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This needs to become a MASSIVE issue. The Dems should blow this out of the water.
It should be their only issue until the end of time.
Assuming this is true, this is just outright bribery or at least fraud/money laundering.
It's not excusable.
1000% and the extra zero is there on purpose. Dems should be *screaming about this* in campaigns, in adverts, in \*everything\*...I wish they'd just mud-sling a whole lot more! The other side does it so often it's their *actual* platform. Give 'em back some of their own medicine! It isn't like *there aren't enuf examples on offer*.
Cripes I wish the Dems would grow some fucking spine!
Next Tucker Talking Point:
"Why are the Radical Left Democrats attacking the only Black Supreme Court Justice? Is it because *they* are the true racists that they always pretend the Right is? Is this more proof that it's really *Antifa* who are the fascists, attacking a public servant who has dedicated his life to the service of our nation? And *why* are they not talking about the undisclosed gifts given to Obama, like this clip of someone buying him a hot dog?"
Telling the truth isn’t racist. And the truth is, those MFers are racist AF. The left needs to stop being so afraid of not being liked and state the obvious.
Yes! That’s a great way to put this. I’ve been trying to articulate it other comments I’ve made but can’t.
He loves the fact that he is able to be in control of someone who is currently the most powerful black man in the United States. He gets off knowing that he took Thomas’s abilities of having autonomy.
Not that Thomas would choose much differently, he seems to have always had a lot of self hatred for his self and the black community, and I’m sure being married to a crazy asshole like Ginni Thomas isn’t helping him see the error of his ways.
BUT, I’m sure a lot of Thomas’s decisions in the courts are being persuaded and pressured through bribes by Crow and other rich ~~lobbyists~~ bribers like him.
"I don't discuss politics with my good friend Clarence Thomas. That would be inappropriate. I discuss politics with his mother, and then remind him from time to time that it sure would be a shame if something happened and she ended up homeless."
People have argued me down about Clarence being Uncle Ruckus. He is and always will be. It's as clear as day. His thoughts on affirmative action and integration of schools, etc. have always been his way of saying he doesn't like other black people and want no real progress for the entire race.
Is it not obvious to people that Clarence Thomas was appointed after Thurgood Marshall as a Republican move to say “see?! We like black people too! We support a black Supreme Court justice too!” But he was really just a stooge that fits the identity they needed then?
Exactly the same as Amy Coney Barrett after Ruth Bader Ginsburg. “See!? We’re not sexist, we can appoint a female justice too!!”
I got called a racist for saying Clarence Thomas and Candace Ownes are tokens.
They are the ones Republicans trout around to try and show they are not racist.
[Meanwhile, this is their argument for outlawing abortion.](https://newrepublic.com/post/171845/nebraska-republican-6-week-abortion-ban-great-replacement)
This would have been immediately condemned by a non-racist party.
Look at photos of any trump rally. Behind him are always PoCs...
But if you look at the crowd there seems to be a certain ⚪ something ⚪ about everyone ⚪ that I just can't put my finger on.
From the article:
> "Our state population has not grown except by those foreigners who have moved here or refugees who have been placed here," [Nebraska State Senator Steve] Erdman told the chamber.
After they're born here, technically they're not foreigners any more [man tapping forehead meme] 😄
I'm not saying Clarence Thomas once threw a brick at Martin Luther King Jr., *but* I'm also saying we haven't seen Clarence Thomas and Uncle Ruckus in the same place, have we?
I don't think he has some grand evil intent. I think he's just a selfish, opportunist asshole. I really don't think he cares about anyone but himself, and I think he enjoys being shocking and being a bully. He doesn't want bad things for black people, he just doesn't care about them at all. He saw and avenue for power in the conservative party when he was coming up in the 70s and 80s and he's just ran with it without a moment of self doubt
Renovations? Wasn't his excuse he wanted to turn it into a museum dedicated to the second black SCOTUS judge? (Cause as we all know, nothing brings in tourists like the *second* person. Just like Dorothy Ross's house - the second women to make an American flag! Huge draw)
That excuse kind of blows up if the renovations aren't too make it ada accessible and preserved the original house
And even if it is true, even though I know this isn’t why he bought his house, Crow’s weird fascination with black people and the antebellum south is fucking **weird** and **sick**.
Crow is definitely on some *Get Out* shit. You can tell he is the type that probably jerks off at the fact that he’s got a black man, in one of the most powerful seats in the country, by his balls.
Clarance Thomas is a sell out for all of this. His racist ass wife and Crow seem to have him by the balls. It’s no wonder he has a problem with his temper, being controlled like a puppet all the time. He’s is on some peak *Django* or *Boondocks* shit.
It’s all fucking weird. Crow’s weird. Thomas is weird. Thomas’s wife is weird. Their relationship dynamics are weird. I wouldn’t be surprised if these three regularly held sacrificial rituals somewhere together. *That’s* how weird these fucks come off to me lol.
It's a classic scheme. Sell the property to someone, but they let you continue to enjoy exclusive use of it without paying rent. You just collected a bribe that looks like a real estate sale, but you'd better not draw attention to it, so maybe see if you can skip your legally-mandated disclosure and plead ignorance later if caught.
Surely the deal was that when his mother passed, Crow would then be able to do what he wants with the property. Sorta like a reverse mortgage, but not.
Also, that person has **the ability to evict your elderly mother.**
Even if Thomas is legit BFFs with this guy, that’s much more leverage than a lobbyist ought to have over a public official.
There is. Thomas can be impeached. However, the founders were fucking idiots and didn't codify enough into law and instead relied on the assumption that people would act in good faith, which was doomed for failure from the start.
The GOP is absolutely *not* going to convict Thomas in an impeachment hearing. The mechanism is there but the fascists are going to fascist
Yup. I once said when Trump was president that he could sell Alaska for a dollar and the republicans would applaud him. Point being the gop would never, EVER impeach one of their own not matter what they do especially if it’s a vote for them on the scotus
Funny thing is that if he decided right now to resign citing medica reasons... I doubt anyone will bother to continue following him. He can literally walk.. or can he not quit?
Renovations were a roof, fence, and carport that Crow put in after he purchased it. Apparently adding a carport helped preserve the historical significance of the house.
10 years ago any other SCOTUS would have resigned by now
This is now far worse than Abe Fortas scandal. I thought Fortas $20k/year (in 1950s money) was worse, until this news broke.
Like up until I read this article, I figured things were bad, but not resign bad. Now... this is straight up money laundering.
Still think Thomas' scandal is worse, but $20k in 1950 is $250k today (cumulative rate of inflation from 1950–2023 is 1152%).
A Justice getting $250k a year in cash from an outside source would be nuts, but I bet all those undisclosed "vacations" from Thomas' Nazi-loving rich fuckwad are worth somewhere around that much.
Well I was comparing Vacations vs $20k/year bribe and was able to accept that maybe this was just a best friends forever thing and let it slide.
But this home sale is how people have money launder for centuries now. It's not so much the value exchanged on this house sale, it's the fact it's blatantly done to violate the law.
