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.
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.
This needs to be repeated more and more.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
I like to link this everywhere one of those places get mentioned. It rattled me.
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.
