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I watched it on TV. I didn’t doubt Anita Hill for a moment. And Thomas! Played on their white guilt … then voted against affirmative action (although he got his Justiceship because of it). As you say, despicable.

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Lest we forget, Sen. Biden went out of his way to help make this abomination happen.

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That's funny--Thomas disagrees.

He thinks Senator Biden was actually the main man responsible for his so-called "high-tech lynching". He's never stopped holding a grudge against him for it.

It's no exaggeration to say that Thomas almost certainly considers his votes for Supreme Court rulings during President Biden's administration the most "poetic" revenge on him imaginable. His wife certainly does.

Call all this a demonstration, if you will, of Joe Biden's unwitting, tragic--yet darkly hilarious--gift for uniting everybody across the political spectrum against him. For opposing and mutually contradictory reasons, of course.

The tragedy of the old, mainline Democratic Party, in a microcosm.

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As Barack Obama aptly said, “Don’t underestimate Joe’s ability to f**k things up.”

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For the record, no direct confirmation Obama said anything like that.

But at this point, it's the story and the narrative such anecdotes illustrate, that matter. Not their truth, necessarily.

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