RAPApr 8, 2023
George Takei  🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽
Justice Thomas is corrupt. He should resign, but he won’t because he is also without shame. He also knows his GOP pals, bought by big donors like his own billionaire buddy, won’t ever hold him to account.
Apr 6, 2023 at 3:09pmWeb
Show thread🎓 Doc Freemo  🇳🇱Apr 6, 2023

@georgetakei Agreed, time for him to resign.

Hell at this point lets get all of congress to resign, start over.

Show threadRobert DenbyApr 6, 2023

@georgetakei

This is the exact thing guillotines were invented for. And I'm only mostly kidding about that.

Show threadRoo_44Apr 6, 2023

@georgetakei

With the GOP, corruption raises your prestige.

Show threadKatragsApr 6, 2023
@georgetakei
Anita Hill tried to warn us.
Show threadDave VolekApr 6, 2023

@georgetakei
I saw another post on his "vacation." He has to know the optics ain't good. But maybe the optics are not important anymore.

In 1984, Senator Garry Hart had to resign from his presidential candidacy because a journalist found him on a sailboat with a young woman. Times have changed.

It's time for a new way:

#tiereddemocraticgovernance

Show threadResistor McResistanceFaceApr 6, 2023

@georgetakei

I thought Biden would work on fixing the Trump corruption of our top court. Instead we keep on losing our lives, our pursuits and our happiness as Thomas places his pubes on our pepsi cans.

Please stop electing Boomers

Show threadPatricia LavataiApr 6, 2023
@mlbellar @georgetakei
You may find this hard to believe, but some of us “boomers” have spent our lives fighting against this corruption.
We are not all like this, so please don’t lump us together. I held signs and signed petitions for women nd black rights, for income equality, for term limits, etc, before many of you were born. There should be NO lifetime appointments in government.
Show threadCatherine is not complacentApr 6, 2023
@PJLavatai @mlbellar @georgetakei thank you.
Show threadResistor McResistanceFaceApr 6, 2023

@PJLavatai @georgetakei

Trust me, I know and I agree w/ you 100%. I was born before the Civil Rights Act.

Show threadArp Laszlo • Comics • ADHDApr 6, 2023

@mlbellar @georgetakei I hear you, but I get the sense that the rot is much, much, much deeper than imagined, in every single area of government.

Frankly it'll be a miracle if the Republic survives.

Show threadResistor McResistanceFaceApr 6, 2023

@arpcomics @georgetakei

Without term limits and ending Citizen's United it most likely will not.

Show threadArp Laszlo • Comics • ADHDApr 6, 2023

@mlbellar @georgetakei And outlawing gerrymandering, and enforcing it. And fixing SCOTUS.

It's way bigger than what Biden can resolve.

Show threadMoriApr 6, 2023
@mlbellar @arpcomics @georgetakei Gerrymandering is, from my distance, the most fundamental problem. That the parties in power can change electorate boundaries to increase their votes is atrocious. Needs to be done by an apolitical authority whose only concern is creating and enforcing proper representative electorates.
Show threadmpmaddogApr 6, 2023
@georgetakei lets not forget..also a damn predator that got a free ride.
Show threadShelenn AyresApr 6, 2023
@georgetakei What needs to happen is - voters elect more Democrats to gain and sustain majority rule in Congress, Senate, and Executive, expand the court by two seats to better represent the electorate, and hold elected officials accountable for impeachment and conviction of corrupt judiciary members (where warranted). It is literally the job of Congress to start the process Article I, Section 2, Clause 5 but they need a majority to do their job and so does the Senate.
Show threadPlineyTheNewer 🇺🇦🌻Apr 6, 2023
@shelenn @georgetakei Four seats. The count of nine seats was that so each Justice could preside over one federal circuit court. There are now 13 federal circuits.
Show threadCykonotApr 6, 2023
@georgetakei yeah, it's not illegal when he does it, and citizens united makes sure no one will stop him
Show threadSofaKingHighApr 6, 2023
@georgetakei how do you keep from turning in to a ball of hate towards people like this? I’m genuinely worried about the future that the gop is trying to make us go through. You always seem so positive.
Show threadRoo_44Apr 6, 2023

@georgetakei

Guess who I bumped into the other day at Walmart?

