I, too, am of a very bad opinion of Thomas. To add insult to injury, Thomas came after Thurgood Marshall–and other Civil Rights legends–(without whom Thomas couldn’t buy a fucking hamburger in multiple states without going 'round to the back door).
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I’m reading “Is Paris Burning?” about the liberation of Paris in August, 1944, and Hitler did something similar. Allied troops and tanks were pouring into Paris, Germans were in retreat, and he called his top soldiers to ask that question even as Paris was slipping out of his deluded grasp.
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I haven’t read that suggestion before now, but it’s spot on.
@emiliano4 The hearing was on TVs everywhere and you couldn’t escape it. Joe Biden being a rambling milquetoast, Anita Hill, dignity personified, and Clarence denying and dissembling so easily. Also, if you can find it, there’s a very good film about the young Marshall.
Chadwick Boseman as Thurgood Marshall, the first African American Supreme Court Justice, and focuses on one of the first cases of his career, the State of Connecticut v. Joseph Spell.
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Clarence GOT THERE ON HIS MERITS!
All you other posers can fuck right off!
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Me being the cockeyed Optimist…when Thomas finally got confirmed, I badly misjudged him and his behavior afterwards.**
** Just before his (narrow) confirmation, Thomas made a plea for understanding his positions and their inherent goodness…(“Just give me a chance…We can all benefit…”)
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It’s a movement 100 percent based on election denial. Good grief.
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No one believed Anita Hall, and that was a terrible moment. She lived with being called a liar and no one believed her. Part of why she couldn’t get more on the record is because Joe B. talked and talked for so long, time was up, and her witnesses had to go away without being heard. He used his Blackness to his benefit, and no dared to point that out.
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At least she can be the VP candidate on the ticket that will not really be running for the Republican nomination in 2024. And she will make some $$ off the deal.
Just wondering what Super Hero she will be on the NFT cards - Batgirl, Wonder Woman, Catwoman, Poison Ivy?
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OT, but I don’t know what’s more farcical: dropping the COVID vaccine mandate or leaving in the 20+ other vaccines you are ordered to take.
Such bullshit:
To win GOP support for the 4,408-page bill, Democrats agreed to Republican demands to scrap the requirement for service members to get a Covid-19 vaccination.
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But I thought she was a Phoenix local TV news celebrity.
So, yeah … what you said.
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Yeah, how DARE he try to keep me from dying!!! ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE!!!
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I’m not sure how long the GQP will keep supporting the other vaccines, either, so Covid might not be an outlier.
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That film is excellent. Chadwick Boseman playing just about anybody is fantastic, and his portrayal of Thurgood Marshall did not disappoint.
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In Groundhog Day Bill Murray says to one of the on-air reporters for a local station "For your information, Hairdo. . . " and I can’t help myself when I see a pretty thing trying to give us serious news.
@debg Great film, and TTTT, I was very impressed with Kate Hudson’s performance. Didn’t know she had it in her.
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If I’m not mistaken, Hitler wanted Paris destroyed. The generals refused.
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The generals knew how impossible it would be but they had to tell him something he wanted to hear. Hitler was a madman with incipient Parkinson’s Disease, and he was dictating to them from Germany.
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I think they take it on faith, without trying to understand any of the detail and nuance involved, or why Italian satellites, modems and IOT thermostats are insufficient explanations for their idiotic theories. Well, yeah, OK, it’s because they are really stupid.
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Carol Mosley Braun became the first Black woman senator because “Our Pal Al” Dixon voted to affirm. She proved to be a whatever and lost six years later to a rethug that didn’t run again because Illinois is deep blue and he wasn’t going to waste his time.
ETA. Pretty sure BHO then took that seat.
ETA2. Illinois has had three Black senators in the modern era. Match that. (Roland Burris finished Obama’s term)
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Those people have a point.
During the Clarance Thomas confirmation hearings my secretary at the time was a daily reader of the New York Post. Juan Williams was a syndicated columnist there, kind of Rupert’s way of having at least one moderate liberal there, though the great Pete Hamill was still an editor and columnist there. I respected him because he was a producer of the recent PBS series tour de force documentary film on the civil rights movement Eyes on the prize. So I take a gander at Williams column, mind you this was just a few days after the Hill testimony and he makes a case for Thomas. “It’s Thurgood’s seat so he understands the gravitas”. “You know he grew up in the Jim Crow south so that must inform his views” etc. I wonder if he regrets what he wrote or if it’s just the proverbial water under the bridge.
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