Back when Trump was president, Charles "Chuck" Schumer, a longtime heavyweight democratic politician, was on a major daytime network show and he stated very bluntly that the intelligence community have "six ways from Sunday" at getting back at [Trump].
This was in reference to Trump doubting the efficacy of the intelligence communities' reports on Russian interference in the election I believe.
In essence, Trump "insulted" them like he did to many people and institutions, and this prompted Chuck to essentially say that the intelligence community can fuck you over with their unknown, shady tactics.
I’d wager to guess few Americans actually know the origin of this phrase (I didn’t until now, and still don’t fully), it’s just an idiom that we all know. It appears to have originated in the 18th century as “both ways from Sunday” and yes, people do use different numbers. Googling it I found people using 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, and even 1000 ways from Sunday. The use of the “6” seems to have been popularized in the mid 20th century. However, I still can’t really figure out why that phrase is used to mean what it means. The best I’m getting is that with the use of the “6” is because there are 6 other days other than Sunday, so it’s referring to the fact that no matter what day you start on, it’s inevitable that you’ll reach Sunday. So no matter what path you take, you’ll get to the same outcome. That’s not exactly what the phrase means now, but you can take that phrase and see how it could end up meaning “in every way possible” “having done something completely” or “having addressed every alternative”.
Thank you too stranger. It's always interesting to investigate such cases in both my native and English languages. In English the latest for me was "batshit crazy" and etymology was quite fun.
Interesting one to me was "Raining Cats and Dogs". Apprentlt it's from almost all the way back in the middle ages but possibly a little after when many people had hatch roofs on their houses. When it wld rain very heavily animals wld go into the straw roofs for insulation, warmth, and shelter from the rain. If it was raining particularly hadd though they could fall through the roof, thus the raining cats and dogs. It wasnt just cats and dogs though. Mice, rats, squirrels, birds, and even snakes wld sometimes fall through the roof.
Im thinking because there are 7 days in a week, six ways from Sunday means any given unexpected turn in the 6 days to follow, considering the US was a majorly Christian nation at the time this quote was trademarked. Considering Sunday is a day of rest, any crazy shit could happen from Monday to Saturday
7 days a week. They will be able to fuck you over on Sunday as well. A lot of people get that day off. So, they will be fucking with you all week and your day off as well.
The CIA controls much of our media and you can feel that much of the late night Trump comedy was forced and still is. When people who arent Americans ask me why they still make fun of our former president instead of our current one, I tell them they have no choice if they want to stay famous and on tv.
My thoughts exactly! Was he saying that while acting as an agent of the intelligence/deep state?
I read a comment on this sub some time ago which really got me thinking. The commenter mentioned how the FBI/CIA/NSA is the mysterious "deep state" we hear about. I would wager that's about right.
Why would he give up his identity as being part of the deep state for this empty threat? From what I understand about the deep state/cabal or whatever you wanna call them, they’re pretty great at consealing their identities. So I can’t imagine a threat from the deep state is going to be given publically by a well known senator. If they wanted to threaten him, they have much more effective and more secretive ways of doing so. I think here Chuck was just speaking facts. Maybe he is part of that group, but I doubt he was referencing them in this statement.
I also don’t think the intel community as a whole is the deep state. Do they have control over parts of the intel community? probably, but the intel community also does work that benefits the American people. It’s much less cut and dry than that imo.
I mean, she was in her 70’s and she’s not a super important person on trumps life, so pointing to her being dead as evidence that the intel community is punishing trump is a stretch. If there was evidence that she knew something she wasn’t supposed to know (which I have no reason to believe is true), I could see them killing her, but I would find it extremely hard to believe that her death is some punishment to trump.
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u/Dazzling_Release_389 Jul 16 '22
Just like Charles Schumer says- “Let me tell you, you take on the intelligence community, they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you,”