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About time we call DOGE on them!! Has anyone got their number?? /s
8647
… ok so I had to look up what the heck that means, and found this article by The Independent that explained that
According to the dictionary site Merriam-Webster, “86” means to "to throw out,” or “get rid of,” and derives from a 1930s slang term for “sold out.” The number 47 is believed to refer to President Trump, as the 47th president.
Oh 47 is believed to refer to Trump? 😀
Also, fuck me it really activated my almonds to see Loomer and Gabbard pretend to be shocked by this to the extent that Gabbard suggested jailing Comey:
Conservative MAGA pundit Laura Loomer also expressed her shock on X.
“WOW! Former FBI Director James Comey just posted this on his Instagram 2 hours ago, with the caption “cool shell formation on my beach walk”. It’s a pic of shells in the form of “86 47”. This is a call for the assassination of President Trump by the former FBI Director!,” she said.
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said she felt that Comey should be jailed for the post
Conservatives call for the murder of leftists (ie anyone left of the Strasserites, and even they would probably be too "woke" for them) all the fucking time – eg Vance has publicly endorsed an author who wrote a book saying that leftists aren't even human but should be tortured and murdered en masse – and those fucking inbred plastic cunts have the gall to cry about fucking sea shells?
edit:
About Vance's totally normal and acceptable views:
Never forget that this is now mainstream conservatism. They literally want to murder you.
OMG YOU CAN'T SAY THAT THAT'S SO DISRESPECTFUL
FJB BTW!111!!!!!
Is that the TACO bell I’m hearing?!
Yeah, Fuck John Barron
that's gonna be so many people's pins if i ever go into crime im gonna have to try using that
I hope all these ICE fucks don't get paid and get booted from their homes and they fucking strave.
I remember reading somewhere that the Third Reich was pervasively cooking the books and scamming their own financial sector to support their war and genocide, basically from beginning to end.
The secret police will find the money.
It’s worth considering that a good reason they decided to start invading other countries is because their economy was in the absolute fucking toilet. The interwar period Was nothing but economic failure for Germany, mostly because they had these gigantic sanctions and embargo and reparation payments to deal with. All that war spending didn’t really help that much.
They were actually improving economy wise just before Hitler, then just like with the US right now the fascist dipshits fucked it all up.
So that’s actually a subtopic of WW2 that I haven’t dug into much - I know a bunch of the general economic context, but not the fiscal policies they were using to support their aims. Did the Nazis just issue shitloads of bonds and then say “yeah we’ll figure out the bill later, nbd”, or what?
You assume he cares, he doesn't they just won't pay employees while he starts another email fundraiser in which he keeps the profit.
Genuinely hope these gravy seals get their Nuremberg
It's up to us.
It's up to us.
That's what scares me.
The Dem "leadership" thinks they're saving their own skin, not realizing their weakness and cowardice will make them primary targets. I suppose it'd be more true to say 'it will be up to us', when the time comes.
Apparently they are much more tolerant now
As mentioned in the article, they will invoke emergency powers to gain access to more money. The Big Beautiful Bill would give them everything they need as well.
They’ll print the money to fund their cleansing until it’s value is nothing, and their supporters will cheer them on into ruin.
They’ve only just begun their campaign of terror on the populace. They still have several other groups of minorities they need to take care of. The whole “First they came for…” is playing out right before our eyes.
"First they came for" left out a lot of groups they came for
You’re absolutely right!
All while people starve in the streets and grocery prices skyrocket. But all the struggling Trump supporters will be reassured that the big bad immigrants are going away.
This is why a new war is needed. Once they are unable to afford to disappear people en masse, they’ll need a new distraction. Just jingle some keys in front of them as you pick their pockets of rights and dignity, and they’ll be satisfied.
Over 1bn, and they've only kidnapped about 51,000 people. What a fucking waste of money and time.
Don't forget $800m of the money is just for ICE agent bonuses.
$42k per agent.
How many sent to the gulags in El Salvador and Guantanamo?
Remember, we're paying them to house our deportees in nightmare conditions, almost all of whom have never committed a crime.
Massive tax cuts for the rich, combined with massive domestic spending increases. I wonder what that will do?
Our country hasn’t even started the bombing campaign on Iran and we’ve hit 37 trillion in debt. We are so fucked
Don't lie. They'll find a way to fund this shit cause it ruins everything for every minority. Always got infinite money for fucked up shit. Never any to help people.
The Big Beautiful Bill is evidence enough alone of that. An absolutely horrific amount of cuts for programs that help people, ostensibly to "offset" the tax cuts for the rich, but it still balloons the deficit by $3.5 trillion.
There's a reason Trump is trying to pressure the Federal Reserve. The wealthy don't care if the dollar fails or goes into hyperinflation: they own assets which they can trade for currencies other than dollars. If the dollar spirals out of control for everyone else well "whoopsie doodles" they'll say.
There's a damn good reason the price of gold went up by ~50% in about five years. And looking at the state of the world right now... buying more of it is probably not a bad idea. The more unstable the world, the greater the attraction of gold. The price will keep rising.
Lol, i wonder how many of them will volunteer to work for free?
Probably a depressingly high amount. I doubt there's a lot of ICE agents that see it as just a job instead of a license to fuck with brown people with impunity.
Abuse minorities with impunity? There will be so many volunteers they'll have to hold a lottery.
It’s weird that when I run out of money I just don’t have more money.
From where are they taking this extra $1B?
From you. And all the other tax payers. Definitely not from rich people though. All their money is busy trickling down on you.
Cancer research and Medicaid.
Don't worry, they'll take that funding out of Medicare, education, transportation, etc.
Where's the DOGE Goblin when you need him?
To be busy convincing everyone that they don’t do drugs.
Oh no how unfortunate.
Somebody needs to go through their paperwork and doxx every one of those cunts.
That's their budget on paper. Their real budget is infinity.
What's their budget for victim storage in El Salvador?
Going to see a lot of paid time off cancelled.
So? WHY do you think we cut EVERY OVERSIGHT AGENCY investigating Elon Musk, the DEPARTMENT of my Child's Education, people who TELL ME IF A TORNADO WILL KILL ME, FEMA and others? So we could AFFORD to have Unmarked Masked Men Kidnap Children!