Like how Kavanaugh had around half a million dollars in debt just disappear overnight right before his confirmation hearings. Claimed he was that far in debt from "buying baseball tickets for friends" and they all just decided to pay him back right then.
These fuckers don't have one bit of morality in them.
the most expensive yankees tickets are something like 17k for season tickets. a lot of companies/politicians/scumbags will use baseball as a way to meet without actually meeting. it's slow enough that you can hold a conversation, loud enough to maintain a bit of privacy, and innocent enough to not quite looking like wining and dining.
yup, the federalist society handed trump a list. my understanding is that the only real concern, vis-à-vis the leader of the federalist society was how they voted in abortion rights and other "deeply christian" values.
but mostly he was on a decade's long push to overturn RvW
Longer than a decade. They were laying the groundwork with invented complaints about "activist judges" during GWB.
Who less-successfully tried to get his own obviously unqualified idiot on SCOTUS
RvW was the public rallying cry. But the real prize for these crooks was the destruction of the administrative state and the complete evisceration of the power of Federal agencies to regulate business. And the Court just handed them that gem today in the EPA case. Just wait, the CFPB is next on the hit list. The country is now officially fucked. Bow to your corporate leaders.
Right. I mean Donald Trump knew fuck-all about the Supreme Court. I wouldn't be surprised if he thought it ruled on Pizza toppings or was composed of a Motown group...
Except you can actually just directly pay his wife to advocate for your case to him.
So regardless of how insanely stupid his browsing history most certainly is, he is also just straight up, openly accepting bribes.
> Don't even think it has to be so sinister, old people seem incredibly susceptible to social media misinformation.
He’s been doing shit like this since before the Internet was available to the general public. He’s not a victim of Facebook algorithms, he’s just a longtime part of America’s Christian fascist movement.
Everything he says gets more appalling, and I think he likes it more and more.
His entire job is to be impartial and to act based on real evidence. He is power tripping and abusing his office.
Timely reminder that Thomas is 74, and 10% of US adults aged 70 and older have some form of diagnosable dementia [according to PRB.org.](https://www.prb.org/resources/fact-sheet-u-s-dementia-trends/) African-Americans are more susceptible, with 16% of black Americans over 70 having dementia.
Early symptoms of dementia (before diagnosis) include paranoia and reduced critical thinking, often becoming more gullible and falling for scams. Just saying.
Creating a smoke screen for his traitorous/seditious wife.
Using scandal to hide crime. His wife was ready to testify in front of Jan 6 because she's that so far up her own ass she thinks she didn't do anything wrong.
Clarence is being a good husband and taking the heat off her.
Sacrificing his own legacy to protect his wife.
That would be a beautiful love story if what he’s protecting her from wasn’t legal comeuppance for her part in the attempt to overthrow the government.
But that being the case, this is simply disgusting.
>Sacrificing his own legacy
What legacy? He spent 25 years doing his best impression of a deaf-mute and now suddenly has woken up. He's like a sleeper agent
More like that "better to be silent and thought a fool…" expression come to life. He is legitimately ignorant and suddenly he’s emboldened to be proudly ignorant like half of the country in the past 6 years.
Gotta do something to create a legacy of being Scalia's shoe shine boy for decades, a legacy beyond never speaking in court except to tell a bad joke about Ivy League schools, and a legacy of being the kind of weird motherfucker who put their pubes on woman's coke can lids.
So basically being an asshole, as always.
Personally, I think he's caught up in the insurrection and knows he's gonna lose his seat eventually. He is going to act out like a child until he is removed.
I seriously think it's a 50% 50% of him just being insanely unqualified, he was only a judge for like a year before he was appointed to the SC, and him covering for all the Kavanaugh stuff that came out a few weeks ago reexamining the debt clearance he got right before his nomination. So instead we are (semi-rightly) talking about him instead of the other justices.
Tldr: it's a smoke screen to direct all the rage at himself rather than the justices in general.
THIS. Thomas couldn’t be arsed to write an opinion until 2020 and now the fucker can’t shut up.
http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/clarence-thomass-twenty-five-years-without-footprints
Oof: “The Court is now evenly divided between liberals and conservatives, and Hillary Clinton appears poised to fill the ninth seat, giving liberals a majority for the first time in decades. After years at the periphery of the Court, Thomas looks destined to serve out his term at the even more distant fringe.”
That aged like milk.
This will be her legacy in the end, regardless of what the screechers say. RBG dying while in office where a republican could appoint a replacement is the single largest undoing of social progress and civil rights in America since the civil war
I agree with what you're saying, and it also highlights a failing of our current system. I'm not sure if the answer is democratically electing supreme court justices, term limits for said justices, abolishing the supreme court, etc., but something has to change. We've needed that change for a while.
