Before the Trump Era, there were so many historic political norms which were already being eroded. But in the Trump Era, there are no more “norms.” There is no more “convention.” There is no historical precedent or unwritten, cursory grace and dignity. The Republican Party is just a steaming pile of anarchy, violence, terrorism, rape, hypocrisy, misogyny, lies and white supremacy. My point here is that historically, the spouses of Supreme Court justices followed an unwritten rule which was basically like “don’t be a f–king wingnut.” Many SCOTUS spouses have their own political views and possibly even publicly support particular candidates. But the unspoken norm is that a SC Justice wants to appear to be above the political fray, and that goes for his or her family too.
Well, not so for Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, wife of Justice Clarence Thomas. They’re both bottom-feeding conservative freaks, but even before Trump came around, Ginni defied historical norms of a SCOTUS spouse by gleefully and prominently advocating for patriarchy, sexism, misogyny, racism, homophobia, all of it. She has been all-in on Donald Trump, of course. So much so that she blessed all of the terrorists before the Capitol siege:
‘God bless each of you,’ Ginni Thomas wrote in a Facebook post to support the attempted takeover of the Capitol. Ginni Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, shared support for the rioters who stormed the Capitol on Wednesday.
On Facebook, Mrs. Thomas expressed explicit love for the violent chaos carried out by supporters of outgoing President Donald Trump, who are against the confirmation of President-elect Joe Biden. Mark Joseph Stern, a staff writer at Slate, shared screenshots of the status updates on Twitter. In one post, she shared “LOVE” to the MAGA crowd, offering support and suggesting others to tune in to the riot. In another Facebook status, she stated, in mostly all caps, “God bless each of you standing up or praying!”
According to Stern, Thomas has not posted since.
I’m including the screencaps of Ginni Thomas’s Facebook below – apparently, she has deleted those messages, or Facebook deleted them. There’s also evidence that she not only supported terrorism morally and in writing, but she also paid for buses to get the terrorists into Washington so they could attempt a coup. She’s on the Board of Governors of CNP Action, which transported seditious traitors and terrorists in 70-80 buses to DC.
On the morning of Jan. 6, Ginni Thomas—wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas—endorsed the protest demanding that Congress overturn the election, then sent her “LOVE” to the demonstrators, who violently overtook the Capitol several hours later. She has not posted since. pic.twitter.com/378CHMkFN5
— Mark Joseph Stern (@mjs_DC) January 8, 2021
This is not normal. It should not be normalized. We deserve better. https://t.co/GNcBz5OdZ3
— Sheldon Whitehouse (@SenWhitehouse) January 9, 2021
Photos courtesy of Avalon Red, Getty.
He should go ahead and resign….for reasons beyond this, but this will do.
They’re BOTH garbage. Him for the obvious (see Anita Hill), AND the fact he never recused himself from ANYTHING she was connected with when it came up before SCOTUS; SHE is an aiding and abetting seditious insurrectionist. I’m sure the $$$ to pay for those buses came from a joint account. They BOTH need to be jailed for their part.
So she’s saying that she loves cop killers? And loves people who beat cops? And loves people who promote the Jewish death camps and pretend that they are the staff of such camps? And loves white supremists? And loves people who build bombs and plant bombs in Washington D.C. ?
They are both horrible, and his refusal to recuse himself is unethical and immoral in my opinion. The right thing to do is to to step down, both for his own failures and because he is married to someone who openly, plainly and fervently showed her support for those who sought to undermine our democrary and do harm to our leaders.
She is on the board of Charlie Kirk’s right wing nut job group. They paid for the buses.
She chooses to be married to a sexual predator, so clearly she has serious issues.
If she is this involved with the sedition – to a degree that is public knowledge – the more moderate members of the Supreme Court should probably watch their backs.
See, it pays to read the article and not just the headline. I thought she cheered those who were fighting OFF the mob. I am shocked with what she posted and dumbfounded she is that stupid to post her praise for what was happening. WOW. JUST WOW.
I had seen murmurs of this on Twitter and I thought the posters MUST be wrong. This is so, so bad.
She has been horrible for decades. I wouldn’t be at all surprised if she is knee deep in Q.
I remember hearing a story about this b@tch years ago. She left a message for Anita Hill telling her she needed to apologize to her husband. She’s been awful for decades.
