Thomas wanted to hang out with the 1% and didn’t hear a 1% kind of income or have a trust fund. So he learned to grift off them. Honestly I’d rather do without than beg, but that’s just me. Like any of those billionaires ever considered him their equal. Is he that stupid? Yes. This is a man who doesn’t hang his law school diploma on his wall because he believes it is “cheapened” because he got in on affirmative action. (Which to me means he thinks he didn’t really deserve his spot in that year’s class. I’m tempted to agree but maybe his grades were that good.) He still had to do the work and pass all the classes to graduate. But that’s the chip on his shoulder. For me that explains a lot of what he’s like. He should never have been on the court, but Thurgood Marshall had resigned and Bush thought he could only get a replacement confirmed if he found a black conservative judge and who else was there? He’s the poster child for unearned promotion. And deep down he knows it and resents it. What else was there to do but cash in? What a sad, sorry, excuse for a human being. He’s unworthy to be mentioned in the same paragraph as Marshall much less sit in his seat.
Thanks, that is the most cogent explanation I’ve read for Thomas’ unrelentingly sour attitude.
He knows he is unfit to fill Thurgood’s shoes too.
Was he begging? Or just being paid for service rendered?
His chip goes back further than that, to childhood color discrimination. He was known—to his Black classmates!—as “ABC”, for “America’s Blackest Child” (to be clear, as an insult).
Just looked it up: $285,400 a year… yep that is almost at poverty levels folks!!! (/s)
How’s a man to survive without his 5-star resorts?
You would think it would make him understand income inequality or even make him understand the plight of the average citizen. /s
If one goes deeply into debt on that income, it should raise questions about how competently one manages personal finances, sort of like those poor credit ratings adversely affecting getting a job.
That is more than a sufficient salary as it is. And I understand that at the time he complained, it was relatively higher when adjusted for inflation. It’s still a really good salary.
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A lifetime job with good pay and pension, at the pinnacle of the legal profession and it is still not good enough. Cry me a river for how tough life is to you.
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Hi muttpupdad. Yes especially when most people in the US make less than $50,000. And a large portion of the public only make in the middle 30 grand, but that is because of minimum wage laws the republicans want to do away with. He was living way above his income. The same people he ruled against in credit card relief programs that came under SCOTUS review. He feels entitled due to his high position, not honored by it and he feels deep jealousy towards people that have more money so he wants the perks of money also. So now that he got what he wanted he will die in the job because once he retires all that “friendship” goes away, and he knows it. He is only going to get them while he is useful to the wealthy, after that they wouldn’t have anything to do with him. Hugs. Scottie
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Can a person get much more crooked that this? ESPECIALLY one that is supposed to be looking our for the interests of United States citizens!!
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Hello Nan. A classic example of seeing what others having and wanting it. But his high position and the status were not enough, he wanted the high life. He was living well above his means, as the article says he was hundreds of thousands in debt yet just coming back from a vacation at a 5-star resort / hotel. That is not smart for a guy who is to judge the constitution for all of us. So he started to do “favors” and got a better living for it. I have been there / done that, but in my case it was a helpless child, and it stopped once I was an adult. Thomas seems not to have the same moral code I do, but then again he is a tRump supporting maga republican. Hugs. Scottie
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