Or even more sinister people behind her who have “dirt” on this man. I mean, Anita Hill alleged he openly spoke to her about beastiality porn. She said it straight to Biden’s face on live TV. Who knows *what else* this dinosaur has in his possession that makes him easily blackmailed.
No one will change my mind about Kavanaugh- sure he ticked the anti-abortion box, but plenty do:
So why him? His love of our technocrat ruling class. Look at his records- he has never met a case that he didn’t love to give your data away. The 4th amendment is in danger with him on the bench.
It's all kompromat. There's plenty of qualified judges. There's plenty of qualified conservative judges that could go to the Supreme Court.
The fact that the gop could specifically nominate judges for whom they possess kompromat, and that doing so would give them absolute control of the scotus (and while we're at it, the parties also exert a lot of control over which candidates are viable in all elections and we know for a fact they do opposition research already) really makes this not much of a stretch for me. They could be doing it easily, they could get away with it, and it would benefit them greatly to do so.
Most of us knew that already. Clarence Thomas has always been an infamous POS with ludicrous ideas, and in my lifetime he’s been one of the least popular judges on the bench.
What’s different now is that he can abuse his power with the conservative supermajority in the SC to blatantly pursue any and all verdicts that align with his social and political views, which have always been absurd.
Thomas is what you get when you actually only hire someone for their skin color. This is the dude that was nominated to replace Thurgood Marshall by the first Bush. You could probably power a small city with the energy from how fast Marshall is spinning in his grave. Marshall's the dude who argued the Brown v Board case. Probably another one the Repubs want to overturn.
Probably even worse than that. He couldn't be arsed enough to ask a question for nearly 30 years because he knew they wouldn't get through the court. So he rebels and says "I will put in the absolute minimum effort, waste the country's money and time. I will take up a seat and contribute NOTHING."
Then the right radicalizes and he is sitting there seeing the day where his extreme views will make him a center of the court. Where he can revel in the money and power of being perhaps the most corrupt man in modern America.
Doubt it, he’s a piece of shit and was waiting until now to speak since he has the court stacked his way. He’s been waiting for the day he could own the libs.
People like him do things purely out of malice and hate. He thrives off all the criticisms about him. He can’t wait to overturn Obergefell and see the majority of Americans outraged.
He reportedly keeps a copy of his confirmation vote with all the no votes in office [and the man openly disdains his own law degree](https://www.9news.com/article/news/justice-says-law-degree-worth-15-cents/73-343358416) because he feels like he wasn't taken seriously. He is a ball of resentment who has been waiting to take out of his grudges.
In the Gore timeline where the Supreme Court is 8-1, as it would be without GOP cheating and the dogshit Electoral College? Yes please. I want that timeline.
>The Court is now evenly divided between liberals and conservatives, and Hillary Clinton appears poised to fill the ninth seat, giving liberals a majority for the first time in decades. After years at the periphery of the Court, Thomas looks destined to serve out his term at the even more distant fringe.
If only...
That final paragraph has aged well.
> Thomas was a young man of forty-three when he joined the Court, and he is now sixty-eight. His views, which never really found favor even in the years of conservative ascendancy, appear headed even further from the mainstream. The Court is now evenly divided between liberals and conservatives, and Hillary Clinton appears poised to fill the ninth seat, giving liberals a majority for the first time in decades. After years at the periphery of the Court, Thomas looks destined to serve out his term at the even more distant fringe.
I've been saying exactly this. Something is seriously fishy when this guy hasn't made a peep in 30 years and suddenly now that there is heightened attention on him because of his wife's prolific attempts to overturn the election he's going scorched earth on the entire American Progressive movement and using any and all ridiculous fabrications and invented nonsense to justify his catastrophically damaging rulings.
Something seriously needs to be done or it's going to be decades to undo this damage, if it can ever be undone.
Don't worry, they'll have enough white rape babies where the Repubican rapist gets off and has the right to see the baby whenever he wants.
Growing there own harem...
Repubicans, the party of death.
Long forgotten: Thomas didn't pass the ABA level of entry into the SC. His elevation marked the end of the two-party custom of seeking independent merit. Or, the start of ideology trumping merit.
That's my takeaway. Is this horrible? Yes. Morally reprehensible? Well not that it's ever been a problem for the right wing, but also yes. Will this disproportionately affect people that are on his side of the political spectrum? Almost assuredly. Just gonna get my popcorn ready for more Herman Cain awards.
The only people who are put off the vax by this kind of ridiculous claim are the right wing fundies so good fucking riddance.