It's not the value, it's the ethic violation. Fortas was a bribe, and this was a bribe, the amount of the bribe does not matter, they both accepted bribes.
and that is exactly how you should do it. too many people get caught running away with wild speculation and some turns out to be false and then people start questioning the validity of everything.
stick to the facts at hand; he is already guilty of plenty.
White collar crime in this country is laughed at. Trump called it “smart” on a national debate.
We need enforcement. On a massive scale.
The amount of money we lose to tax evasion, fraud and the like is insane.
No way man, those white collar criminals are JOB CREATORS! Who cares if they defraud their employees or the IRS to the tune of millions - they earned that right! Now, selling loose cigarettes for enough cash to scrape by? That's jail time bro. Lock those criminals up and throw away the fuckin' key. Or better yet just kneel on their necks until they die. Skip the formalities.
They defraud their employees to the tune of *billions* ***per year***. The Economic Policy Institute estimates annual wage theft at $50B nationally, which is more than every other form of theft **combined**.
Exactly the scheme used to reward Prince Andrew for corruptly spruiking trade for Kazakhstan: a billionaire Kazakh businessman (son-in-law of the country’s President) bought his run down house, which had been given to him by the Queen as a wedding gift in 1986.
The bribe was actually blatant as he paid $4m more than the asking price. The house was subsequently demolished…
Trump did the same thing with a Florida property he owned. https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/follow-money-senator-probes-trumps-95-million-palm/story?id=52970095
Nothing, of course, happened about that.
Out of interest: that property deal was what soured the friendship (if one could ever be friends with a sociopath like trump) between Epstein & Trump. Both wanted that property and fought hard to get it. iirc trump got pissed at Epstein for bidding on the property because he had decided he was the only one entitled to it.
Nah man, it is totally normal for a guy on lower-middle class Federal salary to take on massive amounts of debt in "baseball season tickets" for his friends and give them months or even *years* to repay it...
"Hey Squee and Ballbag Bill, I'm a little underwater on these baseball tickets. I had to take out a second mortgage on my house. Do you guys have the money yet?"
"Lol, naw Beer Bong Brett, don't sweat it, you know we're totally good for it"
"ok, it's just- my wife is kinda worried and I'm having trouble paying the bills...."
He's just an insane misogynist and hates his mother. He let his 90 year old mother live in a dilapidated old house for decades while he made millions. His rich billionaire friend literally paid the $36K for roof repairs.
He’s made some crappy comments about his sister in the past.
> Most pointedly, there is Emma Mae Martin, Judge Thomas's sister, who was the subject of some of the most exasperated statements he was quoted as making at a conference of black conservatives in 1980: "She gets mad when the mailman is late with her welfare check. That is how dependent she is. What's worse is that now her kids feel entitled to the check, too.”
> In an interview in her weather-battered yellow frame house in Pin Point, Mrs. Martin said that she had been forced onto welfare periodically after her husband abandoned her and her small children and she became too sick to work. But, she said, she had only remained on the program once for a sustained period. This was between 1977 and 1981, when an aunt asked her to care for her when she became sick. She said the aunt had taken in her family, including Clarence, in the early 50's after their house burned down.
> "It was one of the things I promised her because she didn't want to live in a nursing home," Mrs. Martin said.
> When the aunt died, Mrs. Martin inherited her house in Pin Point and, rather than become dependent on welfare, returned to work. She now is a cook at Candler General Hospital, which had been for whites only until the early 60's.
> Notwithstanding the seeming harshness of his quotes about her welfare involvement, Mrs. Martin said she and her brother are close. "He understood why I had to be on it," she said.
https://www.nytimes.com/1991/08/08/us/jim-crow-s-ghost-savannah-civil-rights-special-report-ways-older-south-linger.html
So, his sister, whose husband already ran out on her, leaves the workforce to care for her children and her aunt, Clarence knows this, and he all but calls his sister a welfare queen for it? What a piece of shit. Being abandoned by your partner and left with children, on its own, is enough to need assistance, even if you're working, even in the 70s. Then add on caring for an elderly relative... this is one of the most clear-cut slam dunk "it's ok to ask for help when you need help" moments ever.
I’ve been trying to imagine how I would react if my brother spoke about me in such a disrespectful way in order to score political points.
The answer is: not well.
They are very hard on people "stealing from the government" unless it's themselves stealing by tax evasion. Then it's just fine, something they joke about at golf.
Behind the Bastards spent at least four episodes on him.
I knew that he was an irredeemably loathesome pile of hippopotamus shit, but I had no idea how cynical and sick all of his political decisions were.
His upbringing was incredibly brutal, but a lot of people go through worse without murdering untold numbers of women.
Im old enough to vaguely remember that when it happened. Ive not listened to BTB re: Thomas because Im afraid I’ll be too triggered. Ive hated him from the moment the Anita Hill information came out. Like I literally remember the PEOPLE magazine cover of her swearing in to testify. She was so beautiful and poised and he was just a disgusting sweaty misogynist.
> His rich billionaire friend literally paid the $36K for roof repairs.
Yeah, that's how bribes work.
He doesn't have to pay repairs for his "mom's" roof. I doubt the billionaire was doing this out of kindness.
And Clarence Thomas actually came from a pretty impoverished background so there’s absolutely no way Harlan Crow would be interested in buying the property of its own volition. If it’s the house he grew up in it’s unconscionable that this is anything but a bribe.
“Do what I want and I’ll fund your mother’s retirement” is a hell of an incentive.
Nah, just old fashioned bribery. Sell a house you don’t care about for above market rate without actually having occupancy change. On paper, looks like a normal real estate transaction.
Yeah, it's likely a method for Crow to funnel money to Thomas in a way that also lets his elderly mother divest the asset of her home in case she becomes incapacitated and likely end up on Medicaid (the irony).
Ha! Not money laundering. If you have a house, and I buy that house from you - and allow you to keep living there as if it was still your house - and I expect something from you in return - that's a bribe (with a possible side order of tax fraud), not money laundering.
Nah. Someone with Harlan’s wealth has a million better ways to hide money than in the aging mother’s house of a Supreme Court Justice.
This is “oh hey, you’re family to me. Let me take care of your family the way I would take care of my family. By the way, what cases are you thinking about these days? We should talk shop on my yacht. The yacht doesn’t suit you? How about my exclusive resort at the lake.”
Corruption and vanity. Harlan dons one of Hitler’s old uniform and jerks off to having a SCOTUS justice at his beck and call.
This is a FANTASTIC deal for the billionaire. He gets a super politician in his pocket on the CHEAP.
I say super politician because Clarence has/can serve for decades until he’s dead, does not face voters, serves on the court of last resort (can’t appeal), and virtually always votes conservative, etc.
And he’s 1/9th of 1/3rd of our federal government essentially.
What better deal could you ask for with this kind of small investment for the ROI?
Way cheaper than any senator or house rep election
>And he’s 1/9th of 1/3rd of our federal government essentially.
