Clarence Thomas gives away how afraid he is of what comes next
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, famous for having very rarely spoken over the past few decades, is now making a point of loudly complaining about how the recently leaked abortion memo has supposedly ruined the sanctity of the court.
This has brought about the usual lamenting about how awful it is that Thomas is on the court, how absurd it is that Thomas cast the lone vote to suppress January 6th evidence that just happened to incriminate his wife, and so on. Such lamenting is accurate, and perhaps well earned, but not productive – if only because it misses the point of what’s going on here.
Stop and ask yourself why Clarence Thomas, who entered the Supreme Court as a scandalous figure and then spent his career lying low in the hope of keeping heat off himself, is choosing now to run his mouth in such odious fashion. He has to know that talking like this just brings more attention to his wife’s sedition crimes, and for that matter the felony obstruction of justice he committed when he cast a vote that he secretly knew was aimed at preventing his wife from going to prison. Yet here’s Thomas anyway, running his mouth, and hanging a neon sign over his head that reads “Don’t forget that my wife and I are criminals.”
There’s only one reason for Thomas to be doing this: desperation. His blather about the sanctity of the Supreme Court isn’t some devious master stroke. It’s a panic move. It’s the stupid thing that desperate people do, when their emotions have gotten the best of them. Thomas and his literal partner in crime were fading out of the headlines. Now Thomas just put himself and his wife back in the headlines.
It’s important that we spot a desperate stupid panic move like this when we see it. It’s how we determine which villains are vulnerable, what they’re afraid of, how close they are to their breaking point, and which buttons we need to push in order to get them to implode in a way that takes them down.
Clarence Thomas is only pushing this stupid panicked narrative because he’s desperately hoping it’ll stick. But it’ll only stick if we let it stick, by passively sitting around and lamenting about it, instead of using it to our advantage. Now is the time to ramp up the pressure on Thomas, who is at least to some degree cracking. Clarence and Ginni Thomas are the ones who are on the ropes here, not us. Let’s keep that in mind as we move forward.
