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.
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
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.
Clarence Thomas proves that progress isn’t linear nor guaranteed. What a let down after Thurgood Marshall.
Take the million a year and the motor coach.
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.
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
Good news Thomas, you can resign and leave!
Gosh, that sounds terrible. You should quit.
Naaa, he’s just whining in hopes of more right wing lucre.
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’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
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.
John Oliver says he’s willing to put his offer back on the table, Clarence.
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
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.
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.
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
The media and Joe Biden personally lol
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.
His mocking her, along with all the Monica Lewinsky jokes, is a big reason why Jay Leno can go get fucked.
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.
Oh no! People are being mean to the human equivalent of an unwiped asshole covered in weeping pus sores?
Medeling kids!
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.
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.
Only fascist stormtroopers are so precise.
Even made himself miserable just in case he’s secretly a lib.
