It’s Saturday! I don’t usually post updates on the weekend, but when I saw MAGA idiots losing their shit over an image (above) posted by former FBI director James Comey, I decided to say something.
Comey posted the photo and said, “I posted earlier a picture of some shells I saw today on a beach walk, which I assumed were a political message,” Comey wrote in an Instagram post on Thursday night.
It didn’t take long for Trump and the radical-right to proclaim it as ‘a call for the assassination of the president’.
Trump himself also said, “A child knows what that meant. If you’re the FBI director and you don’t know … that meant ‘assassination,’” the president said. “And it says it loud and clear.”
Well I’ve heard the term “86” used many times throughout my life. Never once was it ever interpreted as assassinate. Just for fun, I even looked it up.
WEBSTER’S DICTIONARY:
eighty-sixed or 86’d; eighty-sixing or 86ing; eighty-sixes or 86es Synonyms of eighty-six transitive verb
1 informal a : to refuse to serve (a customer) “Beer here, barkeep,” he said. “You’re eighty-sixed,” Lucy said. “Cut off. No more for you.” —Mary Karr b : to eject or ban (a customer) The club’s bouncers eighty-sixed her. I nodded at the corner bar beside us. He said, “I can’t go in there.” “Why?” “I’m eighty-sixed.” —Andre Dubus
informal a : to remove (an item) from a menu : to no longer offer (an item) to customers Many small restaurants or bars may run into issues with their inventory. When there are not enough ingredients left to make a popular dish or drink, they’ll have to 86 it. This prevents customers from ordering it and then getting upset. —Joshua Weatherwax b : to reject, discontinue, or get rid of (something) Democratic leaders also eighty-sixed a similar amendment introduced in the House version of the bill … —Dell Cameron Sadly, … the heartless bottom-liners on the food committee eighty-sixed the black raspberry [ice cream] for good. —Greg Kesich So after attempting a Zoom interview that had them sounding as garbled as the off-camera adults in a “Peanuts” special, we eighty-sixed the audio on our computers and talked on the phone … —Brian O’Neill
MAGA Madness
It’s Saturday! I don’t usually post updates on the weekend, but when I saw MAGA idiots losing their shit over an image (above) posted by former FBI director James Comey, I decided to say something.
Comey posted the photo and said, “I posted earlier a picture of some shells I saw today on a beach walk, which I assumed were a political message,” Comey wrote in an Instagram post on Thursday night.
It didn’t take long for Trump and the radical-right to proclaim it as ‘a call for the assassination of the president’.
Trump himself also said, “A child knows what that meant. If you’re the FBI director and you don’t know … that meant ‘assassination,’” the president said. “And it says it loud and clear.”
Well I’ve heard the term “86” used many times throughout my life. Never once was it ever interpreted as assassinate. Just for fun, I even looked it up.
WEBSTER’S DICTIONARY:
eighty-sixed or 86’d; eighty-sixing or 86ing; eighty-sixes or 86es
Synonyms of eighty-six
transitive verb
1
informal
a
: to refuse to serve (a customer)
“Beer here, barkeep,” he said. “You’re eighty-sixed,” Lucy said. “Cut off. No more for you.”
—Mary Karr
b
: to eject or ban (a customer)
The club’s bouncers eighty-sixed her.
I nodded at the corner bar beside us. He said, “I can’t go in there.” “Why?” “I’m eighty-sixed.”
—Andre Dubus
informal
a
: to remove (an item) from a menu : to no longer offer (an item) to customers
Many small restaurants or bars may run into issues with their inventory. When there are not enough ingredients left to make a popular dish or drink, they’ll have to 86 it. This prevents customers from ordering it and then getting upset.
—Joshua Weatherwax
b
: to reject, discontinue, or get rid of (something)
Democratic leaders also eighty-sixed a similar amendment introduced in the House version of the bill …
—Dell Cameron
Sadly, … the heartless bottom-liners on the food committee eighty-sixed the black raspberry [ice cream] for good.
—Greg Kesich
So after attempting a Zoom interview that had them sounding as garbled as the off-camera adults in a “Peanuts” special, we eighty-sixed the audio on our computers and talked on the phone …
—Brian O’Neill
Feign your outrage elsewhere.
-keep