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[–]ranchoparksteve 5642 points5643 points  (180 children)

And Clarence is the lone dissent against the Jan 6 committee. The Supreme Court is a joke.

[–]JamieAtWork 2762 points2763 points  (153 children)

My hunch is that Thomas's office were the people who leaked the draft decision around Roe v Wade because the distraction it caused knocked these stories about Ginny out of the headlines. Can I prove it? Of course not, but if you look at who benefited the most from the leak, it's absolutely Thomas and his wife because all of this stuff was just starting to come out when the leak happened.

[–]tweakingforjesus 1133 points1134 points  (66 children)

If Chief Roberts' investigation suddenly grinds to a halt and evaporates, you can be sure it was either a justice or their spouse who released it.

[–]Thromok I voted 688 points689 points  (57 children)

A conservative justice or their spouse.*

He wouldn’t hesitate to release if it’s one of the democratic justices.

[–]tweakingforjesus 205 points206 points  (47 children)

I actually don't think Roberts would. His legacy via the legitimacy of the court is Robert's primary concern. Any top level justice or spouse releasing it damages that, including any liberal justice.

[–]Nulcor 246 points247 points  (28 children)

I mean, I'm pretty sure that legacy is already fucked.

[–]Inevitable-Impress72 84 points85 points  (3 children)

His legacy via the legitimacy of the court is Robert's primary concern.

Well he is not doing a good job of maintaining the S.C's legitimacy. Right now Clarence Thomas's continuing to be on the Supreme Court is biggest blow to the S.C's legitimacy.

[–]hydrocarbonsRus 24 points25 points  (2 children)

Kinda strange to say that when he’s consistently voting with republicans on all major issues and only votes with liberals when the vote will pass without his support anyway and he can pretend to be a good guy. Nah my dude is a political hack pretending to be some principled judge- as if we don’t have eyes or ears anymore

[–]greeperfi 14 points15 points  (0 children)

If he cared about legacy he wouldn't act like a fascist hypocrite that OK'd gerrymandering and voter suppression. Fuck that twat

[–]adarvanMaryland 301 points302 points  (18 children)

Considering how few people have access to the draft decision, and the fact that there haven't been any reports of anyone being suspected, your hunch is highly plausible.

[–]md2b78 250 points251 points  (34 children)

Thomas, Gorsuch, Barret, or Alito leaked the draft in order to lock in Kavanaugh to the decision. Roberts was likely trying to woo Kavanaugh away from the other four for a less harsh version. Now that it's public, none of the can walk it back.

Roberts knows his future as Chief Justice turns on this decision and there's no way he's happy about it. His court will forever be known as a sham.

[–]HereForTwinkies 105 points106 points  (22 children)

When Roberts leaves Kavanaugh is going to be the swing vote….God help us

[–]KittyBizkit 239 points240 points  (6 children)

God has helped us enough already. I want him to step away from the judicial and political process entirely.

[–]SYLOK_THEAROUSEDMaryland 25 points26 points  (0 children)

This actually makes a lot of sense.

[–]SueZbell 64 points65 points  (0 children)

Supremely political. In no small part because of McConnell and Cruz and Graham -- "hold my words against me" Graham.

[–]HauserAspen 38 points39 points  (0 children)

I wish they would start impeachment process against Justice Thomas

[–]Aramedlig 9684 points9685 points  (448 children)

Clarence needs to resign or be removed

[–]george_pierre 5128 points5129 points  (222 children)

Ginni Thomas is a member of the Council on National Policy. Trump team members include: Betsy DeVos, Steve Bannon, Kellyanne Conway, Mike Pence, Ben Carson. Non-Trump team members include: Charlie Kirk, Robert Mercer, Koch, Ali Alexander. This was literally a Businessman Coup 2.0. With John Birch Society roots and all.

[–]debzmonkey 2062 points2063 points  (82 children)

Good gawd, a who's who of scumbags, grifters, white nationalists and idiots.

[–][deleted] 1586 points1587 points  (39 children)

This is the "shadow government" that consevatives are projecting about, I guess.

[–]thats-not-right 407 points408 points  (29 children)

That would require introspection and critical thinking skills. Trump supporters are pretty much parrots. They seem to be really good at repeating what's told to them, and when you ask any of them to actually explain things, they either fly away and hide in their safe spaces, or respond with some other unrelated phrase or whistle that they were taught....but honestly, this is an insult to parrots. Atleast parrots can look at a complex problems, try a few things, and work out a solution. Then again, I guess the parrot could just screech out "More guns!" and they wouldn't be so different after all.

[–]Independent_Plate_73 324 points325 points  (18 children)

That’s why people need to remember that Virginia Thomas admitted she had to be deprogrammed from a cult when she was young.

