Pretty much the entire world knew Yevgeny Prigozhin was dead when he stopped his march toward Moscow. It was just a matter of when. And how. Except for cons, the whole world knows how Putin responds to people with whom he disagrees. He kills them. Cons LOVE Putin, because he’s “strong.” Oh, I wrote something wrong, there. Putin doesn’t kill them. He HAS them killed. That’s a bit different. It doesn’t take “bravery” to order a murder.

The cons also loved Rodrigo Duterte, the one-time President of the Philippines. He liked to murder opponents, too. He DID have to claim they were “drug-dealers,” but he never had to prove that so it was more of a formality. But, like I say, the cons LOVED him – because he was “strong.” The cons are not deep thinkers and they certainly have not thought this one through.

Their expectation is that the strong man of the United States would be THEIR strong man, so they would be safe from being murdered. They’d be on the “right” team. Maybe. The cons are likely being “protected” from the feeding frenzy ginning up on the right even as I type, with the one-time ruling leaders turning on each other at an alarming rate. We have photos of these people laughing and having a good time together when times were good for them. Now come the consequences of their choices and there is very little loyalty to be seen anywhere. (And where it IS still on display, it feels, to me, more like ‘still hoping for the pardon’ than true loyalty.) If murder was a normal solution in American politics, the conservative body count would be pretty high, by now. Are you sure that’s the direction you want to go?

Murdering one’s opponents is an abstract idea when it takes place on the opposite side of the planet. One can separate oneself from the details or just randomly decide that the murdered person “deserved” to die. Personally, I’m very concerned about living in a country where political opponents murder each other as a solution. Yes, I have no doubt the cons would go on a killing spree to rival any in history but if that was the way things are done in this country, do you really think it would STAY a one-way street? And who do you think would be the current focus of political retaliation by the party in power today?

Tossed from a building, crashed in a plane, sprayed with poison, exposed to radiation, or even just shot down where he stands, I think Donald Trump would be in deep Kimchee. (Well, deeper than he is, anyway.) The cons never think about how such power might be used against them. Telling isn’t it? On some level, they KNOW they’d kill with abandon but they don’t believe the left might do the same thing? Talk about a “weaponized DOJ…”

In my experience, power is power and people will often do ANYTHING to hold on to it. Parties don’t make a difference. Political philosophies don’t make a difference. Money and power make the difference. The only thing we have that protects us – ALL of us – is the law and our ability to KEEP politicians from killing opponents.

So, please, cons, consider the idea that, once the rails are removed, anything you want to do TO people, could just as easily be done TO YOU! And then, let’s just agree to stick with the rule of law, eh?

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“If they can do this to me, they can do it to anybody!”

That’s the line Rudy Giuliani used when he came out of his booking process in Georgia. Trump likes to say the same thing. If they can do it to me, they can do it to anybody. Are you scared yet? You’re supposed to be. A government out of control. Government gone wild. A government that investigates criminal behavior and prosecutes miscreants? Well, no, that’s what it’s supposed to do, that’s not “gone wild.” But listen, at it’s core, the statement the trumpster burps out from time to time and Giuliani’s repetition of it is exactly right, perfectly true. A “perfect” statement.

It turns out? The DOJ WILL come after you if you try to overthrow the government. They’ll do that even if you say you didn’t try to overthrow the government. They’ll do that even if you get your friends to say you didn’t try to overthrow the government. But it IS true, if you try to overthrow the government, the DOJ may well come after you – just like they’re doing to the trumpster and his henchmen. (I guess that should be ‘hench-PEOPLE’ but it really doesn’t have the same ring…)

Easy answer? Don’t try to overthrow the government. If you don’t, the government won’t come after you for trying to overthrow it. Hey, that was easy…