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It felt good to get back to work today after my absence when I was sick. It was a tiring day but I'm so grateful for a job where I can use my talents. (Photo was taken while I was waiting on the train platform this morning.)
Agree about the “post-Brett Kavanaugh era” … but would like to suggest it really began with Clarence Thomas - chosen by ironyless Republicans as their answer to the majestic Thurgood Marshall - and his (Thomas’s) deceitful responses and puffed-up indignation.
re "ironyless":
A spot-on descriptor. This reader would add the word "cynical" to the mix regarding the Thomas nomination. Bush 41 and his right-wing enablers knew *exactly* what they were doing. Despicable.
I watched it on TV. I didn’t doubt Anita Hill for a moment. And Thomas! Played on their white guilt … then voted against affirmative action (although he got his Justiceship because of it). As you say, despicable.
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Lest we forget, Sen. Biden went out of his way to help make this abomination happen.
That's funny--Thomas disagrees.
He thinks Senator Biden was actually the main man responsible for his so-called "high-tech lynching". He's never stopped holding a grudge against him for it.
It's no exaggeration to say that Thomas almost certainly considers his votes for Supreme Court rulings during President Biden's administration the most "poetic" revenge on him imaginable. His wife certainly does.
Call all this a demonstration, if you will, of Joe Biden's unwitting, tragic--yet darkly hilarious-…
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