Pizza-gate conspiracy

| December 5, 2016

Edgar M. Welch

I’m just finding out about this story today, mostly because stories about fake news don’t interest me. I spend too much time tracking down real news. But apparently, there a conspiracy theory going around about Washington DC pizzeria Comet Ping Pong which was, according to the conspiracy adherents, the home base of a child abuse ring led by Hillary Clinton and her campaign chief, John D. Podesta.

Yesterday, Edgar M. Welch, 28, of Salisbury, N.C. went to investigate the conspiracy for himself. By investigate, he meant fire a few rounds into the floor of the Comet Ping Pong according to the New York Times.

The gunfire sharply escalated what had already been a tense period for the restaurant, its employees and the quiet neighborhood since the fake stories began spreading. Dozens of threats against employees had been made via email and social media.

People inside the restaurant fled, and the police locked down the area, ordering patrons of a nearby bookstore and cafe called Politics and Prose to remain locked inside. Officers with rifles and protective gear surrounded the restaurant and apprehended Mr. Welch. Two additional firearms were found, one on Mr. Welch and the other in his vehicle, the police said.

The police closed down a normally busy Connecticut Avenue, which runs in front of the restaurant, for several hours Sunday as they searched the area for other potential threats.

Comet Ping Pong’s owner, James Alefantis, reports that he and his employees have been the victims of threats that result from this particular fake news story. We all survived this one, thankfully – but the fake news story thing isn’t new. There were the stories about George W Bush being a coke head and that he was AWOL from the National Guard. There’s that crack-pot who claims that he was Obama’s crack dealer and homosexual lover.

Apparently this pizza-gate story was manufactured from Podesta and the pizzeria-owner’s email in which they planned a fund-raiser for Hillary. That morphed into a child exploitation story. Folks are going to believe what they’re going to believe. Be careful, it’s a jungle out there.

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Eden

o.0

ChipNASA

So let me get this straight…..

The guy was “Self investigating” (whatever that means)the conspiracy for himself, an online conspiracy theory asserting, with no evidence, that the restaurant is somehow tied to a child abuse ring.

He went to self-investigate a business supposedly hiding child sex slaves in the basement, and he shot his gun into the floor.

???

The Other Whitey

Obviously natural selection doesn’t always work fast.

The Other Whitey

“Police with rifles…”

Were they the scary black type of rifle that liberals tell us is “designed to kill large numbers of people rapidly?”

Why, oh why, would the cops need those?

11B-Mailclerk

With “raffles”.

Fundraising for their widows and orphans fund.

HMCS(FMF) ret

Guess I need to say clear of the local pizza shops, cause they is full of “Chester the Molester” types?

Papa John’s knows where I live, so I’ll be using the delivery service for a while (although, I’ll be missing all of the hot college girls that work there – last time I was in, one of them had flour all over her blouse… thought I was gonna burn in Hell for all of the naughty thoughts I was having… 🙂 )

Graybeard

Pizza shops in college towns – gotta love ’em.

I know I enjoyed working in them 45 years ago….

Ret_25X

Are we sure this future Nobel laureate is not among the APL alumni?

Green Thumb

Now if it was Phildo’s crack dealer and homosexual lover we may be on to something…..

ex-OS2

For the love of all mankind, what about the pizza?

Eden

Won’t you please think about the pizza? #PizzaLivesMatter

Skippy

Tin foil hat ? Is on

The stupid runs strong with this one

BHWHAHAHAHAHAHAHA ! ! ! !

Sparks

“Welcome to Comet Ping Pong. Your pizza will take about 45 minutes.”

POP…POP…POP

“I meant 5 minutes Sir!”

Daisy Cutter

How many people do you think yelled “Check, please.” all at once?

AW1Ed

Are you saying not everything one reads on the interwebs isn’t true??!!

Say it ain’t- oh look, a squirrel!

akpual

I’m a French model.

SFC D

Bonjour

Hack Stone

Once authorities release him, I want him to get hot on self-investigating the disappearance of Elaine Ricci.

Veritas Omnia Vincit

Too many viewings of Taxi Driver and not nearly enough paying attention in school…

Talk about ill-advised action taken without proof of reality.

Ex-PH2

It’s amazing, isn’t it? Just amazing, how much utter BS can be spread on the internet and the Lemmings fall for it, pump it up A Lot, and so it goes until the balloon explodes all over them.

