Right-Wing Travel
Why park your RV in a Walmart parking lot when you can park yourself on the deck of a billionaire's super yacht?
Hi all,
While doing research for this cartoon, I kept finding myself saying, “wait, what?” Or, “you can DO that?” Or combined both into, “wait, there’s NO WAY you can do THAT!”
And since I finished the cartoon, we found out it was even worse that it looked. (An insider tells me yet another Clarence Thomas shocker is on the way.) Now instead of *just* luxury travel, Republican billionaire Harlan Crow appears to have bought Clarence Thomas’ mom a, um, house.
I definitely don’t think you can do that. But then again, I’m just a cartoonist . . .
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas likes to bill himself as a regular guy who spends time in Walmart parking lots in his RV.
In truth, it appears that he actually prefers private jet travel and spending time on a luxury super yacht with a Republican billionaire, surrounded by corporate executives, political operatives, Federalist Society lawyers.
Thanks to reporting by ProPublica, the intersection between partisan politics and a Supreme Court justice is a little less secret than before.
Billionaire Harlan Crow, who regularly treats Clarence Thomas and his election-denying wife Ginni Thomas to luxury travel and vacations, says they’re just good friends. (Good friends who happen to enjoy spending time in the company of Republican political operatives, corporate executives and a top Trump administration official while ol’ Harlan foots the bill.)
It all stinks to high heaven, is clearly unethical and is damaging to the Supreme Court and the entire U.S. justice system.
When a Supreme Court justice has no regard for ethics, why should anyone else? Unfortunately that’s the question that too many people will likely ask themselves.
In other news . . .
I’ve recently begun to post my work here on Substack, where you’ll be able to keep up with my cartooning (and writing).
Now is the part where I humbly ask you to consider chipping in to keep this animated satire operation going, by subscribing here on Substack or on Patreon.
Thanks, I’ll see you back here shortly!
-Mark