OMG John Oliver

[montanacowboy]

just offered Clarence Thomas $1 mil/year plus a $2/mil motor coach to retire and gave him 30 days to accept; it's not a joke!

[BigmanPigman]

1. I'll chip in a few bucks for that worthy cause.

I just set my DVR for 2:30 AM. Thanks!

[montanacowboy]

2. Me too

and I don't have an extra buck to spare!

[limbicnuminousity]

5. Now wait a second...

Did your great aunt never share the information or did the young 'uns just not listen? Talk about missed opportunities!

[BigmanPigman]

7. We thought she was kidding

or we would have pressed her for more info. After she died we found out she was not joking. A missed opportunity indeed!

I ran into a friend from Kindergarten when she was 21 and she told me her dad (a doctor and Italian) had her boyfriend's knee caps broken after he raped her. My aunt also mentioned this method of justice.

[colorado_ufo]

12. Don't get involved in that.

[birdographer]

20. Periodically I take a moment

to contemplate just what life would be like if only that contract were created and executed. Just imagine an America where donnie no longer exists. All the trials, poof! gone! The defendant is dead. The fears of him cheating his way into the WH, poof! Gone! The headlines about him, the videos of his stupid face and stupid voice would peter out over time. His cult members would find someone else to deify, and no matter who they chose, it would not be as bad as he has been. He would just be gone. The air would be cleaner, the birds would chirp with new songs, rainbows would fill the sky. Oh, sorry, I got carried away with the fantasy.

[soldierant]

47. I hear you, but

after 78 years I have learned never to say or even to think "things can't get worse," or this can't get worse. It always can. What if they transferred their affections to Roger Stone? Or Lindsay Graham?

[birdographer]

49. While it's true his cultists are stupid

I think that would work against them when it came to Stone. Roger Stone strikes me as sly. He also seems like someone who would dismiss them rather than pander to them. He wouldn't need them, or want them. He can be a monster all on his own. I could be terribly wrong on that. As for Lindsey? Bring in the fainting couch. Lindsey is a born ass-kissing follower. He couldn't lead a baby duck. Donnie's crew would give him the vapors. Again, my opinion. I am a kid at 72, but I still believe the world would be better off if Donnie was dead.

[Irish_Dem]

28. Someone should start a gofundme, a bribery fund for the Supreme Court.

Mock the hell out of the corrupt justices.

[housecat]

48. excellent idea!

[chouchou]

4. He'd have to check-in with his boss lady first.

I suspect she runs most of his forced thoughts.

[montanacowboy]

6. No shit

I think Ginny wears the pants in that family

[A HERETIC I AM]

26. Or, as the old saying goes;

HE might wear the pants in that family but SHE picks them out for him!

[SergeStorms]

31. I believe they're the same size.

They have double the wardrobe since their clothes fit each other.
It makes packing a lot easier, anyway.

[Comfortably_Numb]

8. Apparently the sky's the limit when it comes to John Oliver. 16 Emmys buys a lot of cred.

Love the observation that it’s totally legal what he’s doing!! Clarence needs to go.

[markodochartaigh]

9. Clearance Thomas,

Where you can buy all the justice that you can afford! No job too large! Have gavel, will travel!

[rubbersole]

11. Will travel in a free motor home!

Coke Can Clarence is unapologetic about taking bribes. Ginni is truly certifiable. If Jack Smith/Mark Meadows don't prove these two don't belong anywhere near power, we've been hoodwinked.

[AdamGG]

10. Clarence will never do it, Oliver should just tell everyone to

call/email Clarence and tell him to eat shit - like he did with that corrupt coal baron and the actor in the squirrel costume.

Clarence has way more than $1 million/year value to his right wing sponsors. But, it would be nice for him to get a taste of how poorly history will judge him while he's still alive.

[RainCaster]

13. he will need a Go Fund Me

Let's call it "Buying a Supreme for the little guy".

[Farmer-Rick]

17. We could do it

It would be perfectly legal.

Trump just took in tens of millions from MAGAT world to help pay for his fines and penalties on his several guilty verdicts. So Go Fund Me obviously has no problems with allowing criminals to grift on their platform.

[JohnnyRingo]

14. He has that HBO budget.

He's always blowing wads of cash on the show.

[HotRod Deluxe]

36. ...no...

John said on the show it's with his own money; not HBO's.

[BWdem4life]

15. But we can't appoint a new justice in an election year!

Only Republicans get to do that. Elections have consequences. Look it up, it's in the Constitution somewhere.

[NowsTheTime]

59. Mitch set the standard for a simple majority....

[gibraltar72]

16. If you can bribe them to come on

you should be able to bribe them to leave.

