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Clarence Thomas didn't repay $267K luxury RV loan: Senate committee

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Clarence Thomas never repaid a millionaire friend’s $267,000 loan which the Supreme Court justice used to buy a 40-foot luxury motorcoach, Senate investigators announced Wednesday.Healthcare magnate Anthony Welters told the Senate Finance Committee he forgave the RV loan after five years of receivin...

Clarence Thomas never repaid a millionaire friend’s $267,000 loan which the Supreme Court justice used to buy a 40-foot luxury motorcoach, Senate investigators announced Wednesday.

Healthcare magnate Anthony Welters told the Senate Finance Committee he forgave the RV loan after five years of receiving payments on the interest but not the principal, the report states.

“Now we know that Justice Thomas had up to $267,230 in debt forgiven and never reported it on his ethics forms,” Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden, (D-OR) said in a statement.

Wyden called on Thomas to specify exactly how much of the debt he paid and whether the loan was reported on tax returns.

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Fucking. Indict. Thomas.

Both of them.

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- And thr hand maiden, and the beer-bro-rapist. I mean shit we have at least two known sexual predators sitting on the bench. It's laughable that anyone even recognizes its authority at all.
  
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  I certainly don't. Precedence is moot now. I guess we'll decide all things on a case by case basis. This'll be way better... /s
  
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  At this point polls suggest 15% of Americans believe in the legitimacy of the US Supreme Court.
  
  It keeps Roberts awake at night but otherwise so far it hasn't done much to curb their campaign to dismantle human rights.
  
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When you regularly receive so many """loans""" and lavish 6 figure vacations from """friends""", you can't be expected to remember to officially report all of them, completely understandable

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Ah... the venerable old "make a 'loan' then forgive it" strategy for paying bribes.

At this point Thomas might as well have a tattoo across his forehead that says "I am corrupt."

If he had even a speck of integrity, he'd resign.

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- If he had a speck of integrity he'd be a completely different person.
  
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- If he had even a speck of integrity, he’d resign.
  
  Narrator voice: He didn't.
  
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- I think the only reason these shitbags used to resign is they didn't have enough power to say "fuck you, what are you gonna do about it?" But he does, apparently.
  
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267K seems like such an impossibly high number that I can't even comprehend ever having that much in dollars. For these asshole that's just bribe money, pissed away on an RV he likely used once. And at that price it's likely one of the nicest RV's anyone's ever seen.

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- He used it quite a bit. He put on this Everyman schtick where he didn't need fancy trips, he just needed to RV and camp in Walmart parking lots
  
  The articles on it are quite hilarious to read now that we know actually he was going on lavish free trips plenty and that RV was a tremendous bribe
  
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- If it makes you feel any better, that was $267k in the late 1990s. Value in today's money is closer to half a million.
  
  Yeah that doesn't make me feel better either.
  
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  LOL Thanks!
  
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- Really? That's less than the median home price in the US ($412k). Especially with inflation from the past few decades, that's not really that much money.
  
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  I hope you’re joking.
  
  Even if you made $300k a year (which is 5 times the national average), you probably wouldn’t have $267k left after a year of housing, utilities, living expenses, taxes, transportation, healthcare, etc. Cost of living in the US is terrible.
  
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  Do you work in IT? Maybe you should look at the median income of your country to have a more realistic idea of what is a lot.
  
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  A quarter million dollars, yeah okay buddy
  
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This just in: Clarence Thomas is a joke of a human being, even moreso as a justice. Nothing will be done. Happy Thursday.

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- Justice is not a term I would associate with that man it's so weird it's allowed to be his title. We should take it away from him already because he is disgracing the highest court. How are there no laws against that? And since there are none people will need to take action in some other way. That's asking for trouble. What the hell kind of system is this?
  
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They should heavily fine the person who paid Thomas and Jail Thomas.

Should stop people from bribing public officials

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- I will say this every time:
  
  If the punishment is a fine, it's only illegal for poor people.
  
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  Fines should scale with networth. I think a country or two in the UK do that, and someone got like a $100k speeding ticket.
  
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- There’s only one solution for this level of corruption.
  
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  Which is?
  
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- You know bribery is legal in the USA, right? They call it "lobbying"
  
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- Fascist has less letters to type and means the same thing. ;)
  
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Wow turns out loan forgiveness is a great idea after all! For corrupt republican shitbags.

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I'm sure the Republicans in the house will get right on this after they're done elevating an election denier to second-in-line to the presidency.

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who left this pube hair on my can of cola?????

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- 'on my coke'.
  
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- Long Dong Silver, that's who!
  
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Thomas, a lowlife, in a robe.

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Whomst among us has not gotten a quarter million dollar loan from a friend and never repaid it? What sort of friends would the guy be if he has Clarence pay such a small sum back? /s

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- I may have forgotten to pay back my parents for the small loan of $1M they gave me to start a business.
  
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- I know right. What is everyone actually complaining about?
  
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I can't believe Biden forgave Thomas's loan. This is what happens when you elect a communist: it makes the supreme court look corrupt.

Thank God for the level heads over at the supreme court who have informed us that even though it may look, feel, smell, and taste exactly like shit, that it's actually your upper lip. Also, they're rubber and we're glue.

/s

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Unethical

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- Can't be unethical since they have no formal code of ethics. /s
  
  fuck the whole judicial branch.
  
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  "When a Justice does it, that means it is not unethical," or something.
  
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The SC is openly and hopelessly corrupt. Throw the whole fucking thing away and start over.

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And the only consequence he'll suffer is bad press. I bet he'll even be allowed to keep the money.

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Straight up corruption. Can we stop calling it "alleged" or just a minor "ethics issue" yet?

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Justice Thomas will be issuing a public statement of commitment to ethical standards. The DOJ will be closely monitoring his actions for the remainder of his tenure in TSC.

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So your saying he was just outright bribed. Nice.

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Did he pay taxes for the $250k gift?

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