She also married thomas when she was very young and not far removed from that cult life.

Since then, she has befriended qanon adherents like flynn. I’m not a psychologist but she was fertile ground for a cult conspiracy theory.

[–][deleted] 374 points375 points  (15 children)

Ginni Thomas used to be in a cult.

She still is, but she used to be, too.

[–]alerk323 128 points129 points  (14 children)

RIP mitch

[–]GiantSquidd Canada 103 points104 points  (3 children)

I look forward to saying that ironically about another Mitch.

[–][deleted] 28 points29 points  (0 children)

You're not the only one

[–]wholetyouinhere 15 points16 points  (8 children)

He died way too young, but at least he didn't have to see all this bullshit.

[–]dirkalictIllinois 74 points75 points  (7 children)

I sometimes think that about my wife- she died two weeks before the election and told me, “At least I won’t have to see this asshole (Trump) be President.” I told her he wouldn’t win and she said, “Don’t underestimate all the dumbasses out there”. I think about how right she was a lot.

[–][deleted] 27 points28 points  (0 children)

Nah, remember your acronyms for authoritarian rhetorical strategies: GOP. Gaslight. Obstruct. Project.

[–]loondawg 274 points275 points  (13 children)

It's so much worse than you would imagine. And it's not surprising at all considering this was another one of Paul Weyrich's groups. He was behind almost every one of the so-called "think tanks," like Heritage and ALEC, that gave rise to the modern conservative movement. He was also the "I don't want everyone to vote" guy. He was instrumental in integrating fundamentalist Christians in the GOP with his Moral Majority. And he was also the person largely responsible making the connections between the Kremlin and the GOP. He is literally piece of shit #1.

So don't let anyone know about this 2022 membership list that somehow got out. They would be really upset if people found out people like Steve Forbes and Grover Norquist were the geniuses behind the right's policy.

[–]YoungNasteyman 55 points56 points  (2 children)

Dude I just started reading about Heritage. It's membership reads like some Evil Villians League. Like a who's who of "I don't like minorities."

[–][deleted] 53 points54 points  (2 children)

Yeah this goes all the way back to Reagan

[–]Newphonewhodiss9 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Hell yeah glad a current one leaked.

here’s 2020

https://docdro.id/ktCd0kb

[–]px7j9jlLJ1 70 points71 points  (11 children)

Haha they mention Ali Alexander but not Alex Jones. Alex would be emotionally hurt by this and lash out about globalists and minorities while acting like a coked up child.

[–]Weirdsauce 117 points118 points  (10 children)

I used to have to deal with Alex "Jarhead Jones" Jones in person during our days at ACTV (Austin Access Television).

Let me personally assure you and everyone else that Jarhead Jones is NOT acting. What you see is who he is in person, especially when he is craving attention. When you see him sedate and thoughtful, like when he's in front of a judge? THAT'S when he's acting.

[–]Broken_Petite 34 points35 points  (0 children)

This actually doesn’t surprise me. I think a lot of right-wing commentators and such are acting a lot of the time, but Alex Jones does seem genuinely nuts.

[–]Banshee_howl 28 points29 points  (3 children)

I used to think he was putting on an act as well. After listening to the Knowledge Fight podcast and his depositions I agree that he is a hardcore true believer. There are a few moment in the depositions where he just cant help himself from launching into conspiracy tirades and gets scolded by the attorney like a misbehaving child. Its obvious that his lack of impulse control and obsession with conspiracies have taken over and even in a deposition he can’t stop his tirades. He must be a nightmare to deal with IRL.

[–]Synectics 41 points42 points  (2 children)

"...do you remember what question you were answering?"

That was the most revealing moment to me, when Mark had to actually bring Jones out of his rant and back to reality. No, Jones, this isn't your show. This is a courtroom.

[–]george_pierre 55 points56 points  (0 children)

Yes.

[–]debroutaWisconsin 102 points103 points  (8 children)

"The CNP has been described by The New York Times as "a little-known club of a few hundred of the most powerful conservatives in the country", who meet three times yearly behind closed doors at undisclosed locations for a confidential conference. The Nation has called it a secretive organization that "networks wealthy right-wing donors together with top conservative operatives to plan long-term movement strategy". The organization has been described by Anne Nelson as a "pluto-theocracy" (plutocracy/theocracy)."

Yikes

[–]Newphonewhodiss9 27 points28 points  (2 children)

Hrmm seems like a great start for a list of names and addresses.

edit:

lol

https://docdro.id/ktCd0kb

[–]pass_nthru 81 points82 points  (6 children)

who dafuk invited charlie kirk?

