The Clarence Thomas fiasco gets MUCH worse

[quote]Will this be too much for the GOP?

Bless your heart, OP.

It’s pretty bad. They will have to answer for this throughout an election year. Is he really worth it?

Republicans are OK with corrupt officials as long as they identify as conservative, anything else will have them clutching their pearls.

He could unzip his body and show he was Satan himself and the GQP would shrug it off. They are soulless, craven, un-American pieces of shit.

Supreme Court justices are appointed for life. The cold truth is ultimately it doesn't matter what we find.

I think this one will disgust the MAGA base as much as the Dems. If they ever hear about it.

Refugs don't care. He stopped the baby killing and he's kind of a bad ass motherfucker.

They like him because they view him as an employee (that's the nicest way to put it) and he is doing his job and ruling on cases the way he wants. What he does outside of producing results for them is irrelevant. They will only care if it starts interfering with his results. They did not want him for ethics, judicial, moral or otherwise. They do not care if he follows the law. They care that he decides things the way they want them decided.

I meant ruling on cases the way "they" want.

We should have rules to remove these individuals for unethical behavior. I say individuals because in the real world he would have been stripped. Hopefully we can tar and feather the wife too.

He flagrantly exemplifies plutocratic privilege and double standards. Why would Republicans object to that? It's the heart of their ideology. Feature-not-a-bug.

You are forgetting the plutocrat Republicans are riding the power of the MAGAs. If the MAGAs turn on Thomas, they will care.

[quoteI]f the MAGAs turn on Thomas, they will care.

MAGAs pay lip service to "draining the swamp" but they don't really care about swampy Republicans. Witness their adoration of swamp-thing Trump.

Trump is their God.

Thomas is their . . . I better not say.

This guy got more goodies than a David Geffen rentboy

The Ginni Pig likes nice things

[quote]The Ginni Pig likes nice things

Too bad she can't fit into them.

Yeah that fat cow likes to be a part of the action. A sort of judge by association, you could say.

[quote] he's kind of a bad ass motherfucker

The less I have to think about Clarence Thomas's ass the better.

As I said once before in another Thomas corruption thread: Where the FUCK are the IRS and Virginia state tax authorities? If this asshole didn't disclose these trips, then he sure as hell didn't declare the cash value of them as income on his tax returns either. That's goddamn TAX EVASION. And, I presume he files joint tax returns with his insurrection-loving, seditionist cunt wife.

These two motherfuckers are common thug CRIMINALS. They belong in PRISON. Let's get on with it so Dark Brandon can appoint Anita Hill to so-called "Justice" Thomas' SCOTUS seat.

It comes full circle.

R20, I'm guessing that Thomas supporters would argue the gifts are tax-exempt and not reportable as income by the donee. At most, they might argue the donor would have to file gift-tax returns. I'm not a tax professional, though. I'm just blowing smoke out my ass. Thomas will come out of this with pie on his plate.

Would love love love to see Anita Hill appointed to the S.C.

He revels in his corruption the way a dog revels in rolling in shit.

I’m still waiting for him and his cunt wife to die.

Uncle Clarence Thomas is a disgrace.

I doubt I've ever heard a single black American express pride in this degraded creep.

[quote] They will have to answer for this throughout an election year

R2 That made me laugh. They don't care.

He's riding the government gravy train hard.

It’s true that gifts are not taxable income to the recipient, but are these really gifts? Are they motivated by genuine friendship on the part of all these right wing billionaires, or are they compensation for doing their bidding and staying on the Court even though he wants to make more money?

The Justices are bought and sold and OWNED

and used like tools

You have these guys to thank.

I can’t believe all these white people want this Clarence person hanging around them- without a tree involved of course.

Did somebody say Oreo?

Oreoiest!

Double stuffed oreo

How can any of his judgments and opinions have any validity in the future?

Truth is Clarence is a bit of a pill, but Ginni is HOT.

Has there ever been a more compromised justice? No one comes to mind.

*frantically waving at R38*

R22, his supporters can think what they want, but unless Thomas is enrolled with the IRS as a qualified charitable organization, he has to declare it as income.

The irony of Anita Hill being nominated by Biden after what he said to her during the nominating process for Thomas, might make up for the hell she went through. She’s up there in years so she might not want to go through a nomination and get burned by republicans.

[quote]MAGAs pay lip service to "draining the swamp" but they don't really care about swampy Republicans. Witness their adoration of swamp-thing Trump.

