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.
Obviously, this isn’t a real human being, though there are tens of millions with this perspective, so let’s treat him as if he were an actual guy.
No one’s going to hate you, because everyone with a brain supports border control and law enforcement.
You are, however, running the risk of being regarded as a moron. There are hundreds of points of domestic and international law, reason, and humanity that are being addressed every day along these lines.
Why don’t you go on keepin’ those doggies moving, and let the rest of us do our best to figure out how to treat immigrants legally and humanely?
The guy who sent me this writes Could not be any clearer than that.
We’ve all heard the adage, “If guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns.”
It has a nice ring to it, but it really doesn’t hold water in the real world, where counties with strict gun laws, e.g., Japan, England, and Australia have very low rates of violent crime.
Note: these countries don’t have an NRA, a fabulously wealthy lobbying organization that controls their lawmaking apparatus.
Moreover, outside the United States, it’s very hard to find a place where a potentially mentally unstable person can go into a store and walk out with a weapon of war, capable of killing 50+ people each minute.
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