Clarence Thomas - Corrupt

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Unit2Sucks said:

wifeisafurd said:



I have talked to three other tax partitioners and every one of them wonders how a former securities lawyer be so reckless with his language.
Have you invited your tax "partitioner" friends to review your posting history on BI? You are one of the sloppiest posters here and your posting history is riddled with errors beyond the obvious typos.

As for my prior statements, I stand by them. Obviously you will continue to grandstand on the fact that I made those comments in the context of Crow paying tuition but that didn't happen in a vacuum. He purchased real estate from Thomas' family as well as the lavish trips. Who knows what else hasn't dropped yet? And the fact that tuition payments aren't taxable as gifts doesn't mean that the person paying the tuition can't mischaracterize them as charitable. I'm not saying Crow did that of course, I don't have that information and the amount was small for him and largely irrelevant, but the point is that there is a lot of potential for funny business here and you and your friends know it.

Leonard Leo directed Kellianne Conway to bill his nonprofit to send money to Ginni Thomas with no paperwork mentioning Ginni. Of course we know that Thomas's disclosures were pretty slim on Ginni's sources of income.

You're a smart guy, when you hear about all of these shenanigans, do you really believe that these people are doing everything by the book? We know that Thomas's financial disclosures were deficient and don't exactly lead one to believe he was well advised by the likes of you and your "partitioner" friends.

As for the rest of your screed, this is pretty typical. At each point in this journey people like you have been defending Thomas as if there were no other shoes to drop and each time we've seen more and more things drop.

You've chosen to intentionally misinterpret my posts to claim that gift recipients are owed taxes for things, which I haven't said, or other such garbage. My point has been and continues to be that there is a lot of garbage here and when I see facts like this I know that there is likely something fishy going on. I'm sure your tax "partitioner" friends wouldn't disagree with me.
You said there was a guarantee of tax evasion committed by Crow and the Thomases, and what I get is Colin Powell like guaranty there are no Weapons of Mass Destruction. Tell me what gifts resulted in tax evasion and how? When you say the disclosures were pretty thin, what exact disclosure rule regarding his wife's income was not complied with? What other Justices provided the amounts of income their spouses made? I don't expect answers since when you're asked to back something you say up, your response is either innuendo or saying something happened that you have no evidence actually happened, but you suggest could have happened. You know, Cal could have gone undefeated in football last year.

Let's play your game. Hillary Clinton committed tax evasion. I don't have any evidence she did. But we know she doesn't report things. We know she accepts a lot of gifts. Let's just wait for another Hillary scandal to leak and then I will be able to prove tax evasion because she is one of those people. Do you know how pathetic that sounds?

So far, you have provided absolutely no evidence of tax evasion (and it sounds like you don't know the elements of task evasion), but your damn certain there is tax evasion and you stand by your comments there is tax evasion. Dude,I literally posted exactly what you said. If that is misrepresentation, then you need a new dictionary. Just show me what gift caused Crow and the Thomases to commit tax evasion, and the evidence you have they did.
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wifeisafurd said:

Unit2Sucks said:

wifeisafurd said:



I have talked to three other tax partitioners and every one of them wonders how a former securities lawyer be so reckless with his language.
Have you invited your tax "partitioner" friends to review your posting history on BI? You are one of the sloppiest posters here and your posting history is riddled with errors beyond the obvious typos.

As for my prior statements, I stand by them. Obviously you will continue to grandstand on the fact that I made those comments in the context of Crow paying tuition but that didn't happen in a vacuum. He purchased real estate from Thomas' family as well as the lavish trips. Who knows what else hasn't dropped yet? And the fact that tuition payments aren't taxable as gifts doesn't mean that the person paying the tuition can't mischaracterize them as charitable. I'm not saying Crow did that of course, I don't have that information and the amount was small for him and largely irrelevant, but the point is that there is a lot of potential for funny business here and you and your friends know it.

Leonard Leo directed Kellianne Conway to bill his nonprofit to send money to Ginni Thomas with no paperwork mentioning Ginni. Of course we know that Thomas's disclosures were pretty slim on Ginni's sources of income.

You're a smart guy, when you hear about all of these shenanigans, do you really believe that these people are doing everything by the book? We know that Thomas's financial disclosures were deficient and don't exactly lead one to believe he was well advised by the likes of you and your "partitioner" friends.

