The GOP better damn well hope & pray Clarence Thomas is “just” hiding from his dumpster fire of a wife’s text message treason because the way the actuarial tables and his karma are set up… 🥴
To clarify for the folk who don’t speak shade: if the GOP thought covering up a treason conspiracy with an infection/hospitalization conspiracy smack dab in the middle of a SCOTUS confirmation for the 1st Black woman Justice was a brilliant strategy, they need to HOPE & PRAY.
Whoever came up with said strategy is not only guilty but overpaid & dumb as hell too because why would you remind us that Clarence’s days on the court should/could be numbered when we’re STILL trying to avenge the loss of Obama’s stolen SCOTUS seat? Y’all thought we forgot? 🤷🏾♀️
There really aren’t even that many plausible options, either he *was* gravely ill & there’s risk of ongoing issues (like an urgent need to take extended medical leave) OR he *is* on the mend physically but his ego & career are still on life support because he’s a treason weasel.
All true but the problem for them is they aren’t God even though they pretend to be on TV. If he has a medical illness or morbidity/mortality risk ratio beyond their control over the next 2 years, their only option is doubling down on Constitutional crises to hold the line.
The real tea is we wouldn’t even be asking these questions if the story they’re telling made sense and didn’t sound like a crime in progress…
Actually the real tea is the judgment he deserves can really only be dished out by a higher power and natural selection. He messed with the WRONG ones too many times. #AmericanSociopath#LetItBurn
Since we’re on the subject of Republican hypocrisy/misogyny/racism/homophobia/transphobia (and other assorted SCOTUS confirmation bullshit), here’s a throwback to the Keg Stand Kavanaugh tantrums they tolerated without uttering a single objection. 🧾 #KlanBehavior#WeBeenKnew
Black women supporting Kamala Harris’ presidential bid/VP nod, as well as Joe Biden’s early declaration of his commitment to nominating a Black woman to the SCOTUS & a woman as @VP, as well as Jim Clyburn’s 2nd guessed endorsement of Biden above ALL else, tried to tell Y’ALL.
It might be unpopular but it’s also true that the EXACT same nuance is required to understand why the Black American voting majority enthusiastically supported both the “crime bill” in 1994 AND Bill & Hillary Clinton from the 90s until now.
Feels like I’ve mentioned this blindspot umpteen times before, but here it goes again for the nosebleed seats. People need to understand that “defund the police” rhetoric on the far left inevitably catalyzes White fearmongering about Black “lawlessness” on the far right. 🙃
In other words, the folk whose main goal is perpetuating fuckery of the Democratic party’s agenda and its marginalized base want nothing more than to paint BIPOC communities as resistant to law & order while simultaneously aiding & abetting White supremacist domestic terrorism.
The thing that’s always struck me about this (not only as a Black woman but also as a psychiatrist IRL who’s literally tasked with helping people cope with stress, illness and the ups & downs of life) is the Black woman savior complex of it all. It’s subconscious but ubiquitous.
As with many things in America, I also think it’s yet another sociological phenomenon brought to us by slavery. A lot of White family systems fell apart (continue to) without the presence of a Mammy or some form of matriarchal Black help in the home. jstor.org/stable/2714687
Except for all intents/purposes, VA *was* TX not too long ago. The 2021 Gubernatorial election set back over a decade of hard-won progress by VA Democrats. It can happen in ANY historically or recently “blue” state at the drop of a dime, if enough White voters DEFECT/vote GOP. 🥴
The other thing to remember is #WeTriedToTellThem ALL of this shit was gonna happen (all over again) but HELL NO. This is yet another consequence of MAGAts who have both a death wish and outsized influence on every single public/private system in 🇺🇸 running the asylum. 🤡👹👺🦊