At the risk of stating the obvious (or should I say, the obvious risk of stating the obvious), this man should not be allowed to walk around carrying deadly weapons.
Then we can get to the issue of fake news being taken as true.
Sad. On so many levels. You just know the idiots who thought up this lie and embellished it is out there laughing their asses off. I hope this serves as a wake-up call for some of the other Edgar Welches out there.
I’d love to know what this nut job’s own erotic fantasies are.
Don’t call ‘em Little Caesars for nutin’.
The fabricated story, known as “Pizzagate” and targeted at Hillary Clinton and her allies, was ignited by fringe social media users. It was then heavily circulated by fake news publications and conspiracy sites.
AND promoted by incoming National Security Adviser Michael Flynn and his crackpot son [Edit: …crackpot son who is working on Trump’s transition team – thanks @jacksonhts for the reminder!] . That ought to be mentioned, prominently, in every story about this insane rumor.
[Edit # 2: Crackpot son WAS on Trump’s transition team, apparently no longer is…at least not officially http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/michael-flynn-son-not-on-transition-team-pence]
Next, he was going to liberate Pee Wee’s bike from the basement of the Alamo.
The NRA will be lobbing for an American Freedom award.
I actually think the issue we really need to take on is that the son of our soon-to-be National Security Advisor, who is also his business partner and a member of the Trump transition team, was the foremost promoter of this madness, while his father was more than happy to retweet an entirely other right wing extremist theory linking Hillary to child sex trafficking.
But never mind. Once Trump is sworn in, we can move past this era of hashtag stochastic domestic terrorism and move into the exciting new era of state sanctioned domestic terrorism.
And God, I do wish I was joking. I don’t think the Militia nuts are going to just fade away this time, the way they did after Bush II was elected. I think they’re going to start thinking of themselves and acting like as the Vanguard of the New Order and that Jefferson Beauregard Sessions and whatever atrocious awful person become DHS secretary will wink and nod.
Some things bear repeating.
Since quaint anachronisms like logic and reason are off the table, please esplain how that would work.
I don’t think the Militia nuts are going to just fade away this time, the way they did after Bush II was elected. I think they’re going to start thinking of themselves and acting like as the Vanguard of the New Order
If nothing else, the Bush maladministration was trying to appear to be mainstream and legitimate. Yes, they were beyond incompetent but there was a certain standard linear route to their venality. Rump is just wildly opening the floodgates to the worst of the worst in American society not trying to distance themselves and actively encouraging it.
Ah, now we’re back to the Great Satanic Child Scare of the 80s. Only this time, they’re angry one-inchers with guns.
So he shot up a pizzeria because he believed fake news? Big deal. 63 million believers in fake news put Trumputin in office.
Left out is the part where the #pizzagate crowd are convinced this was a false flag operation by the Clinton cabal (because actor).
I’m having a hard time believing his interest was purely altruistic. After all, trump has made daughter-lust a passable thing. Maybe someone should check his computer.
nope
All that lot will do is hold onto a belief that their supposed brethren won’t ‘sell them out’ (and by sell, i firmly mean that folks like Welch are supposedly ‘false flags’ and ‘free speech threats’).
What gets me is if they really believed this to be true, why weren’t they down there with this guy helping free the kids? Looking for the tunnels?
This guy is a dupe and dangerous, but he at least backed off when he saw it wasn’t true. People like Flynn’s son still aren’t convinced, yet don’t feel the need to help or do anything about it.
This is so messed up on many levels.
And if they really believed that they need to go to Comet Pizza themselves. Otherwise they are sleazy trolls trying to get other people to do heinous shit.
Sad on so many levels.
This is just one more proof that our form of democracy does not work. Currently, any under informed or ill informed bozo like this can drag his knuckles into the voting booth and happily cast his vote for Donald “the draft dodging coward” Trump and assist in electing the most unqualified candidate for President we have ever had.
We need to have very strict testing on current affairs and civics to allow people to vote. Whether it discriminates against some groups or not is immaterial. We have just seen the results of a four year dice roll that should scare the shit out of everyone. If that is democracy, then we need another system.