As for the rest of your screed, this is pretty typical. At each point in this journey people like you have been defending Thomas as if there were no other shoes to drop and each time we've seen more and more things drop.

You've chosen to intentionally misinterpret my posts to claim that gift recipients are owed taxes for things, which I haven't said, or other such garbage. My point has been and continues to be that there is a lot of garbage here and when I see facts like this I know that there is likely something fishy going on. I'm sure your tax "partitioner" friends wouldn't disagree with me.
You said there was a guarantee of tax evasion committed by Crow and the Thomases, and what I get is Colin Powell like guaranty there are no Weapons of Mass Destruction. Tell me what gifts resulted in tax evasion and how? When you say the disclosures were pretty thin, what exact disclosure rule regarding his wife's income was not complied with? What other Justices provided the amounts of income their spouses made? I don't expect answers since when you're asked to back something you say up, your response is either innuendo or saying something happened that you have no evidence actually happened, but you suggest could have happened. You know, Cal could have gone undefeated in football last year.

So far, you have absolutely no evidence of tax evasion (and it sounds like you don't know the elements of task evasion), but you damn certain there is tax evasion and you stand by your comments there is tax evasion. Dude,I literally posted exactly what you said. If that is misrepresentation, then you need a new dictionary. Just show me what gift caused Crow and the Thomases to commit tax evasion, and the evidence you have they did.
Send me their tax returns and we can all find the tax evasion together.

It's hilarious that after more than a decade of your own sloppy, mistake-riddled posting, you've now found religion and determined that no one may post on BI without bulletproof evidence supporting their every statement.

We can only hope you will hold yourself to this new standard as well.

Respectfully I will withdraw all my prior comments. Clarence and Ginni are paragons of virtue and there is virtually nothing suspicious in any of their activities that have been unearthed so far or any other activity which may become known in the future.
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bearister said:

hxxps://youtu.be/4Gj-nbDyMWo

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Yow!!

There we go. Another example of the tried & true sequence of right-wing/authoritarian behavior:
  • Commit an egregious act of theft, fraud, or abuse (in this case, the sexual harassment of Anita Hill);
  • Blame the victim;
  • Claim victimhood, and rally support & anger against the actual victims for telling the truth.

Q: And who was the Democratic Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee who decided NOT to investigate Anita Hill's claims, nor allow her supporting witnesses to testify?

A: Sen. Joe Biden (D-DL).
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Here's a much better expression of We The People's case against the corruption of Assoc. Justice Clarence Thomas and other SCOTUS Justices, and why U.S. Voters can't afford to dismiss it.

Here's The Real Goal Of Supreme Court Corruption

by David Sirota and Andrew Perez of The Lever, May 9, 2023

"The prospect of luxury gifts and outside cash is designed to halt the historical trend of GOP appointees becoming more liberal."

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cbbass1 said:

Here's a much better expression of We The People's case against the corruption of Assoc. Justice Clarence Thomas and other SCOTUS Justices, and why U.S. Voters can't afford to dismiss it.

Here's The Real Goal Of Supreme Court Corruption

by David Sirota and Andrew Perez of The Lever, May 9, 2023

"The prospect of luxury gifts and outside cash is designed to halt the historical trend of GOP appointees becoming more liberal."



That is a good read. Thank you.
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"Conservative justices on the US supreme court consciously broke with decades-old congressional rules and norms to shift laws governing religious freedom sharply to the right through a series of shadowy unsigned and unexplained emergency orders, a new book reveals….

The sudden spate of shadow docket orders that followed Barrett's arrival on the court was not accidental, Vladeck says. The justices could have taken up several pending cases in full court that would have addressed the issue of religious freedoms in open hearings on the merits, yet they chose to go the obscure shadow docket route."

US supreme court pursuing rightwing agenda via 'shadow docket', book says

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/may/15/us-supreme-court-shadow-docket-book-rightwing-agenda?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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bearister said:


"Conservative justices on the US supreme court consciously broke with decades-old congressional rules and norms to shift laws governing religious freedom sharply to the right through a series of shadowy unsigned and unexplained emergency orders, a new book reveals….

The sudden spate of shadow docket orders that followed Barrett's arrival on the court was not accidental, Vladeck says. The justices could have taken up several pending cases in full court that would have addressed the issue of religious freedoms in open hearings on the merits, yet they chose to go the obscure shadow docket route."