Speaking of the swamp:

I’ve said it in another threat about him, but Clarence and Ginni have turned me Bolshevik. The flat out arrogance of them, their openly anti-democratic views, their lack of shame. I’ve come to understand that all the rich and the powerful are secretly like the Thomases.

Not all, R42, but I take your point. Conservatism has basically revealed itself as being for nothing but the right of the rich to get richer at any price.

Most of the country has still not heard of his corruption. Republicans simply ignore these types of stories. How long was it before it penetrated th eir skulls that Brett Favre was part of a ring ripping off the Mississippi poor?

Clarence Thomas is the Republicans ideal Uncle Tom. He will always vote all the right wing extremist ideologies and take their bribes. He can kill babies in his spare time, so long as he votes their way, Republicans just don't care.

Correction r43–it’s also for the fantasy of making modern America into a white, Christian nation.

I'd buy him some stuff if he were a white underwear model

He knows that if he resigns, all his “friends” will start making him use the servants entrance, if they ever invite him back to their homes.

[quote]he were a white underwear model

Him or the underwear?

He's not a credit to his race.

He ain’t a credit to anyone, r50.

Except those that BOUGHT him.

So he’s a debit?

R50 Thurgood Marshall was a credit to his race. And all races. I remember seeing framed photos of him in offices, businesses and homes. People were proud of him and looked up to him as a sterling example of a black man who not only was in a high and responsible role, but that he was a good ethical man. None of those qualities belong to Clarence Thomas. Not only is he not a credit to his race, he is a disgrace.

He and his wife are both such vile, loathsome people.

Republicans have not heard anything against him. Literally. THat is the bubble they are in.

[quote]Would love love love to see Anita Hill appointed to the S.C.

That would be perfect poetic justice. Anita Hill would be an excellent SC Justice.

No she wouldn't. She was dumb enough to work for him in the first place. She has the ethics of Oral Roberts University.

Frontline did an episode on him. Apparently, growing up he was tormented by the harsh words of fellow black kids regarding how dark he was and other physical features. He's never gotten over it. He pretty much hates black people.

I'm willing to bet that he was tormented because he was a truly horrible person, rather than he was a victim of bullying.

Another Dl thread about this grifter and his wife...

A thoroughly awful human being who by twisted circumstance has risen to a position of great power and influence along with several others on the Supreme Court. This was why it was so important to put Democrats in the White House.

Clarence Thomas is a self-loathing Uncle Tom who will do anything whites tell him to do and Ginni Thomas is just batshit insane.

Editorial cartoon sums it up.

Has Jack Danforth (St. Jack, as he is known by some in St. Louis) ever expressed regret for supporting him when Clarence's confirmation hearings were going on? Supporting Clarence Thomas was far and away the most vile thing Jack Danforth has ever done.

R58 he was bullied by WHITE kids too at his mostly white religious school.

What is the one thing he is known for after his confirmation? His silence. And wasn't he observed sleeping in court?

It would take an impeachment to remove him. A move that should be considered if the Dems take back the house.

The IRS aren't going to go after him.

There is probably enough for an impeachment trial to proceed. He is a national disgrace.

If you haven't seen the PBS doc on these two pigs I recommend it but I have to warn you it will make you furious.

Leonard Leo, Trump’s Supreme Court “whisperer,” & his nonprofit network are under investigation by the D.C. Attorney General.

[quote] The Federalist Society co-chair and ex-Trump judicial adviser has utilized nonprofit groups to collect more than $1 billion for conservative causes.

[quote] The probe follows @politico's reporting that the tax-exempt "charitable" group paid his for-profit tens of millions over 2 years, with little indication of what services were rendered.

[quote] The nonprofit had been using a UPS drop box in DC's Georgetown as its mailing address. Paperwork filed in Texas lists the address of another UPS store, this one in a strip mall next to the “Snooty Pig Cafe” Paperwork filed in Virginia lists yet a different address: a virtual office suite in Forth Worth shared by a “Two Men and a Truck” franchise.

[quote] Citing our previous report, a progressive watchdog group had called on the IRS and D.C. AG to investigate whether the groups may be violating their tax-exempt status by “siphoning” assets or income for personal use.

So corrupt.

38? When does this bitter cunt have the time to don his robes and take away from us?

Put an R in front of the reply number so we can read it please R71.

Leonard Leo - fatty.