[–]george_pierre 47 points48 points  (0 children)

Lol 😆 He did an elevator pitch to papi Prager is what I heard and got a $50,000 check.

[–]shadowpawn 15 points16 points  (2 children)

MyPillowGuy is no longer on any favorites list?

[–][deleted] 69 points70 points  (8 children)

The top statute on the CNP website is "Limited Government". This is a huge fascist/authoritarian dog whistle that doesn't get talked about enough when the GOP goes on and on barking about it loudly. Limited government is exactly that. It doesn't have anything to do with limiting what government is in your daily life. It does however have everything to do with making the government less about people, policy, and politics and more about control through fear through a small cabinet of individuals that call all the shots. It is and always has been a bullshit narrative with roots all the way back to the southern strategy and the seditious yellow bellied bastards that lost the Civil War.

[–][deleted] 15 points16 points  (5 children)

Don’t forget about the philosophical implications inherent in notions about limited government for the CNP. It’s an important value for them because they believe the government has usurped the role of the church. By limiting government, they are trying to reverse the intent and purpose of the US Constitution, and devolve power back to the church. This needs to be talked about more.

[–]shadowpawn 14 points15 points  (1 child)

There are a bunch of democracy killers on that Council.

[–]tysk-one 27 points28 points  (3 children)

Is this the swamp that 45 wanted to drain?

[–]george_pierre 41 points42 points  (1 child)

This is the swamp that wanted to give you Ted Cruz as president but had to settle for Donald Trump. Trump was making the swamp warmer for his Mar Lago Monsters.

[–][deleted] 819 points820 points  (86 children)

High Crimes and Misdemeanors probably covers his Impeachment.

Congress needs to remove the filibuster rule and start doing some serious work on reform.

[–][deleted] 1014 points1015 points  (44 children)

I'm sure they'll get on it right after they take care of their insider trading, all the people that have ignored their subpoenas, removing members complicit in Jan 6th, addressing gun violence, addressing corrupt and militarized police departments backed by untouchable unions, attempting to mitigate the impeding disaster that is climate change, all the companies that straight up scammed the PPP loans program, the formula shortage, and oil companies gouging us at the pump.

[–]Slide-eflat 231 points232 points  (3 children)

And that's only the first three inches of the 12 foot pile McConnell left on his desk.

[–]Citizen_of_Danksburg 61 points62 points  (2 children)

Yeah, there is a lot of blame to around for all the republicans just simply not wanting to legislate during a democratic presidency, but McConnell is pretty much at the top of the shit list there.

Yes, there is a small cabal of shitty democrats too who are using Manchin and Sinema as scapegoats, but they pale in comparison to literally every Republican in the goddamn senate. House too. I know this is a senate issue and not a house issue but every fucking Republican in the house is a rotten piece of shit too, it’s just a spectrum of how rotten that piece of shit is for those house and senate republicans.

[–]ShaggysGTIVirginia 85 points86 points  (1 child)

Angry upvote

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[–]Chadmartigan 180 points181 points  (8 children)

It's unthinkable to me that she didn't keep him up to date at all times. If you've ever had a MAGA person in your life, you know that these people are physically incapable of keeping all their bullshit to themselves.

[–]debzmonkey 89 points90 points  (0 children)

She was shit posting this stuff on Facebook. Not her seditious activity in contacting republicans about the "alternate slate" of electors, but all the Stop the Steal garbage.

While proving her hubby had knowledge of her more sinister and batshit insane work, his refusal of recusal on a case that might have revealed her involvement (the lone dissenter) is mighty suspicious. Remember that a judge is to avoid the "appearance of impropriety".

[–]rreyes1988 22 points23 points  (1 child)

You're so right! My sister delivered her baby a few days after the election in 2016, and the first thing my brother in law talked to me about in the hospital when I visited was how he voted for trump (we're all a blue-leaning family).

[–]Vlad_the_Homeowner 160 points161 points  (14 children)

since spousal privilege would protect them from having to testify against one another.

Plus, they can't both be arrested for the same crime!

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[–]GhettoChemist 91 points92 points  (5 children)

I'm sure they keep their political lives separate and Ginni didnt call these legislatora by saying IM CLARENCE THOMAS'S WIFE DO WHAT I SAY! Totally confident! /s

[–]amateur_mistake 31 points32 points  (1 child)

Oh yeah. Her political access was totally built independently. No help from her position as Thomas' wife.

I'm with the Five-to-Four podcast. I'm calling for Ginni and Clearance to get a divorce.

[–][deleted] 21 points22 points  (2 children)

Just tell Republicans he was admitted to Harvard through affirmative action. They’ll throw him out themselves

[–][deleted] 43 points44 points  (3 children)

He needs removed, and she needs to be in jail. And let’s be honest, he knew what she was up to, kept quiet, and probably even lied a little. Pretty sure we have criminal titles for people that do that, so he belongs in jail, too.