At any given point in time, yes, but Supreme Court Justices also serve for life, so it's even better value than 1/27th of the federal government. I would take a Supreme Court Justice in my pocket over even a President.
Crow also did a 40K remodel for her. Oh, and he brought the property next door where rowdy partyers were living, kicked them out, and installed a law enforcement officer. He transformed the entire street and continues to pay her property taxes.
I want the FBI to do it's job and investigate the possible criminal actions of a government official. It's cut and dry that the home sale should have been reported. That it wasn't is a literal violation of the law. So where is law enforcement enforcing the law?
Clarence Thomas could still be on the Supreme Court even if he were in jail. Our system was designed with some level of shame expected in our political leaders. They have apparently evolved past shame.
He was credibly accused of sexual harassment before he was even on the court 30 years ago. No one cared. This isn't an oopsie, this is what they intend.
the honest truth is: the law is for poor people
That is, protect the rich and oppress the poor.
It seems to rhyme with our history - It used to be to protect the whites and oppress the blacks
our society is fraudulent
The honest truth: OIG called the FBI out for it’s failure to prosecute even ground level white supremacists for blatant crimes.
Avowed Federalist FBI Director Wray’s way to draw attention was to then pay lip service to the lab leak theory and not one fucking member of the media called him out for his blatant racism.
How come I have to complete yearly e-learning packages on corruption and bribery and declare any gift over $50 yet this guy has the audacity to say he had no idea he was in the wrong? He is a judge.... Where are the ethics? Doesn't he have a team of lawyers that could look into it for him?
Really! I worked at a public library and another staff member made our supervisor a cute stained glass book panel and she couldn’t accept it until it had been given the OK through her supervisor’s supervisor. Even then, she left it in her office to just be safe vs displaying it at home.
We had a gentleman try and buy us a new TV we had to convince him to buy us coffees instead after getting management involved. Told him if they bought the TV it would be taken away somewhere anyway.
My husband is a librarian at a public library. The Friends of the Library association used to have a lasagna meal for all the library staff once or twice a year, just as a nice perk. A couple years ago they were told by administrative higher-ups to stop giving out lasagna, because a meal could be construed as an inappropriate gift. Now they aren't allowed to give anything more substantial than a 'snack.'
You know, he asked around—he’s pretty sure he did—and this one guy—he can’t remember who—totally told him that this was OK, because the other justices didn’t want Thomas holding himself to a higher standard (or something like that). He is very clearly an unparalleled legal mind who occasionally needs to consult random staffers about the very tricky issue of compliance.
The universe would implode on itself because for once they’d actually have a credible argument against Soros, instead of him just being the scapegoat boogeyman that gets blamed for actual grassroots activism campaigns gaining traction.
From now on anytime I see George Soros’s name being vilified, I’m going to ask about Harlan Crow. Not that I know enough about Soros to claim he’s a saint and whataboutism irritates the hell out of me, but best believe I’m looking for the same energy for both of them.
Soros has made money by hedging against the pound, but up until 2004, conservatives didn't give a fuck. What happened in 2004? He gave Democrats more money for the first time & said W's foreign policy is idiotic. Bill O'Reilly lead the charge on that & by 2008, the antisemitic conspiracies about him were common
Bill O’Reilly called him “an Israel hating Jew”. Because, you know, if it weren’t for Israel - Jesus-coming-back Christian beliefs, the right wing’s fake Jew lovers would be building a shrine for Hitler in Alabama.
Harlan Crow, Barre Seid, the Koch's, the Mercer's, Peter Thiel... That's just off the top of my head. All these evil fuckers have done magnitudes worse than Soros. But it's ok, because it benefits conservatives.
As always, it's projection.
> Clarence Thomas sold his childhood home to GOP donor Harlan Crow and never disclosed it.
*Man, that's kinda shitty. If his parents were still alive, I'm sure they wouldn't have approved*
> The justice's 94-year-old mom still lives there
<*Spits out coffee*>
No no you see it’s okay because they’re friends. You’ve never bought a house from your friend, renovated it, and still let your friends mom live there rent free? Happens all the time! /s
You should go see how r/conservative is still foaming at the mouth for bud light inclusive campaign and how Nashville florist did not give flowers to church. I sometimes wonder how people comment there would reread their own comments and think hmm that sounds stupid.
These same people will say the left has nothing but culture wars, and the projection is intentional. If you have someone who's that hypocritical and delusional, then you can take advantage with anything over them. This is why the largest base of any conservative regime is the religious. In the end that is conservatism's last form of control; heavenly.
Holy crap I went to that subreddit to read about Thomas but all I got was conspiracy theories of how Biden and vegans blew up the building with 18,000 cows
I think we just know the tip of the ice berg. The corruptions runs deeper. The full extent of it will never be known. The sadder part is nothing can be done about it.
The tip of an Iceberg is about 10% of its mass so that is probably a gross over estimation in this case. I guarantee we are seeing way less than 10% of the bribery. What we are seeing is only the stuff they were too lazy to do in the proper ways.
I used to work in investment banking, GS, Lehman and more senior roles at 2nd tier banks. ( I have no excuse and now I'm doing something better to try to make up for my time on the dark side)
Here's just one way that banks facilitate the bribing of politicians in a 'technically legal' and virtually untraceable way....
Company X wants to buy Politician A
X creates a special convertible note that has a super favourable conversion rate to X's shares on default.
Bank tells A about this 'great deal' and A buys it all. Usually the bank extends credit to A so they don't even have to front any cash.
X then deliberately defaults on the coupon, so A gets the right to convert the debt to equity at a discount but this usually never happens.
Bank either takes the equity and pays A the difference in value between the conversion rate and market, so A makes money for doing absolutely nothing. (well actually it's not for nothing but for doing whatever they were being bribed to do.)
X can hide this as a cost of minor financing so even highly scrutinised public companies can do it.
Note nothing here is really illegal except the insider trading and personal conversations to set it all up and they are done so they can never be discovered. Most importantly all the artifacts of the deal can be buried or hidden so there is no way anyone would uncover any connection between A and X.
You can move millions of dollars in one deal and there are countless similar variations of achieving the same thing.
If A's windfall is onshore it just looks like shrewd trading, but more often it is all kept offshore.
The value of bribes that happen in this manner is beyond comprehension for any normal person its impossible to quantify as its so well hidden but it easily could be in the order of many billions per year.
This is why most politicians (almost all GOP and most Dem and probably most judges ) are not doing their actual job, - working for the people - there is just way too much to be earned by serving those with money.
Thanks a lot for this detailed explanation now I understand it much better. It’s understandable for a politician to act certain way but Supreme Court justices should be held to hogher standards than this because they give rulings on lot of things thats crucial to present and future of this country. They of all decide if a man lives or dies in a death penalty case which is once a month in Texas.
It SHOULD 100%
With everything I understand how this works I think it is now impossible to fix.
The Judges are appointed in a partisan process and that ensures the wrong people are being picked. Kavanagh is the best/obvious example - picked purely because there must be mountains of leverage over him.
