Thomas says critics are pushing 'nastiness' and calls Washington a 'hideous place'
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas told attendees at a judicial conference Friday that he and his wife have faced “nastiness” and “lies” over the last several years and decried Washington, D.C., as a “hideous place.”
Thomas spoke at a conference attended by judges, attorneys and other court personnel in the 11th Circuit Judicial Conference, which hears federal cases from Alabama, Florida and Georgia. He made the comments pushing back on his critics in response to a question about working in a world that seems meanspirited.
“I think there’s challenges to that. We’re in a world and we — certainly my wife and I the last two or three years it’s been — just the nastiness and the lies, it’s just incredible,” Thomas said.
“But you have some choices. You don’t get to prevent people from doing horrible things or saying horrible things. But one you have to understand and accept the fact that they can’t change you unless you permit that,” Thomas said.
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Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas told his law clerks in the '90s that he wanted to serve for 43 years to make liberals' lives 'miserable'
Clever of him to make most people’s lives miserable so he doesn’t miss any liberals.
Even made himself miserable just in case he's secretly a lib.
Only fascist stormtroopers are so precise.
Citizens v United bitch. You fucked America and deserve to rot in hell.
A little Bush v Gore thing too, if we're piling on.
That was a coup and Americans should have rioted.
When looking for a starting point for where things went bad, Citizens vs. United is what history books will use.
Yeah it got nasty WHEN CLARENCE THOMAS PUT HIS OWN PUBIC HAIR ON A COKE CAN. True story. Look it up. I still believe Anita Hill
What the media did to Anita Hill was absolutely horrendous and every outlet and personality who made a punch line out of her back then should apologize for their absolute disrespect of a woman who did something that was beyond brave.
His mocking her, along with all the Monica Lewinsky jokes, is a big reason why Jay Leno can go get fucked.
Yep, the democratic senator from Delaware that guided his confirmation through the judiciary committee should be shunned forever.
In favor of the grab em by the pussy guy?
Ideally those things would've been raised during the primary so Americans wouldn't be left with the choice between a conservative and a fascist.
He's still very conservative. He's basically a 1970s era Republican.
Deluding yourself into thinking Biden would have made any of the progress he currently has without pressure from the outside is insane. Forgiving student debt, HE wrote the bill making it permanent.
People can change, Biden obviously has, but left to his own devices he is another white male career politician. His only saving grace is he can compromise.
The media and Joe Biden personally lol
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Hill
Seems like a great cause for #metoo to explore
The me too movement is simply many in society finally telling women that it's finally ok to tell the stories of how men in powerful positions have abused and humiliated them.
Anita Hill is basically an original #metoo badass from a time when it was not only not ok but severely frowned upon. She told her story even though our society crucified her for it.
Yes, he was never appropriately reprimanded imho
It's not just a story, it's a gag he has done multiple times. There's at least two coworkers in another era of his life who claimed he pulled the same prank (or whatever you call that)
I would beat the absolute shit out of this bitch if he tried that
yes, violence solves everything.
/s
Is beating up a scotus judge everything for you? If so that's a very unhealthy way to live life.
Poor guy, he should just quit.
His wife won't let him. He's gotta play the part of an owned man.
I am not convinced he's just playing a role here.
Or become a whistleblower
That's rich coming from him.
Be careful saying rich around him. You may make a friend.
John Oliver says he's willing to put his offer back on the table, Clarence.
Aw, poor sugar baby Clarence doesn’t like when people call out his blatant abuse of power for personal gain? I guess you should just do the country a favor and fucking retire.
I hope Clarence dies soon.
Honestly, I don't think anything short of an Eagle Eye situation would make much of a difference.
For those that haven't seen the movie, a DOD super advanced AI reinterprets it's core directive to uphold the constitution to mean that the entire Judicial, Legislative, and Executive Branches of the United States Government must be "removed from office" due to corruption with only the exception of the designated survivor.
Thanks for the movie review. It's now on my to-watch list. :)
Joke is on you. The designated survivor is Clarence Thomas.
gee if you hate it so much how'bout you fucking LEAVE, CLARENCE.
He and every other corrupt and loathsome creature festering in the GOP's worst cesspool love to claim they are being treated unfairly when enough people call them out.
They're all victims, despite being predatory pieces of shit that ruin lives with their bought-and-sold policy decisions.
god i love the way you wrote that. speaking my fucking language right there.
you're absolutely right, and this is yet another instance of those scumbags projecting.
They pearl-clutch and wring their hands while whinging about being victims because they want US to be their victims.
Every time a conservative bootlicker chudsimp accuses anyone of anything, it's not-so-secretly a confession.
Good news Thomas, you can resign and leave!
Maybe it’s because he’s such an awful awful person that everyone is just so mean to him and his awful awful wife.
It is genuinely amazing the lengths this man will go to deny his level of impropriety as if it's some grand conspiracy and not heavily documented; I am happy others are open to making his existence as miserable as he makes ours.
He's whining about this from the seat of his free RV in his way to another luxury fishing trip.
It's worth informing those who don't know that his wife is a 2020 election denyer. She referred to it as a "heist". She's a piece of work, just like him.
