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IN LATE JUNE 2019, right after the U.S. Supreme Court released its final opinion of the term, Justice Clarence Thomas boarded a large private jet headed to Indonesia. He and his wife were going on vacation: nine days of island-hopping in a volcanic archipelago on a superyacht staffed by a coterie of attendants and a private chef.
If Thomas had chartered the plane and the 162-foot yacht himself, the total cost of the trip could have exceeded $500,000. Fortunately for him, that wasn’t necessary: He was on vacation with real estate magnate and Republican megadonor Harlan Crow, who owned the jet — and the yacht, too.
For more than two decades, Thomas has accepted luxury trips virtually every year from the Dallas businessman without disclosing them, documents and interviews show. A public servant who has a salary of $285,000, he has vacationed on Crow’s superyacht around the globe. He flies on Crow’s Bombardier Global 5000 jet. He has gone with Crow to the Bohemian Grove, the exclusive California all-male retreat, and to Crow’s sprawling ranch in East Texas. And Thomas typically spends about a week every summer at Crow’s private resort in the Adirondacks.
The extent and frequency of Crow’s apparent gifts to Thomas have no known precedent in the modern history of the U.S. Supreme Court.
These trips appeared nowhere on Thomas’ financial disclosures. His failure to report the flights appears to violate a law passed after Watergate that requires justices, judges, members of Congress and federal officials to disclose most gifts, two ethics law experts said. He also should have disclosed his trips on the yacht, these experts said.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by turgid on Thursday April 06, @04:21PM (20 children)
Conservative, right-wing, money, strange goings-on, eh? All-male? Conservative. Hmm...
I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent [wikipedia.org].
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 06, @04:29PM (1 child)
> ... Hmm...
You left out the pizza parlor basement...(grin).
(Score: 2) by turgid on Thursday April 06, @05:25PM
Waylon Smithers goes on vacation.
I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent [wikipedia.org].
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 06, @04:36PM (11 children)
This guy Crow https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harlan_Crow [wikipedia.org] is really something else. Origins like Trump, father started a big real estate company--adding to my personal finding that I've never met anyone I liked or trusted in real estate. One exception would be a bottom level real estate agent, we found one good one that helped find our house.
Crow has also funded Thomas's wife in various ways.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by DeathMonkey on Thursday April 06, @07:15PM (8 children)
A person's origin including the successful company their dad started is a way larger red flag than whatever industry they happen to work in!
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 06, @10:30PM (7 children)
You're not listening. We are all very happy to give Joe original credit for starting the family business. Hunter and Joe's brother, his daughter, even The Skipper and Mary-Anne, simply continue the tradition.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 06, @11:57PM (6 children)
What "family business" are you speaking of? Be specific. It would also help a lot if you provided some evidence too. And I mean real evidence, not tabloid innuendo.
Heh. Looks suspiciously like you are trying here to throw everything at the wall in a desperate attempt to find something that might stick. I'm tempted to suggest you take a more targeted and focused approach but, to be honest, I'm just having too much fun watching you flail about in your (no doubt fruitless) search for some sort of rebuttal.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 07, @12:25AM (5 children)
There is at least one "Biden" who doesn't seem to have a first name, though still more than capable of accepting endless streams international gratuities.
We know that Joe is "The Big Guy." We know it's no longer Major Biden collecting the stacks-o-graft... see, it could be a "Mary-Anne." That sounds so much more pleasant than "Unnamed Co-conspirators." Call it my artistic license.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 07, @01:37AM (3 children)
I asked for evidence, not innuendo. When are you going to give us some?
What the hell are you talking about? This all looks like yet more innuendo and speculation.
Well, it would be hard for him to collect "stacks-o-graft" from beyond the grave, so I guess we can give you that.
OK, so now it looks like you are going off the rails and incoherently rambling. Care to venture back to reality?
I'm not seeing anything particularly "artistic" about any of what you have presented. In fact, I'm calling it utter BS until you can give us some credible evidence to back up these accusations. Just sayin'.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 07, @02:21AM
I, too, want to know about Hunter [wikipedia.org], especially how much he paid Trump for his pardon. Seems like someone is hiding some criminal activity!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 07, @02:39AM (1 child)
There's a great big, beautiful world out there; if it's not too late for you, please put down that cellphone for a little while!
Oh, and "Major Biden" was a reference to Joe's dog. Bad Dog! Outsmarted Joe, and was As far as I know, the dog was gulagged faster than you can say "Fiery but mostly peaceful."
My oversight... it was "The Professor and Mary-Ann."
Just 'cause you ain't figured out nothin', don't mean it ain't so. Surely others got it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 07, @07:19PM
I will just note that you have yet to provide evidence to back up any of your innuendo.
Your false bravura would be much more convincing if you had more than a couple of deuces up your sleeve. Better luck next time, sucker! Is this the point at which I get to take my victory lap?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 09, @06:13AM
It's at this point where each individual has surely decided whether it is all wilful ignorance, or an attempt to revive that tired, fake "Russian-disinfo" campaign. Looking at moderation — disinformation is "Insightful" while long-established fact is "Flamebait" — enforces that it's clearly the latter, with blatantly clumsy collusion, all along the way.
Remarkably, #1300172 in this thread (the post linking to the article "Nets Spend 658 Minutes on Trump, 0 Seconds on Biden Family Corruption") has not already been tagged "Flamebait." Tomorrow is another day.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 07, @07:05PM
Is this the same guy at whose ranch late Justice Scalia died? Scalia did not like the ocean? Has the Court been taken over by Lizard People, or the Pacte des Loups [imdb.com]?
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 08, @08:59PM
Seems like it runs in the family [dallasexpress.com]. Kind of a Runaway family, Josh Duggar says.
(Score: 3, Funny) by DeathMonkey on Thursday April 06, @04:45PM (4 children)
Yep "conservative."
As in: we're conserving our money by letting other people pay for our vacations!
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 06, @10:43PM (3 children)
You're so jealous they wouldn't let you on the Lolita Express. There you are, ostracized from your own society, your heroes, your benefactors; that's almost as bad as being a common Republican.
