BREAKING: Clarence Thomas Does The UNTHINKABLE, Turns Against Republican Party

[babylonsister]

http://bipartisanreport.com/2016/10/27/breaking-clarence-thomas-does-the-unthinkable-turns-against-republican-party-details/

BREAKING: Clarence Thomas Does The UNTHINKABLE, Turns Against Republican Party (DETAILS)
By Caleb R. Newton -
October 27, 2016

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Thomas was responding to a question about whether or not he has any hope for the confirmation process being salvaged any time soon when he delivered what became a biting criticism of the GOP establishment.

He began with a sort of hollow optimism, saying, “There’s always hope, but this city is broken in some ways.”

He went on to become more pointed in his remarks, saying:

‘I’ve been here now most of my life and I think that we have become very comfortable with not thinking things through and debating things. I think that we have decided that rather than confront the disagreement and differences of opinion, we’ll just simply annihilate the person who disagrees with us. I don’t think that’s going to work in a republic or a civil society. At some point, we have got to recognize that we’re destroying our institutions and undermining our institutions.’

Thomas himself bore the brunt of a brutal confirmation hearing at the time of his nomination to the court by then president George H.W. Bush.

The difference, though, between the circumstances surrounding Thomas’s seating on the court and those surrounding Obama’s nomination of Merrick Garland for the same is simple.

Senate Republicans have shown presently themselves completely unwilling to, as Thomas put it, do anything other than “simply annihilate” Garland since he doesn’t quite line up with their beliefs and practices.

Check out a video of Thomas’s biting remarks below (at link).

[niyad]

1. the silent lump actually spoke????

[Jim Beard]

9. LOL, that give a good start to the thread!.

I like him bringing up how many years he has spent on the bench. We need to nominate teenagers.

I was referring to the lump speaking comment

[milestogo]

3. Somebody tell him that the democrats don't want him either.

[vlyons]

4. When even Thomas complains about and disparages the GOP,

you know that the American people are more than sick of them.

[niyad]

6. just a bit. . .

[gratuitous]

7. Mind-boggling words from Justice "High Tech Lynching"

"We'll just simply annihilate the person who disagrees with us."

I can't possibly scream "Fuck you" loud enough at this disgraceful human being.

[world wide wally]

8. The most intelligent thing he's ever uttered

[aaaaaa5a]

10. Wow. The GOP is even losing the Uncle Tom vote.

They are truly losing every constituency. This party can't survive.

[wordpix]

11. Let's hear him say Vote for Hillary!

Otherwise he's still irrelevant

[Paladin]

12. It was Anita Hill who bore the brunt of those disgraceful hearings.

Clarence Thomas lied, then played the "hi-tech lynching" race card, and ended up a mute figure on the Supreme Court. Fuck him, now and forever more. His whining about personal annihilation is repulsive---personal annihilation is exactly what got him to his lofty position. God bless Anita Hill.

[Euphoria]

16. Bravo! +1,000%

[Jim Beard]

17. I want6 Anita Hill nominated for the Suprene Court by Hillary!

[Paladin]

19. Suits me fine. (nt)

[Brickbat]

13. "Thomas himself bore the brunt of a brutal confirmation hearing at the time of his nomination to the

the court by then president George H.W. Bush."

Not really.

[deminks]

14. Damn. I thought he might have something to say

about sexual harassment, or sexual assault, or that someone had the cajones to ask him about it.

Doesn't his loving wife head up a GOPer teahadist group that does this very thing that he condemns? Annihilate the 'enemy'?

[Rex]

18. He waited for Scalia to die, before saying that. I bet good money on it.

You talking about 2000? Yeah, you should feel like shit for that vote.

[UTUSN]

20. "annihilate the person who disagrees" - still playing the victim. I thought "unthinkable" was going

to be his admitting his harassments.

[Jim Beard]

21. ANOTHER Anita Hill

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/10/clarence-thomas-accuser-moira-smith-230401

More than Anita Hill, NEW, NEW

A woman is accusing Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas of having groped her in 1999.

According to a report published Thursday by the National Law Journal/Law.com, Moira Smith, 41, alleged that Thomas repeatedly squeezed her butt during a dinner nearly 20 years ago.

Smith, vice president and general counsel at Enstar Natural Gas Co. in Alaska, was a Truman Foundation scholar helping Louis Blair, who directed the foundation at the time, prepare for a dinner at Blair’s home in Falls Church, Virginia, with Thomas and David Adkins as the featured guests. Thomas was to present Adkins, then a Kansas state lawmaker as well as a former Truman scholar, an award at the Supreme Court the following day.

[semby2]

22. Huh?

I don't see anything in the quoted remarks of Thomas criticizing Republicans. It's just more nonsense "both sides do it".

[marybourg]

26. I agree with you.

The rabid right thinks they're the victims, and he could just as easily be still feeling sorry for himself. He'd have to be a lot more explicit before I'd write what the author of the quoted header did.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

27. +1

That's how I read it as well.

[malaise]

24. He helped to break said city

FUck that scumbag. The swamp will be drained

[Crunchy Frog]

25. He actually rubbed two synapses together

and produced something coherent? Impressive. I hope he'll try doing it again, or maybe even make a habit of it.

[Motley13]

28. Can't believe he offered an opinion & a sensible one is even more astounding

[Caliman73]

29. Not seeing it.

I have to preface this by saying that I could not view the video due to a technical error so I did not get the full remarks.

I think that it can certainly be interpreted as Thomas ironically implicating the Republicans in Congress, but I very much doubt that he would specifically state the they were undermining institutions. Thomas is a conservative first and a Supreme Court Justice second.

I would interpret his statement more closely to what his consistent behavior suggests, that he was still whining about the confirmation hearings he went through.

Like I said, I could be wrong and he may have explicitly called out the Republicans for not even allowing people the ordeal of a confirmation hearing, but I certainly did not get that from the article and think that it is wishful thinking on the author's part without more explicit information about the remarks.

[Algernon Moncrieff]

30. To quote Thomas Jefferson and James Madison: "Well I'll be Damned!"

[Initech]

31. That line of thinking is absolutely barbaric.

What we're seeing now is 30+ years of AM hate radio telling one side they should not trust the other.

[backscatter712]

33. Between Thomas, and the Cubs...