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Helen Kennedy@helenkennedy.bsky.social |
In my book, this is worse than secretly taking lavish gifts: Clarence Thomas cut off the boy he was "raising as a son" after the kid failed a drug test in high school. He's in jail now, but doesn't think the Thomases even know. "I just wish they’d at least communicate with me," he says.
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Roldy
@alwaysroldy.bsky.social
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Is this the one that Crow was paying tuition for?
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Vintage by Kristen
@kudzuplanet.bsky.social
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Wasn't just an ordinary high school; they sent him to military school and some weird-sounding behavioral school. Chicken or egg: did the schools mess him up or did they send him there because he was messed up?
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David J. Loehr
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Agreed. Just when I thought he couldn't be any more disgraceful. My mother the Catholic theologian would have found him wanting as a supposedly devout Catholic.
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John Holland
@johnholland.bsky.social
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The narrative is these kids need to be relinquished by their parents so someone else will raise them right. Oops.
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Cheryl Rofer
@cherylrofer.bsky.social
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Contrast with Joe and Hunter Biden.
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Tim Just Tim
@timkrauss.bsky.social
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The kids needs to bribe Clarence to pretend to care again
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Orpheus Condescending
@maryscottoconnor.com
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These people are contemptible in every possible way a human being can be contemptible.
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Ziyyigo-Tipyigo
@ziyyigo-tipyigo.bsky.social
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This is... not that uncommon a family dynamic with people with his politics.
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Tim
@tjrbare.bsky.social
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I went to a troubled teens boarding school and it is disturbing how common this is among wealthy people with kids in their care who are "like their children". They basically throw them away.
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dreamwebber
@dreamwebber.bsky.social
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As much as I think Thomas needs to be removed from the bench, I also know what it’s like to be a step parent to someone who spins stories and leaves out the truth.
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Chrisby
@chrisbyc.bsky.social
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What a supportive dad. 🙄
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Michelle Lamb
@mlamb.bsky.social
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Thomas and his insurrectionist wife are terrible people.
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Carter
@whinyrat.bsky.social
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If you read his opinion as the only dissent in the case saying strip searching an elementary school kid for advil is unreasonable, this starts to makes sense. He puts his policies into practice!
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Will
@willcrain2.bsky.social
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Many American families have someone who got into trouble with drugs. It's hard for everyone. I don't know all the details of why Thomas chose to wash his hands of this boy, but I can't help but contrast it to how Joe and Jill Biden never stopped loving Hunter.
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Joé McKen
@joemcken.net
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Folks, I don’t wanna say anything controversial here, but I’m staaaarting to get the feeling that Clarence Thomas is kind of a bad guy. Like, just a really shitty person. Maybe not someone who should play a part in deciding what the law of the land is.
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Janet Webb
@janetwebb.bsky.social
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Clarence is such a cruel human being.
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PeopleDied2Vote
@peopledied2vote.bsky.social
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Some people are just better humans.
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Papasan
@papasan.bsky.social
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Uncle Clarence says, tough shit I got mine. 👀
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Go Deep, I'll Look for You
@godeep.bsky.social
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But isn’t that the crazy right wing way? See Downtown Boebert.
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Rick Healey, man out of thyme
@twotothefifth.bsky.social
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Damn, he really just is the worst person on every level.
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Craig M. Ranapia
@craigmranapia.bsky.social
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The compare and contrast with Joe and Jill Biden is really painfully vivid.
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VoteBlue4ever
@voteblue4vr.bsky.social
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And Mark Martin is his great-nephew, right, or did I misread something in the article? I mean, he's a blood relative, not just some orphan the Thomases decided to abandon when he started doing typical teenage sh#t.
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Daddeh
@daddeh.bsky.social
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It's almost like the Thomas's aren't good people
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@sandaval.bsky.social
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ouch
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@nyc118.bsky.social
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He has no relationship with his biological son either, who seems to have deliberately escaped.
