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That's called soliciting a bribe....
Gee rich people who put me into power, 300k just isn't enough to live off of and if I don't get more money I might resign in a year a liberal would pick me replacement....
Stochastic bribery? "Won't someone rid me of this meddlesome debt?"
Somehow, we've been able to raise a child on a lot less than $173,600. Of course, we didn't take a loan to buy a high-end RV.
Maybe Thomas should have done the thing that Republicans keep saying people aren't doing and live within his means.
He should lay off the lattes and avocado toast. Needs a side hustle
It's not like he was making payments on the loan, either.
As a parent, I get it. We had to buy 17 luxury RVs before my son turned 18. It’s brutal out there.
Nobody understandz me
Just a reminder that he voted against student loan relief and was able to get over a quarter of a million of debt forgiven.
I choose my word carefully. I said "voted". Whatever it is those people think they are doing on the court has nothing to do with the law.
You know… if you can’t make do with nearly 200k+ for a salary…
Maybe you should learn to figure it out rather than solicit bribes from people like Harlan Crow.
Has he tried laying off the avocado toast and making coffee at home?
Nope. Why do you think he got that RV? To support his avocado-toast and coffee habit! How else is he going to get out there and try the very best?
The month before, the justice had borrowed $267,000 from a friend to buy a high-end RV.
Just cut back on the avocado toast.
"Borrowed" money he never repaid and was never expected to be repaid.
One of the consequences of hanging out with billionaires is that it makes one feel puny.
In an documentary about super rich kids, Ivanka Trump (a teenager at the time) said it was impossible to maintain friendships with people of modest means because you either had to exclude them from extravagant social events or pay their way. This leaves the poorer party feeling left out or awkwardly obligated.
It's likely that Thomas resents his benefactors. It's deeply ironic that Thomas apparently spends so much time in situations where he's the subordinate.
I'll hang out with him.
My wife and I haven't seen the new Godzilla movie yet. We can double date with Charence and Ginni.
I won't. He's not a good person and doesn't make even a token effort to pretend otherwise.
Yeah, plus being so poor, I don't want to have to pay for him.
I had a boss back in the '90s who used to be a corporate headhunter in San Francisco and then moved back to the east coast and bought a temp agency. He hired me to do computer stuff for his dalliance into futures trading so I had access to his finances; he had investment accounts of around $5 million, a 50' sailboat, a couple BMWs and the temp agency which earned him around $25K per month, so he was rich by almost anybody's standards. But he had many friends back in the bay area who were worth hundreds of millions of dollars and the reality of his relative poverty absolutely ate him alive - it was virtually the only thing he could talk about and explained his adventures in futures trading.
Hilariously, I once watched him berate his two temp agency receptionists (who made $7 an hour) because his monthly income had dropped from $40K to $25K, as if it was their fault and they could be expected to give a shit in the first place.
He found himself seated next to a Republican member of Congress on the flight home
Aww gee, what a coincidence
When Richard Nixon was President, his salary was $200,000 /year and that was considered a fabulous sum. The inflated salaries of CEOs was a result of Reagan deregulating the banks.
Quit then. Corrupt piece of shit.
Really seems like this is just a blatant attempt to coerce Republican legislators though. "Give us more money or that precious right wing majority you grifted so hard to get installed might be at risk".
Edit: typo
That sounds a lot like soliciting & being given a bribe.
Let's ask the Supreme Court if it's a crime. They said no.
Another reason for the court to be subjected to change; they’re all wealthy fucks who have no clue, or care, how their rulings affect everyone outside the donor class.
This always pops in my head when they issue some anti-privacy thing. None of them have to deal with normal border security, none of them are at risk of stop and frisk, none of them can lose their job because of some personal choice, none of them are seriously concerned that some cop will lie about drugs. Their salary and who knows how much bodyguards and aids puts them in a position that has no relationship to what the regular general public deals with.
God, I wish he would have. Of course, it was nothing but an empty threat to get him more bribes.
Don't threaten us with a good time, Clarence.
Why will he not fuck off and die?
He and Senator McConnell have Kissinger's kiss: Somehow people hellbent on being evil get to live for a very long time.
Do it, Tom
I wonder what his nieces and nephews call him?
Mo powa, mo monah