Clarence Thomas would be much happier if Liberals would just STFU and obey him
Unfortunately for him, the 1st Amendment isn't just for Conservatives
What is it about Conservatives that allows them to feel they can try to bully others to get the results they want while telling others to “deal with it” when they’re upset about being on the wrong side of the ledger?
Trump voters in 2016 volubly told supporters of Hillary Clinton, “Fuck your feelings!” and to “get over it!” because “Trump won, she lost!” Then in 2020, Trump supporters had some serious problems dealing with their feelings. They didn’t take kindly to being told to “get over it” when their guy lost. Yes, the “Fuck your feelings!” crowd had some strong feelings to work through.
(We didn’t mean fuck OUR feelings; we meant fuck YOUR feelings.)
I know; WHAT hypocrisy??
Critics were stunned Saturday after Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas scolded Americans for not accepting controversial rulings — after his own wife battled against the results of a legitimate presidential election.
Thomas chided a distraught public in comments Friday at a judicial conference in Atlanta following the leak of a draft Supreme Court opinion that would gut Roe v. Wade and a half-century of the right to an abortion.
That’s right- we won, you lost. Get over it. Sounds familiar, eh?
Yet what Thomas conveniently failed to mention was that his wife, Ginni, was intimately involved in the effort to overthrow the results of the 2020 Presidential election. So, yes, the wife of a sitting Supreme Court justice was doing her best to undermine fair and legitimate Presidential election results- up to and including January 6, 2020.
WTF??
(We didn’t mean fuck OUR feelings, we meant fuck YOUR feelings.)
He complained that Americans are “addicted” to results they want — while “not living with” rulings they oppose. He warned that the court will not be “bullied” in the face of protest. Declining respect for the law and institutions, Thomas warned, “bodes ill for a free society.”
Thomas detractors were agog. Not only has his wife, Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, refused to “live with” the presidential election, he was the sole Supreme Court justice to vote that former President Donald Trump should not have to release his White House documents to the House committee investigating last year’s insurrection.
No, we’re not “addicted” to the results we want, but when seven out of ten Americans support Roe v. Wade, we’re not OK with minority rule, which is what Justice Alito’s draft ruling represents.
Nor are Americans required to meekly acquiesce to rulings promulgated by Justices who represent the views of a minority of Americans. It’s not a matter of “bullying,” but if we can’t make our voices heard, what does “government of, by, and for the people” even mean.
The 1st Amendment allows citizens to make themselves heard, and if a Conservative Supreme Court Justice doesn’t like that…well, tough schitt. We feel the need to protest not because of a “declining respect for the law and institutions.” It’s anger over an entitled minority imposing their overt religiosity as the law of the land.
Before we let Clarence Thomas off the hook as he’s decrying the Left’s attempting to politicize the Supreme Court, let’s not forget he was the '“1” in an 8-1 decision that refused to let Donald Trump skate for his involvement in the January 6th insurrection.
Thomas has been a walking, talking conflict of interest practically since taking his seat on the court.
Thomas has also repeatedly attempted to rip up legal precedence set by the court.
“The irony is so thick you wonder if it’s maybe a Clarence Thomas impersonator,” former U.S. Attorney Harry Litman said on MSNBC Saturday.
“Among other things, this is a guy who has spent a lifetime trying to take a battering ram to all the Supreme Court major precedents” of law, Litman added. “He’s now saying people don’t respect the law enough. That’s even leaving aside all the controversies he has engendered, as has his wife. It’s just ... remarkable.”
So let’s not pretend that Justice Thomas is doing anything but carrying water for Conservatives like his wife and Donald Trump. His rant about how a “declining respect for the law and institutions” somehow “bodes ill for a free society” is just so much cheap Right-wing propaganda. What he wants is to silence those of us on the Left, which I suspect he knows isn’t going to happen.
Besides, his idea of “a free society” is one in which people on the Far-Right freely speak their minds while those of us on the Left STFU and sit down
What Justice Thomas doesn’t realize is that the Left has plenty of respect for “the law and institutions.” We’re pretty well convinced he’s the one who lacks respect for them and would be quite happy if those of us who disagree with him shut up and disappeared.
Nope. Not gonna happen. We have too much respect for “the law and institutions” to see corrupt ideologues like Clarence Thomas ride roughshod over our 1st Amendment rights.
Dissent is patriotic. And I’m feeling extremely patriotic at the moment.