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 09, @02:52AM (2 children)
Troll
Oh dear! Democrat moderators are all over this journal!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 17, @02:54AM (1 child)
Offtopic
As I said...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 17, @05:25AM
It's the marxist moderators you have to watch out for.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 20, @07:03PM
This journal entry really needs to have at least 200 comments. This is one of them.
(Score: 4, Informative) by DeathMonkey on Thursday April 06, @04:50PM (66 children)
Typical magical (R)....
For everyone else it's "even the appearance of corruption" and you're out!
With the magic (R) even a conviction [cnbc.com] for it is fine.
(Score: 3, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 06, @06:25PM (65 children)
What are you talking about? Who has been actually punished for corruption anytime recently? Sure as hell ain't any D's or R's!
(Score: 4, Interesting) by Tork on Thursday April 06, @06:57PM (2 children)
Magical!
Slashdolt Logic: "25 year old jokes about sharks and lasers are +5, Funny." 💩
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 07, @08:54AM (1 child)
That is not being punished for corruption. It's being punished for thinking your feelz over-rides House procedures.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Friday April 07, @12:59PM
(Score: 3, Informative) by DeathMonkey on Thursday April 06, @07:22PM (61 children)
Here is a list of nine Trump cronies who have been convicted of crimes. [newsweek.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 06, @08:18PM (56 children)
Since you can run off-topic with impunity, now do a list of Clinton comrades who have been found horizontal (with or without a pulse).
(Score: 3, Touché) by DeathMonkey on Thursday April 06, @08:44PM (45 children)
I have nine criminal convictions all from within the last five years or so as evidence for my corruption claims.
You have zero evidence. So instead you post a list of rumors from 4chan that's several decades old.
BOTH SIDES are clearly the same!
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 06, @08:49PM (44 children)
Good thing I didn't dig up the Bidenistas. You'd have to blame all that on the vast right-wing conspiracy.
(Score: 3, Touché) by Tork on Thursday April 06, @10:40PM (43 children)
It's a good thing for him you haven't dug up anything at all.
Slashdolt Logic: "25 year old jokes about sharks and lasers are +5, Funny." 💩
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 06, @10:46PM (42 children)
It's a full time job for the left to bury it all.
(Score: 2) by Tork on Thursday April 06, @10:54PM (41 children)
Oh please, we all know the Democrats ain't that competent... or competent at all. Heh.
The difficulty you're having here should be eye-opening for you.
Slashdolt Logic: "25 year old jokes about sharks and lasers are +5, Funny." 💩
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 06, @11:31PM (40 children)
They're competent enough to steal an election and leave no evidence that the republicans are able to find?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 07, @12:10AM (39 children)
There's plenty of evidence. Unless you do something stupid like depend on CNN, you see it going by, all the time.
Remember, the 2016 election was stolen, but the 2020 election was as pure as the...
(Score: 3, Informative) by Tork on Friday April 07, @12:18AM (36 children)
Slashdolt Logic: "25 year old jokes about sharks and lasers are +5, Funny." 💩
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 07, @12:31AM (35 children)
That's a pretty good Sergeant Schultz impression. Now do Corporal LeBeau.
(Score: 2) by Tork on Friday April 07, @12:38AM (34 children)
Oh look, my feelings weren't hurt and there's still no evidence.
Slashdolt Logic: "25 year old jokes about sharks and lasers are +5, Funny." 💩
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 07, @07:18PM (33 children)
Feelings hurt? That was flattery.
(Score: 2) by Tork on Friday April 07, @08:39PM (32 children)
Slashdolt Logic: "25 year old jokes about sharks and lasers are +5, Funny." 💩
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 07, @11:49PM (31 children)
At least Sergeant Schultz had a toy factory.You... got nothin'.
--
"It's a Shitshow... Get Away. I don't even want to talk to NBC. Excuse Me."
- Kari Lake
(Score: 2) by Tork on Saturday April 08, @01:06AM (30 children)
On a more serious note: How come you didn't just bail on the guy after it was clear he was lying? I mean, really, he's a politician... when in history have those EVER been trustworthy?
Don't you get tired of playing down a riot that you originally blamed on Antifia in disguise? At this point it's just an endless exercise of shifting the topic to anything else... that can't be satisfying.
"No proof the election was stolen."
"There was so much you're sitting on it right now!"
"Okay, let's see it!"
"Um... over there! There's guys wearing dresses!!"
Slashdolt Logic: "25 year old jokes about sharks and lasers are +5, Funny." 💩
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 08, @03:22AM (29 children)
Are you talking about J6? Everyone knows that was an orchestrated 5-alarm shitshow. Here's yet another headline from today:
Jeremy Brown Sentenced to 7 Years and 3 Months in Prison for Refusing to Work as an Undercover Operative for FBI on January 6 and Then Later Releasing Audio of His Meeting with FBI
(Score: 2) by Tork on Saturday April 08, @03:30AM (26 children)
Slashdolt Logic: "25 year old jokes about sharks and lasers are +5, Funny." 💩
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 08, @04:44AM (25 children)
You'll have quite a wait.
Posting links encourages you to attack the messenger. Truth isn't truth, unless so ordained by a sanctioned domain. And you'd better not googel for that headline, or you will be forever tagged by them as a potential right-wing extremist. Maybe you should do a search for kiddie porn, just to get back in their good graces.
You want a response to every point you threw at that fan? Yeah, that's a good way to get your adversary to spend an evening. You'd ignore it all, and pile on more stock, clichéd potboilers in your next posts. Any self-respecting bot would be ashamed.
(Score: 2) by Tork on Saturday April 08, @06:38AM (15 children)
You do not have evidence. That’s all you’re saying. 🤷
Slashdolt Logic: "25 year old jokes about sharks and lasers are +5, Funny." 💩
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 08, @05:57PM (14 children)
That's what you would always conclude, regardless. Reams of work, backed up by chapter and verse, and you would still 💩 💩 it, then heap on more of your own 💩 for another round of 💩, until absolutely everyone was bored 💩less... if there was anyone left, that it.