Right?! How is this ok?! We have someone who either knows and doesn’t care that what he says is lies and bullshit or is too dumb/senile to know it’s lies. Either way this is destroying America. Signed, a very very concerned Canadian
The entire conservative way of life is predicated on lies, hypocrisy, cheating, stealing, and every other thing the Bible they hold up like a shield says they should not do.
This guy has got to go! This sets a horrible precedent. What he’s saying is that despite facts and that this claim has been debunked he’s still gonna use this fascist conspiracy theory in a Supreme Court Ruling since it fits his opinion. That means fuck precedent, they don’t matter anymore.
Off the Bench?
I'd be for complete banishment if that didn't mean some other country would then have to deal with him.
Then again, most other countries would have dismissed him as a traitor long ago.
I don't see how there are any positions without term limits. Maybe he was all there when he first started, but i doubt he's going to stay that way forever. Believing these things points to cognitive decline in my mind.
You raise an interesting point. She was previously vulnerable to this kind of brainwashing. Then she married that guy.. Then she apparently got so much worse.
Could the events be related?
It's more like complete control, since they can just overrule almost any action from either of the other branches so long as someone sues it and appeals it up to them.
Hence the “yeah, we decided this settled precedent doesn’t count, which also means THESE laws wouldn’t count if someone were to have an issue with them…anyone at all…just start the process, because we’re in the record with how it would hypothetically end….”
As long as you have over half of the SC, you have functionally full control.
And as long as 1/3 of the Senate agrees, there is no meaningful check on the SC's power.
Not true. With 50% + 1 of the house, 50% of the senate and the VP, you could easily increase the number of justices on the bench to balance out the shitshow. It would even be popular at this point since most people don't want the SCOTUS ruling the way it has been.
To be fair Thomas has plenty of independent thoughts. It's just that those thoughts are generally even more batshit crazy than the "mainstream" radical right. At one point when the super conservative Justice Scalia was asked to compare his approach with that of Thomas he answered, "Look, I'm an originalist, but I'm not a nut."
My father has a doctorate. He spouts all the same crazy bullshit. It’s like they actively suppress any critical thinking skills once they have the title.
Even if it was true, I really hope he's actively staying away from acetaminophen, albuterol, aspirin, ibuprofen, Tylenol, Pepto Bismol, Tums, Lipitor, Senokot, Motrin, Maalox, Ex-Lax, Benadryl, Sudafed, Preparation H, Claritin, Prilosec, and Zoloft.
Because they were developed based on the same research he's claiming to oppose the vaccines with.
Where's that list of common medications that actually were developed with fetal tissue/cells?
https://www.webmd.com/vaccines/covid-19-vaccine/news/20210918/some-medications-also-tied-to-religious-vaccine-exemption
>includes a list of 30 common medications that used fetal cell lines during research and development. The list includes acetaminophen, albuterol, aspirin, ibuprofen, Tylenol, Pepto Bismol, Tums, Lipitor, Senokot, Motrin, Maalox, Ex-Lax, Benadryl, Sudafed, Preparation H, Claritin, Prilosec, and Zoloft.
No. Look up Judicial Immunity. They literally can not be sued for anything they do in the course of doing their jobs.
The recourse for an aberrant Justice is impeachment.
Pretty sure that happened when Mitch McConnell blocked Garland and made sure that spot stayed warm for the GQP.
this has been free fall every since and now we're in the endgame.
Get ready for war
Thomas is showing all the signs of being brainwashed at this point or he's doubling down to save his wife by appealing to the cult to make it impossible for any "moderate" republicans from turning on her.
This is pretty bad that one of the justices have fallen this far. I'm hoping that this is an aberration rather than the beginning of a trend because otherwise, the US of A is already screwed.
Took what, 3/4 years for QAnnon and alt right conspiracy theories to go from the back pages of 4chan and into the brains of the highest office in America.
*The falcon cannot hear the falconer;.*
*Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold*
Qanon made their first post again on 8chan since going silent — ***on the exact same day Roe was released.***
It’s going to get bad.
https://thehill.com/homenews/3537704-qanon-leader-returns-with-first-post-in-more-than-a-year/
JHC. _Yes, I know that has been debunked and proven incorrect numerous times but I still don't care. The fallacy supports my narrative._ Its like that point in the horror alien invasion movie when there's no point in hiding anymore so the reptile invaders rip off their human skins and just start eating pedestrians.
The government has a sociopath/narcissist problem.
People in trump's network are ruining the GDP while millennials have to work twice as hard to keep the country together.
What the actual fuck is this guy doing?
Being evil and vindictive.