It gets MUCH worse again:

Clarence Thomas has attended at least two Koch donor summits, putting him in the extraordinary position of having helped a political network that has brought multiple cases before the Supreme Court.

Thomas’ involvement in the events is part of a yearslong, personal relationship with the Koch brothers that has remained almost entirely out of public view. It developed over years of trips to the Bohemian Grove, a secretive all-men’s retreat in Northern California. Thomas has been a regular at the Grove for two decades, where he stayed in a small camp with real estate billionaire Harlan Crow and the Kochs, according to records and people who’ve spent time with him there.

“I can’t imagine — it takes my breath away, frankly — that he would go to a Koch network event for donors,” said John E. Jones III, a retired federal judge appointed by President George W. Bush. Jones said that if he had gone to a Koch summit as a district court judge, “I’d have gotten a letter that would’ve commenced a disciplinary proceeding.”

Hey troll at R31, he was nominated by Republican George H.W. Bush. I think he and his Republican advisors deserve the blame a lot more.

Fuck that Koch sucking negro bitch!

He needs to have the IRS crawl up him and his cunt wife’s fat asses. NONE of these “gifts” were declared income.

Slap him with a 25% omission and then really dig into his pack of lies. Then his little buddies can PAY to bail his lying, groveling ass out of debt.

Imagine growing into a man who needs approval so desperately that you have to seek it from people who otherwise want you dead or working in their yard. And imagine marrying this man and looking like a cow and just going along for the ride.

Againnnnn???

He is just evil. And his wife is too.

No Repug will care. Trump has shown that. He should have been eliminated from the Presidential race the first time when he alluded to someone with a gun shooting Hillary. Thomas is despicable. He was so pissed about his hearings he’s sided with the conservative justices on everything just for payback. So will that crybaby drunken preppie.

Those trips were gifts from his nephews.

He's been a Justice for over 3 decades- why is this just coming to light?

R82, Thomas has never been very clean. He’s been involved in concealing income for tax purposes. But this stuff only came out because people inside these billionaire organizations started to talk, and because some things came out during the post Jan. 6 investigations. Everything had been kept secret (for a reason, obviously).

The Justice needs to resign voluntarily with his little remaining dignity, but if he won't do the right thing, then his fellow Justices with unanimity, should demand he go.

Meet Ginni the Cow 🐄

Beside the point, but wtf is that little bowl-cut-wearing documentarian Ken Burns in the picture at R74 doing at a Bohemian Grove event?

"The Justice needs to resign voluntarily with his little remaining dignity, but if he won't do the right thing, then his fellow Justices with unanimity, should demand he go."

Bwhahahahaha. Do you honestly think Samuel "We are above the law" Alito is ever going to do anything that resembles justice?

Alito is in for some real pain next year or the year after.

Right now, everyone is looking at Uncle Tom but within the next 18-24 months, Alito is gonna get his time in the barrel and he is NOT gonna be happy.

[quote]Will this be too much for the GOP?

NOTHING will ever be too much for the GOP.

Never trust people who grew up very very poor and become very very rich. They are the Devil incarnate.

Those John Birch fucker Kochs bankroll the Federalist society too. Why hasn’t someone destroyed these anti-Democracy fuckers yet.

As a black man I hate this corrupt Uncle Tom motherfucker with everything I have in me.

Anita Hill documentary...

OP nothing is too much for these treasonous cunts. They don’t care.

This is big nothingburger!

Why is no one covering this? Are we all just overwhelmed?

[quote] Will this be too much for the GOP?

Ha!!! 😂😂😂😂

Rethuglicans have NO shame. None whatsoever. They do not care. There is no bridge too far for them. They might hem and haw but they won’t do anything that would give Joe Biden another Supreme Court seat to fill. Bottom line: they don’t care.

R38 Abe Fortas, LBJ appointment, mid-60's, could have been Chief Justice but was found to have taken money from entities before the count. He fucked around and found out. Short tenure: 4 years. No jail, though.

R92 Thank you for the Anita Hill documentary link. Ginni Thomas's voicemail after all these years is enough to convince me that the Thomases know they are in deep shit.

TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER THEY GO

[quote] Will this be too much for the GOP?

No.

Treason doesn’t cover stuff like this but it should.

Uncle Clarence Thom & the Ginni Pig

Nothing is too much for the GOO when stacked up against power.

"He is so corrupt. It's sad."

R105 rofllllll. Thanks I needed that

This asshole will probably live forever...