The vehicle is a key part of the justice’s just-folks persona. It’s also a luxury motor coach that was funded by someone else’s money.

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    This is what corruption looks like. Thomas and Alito are unethical human garbage and don’t deserve to be on the highest court.

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    Republicans see no problem with these massive gifts and Jared getting $2 Billion, but if Hunter Biden made a dollar they’re all over it.

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        If your mom goes to the restaurant that you work at and you charge her a medium for large fries. That is the level of corruption I am ok with. You are allowed to super size the person who brought you into existence fries for free.

        Now let me know if you have any more difficult questions I can sort out for you.

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            At one point, republicans need to show proof or shut the fuck up. They’ve been talking about the stupid laptop for years to eventually admit they have dogshit. They claim to have dirt on Hunter Biden but never back it up.

            It is clearly a diversion tactic as usual.

            If they do have dirt on him, throw the book at Hunter/Joe Biden. Until then, shut the fuck up.

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              He just got offered basically a free pass for a felony of possessing a gun as a prior drug user. Something the average citizen would be sitting in prison for a minimum 10 year sentence for.

              That’s sounds like a REAL big order or free French fries.

              PS I’m not a republican, I’m just calling out the obvious corruption of that dirt bag getting a pass.

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                Every gun owner that legally uses weed in a weed-legal state commits the same felony by lying on that same form, when purchasing a firearm. It’s pretty common to not prosecute this felony.

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              It’s not whataboutism. Corruption is bad. It’s asking for consistency.

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                  Whataboutism implies that you are using that actions of person A to justify person B. It is not when you point out condemnation of person B for the same actions as person A but person A is not condemned.

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        I don’t think that’s the point they’re trying to make. A corrupt bastard is a corrupt bastard, there is no immunity.

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    I’m seriously sick of hearing about this shitbag when no one is ever going to do a damn thing about it.

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      If it stays in the media, hopefully he will become a pariah. Roberts still holds on to this idea that his court should be seen as legitimate and respected, and Thomas is undermining that more than anyone.

      Not that I’m holding my breath over it.

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    I once read that empires spreading their religion and culture through force was a not the most effective or common method. The way it usually worked was that once conquering foreigners became the elites in society, people in proximity to the elite would adopt the culture of their superiors, to fit in. Once a critical mass of elites and their subordinates adopting a foreign culture/religion was reached, it spread throughout society like a trend.

    Anyway the point I’m trying to make is the power of proximity to the elite is enough to overrule a person’s whole identity. Anybody who’s close to a a social climber will recognize how this works.

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    There are confirmation hearings and supposed investigations before these judges were appointed. Whoever did the investigation failed and should be fired as well as their bosses.

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    The “friend”? Referring to a criminal engaging in bribery of a Justice as his “friend” is journalistic malpractice.

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    That’s not even a very nice RV; 270K barely gets you in the door on a decent one.

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      He bought it in 1999. Adjusting for inflation, it costs about $490k in current dollars.

      EDIT: Also the point isn’t really about how much it cost as it does who financed it and how the payments were made (or not). If someone who made a fortune in healthcare loaned a scotus judge money for a luxury home/vehicle Thomas would have a conflict of interest on cases involving healthcare.

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      Yeah, my mom had a Minnie Winnie, which is small by RV standards and by no means luxurious, and it cost over $150,000 so I doubt $270,000 for a bigger one (and I’m sure it’s bigger) is going to be first class living either.

      But who cares when it’s all performative bullshit anyway?