MAGA Had a Meltdown Over "8647" — Here's Why It’s Nonsense
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MAGA Had a Meltdown Over "8647" — Here's Why It’s Nonsense
Krassenstein 3-3 minutes 5/16/2025
Yesterday, MAGA went into full meltdown mode—because James Comey, the Republican-appointed former FBI Director, posted an image on Instagram with the number “8647.” If you’ve been to even a single protest or spent five minutes in a left-leaning circle, you already know what that means: remove the 47th president from office . Legally. Peacefully. Through impeachment, indictment, or the 25th Amendment.
The number “86” is a well-known term in restaurant slang—it means to toss something out, cancel it, or kick someone out. It’s not a secret code. Heck, even MAGA themselves were selling “8646” merch when Biden became president. Did anyone claim they were calling for murder?
But leave it to Don Jr. to light the fuse on MAGA’s outrage machine. Almost instantly, the conspiracy crowd went wild: Jack Posobiec, Libs of TikTok, EndWokeness, even Trump himself—claiming Comey was calling for assassination. It’s laughable. And dangerous.
This is what the far right does best: take words or numbers, twist them, and manufacture fake outrage. They did it with “woke.” They did it with “CRT.” They did it with “DEI.” And now they’re doing it with 8647 —trying to paint their political opponents as violent, racist, and un-American.
Sound familiar? It should. Read a history book about Nazi Germany. Hitler weaponized language to demonize his enemies and justify authoritarian power. It doesn’t start with violence—it starts with a lie.
And here's the kicker: Remember Jack Posobiec, who was crying foul? Yeah, he tweeted “8646” years ago. Should he be arrested for “calling for Biden’s murder”? Did Matt Gaetz literally say he “murdered” Ronna McDaniel, Mitch McConnell, and Kevin McCarthy? Is Amazon selling assassination shirts? Etsy too?
Of course not. Because context matters . Intent matters. But the MAGA movement doesn’t want nuance. They want outrage.
So I’ll keep posting 8647 —not because I want harm to come to a convicted felon president, but because I believe he should be legally removed from office before he does even more damage to our democracy. If that bothers you, then maybe your issue isn’t the number… it’s the truth behind it.
And one more thing—for the conspiracy theorists trying to find hidden meanings in everything:
Yesterday just so happened to be the 8,647th day since 9/11.
Coincidence? Sure. But I’ll let you do what you do best.
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This sort of jackassery only gets legs when the mainstream media reports it as if it has any validity.
Because he wants everybody to like him, James Comey apologized for doing absolutely nothing wrong.
This afternoon the United States Secret Service showed up at my door at the request of the Trump administration. Why?
Because I tweeted the number 8647 , a common protest slogan used by Democrats to call for the impeachment or legal removal of Donald Trump , the 47th president. No threats. No violent rhetoric. Just a number. In fact, in the tweet thread I blatantly stated that I never support violence in any way and want him removed from office legally.
The agents who showed up told me that they were “sent from Washington” and after explaining it all to them they appeared to understand that I wasn’t calling for anything close to the president’s assassination.
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Apparently, that was enough for the Trump administration to summon federal agents to my home, claiming I had “threatened the president’s life.”
What’s really happening is Trump admin is changing the definition of a number in order to intimidate and squash the free speech of someone calling for his impeachment?
Let me be crystal clear:
“86” is well-known restaurant slang for removing something .
“47” refers to Trump as the 47th president .
Put together, it means: remove Trump from office — legally , peacefully , and through democratic means like impeachment or the 25th Amendment.
The number has been used at rallies. Protest signs. Even James Comey —the Republican-appointed former FBI Director—posted it yesterday on Instagram. That’s what triggered MAGA’s meltdown.
They know what it really means. But truth isn’t what they’re after— control through fear is .
These are the same people who sold "8646" T-shirts to call for Biden’s impeachment. The same folks who say "murder" figuratively all the time on social media without consequence. The same influencers who twist words like “woke,” “CRT,” and “DEI” into weapons to stoke division.