They deserve each other.
As my grandmother would have said: birds of a feather flock together. But in her native language.
I remember that story. That call came over a decade after the Senate hearings and well after Prof. Hill had moved states and jobs and had a different phone number.
So that crazy beeyotch had to track Prof. Hill down to leave that insane message demanding she apologize for telling the truth about Clarence Thomas.
Thomas is nuttier than a fruitcake.
Ginni Thomas funded the attempted coup through Charlie Kirk and Turning Point USA (TPUSA) and several other groups headed by Kirk. He rented over 80 buses to transport terrorists to Washington DC and rented hotel rooms for them, using Thomas’s money. He bragged about it all over Twitter, Parler, and Facebook, urging people to sign up and fight for Trump and promising it would be an historic day they would be proud to take part in. When it all started going bad, he tried to claim ANTIFA had infiltrated his group. On Thursday, he started deleting all of it, as if people didn’t take screen shots and the FBI doesn’t have forensic experts who can find things on your server. Fox still had him on as a commentator last night.
omg fox!
My god – she is disgusting. WTF is she thinking of. She is supporting Trumpers and many of them are white supremacists???? She married a black man!!!!!! There are white supremacists who hate bi-racial couples and would love to do them harm. How disgusting can this woman be to support white supremacists???
She married known sexual harasser Clarence Thomas so she’s as disgusting as her husband.
I wonder if he’ll have a Pence moment where he realizes that he gave up his soul and put other BIPOC persons at dire risk with his rulings only to find out that the MAGA people only want him as long as he’s doing their bidding – they wouldn’t actually want him at their dinner table.
I read about her over the weekend. Her evil intentions are crystal clear. Aiding and abetting insurrection.
She’s been a well known HORRIBLE person for years so I’m not surprised. A family friend who was involved in DC politics knew a lot of dirt. She was known for calling anyone who disagreed with her or her husband and screaming at them over the phone. A lot of vile language.
So she’s “Capitol Karen”
Haha! Yes, that’s perfect. Or Kapitol Karen if there was a way to get another K in there.
She & her husband are garbage people. In my opinion, the Republican party became awful when Reagan got into office. Reagan’s administration made it possible for a monster like Trump to get into office.
they both are horrible, even if they say she paid for the buses, they are married, so it’s their money that funded those domestic terrorists. These people seem to be so proud and then go into hiding after the fact. They should own it.
There were major issues with her during Bush v. Gore in 2000. Thomas needed to recuse himself from that decision and did not.
Who is surprised? She showed her colors when she enabled a sexual predator and ruined the life of a decent person trying to do the right thing.
They’re BOTH the same way. Believe me he supports the white supremacists. CT has always voted AGAINST anything that would bring equal rights to black….Anything. There are always a few black men like that. I counted 4 black men from the videos of the coup. And saw 1black woman.
Hi Mee Yo, our family saw that, too. As well as some brown people, the same color, as the asylum seekers being dehumanized. I will never understand that. But I would rather focus my rage on the white people who actually have all the power and are exploiting people of color by pretending to accept them while taking action that harms them. I really don’t know how gaslit the people of color who join the MAGAS must be. They must believe it will be different for them? I don’t know. I can understand some embracing conservatism as it once was fabled to be. But once you see what it really is and the bludgeon it’s apparent as now, I can’t understand hanging onto it.
Same thing for the women these vile white supremacists use to put a “softer” spin on their hatred. They’ll use you until you cease to be useful, and you’ll never be the priority or even an equal. If the whole movement is based on otherizing or subjugating whole classes of people, the writing is on the wall and anyone stupid enough to believe otherwise deserves what they get.
This disgusting Serena Joy and her stupid husband (he is widely known to be out of his depth when compared to the rest of SCOTUS, which is why he rarely speaks…) can have all the seats. He should be removed for THEIR involvement in this seditious plot. She and Pompeo’s wife are tied for Worst Washington Spouse.
This is terrifying and completely unacceptable.
He should be forced to resign. He has always, always been awful but this is next level problematic. His wife supported an attempted coup publicly. How can this not have ramifications for him as a supreme court justice. This is all so frustrating and maddening.
Damn, those two really got the faces they deserve…
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