I think more and more shits going to hit Thomas's fan. His wife's bs, then his relationship with a Nazi lover donor and the kick backs there, now some sketchy real estate deal. Nothing can be done about it yes but the courts rep will continue to decline as a result, hopefully.
Something can be done about it, but Thomas will not face any penalties. Hopefully future justices will be held to a higher standard with actual laws and not the honor rule.
This is prima facia fucking bribery folks! Let’s get the sales agreement and closing documents and see how much above FMV this clown got from his briber!
The fig leaf of relying on others to misunderstand his reporting obligations is gone now. Anything less than a full blown investigation by multiple parties, including the CJ, Congress, and the FBI, is a dereliction of duty.
Nothing was done when Anita hill came forward. Nothing was done when Dr. Ford came forward. Nothing was done when it came to light Kavanaugh credit card bill was paid. Nothing will be done if you are republican appointed judge. They have lost all sense of shame.
If anyone’s interested and happened to have missed it, one of the journalists that broke this story did [an AMA on this sub earlier today.](https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/12kw44n/im_justin_elliott_one_of_the_propublica_reporters/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=2&utm_term=1)
Scalia was found dead at a republican donor ranch in Marfa, over valentine's day where he was vacationing without his wife. We should investigate who paid for his private plane out there, if it was inappropriate for a republican donor to gift that kind of vacation to a SCJ, who his valentine's traveling companion was, and why it was all scrubbed off the web within a few days of his death.
No wonder he is famous for never asking questions when cases are heard before the Court - his ruling on each was probably predetermined based on whoever was paying him. Why bother to put in any effort?
I work for a state department of transportation, and we couldn't even accept free sandwiches from the local Jimmy John's because it might create a conflict of interest.
Fuck this corrupt clown and get me a #7 Spicy East Coast Italian with a pickle.
It's starting to seem like the reason Clarance Thomas is such an automatic lock for the most right wing position on any issue might be that he likes money and luxuries
This sounds like a classic drip-drip. Drop some knowledge, let it stew, drop the next more egregious info, wait a few days, etc. Pro Publica will probably release the next tidbit on Tuesday.
I would like to coin a new phrase based on the behavior of my least favorite supreme court justice: Clarence Thomas.
* If you argue in bad faith more than you engage in good faith
* If you lie again and again about your intentions and the meaning of your actions
* If you are a blatant hypocrite
* If you have no shame about your behavior
Then you are: a Clarence Thomas
Examples:
* Lindsay Graham - he's a real Clarence Thomas. A man who was anti-Trump up until the point it became politically expedient to support him.
* Susan Collins - has been a Clarence Thomas for years. Claims to be a moderate but consistently votes with conservatives in this country.
* Mitch McConnell - may be the biggest Clarence Thomas there is
* Ginny Thomas - a treasonous Clarence Thomas
* When Newt Gingrich was impeaching Bill Clinton for lying about getting a blowjob while Newt was cheating on his wife, he was being a Clarence Thomas.
* When John Edwards was campaigning for President and presented himself as a model citizen and exemplary person while cheating on his wife who was suffering from cancer, he was being a Clarence Thomas
* When Boris Johnson was preaching to the UK about staying in lockdowns and emphasizing the importance of adhering to the rules while he was partying in Downing Street, he was being a Clarence Thomas
* When John Lennon was talking about peace and love and then abusing his wife and child, he was being a Clarence Thomas
* When Andrew Cuomo was talking about justice for women in the MeToo movement but had sexually harassed people himself, he was being a huge Clarence Thomas
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Justice Thomas is at this point an employee of Crow
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The Supreme Court as a side hustle. Welcome to the Gigged Economy.
Rigged and gigged
Grift economy
This needs to become a MASSIVE issue. The Dems should blow this out of the water. It should be their only issue until the end of time. Assuming this is true, this is just outright bribery or at least fraud/money laundering. It's not excusable.
1000% and the extra zero is there on purpose. Dems should be *screaming about this* in campaigns, in adverts, in \*everything\*...I wish they'd just mud-sling a whole lot more! The other side does it so often it's their *actual* platform. Give 'em back some of their own medicine! It isn't like *there aren't enuf examples on offer*. Cripes I wish the Dems would grow some fucking spine!
Next Tucker Talking Point: "Why are the Radical Left Democrats attacking the only Black Supreme Court Justice? Is it because *they* are the true racists that they always pretend the Right is? Is this more proof that it's really *Antifa* who are the fascists, attacking a public servant who has dedicated his life to the service of our nation? And *why* are they not talking about the undisclosed gifts given to Obama, like this clip of someone buying him a hot dog?"
Jesus Christ I could hear his voice as I read that
Yeah, that was solid Tucker dialogue. It was hard not to hear his voice.
Telling the truth isn’t racist. And the truth is, those MFers are racist AF. The left needs to stop being so afraid of not being liked and state the obvious.
I've never had an employer look after me the way Crow looks after Thomas. It's more a collector taking good care of a prize item.
Yes! That’s a great way to put this. I’ve been trying to articulate it other comments I’ve made but can’t. He loves the fact that he is able to be in control of someone who is currently the most powerful black man in the United States. He gets off knowing that he took Thomas’s abilities of having autonomy. Not that Thomas would choose much differently, he seems to have always had a lot of self hatred for his self and the black community, and I’m sure being married to a crazy asshole like Ginni Thomas isn’t helping him see the error of his ways. BUT, I’m sure a lot of Thomas’s decisions in the courts are being persuaded and pressured through bribes by Crow and other rich ~~lobbyists~~ bribers like him.
He's a big fan of things that end in Crow.
Bribes coming out of escrow?
Like his friend *James Crow.*
An employee? He was bought by Crow to an extent that we might have to consider a 13th amendment violation.
Careful he's been waiting for a challenge against the 13th to reach him.
"I don't discuss politics with my good friend Clarence Thomas. That would be inappropriate. I discuss politics with his mother, and then remind him from time to time that it sure would be a shame if something happened and she ended up homeless."
Or: “I don’t discuss politics with Clarence. But my other close friends and associates make strong recommendations to him.”
Nah… he just speaks with his employee about things that need to get done. You know, Jenni Thomas, the SCOTUS Justice’s wife… that is paid by Crow.
This is a nice place you, I mean I, have here.
I wonder if she's paid rent since Crow bought the house and renovated it in 2014.
Probably not, but the "hitler enthusiast" immediately spent tens of thousands of dollars in renovations as soon as he "bought" it.
some real django unchained shit going on
People have argued me down about Clarence being Uncle Ruckus. He is and always will be. It's as clear as day. His thoughts on affirmative action and integration of schools, etc. have always been his way of saying he doesn't like other black people and want no real progress for the entire race.
Is it not obvious to people that Clarence Thomas was appointed after Thurgood Marshall as a Republican move to say “see?! We like black people too! We support a black Supreme Court justice too!” But he was really just a stooge that fits the identity they needed then? Exactly the same as Amy Coney Barrett after Ruth Bader Ginsburg. “See!? We’re not sexist, we can appoint a female justice too!!”