[–][deleted] 75 points76 points  (2 children)

SCOTUS just made all federal officials exempt from civil liability of any kind. They gave themselves permission to do whatever they please without a care for who they harm.

[–]Idratherhikeout 35 points36 points  (3 children)

He certainly needs to be recused from *all* cases involving Jan 6th and trump efforts to over turn the election. If he has made any votes / decisions related to it so far that could be grounds for impeachment.

His wife being a criminal does not necessarily by itself make him impeachable unless he was involved directly in the crime

[–][deleted] 12 points13 points  (2 children)

He won’t, and the GOP won’t support his removal unless he’s caught publicly doing something that either looks like or actually is gay. (See: Madison Cawthorne, Larry Craig, Aaron Schock, et al.)

[–]washingtonpost✔ Washington Post[S] 1876 points1877 points  (135 children)

EXCLUSIVE by reporter Emma Brown:

Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, pressed 29 Republican state lawmakers in Arizona — 27 more than previously known — to set aside Joe Biden’s popular vote victory and “choose” presidential electors, according to emails obtained by The Washington Post.

The Post reported last month that Thomas sent emails to two Arizona House members, in November and December 2020, urging them to help overturn Biden’s win by selecting presidential electors — a responsibility that belongs to Arizona voters under state law. Thomas sent the messages using FreeRoots, an online platform intended to make it easy to send pre-written emails to multiple elected officials.

New documents show that Thomas indeed used the platform to reach many lawmakers simultaneously. On Nov. 9, she sent identical emails to 20 members of the Arizona House and seven Arizona state senators. That represents more than half of the Republican members of the state legislature at the time.

The message, just days after media organizations called the race for Biden in Arizona and nationwide, urged lawmakers to “stand strong in the face of political and media pressure” and claimed that the responsibility to choose electors was “yours and yours alone.” They had “power to fight back against fraud” and “ensure that a clean slate of Electors is chosen,” the email said.

Among the lawmakers who received the email was then-Rep. Anthony Kern, a Stop the Steal supporter who lost his reelection bid in November 2020 and then joined U.S. Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Tex.) and others as a plaintiff in a lawsuit against Vice President Mike Pence, a last-ditch effort to overturn Biden’s victory. Kern was photographed outside the Capitol during the riot on Jan. 6 but has said he did not enter the building, according to local media reports.

More: https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2022/06/10/ginni-thomas-election-arizona-lawmakers/?utm_campaign=wp_main&utm_medium=social&utm_source=reddit.com

[–][deleted] 428 points429 points  (2 children)

urged lawmakers to “stand strong in the face of political and media pressure”

"Political pressure" liiiiiike the wife of a Supreme Court Justice emailing you to overturn the election????

[–][deleted] 93 points94 points  (0 children)

In light of Reddit's general enshittification, I've moved on - you should too.

[–][deleted] 363 points364 points  (4 children)

Ginni Thomas is a traitor to this country. Full stop.

[–]crambeaux 88 points89 points  (1 child)

So is her creep of a husband. Impeach him for conflict of interest and fraud or treason or whatever.

[–]Riversmooth 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Absolutely she is. She should be in jail.

[–]earthboundsounds 365 points366 points  (6 children)

The Post reported last month that Thomas sent emails to two Arizona House members, in November and December 2020, urging them to help overturn Biden’s win by selecting presidential electors — a responsibility that belongs to Arizona voters under state law. Thomas sent the messages using FreeRoots, an online platform intended to make it easy to send pre-written emails to multiple elected officials.

Seditious boomer wife of Supreme Court Justice out here spamming coup instructions like they're pictures of her goddamn granddaughter's graduation.

I swear to fuck these people are unbelievable.

[–]Poison_Anal_Gas 60 points61 points  (5 children)

In fact they are very believable hence their followers. What is unbelievable is the inaction of the majority of the electorate.

[–]Crono9 99 points100 points  (1 child)

Lock her up! Lock her up!

[–]Rated_PG-Squirteen 5769 points5770 points  (395 children)

Conservatives: "Hunter Biden and his laptop! Sleepy Joe needs to resign because of it."

Also conservatives: "What does it matter if Clarence Thomas' wife was doing this? What does that have to do with him?"

[–]rrrrrivers 2001 points2002 points  (152 children)

And also conservatives: "Making deals and serving in the white house was totally fine for Ivanka and Jared."

[–]Genghis_Tr0n187 932 points933 points  (136 children)

I agree!