Show threadLingua FrancaApr 6, 2023
@georgetakei Holding the rich and powerful to account is the difference between government and anarchy.
Show threadCharApr 6, 2023
@georgetakei Thomas has never not been corrupt. You could tell from his confirmation hearings.
Show threadScottinSoCal 🇺🇦 🕊 🏳‍🌈Apr 6, 2023

@georgetakei

Thomas got the gig because he's corrupt. It was part of the interview.

Show threadSammieSungApr 6, 2023
@georgetakei there are a lot of ethical conflicts that should be against the law but are not because the people making the laws benifit from them.
Show threadPatricia LavataiApr 6, 2023
@sammiesung @georgetakei
We are not a true Democracy…we are an Imperialistic Republic.
Every single country that was once a Republic has collapsed.
Rome comes to mind.
Show threadblsApr 6, 2023
@georgetakei Impeachment!
Show threadI_am_adoranleApr 6, 2023
@georgetakei maybe
Show threadSam MercerApr 6, 2023
@georgetakei he's a fucking thug
Show threadWilliam HughesApr 6, 2023

#ChiefJusticeRoberts is probably old school enough and enough of an institutionalist to conceivably pressure #ClarenceThomas to resign. He was the last Republican appointee from the pre Tea Party era.

#impeachthomas #ClarenceThomasRESIGN

Show threadBocephusfuApr 6, 2023

@wdhughes

What have the right wing republicans done the last 10 years that would lead you to believe any admission of ethics violations let alone republican accountability for their’ descent into total fäscism?

Show threadBocephusfuApr 6, 2023
@wdhughes
Make no mistake!
Total whïte male christo-fäscism is where Republican Party is headed with the aid of some POC .
Show threadWilliam HughesApr 6, 2023

#ChiefJusticeRoberts was trying to get people to leave Roe & Casey in place but lower the viability standard to 15 weeks. That's probably why Alito leaked the opinion overturning those & showing the 4 names who had agreed to do that with him.

Roberts isn't some progressive unicorn or anything, but he almost certainly is an institutionalist. He's definitely an old school Republican jurist. I'm sure he believes #SCOTUS is ideally an impartial arbiter of law. He might even be more or less ethical in his day to day.

Show threadCatherine is not complacentApr 6, 2023
@georgetakei this is why I avoided purity politics and voted for Hillary. For me it was about the SCOTUS , I had an idea of what would happen if TFG got into office and I’m sorry that I was right.
Show threadRob LandleyApr 6, 2023
@georgetakei Nor will Biden ever expand the court.
Show threadArp Laszlo • Comics • ADHDApr 6, 2023
@georgetakei He can't resign, he's getting paid (not by US citizens) to do a job. The gravy train ends the day he's not on SCOTUS & has no value to his owners.
Show threadJackEnrodApr 6, 2023
@georgetakei He’s always been a POS.
Show threadKerri LevineApr 6, 2023

@georgetakei

Oh yeah, they're going insane because Judge Merchan apparently gave...*GASP*...$15 to the Biden Harris campaign in 2020.

A quick poll:

Which judge will the #FarReich completely lose their shit over?

Clarence Thomas
0%
Juan Merchan
0%
Poll ended at .
Show threadNeil JoinsonApr 7, 2023
@georgetakei He should be disbarred.
Show threadΩ 🌍 Gus PoseyApr 7, 2023
@georgetakei This is just a chance for him to more closely adhere to the GOP model. That gang of lying perverts must be very proud.
Show threadDr. Unabart  Apr 7, 2023
@georgetakei @rasterweb No, he shouldn’t resign. He should be arrested and rejected from holding any form ofmpublic office ever again. I mean, fine, I’ll take a resignation, but I’d rather see the justice receive justice.
Show threadPete Prodoehl 🍕Apr 7, 2023
@Unabart @georgetakei Totally agree, but the system is broken so what will actually happen?
Show threadDr. Unabart  Apr 7, 2023
@rasterweb @georgetakei Start by auditing ALL the justices for stuff like this. If all of them have problems, replace them all. Crooks befriend crooks from the top down and bottom up. I’ll tell you what isn’t effective: marching, knitting, online signatures, complaining on social media (guilty). These people don’t smell smoke until their own asses are on fire. Grab the gas can and matches and game on.
Show threadHowdyApr 8, 2023
@georgetakei I agree
Show threadLetsgo2023Apr 10, 2023

@georgetakei

Resign? I don't think they know that word

Show threadJoseph WheelerApr 13, 2023
@georgetakei Remember Biden helped confirm him.