Comey should be jailed

[ideologyhunter]

Careful. That bitch is loaded for Kodiak. And she sues.

 

[laughing dog]

After recently having been wounded by a bullet that pierced your ear, I doubt there is anyone alive who would NOT take any and all assasination communication seriously. And the secret service would not be doing their job if they felt differently about it. It is clearly not the right time to be writing dog whistle messages about "getting rid of the POTUS"

If Comey really did not want Trump dead he should have said so clearly or expected this consequence. Why should we jail people at the airport for telling jokes to the TSA..... but then let people like Comey make veiled threats to our POTUS? Yes Comey is entitled to his 1st amendment speech as long as he does not start a fire in the theater like he did.

You expect someone to anticipate a lunatic interpretation of a photograph and preemptively deny it?

I would have expected someone with Comey's high ranking FBI background and history to have just remained quiet after seeing such a photograph. How easy it would have been just to not post anything at all! Especially after spending half his career NOT talking about Hillary Clinton, her peculiarities, and her breaking of the law. But shutting his big mouth, remaining dignified being non partisan this time around would have required just too much common sense he apparently does not have.

So you do expect sane people to preempt lunatic interpretations. IMHO that is insane.

I actually respect the Iran "mullahs" much much more than likes of Comey. Because unlike Comey the "mullahs" actually have some honor and integrity, though I believe they are misguided.

Unlike Comey, we can depend on the "Mullahs" to at least tell us in plain language they want us dead. We know without ambiguity where they stand and where we stand. Without hiding behind any FBI lingo, flooding controversy to improve his coming book deal.

Since Comey did not suggest the death of anyone, your response seems out of place.

 

[Swammerdami]

My knowledge of American slang is not up to date, but on the rare occasions where I heard the term "86" in the 20th century it never referred to murder! I played Blackjack in the 1970's counting cards; among us "86" is what happened when a casino pit boss told us we were no longer welcome at a Twenty-One table. I also knew that if a bar "86"ed a customer it meant they said something like "You've had too much to drink; we'll call you a taxi. You don't have to go home but you can't stay here."

The on-line Merriam-Webster dictionary gives no less than 4 sub-definitions for the verb "86", none of them involving murder.

Wikipedia's page ( 86_(term)) has undergone more than 200 edits since February 2025; just looking at the reasons in the list of edits I noticed "Removed the text saying that the military uses the term 86 to refer to assassinating someone. There is no proof of this." It's too painful to study the "evolution" of this Wiki page, but I did notice one case where Wikipedia cites itself!

It is widely accepted that this term was often used long before the hospitality industry existed and was a reference to "getting rid of someone" potentially involving murder. <ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20250221230429/https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/86_(term)</ref>

I once read a long article discussing possible etymologies for "86." Murder was not mentioned. About 86 different etymologies were proposed including:

• Article 86 of the U.S. Uniform Code of Military Justice concerns Absence Without Leave, or AWOL.
• Great Depression soup kitchen pots served 85 people. So the 86th person was out of luck.

Conclusion: We should assume that MAGAts who claim that the term implies murder are lying. So "what else is new"? Recall this famous quote by a newspaperman:

When a MAGAt tells a lie, that is not news, because it happens so often.

 

[Swammerdami]

A question I have is: Why the irrational hatred for James Comey? ??? Remember that Comey single-handedly handed the 2016 election to Trump with his last-minute (Oct. 28, 2016) announcement that he was re-opening his investigation into Hillary Clinton. Are the MAGAts so divorced from reality that they think that was a different James Comey? Or some strange false-flag operation by the deep state? If Comey was following orders from George Soros, Tom Hanks, Pope Francis and other top Illuminati directors, what was their peculiar agenda?

AFAIK, Comey helped Trump win the 2016 election out of some misbegotten sense of duty or integrity. Is his INTEGRITY why the fascists hate him so? They understand licking Trump's balls out of greed, or out of racist, xenophobic or white nationalist hatreds, or out of sadism, or out of fear, but Comey acted out of INTEGRITY. Is Integrity so alien to the "values" of the modern QOP that it is cause for Hatred?

My question is sincere and serious; and directed at any Comey haters in the thread: Have you forgotten that Comey was the reason Trump won in 2016? Is your thinking so simplistic that when Trump tells you to hate someone you just hate them?

 

[Patooka]

That baffles me as well. If it weren't for Comey Trump would have been at best two lines in an essay about 21st century US politics.

 

[Elixir]

Is your thinking so simplistic that when Trump tells you to hate someone you just hate them?

I believe that it has nothing to do with "thinking". It's just emoting.
That said, the answer is "yes".
These people are exactly as politically shallow as TSwizzle's responses to facts that belie his entrenched beliefs.
They might be smart people - they might even be geniuses within their fields. But they have never bothered to think through the implications or outcomes of their own political decisions; they're not politicians, so why bother?
They're idiots in that regard, notwithstanding any genius they might exhibit in other areas.

 

[TomC]

That baffles me as well. If it weren't for Comey Trump would have been at best two lines in an essay about 21st century US politics.

Then Trump got rid of Comey for being more principled than loyal. I certainly understand why Comey might have a grudge.
Tom

 

[thebeave]

My knowledge of American slang is not up to date, but on the rare occasions where I heard the term "86" in the 20th century it never referred to murder! I played Blackjack in the 1970's counting cards; among us "86" is what happened when a casino pit boss told us we were no longer welcome at a Twenty-One table. I also knew that if a bar "86"ed a customer it meant they said something like "You've had too much to drink; we'll call you a taxi. You don't have to go home but you can't stay here."

The on-line Merriam-Webster dictionary gives no less than 4 sub-definitions for the verb "86", none of them involving murder.