US supreme court pursuing rightwing agenda via 'shadow docket', book says

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/may/15/us-supreme-court-shadow-docket-book-rightwing-agenda?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other


Thanks, RBG!
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Our government is corrupt beyond anyone's wildest imagination.
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BearHunter said:


Our government is corrupt beyond anyone's wildest imagination.

When did your buddy Trump NOT raise money from his gullible Kool-Aid drinkers?

Did you donate money to Trump for his Election Fraud Legal Fund?

Hahahahahhaaaaaa!
"Cults don't end well. They really don't."
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Nothing triggers a leftist more than a black conservative.
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Do you call anyone that voted for Ronald Reagan while an undergrad at CAL a "leftist"?

Nice try.
"Cults don't end well. They really don't."
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DiabloWags said:

Do you call anyone that voted for Ronald Reagan while an undergrad at CAL a "leftist"?

Nice try.


"I can't be a left wing radical, I voted for Reagan 40 years ago!" - you
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BearHunter said:

DiabloWags said:

Do you call anyone that voted for Ronald Reagan while an undergrad at CAL a "leftist"?

Nice try.


"I can't be a left wing radical, I voted for Reagan 40 years ago!" - you

All this from a guy that actually thinks that Trump was a conservative.
You're hysterical.

How about George Bush in 2004?

Nice try.
Keep digging a fool's hole.





"Cults don't end well. They really don't."
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You're right, people change. Reagan voters can end up voting for the 2021-2024 version of Joe Biden.
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"Cults don't end well. They really don't."
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Even with a record "81 million" votes, you don't see too many Biden/Kamala signs, shirts, hats. etc...No one shows up at their rallies. In fact they stopped having them altogether.
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BearHunter said:

Even with a record "81 million" votes, you don't see too many Biden/Kamala signs, shirts, hats. etc...No one shows up at their rallies. In fact they stopped having them altogether.
That's because the people who voted Biden aren't cultists/idol worshippers.
This just in: Republicans find another whistleblower who claims Hillary's emails were proven to be on Hunter's laptop while Obama spied on tRump as he sat (shat?) upon his golden toilet. Gym Jordan afraid whistle blower may be in danger of abduction by aliens in cahoots with Democrats.
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GoOskie said:

BearHunter said:

Even with a record "81 million" votes, you don't see too many Biden/Kamala signs, shirts, hats. etc...No one shows up at their rallies. In fact they stopped having them altogether.
That's because the people who voted Biden aren't cultists/idol worshippers.

True.
It's also because they arent POOR LOSERS like the Trump crowd.
They're still butthurt about 2020.


"Cults don't end well. They really don't."
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GoOskie said:

BearHunter said:

Even with a record "81 million" votes, you don't see too many Biden/Kamala signs, shirts, hats. etc...No one shows up at their rallies. In fact they stopped having them altogether.
That's because the people who voted Biden aren't cultists/idol worshippers.
There is no major visible strife or conflict within the Democratic Party. Unity is one of their strengths unlike the Republican Party. Cultists are great followers because they fear the consequences of doing otherwise.
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BearHunter said:

GoOskie said:

BearHunter said:

Even with a record "81 million" votes, you don't see too many Biden/Kamala signs, shirts, hats. etc...No one shows up at their rallies. In fact they stopped having them altogether.
That's because the people who voted Biden aren't cultists/idol worshippers.
There is no major visible strife or conflict within the Democratic Party. Unity is one of their strengths unlike the Republican Party. Cultists are great followers because they fear the consequences of doing otherwise.

This just goes to show how totally out of touch with REALITY you are.

If people dont fall in line with Mitch McConnell, they're done.
The Democratic Party has all kinds of divisions .... from Pelosi to Joe Mancin to Krysten Sinema to progressives like Liz Warren, AOC, and their leader Pramila Jayapal.



Duh.