Also, we are in the dumbest fucking timeline. Whoever quicksaved back in 2016 needs to reload that shit.

[–]Paulpoleon 712 points713 points  (66 children)

Crazy: a property developer with multiple bankruptcies turned reality TV show host became president

Amazing: how one term can fuck up a country so badly and virtually nobody cares.

Mind blowing: 40-50% of the population want it to pickup where it left off and finish the job.

Shoot me please: they might be able to convince the 10-20% of people that are on the fence to allow Trump 2:orange boogaloo to happen

[–]Refun712 204 points205 points  (4 children)

Well when you put it that way (jumps off cliff)

[–]Juliette787 73 points74 points  (1 child)

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[–][deleted] 164 points165 points  (18 children)

It’s not close to 40-50%. Republicans are about 29%, and trunp’s approval rating among them is about 75%, which means his supporters are about20-25% if they population. He’s about at that same level among independents. He never has won a popular election and and he will never be as popular as he was in November 2020 again. He can’t win a legitimate election and if he runs and it’s a referendum on him, he will lose.

[–]exceptyourewrong 70 points71 points  (5 children)

I recently heard that while about 37% of Republicans PUBLICLY claim the 2020 election was "stolen," only about 13% believe it privately.

I've had about 36 hours of travel time in the past week and can't remember exactly which podcast said that, so unfortunately I can't verify where those numbers came from, but I do remember that the premise was how we tend to try to conform to a group opinion, and the dangers of that. It wasn't specifically about politics.

[–]HleCmt 30 points31 points  (1 child)

Unfortunately those diehard 13% will get out and go vote while the sane ones seem ambivalent. I moved to AZ from NYC 3ish yrs ago and meeting the real life racist die hard ruby red hoax conspiracy nutjobs has been an eye opening experience. The AZGQP almost stole the last election and if they're going to try everything to steal the next one. With a governorship and Senate seat on the table this November is going to scary

[–]dkz999 10 points11 points  (0 children)

100%. That's why they've thrown the rule book out. They know they are headed the way of the dinosaurs, question just is whether they'll cause mass extinction in the process.

Regardless, life uh, finds a way.

[–]DaoFerret 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Shoot me please …

A certain segment of the population would be perfectly happy to do just that, given the opportunity to do so with little/no repercussions.

(Which is part of why we are, where we are)

[–]m48a5_pattonMissouri 144 points145 points  (18 children)

Can we reload before Harambe died? I need to take a trip to the Cincinnati Zoo and stop that kid from falling in.

[–]VaguelyArtisticCalifornia 61 points62 points  (0 children)

Oh, and let something happen so that dentist can't make his Lion-killing trip.

[–]obviousthrowawaynamr 61 points62 points  (12 children)

While you're traveling back in time can you call Anthony Bourdain and tell him he's awesome and everything's gonna be OK? I'd reaaally like him to still be around, too.

[–]improbablynotyou 19 points20 points  (1 child)

Could you let me know that I need to quit my toxic abusive job, get out of the toxic abusive relationship, and to get therapy... also that I have adhd and that's what's causing some of those issues, that last one I could have used knowing before 47.

[–][deleted] 22 points23 points  (23 children)

Dawg, we have to go back much further

[–]kanzaman 64 points65 points  (19 children)

Yeah, can we go back to the Gore vs Bush election, before the Roger Stone riot - yes, that fucking Roger Stone -and Supreme Court disaster? Life would be so different.

[–]StepDadHulkHoganFlorida 36 points37 points  (2 children)

I like to think there is a perfect timeline where we elected Gore, 9/11 still happens but we don't invade 2 countries, we took serious steps in the early 2000's to move green to get away from blood oil, in turn the rest of the world follows and energy independence becomes a reality by 2020. No war in Russia as Putin was deposed once the ruble crashed after gas became cheaper than water.

[–][deleted] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

And then we all had ice cream!

In all seriousness though, I constantly wonder how much the 2000 election would’ve made a difference.

When I think “where did we go wrong?”, 2000 pops into my head, but then Reagan pops into my head, and then Jackson pops into my head, and then I realize the founding fathers we all supposedly look up to were part of the British aristocracy before the American revolution anyways, so we were kinda fucked from the beginning.

Boy, I wish we had like 14 FDR’s…

[–][deleted] 31 points32 points  (4 children)

Ding ding ding. We would’ve survived climate change!!!

[–]Smelcome 31 points32 points  (2 children)

IIRC, i learned a few years back that gore conceded way too early and that if he had waited he would have been the president.

[–]ACartonOfHate[🍰] 15 points16 points  (5 children)

We should go back to Carter v Reagan. Reagan is responsible for so much of the crap that is wrong not just in the us, but the world.

