Supremely Disconcerting...Again
April 20, 2023
For those of you keeping scorn, Clarence
"Uncle" Thomas is a disgraceful, and as time goes by, a more and more
disgraced and dangerously partisan pig. He needs to be carefully seated in a
chair (think Bobby Seale) and have the 1619 Project read to him over and over
until he can recite it back verbatim. Uncle T seems to have a problem with
people of color, civil rights and democracy in general.
Thomas
is easily the most corrupt Supreme Court justice ever, and with any luck, guts
and justice, it will stay that way. There needs to be an enforceable code of
ethics for these lifetime-appointed, all-but-untouchable jurists. Right after
Thomas is either impeached, forced to resign or arrested and tried.
Thomas
was almost tolerable for all those years when he was the Court mime. Then we
learned about his nut-job, Qanon-addled, sedition-enamored wife Ginni. Then
Uncle T started opening his Scalia-esque mouth and we came to know without
doubt what we always knew intuitively – Thomas is a radical right-wing
ideologue who is more than happy to change settled law to match his alternative
facts and beliefs. Thomas most recently voiced opposition to guaranteeing a
defendant’s right to legal counsel.
Long-time Supreme Court
mime Clarence Thomas
Thomas
has decided that the right to an attorney just doesn’t jive with truth, justice
or the American way. Did I mention justice? You know, because public defenders
are so great and people who need them should be able to navigate the legal
system on their own.
What’s
next for Uncle T – get rid of Miranda? Rescind the right to vote for women and
Black people?
And,
wouldn’t you know, soon after we learned of Thomas’ interest in once again
moving America ahead to the past, new information came to light about Clarence
Thomas living under his very own rule of law, one very different than the rule
of law under which most other Americans are expected to live.
The
latest of Uncle T’s questionable – oh, who am I kidding, there’s nothing
questionable about it – maneuvers (that we know of) was the disclosure of his
gallivanting with Ratpublican activist billionaire Harlan Crow for more than
two decades. After this story broke, video emerged of Thomas saying, “I prefer
the RV parks. I prefer the Walmart parking lots to the beaches and things like
that. There’s something normal to me about it. I come from regular stock, and I
prefer that—I prefer being around that.”
Ginni and Clarence
enjoying the normal ambiance of a Walmart parking lot
It
appears that Thomas also prefers being flown on private jets to luxury yachts
and smoking fine (Cuban?) cigars with people like Crow and Leonard Leo – who
brought you Brett Kavanaugh, Neil Gorsuch and Amy Clowny Barrett – in places
that could not be further removed from Walmart parking lots. There are no
reports of Crow, Thomas, et al spending any quality time in Walmart parking
lots on any of their vacations.
Just
for the record, Crow has also funneled plenty of money to famed friend of the Jan
6 insurrection and wife of Supreme Court justice/scofflaw Clarence Thomas –
Ginni Thomas, who vigorously supports the overthrow of the government of the
United States.
Thomas
neglected to report any of what amount to massive gifts from Crow, which could
total in the neighborhood of a million dollars – a very different neighborhood
than the one occupied by Walmart shoppers and campers. His excuse was that he
asked some of his friends (Harlan Crow perhaps?) whether he needed to report
any of this to anyone, and they said heck no.
As
if all of this malarkey was not enough, we then learned that the Ratpublican
mega-donor bought several properties – including the house that Thomas’ mother
still lives in – from Thomas, who somehow neglected to disclose. You may recall
that the Thomases had previously been found to have “forgotten” to report large
sums of income on their taxes in the past.
Can you say
Whitewater?
Crow and Thomas
claim they are old friends. That “friendship” does not precede Thomas’ time on
the high court. How many Supreme Court justices do you have as friends?
Hitler, anyone?
Oh, I almost forgot.
The lovely and financially talented Harlan Crow collects Nazi memorabilia. Specifically,
swastika-emblazoned linens, Hitler’s teapot, two paintings done by Der Fucker
himself, and autographed copy of Mein Kampf. Are you jealous yet?
Crow’s garden
features statues of 20th century despots including Romanian dictator
Nicolae Ceausescu, Yugoslav dictator Josip Broz Tito, Hosni Mubarak of Egypt, Lenin
and Stalin. What, no Hitler statue? Crow has opted for the
I’m-just-trying-to-preserve-history defense – you know, like those other
freedom lovers who claim that preserving Confederate iconography is simply an
attempt to preserve that history because heritage and not anything at all to do
with preserving the racism behind it all.
Harlan Crow (right), Thomas, Leonard Leo, and friends wishing they were
at Walmart
Crow claims that he
collects all these Nazi mementos and has a garden full of despots because he
hates communism and fascism, because who among us who hate fascists wouldn’t want
to be surrounded by constant reminders of the worst human beings in history.
Who wouldn’t wish to have original recordings of Charles Manson, or the cutlery
used by Jeffrey Dahmer, or Kim Jong Un’s hair clippings, or Donald Trump’s
soiled underwear?
I. Mangrey recoiling.
