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.
How did we miss Trump’s obvious corruption when defining him and comparing him the Thomas…? They’re both blatantly corrupt equally.
Edit: I just ran into this guy commenting in another thread. Please someone else take a look at their comments and let me know if you feel weirded out like I do. They’re… uncanny. It could just be me, the ‘step down’ repetitiveness is weird.
It’s a bit that he picked up and ran with.
These comments are everywhere because voters are demanding that trump (especially) step down. The Internet is exploding.
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I think they’re doing a self referencing bit. Look at this comment: https://lemm.ee/comment/13164233
Exploding and step down seem to be a recurring theme.
He’s exploding all over the Internet.
Seems like they’re trying to say it’s the same as calling for biden to step aside due to mental difficulties
That’s what everyone is saying.
Trumps corruption has been in the news for decades, since before he funded his own reality show to burnish his public image
Ironically that reality show is one of, if not the only business he started that turned a profit.
Many people are reading his comments
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What a strange comment.
I’m sure he reads lemmy and reddit daily. He doesnt care because he doesnt hear it.
Louder.
WHAT THE FUCK
I don’t think Thomas heard you…let me try.
WHAT THE FUCK
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.
“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.”
Does anyone else get the feeling that everyone’s cool with it as long as they get their cut? They’re fine as long as they pay the fine.
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.
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.
Well you have to admit it worked well for Neville Chamberlain didn’t it? /s
Good point. “Rock the vote, not the boat” may as well be the campaign slogan.
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
resortprison 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.
This won’t lead to a ratcheting effect of political warfare internally at all.
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.
In his defense, … he was actually working there in a sense.
Tl;dr?
The joke is that Thomas is a paid operative working for Putin
I don’t see the joke; this just sounds like a statement of fact.
I’m glad I’m not the only one who took this at face value
Bought and paid-for Supreme Court. Pathetic, sad, and scary.
And kinda cheap if you think about it.
It’s always been amazing to look at the lobbyists donation amounts to senators to see how cheaply they can be bought.
I dont know why everyone assumes it has to be like millions. They already make decent money, and then they feel entitled to this extra compensation, its less about the amounts and more about precedent
I’m sure in many cases they’d do it for free because they agree in general, it’s just looks strange to see values in the hundreds by these absolutely behemoth companies.
Yeah you start to wonder if the companies almost have to take advantage or be accused of not pursuing profits for their shareholders.
I think a lot of this bribery stuff only becomes officially illegal later on as well, so maybe they feel they are in a sort of grey area thats defensible.
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
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.
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
Right, but the supreme Court would just find that law unconstitutional. Or ignore the implicit meaning.
What the actual fuck. This country is a joke. I’m shocked we lasted this long to be honest.
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.
Well, that depends… given what the powers they just granted POTUS… they could just be dispatched as long as it’s an “official act” right? Bizarro world.
they could just be dispatched as long as it’s an “official act”
Well, maybe…
Who decides what is official and what is illegal?
We’ll figure that out when we get there
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.
Oh yeah that totally seems normal. Definitely no reason to stop the Supreme Court’s corruption - they said so themselves!
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I am willing to bet the majority of the MAGA movement is funded by Russia. Everything goes back to Putin every fucking time.
It was funded by oligarchs, and Russia is a playground for oligarchs (until they cross Putin).
Well some of them, others went to London and started to cross Putin.
And got a fucking polonium pin prick for it… While in London.
Unless we’re talking about different people.
