TPM, Josh Marshall "It's Already That Bad"

[NRaleighLiberal]

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/its-already-that-bad

It’s Already That Bad

By Josh Marshall

May 10, 2019 3:54 pm

Last night at our DC event I picked up on a question someone had been asked on the panel: Basically, how bad can it get? To me it’s already gotten that bad and in a way and place that is at once front and center and yet oddly invisible. Virtually everyone closely involved in the origins of the Russia probe has either been fired, had their career ended or in key cases face real threats of imprisonment: Comey, McCabe, Strzok, Page, Baker, Ohr … I could list off at least half a dozen other names. Some of these folks will be fine. And in most cases the criminal jeopardy is probably somewhat notional. But it’s not about the individual people. It’s the warning it sends to everyone else through the federal bureaucracy – law enforcement, intelligence and everywhere else – that the real law is power. This is how autocrats discipline and destroy civil institutions and the rule of law. One of these people, former FBI general counsel Jim Baker spoke out for the first time this afternoon at an event at Brookings. Tierney Sneed was there.

[bhikkhu]

1. Unfortunately for too many, "we could be losing money" is the accurate answer

to how bad it can get, for at what point they might become concerned. As long as the economy chugs along and the Great Ship is upright, there's a lot of people who don't care about the worms in the keel or whether anyone is manning the sails.

[Iliyah]

2. Yep.

[triron]

3. No, it's much worse. But everyone (almost) is buryiing their head in the sand.

[NRaleighLiberal]

4. just staggers the imagination that it is all unfolding in bright light.

[Iliyah]

5. Note.

More Republicans are coming out . . .

This means, they are talking among themselves that time is up.

[robbob]

6. He says: the real law is power.

Unfortunately, this has always been so.

[triron]

7. Who?

[robbob]

8. ???

Did you read the op? I assume that’s Josh Marshall talking/writing, and he says “the real law is power”.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

9. Let's be honest - the real law is money because money equals power.

Just ask anyone running even for state offices what their campaign costs.

Just look at the global power Russia and Saudi Arabia have just because they're sitting on oil reserves.

Just ask any poor young kid locked up for minor possession that can't make bail or hire a lawyer. Or conversely, ask any rich kid that walks even after being charged with rape.

We'll stay in this slow, downward spiral until we find ways to deconstruct the mostly hidden global plutocracy......