I’m sure this is totally fine
Probably sucked his little dick too
Oh yeah that totally seems normal. Definitely no reason to stop the Supreme Court’s corruption - they said so themselves!
What. The. FUCK.
Just today I heard lots of people are calling for him to step down. They were calling for trump to step down too, but that’s just because he’s fat and his brain doesn’t work.
Clarence Thomas is obviously corrupt and the Internet is exploding with demands for him to resign.
I’m sure he reads lemmy and reddit daily. He doesnt care because he doesnt hear it.
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Why would he step down? He’s got a lifetime appointment. He’s a corrupt POS. Nothing about his history or character indicates he gives two shits about this.
The American people really don’t have a say here as fucked up as that is.
It doesn’t matter. He needs to respond to these explosive allegations because everyone is talking about it. He should give a one-on-one interview to explain himself. Many people are calling for him to resign.
This motherfucker has no shame. He doesn’t give a shit if people think he’s corrupt or not. They’ll have to make him answer for it. Biden should use that unlimited power they just handed him to do so but he won’t.
He’s going to act all goody-too-shoes, like he’s above that. Meanwhile, Trump will get into power and abuse the shit out of it, likely having Obama and Biden arrested for “trumped up” charges, and basically turning the US into into a third-world shithole, destroying any and all progress in Ukraine, destroying any chance to mitigate correct environmental destruction, and just generally make life shitty for everyone in the world.
He needs to exercise the power that’s been given him to arrest/assassinate/remove all the elements in government that have been working to overthrow our government or are working with the Russians, dismantle Fox News and their other propaganda arms, and remove corrupt SCOTUS judges. Then, he needs to announce he’s stepping down and call for a new election. Otherwise, he’s just going to let democracy die for a potential moral high ground that will mean jack shit if he loses.
The only thing accurate about your statement are the first three words. It doesn’t matter. America appoints Kings to the supreme Court for the rest of their lives.
They also elect people who maintain the status quo.
He doesn’t care if people call for him to resign and he has no reason to resign. Morals and ethics don’t factor into this for him. They never have it. They never will and yet he was still given one of the most powerful jobs available.
Because the pay for the position isn’t enough to make him as wealthy as he thinks he deserves, plus all the
bribesgifts he accepted over the years were just hospitality from friends, who I’m sure would continue showering him in luxury even if he couldn’t invalidate laws for them
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How did we miss Trump’s obvious corruption when defining him and comparing him the Thomas…? They’re both blatantly corrupt equally.
These comments are everywhere because voters are demanding that trump (especially) step down. The Internet is exploding.
Hmmm. Is a little suspicious.
Just to be safe…
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Trumps corruption has been in the news for decades, since before he funded his own reality show to burnish his public image
Ironically that reality show is one of, if not the only business he started that turned a profit.
I think they’re doing a self referencing bit. Look at this comment: https://lemm.ee/comment/13164233
He’s exploding all over the Internet.
Exploding and step down seem to be a recurring theme.
Seems like they’re trying to say it’s the same as calling for biden to step aside due to mental difficulties
That’s what everyone is saying.
Many people are reading his comments
It’s a bit that he picked up and ran with.
Louder.
WHAT THE FUCK
I don’t think Thomas heard you…let me try.
WHAT THE FUCK
Whoa baby.
Clarence Thomas: The reason I took this trip to visit Putin in his home undisclosed, was of course so you shouldn’t find out.
You shouldn’t meddle in private matters, of who I’m gay with or not, or I’ll have you hanged.Garland: “Now…just…hold…your…horses…there…every…body…no…need…to…act…hast…ily.”
Garland: noun
a wreath of flowers and leaves, worn on the head or hung as a decoration.Put a garland on a stump and call it Treebeard.
The president has the explicit authority to direct the DOJ to enforce laws
He can order them to detain Thomas in Gitmo.
And it would be 100% legit thanks to recent rulings.
Or…
Biden can just not do shit because he personally doesn’t think he should be allowed to
We need a president willing to use every tool at their disposal to stop fascism, not one that’s fine with loosing as long as they tried their “goodest”
Too busy trying to not rock the boat meanwhile other people are actively punching holes in it
Got to make sure the boat is going nice and steady as it crushes headfirst into the iceberg. Wouldn’t want to cause a ruckus, no.
