Did Clarence Thomas Do anything Wrong?
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Two comments from myself
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As George said, he should know better. If he is such a good legal mind, it should be pretty obvious that you should not do this.
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As a human being, it would seem kind of "diminishing" (not sure if that is the right word) to your own self esteem as a human to keep accepting free trips from a friend. To me, (and I think to most of us here), it would bother me as a person if I kept getting free stuff from a friend. Sure, I have stayed at a friends place. But if they kept offering it year after year after year, paying my airfare, meals, etc. ummmmm a big NO to that.
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@taiwan_girl said in Did Clarence Thomas Do anything Wrong?:
Two comments from myself
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As George said, he should know better. If he is such a good legal mind, it should be pretty obvious that you should not do this.
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As a human being, it would seem kind of "diminishing" (not sure if that is the right word) to your own self esteem as a human to keep accepting free trips from a friend. To me, (and I think to most of us here), it would bother me as a person if I kept getting free stuff from a friend. Sure, I have stayed at a friends place. But if they kept offering it year after year after year, paying my airfare, meals, etc. ummmmm a big NO to that.
Accepting charity feels like a diminishment of status. But accepting rewards feels like an enhancement of status. This does not feel like charity to Thomas, I guess. I guess it feels like belonging to a high status club.
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Reality check.
Under the law, Thomas did nothing wrong. It may be bad optics, but I suspect he doesn't care.
And since he's appointed for life, ain't a damn thing, you, me or anybody else can do about it.
It's a tempest in a teapot story for the 24-hr news cycle, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing except the Left is pissed at SCOTUS.
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I "get" that technically he may have not done anything wrong.
But geez, for a smart person, he was pretty dumb about this. I just cant imagine how he thought this would be okay. I guess it is a bit like a lot of high powered people. Doing questionable things becomes normal. They loose touch with reality.
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Don't drink the Kool-Aid.
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@taiwan_girl said in Did Clarence Thomas Do anything Wrong?:
I "get" that technically he may have not done anything wrong.
But geez, for a smart person, he was pretty dumb about this. I just cant imagine how he thought this would be okay. I guess it is a bit like a lot of high powered people. Doing questionable things becomes normal. They loose touch with reality.
It was ok for many years until the powers that be decided to make you think it wasn’t ok.
You are now thinking as you are intended to think.
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Has Justice Thomas or his rich friend Mr. Crow dispute the facts reported by ProPublica?
Should Justice Thomas recuse himself from cases that materially affect the fortune of Mr. Crow's business if any such case were to make its way to the Supreme Court in the future?
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- No.
- Possibly
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Meh. Character is what you do when you think nobody’s watching.
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Meh. It's politics.
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It just seems weird to me that a person of that level would not have more self esteem and at some point, stop accepting free vacations.
"Hey thanks for the offer to pay for our vacation again, but it is not necessary. We do appreciate it however. But, once is enough."
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You don't move in those circles. I don't, either. Jon might.
Those people don't live like we do.
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It's important to know one's place, right?
This kind of thinking was one of the things I didn't care for in the UK. Boris with his illegal drinks parties and his holidays paid for by some rich Tory donor.
'Never mind, he's such good fun. Look at his silly hair. What a card!'
Proud supporter of Plan 2525. Everything you think, do and say will be in the pill you took today.
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@George-K said in Did Clarence Thomas Do anything Wrong?:
@Axtremus said in Did Clarence Thomas Do anything Wrong?:
They just set the rules for us to live by, right?
That's right.
How do all these congress critters become multimillionaires on their salaries?
By their being no ethics rules enforced similar to the ones normal working people have to live by.
Know your place, prole, and live happy in the knowledge that the great and the good can live comfortably enough so that they can make important decisions on your behalf without being troubled by the mundane problems the rest of us have to suffer.
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@Mik said in Did Clarence Thomas Do anything Wrong?:
Who says one trip was worth $500k? How is that even possible?
I would like to know this, myself…
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Ahhh, got it…
He flew on Crow’s personal jet and stayed on Crow’s personal yacht. If Clarence Thomas had chartered an equivalent jet and yacht, it could have cost $500,000… It’s like saying that Mark gave me a ride to the airport in his Mercedes. If I had rented a Mercedes and a Driver to be driven to the airport, it would have cost $350… Therefore it should be valued as such…. That argument doesn’t really fly, IMO.