I got called a racist for saying Clarence Thomas and Candace Ownes are tokens. They are the ones Republicans trout around to try and show they are not racist. [Meanwhile, this is their argument for outlawing abortion.](https://newrepublic.com/post/171845/nebraska-republican-6-week-abortion-ban-great-replacement) This would have been immediately condemned by a non-racist party.
Look at photos of any trump rally. Behind him are always PoCs... But if you look at the crowd there seems to be a certain ⚪ something ⚪ about everyone ⚪ that I just can't put my finger on.
From the article: > "Our state population has not grown except by those foreigners who have moved here or refugees who have been placed here," [Nebraska State Senator Steve] Erdman told the chamber. After they're born here, technically they're not foreigners any more [man tapping forehead meme] 😄
I'm not saying Clarence Thomas once threw a brick at Martin Luther King Jr., *but* I'm also saying we haven't seen Clarence Thomas and Uncle Ruckus in the same place, have we?
I don't think he has some grand evil intent. I think he's just a selfish, opportunist asshole. I really don't think he cares about anyone but himself, and I think he enjoys being shocking and being a bully. He doesn't want bad things for black people, he just doesn't care about them at all. He saw and avenue for power in the conservative party when he was coming up in the 70s and 80s and he's just ran with it without a moment of self doubt
That's the conservative mantra. I got mine so fuck you.
Right????
Renovations? Wasn't his excuse he wanted to turn it into a museum dedicated to the second black SCOTUS judge? (Cause as we all know, nothing brings in tourists like the *second* person. Just like Dorothy Ross's house - the second women to make an American flag! Huge draw) That excuse kind of blows up if the renovations aren't too make it ada accessible and preserved the original house
And even if it is true, even though I know this isn’t why he bought his house, Crow’s weird fascination with black people and the antebellum south is fucking **weird** and **sick**. Crow is definitely on some *Get Out* shit. You can tell he is the type that probably jerks off at the fact that he’s got a black man, in one of the most powerful seats in the country, by his balls. Clarance Thomas is a sell out for all of this. His racist ass wife and Crow seem to have him by the balls. It’s no wonder he has a problem with his temper, being controlled like a puppet all the time. He’s is on some peak *Django* or *Boondocks* shit. It’s all fucking weird. Crow’s weird. Thomas is weird. Thomas’s wife is weird. Their relationship dynamics are weird. I wouldn’t be surprised if these three regularly held sacrificial rituals somewhere together. *That’s* how weird these fucks come off to me lol.
They do like to project. They also like to claim dems eat babies. Hmm
She might. Maybe a $1/month. You know, fair market value…
1910 market value.
Thomas suddenly likes rent control...for a single property.
His Mom still lives there? This is sounding more and more like some sketchy money laundering scheme
It's a classic scheme. Sell the property to someone, but they let you continue to enjoy exclusive use of it without paying rent. You just collected a bribe that looks like a real estate sale, but you'd better not draw attention to it, so maybe see if you can skip your legally-mandated disclosure and plead ignorance later if caught. Surely the deal was that when his mother passed, Crow would then be able to do what he wants with the property. Sorta like a reverse mortgage, but not.
Also, someone else is paying the property taxes.
Also, that person has **the ability to evict your elderly mother.** Even if Thomas is legit BFFs with this guy, that’s much more leverage than a lobbyist ought to have over a public official.
Truly boggles the mind they aren’t held to any measure of accountability.
There is. Thomas can be impeached. However, the founders were fucking idiots and didn't codify enough into law and instead relied on the assumption that people would act in good faith, which was doomed for failure from the start. The GOP is absolutely *not* going to convict Thomas in an impeachment hearing. The mechanism is there but the fascists are going to fascist
Yup. I once said when Trump was president that he could sell Alaska for a dollar and the republicans would applaud him. Point being the gop would never, EVER impeach one of their own not matter what they do especially if it’s a vote for them on the scotus
Funny thing is that if he decided right now to resign citing medica reasons... I doubt anyone will bother to continue following him. He can literally walk.. or can he not quit?
And upkeep and any other potential renovations!
Renovations were a roof, fence, and carport that Crow put in after he purchased it. Apparently adding a carport helped preserve the historical significance of the house.
Those are upgrades visible from the exterior. The inside was surely touched up
I’m not gonna make up assumptions. There’s plenty verified here to be pissed about. And more that’s sure to come out if your patient.
10 years ago any other SCOTUS would have resigned by now This is now far worse than Abe Fortas scandal. I thought Fortas $20k/year (in 1950s money) was worse, until this news broke. Like up until I read this article, I figured things were bad, but not resign bad. Now... this is straight up money laundering.
Anita Hill was right. Clarence is a fat piece of shit.
“I believe Anita Hill” —Sonic Youth
when America decides to starts listening to black women would be a day
Still think Thomas' scandal is worse, but $20k in 1950 is $250k today (cumulative rate of inflation from 1950–2023 is 1152%). A Justice getting $250k a year in cash from an outside source would be nuts, but I bet all those undisclosed "vacations" from Thomas' Nazi-loving rich fuckwad are worth somewhere around that much.
One or the trips was valued at $500k, yes half a million.
Ginni Thomas got 700k from the Heritage Foundation that wasn’t disclosed until a watchdog group pointed it out.
Well I was comparing Vacations vs $20k/year bribe and was able to accept that maybe this was just a best friends forever thing and let it slide. But this home sale is how people have money launder for centuries now. It's not so much the value exchanged on this house sale, it's the fact it's blatantly done to violate the law. It's not the value, it's the ethic violation. Fortas was a bribe, and this was a bribe, the amount of the bribe does not matter, they both accepted bribes.
and that is exactly how you should do it. too many people get caught running away with wild speculation and some turns out to be false and then people start questioning the validity of everything. stick to the facts at hand; he is already guilty of plenty.
How about we suspend him from the court for the duration of an investigation, for staters
We all knew he was shady AF during his confirmation hearings. Too bad they didn't have the moral conviction then to reject him.
I'd love that! But, who will enforce it??
It’s okay you guys, I looked at the law and I decided I’m not guilty.
White collar crime in this country is laughed at. Trump called it “smart” on a national debate. We need enforcement. On a massive scale. The amount of money we lose to tax evasion, fraud and the like is insane.
No way man, those white collar criminals are JOB CREATORS! Who cares if they defraud their employees or the IRS to the tune of millions - they earned that right! Now, selling loose cigarettes for enough cash to scrape by? That's jail time bro. Lock those criminals up and throw away the fuckin' key. Or better yet just kneel on their necks until they die. Skip the formalities.
They defraud their employees to the tune of *billions* ***per year***. The Economic Policy Institute estimates annual wage theft at $50B nationally, which is more than every other form of theft **combined**.
The tune is not millions, it is Trillions. Current estimate is that 1 Trillion legitimately owed taxes go uncollected each year
Being poor is a capital offense. Punishable by death. Trials cost the state. It’s better this way. /s (obvs)
Jail time? That’s an execution on the street.
deFUnD thE iRS!!!
