Current Events > Clarence Thomas is worried respect for institutions are eroding

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https://www.businessinsider.com/clarence-thomas-worries-respect-institutions-ginni-wife-ethics-roe-wade-2022-5

Lmao

go kiss a couple of covid cases, thomas

Thomas is so far into the sunken place he's in Narnia.

Thurgood Marshall is turning over in his grave over this guy replacing his seat

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it's difficult to have respect for institutions when they have shitty leadership/representatives.

and smh at saying people don't respect outcomes of things if they don't go their way, like some of those "outcomes" don't affect people's well-being/health/rights.

and also smh at him saying how young people don't respect the law when you put his wife into consideration.

g0ldie posted...

and smh at saying people don't respect outcomes of things if they don't go their way, like some of those "outcomes" don't affect people's well-being/health/rights.

"people are addicted to outcomes they like...that's the reason they don't like my wife trying to subvert the outcome of an election that the person she liked lost"

what a tone deaf thing to say...thats how people lose respect my dude.

When an insitution goes against the majority opinion yes the public will tend not to respect it

Hes literally pulling a who killed Hannibal?

Dude's wife participated in an insurrection. How dare he lecture me about respect for the very institutions his wife tried to destroy.

He's legit a bought judge who gives a damn what he has to say about respect, dude only respects the increasing 0s in his bank account.

The institutions have been doing the opposite what the people want for about 40 years. No wonder trust in them is going byebye.

Well golly gee Mr. Thomas, I can't imagine why that would be

Says man whose wife bussed in the Jan 6 protestors.

Thomas said society is "becoming addicted to wanting particular outcomes" and "not living with the outcomes we don't like," according to Reuters.
"We can't be an institution that can be bullied into giving you just the outcomes you want. The events from earlier this week are a symptom of that," Thomas continued, apparently referring to the leak but not explicitly mentioning it.

lmao wtf? Is he saying we shouldn't have things we want? Isn't that, like, the point of living?

We should bully these people even more imo.

stoltenberg11 posted...

Thomas said society is "becoming addicted to wanting particular outcomes" and "not living with the outcomes we don't like," according to Reuters.
"We can't be an institution that can be bullied into giving you just the outcomes you want. The events from earlier this week are a symptom of that," Thomas continued, apparently referring to the leak but not explicitly mentioning it.

lmao wtf? Is he saying we shouldn't have things we want? Isn't that, like, the point of living?

It's like they view the government as a force of nature. We're all just living in their world.

Damn can't believe this is happening, guess he should quit I suppose.

Frolex posted...

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Thank you. This is the correct response.

The people in power are the ones eroding the institutions. And also fuck the institutions anyway.

it will be a beautiful day on earth when that man finally dies.

We dont respect scumbags

F*** your institution

Ludacris01 posted...

it will be a beautiful day on earth when that man finally dies.

Let's not wish for the death of people.

TheRealDill2K22 posted...

Let's not wish for the death of people.

Or you could not tell people what to think.

TheRealDill2K22 posted...

Let's not wish for the death of people.

Clarence Thomas needs to be told this then. He's asking women to risk dying in pregnancy

Term limits for supreme courts as well. Maybe 10-20 years at most.

Ludacris01 posted...

it will be a beautiful day on earth when that man finally dies.

You don't want this. He could be replaces with another right wing judge.

TheRealDill2K22 posted...

Let's not wish for the death of people.

Yeah well, maybe he shouldn't actively be working to strip people of rights and basic bodily autonomy.

I have so much respect for the great Clarence Thomas.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CPs7f7kYHA&t=32m

GREGORY MAGGS: Life didn't start out too easy...you grew up in Pinpoint, and then in a home that didn't have water, didn't have electricity. When the house burned down you moved to Savannah and conditions got worse...1955, you were hungry without knowing when you would eat and cold without knowing when you would be warm.

CLARENCE THOMAS: That's a horrible feeling...My mother (was a maid for) $10 a week, $5 more if you had car fare. My grandmother had been a maid. Cousin Bea was a maid. Cousin Doshier was a maid. All of them were maids. And they were the help. And yet they never ever complained. And life was hard. I mean, the things that we consider hard today -- I had some college students ask me a few years back how would I explain, you know, talk to them now that the economy had taken a down turn? And I said... how many of you don't have cell phones? Of course, they all had cell phones. How many of you don't have a computer? They all had computers. How many of you don't have a car? I think all but one had a car. I said, you're so far above the poverty line...when I was in school, you were at the poverty line. You're making 90 cents an hour, you had no money, no shoes. You had like boots and things like that. And you didn't worry about it. Because virtually everybody was there. And so when the economy took a down turn, when you're [already] on the floor, there isn't a whole lot further you can go.

I didn't have a radio. I didn't have a telephone. And they're complaining. And I certainly didn't have a car. But it wasn't a problem. Because you had your dreams. You had your energy. You had more than the people you grew up around.

I grew up around a world of total illiteracy. That's the beauty. I'm in the Library of Congress. Total illiteracy. But the thing they had was hope that the next generation would learn how to read. They knew how important it was for me.

We worked on the oil truck or on the farm. But if it had to do with the library, you could do it. So at night he would let me go to the Carnegie Library where I started going in the summer of 1955 for the noble reason that summer of '55, I was seven years old and we just moved into this little tenement on the east side, and on Saturday, they gave you cookies and juice. So I went for the very high-minded reason of getting cookies and juice. And when you live in these neighborhoods, cookies and juice are a real treat.

But it gave me this image of the library as this place to learn, and it became a haven. So I walked in here. I said, look where I am! I come from a world of illiteracy, treasured learning, and I get to be in a place of learning with all the books and people who are literate. So that's a long way of saying I was very fortunate to grow up around people who saw beyond their circumstances and who refused to be limited by those circumstances or to wallow in the sort of victim status of their circumstances.

1968...The wheels were coming off the wagons in a lot of ways. And the little Catholic kid from the rather insular world of Savannah suddenly was reading and it was a long, hot -- Dr. King was assassinated and we became quite race conscious, which problematic sides and has good sides. And like a lot of us, went from being nice Catholic kid to the angry black kid. And that was 1968.

So then I returned home and was greeted with my grandfather, who told me that if I'm going to do that, then I need to find another place to live. So he kicked me out of the house and I was on my own.

GREGORY MAGGS: In your book, Justice, you talk about being a radical at Holy Cross, about being angry. Did you feel you were treated unfairly?

CLARENCE THOMAS: At Holy Cross? No, no, I was just mad at the world. It was 1968. I was angry. I really didn't need a logical reason to be angry. I was angry about things that happened in the past. I was angry about things that were going to happen in future. If you said "good morning" to me I was angry. If you didn't say "good morning," I was angry. And people sort of exploited that.

I remember going to Harvard Square in April of 19 -- April 15, 1970, and we were pretty upset. You know, I couldn't explain to myself why I just did that. All night we were rioting. And I got back home, got back to Holy Cross and that's when I made a promise to God that I would never -- that if he took anger out of my heart, I would never do that again. I would never let anger control my life.

well that's all you need to know clarence thomas is a piece of shit

DarkRoast posted...

Says man whose wife bussed in the Jan 6 protestors.

This, his wife and him ARE the ones eroding respect for the institutions. Both from outside and inside.

Do the right thing and retire.

Thank you Clarence Thomas for your tireless work of self-fulfilling prophecy.

I'd have entertained this argument if it came from literally any other justice.