Oliver made the proposal on Sunday’s episode of his HBO show Last Week Tonight, saying the supreme court justice had 30 days to accept or it would expire.
The British-born comedian’s offer came after a steady drumbeat of media investigations in the previous several months established that Thomas failed to disclose that political benefactors bought him lavish vacation travel and real estate for his mother. Thomas also failed to disclose – as required – that he allowed school fees for a family member to be paid off and had been provided a loan to buy a luxury motor coach, all after openly complaining about the need to raise supreme court justices’ salaries.
As a result, Thomas’s impartiality came into question after he sided with the contentious ruling that eliminated the federal abortion rights once provided by the Roe v Wade case.
He also recently listened to arguments over whether Donald Trump can be removed from states’ ballots in the presidential election after the former president’s supporters – whom he told to “fight like hell” – staged the January 6 attack at the US Capitol in Washington DC. Thomas resisted pressure to recuse himself from such matters, even though his wife, Ginni Thomas, is a conservative political activist who has endorsed false claims from Trump and his supporters that the 2020 election he lost to Joe Biden was stolen from him.
I’m convinced that Stewart retired cause Oliver stole the source of his power when he left TDS to go to HBO.
I’d agree but. Stewart had a much harder job multiple days of the week imo. Oliver gets a week to really write gold. So Stewart still goated imo. Or his writing team was lol
Oliver’s team can spend months researching and writing individual episodes. They don’t cram those main segments into a single week of writing.
Yup very very true. Dunno why I didn’t think through that lense earlier. 🤔
Then how do you explain his return to TDS?
Stewart can only do Mondays because that’s when he can borrow the funny stone
Oliver uses its power on sunday, then sleeps.
Stewart sneaks in to steal a fragment of it before the HBO attack drones catch him. Hence only on mondays, cause he expends the energy before tuesday and cant get more until the next sunday
It was either that or run for office and Stewart would apparently rather die than accept the biggest landslide victory of our time.
It’s actually terrifying how amazing he’d be as an ideal president, he’s a man who knows how to put forward a best face for an executive team specialized in different areas of preference and expertise, and he knows how to spot good talent too, that’s literally the two most important things a president needs to be good at, everything else is set dressing as long as you know how to spot folks for your team that know their shit, and know how to translate that shit to a lay-audience.
Obama got astonishingly little done, but the guy knew how to make a big deal out of what he did get done, he rode Obamacare and killing Bin Laden like he’d been retiring bulls and broncos his whole damn life! Which he kinda had to because 2010 happened.
Stewart wouldn’t run for office.
You ever see the back of a $20 bill…on weed?
Could you elaborate on this cause I’ve been sitting here for 5 minutes trying to figure it out and it’s actually going to keep me awake.
https://youtu.be/hkA9rz-1YoA