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pat_k

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3. It is a little mystifying that they think that ludicrous indictment is anything but laughable.

Mon May 4, 2026, 12:52 AM

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As a retaliatory gesture, it strikes me as pretty darn weak.

Yes, it is a bad thing to be forced to defend against any charge that is brought with the might of the DOJ, but frankly, it seems to me that a judge would laugh that silly indictment out of court with no more defense than a printout of all the 8647 products on Amazon and a printout of this discussion of the origins of 86, which includes a note that stood out to me.

By the 1950s, according to Merriam-Webster, “86” became a verb, commonly referring to tossing drunken customers out of bars...

Although Merriam-Webster notes some equate “86” with “to kill,” it adds this use is infrequent: “We do not enter this sense, due to its relative recency and sparseness of use.”

If Webster won't include "to kill" as a meaning I suspect it is because such usage is not just "sparse," it is non-existent. I'm reading between the lines, but I read "relative recency" as "since Comey posted his picture" and "sparseness of use" as "nobody actually uses it this way, but Trump and his cadre claim that's what it means so we are taking note of that."

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