Gonna be a little harder to play "Veni, Vidi, Dead" this time, though.
Posted on 02/27/2023 11:35:04 AM PST by Red Badger
I didn’t make it up, if that’s what you mean. In the first two cases, remember the old line, “treason doth never prosper — what’s the reason? For if it prosper, none dare call it treason.” (John Harington)
Well they hit Malaysian Airlines MH17 in 2014 instead of Putin.
...or maybe get kidnapped by space aliens & have Michelle Obama's baby...
;^)
Still saddens me. I was a child but I remember it so well.
Notice how these MOFOs all get in a tizzy when things are going to hell in THE Ukraine?
And according to members of free republic that is the unpardonable sin. Especially and particularily the part about protecting children from the clutches of LGBTQI Predation.
Your post has the makings of a great meme
I think the cold-blooded murdering of his political opponents, his support to a brutal and repressive regime in Syria, and the bloody invasion of Ukraine, killing thousands of innocent civilians and many thousands of his own troops would be a teensy bit worse than what you said. But hey, what do I know? I came to bury Putin, not to praise him.
Gonna be a little harder to play "Veni, Vidi, Dead" this time, though.
I’d rather see that happen to Biden and Zelensky.
Putin will only leave the office of the presidency, feet first.
So Putin may be protecting Russian children, but he is causing many of them to end up fatherless. As for Ukrainian children, Putin's invasion is killing them and causing many of them to also end up fatherless or orphans. Yeah Putin!
Ukraine ping
z3n: [On the flip side of the coin, everyone was so afraid of Mao that even when he had a degenerative disease in the last few years and couldn’t even speak, no one dared a coup or usurpation of powers.]
Fear of such a coup is said to have been the reason Mao mounted the Cultural Revolution - to pre-empt its possibility. He basically sicced a mob of plebes onto many of the high-ranking people who had risen along with him to the top of the Party aristocracy. The implicit promise was presumably that the plebes would become the new aristocrats.
The people Mao put in charge (his wife, Jiang Qing and his anointed heir, Hua Guofeng) in his last years were just minions without any organic ties to the organs of state security, meaning that lacking Mao, they would quickly be deposed. That did in fact occur after Mao died, with the de facto head (Jiang) getting purged/arrested by the de jure head (Hua, now chairman of the CCP) with help from Deng. Then Deng toppled Hua and became the big cheese.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiang_Qing#1976_coup
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hua_Guofeng#Ousting_and_death
The reason coups are few and far between? The question of who benefits. That’s key because the cost of failure is usually death, which may or may not encompass the plotters’ close kin. As noted by SunkenCiv, Beria did the work, by poisoning Stalin, only to have Khrushchev reap the benefits, by killing him and taking power for himself.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavrentiy_Beria#Arrest,_trial_and_execution
Killing the king is only the beginning. Grabbing power for yourself - that’s not an surefire thing in the free-for-all that usually accompanies the king’s death.
Ukraine ping
z3n: [On the flip side of the coin, everyone was so afraid of Mao that even when he had a degenerative disease in the last few years and couldn’t even speak, no one dared a coup or usurpation of powers.]
I wouldn’t bet fear was the reason. The issue is that most of the people who might have mounted the coup had already been sidelined during the Cultural Revolution. Deng Xiaoping was supposedly exiled to the sticks, where he may or may not have worked on farm equipment as a mechanic.
Fear of such a coup is said to have been the reason Mao mounted the Cultural Revolution - to pre-empt its possibility. He basically sicced a mob of plebes onto many of the high-ranking people who had risen along with him to the top of the Party aristocracy. The implicit promise was presumably that the plebes would become the new aristocrats.
The people Mao put in charge (his wife, Jiang Qing and his anointed heir, Hua Guofeng) in his last years were just minions without any organic ties to the organs of state security, meaning that lacking Mao, they would quickly be deposed. That did in fact occur after Mao died, with the de facto head (Jiang) getting purged/arrested by the de jure head (Hua, now chairman of the CCP) with help from Deng. Then Deng toppled Hua and became the big cheese.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiang_Qing#1976_coup
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hua_Guofeng#Ousting_and_death
The reason coups are few and far between? The question of who benefits. That’s key because the cost of failure is usually death, which may or may not encompass the plotters’ close kin. As noted by SunkenCiv, Beria did the work, by poisoning Stalin, only to have Khrushchev reap the benefits, by killing him and taking power for himself.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavrentiy_Beria#Arrest,_trial_and_execution
Killing the king is only the beginning. Grabbing power for yourself - that’s not an surefire thing in the free-for-all that usually accompanies the king’s death.
Jiang Qing. Ah yes, otherwise known as the
White Bone Demon ! She got her’s in the end too!
Hardly a surprising premise. Almost a truism.
Doesn’t the Homoerotic Penis Piano player get any credit for breaking the Minsk Agreement?
better hope not, he is a moderate, would be way worse.
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