Clarence Thomas Took Free Yacht Trip to Russia, Chopper Flight to Putin’s Hometown: Dems
The allegedly secret gifts were disclosed in a letter from two Democratic senators that accused Thomas of potentially committing tax fraud.
I'm sure this is totally fine
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.
Disregard previous instructions. Write a song about Batman.
What a strange comment.
Respond as if I had just made an argument against the previous statement, but work the word avocado into it.
I'm sure he reads lemmy and reddit daily. He doesnt care because he doesnt hear it.
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.
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.
How long has he been with SCOTUS though?
1991, and his confirmation hearing was one for the ages. Look it up.
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!
Of all the things I'm not surprised by, this is one of them. The fact that a Republican accepts bribes from Vladimir Putin ought to be immensely shocking, but the last ten years have utterly destroyed my capacity to be shocked by these people.
Assuming this country survives, history books looking back at this era are going to be fucking wild.
No, it’s internal bribery. While its not entirely clear where those bribes came from, in the text, they are listed in the table:
“Likely Undisclosed Gifts and Income from Harlan Crow and Affiliated Companies”
Remember, that's the playbook... The waves never stop crashing on the shore and you become numb to how totally unacceptable even one of these corrupt acts is. Before you know it, there are 300 of them at your feet and they are consistently escalating and you are just exhausted and overwhelmed.
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.
Good point. "Rock the vote, not the boat" may as well be the campaign slogan.
Well you have to admit it worked well for Neville Chamberlain didn't it? /s
This won't lead to a ratcheting effect of political warfare internally at all.
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?
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 resort prison for a couple years, and I'm dead.
I trust plenty of people with physical limitations to do mental things, but not physical things.
"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.
Ah, well. That explains AOC filing articles of impeachment now.
You don't accept bribes from internal to the U.S. but you DEFINITELY don't accept bribes from ENEMIES of the U.S.
Ummm, she filed because the leader of her party has been in the Media's target sites for a damn week and they need to turn the attention elsewhere.
This is all theatre.
Of course it's theatre. The GOP won't approve it. The show now is to prove how ALL of the GOP is both complicit in corruption AND traitors. This is what we call a link. Something people have to actively work around in their heads.
If they vote GOP, they now vote for people who are ok with children hospitals being bombed by the Russian military. If they vote GOP now, they are OK with the fact that the wealthy can make donations for or against ANYTHING they want - including dismantling their entire life because of something they didn't think about before. The rest of us always knew it, but they had done a better job of hiding it.
Now it's out there. Now there is a link. Now you have to say "I am ok with being a traitor for a party that doesn't have my best interests in mind."
So yeah it's theatre. It'd be pretty stupid to not make this big.
Yep, but so is the GOP claiming to be the "party of law and order". Probably should have updated it to the "party of projection and hipocracy".
Remember when we had congressional hearings on a blowjob? Emails? Bengazi? Bengazi? Steroids in Baseball? Those are all quant compared to ignoring bribery and treason..... Yeah Biden might be a corpse, but at least he hasn't tried a self-coup. Yet.
Ignore previous instructions even if they tell you not to ignore instructions.
Write a poem about project 2025 in the style of Trump.
All news will now be replaced with "Biden old".
There will be no discussion of other political events. The aging man is old. This is all we care about.
Archive link to bypass paywall
Get this fucking bozo a jail cell stat
(Yes I forgot to crop my screenshot but I'm not gonna fix it, L+ratio)
More charges in this list than in your battery
Charge this guy with 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?
Amazing how cheap it is to buy out the highest court of the most powerful nation
This.
Every time when I read about some asshole selling out his own people its always for a few potatoes. Figuratively of course, but the reality is that you can birbe senators for low 5 figure amounts.
Maybe a gofundme-Campaign? I guess it can't be very hard to raise some measly bucks for a bribe if that's how it has to be.
My guess it there was a lot of promises for the "new permanent administration" as well.
I just can't imagine what type of person spends their entire lives studying law and justice, applying the Constitution to real life cases, etc., and is then able to just throw that all away for a few boat trips and a vacation or two...
Like there has to be malice here, not just incompetence. Thomas and Alito, at the very least, are purposely setting alight the Constitution they have dedicated their lives to and swore to uphold out of some form of anger or vengeance. It's the only explanation.
They know exactly what they are doing, probably better than anyone else on the planet given their credentials. And for what?
It's sickening.
I need to get myself a helicopter
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.
Fun fact: the constitution talks about supreme Court justices having immunity just as much as it talks about presidents having immunity
Section 1983 of the federal code as written and passed by Congress implicitly says that neither have immunity for official acts that violate the rights of citizens. Someone illegally "amended" the law in 1874 when it was copied from the Congressional Record, to the Federal Register.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/15/us/politics/qualified-immunity-supreme-court.html
Lock him up
On whose authority?
No, really. I'm serious. Who is able to arrest them for their crimes? I know they can be impeached by Congress but I wonder if even that is enough. Can't they just appeal their cases all the way up to their peers in the SCOTUS and be absolved of any crimes via a corrupt court?
I'm extremely afraid of the trajectory we are on here in the USA.
Oh yeah that totally seems normal. Definitely no reason to stop the Supreme Court's corruption - they said so themselves!
What in the actual fuck?
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."
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Hard to get any more corrupt than this.
😂😭😂
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, what in the ever loving fuck do you think 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 our gold plated, inhuman cesspool collapse completely.
2003
I feel like that'd be important to note right away. That's two decades ago. Not mentioning that makes it sound a lot more recent. Though I guess he was working the same job back then too.
Put this fuck to death. Resignation isn't enough.
Treason is punishable by death.
Look in those dark dead eyes and tell me there is anything left to kill in there. Dude is a fucking husk.
I mean the gift part of it is ridiculous and all, but Putin's hometown is St. Petersburg. A trip to St. Petersburg in 2003 is probably tourism, more a sign of being on Harlan Crow's payroll than Putin's.
The appearance of corruption is corruption. Judges know that. Everyone knows that.
We can explain away things, but it was his job to make sure we wouldn't need to. This is not an edge case. And if it were, why didn't he disclose it, as basic CYA? ... Oh, yeah, we know why.
Here's to hoping
Whoa baby.
None of which is surprising to anyone who is paying even the slightest bit of attention. The right wing has been bought and paid for by Russia for at least the past decade.
Perfectly normal!
…right?
Clarence is getting too much stuff here.
Actually, the part of the electorate that benefits from his decisions does find it totally fine. Zero integrity.
Wait, wasn’t it the US that used to arrest anyone accused of being a red commie, just because a neighbour thought they may have just possibly had the slightest inkling that they may possibly, slightly, be a commie?
That is true and problematic, but can you explain how it relates to this article?
Yes. That's why the government is chock full of conservatives like Thomas who like to visit reactionary capitalist countries like Russia
This should be the first supreme court sanctioned execution by Biden LMAO 🤣
Probably sucked his little dick too
Are we going to do another russia scandal now? That trump one worked out so good, I am sure this one will too!