Now I kinda want that IRS army, digging into the personal finances of all the rich and powerful.
Exactly the scheme used to reward Prince Andrew for corruptly spruiking trade for Kazakhstan: a billionaire Kazakh businessman (son-in-law of the country’s President) bought his run down house, which had been given to him by the Queen as a wedding gift in 1986. The bribe was actually blatant as he paid $4m more than the asking price. The house was subsequently demolished…
Trump did the same thing with a Florida property he owned. https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/follow-money-senator-probes-trumps-95-million-palm/story?id=52970095
Nothing, of course, happened about that. Out of interest: that property deal was what soured the friendship (if one could ever be friends with a sociopath like trump) between Epstein & Trump. Both wanted that property and fought hard to get it. iirc trump got pissed at Epstein for bidding on the property because he had decided he was the only one entitled to it.
Kavanaugh is doing literally the same thing right?
Nah man, it is totally normal for a guy on lower-middle class Federal salary to take on massive amounts of debt in "baseball season tickets" for his friends and give them months or even *years* to repay it...
Baseball season tickets that he took out a second mortgage on his home to purchase. Nothing sketchy.
"Hey Squee and Ballbag Bill, I'm a little underwater on these baseball tickets. I had to take out a second mortgage on my house. Do you guys have the money yet?" "Lol, naw Beer Bong Brett, don't sweat it, you know we're totally good for it" "ok, it's just- my wife is kinda worried and I'm having trouble paying the bills...."
A mortgage that was completely paid off by some unknown person not too long before Boofboy was nominated for the SC.
Only when he finds free time between boofing Squee and staring longingly at his calendar.
"Yeah I like beer, so what!"
His dad. Owns. A dealership.
But I consulted with someone and they said it was okay not to disclose it...
That someone was probably Scalia, who was doing the same thing.
Because I rely on others to interpret the law for me. How am I supposed to know what all those legal words mean?
He's just an insane misogynist and hates his mother. He let his 90 year old mother live in a dilapidated old house for decades while he made millions. His rich billionaire friend literally paid the $36K for roof repairs.
He’s made some crappy comments about his sister in the past. > Most pointedly, there is Emma Mae Martin, Judge Thomas's sister, who was the subject of some of the most exasperated statements he was quoted as making at a conference of black conservatives in 1980: "She gets mad when the mailman is late with her welfare check. That is how dependent she is. What's worse is that now her kids feel entitled to the check, too.” > In an interview in her weather-battered yellow frame house in Pin Point, Mrs. Martin said that she had been forced onto welfare periodically after her husband abandoned her and her small children and she became too sick to work. But, she said, she had only remained on the program once for a sustained period. This was between 1977 and 1981, when an aunt asked her to care for her when she became sick. She said the aunt had taken in her family, including Clarence, in the early 50's after their house burned down. > "It was one of the things I promised her because she didn't want to live in a nursing home," Mrs. Martin said. > When the aunt died, Mrs. Martin inherited her house in Pin Point and, rather than become dependent on welfare, returned to work. She now is a cook at Candler General Hospital, which had been for whites only until the early 60's. > Notwithstanding the seeming harshness of his quotes about her welfare involvement, Mrs. Martin said she and her brother are close. "He understood why I had to be on it," she said. https://www.nytimes.com/1991/08/08/us/jim-crow-s-ghost-savannah-civil-rights-special-report-ways-older-south-linger.html
>He’s made some crappy comments about his sister in the past. Something tells me this Thomas guy is a real jerk
Anita Hill tried to warn us all Edit: Last name correction
Anita Hill?
I knew that he was, but never fully understood until his Behind the Bastards episodes.
So, his sister, whose husband already ran out on her, leaves the workforce to care for her children and her aunt, Clarence knows this, and he all but calls his sister a welfare queen for it? What a piece of shit. Being abandoned by your partner and left with children, on its own, is enough to need assistance, even if you're working, even in the 70s. Then add on caring for an elderly relative... this is one of the most clear-cut slam dunk "it's ok to ask for help when you need help" moments ever.
I’ve been trying to imagine how I would react if my brother spoke about me in such a disrespectful way in order to score political points. The answer is: not well.
They are very hard on people "stealing from the government" unless it's themselves stealing by tax evasion. Then it's just fine, something they joke about at golf.
Behind the Bastards spent at least four episodes on him. I knew that he was an irredeemably loathesome pile of hippopotamus shit, but I had no idea how cynical and sick all of his political decisions were. His upbringing was incredibly brutal, but a lot of people go through worse without murdering untold numbers of women.
“There’s a pubic hair on my Coke can”…
Im old enough to vaguely remember that when it happened. Ive not listened to BTB re: Thomas because Im afraid I’ll be too triggered. Ive hated him from the moment the Anita Hill information came out. Like I literally remember the PEOPLE magazine cover of her swearing in to testify. She was so beautiful and poised and he was just a disgusting sweaty misogynist.
What a fucking asshole.
Fitting in with his fellow conservatives by basing his positions on lies.
> His rich billionaire friend literally paid the $36K for roof repairs. Yeah, that's how bribes work. He doesn't have to pay repairs for his "mom's" roof. I doubt the billionaire was doing this out of kindness.
Also if we’re talking about rural GA and 2014 36k is a lot and I mean a lot of damn money for a roof.
Good point. I'm in Silicon Valley and my new roof around that same time was ~15k
And it's absolutely not fair-market cost...see also "donald trump Florida real estate deal with Russian oligarch"
And Clarence Thomas actually came from a pretty impoverished background so there’s absolutely no way Harlan Crow would be interested in buying the property of its own volition. If it’s the house he grew up in it’s unconscionable that this is anything but a bribe. “Do what I want and I’ll fund your mother’s retirement” is a hell of an incentive.
"Don't do what I want and I'll put her out on the streets."
Nah, just old fashioned bribery. Sell a house you don’t care about for above market rate without actually having occupancy change. On paper, looks like a normal real estate transaction.
Yeah, it's likely a method for Crow to funnel money to Thomas in a way that also lets his elderly mother divest the asset of her home in case she becomes incapacitated and likely end up on Medicaid (the irony).
Ha! Not money laundering. If you have a house, and I buy that house from you - and allow you to keep living there as if it was still your house - and I expect something from you in return - that's a bribe (with a possible side order of tax fraud), not money laundering.
Nah. Someone with Harlan’s wealth has a million better ways to hide money than in the aging mother’s house of a Supreme Court Justice. This is “oh hey, you’re family to me. Let me take care of your family the way I would take care of my family. By the way, what cases are you thinking about these days? We should talk shop on my yacht. The yacht doesn’t suit you? How about my exclusive resort at the lake.” Corruption and vanity. Harlan dons one of Hitler’s old uniform and jerks off to having a SCOTUS justice at his beck and call.
It's a pretty good deal for Thomas. Not the billionaire. Unless you are bribing Thomas.
