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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsOMG John Oliver
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
(51,608 posts)I just set my DVR for 2:30 AM. Thanks!
montanacowboy
(6,089 posts)and I don't have an extra buck to spare!
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limbicnuminousity
(1,402 posts)Did your great aunt never share the information or did the young 'uns just not listen? Talk about missed opportunities!
BigmanPigman
(51,608 posts)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.
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colorado_ufo
(5,734 posts)birdographer
(1,330 posts)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
(6,880 posts)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
(1,330 posts)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
(47,119 posts)Mock the hell out of the corrupt justices.
housecat
(3,121 posts)chouchou
(633 posts)I suspect she runs most of his forced thoughts.
montanacowboy
(6,089 posts)I think Ginny wears the pants in that family
A HERETIC I AM
(24,370 posts)HE might wear the pants in that family but SHE picks them out for him!
SergeStorms
(19,201 posts)They have double the wardrobe since their clothes fit each other.
It makes packing a lot easier, anyway.
Comfortably_Numb
(3,809 posts)Love the observation that its totally legal what hes doing!! Clarence needs to go.
markodochartaigh
(1,138 posts)Where you can buy all the justice that you can afford! No job too large! Have gavel, will travel!
rubbersole
(6,694 posts)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
(1,292 posts)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
(10,880 posts)Let's call it "Buying a Supreme for the little guy".
Farmer-Rick
(10,182 posts)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
(18,635 posts)He's always blowing wads of cash on the show.
HotRod Deluxe
(86 posts)John said on the show it's with his own money; not HBO's.
BWdem4life
(1,672 posts)Only Republicans get to do that. Elections have consequences. Look it up, it's in the Constitution somewhere.
NowsTheTime
(690 posts)gibraltar72
(7,506 posts)you should be able to bribe them to leave.
Jacson6
(350 posts)I'd hate to see JO in stripped pajamas.
JudyM
(29,250 posts)Fla Dem
(23,684 posts)themaguffin
(3,826 posts)Irish_Dem
(47,119 posts)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
(3,826 posts)Irish_Dem
(47,119 posts)And we should all weigh in as much as possible about the SC corruption.
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Marcuse
(7,487 posts)surfered
(498 posts).because he cant undo democracy if he retires.
Shermann
(7,423 posts)Freethinker65
(10,023 posts)Attilatheblond
(2,183 posts)We need to know what he was threatened with that opened that chair up for Kavanaugh the drunken tool
Irish_Dem
(47,119 posts)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
(17,380 posts)lame54
(35,292 posts)Irish_Dem
(47,119 posts)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
(3,680 posts)rickford66
(5,523 posts)DENVERPOPS
(8,835 posts)For decades he has made a much larger fortune and un-fathomable "Perks" every single year compared to that pocket change......
LetMyPeopleVote
(145,291 posts)FakeNoose
(32,641 posts)SpankMe
(2,957 posts)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
(6,917 posts)Thats what happens if the offer is accepted.
Lets say Thomas lives 20 years
thats $20 million. $16 million cash now.
Plus a $2 million motor coach.
Thats $18 million.
Right wingers have bribed Thomas tens of millions, plus a quid pro quo of favorable rulings worth billion$.
Johns offer is peanuts compared to MAGAts. 😠
IronLionZion
(45,447 posts)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
(14,273 posts)Shermann
(7,423 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,173 posts)Xavier Breath
(3,642 posts)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
(3,416 posts)Based on the Barrett confirmation, it should take about 20 minutes...
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