🐚“86 47” Edition
In this week’s episode of Justice, But Make It Selective, Todd Blanche reassured the public that while “86 47” is posted constantly by all sorts of people who are not being charged, the indictment of James Comey over a seashell Instagram post is totally different, thanks to a mysterious, invisible “body of evidence” that no one is allowed to see, but should definitely trust exists.
The U.S. Department of Justice would like you to know this is not about selectively prosecuting a political rival. It just coincidentally involves a political rival, after an 11-month investigation, resulting in a three-page indictment about…seashells. Intent, we’re told, will be proven with witnesses and documents that are apparently being kept in the same secure location as Bigfoot and the Ark of the Covenant.
Meanwhile, we suspect a simpler explanation: the key legal distinction here is that Comey is someone the president doesn’t like, which in today’s legal framework may be less of a coincidence and more of a guiding principle.
Comey, for his part, insists “86” was just restaurant slang, not a coded call to chaos, suggesting that somewhere in America, a line cook just realized they’ve been accidentally committing federal crimes every time they 86 the fish special.
Clay Bennett - Tribune Content Agency
Dennis Goris
Michael Ramirez - Creators
Clay Jones - Substack and Claytoonz
Chris Britt - Creators
Nick Anderson - Tribune Content Agency and Substack
Pedro Molina - Tinyview and Tribune Content Agency
Jimmy Margulies - King Features
Jack Ohman - Substack and Tribune Content Agency
Although they're incredibly valuable right where they are, perhaps we should ask more political cartoonists to run for office (cruel though that may be), as they have intelligent, clear-eyed views of our world.
Well done!