A whole lot has been said about former FBI Chief Thug James Comey’s X-post featuring this picture, and his coy little observation:
Needless to say, this silliness found immediate favor with the Perpetually Indignant (Rightwing Division, even John Kass), who claimed that the “86” is code for “kill” or “assassinate”.
No it isn’t.
“86” means to dump or throw in the trash — in restaurant terms, it also means “not to mention (to customers)”, and back in my executive days, we used to use “86” to mean “forget about it” — e.g. “86 that idea, dummy”.
In other words, it’s a completely innocent term. It does not mean anything sinister.
I don’t care that the .dotmil uses “86” to mean “kill”, either. The military (and government, for that matter) has a long and storied history of using the English language to cover a whole panoply of ugly shit (e.g. “Terminate With Extreme Prejudice”), and I don’t care about any of that either.
Now far be it for me to come to the defense of that treacherous lizard Comey, but seriously?
Current FBI Director Kash Patel announced that his department is in communication with the Secret Service over Comey’s social media post “directed at President Trump” on X Thursday evening.
Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem added in her own X post that the DHS is investigating Comey’s post as well.
Noem appeared on Fox News Thursday night, saying she believes Comey “should be held accountable and put behind bars for this.”
“The rule of law says people like him, who issue direct threats against the president of the United States, essentially issuing a call to assassinate him, must be held accountable under the law,” she said.
FFS, grow up, you assholes. Your reaction to this is actually in the dictionary, under the word “Overreaction”. Get a clue, and stop being so hyper-sensitive.
This is just as bad as those foul pricks on the Left complaining about Sarah Palin’s “crosshairs” comment. It was bullshit then, it’s bullshit now.
Yeah, I know Trump has already survived two actual assassination attempts and everyone’s hyper-sensitive about anything that might hint at another. But wait… we’re talking about jailing someone for a fucking Twatter post?
And yet we (quite justifiably) mock the BritGov when they send the rozzers over to threaten people over Fecesbook ramblings that run afoul of the dreaded “hate speech” rules?
Fuck off, all of you — and yeah, I’m including Superhero Kash and St. Kristi here — because this is absolute bullshit.
Look, the whole “86” thing may be in poor taste; but the last time I looked, “bad taste” is kinda protected by the First fucking Amendment.
I know, the Bill of Rights can be a somewhat inconvenient at times — the Second as much as the First, ask any gun-confiscator — but that’s the exact purpose of the Bill of Rights: it protects us from government.
And as much as I hate to say it, that shitbird Comey gets the same protections as the rest of us, even if he himself is a prime candidate for “eighty-sixing” — i.e. should be dumped in the trash heap of history and forgotten.
Fach.