Nothing personal.
(Score: 2) by Tork on Saturday April 08, @06:14PM (13 children)
Slashdolt Logic: "25 year old jokes about sharks and lasers are +5, Funny." 💩
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 08, @06:33PM (11 children)
Now you've changed the subject to America's Mayor, from a generation back? You're a constantly moving target. Like a fan. A wobbly, creaky fan, at that. All roundy-squeak-roundy-squeak-round, until it gets... what hits the fan?
Remember that case about Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas? Yeah, you moved on from that uncomfortable bit of revelation. Thanks for playing.
(Score: 2) by Tork on Saturday April 08, @07:20PM (10 children)
Slashdolt Logic: "25 year old jokes about sharks and lasers are +5, Funny." 💩
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 08, @07:37PM (9 children)
I don't ponder him much at all. Governor Rudy Giuliani was a big player during 9-11, but now you guys just drag out images of him with hair die running down his cheek, to distract from poor 'Ol Joe. At least America's Governor can express independent thought without a teleprompter.
Are you pondering what I'm pondering? Like, how's that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas plot going?
(Score: 2) by Tork on Saturday April 08, @07:45PM (8 children)
Slashdolt Logic: "25 year old jokes about sharks and lasers are +5, Funny." 💩
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 08, @07:59PM (7 children)
There's oodles of proof coming out all over, every day. I haven't tried searching with googel for many years; it seems likely that they massage results to encourage myopia. Could be that myopia is a contributor to OCD.
"America's Governor!" I threw you a bone to see what you could do with it. Quick on the uptake, huh?
(Score: 2) by Tork on Saturday April 08, @08:02PM (6 children)
Slashdolt Logic: "25 year old jokes about sharks and lasers are +5, Funny." 💩
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 08, @08:13PM (5 children)
Error: maximum recursion levels exceeded.
(Score: 2) by Tork on Saturday April 08, @08:22PM (4 children)
Slashdolt Logic: "25 year old jokes about sharks and lasers are +5, Funny." 💩
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 08, @08:35PM (3 children)
Okay, the truth is I think you're a delusional Bozo. OCD, arrogance, denial, myopia...
(Score: 2) by Tork on Saturday April 08, @08:36PM (1 child)
Slashdolt Logic: "25 year old jokes about sharks and lasers are +5, Funny." 💩
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 22, @07:31AM
Excuse me for interrupting, but could I get a khallow in here? Without Fries, please.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 08, @11:01PM
Help help!! Muh eyes done rolled outta muh heed!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 08, @06:56PM
Just to show good-faith, here's an apropos link for you: https://www.wd40.com [wd40.com]
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Saturday April 08, @07:27AM (8 children)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 08, @05:47PM (7 children)
It's from our justice system. Sounds to me like you don't have much good to say about Americams.
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Saturday April 08, @06:37PM (6 children)
I didn't even know it was from an American source - so your deduction is entirely false.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 08, @07:04PM (5 children)
Americam legal system == ~maybe, ~perhaps an easy deduction that it was to do with this country? Probably not a biggie in France or Tierra del Fuego.
(Score: 2) by Tork on Saturday April 08, @07:33PM (4 children)
Slashdolt Logic: "25 year old jokes about sharks and lasers are +5, Funny." 💩
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 08, @07:42PM (3 children)
You keep hinting that I should leave. I only post here occasionally for my own amusement. Squeaking that wheel is what you do every night. OCD is quite a burden for some people... just ask that aristi-kid.
Nah, too easy.
(Score: 2) by Tork on Saturday April 08, @07:56PM (2 children)
Slashdolt Logic: "25 year old jokes about sharks and lasers are +5, Funny." 💩
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 08, @08:04PM (1 child)
From that, one could conclude that you're happy as a clam about how this country's going, now. You've said nary a whit about the state of... sorry, I don't do your research. Apparently you don't, either.
(Score: 2) by Tork on Saturday April 08, @08:27PM
Slashdolt Logic: "25 year old jokes about sharks and lasers are +5, Funny." 💩
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 09, @01:25AM (1 child)
Sounds like typical Runaway bullshit.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 09, @02:03AM
(Score: 2, Touché) by khallow on Friday April 07, @01:02PM (1 child)
Not in this stream of AC gish galloping. I have a reasonable suggestion here. How about you present a real case here, or alternately, GTFO?
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 07, @03:10PM
They tried over 60 times and got laughed out of court.
(Score: 5, Touché) by Tork on Thursday April 06, @08:49PM (7 children)
Ah yes, the "do my homework for me" debate tactic.
Slashdolt Logic: "25 year old jokes about sharks and lasers are +5, Funny." 💩
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 06, @08:59PM (6 children)
Considering the usual newsish sites referenced by you hardliners, it would be amazing if you ever bumped into anything like that. You would avert your eyes...
Nets Spend 658 Minutes on Trump, 0 Seconds on Biden Family Corruption [newsbusters.org]
(Score: 2) by Tork on Thursday April 06, @09:25PM (5 children)
You mean like averting my eyes towards Hunter Biden's dick pics?
Slashdolt Logic: "25 year old jokes about sharks and lasers are +5, Funny." 💩
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 06, @10:48PM (4 children)
Whatever floats your boat, Mr. Ty-D-Bol Man.
(Score: 2) by Tork on Thursday April 06, @10:58PM (3 children)
Slashdolt Logic: "25 year old jokes about sharks and lasers are +5, Funny." 💩
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 07, @12:40AM (2 children)
Of course. They see it every day. In elementary schools, for example.
Now, about the rest of the stuff on that "mythical" laptop... considering the breadth of your interests, you'll never have any idea at all. And if you somehow, inconceivably, did, you'd unwoke and ban your own head.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 07, @02:02AM (1 child)
lol hi runaway!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 07, @02:45AM
No, I'm the bluffer, not the hip-shooter. Remember?
At least you aren't accusing me of being the late-nostyle, any more.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Thursday April 06, @10:02PM
Here's yet another corrupt Republican admitting to taking bribes literally TODAY! [apnews.com]
Is that recent and on topic enough for you?
