Well THAT Escalated Quickly

Should James Comey go to jail for implicitly threatening the life of the President of the United States?

As much as I despise Comey, who is a self-important, arrogant, and power-abusing ass with social skills as tiny as his frame is large, I have to be honest and say that I don’t think he belongs in jail for posting a photo on Instagram. 

That’s not to say that he doesn’t belong in jail for a whole host of other reasons. He does. He abused his power as FBI Director to overturn an election, leaked classified information, and pushed a hoax that led to years of impeachment talk. His FBI lied to the FISA court, and I am pretty sure we could get him for jaywalking if we wanted to. 

There is, however, a movement to toss Comey in jail and throw the book at him. 

The kerfuffle started with Comey slyly posting a photograph on Instagram suggesting that Donald Trump be removed from office. “86 47” is clearly a reference to throwing Trump in the trash, and the most common interpretation of 86ing somebody is, in modern parlance, killing them. John wrote about the controversy yesterday, and since then it has blown up even bigger. 

James Comey called for “47” to be “86’d” but then had the gall to pretend he didn’t know what 86 meant. You can’t be the Director of the FBI for 3+ years and pretend you didn’t know that a call to “86” someone is a call to kill them. You can’t credibly do that. Lock Comey up NOW! pic.twitter.com/WFeRRTMsZT

— Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) May 16, 2025

No doubt James Comey is aware of that. A man who can find the Latin Mass to be coded white supremacism that leads to terrorism has extraordinarily sensitive hearing when it comes to threats–so clear that he hears them when they obviously don’t exist. 

Make an example of him. Raid his home, perp walk him, freeze his accounts, put his entire family under never ending investigations. Sentence Comey to 999 years in prison. Otherwise, these not-so-subtle nods to their frenzied, extremist base will never fucking end. pic.twitter.com/O28jRSkD6X

— Taylor Day (@TABYTCHI) May 15, 2025

Comey is selling a book, and this is his way of generating interest. Nothing sells like excess and controversy, and since the man is tossing his second-rate mystery writing out into the roiling waters of publicity at a time when every Tom, Dick, and Harry in the media is dumping the deets on Biden’s incapacity, he needed to take it up a notch to get attention. 

James Comey just issued a call to action to murder the President of the United States.

As a former FBI Director and someone who spent most of his career prosecuting mobsters and gangsters, he knew exactly what he was doing and must be held accountable under the full force of the… pic.twitter.com/zvbu5Vf0zg

— DNI Tulsi Gabbard (@DNIGabbard) May 16, 2025

Shells appear to be Comey’s preferred method of communication. It guess the beach is his dead drop or something, and he always tries to distance himself from whatever he photographs. Plausible deniability? If that is his goal, he doesn’t know what is plausible or not to the average person. 

It’s quite amazing how James Comey just happens to find shells aligning with his political views. pic.twitter.com/j5NkYCFl6T

— Leftism (@LeftismForU) May 16, 2025

But as satisfying as it would be to see Comey perp-walked, it would be a horrible mistake. The Left is trying to bait Trump into fulfilling thier ridiculosu “fascism” narrative, and I doubt their are legions of whack-job Comey followers who actually ARE inclined to take a potshot at Donald Trump. 

And Alex Soros put out this one as well. It doesn’t take a genius to figure it out. pic.twitter.com/f1T8MwG76m

— Big Fish (@BigFish3000) May 16, 2025

Chances are that the real whack jobs who are inclined to carry out an assassination–of which there are many–aren’t following James Comey or Gretchen Whitmer, and while their rhetoric is abhorrent, its audience is Trumpworld and its goal is to make people like Comey and other top Democrats appear to be martyrs. 

JUST IN: Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard suggests former FBI Director James Comey will be thrown in jail for threatening President Trump.

Jesse Watters: “Do you believe Comey should be in jail?”

Gabbard: “I do … I’m very concerned for [Trump’s] life. And James… pic.twitter.com/b4ClD4qrql

— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) May 16, 2025

Remember what happened when Trump suffered martyrdom? It didn’t work out well for the Democrats to persecute him, and while the people doing this are walking up to the line and perhaps crossing it by a little bit, going after them would be stupid, at least politically. Are we going to throw all the many, many celebrities who have explicitly called for Trump to be killed in jail? 

If so, it would be a mistake. A satisfying one to make, surely, as they would be getting the same treatment they put Trump through, but a mistake nonetheless. 

They need to be diminished. Embarrassed. Ignored by people who are spending their time making the country better. 

Two possibilities.

Either Comey saw a really cool shell formation.

Or, and hear me out…

He’s just a piece of shit. pic.twitter.com/Lnj67QiUvd

— Steven Crowder (@scrowder) May 15, 2025

Comey is scum. We all know that. He shouldn’t be made a martyr because he behaved scummily. 

Just ridicule him.