Look, let’s just make this easier and give Putin the keys to the country.

Get a load of this: Conservatives want Trump to pardon the 13 Russians.  Yeah, and Mike Flynn, and Manafort, and George Papadopoulos, and Rick Gates, and two hookers in Des Moines, Iowa, and that guy who shot the bald eagle and then ran over it several times in his all terrain vehicle. (Okay, so maybe not the last two, but who the hell knows?)

“I think he should be pardoning anybody who’s been indicted and make it clear that anybody else who gets indicted would be pardoned immediately,” said Frederick Fleitz, a former CIA analyst and senior vice president at the conservative Center for Security Policy.

Their theory is that if everybody knows they are going to get a pardon, then they won’t squeal on higher-ups and we can just declare that America is a wholly owned subsidiary of the State Duma.

Some conservatives think it would be wiser for Trump to wait until after the mid term elections.  Here’s that reasoning brought to you by the alt-right.

Even some conservatives who support pardons in principle are wary of the severe political backlash they are certain to trigger. Mike Cernovich, a prominent alt-right activist, said he believes the moment for pardons has passed and that Trump needs to wait until after the November mid-term elections.

“If the Democrats take over, pardon everyone,” Cernovich said. “They’re coming for you anyway. They have their nuke with impeachment. You have your nuke with pardons. And then settle in for an interesting two years.”

I love how destroying democracy is their idea of “interesting.”  Boy, they must think cock fighting is “a delightful fifteen minutes.”

Thanks to S Gray for the heads up.