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Justice Clarence Thomas says in Atlanta: We cant be an institution that can be bullied into giving you just the outcomes you want though his wife Ginni Thomas attempted to do just that as she sought to help overturn Bidens 2020 election win.
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Link to tweet
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BSdetect
(8,999 posts)ms liberty
(8,628 posts)Baitball Blogger
(46,779 posts)Supreme Court justice.
Tommymac
(7,263 posts)NJCher
(35,832 posts)I burst out laughing at this post.
dalton99a
(81,707 posts)Liars, rapists, thieves
TheBlackAdder
(28,255 posts)SleeplessinSoCal
(9,188 posts)It appears to have corrupted us through lies and repetition.
TheBlackAdder
(28,255 posts).
https://12160.info/profiles/blogs/what-the-founding-fathers-thought-about-corporations
Quotes start in the 7th paragraph. Be wary though, there are other posters on the site that are loons.
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SleeplessinSoCal
(9,188 posts)Sourcing info on the Internet is an overwhelming feat. I see that the SEC was established during the Great Depression. Greed and corruption of nearly every source of power in this country appears to have been the result. At our founding Capitalism was the preferred system over Mercantilism.
IMHO the politicization of every facet of our daily life seems to have arisen when progressives were culled from the GOP during the Iraq war. Seems to have set us on the path back to Feudalism.
wnylib
(21,788 posts)when Southern Democrats and many Dems in other regions left the party to vote for Reagan and then become Republicans. Some were outright, overt racists who could not stand the idea of equality and integration. Others were not the type to use the N word or support any overt action against POC. They insisted that they were not racist because their definition of racism was a Klan member. But they moved out of integrating neighborhoods. They enrolled their children in private parochial schools to avoid busing and school integration.
They supported Republican ideas about trickle down economics. They believed that they were virtuous hard workers compared to people asking for "handouts" to boost them up against racism. The Republicans that they voted for cut taxes for the upper classes, shifting the burden to middle and working classes. They supported Republicans who busted unions, kept wages low, and gave huge salaries and bonuses to CEOs. They believed their Republican politicians who blamed the lowered standards of living for middle and working classes on "the other" - those people who benefited from desegregation laws, equal rights laws, and got "special treatment."
All that anger and resentment found a voice in Donald Trump who told them what they wanted to hear and expressed how they felt.
SleeplessinSoCal
(9,188 posts)My God Goldwater saw this coming in 1981...
"Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the [Republican] party, and they're sure trying to do so, it's going to be a terrible damn problem. Frankly, these people frighten me. Politics and governing demand compromise. But these Christians believe they are acting in the name of God, so they can't and won't compromise. I know, I've tried to deal with them...."
Barry Goldwater
https://wysu.org/content/commentary/1981-warning-about-religion-and-politics
wnylib
(21,788 posts)And yet, Goldwater himself defended extremism in the defence of liberty.
Wounded Bear
(58,785 posts)Paladin
(28,287 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)question everything
(47,596 posts)usaf-vet
(6,236 posts)spudspud
(512 posts)He's useful now in getting them to the white nationalists' dream of a white America. First, stop the decline in white population by outlawing abortions (most abortions are of white babies). Then prevent mixed race children from depleting white population by outlawing mixed race marriages. Don't say it can't happen--that would be the same argument people made about Roe. And look where we are now.
COL Mustard
(5,970 posts)It is truly ironic that Ginni was attempting to bully Congress and other parts of the Government to give her the outcome she wanted, and now he's complaining about other people doing the same damn thing.
kpete
(72,054 posts)Link to tweet
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COL Mustard
(5,970 posts)Nt
Starfury
(812 posts)intheflow
(28,521 posts)Welp, he's gone full Confederate. He really is the Uncle Tom we've all supposed him to be right along.
myohmy2
(3,219 posts)...sure you can, give it a try...
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ProfessorGAC
(65,403 posts)It's just that they were bullied by their own side.
myohmy2
(3,219 posts)...right-wing exceptionalism
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gab13by13
(21,506 posts)is that a pubic hair on that wine bottle?
niyad
(113,952 posts)housecat
(3,121 posts)onecaliberal
(32,996 posts)niyad
(113,952 posts)entire unjustified time on the bench, and only now starting to make noises. . .noises of misogyny, hatred and insurrection. Choke on your bile and hypocrisy, clarence.
iluvtennis
(19,911 posts)SergeStorms
(19,205 posts)She more closely resembles an ox, cow, or other bovine animal.
All apologies to horses and bovine animals of every type for the comparison.
iluvtennis
(19,911 posts)BobTheSubgenius
(11,580 posts)And that goes for the harridan you married, as well.
IronLionZion
(45,659 posts)oldsoftie
(12,673 posts)But you people know what I mean.
SergeStorms
(19,205 posts)Clarence, it's because activist assholes like you and your shrew of a wife are eroding it.
Who can respect and institution that has you in it, you disgusting pig.
sprinkleeninow
(20,270 posts)turdies calling the shots for us?
howdya like my NE manners, huh???
lame54
(35,345 posts)PatrickforB
(14,604 posts)in government, its institutions and even truth itself, he now laments the loss of faith in institutions?????
Can you spell hypocrisy? I can...
wryter2000
(46,136 posts)I can't really tell.
FakeNoose
(32,912 posts)I'd believe it, it should would explain a lot.
MarcA
(2,195 posts)jaxexpat
(6,882 posts)SunSeeker
(51,800 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)As soon as her husband shuffles off his mortal coil, there will be no reason for her, and the fatcats that have used her for access to the Supreme Court will drop her like a bad habit.
58Sunliner
(4,431 posts)A protest outside Kavanaugh home tonight in DC.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/05/07/wooten-holway-protest-justice-kavanaugh-neighbor/?utm_campaign=wp_main&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter
LudwigPastorius
(9,262 posts)...taking a preemptive victory lap for removing the basic human rights of privacy and bodily integrity of over half the nation's population.
Clarence "Slappy" Thomas should be wearing a blue vest and greeting shoppers at Walmart instead of on the bench.
And, since his traitorous wife longs to live in an authoritarian country, she should be deported to one.
Evolve Dammit
(16,817 posts)Dukkha
(7,341 posts)Lets ask Anita Hill what your idea of being bullied into giving you just the outcome you want is.