Ginni Thomas, the hard-right wife of Clarence Thomas, wanted to intimidate voters in Virginia

[Anonymous]

Typical conservative strategy: use made-up falsehoods about "voter fraud" to gain Republican advantage by making it harder for poor people and minorites to vote.

Republican Party 2019<tm>: "The only way we can hold on to power is to cheat."

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/virginia-thomas-scotus-christian-adams-voter-fraud-campaign

According to the emails, Thomas reached out to Adams and other conservative activists, referencing Adams’ “Superb” report, to get their feedback on a “practical” and possibly “Awesome” idea. The idea was placing signs in “as many polling places in VA” that would list “the laws people may break if they do voter fraud.” Thomas suggested a “digital ad” as well.

Thank god for investigative sources that still care about truth like TPM. The right has corrupted many media sources with bothsideism, but TPM still does excellent work.

Thomas, meanwhile, asked about the possibility of using an outside group — such as the Virginia based PAC Middle Resolution — that could “target precincts most questionable.”

What's shocking to me is the depth of GOP lies. Do these cosseted mostly-white people like Ginni Thomas, flush with billionaires' money, really not know that voter fraud is a lie? Or do you think they've just said it to themselves enough times that they believe it?
We need better education in America. For white conservatives.

The fact is, voter suppression is real and it is often the only shot the GOP has to sneak their candidates into office.
https://www.vox.com/2019/1/24/18186741/voter-suppression-gerrymandering-carol-anderson

So there is, substantively, no real difference between the tactics used in Mississippi in 1890 and the tactics being used today.
Carol Anderson
No, there isn’t. The voter ID laws really echo what we saw in 1890.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
We need better education in America. For white conservatives.

This is so true and also made me laugh.

[Anonymous]

She is such a whack job.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:She is such a whack job.

She's a whack job with a direct line to the President.
Trump Meets With Hard-Right Group Led by Ginni Thomas
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/26/us/politics/trump-ginni-thomas-meeting.html

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:She is such a whack job.

She's a whack job with HUGE AMOUNTS OF POWER in the modern billionaire-controlled GOP.

That is the scary part.

The problem isn't whackadoodles. It's whackadoodles that ally with the rich to push a fascist (or at least oligarchic) agenda. One of the Q guys was in the white house. Quillette and NRO and Washington Examiner and Fox News all get money from billionaires, and that's just scratching the surface. Clarence Thomas is basically part of an insane pro-oligarch activist group. Mike Pompeo just said that traitorous behavior from the president is A-OK. Mike Pence - the VP - actively hates gay people. John Bolton, in the White House and formerly of AEI, and Bret Stephens, rightwing hack at the New York Times, both are chickenhawks who didn't serve but want to bomb Iran.

Scary time in America.

[Anonymous]

Nice crossed last two posts, 9:13 and 9:13

[Anonymous]

Has that nitwit joined any more cults lately?
Introducing her to one might help society.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Has that nitwit joined any more cults lately?
Introducing her to one might help society.

You're talking about Clarence or Ginni?

Uggggggh

[Anonymous]

More on Ginni Thomas’ recent activities.
https://theintercept.com/2019/06/04/ginni-thomas-trump-conservative-group/

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HOMAS AND MITCHELL announced the suite of projects at an invite-only gathering hosted by the Council for National Policy in McLean, Virginia, in mid-May. The CNP meetings are influential and secretive gatherings designed to advance a hard-edged view of social and political causes.

At the CNP event, Thomas issued a dark warning about a “cultural revolution,” a confrontation conservatives might lose unless they “help explain to America the fight against America.”

Thomas issued a dark warning about a “cultural revolution” — a confrontation conservatives might lose unless they “help explain to America the fight against America.”
The sweeping presentation covered a range of topics, including the “mob tactics” used by leftists against those wearing “Make America Great Again” hats and how the “hard left” has co-opted “the corporate community” to support a ban on housing and employment discrimination against LGBTQ people.

The campaign entities and O’Keefe project are among several initiatives to be “incubated” by Thomas’s Crowdsourcers initiative. The presentation lists efforts to “Build Robust Infrastructure,” led by Bill Meierling, chief marketing officer of the American Legislative Exchange Council, and “Brand the Left: You’ve Been Lied To!” led by direct-mail consultant Richard Viguerie.

Given that MAGA hats signify racism and hate (just ask the white people who buy them), this is just exceptional whining from Thomas.

How is it ok that we have a SCOTUS justice whose wife is funded by conservative billionaires to run programs based on lies?
And why is she mucking around in Virginia? Stay out of our business and keep your dirty donors’ money out of here too.

[Anonymous]

Ginni Thomas courting the president. So much for Republican SCOTUS justices being non-partisan.

Trump has been particularly solicitous of Justice Thomas and his wife Ginni, who is a vocal conservative activist. The Thomases dined with the Trumps at the White House this year. Soon after, Ginni Thomas led a group of fellow social conservatives in a one-hour meeting with Trump.

The Trump-Thomas relationship may have been responsible for retirement rumors...

for "vocal" read "insane".

https://www.npr.org/2019/07/12/741026492/justice-clarence-thomas-will-enter-his-29th-term-in-the-fall

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ginni Thomas courting the president. So much for Republican SCOTUS justices being non-partisan.

Trump has been particularly solicitous of Justice Thomas and his wife Ginni, who is a vocal conservative activist. The Thomases dined with the Trumps at the White House this year. Soon after, Ginni Thomas led a group of fellow social conservatives in a one-hour meeting with Trump.

The Trump-Thomas relationship may have been responsible for retirement rumors...

for "vocal" read "insane".

https://www.npr.org/2019/07/12/741026492/justice-clarence-thomas-will-enter-his-29th-term-in-the-fall

Absolutely disgusting

[Anonymous]

thanks for the reminder to clear my calendar in Nov 2020 for election protection work.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:thanks for the reminder to clear my calendar in Nov 2020 for election protection work.

Don’t you mean NOW for the Nov. 2019 election?

[Anonymous]

True - they just barely clung to power in 2017. Do not let them pull their bs games in 2019 in Virginia.

Yes, R’s, we’re on to you.

[Anonymous]

Informing people of laws they break and legal consequences if they vote illegally is cheating?