Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas told attendees at a judicial conference Friday that he and his wife have faced “nastiness” and “lies” over the last several years and decried Washington, D.C., as a “hideous place.”

Thomas spoke at a conference attended by judges, attorneys and other court personnel in the 11th Circuit Judicial Conference, which hears federal cases from Alabama, Florida and Georgia. He made the comments pushing back on his critics in response to a question about working in a world that seems meanspirited.

“I think there’s challenges to that. We’re in a world and we — certainly my wife and I the last two or three years it’s been — just the nastiness and the lies, it’s just incredible,” Thomas said.

“But you have some choices. You don’t get to prevent people from doing horrible things or saying horrible things. But one you have to understand and accept the fact that they can’t change you unless you permit that,” Thomas said.

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    Ah yes, openly corrupt Clarance Thomas is here to tell us he’s being treated unfairly. Dude takes bribes from everyone, and uses the constitution as toilet paper.

    This one's for you, Clarance.

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    Clarence Thomas likes to do this funny joke where he takes a sip of his drink and says “Did someone put a pube in here?” He also has and openly talks about a porn addiction.

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    Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas told his law clerks in the ‘90s that he wanted to serve for 43 years to make liberals’ lives ‘miserable’

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    You know what’s nastier? Taking the right to abortion away from women. But I am sure if a woman from the ruling class got pregnant for some reason, then she’ll just a hush hush abortion like in the good old days.

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    Corrupt Clarence Thomas who accepts bribes and doesn’t recuse himself from ruling on the insurrection efforts his wife took part in thinks DC is too mean.

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    Citizens v United bitch. You fucked America and deserve to rot in hell.

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    Maybe it’s because he’s such an awful awful person that everyone is just so mean to him and his awful awful wife.

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      It is genuinely amazing the lengths this man will go to deny his level of impropriety as if it’s some grand conspiracy and not heavily documented; I am happy others are open to making his existence as miserable as he makes ours.

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      It’s worth informing those who don’t know that his wife is a 2020 election denyer. She referred to it as a “heist”. She’s a piece of work, just like him.

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    Yeah, Clarence… I’d describe anywhere you and your fellow right-wing parasites hang out as hideous, too - it’s not the place, it’s you.

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    I guess he didn’t get much of this before when he was busy with all his vacations. He’s just not so used to be called out on his bullshit from such a wider audience as now.

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    Yeah it got nasty WHEN CLARENCE THOMAS PUT HIS OWN PUBIC HAIR ON A COKE CAN. True story. Look it up. I still believe Anita Hill

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      What the media did to Anita Hill was absolutely horrendous and every outlet and personality who made a punch line out of her back then should apologize for their absolute disrespect of a woman who did something that was beyond brave.

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        Yep, the democratic senator from Delaware that guided his confirmation through the judiciary committee should be shunned forever.

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      It’s not just a story, it’s a gag he has done multiple times. There’s at least two coworkers in another era of his life who claimed he pulled the same prank (or whatever you call that)