In my recent post called “86,” I told the story about how my father liked to use the Army lingo he’d learned in 1942 when he entered WW II. He explained to my brother and me that it meant to be out of something, especially in the kitchen, e.g., “Sorry, we’re 86 eggs.”
It turns out that “86” means more specifically to “Throw (something) Out,” as T and O on an old rotary phone are 8 and 6 respectively.
Thus “8647” means “Throw out the 47th president.” Note that to throw out a president can be accomplished through nonviolent and completely legal means, e.g., impeachment or removal via the 25th amendment. Yet the ultra-right-wing media is pretending not to understand this, and is telling its audiences of hateful idiots that James Comey was calling for the president to be assassinated.
Until Trump came along, I would have said that the Twain quote here was intended as humor.
Now we can see how true it is, as we have an entire voting bloc rooted in ignorance and confidence.
The reader who sent me the meme here writes: No problem. I’d also feel safer that no liberal crazy would bust in and harm me.
I wonder how many people have been injured at polling places in the 250-year history of the United States, and I’d be particularly curious as to how many were hurt by liberals.
As is the custom of the day, we’re fabricating data to scare idiots into demanding solutions to problems that don’t exist. Voter fraud is virtually nonexistent, and among undocumented aliens it’s almost zero, since they don’t have the ID to get on the voting rolls in the first place.
The foreign policy of the United States is a catastrophe, putting it mildly.
We could begin with the tearing upon of the internationally negotiated treaty we had with Iran, and then starting a war with them shortly after “obliterating” their nuclear capacity. From there, we have the attempt to annex Greenland from our (former) NATO ally Denmark, trying to make Canada our 51st state, taking over the Panama Canal, and capturing Cuba and Venezuela.
In all, we’ve become a rogue, pariah nation.
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