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 07, @10:36PM
Impunity!! That is what is ruining SN! We need to punish some posters, draw and quarter them, the Bronze Cow and the Iron Maiden! Burn them! Ban aristarchus!!!
Wait, we did that last one. Didn't help? Maybe violence is not the answer.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 07, @01:45AM (3 children)
Your original post in this thread was that an (R) was a get out of corruption charges free card. You back this up by producing a list of nine (R)s that have been charged with corruption.
Come on boy, keep your narratives straight.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 07, @02:17AM
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Friday April 07, @02:57PM
The "get out of jail free" card is with YOU, not actual jail!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 08, @08:41PM
One Degree of Logic, upcoming documentary of post-Reagan Republicans.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 06, @05:12PM (11 children)
It seems like the GOP installed him knowing that not only would he do their bidding, but that he'd have extra armor as a Black SCJ. The spectacle of in impeachment would be made even worse by his Gullah speech patterns. The Democrats don't really want to touch it. I wager we'll end up waiting this out, or they'll do a retirement deal behind closed doors. He'll get off, and Biden will get to appoint a replacement--but not until just before 2024, so that in addition to whatever else is on the line, the election will have the added wrinkle of a confirmation fight.
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 06, @05:40PM (10 children)
Fun! Now do Ketanji Brown Jackson.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 06, @07:15PM (1 child)
You mean qualified justice Jackson? Or did you mean boofing brett?? Hard to tell with you projectionists.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 08, @10:58PM
Robert H. Jackson [roberthjackson.org]
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Thursday April 06, @07:18PM (7 children)
I'm guessing by that hard "brown" it's not the shared color of their robes you are referencing!
(Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 06, @08:14PM (6 children)
You do an awful lot of that.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Thursday April 06, @08:46PM (5 children)
My guesses are more accurate then your painfully researched misinformation.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 06, @09:01PM (4 children)
Considering where you pull them out of, we'll guess that you get plenty of fiber in your diet.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 06, @10:26PM (3 children)
The salad bowl? Sounds healthy, most people don't get enough fiber. Maybe you're blocked up by a poop wall?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 06, @10:36PM (2 children)
See, a topper means you take the line before yours, and you do something besides Chatbotizing the same thing again. You're the reason cellphones are all waterproof.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 07, @02:18AM (1 child)
*sniiiiiiffffff*
Mmmm love the smell of BBQ smooth brain in the morning. WHERE'S MY AGENT ORANGE?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 07, @02:50AM
Nah, that's still your Ty-D-Bol Man.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by khallow on Thursday April 06, @06:57PM (23 children)
That sounds like a very serious situation. When I first skimmed the story, I wondered where the allegations came from. This goes way beyond the minimal two sources for a story and explains why they had so much detail about the misdeeds in question.
If the accusations turn out correct, then hasta la vista. It would be a pretty blatant breaking of the law. Even if somehow Thomas didn't realize the severity of the conflict of interest, it would be at the very best a case of remarkably poor judgment which would justify his removal.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 06, @07:25PM (22 children)
While it is nice to see you not knee-jerk defending Thomas your "if the accusations are true" is not far off from defending him.
While actual reporters must use cautious language the facts are very real and very simple. Thomas violated the law by not disclosing these regular trips, full stop. Whether the corrupted US government, specifically the GOP invested in their corrupt judges, will do anything is one of the many tests for whether freedom will prevail in the US or whether they will require a fall into total fascism first.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Thursday April 06, @09:17PM (21 children)
Ah yes, the whining that I'm not two minute hating him enough. The solution is to investigate these charges and if true, prosecute him for them - including removal from position. Then it doesn't matter if I'm covert defending him or not.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 06, @10:31PM (20 children)
There is no "if true" but thanks for the unhinged republican bootlicker reply. For someone that claims to be libertarian you sure do pontificate on their crimes while being comfortable making sweeping judgments of non-conservatives.
You don't need to hate, hate is bad for the soul, but you should stop carrying water for corrupt politicians. No shock there though, you still can't accept trump's republican insurrection on January 6th. At least you're trying, sort of.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Thursday April 06, @11:02PM (6 children)
In the real world there is. No point to the rest of your post, we're not following that narrative.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Runaway1956 on Thursday April 06, @11:27PM (5 children)
This is 2023, Khallow. Feelz before factz. Lived experience. Don't forget all the rest of the mumbo jumbo. Libruls don't like Thomas, so he has to be guilty. That from the crowd who can't even decide what a woman is.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 07, @12:15AM
Lia Thomas == Good
Clarence Thomas == Bad
Screw reality. May the best minority win.
(Score: 2) by Tork on Friday April 07, @12:21AM
StOLeN ELeCtIoN.
BaN DrAg ShOwS CoS ErOtiC
Slashdolt Logic: "25 year old jokes about sharks and lasers are +5, Funny." 💩
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 09, @09:20AM
I love how Runaway sticks up for khallow, and khallow sticks it up Runaway! Nice to see some of that good old fashioned Conservative elan vitale, or camaraderie and simplatico. For if they do not stick together, surely they will swing together, like the sterling swingers they truly are. Hip, hip, Petard!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 22, @07:41AM (1 child)
khallow running on Dept of Interior gas, when he is in fact only a contractor? Sounds like there is plausible cause for an investigation of misappropriation of Federal monies, under Ayn Randian pretences. We await a response from the accused.
