Every moment in the yacht, I wished I were at Wal-Mart

[spooky3]

Satire from Alexandra Petri re: Clarence Thomas

https://wapo.st/3zJ0odp

(No paywall)

[Goonch]

1. 👇👇👇👇

[Earth-shine]

2. You are not quoting the article exactly. He wants to be in the parking lot.

Not the store.

That's the way I heard it in the news as well. It seems to be about the parking lot.




From the article ...

A tear came to my eye as I spoke, for I could picture them so clearly, the happy weekenders, the salts of the earth who flocked to Walmart parking lots for their entertainment. Their children in the back seats, clamoring, “Walmart! Walmart! Walmart!” Their wrinkled elders, saving their pennies so that they could arrive at that cherished destination. Those parking lots are so full, always, and that is surely because they are a magnet for Americans who want to enjoy themselves.

[spooky3]

3. There isn't enough space in the title line. Nt

[OAITW r.2.0]

4. He graduated a couple of years ahead of me at Holy Cross.

He learned nothing there.

[Thunderbeast]

5. I know just the neighborhood for Clarence and Ginny.

[Hortensis]

6. :) Thanks, Spooky3. As a fellow Walmart parking lot afficionado,

I understand his fondness. Whenever we've accepted Walmart's extravagantly generous invitation, an added benefit was knowing we were saving $45 or so on RV park or motel costs that night. It's also often possible to park our 15' travel trailer alongside a planter island or big rig (or both!) which can provide some privacy, and protection from cars cutting across the parking lot, while we sit out in our camp chairs. All courtesy of our very dear old friends, the Waltons. (Thanks as always, guys! See you soon.)

[Earth-shine]

7. I think he's having fantasies about the movie Nomadland with his talk of parking lots and RVs.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9770150/



Thomas doesn't say this shit because he thinks we're stupid, per se. He thinks he can just say whatever garbage he wants because no one will be able to do anything about it. He's flaunting this nonsense in our faces.

The most immediate thing we can do is rampant mockery of him in public.

[Hortensis]

9. :) I've never forgotten his senate hearing, or all I read about him

from people who knew him.

Decades of "buddy-ing" with billionaires he has to know are using him and screwing over the public from his exalted position has buffed a thick polish on what is still a very poor, resentful character.

He used to write about his intractable black nationalist hostility to the U.S. and to the Constitution, before he was so bizarrely elevated to it, which he spitefully insisted was a white man's document that could only victimize black people, no amount of improvement could fix it etcetera, some form of permanent black self segregation the only answer. Sexual harassment expressed a normal attitude to women in a man known for being incapable of respecting anyone.

The most powerful single man on a SCOTUS that's now been so degraded as to almost "normalize" him.

Well, if close look at this corrupted court is always sickening, agree he and it should be mocked for the mockery they are. And with such good material,

[brush]

8. Such gas lighting. We all know Clarence "uncle" Thomas would never be caught dead...

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in an RV in a Walmart paring lot, and Ginnie would certainly not hear of it. They've both developed somewhat move extravagant tastes in vacations thanks to their wealthy friends.

They're both corrupt, bought and paid for, bull shitters.

[Bettie]

10. I doubt old Clarence has ever

been in a Walmart parking lot, much less a Walmart.