Foreign Correspondant Barb
I set about writing about the frightening event in Washington, DeeCee, involving fake news, a gun, pizza, a crazy dude, and totally innocent people.
Honestly, I didn’t even know where to start.
But Barb came to the rescue. For many years Barb has been our foreign correspondent in The Washington place because she lives in the heart of the city. She sent me this last night and gave me permission to share it with you.
Susan,
I don’t know how much you’ve heard or been paying attention to this awful bit of fallout from the campaign; but, I thought you might be a little bit interested.
Somehow, for some unknown reason, some alt-right website decided that Hillary and John Podesta were running a pedophile ring out of a neighborhood pizza restaurant. I’m not at all sure that either of them has ever even been to this place. It certainly isn’t easily accessed by HRC’s house in DC. Here’s some background:
And this was today’s result.
I have NO IDEA how to counteract any of this. I just hope a lawsuit will be filed immediately and the same thing that happened to Gawker will happen to these bozos. Except, I hope somebody besides this fool also goes to jail. We are certainly living in interesting times. Poor us.
This isn’t Texas, but, GEEZ!
(As an aside, that 1950s “Comet” sign hung on a liquor store just down the street from me for, like, forever. The couple that bought the store from the previous owners were a fixture here until the old man died suddenly and his elderly wife wasn’t able to keep the store going by herself. Their children were all well educated and had lives and careers elsewhere (although one of them died of AIDS in Florida). So, they closed the liquor store and the folks who were going to open up a restaurant a few miles up on Connecticut Avenue bought the sign and immediately had a name for the new place. The initial controversy was that they put ping-pong tables on the the sidewalk out in front and people were concerned about balls landing in traffic. The tables were moved inside. During this incident today, the businesses on both sides of the place were locked down, too, including the bookstore “Politics and Prose” which is where everybody wants to have a reading/signing session. Every journalist you’ve ever heard of who has published a book has been there. I could go on, but you get the drift.)
You can use this if you want; but, I thought you’d want to know about the latest scourge that has descended on us all since Dat Guy got elected. I’m just praying for “faithless” electors at this point.
Barbara
Thanks, Barbara.
As I’ve always said, republikklans always blame others to distract from what they do. I give you trump, hasteret and nugent as prime examples of how the rupgs do not, under any circumstances, really care about the sexual abuse of children. Once out of the womb, they are fair game to anyone with a (R) next to their name.
1This particular twitter abomination is brought to us by the son of Mike Flynn. Nominated for what, Mike? Seems Mike should stay home and attend to the needs of his son. Donnie is surrounded by prime examples of why the ACA should be expanded to cover mental health issues. Bannon, Mental Ben Carson and Hannibal Lector. Ok, so Hannibal is a fictional character, so sue me when Donnie appoints him for a cabinet position.
2And, here’s more from today’s WaPo:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/12/05/did-michael-flynn-really-tweet-something-about-pizzagate-not-exactly/?hpid=hp_rhp-top-table-main_no-name%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.dc60b39ab453
3Not my favorite place to eat but will pop in there this week to have dinner to support the folks who work there and the owners. They have been very hard hit by this vicious story.
4But if the “terrorist” had been an unarmed black man, the outcome would have been much different.
5There’s a guy commenting on some sites I go to and still trying to get people to link to the site and get the “real” truth.
6The participation of both Mike Flynn and his son in this craziness is truly terrifying. Flynn Sr. Is scary enough without this.
7Bad news for Drumplethinskin, Twitter is the only one of nine social sites that won’t help him set up a Muslim registry. What’s a poor excuse for a human to do at 4 in the morning w’o Twitter?
8Breaking news, Fat McCrory finally conceded NC guv’s race.
9My husband was almost there the day before this. A friend asked him to come along in a group to support the owners, but he decided he didn’t feel like driving into DC.
Lots of crazy people have guns, and they’re being lied to about threats to America. I feel so much safer knowing that our upcoming president (gag) believes a lot of it too.
Good news from NC, at least!
10It all sounds so convincing, I mean, when you hear the words:
Pizza
Hillary Clinton
Isn’t the very next thought that comes to your mind; pedophile?
My job was to inspect restaurants for several years, and after you account for stoves, ovens, dish washing units, box storage, product ingredient storage, reefers, freezers, etc… it would seem like a no-brainer (for no-brainer types) that any leftover space which would otherwise be used and wasted on employees conducting their job duties of making pizza – – could be put to much better use running a ped ring, with a desk in the corner for Hillary Clinton to manage (in her spare time).
11Obama did his xmas shopping at Politics and Prose at least once. The new guy barely knows what a book is except they should all have his smirking mug on the cover. (Reminded of a cartoon of W being given a book, which he proceeds to listen to, smell, and taste.)
12That was phunny, Rhea-about dumbass dubya.
13You have to be high enough on acid to see clear through the rings around Saturn to believe this pedophile junk! I bet a nickel that his fox screen is going to come back in neon lights!
14Tox! Thank you so much spell check!
15Trump’s security nominee Flynn’s son was part of the conspiracy theory push. Boy, the apple never falls far from the rose bush, does it!
16When you read the tinfoil wrapped rants, you get a sense of how panicked they are that the Clintons, et al, are able to get away with perpetrating such heinous acts…
Fake News is endangering people. At what point does it rise to the level of criminal acts? I actually feel sorry for the dupes.
17@maggie:
Small drips of poison, spread out over years, is enough to push the “suggestible” over the edge.
18This country is descending further down the sewer by the minute. Thanks so much to all the morons who didn’t bother to vote, because they considered both candidates equally distasteful. Enjoy your stay in the Dark Side.
19Because, as everyone knows, the way to conduct an “investigation” is to shoot an automatic weapon. Stands to reason, dunnit?
The owner of the establishment has received death threats, too.
20two crows: Businesses nearby have also received death threats. This, too, Comet Ping Pong has no basement. So tunnels are kinda out of the question. I find it troubling that this maroon would go to all of this trouble to “investigate the story” but has no time investigating the purveyors of such falsehoods.
21There’s gotta be some kind of law written to penalize those fake news a$$holes because their actions have real consequences for innocent people. Besides, we can’t successfully run a country base on fake news, even though that’s the Cheetoh-faced Ferret-wearing Shitgibbon Cocksplat’s favorite thing.
22That rumor is equivalent to shouting fire in a crowded theater. The kind of white southern boy (none of them are truly adult) who believed Fox News and the local pastor’s spit-flinging hate speech can easily believe he and his beloved guns should be the hero.
23Debbo: Freedom of speech cuts nany ways. What I’d like to know is if this clown has a phone that can connect to the internet. The knowledge of the universe is on that thing. All you have to do is want to find it. There is NO excuse to have such easy access to correct information and yet ignore it. That is willful ignorance. The world keeps getting smalker everyday. Willful ignorance is a luxury civilization can no longer afford. Like the Red Queen says, “Off with his head!” Guaranteed he won’t do this crap again!
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