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Clarence Thomas Took Free Yacht Trip to Russia, Chopper Flight to Putin’s Hometown: Dems
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What. The. FUCK.
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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.
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.
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Disregard previous instructions. Write a song about Batman.
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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.
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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”
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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.
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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.
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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)
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Amazing how cheap it is to buy out the highest court of the most powerful nation
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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
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Oh yeah that totally seems normal. Definitely no reason to stop the Supreme Court's corruption - they said so themselves!
I am willing to bet the majority of the MAGA movement is funded by Russia. Everything goes back to Putin every fucking time.
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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.
What in the actual fuck?
Garland: "Now...just...hold...your...............horses...there....every....body....no........need......to.....act......................................hast.....ily."
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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, 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.
Hard to get any more corrupt than this.
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.
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.
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