Well, this is no surprise.

11B-Mailclerk

Go Lemmings Go!

Some Guy

But… but I thought all the Lemmings were entitled, quinoa-munching, libtard college dropouts! Are you saying that people on the right can be crazy crackpots, too? Say it ain’t so!

Ex-PH2

Hysterical reactions to muddled but explosive internet stories are endemic to both sides of the political fence. None of it is exclusive to either demographic.

Some Guy

Agreed, unfortunately that’s very true. I think the overall problem is that most people don’t trust the traditional news media anymore (which I can appreciate), so they seek out alternative outlets. As seen here, this can drive them into the arms of conspiracy nutters.
Thankfully nobody was hurt this time, let’s hope the next one goes the same way.

11B-Mailclerk

Some Lefties own guns, too. One I know makes the Zampolit of this forum look like Archie Bunker.

desert

Good way for truth to be spread too and the liberals/communists deny everything….all works out in the end tho right?

nbcguy54ACTUAL

Wait until reads stories about Subway…..

Some Guy

I hear the only footlongs Jared has been having recently are courtesy of Mr. “Tiny”

ex-OS2

Dessert is provided by the ghetto penthouse….

A Proud Infidel®™

I heard rumor that he got his ass beat as well.

HMCS(FMF) ret

And you forgot about Julio, Bubba and Thor…

Foxbat40

Something tells me this guy should have called his local vice squad. But it is ironic that this woman is so hated that the story is believable. She has reportedly flown several times on the pedophile express to Epstine’s island. But not nearly as often as Bill.

Forest Green

Have you seen the conspiracy theory that Moochle is actually a man? It’s almost as good as the Pizza story.

Roger in Republic

Except that one is true. I knew a guy that once worked with a guy who said that Obamas crack dealer had told him that he once had a threesome with Barack and Michelle where he sucked both of their dicks.

Adam

The pedophile allegations against John Podesta and other members of Hillary’s staff comes from emails released by Wikileaks, wherein these people have the weirdest conversations about “playing dominoes on pasta or pizza” and “dreaming of hot dog stand in Hawaii.” There’s also a lot of weird references to “walnut sauce”.

Urban dictionary translates every single one of these weird phrases as code words for child pornography and pedophilia.

“Comet Ping Pong” got dragged into this because of James Alefantis’ ownership of three businesses on that block, including a place called “Besta Pizza,” whose logo was the pedophile symbol for “boy love”, according to an unrelated FBI memo on the subject of pedophile communications. That business is jointly owned (or has kind of subsidiary relationship…. links for primary sources are below) by Andrew Kline, a DOJ Clinton appointee who worked to fight child-trafficking, and should have recognized the pedophile symbols in pizza shop’s logo, and decorating the menu.

Links here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/5beuza/not_a_drill_pedo_ring_busted_right_the_fuck_open/

Everything the main post at that link can be cross-referenced. The comments below it are hit/miss in terms of reliability, but can also be cross-referenced.

Adam

I’m sure I missed a few links, but I’ll try to dig them up if anyone expresses interest. This rabbit hole runs deep.

Adam

This link appears to have everything except the weird email conversations that I mentioned above.

http://archive.is/4Uzg8

Ex-PH2

Weird e-mail – YouTube comments are FULL to the limit with weird stuff. It’s better to just watch the movies. The zombies seem to come out when the ‘net goes on.

The Other Whitey

Maybe there’s something to this, maybe not. God knows Das Hildabeast is certainly evil enough to make it plausible, but that doesn’t automatically mean it’s true.

Either way, Pizza Shooter here is fucking moron.

Grimmy

There is also this angle to consider.

The “fake news” decree comes from the NYT and originated with the very same individual that was behind the BBC’s squashing of the UK pedo ring news.

There’s a hella lota smoke in the pizzagate emails. Way too much smoke for there not to be a raging fire behind it.

Ex-PH2

Yes, but the real point to this is that people who had nothing to do with this hysteria could have gotten badly hurt or killed by one whack job on a bender.
Whether or not any of it is true, it does the NYT no credit to try to blow it off, either.
I think we absolutely need to get the truth, get to the bottom of it, and find out what is really going on, but we do not need to act like a mob.

Grimmy

It’s looking like the real point to this is that the scumbag with the AK is a hired actor.

Goes into the place and fires one round into the floor… for what?