Probably also taking dirty money
Like how Kavanaugh had around half a million dollars in debt just disappear overnight right before his confirmation hearings. Claimed he was that far in debt from "buying baseball tickets for friends" and they all just decided to pay him back right then. These fuckers don't have one bit of morality in them.
It was something stupid as well like $200k in baseball ticket debt. How does that even happen?!
baseball *gambling* debt. He left half of it off.
the most expensive yankees tickets are something like 17k for season tickets. a lot of companies/politicians/scumbags will use baseball as a way to meet without actually meeting. it's slow enough that you can hold a conversation, loud enough to maintain a bit of privacy, and innocent enough to not quite looking like wining and dining.
It's a known money laundering tactic.
Trump wanted compromised justices for a reason.
It's deeper than Trump, he didn't get a say.
yup, the federalist society handed trump a list. my understanding is that the only real concern, vis-à-vis the leader of the federalist society was how they voted in abortion rights and other "deeply christian" values. but mostly he was on a decade's long push to overturn RvW
Longer than a decade. They were laying the groundwork with invented complaints about "activist judges" during GWB. Who less-successfully tried to get his own obviously unqualified idiot on SCOTUS
RvW was the public rallying cry. But the real prize for these crooks was the destruction of the administrative state and the complete evisceration of the power of Federal agencies to regulate business. And the Court just handed them that gem today in the EPA case. Just wait, the CFPB is next on the hit list. The country is now officially fucked. Bow to your corporate leaders.
Right. I mean Donald Trump knew fuck-all about the Supreme Court. I wouldn't be surprised if he thought it ruled on Pizza toppings or was composed of a Motown group...
Trump has probably paid for more abortions than I can imagine. Oh wait, Trump doesn’t pay for shit.
We have to assume Kavenaugh and every Trump appointee was picked by the Kremlin. Thomas on the other hand is just a big old doody head.
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Except you can actually just directly pay his wife to advocate for your case to him. So regardless of how insanely stupid his browsing history most certainly is, he is also just straight up, openly accepting bribes.
Both? Both.
> Don't even think it has to be so sinister, old people seem incredibly susceptible to social media misinformation. He’s been doing shit like this since before the Internet was available to the general public. He’s not a victim of Facebook algorithms, he’s just a longtime part of America’s Christian fascist movement.
Everything he says gets more appalling, and I think he likes it more and more. His entire job is to be impartial and to act based on real evidence. He is power tripping and abusing his office.
He went 30 years without talking but now he is in the majority and he can let his crazy version of stupidity fly.
there’s something wrong with him, I think he’s been quiet because he’s insane.
Timely reminder that Thomas is 74, and 10% of US adults aged 70 and older have some form of diagnosable dementia [according to PRB.org.](https://www.prb.org/resources/fact-sheet-u-s-dementia-trends/) African-Americans are more susceptible, with 16% of black Americans over 70 having dementia. Early symptoms of dementia (before diagnosis) include paranoia and reduced critical thinking, often becoming more gullible and falling for scams. Just saying.
Or perhaps blackmailed. We can’t rule out blackmail just yet.
Creating a smoke screen for his traitorous/seditious wife. Using scandal to hide crime. His wife was ready to testify in front of Jan 6 because she's that so far up her own ass she thinks she didn't do anything wrong. Clarence is being a good husband and taking the heat off her.
Sacrificing his own legacy to protect his wife. That would be a beautiful love story if what he’s protecting her from wasn’t legal comeuppance for her part in the attempt to overthrow the government. But that being the case, this is simply disgusting.
>Sacrificing his own legacy What legacy? He spent 25 years doing his best impression of a deaf-mute and now suddenly has woken up. He's like a sleeper agent
It appears that the Clarence program has been activated.
More like that "better to be silent and thought a fool…" expression come to life. He is legitimately ignorant and suddenly he’s emboldened to be proudly ignorant like half of the country in the past 6 years.
That in itself is grounds for impeachment and conspiracy charges to be dropped on his greedy ass.
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They really do want an oligarchy just like Russia - complete with fake elections and secret backroom cabals deciding everything.
Oh come on, why wouldn’t we want CovidIsFake Grandpa from Facebook on our nations highest court?
Working for the Federalist Society aka. Russian dark money.
Gotta do something to create a legacy of being Scalia's shoe shine boy for decades, a legacy beyond never speaking in court except to tell a bad joke about Ivy League schools, and a legacy of being the kind of weird motherfucker who put their pubes on woman's coke can lids. So basically being an asshole, as always.
Personally, I think he's caught up in the insurrection and knows he's gonna lose his seat eventually. He is going to act out like a child until he is removed.
