Current Events > Billionaire has treated Clarence Thomas to luxury vacations

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https://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-scotus-undisclosed-luxury-travel-gifts-crow

Yeah no fucking shit billionaires buyout politicians and legislators.

It's just frustrating as fuck how direct and open it is now.

He sold his soul even before he became a judge. Both he and his wife are seditious crooks.

Every day since the Dems won the senate I've been slapping around and poking my Clarence Thomas voodoo doll.

So far nothing has happened.

I'm starting to lose faith in this stuff.

What's the point of giving dese people salaries when dey still get bought? Wasn't dat supposed to stop da bribes lol

Dey should follow da gamefaqs mods example

Vegy posted...

What's the point of giving dese people salaries when dey still get bought? Wasn't dat supposed to stop da bribes lol

Dey should follow da gamefaqs mods example

i mean what salary do you give someone such that they aren't going to want more money?

And nothing will be done about this. Republicans want this and Democrats, even if they could do something, are too worried about decorum and protecting the institution of government even when it's totally corrupted.

Jagr_68 posted...

Yeah no fucking shit billionaires buyout politicians and legislators.

It's just frustrating as fuck how direct and open it is now.

And nothing ever happens to these blatant breaks of the law. It sucks ass. This country has failed as a democracy

This country needs to be burned to the ground so it can rebuild better. At this point, there's no other option to deal with how corrupt it's gotten.

You know my job has a training ABOUT THIS VERY SAME THING every year and how it is....Illegal?

CARRRNE_ASADA posted...

You know my job has a training ABOUT THIS VERY SAME THING every year and how it is....Illegal?

Every govt job abides by these compensation and donation laws...BUT OF COURSE that's for the <$200k salary peon LOSERS doing field or office work, no no no not these fucks, they're "special"

CARRRNE_ASADA posted...

You know my job has a training ABOUT THIS VERY SAME THING every year and how it is....Illegal?

And since when has that stopped goppers from weaseling around this and doing exactly that?

Billionaires should not exist.

Being embarrassingly rich is a mental illness that should be treated.

Southernfatman posted...

And nothing will be done about this. Republicans want this and Democrats, even if they could do something, are too worried about decorum and protecting the institution of government even when it's totally corrupted.

What a load of shit to sit there are pretend democrats aren't bought off as well.

I work for the very same government he does. I'd be fired and banned from ever working for the government again if it came out that I did even one 1/10000th of this. We're literally not allowed to accept gifts of more than $20 at a time!

As for judges, they're not supposed to accept gifts from anyone that may signifacntly benefit from a judge doing or not doing their job....like a billionaire for example.

There's also this delightful catchall rule:

Notwithstanding the provisions of 620.35, no gift may be accepted by a judicial officer or employee if a reasonable person would believe it was offered in return for being influenced in the performance of an official act or in violation of any statute or regulation, nor may a judicial officer or employee accept gifts from the same or different sources on a basis so frequent that a reasonable person would believe that the public office is being used for private gain. A judicial officer or employee should decline a gift permitted by these regulations if acceptance would cause the officer or employee to violate any applicable provision of the Codes of Conduct.

Thomas needs to be impeached.

voldothegr8 posted...

What a load of shit to sit there are pretend democrats aren't bought off as well.

show me the evidence and we can impeach them as well

Clarence Thomas should be in prison for this shit

voldothegr8 posted...

What a load of shit to sit there are pretend democrats aren't bought off as well.

The cowardly whataboutism take

Gritty posted...

The cowardly whataboutism take

I didn't what about anything, I corrected a very naive take.

Giant_Aspirin posted...

show me the evidence and we can impeach them as well

Pelosi.

voldothegr8 posted...

I didn't what about anything, I corrected a very naive take.

Whataboutism is the bastion of cowardly Republicans

voldothegr8 posted...

I didn't what about anything, I corrected a very naive take.

You actually made your own mistake - nowhere in that post did he say Democrats don't, he just described their inaction.

Maxine Waters blew a kiss to mega donor, Sam Bankman-Fried.

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so rich people aren't allowed to spend their money on their friends? or SCOTUS judges aren't allowed to have friends or go on vacations?

what exactly do you propose to do about this?

really need term limits and forensic accounting on scotus they should be above reproach in terms of not being evil or corrupt

CyricZ posted...

Being embarrassingly rich is a mental illness

This is a fantastic statement.
I've never heard it put that way.
You are so fucking correct.

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can they do something about it? sure
will they? no

ImAMarvel posted...

So can anything be done about this?

It seems like a case that should go up to The Supreme Court.
~They'll know what to do.

Surely, they will...surely.

https://twitter.com/melissalyttle/status/1644359454198988800

Billionaires are not like you and me