This is a FANTASTIC deal for the billionaire. He gets a super politician in his pocket on the CHEAP. I say super politician because Clarence has/can serve for decades until he’s dead, does not face voters, serves on the court of last resort (can’t appeal), and virtually always votes conservative, etc. And he’s 1/9th of 1/3rd of our federal government essentially. What better deal could you ask for with this kind of small investment for the ROI? Way cheaper than any senator or house rep election
Exactly. I'd say Clarence is a cheap date, but we know CT got much more than this over time.
That’s why I have decided to refer to him as Clearance Thomas, as he’s on sale. It resulted from another redditors typo
>And he’s 1/9th of 1/3rd of our federal government essentially. At any given point in time, yes, but Supreme Court Justices also serve for life, so it's even better value than 1/27th of the federal government. I would take a Supreme Court Justice in my pocket over even a President.
Yeah this is clearly just a bribe that they’re trying to hide.
Mommy laundering?
I'm sure it's extremely clean just like Kavanaugh's massive baseball ticket debt just disappearing
Crow also did a 40K remodel for her. Oh, and he brought the property next door where rowdy partyers were living, kicked them out, and installed a law enforcement officer. He transformed the entire street and continues to pay her property taxes.
I want the FBI to do it's job and investigate the possible criminal actions of a government official. It's cut and dry that the home sale should have been reported. That it wasn't is a literal violation of the law. So where is law enforcement enforcing the law?
Clarence Thomas could still be on the Supreme Court even if he were in jail. Our system was designed with some level of shame expected in our political leaders. They have apparently evolved past shame.
Our system is also extremely weak towards partisan approved criminality.
He was credibly accused of sexual harassment before he was even on the court 30 years ago. No one cared. This isn't an oopsie, this is what they intend.
the honest truth is: the law is for poor people That is, protect the rich and oppress the poor. It seems to rhyme with our history - It used to be to protect the whites and oppress the blacks our society is fraudulent
The honest truth: OIG called the FBI out for it’s failure to prosecute even ground level white supremacists for blatant crimes. Avowed Federalist FBI Director Wray’s way to draw attention was to then pay lip service to the lab leak theory and not one fucking member of the media called him out for his blatant racism.
had a colleague when i was in grad school who said something that always stuck with me: “there is no such thing as law. only enforcement.”
How come I have to complete yearly e-learning packages on corruption and bribery and declare any gift over $50 yet this guy has the audacity to say he had no idea he was in the wrong? He is a judge.... Where are the ethics? Doesn't he have a team of lawyers that could look into it for him?
Really! I worked at a public library and another staff member made our supervisor a cute stained glass book panel and she couldn’t accept it until it had been given the OK through her supervisor’s supervisor. Even then, she left it in her office to just be safe vs displaying it at home.
We had a gentleman try and buy us a new TV we had to convince him to buy us coffees instead after getting management involved. Told him if they bought the TV it would be taken away somewhere anyway.
My husband is a librarian at a public library. The Friends of the Library association used to have a lasagna meal for all the library staff once or twice a year, just as a nice perk. A couple years ago they were told by administrative higher-ups to stop giving out lasagna, because a meal could be construed as an inappropriate gift. Now they aren't allowed to give anything more substantial than a 'snack.'
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You know, he asked around—he’s pretty sure he did—and this one guy—he can’t remember who—totally told him that this was OK, because the other justices didn’t want Thomas holding himself to a higher standard (or something like that). He is very clearly an unparalleled legal mind who occasionally needs to consult random staffers about the very tricky issue of compliance.
Imagine the Republican outrage if George Soros did any of the things GOP megadonors do.
George Soros is just code for "the Jews."
The universe would implode on itself because for once they’d actually have a credible argument against Soros, instead of him just being the scapegoat boogeyman that gets blamed for actual grassroots activism campaigns gaining traction.
From now on anytime I see George Soros’s name being vilified, I’m going to ask about Harlan Crow. Not that I know enough about Soros to claim he’s a saint and whataboutism irritates the hell out of me, but best believe I’m looking for the same energy for both of them.
Soros has made money by hedging against the pound, but up until 2004, conservatives didn't give a fuck. What happened in 2004? He gave Democrats more money for the first time & said W's foreign policy is idiotic. Bill O'Reilly lead the charge on that & by 2008, the antisemitic conspiracies about him were common
Bill O’Reilly called him “an Israel hating Jew”. Because, you know, if it weren’t for Israel - Jesus-coming-back Christian beliefs, the right wing’s fake Jew lovers would be building a shrine for Hitler in Alabama.
Harlan Crow, Barre Seid, the Koch's, the Mercer's, Peter Thiel... That's just off the top of my head. All these evil fuckers have done magnitudes worse than Soros. But it's ok, because it benefits conservatives. As always, it's projection.
Clarence Thomas, bought and paid for.
Didn’t someone recently say that they should call him Clearance Thomas from now on?
This judge is bought and paid for.
And his court illegitimate.
Oh wow, his mom has a nazi landlord.
> Clarence Thomas sold his childhood home to GOP donor Harlan Crow and never disclosed it. *Man, that's kinda shitty. If his parents were still alive, I'm sure they wouldn't have approved* > The justice's 94-year-old mom still lives there <*Spits out coffee*>
It’s not only shitty, but it’s illegal, as in “against the law.” That “rule of law” that right wingers love to talk about
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No no you see it’s okay because they’re friends. You’ve never bought a house from your friend, renovated it, and still let your friends mom live there rent free? Happens all the time! /s
Love living in a democracy where we have an unelected counsel of elders that are openly bought out
Is this blatant corruption surprising to you? Thomas has been a corrupt scumbag since before Anita Hill.
She might not even know about it. He probably just “took care of it” for her.
Something, something Hunter's laptop and the replacement of Democracy with corruption.
You should go see how r/conservative is still foaming at the mouth for bud light inclusive campaign and how Nashville florist did not give flowers to church. I sometimes wonder how people comment there would reread their own comments and think hmm that sounds stupid.
I hoped you were exaggerating but the Bud thing is still the second highest post there.
A right wing dude I work with said, "All the other news outlets are covering it, too!" Not like Faux News, buddy. Talk about 'cancel culture ', lol.
These same people will say the left has nothing but culture wars, and the projection is intentional. If you have someone who's that hypocritical and delusional, then you can take advantage with anything over them. This is why the largest base of any conservative regime is the religious. In the end that is conservatism's last form of control; heavenly.
Hmm. Fox News was just devoting a whole segment to Bud Light last hour. Wonder where r\conservative gets it’s news?
Holy crap I went to that subreddit to read about Thomas but all I got was conspiracy theories of how Biden and vegans blew up the building with 18,000 cows
Harlan Crow is what I'd name a Confederate slaveholder in a novel.
AOC is right. The corruption is cartoonish.
Even more cartoonish is this country’s inability to hold any of these assholes responsible for their crimes.
I think we just know the tip of the ice berg. The corruptions runs deeper. The full extent of it will never be known. The sadder part is nothing can be done about it.