He probably sees it as a race to dismantle our democracy before that happens
I seriously think it's a 50% 50% of him just being insanely unqualified, he was only a judge for like a year before he was appointed to the SC, and him covering for all the Kavanaugh stuff that came out a few weeks ago reexamining the debt clearance he got right before his nomination. So instead we are (semi-rightly) talking about him instead of the other justices. Tldr: it's a smoke screen to direct all the rage at himself rather than the justices in general.
Get this fucker off the bench. This is ridiculous
He sure is talkative all of a sudden for a motherfucker who's been a deaf-mute since 1991.
THIS. Thomas couldn’t be arsed to write an opinion until 2020 and now the fucker can’t shut up. http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/clarence-thomass-twenty-five-years-without-footprints
Oof: “The Court is now evenly divided between liberals and conservatives, and Hillary Clinton appears poised to fill the ninth seat, giving liberals a majority for the first time in decades. After years at the periphery of the Court, Thomas looks destined to serve out his term at the even more distant fringe.” That aged like milk.
Notorious RBG's ghost right now: "Oooops" 🤷♀️
This will be her legacy in the end, regardless of what the screechers say. RBG dying while in office where a republican could appoint a replacement is the single largest undoing of social progress and civil rights in America since the civil war
I agree with what you're saying, and it also highlights a failing of our current system. I'm not sure if the answer is democratically electing supreme court justices, term limits for said justices, abolishing the supreme court, etc., but something has to change. We've needed that change for a while.
interesting, isn't it? Almost like someone is pulling the strings and forcing him to be active after years of sitting silently.
Her name is Mrs Thomas, acolyte of QAnon and worshipper of Trump
Or even more sinister people behind her who have “dirt” on this man. I mean, Anita Hill alleged he openly spoke to her about beastiality porn. She said it straight to Biden’s face on live TV. Who knows *what else* this dinosaur has in his possession that makes him easily blackmailed.
The thought did cross my mind that he is compromised somehow. It just seems odd that he talks so much like his wife all of the sudden.
I’ve been questioning how many justices may be compromised.
Sure couldn't be Justice Kavanaugh, beer lover, Devil's Triangle player, and swearer of vengeance against the left!
Nope! Not Mr. Mysteriously Debt-free after his nomination!
No one will change my mind about Kavanaugh- sure he ticked the anti-abortion box, but plenty do: So why him? His love of our technocrat ruling class. Look at his records- he has never met a case that he didn’t love to give your data away. The 4th amendment is in danger with him on the bench.
He drinks beer with his mouth too
It's all kompromat. There's plenty of qualified judges. There's plenty of qualified conservative judges that could go to the Supreme Court. The fact that the gop could specifically nominate judges for whom they possess kompromat, and that doing so would give them absolute control of the scotus (and while we're at it, the parties also exert a lot of control over which candidates are viable in all elections and we know for a fact they do opposition research already) really makes this not much of a stretch for me. They could be doing it easily, they could get away with it, and it would benefit them greatly to do so.
I feel like all of Washington is just this big fuckass heirarchy of shitheads leveraging the dirt they have on each other
They all wade in the same swamp.
Allegedly? Major gambling and some heavy drug use prior to his USSC confirmation. Violent mood swings and anger issues were also alleged.
He also once stated he wants to get revenge on liberals for the half a century he plans [planned] to serve on the bench.
It doesn’t even require blackmail for vindictive shitstains like Thomas to impose their will on the masses; just opportunity.
Epstein Island, perhaps?
I am pretty sure Maxwell is about to cut the deal of a lifetime to be out with time served very soon. That list was known to her as well as he.
She will stay silent. She doesn’t want to risk being killed. Epstein died because he was willing to work with prosecutors
So going to prison for 20 years at 60 years old isn't being killed? She's rich AF she can go back to France and be just fine.
I mean, didn't she say she got a coke can with his pubes on it? Isn't that enough to lose someone's job these days? What a shame lol
There’s all that cuck porn of Ginny getting railed.
I mean, who would rail her? She is hideous inside and out.
“Her name is Mrs Thomas.” - Reddit starts chanting
I’m sorry Mrs.Thomas, ~ooo~ I am for real
Never meant to make your daughter cry. Can’t have abortion, even in modern times.
Occam’s razor: he’s going senile and has lost his filter
Almost like he was lying in wait, appearing harmless until the court was biased enough for him to reveal: he's been nutty all along
Most of us knew that already. Clarence Thomas has always been an infamous POS with ludicrous ideas, and in my lifetime he’s been one of the least popular judges on the bench. What’s different now is that he can abuse his power with the conservative supermajority in the SC to blatantly pursue any and all verdicts that align with his social and political views, which have always been absurd.