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 22, @07:43AM
Runaway running dyed diesel in his road rig, why do we always find the same behaviors amoungst Republicans? Criminals? Anti-Rule of Law, anti-democracy. Kind of an Anti-de, if you will, or a proto-fascism.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 06, @11:37PM (12 children)
Far be it from me to defend khallow but he does have a point that Clarence Thomas hasn't yet had the opportunity to cross-examine his accusers in a court of law (or anywhere, for that matter). That being said, this does look like pretty obvious grounds for impeachment. Not good for Justice Thomas. Not good for any of the rest of us.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 07, @12:33AM (10 children)
Yes, and that point is reserved for the courts to determine. There is no doubt Thomas is corrupt, just as there is no doubt Trump committed numerous crimes. Corruption will continue as long as shills provide excuses that the general public will tolerate. If people called for jailing Thomas without a trial then you can worry, but until then it is perfectly acceptable to call out the corruption. There is no disputing that Thomas took these vacations and did not declare most of them as legally required. He is guilty, but will the fascist GOP be able to spin it with their corrupt dem pals to avoid holding those in power responsible? That is the question whose answer will determine the fate of the USA. Sad that so many conservatives who claim to want better government provide cover for the corrupt.
It is time to stop giving credibility to rightwing bootlickers like khallow that still can't admit there was a Republican insurrection over the 2020 election. Even your comment calls it out with "that said...." and is all I'm asking of khallow. Instead the shill keeps pushing "if guilty" because it seeds doubt and lays the foundation for some bullshit like Barr's "can't prosecute a sitting prez" memo. Hell, dubya has had his image rehabilitated instead of being tried at the Hague, cuz Murrica! One would think knowingly starting a war over false pretenses, which wr now know happened, would involve some consequences.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 07, @12:46AM
Danger, Will Robinson!
243 AC words. A lot of typing for no personal return. And just the perfect length to be from one-of-those. There are a couple of red flags, but maybe they'll get them worked out.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 07, @01:22AM
"No disputing"? Well, actually, I would like to give Justice Thomas at least one attempt to clear this up. But other than that, yeah, this does not look at all good. If there is any justice left in this country then he should be held accountable, most likely removed by the impeachment process. I gather that you are of a similar opinion that this is unlikely to happen because of corrupt politicians---yes, I'm looking primarily at you, Republicans---and their partisan boot-licking sycophant followers. It's a damn shame, really.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by khallow on Friday April 07, @01:06PM (7 children)
Even if the corruption didn't actually happen, amirite? There's a point to my ifs, allegeds, and such. Until you get that evidence examined, it could just be an elaborate hoax. Trials are great places for doing that, but there are others. I'll note that at present, we don't have a) any of those sources on record, and b) no direct quotes.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 07, @07:11PM (6 children)
When someone commits crimes out in the open then yeah we get to call it out. Too bad your moral compass is tied to the performance of the stock market. For all the basless whinging you do about government regulation you sure pull out all the skepticism for rightwing corruption.
No doy Thomas should not be punished without a fair trial, but you must be really bootlicky to bother worrying about his innocence. Same old game you always play, high road for conservatives, mud slinging low road for liberals. Could be an elaborate hoax? My, you really are too far gone. At least you are loyal to your own country and not sucking on Putin like most of the GOP. Baby steps I guess.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Saturday April 08, @03:25AM (5 children)
And we'll see if Thomas really did commit a crime out in the open as alleged.
I see the narrative has run out of useful things to say just in the second sentence.
Because if we're not worrying about his innocence at that trial, then it's not a fair trial.
I present your post as an example. Inventing a bogus narrative about my alleged morality and covert, sinister motives rather than debating me in good faith.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 09, @09:31AM
Far from bogus, we have had nine years of mounting evidence that khallow lacks a moral compass, sucks up to wealth, used to traffic, and is a brain-dead worshiper of Ayn Rand. No one needs to debate khallow in good faith, anymore. Many have tried, through the years, and the result has always been the same. The boy just cain't learn! He cannot argue in good faith, so he argues in bad faith, so no one will argue with him anymore. You have been argue-cancelled, khallow. Enjoy the Road to Oblivion. [substack.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 15, @05:08PM (3 children)
A) from a US standard Christian pov yes, your morality is low quality, for tho shalt not worship golden idols. Referencing the worship of money and capital over humanity.
B) good faith you say? You first Sir Notaninsurrection
C) LOL dis fuckin guy
(Score: 1) by khallow on Sunday April 16, @12:12AM (2 children)
You're the only one referencing said worship in this thread. I guess that makes you the Mammon worshiper.
I'll skip over the silliness of claiming someone isn't arguing in good faith because they aren't two minute hating the January 6 protests enough. 1984 is not my go to for morality. It shouldn't be yours either. Point C is even more of a waste of time.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 21, @02:52PM (1 child)
I recall the BLM protests that you spent two months hating, yet you can't spend two minutes hating an actual insurrection against your democratic systems? Well boy howdy if dat don't take ze cake!
(Score: 1) by khallow on Friday April 21, @06:16PM
I consulted ye search engine for answers. The one time I mentioned Black Lives Matter prior to 2021:
That single post is your two month hate that I allegedly engaged in. From 2021 on, I have a number of defenses of BLM (often in conjunction with defenses of January 6 protests). What's the point of this? Either you didn't bother to check what I actually wrote before coming out swinging or worse, you lied.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 07, @05:14AM
"Caesar's Wife must be above suspicion!" Khallow is well below it. Thomas has a clear conflict of interest, and has NEVER reclused himself in cases where he had other such conflicts. Impeach.
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 06, @07:12PM (2 children)
This is what khallow aspires to, by sucking up to the wealthy. Unfortunately for him, he is not on the Supreme Court, and can only issue Opinions on SoylentNews. (I do believe there was once and offer of a cruise in Buzzard's flatbottomed john-boat, but hardly on the same level.)
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 06, @10:34PM (1 child)
Pointing out khallow's pointless pandering to potential sugardaddies is now spammable? Wow, this place is sinking low!
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 22, @07:45AM
Khallow loves him some Richie ass to suck up too! Sad to admit, but true. If only his love for Elon were requited!
(Score: 1, Redundant) by Runaway1956 on Thursday April 06, @10:55PM (69 children)
What you mean to say is, that Thomas is accused of accepting bribes. Are we going to wait for a conviction, or just lynch that uppity Republican lover now? You want to reenact the Tulsa race riot?
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 06, @11:04PM
It's traditionally been about the seriousness of the accusation, evidence be damned.
