‘Last Week Tonight’: John Oliver Returns To HBO & Offers To Pay Clarence Thomas $1M A Year To “Get The F*** Off The Supreme Court”

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.

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

It's not illegal, though. That was a big part of the whole offer.

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.

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Heads in the sand.

I mean ... it would point out how all those other people bribed Justice Thomas already then, too, huh ?

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

Yup. Fuck Apple. Fuck Blizzard... Man, there's a list now... Whose keeping track? Please post it.

let is it happen indeed

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.

To the high seas it is then!

It's also quite funny.

Nope. They need an amoral chode in place to defend white/christian nationalism.

Which is vaguely ironic considering.

It's a well-known recorded fact that he is.

Plus, taking the deal would be publically admitting that he knows what he's currently doing is wrong.

Good. If people can just straight up buy Supreme Court justices they should at least be expensive.