‘Last Week Tonight’: John Oliver Returns To HBO & Offers To Pay Clarence Thomas $1M A Year To “Get The F*** Off The Supreme Court”
‘Last Week Tonight’: John Oliver Returns To HBO & Offers To Pay Clarence Thomas $1M A Year To “Get The F*** Off The Supreme Court”
John Oliver started a new season of Last Week Tonight on HBO with a million-dollar offer to Clarence Thomas.
I saw this on twitter and it was really funny/bizarre to see how many blue check marks were going “wow… hope this MR OLIVER enjoys going to jail for BRIBERY” and like, making threats of ‘reporting him’, quoting legal statutes.
It’s just so goofy, like comically dumb. Aside from “obviously a joke” points, who are the big Clarence Thomas defenders??? Do people really just make their opinions based on “well, liberals don’t like him… which means he must be good!!”
Half of the schtick John Oliver is making is pointing out the absurdity of his offer being legal. The fact that people are reporting him just shows how they think there should be laws against paying off a Supreme Court judge, which is the exact point being made in the segment.
It's totally legal. He's not offering to pay Thomas to change his rulings or rule in his favor. It's so he resigns. Closer to an early retirement offer.
If the highest court in the land can be paid to go away, they shouldn't have been justices because they were in it for the money. It also says damning things about our society and how money can trump extreme satisfaction at your job.
Do people really just make their opinions based on “well, liberals don’t like him… which means he must be good!!”
That's exactly what those muppets do
Yeah, I have literally had people tell me they didn't like someone they voted for, but they really piss off the liberals.
It's not illegal, though. That was a big part of the whole offer.
I don't know man, a bunch of dipshits on Twitter are probably just as good as the lawyers John Oliver checked with.
Yeah, if influencing a judge on the bench isn't illegal, how would influencing one off of it be?
So... John would be bribing Thomas to NOT be a supreme court justice...? What... what do they imagine the penalty for that would be?
I get that most of these people aren't rational, but I'm struggling to even imagine what the mental gymnastics on this look like. Is there some penalty for bribing someone who is not a public official?
Yes that is what people base their opinions on.
Look, I'm just glad HBO let's it happen. Fucking Apple got their panties in a knot when Stewart just said words.
This is a topic that Apple probably wouldn’t have cared about. Stewart had a lot of episodes about terrible people in American government.
The rumored problem with The Problem is that he wanted to start tackling topics like China and AI. In the China example, Apple was probably terrified that China would do what they’ve done to every other media company that talk shit about the CCP. China halts sales of their products.
All in all, it’s not the words, it’s the money. It’s always about the money at the end of the day.
In the end, Stewart at least assumed that Apple knew what his messaging was, how hard he would work to send that message and how many zero fucks he gives.
In the end, Apple tucked tail and hid behind dollars and made it obvious.
At least HBO gives this vibe of, yes, he wastes our money to create large animatronic eagles, but wedges in building websites to absolutely fuck with people to get his message across. Oliver has never mentioned HBO saying no to him.
I am also in no way defending HBO. They have done some gross stuff, too. This is simply an Apple vs. HBO argument.
This is not HBOs money, it's actually his
I’d totally be willing chip in $20/month for the next 10 years.
Sally Struthers on the verge of tears: For less than the price of a cup of coffee each week, you can help remove a corrupt Supreme Court Justice and bring hope to millions.
I'd triple that. I'd eat Ramen twice a day to afford it but God dammit I'd do it.
Sometimes I think the world is full of people who would be worth bribing to go away. For example, businesses that save 3¢ per unit of some food product by using unsafe ingredients. If only we could just pay them 3¢ per unit not to do that!
I realize it feels awful to pay off evil people and it would incentivize even more bad behavior, but I'm just shocked at how much damage people are willing to do for so little benefit to themselves.
In case anyone wants to watch the video, like I do on Monday mornings, turns out HBO is now posting them on youtube on Thursdays so as to "drive up viewership" on Max.
To the high seas it is then!
It's also quite funny.
Will his handler/s allow that?
Nope. They need an amoral chode in place to defend white/christian nationalism.
Which is vaguely ironic considering.
After Roe v. Wade was overturned, there was a lot of speculation Loving V. Virgina would be on the chopping block next. I'd argue that's a strong contender for Irony, wouldn't you agree?
Thomas is probably already being paid more than that to just keep doing what he's doing
It's a well-known recorded fact that he is.
My guess is that Thomas will use this as an opening bid and see if he can get more from conservatives to wait until a Republican president is in office.
Good. If people can just straight up buy Supreme Court justices they should at least be expensive.