Not just that, she was actively involved in January 6 iirc
Oh no! People are being mean to the human equivalent of an unwiped asshole covered in weeping pus sores?
Medeling kids!
Clarence Thomas is an evil man, He sent his nephew to one of those teen punishment schools in Georgia called Hidden Lake Academy.
Link to article
I like to link this everywhere one of those places get mentioned. It rattled me.
https://elan.school/
I've spent the last few hours reading this. Fucking hell. I remember the news reports that came out about Elan, but this first hand account is really something else.
I got through a couple dozen chapters, it’s a difficult thing to even imagine being real, and I’ve read several accounts about the place - but no first person account before this
He is welcome to leave at anytime, no one is forcing him to be there
There certainly are some nasty people out there. Like ones who tell inappropriate sexual anecdotes in professional settings throughout their career.
Die mad about it.
I'd consider an all out assault on women's rights pretty fucking nasty
Sooner than later please.
Gosh, that sounds terrible. You should quit.
Naaa, he's just whining in hopes of more right wing lucre.
Please politely accept my stripping your rights away. - Thomas
It's always extra nasty when men pass legislation to have the government control women's bodies. I say this as a man myself - it's fucked up.
You could always resign!
There's even a cushy RV waiting for him.
Welp, John Oliver had a time limit in that. Let’s hope that John (and HBO or whatever) is/are still feeling generous.
In a recent interview with IIRC Seth Meyers he said he's gladly reopen the offer if there was interest from Thomas. If you'd like me to dig up the link I can try and find it.
Thank you. Great to hear. I’ll probably find the stuff, but if you have the time and inclination, I’d be glad if you put it in the comments so that others also could see it.
https://youtu.be/9eIsu2OLrsU?start=150
Here ya go
Thanks. Saw it, but so thankful that you took the time to reply.
Facebook kinda thingy: <3
Motor coach*
If it's such a nasty place, he's free to step down and leave 🤷♂️
I mean look at where the fuckin needle is on the "is this too much?" Criticism of a corrupt scotus judge with a white supremacist wife guilty of encouraging sedition is nasty, deporting college students for protests to an active warzone where your very own country is enabling/encouraging genocide is maybe a plausible way to curb protests/free speech.
Yup everything's fine.
Not just a warzone, but one the very one the protesters are protesting. I don't understand why anyone sees this as clever... It's just insanely fucking cruel and tonedef to say this.
Name one nasty lie you sack of shit.
Take the million a year and the motor coach.
He should retire and fuck off if he can't handle it
Then he wouldn't wield tremendous power.
He probably hasn't thought of that
Aww, did we hurt his widdle feewings?
You know what’s nastier? Taking the right to abortion away from women. But I am sure if a woman from the ruling class got pregnant for some reason, then she’ll just a hush hush abortion like in the good old days.
Republicans love their hush money. Remember when Musk offered that flight attendant a horse? Then, of course, there's Trump paying a porn star off with campaign funds.
Funny how they keep using funds that aren't theirs to do all of this.
Ah yes, openly corrupt Clarance Thomas is here to tell us he's being treated unfairly. Dude takes bribes from everyone, and uses the constitution as toilet paper.
A moss piglet playing the world's tiniest violin might just be the best thing I've seen on the internet ever.
That's a cello.
Nothing's perfect, I guess.
I am sure if I sold out my fellow man on a daily basis for cry baby republicans, I'd hate my job too.
If only there was some way to fix that.....
Sucks to suck, bitch!
Is he asking for more handouts from his billionaire buddies?
Officially? No.
Not officially.
Clarence Thomas proves that progress isn’t linear nor guaranteed. What a let down after Thurgood Marshall.
Corrupt Clarence Thomas who accepts bribes and doesn't recuse himself from ruling on the insurrection efforts his wife took part in thinks DC is too mean.
Resign you creepy asshole.
Judging by the title alone, it sounds like the critics are pushing him.
Aww...
Life was so much more easier when Clarence could commit acts of corruption without being called out.
Clarence Thomas likes to do this funny joke where he takes a sip of his drink and says "Did someone put a pube in here?" He also has and openly talks about a porn addiction.
Sadly sexual harasment is hidden amongst his contribution to the destructuon and skull fucking of democracy.
Anita Hill had a few things to say about Clarence and nastiness
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Hil
What a disgrace.
If washington is so hideous LEAVE AND NEVER GO BACK
OK Clarence.
Poor old sweet Thomas. If only he could go on about selling out democracy and sexualy harassing women in peace.
Yeah, Clarence... I'd describe anywhere you and your fellow right-wing parasites hang out as hideous, too - it's not the place, it's you.
"The nastiness and lies, it's just incredible,** and the truths... The truths are even worse as they just won't shut up about them - it's like ummm guys, hello, I didn't discourse that stuff on forms for a reason. You're being like super uncool right now?!"**
I’ll say this in his defense, he is part of why I’m married. Mind you it’s because he’s a shitbag that threatened to take away my right to marry, but still that may be the only positive effect he’s had
He just said he won't change, can we get rid of him yet?
And?
He stated that he doesn't know what diversity means in regards to fair college admission. He benefited from affirmative action in his admission to Yale and ultimately his supreme court appointment.