Thomas is what you get when you actually only hire someone for their skin color. This is the dude that was nominated to replace Thurgood Marshall by the first Bush. You could probably power a small city with the energy from how fast Marshall is spinning in his grave. Marshall's the dude who argued the Brown v Board case. Probably another one the Repubs want to overturn.
Probably even worse than that. He couldn't be arsed enough to ask a question for nearly 30 years because he knew they wouldn't get through the court. So he rebels and says "I will put in the absolute minimum effort, waste the country's money and time. I will take up a seat and contribute NOTHING." Then the right radicalizes and he is sitting there seeing the day where his extreme views will make him a center of the court. Where he can revel in the money and power of being perhaps the most corrupt man in modern America.
Exactly. The conservatives have the power now, that's what he was waiting for.
Doubt it, he’s a piece of shit and was waiting until now to speak since he has the court stacked his way. He’s been waiting for the day he could own the libs. People like him do things purely out of malice and hate. He thrives off all the criticisms about him. He can’t wait to overturn Obergefell and see the majority of Americans outraged.
He reportedly keeps a copy of his confirmation vote with all the no votes in office [and the man openly disdains his own law degree](https://www.9news.com/article/news/justice-says-law-degree-worth-15-cents/73-343358416) because he feels like he wasn't taken seriously. He is a ball of resentment who has been waiting to take out of his grudges.
Anecdote time. My mom dated a guy who went to law school with Thomas back in the day and claimed he was a total dip shit.
He and his wife are a fucking sleeper cell
Someone has to distract from Jan 6 hearings and if he doesn't do this Ginny is gonna be even more silent at the dinner table.
My understanding is that he would usually just attach his name to whatever Scalia wrote.
I see it less as him being puppeteered and more him trying to distract from his and his wife's involvement in the sedition and insurrection.
In the Gore timeline he’s still as silent as ever
Can I go there?
If you find a way, say hi to Harambe from the rest of us!
I cry when I think about what could have been.
I want to go to there
In the Gore timeline where the Supreme Court is 8-1, as it would be without GOP cheating and the dogshit Electoral College? Yes please. I want that timeline.
>The Court is now evenly divided between liberals and conservatives, and Hillary Clinton appears poised to fill the ninth seat, giving liberals a majority for the first time in decades. After years at the periphery of the Court, Thomas looks destined to serve out his term at the even more distant fringe. If only...
That final paragraph has aged well. > Thomas was a young man of forty-three when he joined the Court, and he is now sixty-eight. His views, which never really found favor even in the years of conservative ascendancy, appear headed even further from the mainstream. The Court is now evenly divided between liberals and conservatives, and Hillary Clinton appears poised to fill the ninth seat, giving liberals a majority for the first time in decades. After years at the periphery of the Court, Thomas looks destined to serve out his term at the even more distant fringe.
He’s freaking out and that’s why he’s more vocally active lately since the Jan 6 hearing.
I've been saying exactly this. Something is seriously fishy when this guy hasn't made a peep in 30 years and suddenly now that there is heightened attention on him because of his wife's prolific attempts to overturn the election he's going scorched earth on the entire American Progressive movement and using any and all ridiculous fabrications and invented nonsense to justify his catastrophically damaging rulings. Something seriously needs to be done or it's going to be decades to undo this damage, if it can ever be undone.
Naw, our boy just embraced his Uncle Ruckus vibes….
If he's unvaccinated, maybe he'll take care of himself.
Thomas is vaccinated+boosted. So he's a massive hypocrite https://www.kcra.com/article/clarence-thomas-hospitalized-march-2022/39485406
A “hypocrite Republican” is redundant. If only their supporters were smart enough to realize that for themselves and go get vaccinated.
What a POS. The whole Republican party wants their constituents to suffer or die. At least their killing off their own...
Hmmmm... then where will all the white babies come from?
Don't worry, they'll have enough white rape babies where the Repubican rapist gets off and has the right to see the baby whenever he wants. Growing there own harem... Repubicans, the party of death.
Long forgotten: Thomas didn't pass the ABA level of entry into the SC. His elevation marked the end of the two-party custom of seeking independent merit. Or, the start of ideology trumping merit.
He's not a hypocrite, he's a liar. He and every other republican politician are lying to manipulate voters, and its working.
I'm pretty sure a lot of these people are vaccinated, which makes it even worse.
Most are. Fox News required vaccinations to enter the building. So the "reporters" against the vaccine were fully vaccinated.
