Colgate Exaggeration Theater
One of the many things I hate most about Trump
(It’s supposed to be only one of those – many things OR hate most – but with Trump it’s always both, because he always has all the toppings. There are many many things about him that I hate the most. I wish it were otherwise, but it isn’t.)
is the way he does the bad thing times 10 or 100 or 1000. He has no artistry, no restraint, no sense of Less is More. Every damn time he just jumps in with both feet and dials the abuse to a million. It should handicap him, but of course it doesn’t, because there’s no justice. The stupider his reaction to X the more his fans just love it.
The latest is “Oooh James Comey said a mean thing about Trump—>treason death penalty dirty cop blah blah.”
The Post is slightly more restrained:
Trump administration officials said Thursday that they would investigate former FBI director James B. Comey, whom they accused of threatening President Donald Trump after Comey posted a picture of seashells on a beach arranged to spell out “86 47.”
Trump is the 47th president; “86” can mean banning or removing someone, but it can also be slang for killing a person.
But at the same time, “86” can be slang for killing a person, but it can also mean banning or removing someone. It’s a choice to decide it definitely means killing That Person. Trump of course made the choice, and then turned it into Shouting Drama Exaggeration War, because he can’t see anything that’s not bigger than the sun.
“Cool shell formation on my beach walk,” Comey wrote in the original Instagram post, which he quickly removed after claims that the phrase communicated the threat of violence. In a follow-up post, Comey wrote that he assumed the shells he saw “were a political message” but said he was not advocating violence.
Trump insisted in a TV interview that Comey “knew exactly” what it meant.
“If you’re the FBI director and you don’t know what that meant, that meant assassination,” Trump told Fox News in an interview scheduled to air Friday evening. “And it says it loud and clear.”
But of course that’s exactly what it doesn’t do. Some seashells. Four numbers. A couple of numbers that can mean kill or escort to the exit. It’s very far from a loud and clear “Kill Trump.”
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said on Fox News that she believes Comey should be in jail because of the post and accused him of “issuing a hit” on Trump.
Yeah right, that’s what that was.
This “outrage” from the man who suggested during the 2016 Presidential campaign that “Second Ammendment people” could find a way to stop Hillary Clinton from appointing judges? Who invited his followers to beat up hecklers at his rallies? Please.
Well come on now. It’s one thing when Trump is the target and quite quite quite another when it’s someone else. That’s the law.
Waiting for the Streisand Effect to kick in…
Not just Comey, Trump is also coming for “The Boss”.
Springsteen has always been an outspoken critic of Trump and isn’t holding back on his UK concerts. Trump?
No, I’m not linking to his antisocialtruth.
No doubt, Trump has visions of Springsteen in ICE detention.
And Taylor Swift, although less verbosely.
(Link is to Josh Moon post about Trump tweet.)
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/15EhpAErGD/
There were MAGA t-shirts for sale while Biden was president that said ‘86 46’. When people complained then the response was it just means cancelling or kicking out.
I used to waitress at a popular pancake restaurant. “86” was the common slang for “we’re out of it right now so don’t write it up and give it to the cook” — as in “86 the chocolate chips” or “86 the shrimp dinner.” Take it off the menu. Let the customer know.
It doesn’t sound menacing to me. I would love to take Trump off America’s menu.
Sastra #7
I’ve never heard that usage before. I’ve always understood ’86’ to mean eject or ban. E.g. ‘I was eighty-sixed from half the bars on San Pablo Avenue.
It is my understanding that “86” is rhyming slang for “nix” (cancel, stop, get rid of). (Another slang form of “nix” was the pig Latin “ix-nay”.)
During the Nixon administration, some protesters used the slogan “Nix on Nixon”. I don’t think anyone was accused of wanting to assassinate the president.
Hmmm, Well, if I disappear to El Salvador, you’ll know why…
For the record, these were about IMPEACHMENT – you know – the thing Congressional Republicans would have done 115 times already if Trump were a Dem…
https://farcornercafe.blogspot.com/2025/04/close-enough.html
https://farcornercafe.blogspot.com/2025/04/blog-post.html
Ooooh you got there first!
86 appears to be like “cancel” – which can mean just cancel the way one cancels a newspaper subscription or a trip, or cancel as in terminate as in wipe out as in kill. Idioms are like that. Trump is not a big idiom-understander.
It never really occurred to me before, but is that why Maxwell Smart was Agent 86.
I always thought that to “86” something was the equivalent of “put it in the circular file,” i.e., the wastebasket. Toss it in the trash.
One more into the mix. In law enforcement radio code a 10-86 – or code 86 – is a missing person.