Friday, April 14: Shifting Goalposts
Who among us hasn't had a nazi-loving billionaire purchase our mother's home??
Remember that shady right-wing billionaire we talked about last week who was providing supreme court justice Clarence “life, laugh, loves a lavish lifestyle” Thomas with trips on his private jet? Well it turns out that’s not all the supreme court scumbag was accepting.
Harlan Crow, a name fit for a Batman villain, also apparently purchased three properties belonging to Clarence Thomas and his family, in transactions worth upward of $100,000, transactions that Thomas conveniently never reported, according to the excellent non-profit investigative journalism of ProPublica. Now Republican supporters are again scrambling to find a way to justify this latest ethical breach.
It was revealed last week that Crow collected Nazi memorabilia and had a “Garden of Evil” at one of his palatial homes, filled with statues of some of the most hated leaders from the 20th Century. In the aftermath of these revelations, republican talking heads lined up on cable news shows to try and convince people that this was perfectly normal behavior. I mean who doesn’t have a few signed copies of Mein Kampf lying around the house?
Now the goal posts will inevitably shift again, anything to keep from acknowledging the fact that a justice in the most powerful position in the country has been bought and paid for.
Side Items
Commanders Sold Off: After decades of mismanagement and all-around sleazy behavior, Dan Snyder, the slimiest of slimy NFL owners, has agreed to sell the Washington Football Team for just over $6 billion. Not a bad transaction for a guy who originally bought the team for $750 million. Fans of the team can breathe a deep sigh of relief that soon, the name Dan Snyder will be a distant memory, albeit a terrible one
Pentagon Leaker ID’d: The FBI arrested a 21-year-old Massachusetts Air National Guardsman at his mother’s home (or course) in the recent leak of highly classified military intelligence documents. Jack Teixeira was the administrator of a Discord chat group called “Thug Shaker Central”, where the classified materials first surfaced. Clueless president Joey Biden did his best to downplay the leaks, saying he wasn’t concerned about the leak. In fairness, the dinosaur was probably more worried about his next Jell-O feeding session
70 Years for Spitting: A Texas man was sentenced to 70 years in prison for spitting at police officers in Lubbock. Larry Pearson, 36, was arrested in May last year for domestic violence and was apparently upset that the victim of his attack was not arrested instead. He expressed his frustration by kicking at the doors of the police car, and when officers opened the door to tell him to stop, he spit at them. During closing arguments of the sentencing of Pearson’s trial, the prosecutor asked the jury to consider a number that would “send a message” to society