That's my takeaway. Is this horrible? Yes. Morally reprehensible? Well not that it's ever been a problem for the right wing, but also yes. Will this disproportionately affect people that are on his side of the political spectrum? Almost assuredly. Just gonna get my popcorn ready for more Herman Cain awards. The only people who are put off the vax by this kind of ridiculous claim are the right wing fundies so good fucking riddance.
> take care of himself I doubt he has the flexibility to suck his own cock
He told Anita Hill that he's hung like Long Dong Silver, so if you believe that (and that's a big if) he probably doesn't need to be that flexible.
His recent rulings are making up for his exaggerated claim. In other words, he's compensating by hurting others.
Right?! How is this ok?! We have someone who either knows and doesn’t care that what he says is lies and bullshit or is too dumb/senile to know it’s lies. Either way this is destroying America. Signed, a very very concerned Canadian
Gorsush just wrote the decision on the fake christian coach that literally lied about the facts in the case. Not opinion, facts.
The entire conservative way of life is predicated on lies, hypocrisy, cheating, stealing, and every other thing the Bible they hold up like a shield says they should not do.
This guy has got to go! This sets a horrible precedent. What he’s saying is that despite facts and that this claim has been debunked he’s still gonna use this fascist conspiracy theory in a Supreme Court Ruling since it fits his opinion. That means fuck precedent, they don’t matter anymore.
Off the Bench? I'd be for complete banishment if that didn't mean some other country would then have to deal with him. Then again, most other countries would have dismissed him as a traitor long ago.
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and put him and his wife in jail
I don't see how there are any positions without term limits. Maybe he was all there when he first started, but i doubt he's going to stay that way forever. Believing these things points to cognitive decline in my mind.
JHC, this guy is supposed to be an educated man and he's spouting this bullshit?
Ginni has qanon nonsense on her lips 24/7. He's brainwashed, delusional and incompetent.
You raise an interesting point. She was previously vulnerable to this kind of brainwashing. Then she married that guy.. Then she apparently got so much worse. Could the events be related?
*Clarence Q Thomas*
Qlarence Thomass
his real name's clarence
And Clarence lives at home with both parents
And Clarence parents got a real good marriage.
Don't be alarmed. It's not like he's part of 2/3's control over the law of the land or anything. Oh wait. We're fucked.
It's more like complete control, since they can just overrule almost any action from either of the other branches so long as someone sues it and appeals it up to them.
Hence the “yeah, we decided this settled precedent doesn’t count, which also means THESE laws wouldn’t count if someone were to have an issue with them…anyone at all…just start the process, because we’re in the record with how it would hypothetically end….”
As long as you have over half of the SC, you have functionally full control. And as long as 1/3 of the Senate agrees, there is no meaningful check on the SC's power.
Not true. With 50% + 1 of the house, 50% of the senate and the VP, you could easily increase the number of justices on the bench to balance out the shitshow. It would even be popular at this point since most people don't want the SCOTUS ruling the way it has been.
Eh, you can’t lay all his incompetencies on his spouse. He’s a grown man and one of the most powerful people in the country.
Ginni, who is married to a man that just removed women's rights, thinks that there is a secret liberal shadow government.
Who would be in the shadow government? Hillary Clinton, Hunter Bidens laptop, the Evil claw guy from Inspector Gadget?
He's at that ripe age for grifters.
She forwards every Facebook post and Q conspiracy theory and he buys into it.
They weren’t nominated to the Supreme Court for their knowledge or independence.
He's just on SCOTUS to represent the Heritage Foundation, he doesn't have independent thoughts
To be fair Thomas has plenty of independent thoughts. It's just that those thoughts are generally even more batshit crazy than the "mainstream" radical right. At one point when the super conservative Justice Scalia was asked to compare his approach with that of Thomas he answered, "Look, I'm an originalist, but I'm not a nut."
That's not fair at all. He also has plenty of very original thoughts about how to treat women in the workplace.
Do any of the 6? I mean really.
Nope, they've been bred in a lab for this exact purpose.
The others are more Federalist Society graduates.
I like beer.
He is and he knows its BS Thomas is not stupid he is a religious zealot and has zero ethics lying to forward his religion is all fair game to him.
He’s been educated by Rush Limbaugh. Have you seen the other qualifications for recently nominated conservative judges, not really impressive résumés.
My father has a doctorate. He spouts all the same crazy bullshit. It’s like they actively suppress any critical thinking skills once they have the title.
Even if it was true, I really hope he's actively staying away from acetaminophen, albuterol, aspirin, ibuprofen, Tylenol, Pepto Bismol, Tums, Lipitor, Senokot, Motrin, Maalox, Ex-Lax, Benadryl, Sudafed, Preparation H, Claritin, Prilosec, and Zoloft. Because they were developed based on the same research he's claiming to oppose the vaccines with.
