Former FBI Director James Comey is under federal investigation following an Instagram post featuring seashells arranged to depict the number "8647."
Trump officials accused former FBI director James B. Comey 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.
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What to know about "8647" after James Comey's Instagram post
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... Catch up quick: Eighty-six is a slang term meaning to "throw out" or "get rid of," according to Merriam-Webster.
- - - It traces back to 1930s soda counter slang to indicate an item was sold out and later was commonly used to mean "to refuse to serve a customer."
- - - "There is varying anecdotal evidence about why the term eighty-six was used, but the most common theory is that it is rhyming slang for nix," according to the dictionary. ...
Interesting article...
I guess the FBI took down James Comey's portrait at the J. Edgar Hoover Building PDQ.
D/Kash Patel is loudly clamoring to investigate this "Nothing-burger" which Joe Rogaine or Bill Maher will blather about to distract Americans from Pam Bondi conducting insider trading in the White House, Jeffrey Epstein files remaining unreleased, Trumpf's "Bribe Force One" headache, ongoing ethnic cleansing in Gaza, or zero progress in Ukraine peace talks (but a nice trip for Marco Rubella, Steve Witless, and Gen Kellogg to a first class hotel in Istanbul).
You wonder what Hillary Clinton thinks of James Comey being investigated? cdn.theatlantic.com
#45: Hi Snoofy: Decades ago in the small businesses of NYC, "86-er" meant keep an eye on the guy for shoplifting or somebody that might require the "bum's rush.": c8.alamy.com
"86" didn't mean to assassinate anybody and I don't recall any mobsters in real life or in the films using that term to whack a target.
James Comey must have an ineffective or non-existent "inner monologue."
Q: "Gee, at the press conference, if I exonerate Senator Clinton of any wrongdoing, but admonish her anyway for having the collateral intelligence on her personal laptop, what could possibly happen?"
A: _______________
Q: "Gosh, if I post this '8647' seashell arrangement on social media, a one-in-a-trillion occurrence in the natural universe, what might the possible fallout be?"
A: _______________
A "freezing process" or something must have removed James Comey's inner monologue: clip.cafe
If someone is "86'd" from a bar they get thrown out, not murdered.
Well I guess it depends, 86 appears to be a mob phrase, adapted by common man.
The phrase '80 miles out and 6 feet under' was reserved for someone who had to dig their own grave 80 miles from civilization and then get shot execution-style.
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