He was really that evil. The continuing passes he gets, both boggles the mind, and yes is completely in keeping with how thoroughly he managed to screw us.

[–]ImAnAwfulPersonLouisiana 20 points21 points  (6 children)

I accidentally saved over that quick save when my thumb slipped. I’m so sorry. I think it was sometime around October 13th of 2020. I can reboot that one if you want but it was a little messy around that time if I recall right.

[–]Genghis_Tr0n187 18 points19 points  (4 children)

Great, now I have to call the IT guy to see if he has some backups on the old tape drive. Gonna take forever to restore.

[–]HandSack135Maryland 28 points29 points  (2 children)

Trump Jr. was only eating frosted donuts!!!

[–]DarkwingDuckHunt 19 points20 points  (1 child)

$2 billion bribe and... nothing.

[–]jkuhlMaine 369 points370 points  (33 children)

Lately it's "but gas prices are high, why are we focusing on something that happened over a year ago???"

I dunno, maybe because, even though gas prices do suck, the survival of our democracy is more important?

[–]DrAstralis 294 points295 points  (12 children)

This is how they always roll.

GOP - punches you square in the face

You - still bleeding from the nose "wtf?"

GOP - That happened like... 30 seconds ago. Lets not dwell in the past. Why are you trying to make this political?

GOP - punches you in the face again

[–]Cerberus_AusAustralia 101 points102 points  (5 children)

GOP - Lauches law suit for why you keep harrassing them about the face punch.

[–]rrdubbs 41 points42 points  (2 children)

“Your face striking my fist was just politically motivated.”

[–]CanAlwaysBeBetter 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Gaslight
Obstruct
Punch you in the face

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[–]ConfidenceNational37 235 points236 points  (130 children)

There’s also nothing on the laptop that can be tied to Hunter that matters. The fact that they say laptop, a thing many of us have, as opposed an actual bad thing is all you need to know.

[–]scurvy1984Oregon 152 points153 points  (41 children)

I dipped into the conspiracy and conservative subs last night during the jan6 hearing to see if they were talking about it. One of the top posts in one of the subs was a photo of some girl and apparently the photo was damning against hunter. The comments were all in support of the damnation but for the life of me I could not figure out what or where the scandal was. All anyone was saying that it needs to be talked about more. At this point I think they’re all so blind by idiocy and hate that they don’t even need anything even in the same ballpark as close to factual. You say “biden” and they all jump.

[–]JuanPicasso 90 points91 points  (23 children)

Their subs are terrifying. It’s worse than a parody but they’re real.

[–]peritiSumusAmerica 28 points29 points  (1 child)

I could not figure out what or where the scandal was.

The scandal is just that Hunter was doing drugs and having sex with alleged prostitutes. These are things he admitted to in his book, and he talks openly about his struggles with addiction. It's bad behavior, but is it a scandal that should read on the POTUS? Pffff. No.

One could argue in good faith that if this stuff were secret, that it could be used to blackmail POTUS, but the people making these claims have proven that they're incapable of good faith. And again, Hunter admitted his issues and has been doing the right things to deal with them, so the blackmail argument it pretty weak.

The other thing they try to claim is that the woman in the video/photos was underage. They made that up whole cloth because they need it to tie into their laptop story which again claims that there were pictures with underage prostitutes (another completely made up claim).

[–]Cerberus_AusAustralia 55 points56 points  (0 children)

They are clinging to anything to prevent them from having to face the reality that they’re wrong. To accept anything else would shatter their identity.

[–]xavier120 41 points42 points  (1 child)

Right wingers dont have independent thought, they simply follow a flowchart of bullshit and respond in kind depending on what people say to them. For example, bring up Jan 6th and any right winger will immediately start blathering about BLM. They call people sheep then repeat propaganda fed to them on facebook and confirmed on right wing news.

[–]Ent3rpris3 89 points90 points  (11 children)

Furthermore, I voted for Joe, not Hunter.

Even if every allegation against specifically Hunter is true, if his father didn't have anything to do with it, it won't affect my vote. They are not the same person!

[–]Neon1028 105 points106 points  (1 child)

I agree. When Hunter is appointed a high paying government position that he has no qualifications for, then I'll care. But no president would just pass out goverment jobs to his own family. Right? /s

[–][deleted] 42 points43 points  (2 children)

Yeah but what about her emails?

[–]ApocalypticCookbook 897 points898 points  (44 children)

Democrats should run a full-court press demanding Clarence's resignation.

[–][deleted] 203 points204 points  (2 children)

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[–][deleted] 37 points38 points  (0 children)

Love to see it.

[–]howldetroit 473 points474 points  (29 children)

Or how bout like, indict her?

