# Clarence Thomas secretly accepted luxury vacations from GOP donor without disclosing **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [April 6, 2023, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clarence-thomas-secretly-accepted-luxury-vacations-from-gop-donor-without-disclosing/982252 "2023-04-06T14:10:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 392
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2023, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clarence-thomas-secretly-accepted-luxury-vacations-from-gop-donor-without-disclosing/982252/392 "2023-05-09T17:25:19Z")
I’d ask the proverbial Court’s indulgence to take a quick glance at this previous post … of mine: > [@What's wrong with Democrats?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-democrats/955842/64): > > It’s hard to compete when: a) You generally try to play by the rules, and: b) You’re using “Factoring in estimated hysteresis, the planet’s average temperature is poised to rise by 3\*C over the next ten years” against their: They’re turning this country socialist, like Venezuela They’re giving this country over to illegals and brown people They’re going to ban your guns and your religion They’re teaching your children to be ashamed of their race, their heterosexuality, and their ethnicity Th… I think the SCOTUS Ethics issue kind of falls under the general rubric that I laid out in that other thread. Like nearly everything else the LW wants to talk about, it’s perfectly valid, important, and the facts are on our side. But the other side is SCREAMING that Drag Queens are _called_ ‘drag queens’ because they’re all dragging your kids back to their dens of iniquity. And a million other Pure Bullshit Stories that – jointly and severally – represent an existential threat. How do you win … how do you even make progress … when the other side has 400,000,000+ guns to your head and has – er – the vastly more credulous half the country believing you’re their mortal enemy? A Doper mentioned a quote – something like, “In a divorce, the asshole usually wins.” I am still at a profound loss to figure out how to beat an absolutely amoral, and essentially horrible, asshole opponent. So I think of the SCOTUS ethical issues in that context. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clarence-thomas-secretly-accepted-luxury-vacations-from-gop-donor-without-disclosing/982252)._