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Arkancrow
@arkancrow.bsky.social
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The contrast in humanity and care between the Biden and the Thomas couldn't be more stark. Republicans and not representing the family values. They are dissolving it.
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N C Irving
@ncirving2.bsky.social
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I prefer Joe Biden and Hunter.
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Ashton
@ashtonk.bsky.social
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Alito seems like he cooked his own brain watching Fox News, but Thomas seems like he’s always been a deeply unpleasant person from the jump. Never heard anything redeeming about him, tbh. Even personally he seems cruel and self absorbed.
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Ni en pedo
@300ps.bsky.social
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Corruption all for me, not for familly.
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Ailbhe
@ailbhel.bsky.social
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Oh my god
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Paula
@dentonitis.bsky.social
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Ah yes, I've known folks like Thomas, and this sounds about right
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The chicken lady
@chickenlady.bsky.social
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He's the most a*hole of all.
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Anneke Garcia
@anneke-g.bsky.social
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Well that was bleak.
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ItTakesAVillageGenius
@villagegenius.bsky.social
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Good god this is sad…
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Jono
@jonocarpenter.bsky.social
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What a cunt.
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S E Case
@secase.bsky.social
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What a dick
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CNY Big D
@pat0615.bsky.social
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When things got rough instead of nipping it in the bud and helping him they abandoned him. He wasn't perfect enough for them. Ginni had bigger fish to fry, like democracy.
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Red Garnet
@curiosa.bsky.social
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I remember vividly Anita Hill’s testimony about Clarence Thomas’ toxic behavior towards her. It was disturbing but he continues to prove she was telling the truth about his immoral character and lack of integrity.
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Wilbur
@wilbur.bsky.social
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Their prop was no longer useful.
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Donna L
@donnalfromny.bsky.social
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Omg
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Dan Sandler
@danielsand.bsky.social
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One day Anita Hill will have a place in a LOT of books with the lede “she tried to warn us and we dint listen until it was too late”.
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🐝 “Bee” 🐝
@bee990.bsky.social
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Old Bible: Peter to OG Jesus: How many times do I need to forgive someone? OG Jesus: You must forgive people 7 times 70 times. MAGA Bible: Peter to Modern Jesus: “Same question.” Modern Jesus: Forgive?! No need…it’s one and done with me. That’s contemporary MAGA fevered Christianity for you.
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Susan Ballinger
@peculiarsusan.bsky.social
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They get worse and worse.
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Jane
@hanoiski8.bsky.social
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Clarence is profoundly disabled, as is Alito, by greed and other negatives. These guys don’t have the capacity for empathy. I hope neither of them have progeny.
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DM
@d-m.bsky.social
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“The Originalist Case for Cutting All Ties to Family Members Who Struggle With Addiction”
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Stephen Walker he, him
@steveinburnaby.bsky.social
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I know a person that was adopted and then dumped. You don't get over something like that and what it does to how you view yourself Clarence Thomas can't even be considered Human
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Tom Wrongbottom 🍦
@wrongbottom.bsky.social
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Yes, in particular, because he wrote a damn memoir about being "My Grandfather's Son."
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HoiPollois🦋
@hoipollois.bsky.social
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This is that pedophile mentality: Kids are useful when they're young and innocent but when they mature, no use for them.
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Sam W
@samiw.bsky.social
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I don't have kids, but I can't fathom abandoning one like that. Like, if your kid turns out to be a serial killer or something absolutely irredeemable, sure. But even then, I'd expect you'd grieve and want to believe there's good in them somewhere. Over a high school drug test, though? Ugh.
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Tommy
@tommyg.bsky.social
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Holy shit.
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connieM
@mewmew13.bsky.social
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didn't Speaker Johnson the creep do the same with his "adopted son"?... and wow Matt Gaetz also has an "adopted son"..
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TheBaroness
@thebaroness.bsky.social
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Nice folks.
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Dr Enrico Sidebottom Jnr
@drsidebottom.bsky.social
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He could have given the boy some drugs, and he would have passed.
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