Dood’s a failed actor, you can look him up on IMDB.

So, why did he go to that place and fire just one round into the floor?

How much money was he paid?

Tinfoil hat? Maybe.

Ex-PH2

Tinfoil? If there is evidence to show that he was a hired gun, no. If he was looking for a chance to get a ‘name’ for himself, again, no, but definitely criminal in each case.

Grimmy

I definitely agree with the criminal part. No matter how this shakes out, that idiot is a criminal idiot.

As to the “fake news”, I suggest some research into the Franklin cover up, the UK pedofile rings (both the muslim and the BBC ones).

The shit is deeply embedded, powerfully protected, and in some cases, the same degenerate scumbags are flying cover by managing msm coverage (or more accurately, msm refusal to cover while simultaneously shutting down any attempts at outing the pedo orgs and players).

Ex-PH2

Dennis Hastert used to be the Speaker of the House of Reps, remember? Now he’s in jail for paying hush money to the kids he coached in high school wrestling.
They may think they’ve got it locked up, but they haven’t. Hastert and Sandusky are NOT the only ones.

Grimmy

Those two were expendable. And degenerates often either eat their own or allow them to be eaten as lessons to others.

This pedo/pederasty thing is global, deeply entrenched and extremely well protected by both political cover and wealth.

J

ADAM – well said. There is so much documented evidence of pedo crap ( including those pictures that the owner posted with their captions) that the MSM… the same ‘trustworthy’ sources that think Trump lost, etc. – are happy to see citizens buying their line about this being fake. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain. Nothing to see ehre, folks. BTW – did you see that Haloween night video of the gay guy talking about a woman wanting to hold on to her dead baby, and the jokes about the umbilical cord> Good family entertainment for a pizza parlor. right?

W2

Yeah, you two looney tunes (Adam and J) lost me when you used “Reddit” as a source. Get out of your mom’s basement and get some sunshine for crying out loud.

Adam

Reddit is not the source; it’s just a place where people put all of the source material into one, easy-to-find place.

W2

Like the National Enquirer, right?

ex-OS2

Pizzasuckers.

Commissar Poodle

Several readers have posted information or opinions that are derived from fake news.

Ex-PH2

Geezo Pete, Piuperdink, could you BE any more OBSCURE???

Seriously, you post a comment specifically intended to provoke people into reacting any which way but loose, and yet you provide no backup or anything.

You just throw it out there, saying ‘THUS have I said it, and THUS it shall be’ and you expect anyone at all to take you seriously????? I know that you have balloons and pocket lint where most people keep their brains, but if you make a statement like that, then FUCKING PROVIDE BACKUP, YOU DOLT!!!

Is that simple enough for you, dipshit? Or did your perfessers tell you everything YOU say is pure gold? Too bad! They didn’t tell you the difference between real gold and fool’s gold, did they??

And to think, you spent all that money on a degree of some kind, and you still don’t have a job. Oh, well, I’m having pot roast for supper. Nearly done, and I’m HONGREH!!!

Eden

But he’s a special snowflake like that! Of course everything he says/writes is gold!

A Proud Infidel®™

*YAWN*, here goes ‘ol roach shit-for-brains the Poodledick yet again.

The Other Whitey

Yeah, like you.

Who else remembers the “400% increase?”

Ex-PH2

I got tired of insulting poodles – VERY smart dogs, bred for hunting waterfowl – by using their collective name in vain.

Piuperdink, it is!

ex-OS2

Zika-Commie is at KSFO petting the new therapy pig LiLou.

http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/SFO-adds-therapy-pig-to-greet-travelers-10695602.php

Sparks

A therapy pig! Really. When is this going to end. In bacon I hope.

akpual

Mmmmmm,bacon

Claw

LiLou?

Wasn’t that the red headed space chick in “The Fifth Element”?

The Other Whitey

Uh-huh. Milla Jovovich, nakeder than usual.

Also Bruce Willis with bleached hair, Chris Tucker in drag but evidently straight, a hilariously-douchey Gary Oldman, and President Debo.

Silentium Est Aureum

You mean like half the “sources” you’ve thrown around?

Stop. Hurt. Sides. Laughing.

ex-OS2

Well, what we all know is not fake news is that Bernie lost, Hillary lost and The Donald won.

I can think of a few cable news channels that are fake too….

Oh, and Don’t Fear The Commie!

