Yesterday I’m on the L2 bus going north on Connecticut Avenue when the bus driver announces everyone has to get off. I exit the bus and see a swarm of police, the ones not doing crowd control and traffic re-direct are crouching and taking cover. At least one chopper. I GTFO as quickly as I could. “WTF happened?” I ask on FB.
Got a report from a FOAF who works there. Man just walked in with several guns and told people to leave the establishment. The door guy/host–all of 19 years old–did a masterful job of getting everyone out without panicking. The man walks in the back. One employee is still there, having gone to the bathroom. He leaves the john and he is the only person in the place besides the gunman. Gunman points rifle at him and tells him to leave. He fires a couple of rounds at a padlock, apparently in the belief that the locked door leads to a secret network of tunnels holding child sex slaves. In fact it is a locker where employees can store their stuff while at work. That is all I know other than what’s in the news reports.
Saw this on the news this morning. Unfuckingbelievable. Not only did this guy believe the dumbass fake news story he thought he ought to personally go do something about. Anybody can go on the internet read crap and buy a gun, yet you still need a license to sell real estate.
Oh, and Trump haters, this is one for you, his National Security Adviser tweeted the dumbfuck conspiracy story with a “Read this and you decide” intro. Not just his son who was tweeting this crap, the guy who is advising Trump on National Security.
#RealFakeNews: within minutes, perhaps seconds, of this story hitting the news, the fake news mongers were claiming it was a false flag operation. Hope this guy appreciates irony.
The owner is a really cool guy. The staff are all decent people too. It’s a great place to bring kids during the day–They have ping pong–and at night they put on shows by local bands. The food is really good.
It’s such a fucking shame they had to be targeted by lunatics.
Can someone summarize the “evidence” that this pizza place is nefarious? I have a co-worker who, while otherwise normal, swears that there is smoke here, but I’m not going to google this and end up in some of the sites that I’m guessing this evidence is kept.
All of the articles just refer to the Podesta emails, but don’t spell out how the hell this whole thing came to be.
“As all of this spread, pro-Trump supporters went back to the Podesta emails published by WikiLeaks to find more “clues” for Pizzagate and other conspiracy theories. Without any evidence or cause, they quickly began to interpret basic food items as code words for this supposed sex ring. Through this new ridiculous “discovery,” Trump supporters on social media linked even more emails to Pizzagate, which grew from a conspiracy theory about a DC pizzeria to one about a fictitious international child sex ring.”
Evidence? Basically, a large number of Trump supporters are mentally unbalanced, ill-educated and have access to the internet. They post a bunch of idiotic stories, egg each other on, and then inspire one of their lesser lights to go shoot a place up.
It’s Trump-land. Facts are unimportant now. Evidence is what you say it is. Ms. KellyAnne Conway has assured us of this. Random tweets from mouth breathing Trump supporters are to be given the same credence as peer-reviewed research papers now.
Not even funny. People could have been killed over a ridiculous rumor that even a moron shouldn’t believe. And yet the next Security Adviser and his son are proven morons.
It’s almost literally like that “The Number 23” movie. Someone suggests that maybe Cheese Pizza = Child Porn, and then someone else says that on the deep web cheese pizza is a well known code word for child porn, and once that “fact” is established people went back to the emails and found every reference to pizza; and then they found other words that were food related in proximity to the word pizza (shocker, right? People talking about food in the context of other foods); and then people went back through those emails and found every reference to those other [very common] food words; and, well, with all of these references to pedophilia and child porn floating around, it can’t be a coincidence, right?
I hope this guy has either seen or considered seeing his lawyer. If I were in his position, I would at the very least contemplate suing the short-docked losers responsible for originating and spreading this calumny for libel and defamation. Of course, finding out exactly who these people are would probably be rather difficult (maybe they can start by looking under a bridge).
Dude, I get that you like to troll the lefties on the board and that’s often funny, but these are people I know and they are living through a nightmare, so I would appreciate it if you didn’t do that. Thanks in advance!
I don’t know about that. According to the OP, he went into this restaurant with a gun, ordered all the people out, looked around, and even shot the lock off a door. Now, how much do you want to bet that he still believes that Hillary is operating a child sex ring there?