[Jacson6]

18. I hope they had an attorney at law review it before they said it.

I'd hate to see JO in stripped pajamas.

[JudyM]

19. Hopefully this won't result in a raise in his existing off-book income

[Fla Dem]

21. Let me know when he takes the offer....never.

[themaguffin]

22. Thomas is a POS, but this is pointless. The question is why he isn't investigated.

[Irish_Dem]

29. It's the court of public opinion weighing in.

Our criminal justice system and our political system is totally worthless when it comes to policing the Supreme Court.

So all we have left is humiliating and denigrating the corrupt members of the court.

[themaguffin]

39. He's never up for election and the only check is Congress who isn't going to do shit

[Irish_Dem]

42. Exactly. So all we have left is the court of public opinion.

And we should all weigh in as much as possible about the SC corruption.

[themaguffin]

44. Ok, yes we should weigh in, but again, we must stay in reality

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[Marcuse]

23. Thomas would just take the money and stay.

[surfered]

24. He'll never accept...

….because he can’t undo democracy if he retires.

[Shermann]

52. He might accept just for funzies if he were planning to retire anyway. nt

[Freethinker65]

27. Now Justice Kennedy wants to renegotiate his deal.

[Attilatheblond]

41. Really hope former Justice Kennedy had a VERY long official chat with Jack Smith's team

We need to know what he was threatened with that opened that chair up for Kavanaugh the drunken tool

[Irish_Dem]

30. Regular people need to start bribing politicians and judges to work for the American people.

Why do oligarchs reserve the right to do all the bribing?

Maybe regular folk need to bribe the politicians to do their gd jobs.

[Wednesdays]

35. Because "regular people" face consequences.

[lame54]

38. And they have no bribe money

[Irish_Dem]

43. Starting a gofundme "vacation fund" for SC justices isn't illegal.

We could be like the oligarchs and say it's just providing a lovely vacation for such hard-working public servants.

But you're probably right, we would all end up in the slammer.

[Saoirse9]

32. Absolutely brilliant!

[rickford66]

33. Thomas would never take a cut in income.

[DENVERPOPS]

54. Bingo RF

For decades he has made a much larger fortune and un-fathomable "Perks" every single year compared to that pocket change......

[LetMyPeopleVote]

34. This makes me smile

Link to tweet

[FakeNoose]

37. Why would he do that? What if Thomas accepts?

[SpankMe]

40. If Thomas accepts...

Then Oliver will buy him a $2.4M RV and will give him $1M/yr until Thomas dies.

Thomas is 75. I can't see him living longer than 5 more years. According to the Internet, John Oliver makes $8M/yr at HBO. If Oliver can stay on at HBO for a few more years, he'll have more than enough to cover this.

Of course Thomas would never take this, even though Oliver would honor it. Thomas probably sees this as a stunt designed to make him look foolish and undignified if he took it.

It's a comedy bit, and a political statement, and aspirational offer that - if it worked - would take the most toxic, corrupt member off of the SCOTUS without impeachment, retirement or death.

Also, it's like waving a red cape in front of a bull to see what happens.

[Roy Rolling]

46. The Supreme Court rids itself of Thomas

That’s what happens if the offer is accepted.

Let’s say Thomas lives 20 years…that’s $20 million. ˜$16 million cash now.
Plus a $2 million motor coach.
That’s $18 million.

Right wingers have bribed Thomas tens of millions, plus a quid pro quo of favorable rulings worth billion$.

John’s offer is peanuts compared to MAGAts. 😠

[IronLionZion]

45. Uncle Clarence is 75 years old and loves money and motor coaches

so he might actually accept it. He's been a Supreme Court judge longer than some DUers and congresspeople have been alive.

It's shameful that this is what it might take to remove corrupt judges. Clarence shook down billionaire donors for more money by threatening to retire like 20 years ago. Why is this acceptable in America?

[Kennah]

50. GoFundMe?

[Shermann]

51. But but Biden can't appoint a replacement because it's an election year!!!!1111

[bucolic_frolic]

53. I bet that was cleared with Legal Department for a few days /nt

[Xavier Breath]

56. Yeah, he kept stating that he couldn't believe

that what he was offering was not illegal. I'm sure their legal group spent the show's holiday break scouring every volume of their library for reasons why he couldn't do it and they couldn't come up with anything.

All credit to him. I thought it would be hard to top his interference in the NZ bird contest but it didn't take him long to easily top that.

[Thunderbeast]

55. Nominate and confirm Florence Pan as soon as he's gone

Based on the Barrett confirmation, it should take about 20 minutes...

[mucifer]

58. It's a great publicity stunt for HBO and entertaining for us

[NowsTheTime]

60. As an aside, If I knew a 75 year old was diving that, I'd get out of the way!