Well you have to admit it worked well for Neville Chamberlain didn’t it? /s
Good point. “Rock the vote, not the boat” may as well be the campaign slogan.
Do you honestly think Biden is fully aware of and capable of using his newly decided powers? I don’t.
Hell, would you trust Biden to drive your car home for you after it gets dark outside?
“your president won’t even order the murder of citizens without a trial, what a huge fucking coward he is for not taking the easy road”
This is what you sound like to people residing in reality.
To put it bluntly, if I were as old as he is, I would just start ordering things to happen, because ultimately the worst that happens is the people say no, put me in a cushy federal
resortprison for a couple years, and I’m dead.I trust plenty of people with physical limitations to do mental things, but not physical things.
Perfectly normal!
…right?
In his defense, … he was actually working there in a sense.
Tl;dr?
The joke is that Thomas is a paid operative working for Putin
I don’t see the joke; this just sounds like a statement of fact.
I’m glad I’m not the only one who took this at face value
That yacht trip to Russia is listed as 2003. So, the Russians have had a US Supreme Court justice on their payroll for 20 years now?
If you find that surprising, just wait until you hear who Trump’s personal banker at Deuchebank was when everyone else was turning him down during the last recession.
For those who may just be surfing and want to know… she was fired (allowed to resign) after they started digging into ties with Russian money. Jared Kushner and I believe some of Trump’s kids were also her client (no shock there).
Also somewhat unsurpisingly Deutsche didn’t find any connection to russian from their own internal investigation, but were prompted to hire external investigators… and I’ll just post this little gem because if that doesn’t sound like “we investigated ourselves and found nothing wrong” to you, then this may help seal your opinion
In recent years the disgraced bank has been hit by a series of scandals. Last month the UK and US imposed record fines of $630m. Deutsche failed to prevent money laundering by its Moscow branch involving at least $10bn of Russian cash, regulators found.
She? I was talking about Justin Kennedy, son of Supreme Court Justice Kennedy, and Trump’s personal Deutsche Bank (read: Russian money laundering) contact.
Different banker. Same bank.
“Last month the UK and US imposed record fines of $630m. Deutsche failed to prevent money laundering by its Moscow branch involving at least $10bn of Russian cash, regulators found.”
Does anyone else get the feeling that everyone’s cool with it as long as they get their cut? They’re fine as long as they pay the fine.
How long has he been with SCOTUS though?
1991, and his confirmation hearing was one for the ages. Look it up.
Russia was sort of trusted around then. It doesn’t prove he’s on their payroll, it’s just his usual level of corruption where he gets bribes from everyone who is willing.
From Russian perspective… A mullah is a pretty useless pawn tho… Need executive branch types.
American job creator would find bottom bitch uncle Thomas pretty useful tho!
At this point a new revelation about Thomas doesn’t even really count as evidence that he’s corrupt - it’s evidence that he’s even more corrupt.
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Still think a society run on worshipped greed and competition against one another can stand?
When you make the private profit motive the only motive, as we have in the US in practice, guess what your elected leaders and their appointments will be motivated by? Duty and integrity?
Sociopath asset holders being allowed to indulge their greed disease with impunity and dictating how our society runs while contributing nothing of merit needs to end. Until then, we’ll keep finding new lows to stoop to until climate change makes gold plated, inhuman cesspool collapse completely.
“Putin’s hometown” is one of largest city. Saint Petesburg.
It was a big tourist destination for anyone visiting Russia when that was a desirable thing.
Yes. Also it is former capital.
Also it is just next-door to the Baltic states, so it makes sense to book a short trip to there (for whoever was bribing Thomas with trips back then)
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Get this fucking bozo a jail cell stat
(Yes I forgot to crop my screenshot but I’m not gonna fix it)
More charges in this list than in your battery
I wonder what this looks like lined up with Supreme Court cases and who stands to benefit from those cases.
Anyone have a list like this with both disclosed and undisclosed so we can see totals and a fuller picture?
I am willing to bet the majority of the MAGA movement is funded by Russia. Everything goes back to Putin every fucking time.
It was funded by oligarchs, and Russia is a playground for oligarchs (until they cross Putin).
Well some of them, others went to London and started to cross Putin.