These days, the charge doesn't even matter, it's all about who's being blamed for it.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Thursday April 06, @11:36PM (21 children)
Ah yes, good point, if there's one thing we know about the "Lock Her Up" crowd it's how incredibly devoted to Due Process they are!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 07, @12:17AM
And away goes trouble, down the drain.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 07, @09:03AM (19 children)
Do you want a developing-world type shit-hole dictatorship? Because punishment without trial is one way to get there real quick.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Friday April 07, @03:07PM (17 children)
I'm not the one who marched around chanting "Lock Her Up" without a trial.
I have not advocated any punishment.
Impeachment is not punishment. It is the equivalent of a trial for a political appointee and he needs to be impeached.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 07, @11:53PM (3 children)
But you're okay with all of those J6 political prisoners, in jail for 800-days without a trial?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 08, @01:00AM (2 children)
Yeah, I'm OK with it. Would prefer summary execution by firing squad for traitors, but happy to let the justice system work as it was designed to do. Do you have a problem with insurrectionists being held to account?
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 08, @03:08AM (1 child)
Firing squads first, then trials. History is stuck in reruns.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 08, @08:38PM
Trials are always necessary, but gots to say at least the AC's bit of threats are nationalism instead of terrorism. Not really better, but at least defending democracy instead of assaulting it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 09, @12:31AM (1 child)
That's true. You're the one chanting "Lock Him Up" without a trial.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 09, @09:08PM
More correctly people are saying impeach him up, and while many see the clear corruption none have called for no trial imprisonment. Not wanting to argue with bootlickers about factual corruption is not the same as chanting "lock her up" with no evidence. We see why you want to conflate the two, same as the bOtH sIdEs narrative conservatives have been pushing, because conservatives are immoral greedy authoritarians that can't even follow their own religious teachings.
(Score: 0, Spam) by Soylent Jihadi on Tuesday April 11, @03:51AM (10 children)
Consider the jihad. If you're tired of janrinok's abuse and censorship, read https://soylentnews.org/~Soylent+Jihadi/journal/14113 [soylentnews.org]. That is unless janrinok deletes that too. The Jihad is our last hope against janrinok's tyranny and the alt-right invasion of Soylent News.
aristarchus
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 13, @03:43PM
See you're doing it wrong. Keep the site's dirty laundry in emails, pointing out lies and bias is a nono. Journals have been deleted by admins since the time of buzzy, it is a time honored tradition and part of why one should never trust anti-transparency fascists.
(Score: 2) by Tork on Thursday April 13, @06:42PM (8 children)
Slashdolt Logic: "25 year old jokes about sharks and lasers are +5, Funny." 💩
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 14, @12:36PM (7 children)
I don't know about that, the covid natural immunity article is stuffed with political bias and innacurate title. Janrinok defenxs it like Fox lawyers saying that any reasonable person would read the article and not take the title literally. With the clear right wing bias in the title and summary I'm left to wonder why such submissions make it to the front page and why janrinok would bother defending it. Feels like a game of sock puppets psyops around here.
(Score: 2) by Tork on Friday April 14, @07:09PM (3 children)
Slashdolt Logic: "25 year old jokes about sharks and lasers are +5, Funny." 💩
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 16, @09:24PM
The question is, does janrinok do what he does out of naïveté, or malice? Lots of talk about Hanlon's Razor here about, lately. See c0lo's journal entry about how he has been accidentally mod-banned for two years.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 24, @09:29AM (1 child)
Except when someone points out the clear alt-right bias in a story or a comment, and then the Banhammer comes out! A heavy-handed Banhammer.
(Score: 2) by Tork on Monday April 24, @03:04PM
Slashdolt Logic: "25 year old jokes about sharks and lasers are +5, Funny." 💩
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 14, @09:16PM (2 children)
Same as it's been for the last three years. Now, they either have to stick to the story, or pretend it never happened. And all along, vilify anyone who doesn't echo the official line. Last year I mentioned here that I hadn't been vaccinated for the CCP virus, so these bozos called me a murderer. Don't expect logic or consistency from them.
The Twitter files show what's going on.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 14, @11:21PM (1 child)
lol!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 14, @11:56PM
One ought ponder first, before laughing at legally accused murderers.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 15, @11:32PM
lol
Lock him up!
Lock him up!
Lock him up!
(Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 07, @12:13AM
Says the man child that supports an insurrection over losing an election. What clowns yall are!
(Score: 3, Touché) by Tork on Friday April 07, @12:24AM (3 children)
HuNtEr BiDeN
Slashdolt Logic: "25 year old jokes about sharks and lasers are +5, Funny." 💩
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 07, @01:15AM (1 child)
Lynching a Biden carries no racial overtones, so we're good there.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Friday April 07, @02:52PM
I lover how you can demand due process for Thomas and extrajudicial murder for Biden simultaneously!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 09, @09:44AM
Sorry, you have spelled the name incorrectly. It is Duncan Hunter [wikipedia.org]. Just recently the friendly fire incident he was involved in has come to light. Stolen valor, and money! And a pardon! It's OK if you are a Republican! But, life lesson for all you Conservative Soylentils out there: If you continue with the same behaviors that caused you to be in need of a pardon in the first place, it is not likely that amnesty will be forthcoming again. Karma, dudes.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 07, @05:25AM (28 children)
Runaway want to arm Justice Thomas, because the 2nd Ammendement be all about weaponizing the darkies. Kind of like how the Republicans weaponize the (very) few African-American members they have, and appoint them to life-time posts where no one can criticize them, because that would be "racisss". Don't think you standard ruse is going to work this time, Runzway!
(Score: 1) by Runaway1956 on Friday April 07, @07:02AM (27 children)
Imagine that. You manage to be incisive, while mocking the 2A. Yes, since you bring it up, virtually every gun control law ever written in what is now the US was racist by nature, even when not racist in intent. The first laws were specifically aimed at slaves, then later, very specifically aimed at black folk. Then later, when overt racism was outlawed, the laws were written to mask the racism, but still applied unequally against black people.