And now they’re trying to turn a protest slogan into a criminal offense .
Let’s not kid ourselves: This is what authoritarianism looks like in the early stages. Weaponizing federal power to harass political critics. Manufacturing outrage to silence dissent. Treating peaceful protest as a threat.
The nascent police state ?
If this is true, then maybe you can provide some examples of these signs at protests BEFORE Thursday.
"Weaponizing federal power to harass political critics."
Yes, we have seen this before, to wit..
Trying to put a political foe in prison so he cannot run
Trying to get that political rival off ballots so he cannot win states
Jailing peaceful; protesters praying in front of abortion clinics, including sending the FBI to knock down doors at the homes of some of these protestors.
Investigating parents at school board meetings.
Throwing people in jail on Jan 6 for nothing more than being in the Capital and escorted by police through the building, and being held in jail for months without a trial.
Shutting down churches with the threat of jail or fines if the ban was broken, but allow left wing "protestors" burn down cities during the early days of COVID.
What administration did this again?
Transcript Steve Schmidt The Warning
May 16
It is Friday, May 16th. This is the warning. The crisis in the United States is escalating. There is a great deal on the line. One of the things that a lot of us have said to be on the lookout for is the pretext that Donald Trump will come up with to excuse the assertion of illegitimate power to deal with a threat and to use the slightest pretext of anything, no matter how stupid, how nonsensical, to assert powers, to go after his enemies and to use a vast propag propaganda system to deceive people, to whip up a mob, to set them
loose, and to attack some fundamental ideas about justice, about liberty. There are some lessons in America's past that are very important to appreciate for this moment. And they go back all the way to the beginning of the republic and before, like the Salem witch trials. And to appreciate the menace and the venom that's directed at FBI director James Comey, you have to appreciate the story of the Salem witch trials. Now, until Tulsi Gabbard was outrageously made the national intelligence director, this was a job
for serious human beings. And you would never see one of them on a show like with Jesse Waters spouting nonsense and calling for the jailing of somebody the president hates without a trial without any due process. He should just be sent where Tulsy to a concentration camp in El Salvador perhaps. Or maybe he could compete for his life in the new Hunger Games show that Christy Gnome is advocating be a contest for people, migrants, to compete for American citizenship. At any rate, let's watch the clip. Do you believe Comey should be
in jail? I do. any other person with the position of influence that he has, people who take very seriously what a that what a guy of his stature, his experience, and what the propaganda media has built him up to be. I'm very concerned for the president's life. We've already seen assassination attempts. I'm very concerned for his life, and James Comey, in my view, should be held accountable and put behind bars for this. Now, I don't know why James Comey arranged the seashells on the beach and took a picture of it.