Wikipedia's page ( 86_(term)) has undergone more than 200 edits since February 2025; just looking at the reasons in the list of edits I noticed "Removed the text saying that the military uses the term 86 to refer to assassinating someone. There is no proof of this." It's too painful to study the "evolution" of this Wiki page, but I did notice one case where Wikipedia cites itself!

It is widely accepted that this term was often used long before the hospitality industry existed and was a reference to "getting rid of someone" potentially involving murder. <ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20250221230429/https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/86_(term)</ref>

I once read a long article discussing possible etymologies for "86." Murder was not mentioned. About 86 different etymologies were proposed including:

• Article 86 of the U.S. Uniform Code of Military Justice concerns Absence Without Leave, or AWOL.
• Great Depression soup kitchen pots served 85 people. So the 86th person was out of luck.

Conclusion: We should assume that MAGAts who claim that the term implies murder are lying. So "what else is new"? Recall this famous quote by a newspaperman:

When a MAGAt tells a lie, that is not news, because it happens so often.

86 is a slang term, and slang terms do evolve and have multiple meanings. Check out Urban Dictionary on the term "86". The clear majority of the definitions lilsted refer to getting rid of (and includes specifically getting booted out of a casino for card counting!). But if you read through all the different entries, you will see that it can mean "kill". And these entries are from many years ago, so it wasn't some last minute entry by "Magats". I don't believe Comey meant it as "kill", though, as some Republicans have claimed.

 

[ZiprHead]

Urban dictionary??? Straw grabbing.

 

[bilby]

Urban dictionary??? Straw grabbing.

(v.) giving someone the ol' reach around; pulling at pubic hair during intercourse
...
Grasping at Straws; a term used to describe a female/male trying to give synchronizedhandjobs to small dicked men

 

[thebeave]

Urban dictionary??? Straw grabbing.

Wrong. You're just jelly that you didn't think of it first.

 

[Swammerdami]

Of course the whole controversy derives from a stupidity. Comey didn't write "8647." He photographed someone else's rendition.

And by the way, if I write

"George said he could get my roses from the florist shop, so I dispatched him"​

does that mean I murdered George? "dispatch" is a euphemism for "kill."

... one case where Wikipedia cites itself!

It is widely accepted that this term was often used long before the hospitality industry existed and was a reference to "getting rid of someone" potentially involving murder. <ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20250221230429/https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/86_(term)</ref>

I looked again and couldn't find it right away. That's because the Wiki page was edited yesterday.
Here is the Wiki version with the self-reference.

As I Googled I learned that some MAGATs wrote "8646" meaning K**l Bi**n. Matt Gaetz wrote about 86'ing certain Democrats.
Then again ... MAGAt hypocrisy? Like "Dog bites man" that's not news.

The Random House historical dictionary of American slang, Volume 1 can be viewed at archive.org. Volume 1 is 1088 pages long and only covers A-G. Volume 2 (H-O) is missing(?). Remaining volumes were never published. But "eighty-six" IS in volume 1 and shows about half a page of small-print citations including

... At least it suggests that the police hadn't 86'ed (murdered) him.

I wish I could cut and paste from the Archive's lending library. I will type in a citation that might amuse an atheist board:

Madalyn Murray had God 86'ed in public school classrooms.

 

[thebeave]

Wikipedia is ill advised when you are trying to get accurate info on a politically charged event or a controversial person, etc. I use Wikipedia a lot, but only for getting info on science, engineering, some biographies, movies, songs, etc.

Its not that much of a stretch to think that an older slang term like "86'd" could have evolved from "getting rid of" to "kill". If a modern day mob boss or gang leader asked one of his minions to "86" a particular rival, I would assume he means to kill him, not send him on a one way plane trip to Alaska. But Comey? Nah. Not his style.

 

[Elixir]

If a modern day mob boss or gang leader asked one of his minions to "86" a particular rival, I would assume he means to kill him

Well yeah, that’s what Trump means when he tells one of his thugs to 86 someone.
The rest of us aren’t quite so habituated to MobSpeak.

 

[thebeave]

If a modern day mob boss or gang leader asked one of his minions to "86" a particular rival, I would assume he means to kill him

Well yeah, that’s what Trump means when he tells one of his thugs to 86 someone.
The rest of us aren’t quite so habituated to MobSpeak.

When did he do that? I guess I missed the obituary.

 

[Elixir]

I guess I missed the obituary

Ya gets no ‘bitchuary when ya sleep wid’ da fishes!

 

[laughing dog]

This episode is just another example of the truth that Every accusation is a confession” in MAGAworld.

 

[ZiprHead]

If a modern day mob boss or gang leader asked one of his minions to "86" a particular rival, I would assume he means to kill him

Well yeah, that’s what Trump means when he tells one of his thugs to 86 someone.
The rest of us aren’t quite so habituated to MobSpeak.

When did he do that? I guess I missed the obituary.

Trump's ex lawyer said Trump uses mob speak all the time.

 

[Elixir]

Trump's ex lawyer said Trump uses mob speak all the time.

Mobsters do that.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

After recently having been wounded by a bullet that pierced your ear, I doubt there is anyone alive who would NOT take any and all assasination communication seriously. And the secret service would not be doing their job if they felt differently about it. It is clearly not the right time to be writing dog whistle messages about "getting rid of the POTUS"

If Comey really did not want Trump dead he should have said so clearly or expected this consequence. Why should we jail people at the airport for telling jokes to the TSA..... but then let people like Comey make veiled threats to our POTUS? Yes Comey is entitled to his 1st amendment speech as long as he does not start a fire in the theater like he did.

Beyond silly. Show us any slang lexicon anywhere where 86 means murder. It. doesn't. Period.

What Does 'Eighty-Six' Mean?

It comes from 1930s soda-counter slang meaning that an item was sold out.

www.merriam-webster.com