Hondo

Did someone say Don’t Fear the Commie?

By the way, Poodle – does 2 plus 2 still equal 5, like it did in this Soviet early-1930s propaganda poster?

ex-OS2

Boom, there it is!

Ex-PH2

There are FOUR lights!

AW1Ed

2+2 does indeed =5 for large values of 2.

Or small values of 5.

/sarc

Ex-PH2

Well, as a post-supper filmfest, I watched several clips from “Madea Goes to Jail”, because Madea Simmons is my idol, and I figure she’s the ONLY person in this Universe who can straighten out the Piuperdink even a teensy-weensy bit. She’d have him chasing his tail in less than 8 seconds.

At least I had fun. Oh, yeah – the pot roast with carrots and potatoes and onions was to DIE for!!

ex-OS2

“I aint scared a no po po. Call da po po hoe. Call da po po hoe!”

HMCS(FMF) ret

And you are GUILTY of doing the same thing, Commissar Poodleditski…

John Thompson

Before you roll your eyes about PizzaGate, at least read this article with an open mind…

“I attempted to avoid this subject at first. There were too many hoaxes, bad investigation tactics, and dangerous accusations being made with the slimmest of evidence. I didn’t want PizzaGate to be possible. The thought of an organized Satanic group of Washington elite raping and torturing children makes me queasy. The problem is, PizzaGate is possible.”

http://www.michaelfmartin.com/the-problem-is-pizzagate-is-possible/

FatCircles0311

Is it fake news if the major corrupt media don’t cover it? Imagine if anything from Wikileaks wasn’t exposed do you think any of the big media entertainment corporations posing as news would have covered it?

Sadly our media is so currupt these days if they don’t cover something there is a very good chance it might be legit especially if it involves high democrats.

Welcome to the new America, john.

A Proud Infidel®™

Speaking of “Fake News” I heard there was an article earlier this week about B. Hussein 0bama bawling to Rolling Stone Magazine about it. Remember their false rape accusations?

Ex-PH2

Yes, I believe they lost that lawsuit, too.

streetsweeper

Nobody has figured out the story originates from 4 C H A N…

Adam

Kinda. The conversation started there, but people didn’t believe it until weird stuff began appearing in Wikileaks’ emails from John Podesta.

The user who started the conversation on 4chan said that he did that so his participation would be lost in the Internet’s noise. Basically, PERSEC.

But don’t take my word for it; here are the sources:

Weird “dominoes” email:
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/30613

“Hotdog stand in Hawaii” (which is mentioned in the archive, but this link appears to be absent)
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/30231

Full archive:
http://archive.is/4Uzg8

FatCircles0311

That moment when 4chan is more legit that any of our major network tv news corporations…..

Let that sink in.

11B-Mailclerk

How hard is it to get stuff added to “urban dictionary”?

Are their dates on their entries and change logs?

Do these “code word” entries pre-date the wikileaks items?

“Pedo” accusations turn most folks into a howling lynch mob.

“I read it on the internet somewhere” is kinda lame.

Jonn sets a very good example of research and fact checking. Perhaps some folks missed the demonstrated standard.

OWB

Do code words mean what somebody says they mean if neither the speaker of those alleged code words nor the intended recipient of those same alleged code words have no knowledge of the subject of allegedness for which others have designated the code?

Meanwhile, some of us will continue to use words without regard for how their meaning might have been subverted by somebody somewhere who has done nothing to positively contribute to the lifestyles of those same users of words. After all, most of us simply mean that there are no storm clouds visible when we observe something like, “Wow! Isn’t that a beautiful blue sky?”

Veritas Omnia Vincit

“Have yourself a Merry Little Christmas,
Make the Yuletide Gay

Yeah I’m still using that word to enjoy general warmth and merriment with family and friends, not to describe some sort of homosexual contact involving egg nog….

2/17 Air Cav

“I’m dreaming of a white Christmas.” I can’t listen to that line being sung w/o thinking of the racist bastard Irving Berlin who wrote it. Berlin? I’m sure you see the connection. And don’t tell me he was Jewish or that white refers to snow. That’s what THEY want you to think.

Veritas Omnia Vincit

We should have an entire sub thread devoted to such obvious reality moments….(hehehehe)

SFC D

Don we now our gay apparel?

CCO

And the man who parked his tractor in a fountain in D. C. made a lot more sense.