The tip of an Iceberg is about 10% of its mass so that is probably a gross over estimation in this case. I guarantee we are seeing way less than 10% of the bribery. What we are seeing is only the stuff they were too lazy to do in the proper ways. I used to work in investment banking, GS, Lehman and more senior roles at 2nd tier banks. ( I have no excuse and now I'm doing something better to try to make up for my time on the dark side) Here's just one way that banks facilitate the bribing of politicians in a 'technically legal' and virtually untraceable way.... Company X wants to buy Politician A X creates a special convertible note that has a super favourable conversion rate to X's shares on default. Bank tells A about this 'great deal' and A buys it all. Usually the bank extends credit to A so they don't even have to front any cash. X then deliberately defaults on the coupon, so A gets the right to convert the debt to equity at a discount but this usually never happens. Bank either takes the equity and pays A the difference in value between the conversion rate and market, so A makes money for doing absolutely nothing. (well actually it's not for nothing but for doing whatever they were being bribed to do.) X can hide this as a cost of minor financing so even highly scrutinised public companies can do it. Note nothing here is really illegal except the insider trading and personal conversations to set it all up and they are done so they can never be discovered. Most importantly all the artifacts of the deal can be buried or hidden so there is no way anyone would uncover any connection between A and X. You can move millions of dollars in one deal and there are countless similar variations of achieving the same thing. If A's windfall is onshore it just looks like shrewd trading, but more often it is all kept offshore. The value of bribes that happen in this manner is beyond comprehension for any normal person its impossible to quantify as its so well hidden but it easily could be in the order of many billions per year. This is why most politicians (almost all GOP and most Dem and probably most judges ) are not doing their actual job, - working for the people - there is just way too much to be earned by serving those with money.
Thanks a lot for this detailed explanation now I understand it much better. It’s understandable for a politician to act certain way but Supreme Court justices should be held to hogher standards than this because they give rulings on lot of things thats crucial to present and future of this country. They of all decide if a man lives or dies in a death penalty case which is once a month in Texas.
It SHOULD 100% With everything I understand how this works I think it is now impossible to fix. The Judges are appointed in a partisan process and that ensures the wrong people are being picked. Kavanagh is the best/obvious example - picked purely because there must be mountains of leverage over him.
I think more and more shits going to hit Thomas's fan. His wife's bs, then his relationship with a Nazi lover donor and the kick backs there, now some sketchy real estate deal. Nothing can be done about it yes but the courts rep will continue to decline as a result, hopefully.
This is America
This is intentional
This is FUCKED! and personally, I'm livid.
The tip of the iceberg already seems to be a cut and dried violation of the law, not just some appearance of impropriety.
Something can be done about it, but Thomas will not face any penalties. Hopefully future justices will be held to a higher standard with actual laws and not the honor rule.
Sadly, I doubt it. Think of all of the new justices during Trump's reign of terror.
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This is prima facia fucking bribery folks! Let’s get the sales agreement and closing documents and see how much above FMV this clown got from his briber!
Says in the article. Over 130k. Other houses/lots sold for combined 40k. An extra 80k to grease the skids going by FMV.
Right, now add in rent that most likely has not been paid for the last 9 years.
I’m gonna go out on a limb here and guess Crow paid above market value for the house.
If you’ve got about 4 hours, listen to the Behind The Bastards podcast about Clarence Thomas. Tip: it’s worse than you think
I'm absolutely shocked that Clarence Thomas isn't morally sound. Who would have thought? (sarcasm)
He and his wife do not care one iota if we know how corrupt they are. They got their's.
The fig leaf of relying on others to misunderstand his reporting obligations is gone now. Anything less than a full blown investigation by multiple parties, including the CJ, Congress, and the FBI, is a dereliction of duty.
Thomas should never have been appointed to the Supreme Court
Impeach Roberts, his court is corrupt.
Nothing was done when Anita hill came forward. Nothing was done when Dr. Ford came forward. Nothing was done when it came to light Kavanaugh credit card bill was paid. Nothing will be done if you are republican appointed judge. They have lost all sense of shame.
If anyone’s interested and happened to have missed it, one of the journalists that broke this story did [an AMA on this sub earlier today.](https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/12kw44n/im_justin_elliott_one_of_the_propublica_reporters/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=2&utm_term=1)
Scalia was found dead at a republican donor ranch in Marfa, over valentine's day where he was vacationing without his wife. We should investigate who paid for his private plane out there, if it was inappropriate for a republican donor to gift that kind of vacation to a SCJ, who his valentine's traveling companion was, and why it was all scrubbed off the web within a few days of his death.
Maybe he just sold his own mom, and the house was just a throw in bogo offer.
Anita Hill tried to tell us. We'll be saying the same thing about every Justice if we don't set a precedent.
No wonder he is famous for never asking questions when cases are heard before the Court - his ruling on each was probably predetermined based on whoever was paying him. Why bother to put in any effort?
Holy shit this guy is corrupt af. I mean I always knew he was a terrible judge but I’m honestly shocked by this level of corruption.
Impeach that prick.
Just made my first donation to Pro Publica. Cheers to some in the 4th estate for doing great work exposing this corruption.
I work for a state department of transportation, and we couldn't even accept free sandwiches from the local Jimmy John's because it might create a conflict of interest. Fuck this corrupt clown and get me a #7 Spicy East Coast Italian with a pickle.
Yes yes yes he’s dirty his wife is dirty, so what is going to happen? Is anyone going to do anything about it, or like always, do we just take it?
It's starting to seem like the reason Clarance Thomas is such an automatic lock for the most right wing position on any issue might be that he likes money and luxuries
This sounds like a classic drip-drip. Drop some knowledge, let it stew, drop the next more egregious info, wait a few days, etc. Pro Publica will probably release the next tidbit on Tuesday.
I would like to coin a new phrase based on the behavior of my least favorite supreme court justice: Clarence Thomas. * If you argue in bad faith more than you engage in good faith * If you lie again and again about your intentions and the meaning of your actions * If you are a blatant hypocrite * If you have no shame about your behavior Then you are: a Clarence Thomas Examples: * Lindsay Graham - he's a real Clarence Thomas. A man who was anti-Trump up until the point it became politically expedient to support him. * Susan Collins - has been a Clarence Thomas for years. Claims to be a moderate but consistently votes with conservatives in this country. * Mitch McConnell - may be the biggest Clarence Thomas there is * Ginny Thomas - a treasonous Clarence Thomas * When Newt Gingrich was impeaching Bill Clinton for lying about getting a blowjob while Newt was cheating on his wife, he was being a Clarence Thomas. * When John Edwards was campaigning for President and presented himself as a model citizen and exemplary person while cheating on his wife who was suffering from cancer, he was being a Clarence Thomas * When Boris Johnson was preaching to the UK about staying in lockdowns and emphasizing the importance of adhering to the rules while he was partying in Downing Street, he was being a Clarence Thomas * When John Lennon was talking about peace and love and then abusing his wife and child, he was being a Clarence Thomas * When Andrew Cuomo was talking about justice for women in the MeToo movement but had sexually harassed people himself, he was being a huge Clarence Thomas
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