ProPublica reports that Thomas was in debt, frustrated with his salary, and implying he'd resign from the Supreme Court if his financial situation didn't change—just before Harlan Crow and other conservatives started lavishing him with expensive gifts and luxury vacations.

ProPublica reports that Thomas was in debt, frustrated with his salary, and implying he’d resign from the Supreme Court if his financial situation didn’t change—just before Harlan Crow and other conservatives started lavishing him with expensive gifts and luxury vacations.

Before he began receiving expensive gifts and luxury vacations from Harlan Crow and other conservative benefactors, Clarence Thomas reportedly expressed significant concerns about his financial situation—even prompting concerns from a Republican lawmaker more than 20 years ago that he might resign from the Supreme Court if he could not boost his salary.

“One or more justices will leave soon” if justices aren’t given a raise, Thomas told then Republican Representative Cliff Stearns in 2000, as they flew home from a conservative conference at a Georgia resort, according to ProPublica.

  • AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world
    15·
    1 year ago

    I am a Carlin disciple. Imho the greatest social commentator and philosopher of the 20th century.

    I’d like to say he tried to warn us, but he knew how this was all going to go, and that there wasn’t really hope for decades before he died. He just helped people like me to feel sane by acknowledging those that also recognized the way the wind was blowing.

    “be happy with what you got, folks. The table is tilted, the game is rigged!”

    • spider@lemmy.nz
      8·
      1 year ago

      I always thought that if Carlin wasn’t already dead, the current state of affairs would’ve likely killed him.

      • AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world
        10·
        1 year ago

        Nah friend, don’t sell him that short. By the end, he enjoyed the carnage. He separated himself from our shitty species, an aspirational goal in these times for me honestly. Here’s an interview where he laid it out.

        George would be laughing his ass off at the perverse, cartoonish morbidity how far the many are still eager to go in service to the owners that own and torture them, you, me, etc. He wasn’t loaded, but he would be comfortable enough to get entertainment from this murder porn of a civilization at a distance.

        In his own as always eloquent words, I promise I’m not exaggerating:

        https://youtu.be/ls8RXqyZDsk?si=ANxYAXr4gcocgk0a

        And that’s the most cathartic outlook us powerless peasants can have.