I Have Me A Question
Okay, I’m sorry but this is going to take a while to tell because it has a lot of pieces.
I’m gonna start with this. Ginni Thomas, the wife of Clarence Thomas is just one teeter or totter (either one) away from being of questionable brain balance. She sent a letter to Rick DeSantis’ scheduling people and wanted them to know right off the bat how important she is.
She wanted DeSantis to join one of her secret rightwing groups.
Emails we obtained, reported on by @politico, suggest that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is in regular contact with Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.
In a June 2021, Ginni Thomas said DeSantis should be familiar with her because “my husband has been in contact with him[.]” pic.twitter.com/R8Sj3thLgC
— American Oversight (@weareoversight) February 4, 2022
Now, it’s all pretty damn silly but right up there in the first paragraph she drops a bomb. This is in June, 2021. She writes, “my husband has been in contact with him too various things of late.”
Kaboom! In trying to make herself look important, she made her husband look, I dunno, like an idiot. What the hell has a supreme court justice been doing chatting with a Governor – a highly political one, at that – “about various things.”
They begin and end the meeting with a prayer, and try to break no less than 5 or 6 of the commandments in between.
Twice she mentions a Cone of Silence. I like to consider myself a well educated and fairly worldly woman, but I had no idea what a cone of silence is. I have been to a meeting or two where they say “what’s said here, stays here,” but there was nothing about a damn cone.
I can work the Google. So I did and the very first thing #1 you get is that it’s a device from the 1960’s comedy Get Smart. And if you go to Wikipedia, you get more.
If you’re nostalgic, You Tube comes to the rescue. Or, here ya go.
Oh Ginni Thomas, the meetings are on Zoom, which is the exact opposite of Cone of Silence. Some 9th grader will have full transcripts of the meeting on TicToc in 48 hours, less if she doesn’t have homework.
For those who haven’t seen it yet, the New Yorker’s Jane Mayer recently did a deep dive into various of Ginni’s machinations and Clarence’s resulting conflicts of interest, well worth reading if more than a little infuriating
1https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/01/31/is-ginni-thomas-a-threat-to-the-supreme-court
There is a consistent thread of ironic hubris among conservatives. Or maybe a belief in a magic cloud where their stuff goes to hide, and no way can a “mere” teenager with a keyboard retrieve it. Yeah. D’oh. Sorry Ginni but liberals tried to tell you guys all that post 9/11 Homeland Security and NSA data trapping you wanted would … yeah … oops. Guess Mittens R$Money failed to pass on his saga of a busboy with a phone.
Is hubris becoming another synonym for stupid?
2Ginni seems to have the Deluxe Cone Of Silence model. It works both ways, we can’t hear her, she can’t hear anything she doesn’t want to hear. Cone Of Silence With Echo Chamber.
3One of Get Smart’s running gags was that the Cone of Silence never worked. This appears to still be the case.
4el lagrato #1
I found a particularly strange instance in Mayer’s article when someone talks about how Clarence was just tickled that Ginni was “running” one of her fascist meetings with him sitting there looking like a grinning idiot.
I got nothing to say except the only way someone could probably explain Ginni and Clarence’s s home life is with a set of puppets and a good psychologist.
5In Gin Soaked Thomas’defense she was probably just drunk
6Your supreme court of the federalist society at work (as pointed out in the Friday toons). No corruption there, right? Justice is truly blind to it.
7Once again, channel the outrage into voting and encouraging voting.
8We asked for it.
The “cone of silence” probably just means “Everybody keep your mouths shut,” but there are protected, secure spaces called SCIFs, that guard against electronic surveillance, used for extremely private conversations and data storage. They’re maintained by the DOD, and serve pretty much the same purpose as the “cone of silence” in Get Smart.
Ginni Thomas and her husband Justice Clarence need to be removed from the Supreme Court. Their activities have to make him subject to all sorts of conflicts of interest, which he ignores.
9angela#5, don’t forget the package of Oreos.
10It amazes me how consistently politicians think they can get away with things, both personally and occupationally, that no one will ever know about when it always comes out in the end.
OK, maybe we only THINK everything comes out. What does may only be the tip of the iceberg. No wonder they keep trying.
11The problem is – we’re stuck with him (and her) until he dies. But we knew that as soon as Anita Hill testified.
12No surprise here1 They lived in my area for some time before moving further out in the country. Neither one of them is, shall we say tactfully, pitch perfect. Very high twit factor.
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