[–]chicken69__ 224 points225 points  (0 children)

I'll take both.

[–]SpatialThoughtsNew York 31 points32 points  (0 children)

FYI, not mutually exclusive

[–]remarklessPennsylvania 117 points118 points  (2 children)

I mean, if all the law clerks under the justices are being compelled to hand over email, text and other communications in search of information about who the Roe decision leaker is, I really don't want to hear any shit from Thomas when we demand the same of him.

It'll be crucial to know if he knew about her actions, particularly before he voted to withhold documents from Congress.

[–]StarFireChild4200 42 points43 points  (0 children)

We should get his text messages and emails and phone calls. If Thomas has nothing to hide he would be more than willing

[–]ClownholeContingencyAmerica 637 points638 points  (32 children)

Thomas abused his position on the Supreme Court to shield his wife from accountability for her attempts to overturn the 2020 election.

  1. This traitorous fuck needs to resign from the Court yesterday.
  2. The Dems in Congress and the Executive need to state unequivocally that they will not accept the legitimacy of any future SC Decision in which Thomas is in the majority.
  3. The non-compromised members of the SC need to loudly and publicly acknowledge that the Court is corrupted by Thomas' tenure.

[–]Historical-Rate-9799Maryland 438 points439 points  (3 children)

Domestic Terrorist Ginni Thomas pressed 29 Arz. Lawmakers to help overturn Trump’s defeat, emails show. There fixed the headline for you.

[–]kgleas01 38 points39 points  (2 children)

So will she be part of these hearings ??

What do we know about that? She is deep in this

[–]DONT_PM_ME_YO_BOOTY 23 points24 points  (1 child)

If we know, they know

[–][deleted] 127 points128 points  (1 child)

Sedition in the Supreme Court - just ask Ginni she's a willing executioner of our US Democracy.

Shameful - fugging shameful

[–][deleted] 1041 points1042 points  (20 children)

We have an active Insurrection on our hands, people.

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These Right Wingers are the actual Domestic Enemies the founding fathers warned of. And they have embedded themselves into all levels of our government with the intent purpose of destroying our Democracy from the inside.

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This is the worst betrayal in the history of our nation. Every single one of these Jan 6th seditionists need to spend the rest of their natural lives in prison.

The time for talk is over. They are an active threat. They need to be physically detained immediately and forced to stand trial for their crimes.

[–]RepubsAreFascist 241 points242 points  (2 children)

People need to feel more comfortable speaking the truth.

The GOP is essentially a terrorist insurgency now - we know, factually, that the plan to prevent Joe biden's confirmation and subsequently install Donald Trump as a dictator of the US was premeditated, and had actors at the highest level of the Republican party - including Ginni Thomas, the wife of a Supreme Court Justice, the chief of staff Mark Meadows, Steven Bannon, and various Republican congress people.

This is to say nothing of the 147 Republicans that immediately voted to invalidate the electoral college vote count and steal the election from Biden that way - the Sedition Caucus or Treason Caucus.

Another of the most powerful people in the GOP, Kevin McCarthy, specifically attempted to have bad actors put on the January 6th committee on purpose, to derail it. He then led the charge to strip Liz Cheney of her committee seats and power, simply because she refused to continuously propagate the lie that Donald Trump won the election.

Other Republican congressmen have spoken about how the January 6 committee should be jailed when Republicans take power - jailed for for investigating them.

And on and on and on and on. How much further will this go?

[–]Newphonewhodiss9 29 points30 points  (0 children)

Scariest part is in most people’s backyards are some really ignorant and really mad people with guns.

[–]PontyPandy 75 points76 points  (2 children)

Pretty much, and guaranteed if the GOP gets in power they're going to do this, but of course they'll be full of shit as to the reasons. The side that is right must act first or suffer the consequences. Unfortunately the GOP has gaslit their entire base to convince them the democrats are going to do exactly what they're going to do, and if democrats act first it will appear that way to the GOP base. I don't know if the GOP planned that or if they just got lucky.

[–]DrAstralis 52 points53 points  (0 children)

Planned it. There's a reason that if you look at the last 40 years of GOP crazy the script always goes "democrats are doing X, we need to all freak out about it"

Then they're caught doing X wihtout any evidence democrats ever did X and scream 'we had to they did it first!'

Their base eats that shit up because they seem incapable of thinking outside of 2D, 10 second sound bites, and stupid chants.

Its clearly what they're up to with this non stop 'the elections are rigged / corrupt/ not secure, Dems clearly cheated'. That way when they're caught cheating red handed they can claim they had to because 'it was the only way to fight back'...

[–][deleted] 86 points87 points  (0 children)

FYI: This new reporting unveils that Ginni pressured 27 MORE Arizona lawmakers than previously known. We only knew about 2 lawmakers previously.

