And he just thinks that I was actually special, you all got in because of preferences.

And there are a lot of people like that.

Clarence Thomas is certainly not alone.

It's all very well and good for justices to be anti-government when they are, the government,

when they're paid by the government, when they're pensions or the government.

When they have more power than most of the planet.

And so I always take it with a grain of salt.

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