his ratings. I hear Jimmy Kimmel is next. Has even less talent than Colbert! Greg Gutfeld is better than all of them combined, including the Moron on NBC who ruined the once great Tonight Show.’ How dare you, sir? Would an untalented man be able to compose the following satirical witticism? Go fuck yourself.”

This is not a good look for CBS or Paramount, both who stand to lose a lot of money when advertisers bail their programming; Paramount+ is already losing subscribers.

And Colbert isn’t going anywhere; he still has a voice and can find a new platform anywhere to keep up his monologues about The Felon.

And we’ll be listening.

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Jon Stewart, railing against CBS for canceling Stephen Colbert's "Late Show."

“The fact that CBS didn’t try to save their number one-rated network late-night franchise that’s been on the air for over three decades is part of what’s making everybody wonder, was this purely financial? Or maybe the path of least resistance for your $8 billion merger was killing a show that you know rankled a fragile and vengeful president, so insecure, suffering terribly from a case of chronic penis insufficiency. Look, I understand the corporate fear. I understand the fear that you and your advertisers have with $8 billion at stake. But understand this, truly, the shows that you now seek to cancel, censor and control, a not insignificant portion of that $8 billion value came from those fucking shows ... This is not the moment to give in. I’m not giving in. I’m not going anywhere. I think."

Stewart has zero fucks to give and will also keep this story alive about a powerful media conglomerate trying to silence Free Speech.

And he, too, will survive.

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Sandra Oh, appearing this week on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert:

“Can I just start by saying something that I feel like probably everyone here and everyone who is so supportive outside wants to say—that I am so sorry and saddened and properly outraged for the cancellation of late night here. Not only for yourself and for this entire family who are here, but for what it means for what it is of where we are in our culture and what it means for free speech. So I just want to say sorry, and also if I can have your hand … [and] to CBS and Paramount, a plague on both of your houses.”

One day the tide will turn and CBS and Paramount will suffer for their goose-stepping along with a lunatic for some extra coins.

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Jasmine Crockett, Democrat Texas Representative, on the Texas GOP’s scheme to gerrymander the state and disenfranchise minority voters en masse:

"So first of all it hasn't quite been said, clearly that Texas has always been found to be intentionally discriminatory and so I want y'all to understand the makeup of my state. The state is a majority-minority state. And what this legislature historically has done is what they plan to do again, it's to dilute the voices of people of color in order to make sure that they can get to where they're trying to go. We saw this Department of Justice decided to put out a letter and what did they do? We only have four seats that are represented by Black folk where the vast majority of the people that get to decide who they have represent them are Black. They decided to attack three of the four seats that we have in this state. They decided to go after a Latina. They are specifically deciding to splinter the communities of common interest as well as just blatantly say, 'we are going to dilute minority voices.' So we know that the courts ever since we've had a Voting Rights Act have always found this state to be intentionally discriminatory. That is what they are going to do. So I need people of color to understand that this scheme of the Republicans has consistently been to make sure that they mute our voices so that they can go ahead and have an oversized say in this. So I fully anticipate that's exactly where they're going with this map. It's the only way to do it," she said. "We didn't understand how we got to the map that they gave us last time because that state was grown by 95% people of color. They went out of their way to make sure that we got zero new seats for people of color. So that's exactly what they're going to do this time."

Texas's MAGA Governor Greg Abbott has expanded the legislative agenda for an upcoming special session that begins on July 21st to ram through new redistricting. The seats are Democratically held and are largely Hispanic and Black but Texas Republicans want to break them up, redraw them, and dilute them so that they're more likely to swing red. Thankfully, Democrats aren't taking this fascist power grab lying down. On Friday, ten Democratic lawmakers introduced a bill in Texas called the "Anti-Rigging Act of 2025." It would end mid-decade redistricting unless such action is specifically mandated by a court order.

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Jack Schlossberg, hottie and JFK's only grandson, going after Republicans for trying to rename the Kennedy Center's Opera House after First Lady Nude Model Melanie:

"A nation reveals itself not only by the men it produces—but also by the men it honors, the men it remembers. JFK believed the arts made our country great and could be our most effective weapon in the fight for civil rights and against authoritarian governments around the world. He took political heat for it at the time—for inviting Black artists to the White House, like the Staples Singers. For supporting Black Americans like Harry Belafonte and James Baldwin on global tours to showcase the best of our society. Pablo Casals, a symbol of resistance to fascism, played for President Kennedy. Yo-yo Ma did too … when he was just 6 years old. Robert Frost performed at JFK’s inaugural. The Mona Lisa came and visited the White House. The [Felon] Administration stands for freedom of oppression, not expression. He uses his awesome powers to suppress free expression and instill fear. But this isn’t about the arts. [The Felon] is obsessed with being bigger than JFK, with minimizing the many heroes of our past, as if that elevates him. It doesn’t. But there’s hope—art lasts forever, and no one can change what JFK and our shared history stands for."

The effort to rename the opera house after the Slovenian Hooker is a blatant attempt on the part of the GOP to kiss some fat gelatinous ass. It's especially pathetic given the fact that Melanie, other than posing nekkid and lying flat on her back with her heels to the heavens while a serial predator, rapist and pedophile, schtupped her, has not a single real accomplishment to her name; she is just the cowardly, greedy woman who enabled her husband's fascism for a few coins and a New York penthouse.

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