"86 47"
So, James Comey is considered to have made a threat by having photographed seashells on the sand, arranged to “spell” out the title of this post. The princess insists that “86” is some sort of violent and murderous Mafia-related indication that someone wants to kill her. “86” is a common enough reference, and I myself have never known it to suggest anything violent or murderous. If I cooked something, and my guest suggested I “86” the cumin, I would understand completely. Depending on how I myself thought the cumin affected the taste, or how much I wanted to please my guest next time, I might or might not take the advice. But I’d understand what the advice was.
It turns out that a relatively timid story about Butler PA is now getting more traction regarding the White House Correspondents’ dinner. The base of the story, which itself didn’t make a great deal of sense, was that some person drove from CA to DC, with adequate armaments, somehow got into the Hilton Hotel in DC, where the WHCD was happening, somehow got into, or possibly didn’t, depending on the version of the story, the function room where the dinner was happening, reportedly shot one person, who was a secret service officer wearing a bullet-proof vest, and was arrested for something amounting to threatening the lives of a room full of lots of people, including much of government leadership. We are not told how this person got into the hotel, or the function room, undetected. And we can scratch our heads until eternity wondering how such a person failed to harm anyone in a room loaded with unsuspecting and unprotected people, including the princess. And a “manifesto?” “Take a number, and get in line,” as my late father used to like to say.
But it turns out that things get much more complicated than that. As it just so happens, the day before this (staged?) event, Karoline Leavitt leaked that “shots [would] be fired.” If that wasn’t jaw-dropping itself, in retrospect, the shot fired was that the princess’ reaction to the imagined possibility of being in a room with a heavily armed assassin with a manifesto was to point out that this is the very reason she needs her ballroom. If anyone wrote a script like this, it would be laughingly, and laughably, dismissed as two-bit joke fiction.
Things couldn’t get worse for the princess, right? It turns out that a subsequent focus group of Republicans (!) aren’t buying what’s available for sale, either. “We are at the point where the president’s own voters are doing QAnon-style symbol analysis of his White House.” “High-profile assassinations and assassination attempts have long fixated the conspiracist mind, and several participants in this focus group seemed to share that preoccupation. One participant expressed his belief that the WHCD assassination attempt may have been a psyop by weaving together his belief that the first assassination attempt against Trump (in Butler, Pennsylvania) and the successful assassination against John F. Kennedy also were staged. Another participant—who, again, voted at least twice for Trump—also claimed the Butler shooting was staged (“a paintball or something in his hand that he squished on his ear because I think he wanted to gain some support”), and referred to Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels when explaining why he believed Trump may have staged a false flag assassination attempt against himself.
“I think this is all propaganda, just like Goebbels . . . in Germany in World War II,” he said.
“A number of the participants said they saw this as a broader trend of false flags or cases where the government wasn’t giving the public the full story, citing the murder of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk last year. Eight out of the nine [!] said they believed there was more to Kirk’s assassination than the lone-gunman story promoted by federal law enforcement and the mainstream media.
“I think it’s a psyop, just like him getting shot, and the Charlie Kirk thing,” one panelist said, connecting the WHCD attack to both the Butler shooting and Kirk’s murder.
“Listing the reasons she’s disappointed in Trump, a repeat Trump voter who identified herself as a Candace Owens listener gave voice to her belief that Trump was ignoring new leads or covering up evidence of a broader conspiracy in Kirk’s assassination.
“I think he thinks it’s a shut-and-dry [sic] case, but I do listen to Candace Owens,” she said. “So I’ve been following very closely along with the facts that she’s been able to produce and the people that she’s brought on, and it seems like in no way should this be a cut-and-dry closed case.”
“We’re at the point in Trump’s lame duck term where his once-committed voters are preferring the ravings of someone like Candace Owens over the word of the president himself. Good luck in the midterms, Republicans!”
The quoted sections came from a writer at the Bulwark.
Seashells arranged to depict “86,” huh? That’s your complaint?