"Cults don't end well. They really don't."
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BearHunter said:

GoOskie said:

BearHunter said:

Even with a record "81 million" votes, you don't see too many Biden/Kamala signs, shirts, hats. etc...No one shows up at their rallies. In fact they stopped having them altogether.
That's because the people who voted Biden aren't cultists/idol worshippers.
There is no major visible strife or conflict within the Democratic Party. Unity is one of their strengths unlike the Republican Party. Cultists are great followers because they fear the consequences of doing otherwise.
This makes a lot of sense........if you don't think about it.
This just in: Republicans find another whistleblower who claims Hillary's emails were proven to be on Hunter's laptop while Obama spied on tRump as he sat (shat?) upon his golden toilet. Gym Jordan afraid whistle blower may be in danger of abduction by aliens in cahoots with Democrats.
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DiabloWags said:

BearHunter said:

GoOskie said:

BearHunter said:

Even with a record "81 million" votes, you don't see too many Biden/Kamala signs, shirts, hats. etc...No one shows up at their rallies. In fact they stopped having them altogether.
That's because the people who voted Biden aren't cultists/idol worshippers.
There is no major visible strife or conflict within the Democratic Party. Unity is one of their strengths unlike the Republican Party. Cultists are great followers because they fear the consequences of doing otherwise.

This just goes to show how totally out of touch with REALITY you are.

If people dont fall in line with Mitch McConnell, they're done.
The Democratic Party has all kinds of divisions .... from Pelosi to Joe Mancin to Krysten Sinema to progressives like Liz Warren, AOC, and their leader Pramila Jayapal.

Outside of Manchin and Sinema on a few occasions, Democrats pretty much go with the flow.
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MinotStateBeav said:

okaydo said:

hxxps://twitter.com/MaxMoranHi/status/1644364838049644547?s=20

Oh no...long time friends did things together. Call the gestapo! Maybe the FBI will raid his house looking for magazine subscriptions that he didn't pay for!
Harlan Crow and Clarence Thomas might be "longtime friends" now, but there's no record of them having any relationship before Thomas was nominated for SCOTUS.

All of the gifts, trips, parties, transactions, etc., from Crow came after his nomination.

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Harlan is a fanboy of the rich, powerful and porno veiwing.
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Clarence Thomas receives extension for annual Supreme Court financial disclosures


https://www.axios.com/2023/06/07/clarence-thomas-financial-disclosure-delay


"We are so f@ucked! We are so f@ucked!"
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bearister said:

Clarence Thomas receives extension for annual Supreme Court financial disclosures


https://www.axios.com/2023/06/07/clarence-thomas-financial-disclosure-delay


"We are so f@ucked! We are so f@ucked!"
On the contrary, sounds like he's actually going to take it seriously and have an advisor fill it out. Before he probably had Ginni do it from memory in between sips of bordeaux at Crow's private resort.

Thomas knows he's bulletproof, he's just got to start taking it semi-seriously. Doesn't hurt that the extension means some of the heat will be off before he files his disclosure. This news isn't really a story.
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Don't kid yourself. As we write Team Thomas is trying to put lipstick on a turd because he knows the media will dig up what he intended to hide.
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Alito Took Unreported Luxury Trip With GOP Donor Paul Singer ProPublica


https://www.propublica.org/article/samuel-alito-luxury-fishing-trip-paul-singer-scotus-supreme-court




….and fresh in from The Best Defense is a Good Offense Department:

Playbook: Alito picks a fight with ProPublica - POLITICO


https://www.politico.com/newsletters/playbook/2023/06/21/alito-picks-a-fight-with-propublica-00102831
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Most corrupt SCOTUS ever. Will Alito give Thomas a run for his money (pun definitely intended)?
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Too bad none of them go quail hunting with Dick Cheney or John Poindexter.



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dimitrig said:


Too bad none of them go quail hunting with Dick Cheney or John Poindexter.

Hilarious!!!!

"Who wants to ride shotgun?" ;-)

Or get the "Cheney Facial?"
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BearHunter said:

hs://twitter.com/julie_kelly2/status/1658160914636451857

Our government is corrupt beyond anyone's wildest imagination.
This is [apparently] a filing from the National Women's Law Center.

The $100M that they raised was NOT for investigating Alito and Thomas. The $100M is a legal defense fund for women who get abortions -- something that WAS Constitutionally-protected medical care, but is now criminalized in many states.

Yes, Our Government is corrupt, and Crow, Singer, and the billionaires who fund Leonard Leo and his Federalist Society are at the head of the pack.

IF you think that $100M raised by the NWLC constitutes "corruption", read this & see what they -- and we -- are up against:

The Truly Scary Part of the $1.6 Billion Conservative Donation

Look -- If you think abortion is wrong, then don't have one. But you don't have the right to tell anyone else what they can / can't do based on your religious beliefs. Read the 1st Amendment. It's pretty clear.