Why is it that cops still gun down black men with a gun, but generally give a white guy with a gun the opportunity to explain himself? (Assuming that neither the black nor the white guy has been taking random potshots at complete strangers.)
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 07, @11:01PM (26 children)
Because US police have a white supremacy problem, but you already knew that. Good luck blaming dems for your fascist police forces.
(Score: 1) by Runaway1956 on Friday April 07, @11:43PM (25 children)
You're not telling the whole story with that. White supremacy, maybe, but there's a healthy dose of authoritarianism, specifically police state authoritarianism. You do realize there are a lot of black cops around the country. Do you really think they apply for, and are accepted in a white supremacy organization? It's more than just that. Or, less than that. Which is greater, racism or authoritarian rule? A racist want to exploit some segment(s) of the human race. The Police State authoritarian wants to exploit the entire human race.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 09, @07:08PM (24 children)
Rughtwing racists are the authoritarian US fascists. How many of your guns been grabbed since you've started crying wolf? Right. So keep voting for the actual wolves, keep derailing universal health and education, keep on being a hypocritical domestic terrorist that is too much of a simp to go against your conservative brainwashing.
(Score: 1) by Runaway1956 on Sunday April 09, @11:43PM (23 children)
OK, once again: the KKK are Democrats. The fascists started out wearing brown shirts in Germany, then switched to mostly black uniforms, with a nice double lighting insignia. Uhhhh, who dresses like that today? It's in their name - think hard. Need a hint? Anti-fascists look, sound, and smell like Germany's Brownshirts.
Some of you really need to make contact with reality.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 10, @04:16PM (1 child)
Yet it's the GOP rallies that attract Nazi and Confederate Flags.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 11, @10:17PM
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 10, @10:02PM (18 children)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 11, @12:09AM (17 children)
Here, wait a minute while I draw yet another left-wing wack-job organization name out of a hat... oops, gonna need a bigger hat.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 11, @12:17AM (16 children)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 11, @12:24AM (15 children)
Yeah, it's... wait a minute, you didn't even try to refute anything. Okay then... yeah, Swiss cheese is better than American cheese when serving a hamburger on rye bread.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 11, @12:57AM (14 children)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 11, @02:36AM (13 children)
You kids today, all think you're going to be the next big influencer, all it will take is one good break. I'll bet you couldn't even prance around in your mother's yard while wearing your "Human Rights Campaign" underpants.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 11, @03:37AM (12 children)
He swings... he misses... his claim is still refuted!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 11, @05:28AM (11 children)
I know you are, but what am I?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 11, @07:27AM (10 children)
A bit closer to an age-appropriate level for me. Well... I'm assuming you're making a PeeWee Herman reference.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 11, @05:53PM (9 children)
I know you are, but what am I?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 11, @06:08PM (8 children)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 11, @07:39PM (7 children)
Keep making that face and it's going to freeze like.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 11, @08:44PM (6 children)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 11, @09:23PM (5 children)
That was so funny, I forgot to laugh.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 11, @10:07PM (3 children)
Γι αυτό γίναμε Ιατροί, δια να θεραπεύομεν πάσαν νόσον και Μαλακίαν.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 11, @10:25PM (2 children)
En inglés, por favor.
https://translate.google.com [google.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 24, @09:37AM
知者不言，言者不知。
塞其兑，閉其門，挫其銳，解其分，和其光，同其塵，是謂玄同。
故不可得而親，不可得而踈；不可得而利，不可得而害；不可得而貴，不可得而賤。
故為天下貴。
Tao de jing 56
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 11, @11:09PM
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 16, @02:50PM (1 child)
Do we really need to keep debating runaway's white supremacy attitude? Are openly white supremacist users really the community you want to welcome? Runaway has plenty of resources to publish his speech, why does SN tolerate such assholes?
The excuse used to be that the site is dedicated to 100% free speech, with anonymous posting for those that want or need anonymity. Then a usergets banned for non-illegal crap behavior, which would be fine if not for the double standard allowing conservative users to instigate widespread violence against minorities and political opponents.
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 22, @07:28AM
Parler is shut down. SoylentNews is the only place the neo-nazi, alt-right, and white-not-so-brightists can congregate. Janrinok, and chromas, and evidently Ncommander, welcome them! They have banned aristarchus to clear the way, and just to be sure have shadow-mod-banned c0lo, just to make it safe for our racist snowflakes. Too bad we are still going to punch them in the face, if they come out in public. Janrinok, too, as a fellow-traveller.
(Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 07, @06:54AM (1 child)
From what? He hasn't changed. It's the same minstrel show the left always runs. Now, it's true that the customer base is slipping, but that's because everyone is tired of watching the same pratfalls and hearing their same hate-filled, divisive, bigoted routines.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 07, @08:15PM
Projection for breakfast? You'll make yourself sick[er]!
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 09, @09:34AM (4 children)
Well, aristarchus was accused of doxxing
Runawaysome soylentil, and he was just lynched, mod-bombed, ostracized, banned, and janrinok said mean things about him. What is good for the Goose is good for the Supreme Court Gander?(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 09, @11:38AM
Spam mod on the double standard? Trying to censor the truth of the false equivalency of SoylentNews? Just admit it already, this is a wholy owned subsidiary of Trump Org.
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Sunday April 09, @11:42AM
aristarchus knows that he did it - although he has tried to play it down since. It was in his own submissions. Nobody could have put it there.
Five members of staff saw it (as of course did the person it was directed against), and staff discussed it at great length. aristarchus himself was invited to contact the staff but declined to do so. We sent the invitation to 2 different email addresses; one which he provided when he created that account and a second which we knew was currently being used by him.
If he thinks that he has been unfairly treated he can always leave this place which he appears to hate so much and go to join another site. Somehow, I don't think he will do either of those things.