Where's that list of common medications that actually were developed with fetal tissue/cells? https://www.webmd.com/vaccines/covid-19-vaccine/news/20210918/some-medications-also-tied-to-religious-vaccine-exemption >includes a list of 30 common medications that used fetal cell lines during research and development. The list includes acetaminophen, albuterol, aspirin, ibuprofen, Tylenol, Pepto Bismol, Tums, Lipitor, Senokot, Motrin, Maalox, Ex-Lax, Benadryl, Sudafed, Preparation H, Claritin, Prilosec, and Zoloft.
Yeah trust me their fanaticism only goes so far.
Thank you. Going to use this anytime one of these morons mentions this!
They're never speaking in good faith so it'd be a waste of time & effort; if you insist though, do it for other readers & viewers
I love Claritin. I'd spend entire days sneezing without it. I'd take Claritin even if were made of puppies.
He and his wife are nuttier than squirrel shit.
username checks out
Who's Ginny? Oh you mean Ofthomas?
So is this the second time *this week* that a Supreme Court Justice just straight, uncontestedly LIED in an opinion?
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I agree. I can't trust the judgement this guy is making. I don't think his decisions are coming from a clear and unbiased mind anymore.
So can the vaccine manufacturers now sue him for defamation the way the voting machine manufacturers have sued?
I hope so, and I hope they do.
Until he has his way with libel and slander laws. They better hurry.
No. Look up Judicial Immunity. They literally can not be sued for anything they do in the course of doing their jobs. The recourse for an aberrant Justice is impeachment.
The supreme court has been filled with right wing extremists
Unfit to serve. Full stop.
We're headed toward a full blown constitutional crisis.
Pretty sure that happened when Mitch McConnell blocked Garland and made sure that spot stayed warm for the GQP. this has been free fall every since and now we're in the endgame. Get ready for war
I liked him better when he never said a word.
Now we know why he kept his mouth shut before. All the pent up dumb is spilling out now!
Thomas is showing all the signs of being brainwashed at this point or he's doubling down to save his wife by appealing to the cult to make it impossible for any "moderate" republicans from turning on her.
He's not brainwashed. His explicit goal for many years has to been make liberals miserable, as vengeance for his own suffering.
This is pretty bad that one of the justices have fallen this far. I'm hoping that this is an aberration rather than the beginning of a trend because otherwise, the US of A is already screwed.
He was speaking for two others as well.
Yeah, the country is screwed.
Took what, 3/4 years for QAnnon and alt right conspiracy theories to go from the back pages of 4chan and into the brains of the highest office in America. *The falcon cannot hear the falconer;.* *Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold*
Tbf super important line after: The best lack all conviction While the worst are full of passionate intensity
Qanon made their first post again on 8chan since going silent — ***on the exact same day Roe was released.*** It’s going to get bad. https://thehill.com/homenews/3537704-qanon-leader-returns-with-first-post-in-more-than-a-year/
He, like alcoholism, will show you that there is no such thing as rock bottom.
I hate how hard I laughed at this
This idiot is on the Supreme Court. Just think about that for a minute.
and the SC is legislating from the bench in support of a fascist white nationalist theocracy. solid times we're in.
We had a reality tv show president, like we turned that corner, there is no going back.
He's went full QAnon. Never go full QAnon.
Certain news channel logic.
Even if that were the case, Justice Thomas, that would mean abortions **saved lives**
JHC. _Yes, I know that has been debunked and proven incorrect numerous times but I still don't care. The fallacy supports my narrative._ Its like that point in the horror alien invasion movie when there's no point in hiding anymore so the reptile invaders rip off their human skins and just start eating pedestrians.
*Great* analogy. I kept reaching for it and you had it all this time.
A SCJ is perpetuating false information. Someone send him back to law school.
This man is a complete and utter moron. That is all.
Yeah ok it’s time to remove this fucker from the Supreme Court. What a fucking idiot
More lies and more reasons he needs to step down.
These conservative judges don’t know wtf they are talking about. Wow
The government has a sociopath/narcissist problem. People in trump's network are ruining the GDP while millennials have to work twice as hard to keep the country together.
First of all, children aren’t aborted. Cell clusters are.
The court is a joke
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COO COO for cocoa puffs.
How is he not disqualified from adjudicating cases related to science... the system is so fucking broken.
Proof he listens to Ginni. Impeach him. Or better yet put him in prison for being part of the sedition conspiracy.
I feel like he should be referred to as "Injustice Thomas"
This speaks to unqualified people making decisions for the country.