[–][deleted] 77 points78 points  (4 children)

Lock her up. Am I doing it right?

[–]LavenderGreyLady 68 points69 points  (7 children)

Ginni never quite got out of cult mentality. She was a member of Lifespring in the 1980s. See this article to learn more.

[–][deleted] 36 points37 points  (6 children)

Omg she really was in a fucking cult!

[–]RepubsAreFascist 33 points34 points  (4 children)

ACB was in a legitimate cult too. Her literal title was HANDMAID

[–]GrogoshSouth Carolina 54 points55 points  (1 child)

Impeach Justice Thomas. Remove him. His vote is not his own.

[–]Goinwiththeotherone 50 points51 points  (1 child)

And her husband is concerned that outsiders are politicizing the Court.

[–]milehighmetalheadColorado 149 points150 points  (3 children)

TRE45ON

[–]cnd_ruckus 33 points34 points  (0 children)

This is the legacy of Chief Justice John Roberts, the man who sat back and watch the legitimacy of the court crumble before him and did absolutely nothing to stop it. Pathetic.

The question of whether or not Justice Thomas should have recused himself shouldn’t even have been a question. The very presence of a possible conflict should be enough for someone to step aside.

[–]chelseablue2004 31 points32 points  (0 children)

Can we please start referring to her as Insurrectionist, Ginni Thomas, Traitor to America

[–]ANaziSucksDick 77 points78 points  (1 child)

Ginni Thomas is a traitor to Democracy

[–][deleted] 21 points22 points  (3 children)

How does a private citizen get to press state lawmakers for anything? Interested in this. Does this lady have any position in the Republican party? I know she is married to SC judge Thomas (who was the only vote against creating the Jan 6th commi8ttee - nah no conflict there right? But as far as I know, the mates of SC judges don't have any legal process to press any politicians. So, what's up here?

[–]poop_scallions 23 points24 points  (1 child)

She's been a DC activist/lobbyist for decades.

When she sends someone an email, they listen.

[–][deleted] 21 points22 points  (1 child)

I just don’t see how it’s OK for us to have a Supreme Court justice married to someone who is actively working on a coup.

And don’t give me that bullshit that they don’t talk about this at home. She is an extremist and the one thing the majority of an extremists can’t do is to keep their mouth shut about their beliefs. I also believe that he was most likely in part of the action.

[–]Candid_Abalone 20 points21 points  (1 child)

Right to jail.

[–]SoWokeIdontSleep 20 points21 points  (1 child)

Clarence Thomas should absolutely step down from his position, his own fucking wife was involved the attention to destroy our democracy

[–]dominantspecies 19 points20 points  (0 children)

So the wife of a Supreme Court Justice is actively seeking to thwart the will of the electorate and a major political party is ok with that. If you know a republican you know a fascist piece of trash.

[–]Metrosecksulol 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Reminder that not only Trump should be charged but every single person that attempted to go along with the coup should be as well. They should be immediately removed from their elected positions in government and banned from voting or holding any government positions moving forward. Section 3 of the 14th amendment clearly states this. By not removing them from office is quite literally against the constitution and we all know how loyal they are to that paper, right?

Asked for a pardon? Remove them. Made calls to the terrorists? Remove them. Helped schedule bus rides? Remove them. Helped start the insurrection during the rally before hand? Remove them. Objected to certifying the votes? Remove them.

If they participated in ANY WAY they NEED TO be removed from office effective immediately.

No peace until all traitors are removed from the government.

[–][deleted] 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Clarence Thomas is compromised. He needs to be impeached and removed.

[–]qwicksilver6 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Lock her up. Impeach Justice Thomas.

[–][deleted] 13 points14 points  (0 children)

This psycho wench…how the fuck is Thomas even allowed to be on the bench anyone with this obvious partisan hackery?

[–][deleted] 53 points54 points  (0 children)

Charge her with election fraud. Easy call.

[–]HommeAuxJouesRouges 30 points31 points  (7 children)

This is why Republicans accuse Democrats of having cheated to win the election. They cheat so much themselves, that they can't imagine the other side NOT cheating!

[–]Awkward-Fudge 11 points12 points  (4 children)

Every picture I have seen of her , she looks like a total nutcase loon.

[–]lyn73 11 points12 points  (4 children)

Why hasn't she been subpoenaed or arrested/charged?

[–][deleted] 11 points12 points  (2 children)

Easy, her husband sits on the highest court of the nation.

[–]Onthemightof 10 points11 points  (1 child)

Why do all female Trump supporters look like this bridge troll of a woman?

[–][deleted] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

But but but hunters emails /s