Doesn’t Matter Who Wins the K Race; We’re All the Same

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

There is no “rule of law” at issue. The law is an instrument here. Some people who think Trump has improper connections to Russians wanted to start an investigation for national security reasons. Some were just acting as law enforcement is supposed to (Comey). Others were biased and have used the investigation for political ends (Politicians, Ohr, Sztrock, etc.).

Trump is fighting against political enemies using the instruments available to him.

This is all about power. To say something like the “rule of law” is at risk is bizarre. The sort of thing a lawyer might say, as he’s been trained to hold a romantic idea of the law’s purity and importance.

The law is written by dimwit politicians, increasingly based off source text of lobbyists. To fret that it’s under siege by a strip mall r/e developer strongman is beneath you.

The law and its procedures are being used and abused as they've always been by politicians. This just seems more dramatic because Trump is a gambler who’s employing tactics to which other more skilled or moderate operators in the past haven’t had to resort.

A silver lining of the Trump era will be that the public will see in technicolor how politicians and bureaucrats treat the law like a chess game - mere moves to be employed for advantage. I fear what Trump does to the social fabric of this country. The damage he’s doing to the bureaucracy, the two party system, and the fantasy foisted on the public that we have a “rule of law” in politics (and generally, really), rather than a rule of power and money, doesn’t concern me. Those rotted systems and narratives need a radical reset.

Yeah, man, the law is a pimp and the Supreme Court is its brothel. The bureaucratic state has made us all Johns and that infected pus that oozing from every orifice is all that left of democracy. You can wipe it up with the Constitution, but that shit-stained old parchment is for suckers. Trump knows this. He's a cowboy. And a gambler. And a plumber. And a landscape architect. You want rule of law? The Statue of Liberty just got an illegal abortion in Georgia and Trump was the father. Didn't even drive her home. Washington was built on a swamp that was built on a cesspool that was built on the diseased and rotting corpses of every two-bit con man and grifter in North America. The ends justify the means, which justify the ends. It's like a snake eating its own tail. Except its tail is democracy. Dig?