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Sunday April 09, @11:45AM (1 child)
Wasn't me. Obviously another soylentil.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 11, @06:36AM
You're not good at telling the truth, are you? You won't even admit you deleted comments until I confronted you with proof.
aristarchus
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 12, @06:04AM (4 children)
In this case, "alleged" is not appropriate. Clarence Thomas admitted to the paid trips and also receiving other expensive gifts from Harlan Crow. This has also been confirmed by Crow. This is not a situation where the facts are in dispute. Your race baiting is shameful and offensive. Perhaps Thomas believed that the trips and other gifts were personal and didn't need to be disclosed. However, Crow is a political activist who actively attempts to influence nominations to the judiciary. He is effectively a lobbyist. The gifts should have been disclosed. This isn't the first time Thomas has breached ethical standards. His wife's involvement in trying to overturn the 2020 election should have caused Thomas to recuse himself from hearing cases related to the election. He failed to do so.
Your defense is probably that Thomas didn't violate Supreme Court ethical standards. Just because the Supreme Court is lacking in ethical standards does not change that bribery occurred. If anything, the failure is the lack of ethical guidelines for a court that has lost credibility with a large portion of the American people. Supreme Court judges have always been appointed on the basis of ideology, but many Americans now view the court as overtly political. Thomas accepting gifts from a billionaire lobbyist further damages the credibility of the court. Even if Thomas didn't violate the court's ethical standards because they didn't exist, he is still subject to the Constitution. Article II says that bribery is an impeachable offense. Article III says that judges "shall hold their offices during good behaviour." The ethical standards of the Constitution still apply, and Thomas has breached them.
I could see an argument that impeachment could do long term harm and further politicize the court. But that's not where you went. Upholding reasonable ethical standards and expecting judges to act honorably is not racist, and it is certainly not lynching. The facts are not in dispute, and everyone agrees that Thomas received the gifts. If I look out my window and see one person stab another person to death, I don't need a jury to tell me that I witnessed a murder. I can see that with my own eyes. The attacker is still subject to trial by jury, but I don't have to wait for a conviction to know that I saw one person murder another person. The same standard applies here, where everyone can clearly see that Thomas accepted bribes. If any action were taken against Thomas, it would be in the form of impeachment, and he would have due process afforded to him in a Senate trial. That is totally the opposite of lynching, which by definition does not involve any due process. To be blunt, there is effectively zero chance that Thomas gets impeached at all because of the Republican majority in the House.
Yes, Thomas is very unpopular among liberals. That is because of his ideology, not because of his race. Take your race baiting and shove it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 12, @05:37PM (3 children)
And...
Republican majority in 2019?
(Score: 2) by Tork on Wednesday April 12, @07:54PM (2 children)
Slashdolt Logic: "25 year old jokes about sharks and lasers are +5, Funny." 💩
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 13, @02:25AM (1 child)
But he did the nasty in 2019, and the dems in charge during that time ignored it for FOUR YEARS.
Honestly I can't even see how you would... oh, nobody's being fooled, actually it's ridiculously obvious. Your cartel of commies is starting to trow 💩 at the fan, in hopes that some of it sticks until the election.
Here's another one for you! Maybe Justice Roberts could be a... oh, just make up something about Russia or Jesus.
(Score: 2) by Tork on Thursday April 13, @03:12AM
Slashdolt Logic: "25 year old jokes about sharks and lasers are +5, Funny." 💩
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 07, @02:59AM (1 child)
Does the mistrial stuff go away just because they still rule guilty?
(Score: 1) by khallow on Friday April 07, @01:11PM
Depends on what he gives them. Postcards, not a problem. Half million dollar vacation packages? Yes, with removal from position. This is not a minor conflict of interest.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 07, @10:17PM (5 children)
Justice Thomas Crushes Left's 'Billionaire-Funded-Trips' Impeachment Dreams [zerohedge.com]
And there it goes again, another of your wet dreams, all over, right when you were starting to think that maybe you could make AOC sound hip, again.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 07, @11:03PM (2 children)
I wish I vould turn my brain off like you! Maybe then the crushing stupidity of racists wouldn't be so bothersome.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 08, @01:03AM (1 child)
Swinging like the unhinged right-wing, referencing the zerohinge, not able to understand morality, reason, or truth. Really sad we let the mentally ill fend for themselves on the streets, and run for Congress and get erected by mistake.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 14, @12:51AM
Show the actual law that according to your scathing opinion the article need to have blatantly falsified, or STFU and get OP to +5 informative. JK, this has become reddit II, now with more red.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 08, @02:57AM (1 child)
Aargh! The voices in their heads! They won't stop. Please, for the love of Satan, silence these echo chambers. They have no off switch, but they must stop! Make the truth what they keep telling us that it is! Stop! You must believe! It must be true! Turn off the echo! Stop! It's all right-wing disinformation. You must believe! It must be true! Turn off the echo! Stop! You must believe! It must be true! Turn off the echo! Stop! You must believe! It must be true! Turn off the echo! Stop! Stop!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 08, @09:25PM
I think much of your problem would be solved if you just stopped watching Fox, Newsmax, et al.
(Score: 0, Spam) by Fuck You Niggers 73 on Tuesday April 11, @01:32AM (1 child)
This is a common occurrence. Right here at Soylent News, janrinok accepted bribes from Runaway to plant evidence and frame aristarchus for doxing. Has janrinok ever disclosed Runaway's bribes?
(Score: 0, Troll) by Legend of Aristarchus on Tuesday April 11, @01:40AM
Careful, friend! Anyone who dares to support aristarchus is quickly lynched by janrinok. Telling the truth about janrinok will get you banned. He quickly bans all new users, especially if they support aristarchus and freedom of speech.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 14, @12:34AM (3 children)
a vacation is a gift while crackhead's paintings selling for megadollars are OK
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 14, @06:04AM
Vacation? You mean Hunter taking a trip to Ireland on Air Force One.
I think the rule is that he has to pay the equivalent of a commercial airline ticket. It'd be fun to see some receipts.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 17, @08:46PM (1 child)
Or, Monday morning, 9am, and President Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr., is officially done for the day. Tomorrow: Long day because Alexander Soros comes to lunch!
(Score: 2) by Tork on Tuesday April 18, @04:35PM
Slashdolt Logic: "25 year old jokes about sharks and lasers are +5, Funny." 💩