In a period of very serious craziness, the mere existence of this absurd conspiracy theory shows us how challenging (probably impossible) it is to try to reason with Trump’s base.
Times have changed. At the place I used to work at, we called them grease fires…
The difference here may be the statement that the fire appears to have been set intentionally. A former co-worker liked to call this sort of thing Jewish Lightning, which I presume was okay since he was Jewish. (It also presumes that the business in question isn’t doing particularly well, which may or may not apply here.)
Someday we’re going to learn that Pizzagate started as an innocent viral marketing campaign, and got warped into the shady trafficking story by one of the deranged nutjobs that the GOP cultivates as a faux-electorate.
I kind of want to visit if I ever end up in the area, but I don’t want to die as a bystander to some fringe lunatic acting out because he’s off his meds and he saw a black person talking on television or something.
OK, OK, but did they rescue the children?
More actual GOP terrorism I see.
It’s good pizza and a fun place. I keep going because I’m not gonna let right wing terrorists win jack shit.
In December 2016, Edgar Maddison Welch stormed the shop with an AR-15 style rifle and fired off three shots due to a (fully debunked) conspiracy theory that then-candidate Hillary Clinton . . .
In December 2016 Hillary Clinton was not a candidate.
They were stuck in traffic.
Faux Knews (among others) promotes unreality, division, hate, and nods at violence.
How long before Faux Knews (among others) is branded a Terrorist Organization?
Weird how conservatives will fall for a clearly ridiculous story like this, but when there’s facts and evidence of something equally preposterous, like say, Drumpf being a de facto Russian asset, they just ignore it.
In other news, conservatives show they were unable to find their own butts with both hands, a map, and a flashlight.
Man is not the rational animal, but the animal that rationalizes. (Heinline’s version is “Man is not a rational animal, he is a rationalizing animal” but I prefer mine. Maybe I am just rationalizing.)
There is a war.
- Roger Stone
You probably have your reasons.
IIRC, there is no basement. So… shrug
An insignificant technicality.
Studies repeatedly show how thoroughly gullible conservatives are. They are willing to believe just about any absurdity as long as it agreed with their ideology. As John Stuart Mills once said, “I’m not saying that all conservatives are stupid, I’m saying that most stupid people are conservatives.”
Add GPS, Sherpa guide and seeing eye dog to the list of accoutrements required by conservatives to not find their buns with both hands…
Comet Ping Pong is our DC stop on our east coast tour in February. I only made the connection yesterday that it’s the ‘pizzagate’ place. Kinda freaked me out a little, but I hear great things about the club (and the pizza). Any local TPMrs who are up for a Monday night rock show, come on down. (Feb. 11th. Eyelids-Portland, OR). I’ll keep an eye out for any secret hatches to a hidden basement.
A curtain in the back was set on fire, and there was a can of accelerant next to it. The fire was discovered and extinguished by an employee. There are security photos of the suspect. This was no grease fire.