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Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas told attendees at a judicial conference Friday that he and his wife have faced “nastiness” and “lies” over the last several years and decried Washington, D.C., as a “hideous place.”

Thomas spoke at a conference attended by judges, attorneys and other court personnel in the 11th Circuit Judicial Conference, which hears federal cases from Alabama, Florida and Georgia. He made the comments pushing back on his critics in response to a question about working in a world that seems meanspirited.

“I think there’s challenges to that. We’re in a world and we — certainly my wife and I the last two or three years it’s been — just the nastiness and the lies, it’s just incredible,” Thomas said.

“But you have some choices. You don’t get to prevent people from doing horrible things or saying horrible things. But one you have to understand and accept the fact that they can’t change you unless you permit that,” Thomas said.

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[-] Spitzspot@lemmings.world 133 points 5 months ago

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas told his law clerks in the '90s that he wanted to serve for 43 years to make liberals' lives 'miserable'

[-] bradorsomething@ttrpg.network 44 points 5 months ago

Clever of him to make most people’s lives miserable so he doesn’t miss any liberals.

[-] jonne@infosec.pub 12 points 5 months ago

Even made himself miserable just in case he's secretly a lib.

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[-] rusticus@lemm.ee 99 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Citizens v United bitch. You fucked America and deserve to rot in hell.

[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 25 points 5 months ago

A little Bush v Gore thing too, if we're piling on.

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[-] beefbot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 95 points 5 months ago

Yeah it got nasty WHEN CLARENCE THOMAS PUT HIS OWN PUBIC HAIR ON A COKE CAN. True story. Look it up. I still believe Anita Hill

[-] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 57 points 5 months ago

What the media did to Anita Hill was absolutely horrendous and every outlet and personality who made a punch line out of her back then should apologize for their absolute disrespect of a woman who did something that was beyond brave.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 34 points 5 months ago

His mocking her, along with all the Monica Lewinsky jokes, is a big reason why Jay Leno can go get fucked.

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[-] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 27 points 5 months ago

It's not just a story, it's a gag he has done multiple times. There's at least two coworkers in another era of his life who claimed he pulled the same prank (or whatever you call that)

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[-] Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world 81 points 5 months ago

Poor guy, he should just quit.

[-] Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works 29 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

His wife won't let him. He's gotta play the part of an owned man.

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[-] girlfreddy@lemmy.ca 73 points 5 months ago

That's rich coming from him.

[-] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 21 points 5 months ago

Be careful saying rich around him. You may make a friend.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 70 points 5 months ago

John Oliver says he's willing to put his offer back on the table, Clarence.

[-] notannpc@lemmy.world 68 points 5 months ago

Aw, poor sugar baby Clarence doesn’t like when people call out his blatant abuse of power for personal gain? I guess you should just do the country a favor and fucking retire.

[-] reagansrottencorpse@lemmy.ml 54 points 5 months ago

I hope Clarence dies soon.

[-] CompostMaterial@lemmy.world 18 points 5 months ago

Honestly, I don't think anything short of an Eagle Eye situation would make much of a difference.

For those that haven't seen the movie, a DOD super advanced AI reinterprets it's core directive to uphold the constitution to mean that the entire Judicial, Legislative, and Executive Branches of the United States Government must be "removed from office" due to corruption with only the exception of the designated survivor.

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[-] Draegur@lemm.ee 53 points 5 months ago

gee if you hate it so much how'bout you fucking LEAVE, CLARENCE.

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[-] seaQueue@lemmy.world 51 points 5 months ago

Good news Thomas, you can resign and leave!

[-] hperrin@lemmy.world 48 points 5 months ago

Maybe it’s because he’s such an awful awful person that everyone is just so mean to him and his awful awful wife.

[-] wellheh@lemmy.sdf.org 18 points 5 months ago

It is genuinely amazing the lengths this man will go to deny his level of impropriety as if it's some grand conspiracy and not heavily documented; I am happy others are open to making his existence as miserable as he makes ours.

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[-] Apeman42@lemmy.world 47 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Oh no! People are being mean to the human equivalent of an unwiped asshole covered in weeping pus sores?

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[-] QuantumSpecter@lemmy.world 46 points 5 months ago

Clarence Thomas is an evil man, He sent his nephew to one of those teen punishment schools in Georgia called Hidden Lake Academy.

Link to article

[-] maynarkh@feddit.nl 20 points 5 months ago

I like to link this everywhere one of those places get mentioned. It rattled me.

https://elan.school/

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[-] halferect@lemmy.world 43 points 5 months ago

He is welcome to leave at anytime, no one is forcing him to be there

[-] Lifecoach5000@lemmy.world 41 points 5 months ago

There certainly are some nasty people out there. Like ones who tell inappropriate sexual anecdotes in professional settings throughout their career.

[-] Introversion@kbin.social 40 points 5 months ago
[-] CobblerScholar@lemmy.world 16 points 5 months ago

I'd consider an all out assault on women's rights pretty fucking nasty

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[-] Jollyllama@lemmy.world 39 points 5 months ago

Gosh, that sounds terrible. You should quit.

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[-] FunderPants@lemmy.ca 38 points 5 months ago

Please politely accept my stripping your rights away. - Thomas

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[-] eran_morad@lemmy.world 36 points 5 months ago

Fuck off and die?

[-] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 35 points 5 months ago
[-] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 19 points 5 months ago

There's even a cushy RV waiting for him.

[-] Regna@lemmy.world 12 points 5 months ago

Welp, John Oliver had a time limit in that. Let’s hope that John (and HBO or whatever) is/are still feeling generous.

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[-] ptz@dubvee.org 33 points 5 months ago

If it's such a nasty place, he's free to step down and leave 🤷‍♂️

[-] Supervisor194@lemmy.world 31 points 5 months ago

Name one nasty lie you sack of shit.

[-] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 29 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Take the million a year and the motor coach.

[-] Son_of_dad@lemmy.world 28 points 5 months ago

He should retire and fuck off if he can't handle it

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[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 24 points 5 months ago

Aww, did we hurt his widdle feewings?

[-] nifty@lemmy.world 23 points 5 months ago

You know what’s nastier? Taking the right to abortion away from women. But I am sure if a woman from the ruling class got pregnant for some reason, then she’ll just a hush hush abortion like in the good old days.

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[-] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 22 points 5 months ago

Ah yes, openly corrupt Clarance Thomas is here to tell us he's being treated unfairly. Dude takes bribes from everyone, and uses the constitution as toilet paper.

This one's for you, Clarance.

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[-] HuddaBudda@kbin.social 21 points 5 months ago

I am sure if I sold out my fellow man on a daily basis for cry baby republicans, I'd hate my job too.

If only there was some way to fix that.....

[-] Railing5132@lemmy.world 20 points 5 months ago

Sucks to suck, bitch!

[-] Fedizen@lemmy.world 19 points 5 months ago

Is he asking for more handouts from his billionaire buddies?

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[-] PanArab@lemm.ee 17 points 5 months ago

Clarence Thomas proves that progress isn’t linear nor guaranteed. What a let down after Thurgood Marshall.

[-] barsquid@lemmy.world 17 points 5 months ago

Corrupt Clarence Thomas who accepts bribes and doesn't recuse himself from ruling on the insurrection efforts his wife took part in thinks DC is too mean.

[-] 5in1k@lemm.ee 13 points 5 months ago

Resign you creepy asshole.

[-] someguy7734206@sh.itjust.works 12 points 5 months ago

Judging by the title alone, it sounds like the critics are pushing him.

[-] Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 21 points 5 months ago

Aww...

Life was so much more easier when Clarence could commit acts of corruption without being called out.

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