Here's the website for the National Women's Law Center. The donation link is right on the front page.

Guys, do the women in your life a favor, and make a donation!
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cbbass1 said:

BearHunter said:

hs://twitter.com/julie_kelly2/status/1658160914636451857

Our government is corrupt beyond anyone's wildest imagination.
This is [apparently] a filing from the National Women's Law Center.

The $100M that they raised was NOT for investigating Alito and Thomas. The $100M is a legal defense fund for women who get abortions -- something that WAS Constitutionally-protected medical care, but is now criminalized in many states.

Yes, Our Government is corrupt, and Crow, Singer, and the billionaires who fund Leonard Leo and his Federalist Society are at the head of the pack.

IF you think that $100M raised by the NWLC constitutes "corruption", read this & see what they -- and we -- are up against:

The Truly Scary Part of the $1.6 Billion Conservative Donation

Look -- If you think abortion is wrong, then don't have one. But you don't have the right to tell anyone else what they can / can't do based on your religious beliefs. Read the 1st Amendment. It's pretty clear.

Here's the website for the National Women's Law Center. The donation link is right on the front page.

Guys, do the women in your life a favor, and make a donation!
Yours is an outstanding post, cbbass1, and the article to which you link is both enlightening and terrifying. These are scary times for our federal democratic republic.
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bearister said:

Don't kid yourself. As we write Team Thomas is trying to put lipstick on a turd because he knows the media will dig up what he intended to hide.
I agree, mostly. I think they're sh--ting bricks.

But I don't think "the media" -- as in "mainstream / corporate media" is going to do much digging. IF they had ANY inclination to do that, they would've been reporting on all this activity for years. The reason that all of this stuff is coming out now is that ProPublica, an independent, subscriber-funded media group, is finally doing the work of looking up public records, and interviewing employees & private jet pilots, and disclosing to the American People what these corrupt SCOTUS Justices SHOULD have disclosed to us a long time ago -- that they're bough and paid for by corporations & oligarchs. The "opposition" party should have been uncovering the corruption, but they're horribly corrupt, too.

IF we actually had a Free Press, all of this would've come out many years ago. The problem is that our Corporate Media is ALSO bought & paid for by many of the same corporate donors (Pharma, health insurers, defense contractors, Wall St) & oligarchs who bribe the SCOTUS Justices. They've known about all of this corruption from day one, but the LAST thing they want is to shine a light on it like ProPublica did.

You have to also understand that corporate media HAS to report on ProPublica's findings now, because the cat's out of the bag, and they can't afford to let ProPublica get all the clicks & hits & ratings from it.

Corporate media is losing viewers, and it's dying. Nearly all consistent watchers of Fox, CNN, & MSNBC are 55+ years old, mostly watching through cable TV, because they haven't (or don't know how to) "cut the cord." They have very few viewers in the 18-55 "target demographic" that sponsors value.

Younger people despise Fox, CNN, & MSNBC because of their constant gaslighting, dishonesty, and their refusal to "follow the money" on the seemingly-opposed corporate narratives that are meant to keep us divided. The majority of <55 news viewers get their news & analysis thru streaming, and they've dumped corporate/legacy media.

ProPublica did -- and is doing -- what LeverNews did with the toxic train derailment in East Palestine, showing regulatory capture and corruption from three consecutive administrations that led to the disaster.

Independent, non-corporate, subscriber-based news is a threat to corporate media, AND corporate narratives.

I'm thinking that Clarence & Ginni have a whole team of law students who are trying to figure out which trips, gatherings, gifts, real estate purchases, etc., the team at ProPublica knows about -- but haven't disclosed -- and which ones they don't know about.

I sincerely hope that Joshua Kaplan, Justin Elliott and Alex Mierjeski, of ProPublica.org, didn't show all their cards. Imagine the further embarrassment if Thomas & Alito finally do their late financial disclosures -- and remember, folks -- the form says that you have to list everything, under penalty of perjury -- and they didn't disclose something that ProPublica already knows about!!

Finally, here's some of Thom Hartmann's usual great insight. He doesn't think that the SCOTUS bribery is a quid pro quo; he believes (and the data backs him up) that the right-wing Justices are influenced by something more powerful than money: friendship.

Have Billionaires Outfitted Justices with Golden Handcuffs to Stop "Liberal Drift"?

 
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