have no idea why he did it. I do think that James Comey is a narcissist. I think James Comey's need for attention. His need to be seen as virtuous is the reason that Donald Trump won the election in 2016. I think that James Comey outrageously interfered in the outcome of that election. I also think that James Comey is one of the foremost public narcissists of our age. There's an investigative profile of James Comey at a hedge fund where he was the director of security running sting operations in the lunchroom where every
employee was filmed. James Comey, I can't explain to you. I can't explain why he put the seashells on the beach. But here's the point. Neither can any of the people from Donald Trump on down who want to jail him for arranging numbers in seashells. And they wish to bring the full weight of the federal government while at the same time in the exact same moment disembowelling the public corruption unit in the FBI while we're witnessing some of the greatest corruption in the history of the country playing out across Donald Trump's sick
tour of the Middle East. Here at home, banners are being put up in Washington DC that are authoritarian in nature and have no place in a republic. And yet they are being hung. Donald Trump is threatening Supreme Court justices and his vast propaganda network without trial, without jury, without a judge, without any due process whatsoever is demanding the imprisonment or worse of his political enemies on the basis of a thought, a picture, demanding that something that is completely nebulous be concretized as a dire threat. so grave
that the entire American system must be overthrown to deal with it. That this threat requires without trial, without judge, without jury the imprisonment, perhaps the execution of the president's opponents who according to the president and his propagandists has been threatened with death when no such thing has occurred. He knew exactly what that meant. A child knows what that meant. If you're the FBI director and you don't know what that meant, that meant assassination. Now, a central feature of the Trump
presidency is the ability and the increasing audacity with which they declare up is down and down is up. Total absolute disregard for reality, for the truth. Aggressive preining dishonesty and all of it weaponized for the purposes of taking power, consolidating power by stripping away rights, including the right to protest, the right to speak out. This is what Bruce Springsteen talked about in Manchester, England. Tonight we ask all who believe in democracy and the best of our American experience to rise with us,
raise your voices against authoritarianism and let freedom ring. Now in this moment of very grave danger for the republic. There is a record of Donald Trump and his supporters stoking violence. Let's watch the Proud Boys attacking people like Hitler's essay did in Munich in the 1930s, only this is 2020s Washington. Let's watch the violence and the mayhem from January 6. Multiple capital injuries. Multiple capital injuries. For 10 long years, Donald Trump has threatened to take away the rights of
ordinary Americans to speak out. Demanded they be imprisoned or killed here. And I don't blame him for sticking with his daughter, but his daughter is a very dumb individual. Very dumb. She's a radical warhawk. Let's put her with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her. Okay, let's see how she feels about it. And here and we'll stand up to crazy Nancy Pelosi who ruined San Francisco. How's her husband doing, by the way? Anybody know? and she's against building a wall at our border, even though she has a wall
around her house, which obviously didn't do a very good job. Or like here, one rough hour, and I mean real rough. The word will get out and it will end immediately. End immediately. What we are witnessing is the beginning of a rolling reichd dog fire. And Donald Trump will use any pretext, the slightest anything to declare an emergency to impose as much authority with as much force as he can turn out. There's no constraints. There is no mechanism to stop him. The Congress is a pilot bureau. It has fighters, but on
the Democratic side, it's led by an appeaser named Chuck Schumer. And so, in this moment, appreciate this. Though, James Comey is not an admirable man. That isn't the point. James Comey is a prominent man. And that prominent man is being smeared and lied about, having thoughts put into his head and then interpreted by propagandists on TV who tell you that James Comey must be in jail because he communicated somehow with an arrangement of seashells that made a statement about in common colloquial anguish, we should get rid of
Trump. We should put a check on Trump in 26 in 28. By all means, the American people should 86 MAGA, throw it into the garbage, put it on the ash heap of history, repudiate it at the ballot box. I call for peaceful protest. I call for a peaceful uprising, and I have every right to do so under the First Amendment, and I will continue to do so. And so, if I have a thought in my head that says 86 Trump, that is not criminal. And if I wish to arrange 8647 onto a beach, neither is that even in seashells. And so what we're seeing
in the reaction to this is an insanity and it's deeply sinister and it can't be tolerated. And so did James Comey threaten the life of the president of the United States with assassination in a covert seashell message? Of course not. But let's appreciate the journey on the river. It started with Sean Spicer saying that the crowd size was bigger when in fact it was smaller. And over the long years of the journey, we've arrived at a moment that some of us saw coming for a very long time when Donald
Trump is demanding the imprisonment and so are his chief lieutenants spread out over propaganda channels of people who've had thoughts in their head. My friends, that is the warning. Because if that is so, then no one in America is safe. And that's what Donald Trump and his fascist lieutenants want all of you to believe to keep you quiet, compliant, and in line. And that's not the American way. I'm Steve Schmidt. This is the warning. I invite you to join this community where I promise to be honest,
blunt, and direct about what is happening in this country. America is in crisis. Follow and subscribe to this channel and on Substack. Thank you.