Posted on 05/16/2025 8:10:01 PM PDT by little jeremiah
“I’m very concerned for [the president's] life. And James Comey, in my view, should be held accountable and put behind bars for this." — DNI Tulsi Gabbard
“Cool shell formation on my beach walk,” Jim Comey, former FBI Director wrote on Instagram about the message “86 47” laid out in seashells on the sand that he came across, innocently. You’d have to ask yourself: what was “cool” about that, exactly? Especially if, as Mr. Comey claimed on X soon after, that he didn’t know what it meant. Are things that you don’t understand “cool”? Is it just “cool” to learn that you can spell stuff out with seashells? (Who knew?)
Maybe he was surprised to learn that people other than Jim Comey fans might see his cute coded clip and conclude that it wasn’t such an innocent little gag. “47,” of course, refers to Donald Trump in the cavalcade of US presidents. Among the not-strrictly-fans was DNI Tulsi Gabbard, who went on TV hours later and said that Mr. Comey should go to prison for it — in so many words. You must suppose she meant after the appropriate procedures: an FBI deposition, a grand jury, an indictment, a trial. After all that, we’d probably get to the bottom of what JC meant by “cool.”
Now, it happens that in this new milieu of memes flying around every which way, the code “86 47” is not a complete mystery. It is apparently employed casually in settings where angry citizens gather to denounce the president. “86” is a term in restaurant kitchens when there is no more of an item that a waiter just brought in an order for. “Eighty-six on the monkfish, Carla,” the line-cook might yell. Apparently, mobsters like the phrase, too, for its pithiness: “Ay, somebody, go eighty-six that stronzo Rocco Vaselino, already! He ain’t paid da vig in a munt.” Soon, there will be no more of Rocco, you see. He will be food for the hellgrammites in the soil of the Jersey pine barrens. . . .
As DNI Gabbard pointed out — in case no one noticed — there have been two recent assassination attempts on Mr. Trump. It is a fact well-known to police psychologists that would-be assassins are curiously suggestible to prompts floating around in the zeitgeist. They tend to take them as commands. Go do this. And if anyone was a commanding figure, it would be Jim Comey, towering hero of the early anti-Trump resistance. Thus, it appears that Mr. Comey called for there to be no more of Mr. Trump. Not cool.
Also, not so cool, in the grand annals of the resistance, is the new book Original Sin: President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again, by journalists (cough cough) Jake Tapper (of CNN) and Alex Thompson (Axios). The book purports to explain how the entire governance apparatus of the USA hid the mental decline of “Joe Biden,” the phantom president. Realize, please, that the news media is a vital part of that apparatus, and has been since the invention of the printing press, with its crucial role (until lately) as a regulating mechanism on the engine of public affairs.
In fact, it is precisely the role of the news media to notice things that public officials try to hide, so as to keep citizens apprised of what is really going on. And that is exactly what the news media intentionally declined to do during the four years of “Joe Biden.” But then, at least half the country, seeing “Joe Biden” in action on video, did not fail to notice his ever-worsening feeble bewilderment. Tapper and Thompson seek to shift the blame for this game of Pretend onto the gremlins behind the scenes in the White House who ran the “Joe Biden” show.
Tapper and Thompson are lying, of course, and in exactly the same brazen way as the bigwigs in the Democratic Party who sponsored this treasonous fraud. Jake Tapper, for one, stated repeatedly on-the-air from 2021 onward that “Joe Biden” was a capable and effective chief executive and denounced anybody who tried to argue otherwise. Just as Thompson, while accepting the Award for Overall Excellence at the White House Correspondents’ Annual Dinner in April, lied saying, “We, myself included, missed a lot of this story.” Really? Then what, exactly, was “excellent” about his reporting?
https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2020/10/18/sotu-lara-trump-full.cnn
They also missed the story as to how the White House gremlins behind “Joe Biden” were wrecking the country with open borders, election fraud, drag queens in kindergarten, censorship, lawfare, and a colossal stream of secret grift from taxpayers through USAID-linked NGO’s to Democratic Party foot-soldiers like Stacey Abrams. The more plausible story — the truth, actually — is that the companies many reporters worked for, the old big newspapers like The New York Times and the WashPo, and the cable-news channels such as (especially) CNN and MSNBC were losing their audiences until they discovered that Trump Derangement was the only way to stave off complete failure.
Once they got going with that business model in 2016, they wrecked the news media’s credibility. And virtually everything after that has been an ongoing cover-up for their dishonorable malfeasance and the crimes of the party they fronted for. But the levers of power are in other hands now. There will be consequences for government officials who go to war against the people of this land, committing sedition and treason. Suggesting the murder of a president on social media is no light matter. By the time this blog is up, officers of the Secret Service may be visiting Mr. Comey at home. No need to batter down the front door with guns drawn, though. That would be so un-cool.
I lost the ping list you gave me, and I messed up the title. ...
James Comey is not an ordinary citizen.
He is a former director of the FBI, where he literally had the power of life and death over other people, and still does.
And he was flaunting it in our faces.
This is a very serious business.
“Another Kunstler great one.”
Indeed. Kurt Schlichter and Mark Steyn seem to have largely departed the scene. Looks like Kunstler is an excellent replacement.
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Really? Was last 07.13 cool to you?
I did not vote for Trump to be “cool”.
There are a thousand plus federals that have to go to prison. Some for capital crimes.
YEP
Yeah he needs prison time. This isnt a mere political statement. This is a deep state guy saying it would be cool to assassinate Trump. And then playing dumb about it.
Serious prison time. Let him think he will be a liberal martyr, don’t care. Behind bars for a long time.
Nonsense. “86” has never meant more than “get this guy out of here” or “this clown can’t drink here.” It’s never been some code for a physical assault or murder.
Tempest in a teapot
Smells like BS to me…it’s a gangster term to kill someone. Stop gaslighting “Bob”… 🫢
Having never worked anywhere near a restaurant or bar, I’ve never heard it used that way, but I have heard it many times and always as a verb meaning to kill. Usually, it wasn’t being used seriously, of course. What significance does the number 86 have that gives it meaning in your definition? Eight miles out and 6 feet down has meaning. So too does a grave being 8 feet long and 6 feet deep. I’m inclined to think killing was the original idea, and it came to mean something a little different in the hospitality industry. Regardless which came first, I’m think Mr. Comey knows the different definitions and isn’t so innocently naive.
sounds like the boy needs an inhouse visit from higher-higher...
The media saying they “missed it” is like Comey saying he doesn’t know what 86 means.
Cool is one slang term that never goes out of style.
BTTT
Comey was trying to make his photo caption attractive to people much younger than himself. Guys his age don’t normally use that kind of language unless they’re trying too hard to fit in, but since we are talking about Comey, it’s more likely that he was going for an emotional response from unstable inhospitable youth.
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