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

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‘Last Week Tonight’: John Oliver Returns To HBO & Offers To Pay Clarence Thomas $1M A Year To “Get The F*** Off The Supreme Court”
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Thomas is probably already being paid more than that to just keep doing what he's doing

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

Yeah, good point. Also, I think Oliver knows Thomas wouldn't take the offer (even if it was higher) and he's basically just doing this for the lols, which I can appreciate

I think it's more than just for the lolz...it reframes the issue. It makes you think "how could we get this POS off the bench?"

It's like when he buys up debt or whatever... He's demonstrating how the problem is clearly fixable, even if he only fixed one drop in the bucket