Sloppy Slappy<\/b><\/p>\n
And his nutball souse, Gin-soaked<\/b><\/p>\n
March 24th<\/sup> 2022<\/i><\/p>\n Bryan Zepp Jamieson<\/i><\/p>\n Back in the early nineties, in the wake of the Anita Hill testimony during the confirmation hearings for Clarence Thomas, a fellow named Bartcop, host of a website then known as \u201cRush Limbaugh: Lying Nazi Whore\u201d (eventually Bartcop.com) bestowed an ineradicable nickname on Thomas: \u201cSlappy.\u201d Bartcop, sadly, has since died, but I still use the nickname he bestowed gleefully.<\/p>\n Various right wingers have tried telling me that calling him \u201cSlappy\u201d is racist, somehow. One fellow even tried telling me that it was a veiled reference to vaudeville comedian Slappy White, an allegation that collapsed when it came about that the only thing remotely racist about this almost-forgotten comedian was his last name.<\/p>\n \u201cSlappy\u201d is demeaning and vulgar, but Slappy has that coming, now more so than ever. Bartcop used it to refer to the man\u2019s predilection for pornography. He knew, as many of us did, that Slappy would always be a bad joke on the court, a result of the Republicans sneering effort at tokenism, replacing the brilliant Thurgood Marshall with the notion that one Negro is just as good as any other Negro. Just the fact that Slappy lacked the self-respect to balk at an open slap at African-Americans told us he was intellectually and emotionally unsuited to the position. The thinly veiled racist antics of the Senate committee, the same as what we are seeing now, included Joe Biden and Ted Kennedy. It was a disgraceful performance, one that the Senate has made a standard rather than a failure.<\/p>\n On January 19th<\/sup>, 2022, the Court ruled 8-1 that Trump must turn over emails and texts to the Select Committee for Investigation into the events of January 6th<\/sup>, when Trump supporters attempted a coup against the United States.<\/p>\n Slappy was the lone dissenting vote. By itself, that wasn\u2019t too noteworthy. Slappy is often the lone dissenting vote in what might otherwise be \u2018slam the door, Katie\u2019 cases, based on his inimical opposition to rights, especially of minorities, and a deep misunderstanding of what the Constitution stands for. We just waved our hands and muttered \u201cSlappy\u201d in the same tone of voice we use when the neighbor\u2019s dog craps in the yard.<\/p>\n Today more of the texts and emails Trump had to turn over despite Slappy\u2019s opposition came to light, and it turns out that some of the most damning ones were between then-Chief of Staff Mark Meadows and…Slappy\u2019s wife, Virginia \u201cGinny\u201d Thomas. Let\u2019s just call her \u201cGin Soaked.\u201d I have no idea if she has a drinking problem, or drinks at all, but she sure behaves like someone with a serious emotional and mental impairment.<\/p>\n According to the Philadelphia Inquirer, \u201c<\/i>The messages – 29 in all – reveal an extraordinary pipeline between Virginia Thomas, who goes by Ginni, and President Donald Trump’s top aide during a period when Trump and his allies were vowing to go to the Supreme Court in an effort to negate the election results.<\/i><\/p>\n \u201cOn Nov. 10, after news organizations had projected Joe Biden the winner based on state vote totals, Thomas wrote to Meadows: \u2018Help This Great President stand firm, Mark!!!…You are the leader, with him, who is standing for America’s constitutional governance at the precipice. The majority knows Biden and the Left is attempting the greatest Heist of our History.\u2019\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n \u201c…<\/i>Among Thomas’s stated goals in the messages was for lawyer Sidney Powell, who promoted incendiary and unsupported claims about the election, to be \u2018the lead and the face\u2019 of Trump’s legal team.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n Some of you may remember Sidney Powell. She is the \u201crelease the Kraken\u201d conspiracy theorist who was in fact the litigious face of Trump\u2019s efforts to overturn the election until her antics caught up to her and she was sanctioned for “a historic and profound abuse of the judicial process.”<\/p>\n The emails, by themselves, are prima facie<\/i> evidence that Gin-Soaked was complicit in efforts to overturn, negate, and otherwise rescind the election (\u2018rescind\u2019 was the word Trump used in conversations with former ally Mo Brooks on numerous occasions). Gin-Soaked may end up being subpoenaed to explain some of what she wrote, and asked about how involved Slappy may have been in this. It\u2019s even possible she could face criminal charges.<\/p>\n Were it not for his vote to hide the emails, which included hers, Slappy may have survived this disgrace as he has survived so many others. But his vote, a clear and self-evident conflict of interest, would have been a criminal act on any other court in the country. Only the Supreme Court is self-excused from the standards expected of every other judge in the country.<\/p>\n In a normal, non-corrupt government, a Supreme Court Justice embarrassed by such wanton and outlandish antics of a family member would resign. But Slappy is a sad little creature, bereft of self-respect and clinging desperately to his unearned power. He won\u2019t resign.<\/p>\n And the Senate won\u2019t impeach him. Far too many Republicans are too corrupt, too cowardly, too contemptuous of the American people. This week\u2019s hearings for the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson showed the depraved ethical and moral depths Republicans have sunk to, between vicious racial attacks, ridiculous flouncing and performance art, and the unbridled efforts of Christian fascists to block people of impure faith, which would be about 85% of the country. They couldn\u2019t impeach Trump, who belongs in prison. They won\u2019t impeach Slappy.<\/p>\n No, the members of the Supreme Court are going to have to sit down with Slappy and pressure him to resign. Some of them\u2014including some of the right wingers\u2014are uneasily aware that their credibility is hanging by a thread, and if the Slappy scandal goes the way I think it will go, it may destroy the consensual basis that the Court needs to function. Only they can do it.<\/p>\n Clarence \u201cSlappy\u201d Thomas must go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sloppy Slappy And his nutball souse, Gin-soaked March 24th 2022 Bryan Zepp Jamieson Back in the early nineties, in the wake of the Anita Hill testimony during the confirmation hearings for Clarence Thomas, a fellow named Bartcop, host of a website then known as \u201cRush Limbaugh: Lying Nazi Whore\u201d (eventually Bartcop.com) bestowed an ineradicable nickname … <\/p>\n