Posted on 11/21/2016 7:33:31 PM PST by TigerClaws
WASHINGTON — Days before the presidential election, James Alefantis, owner of a local pizza restaurant called Comet Ping Pong, noticed an unusual spike in the number of his Instagram followers.
Within hours, menacing messages like “we’re on to you” began appearing in his Instagram feed. In the ensuing days, hundreds of death threats — one read “I will kill you personally” — started arriving via texts, Facebook and Twitter. All of them alleged something that made Mr. Alefantis’s jaw drop: that Comet Ping Pong was the home base of a child abuse ring led by Hillary Clinton and her campaign chief, John D. Podesta.
When Mr. Alefantis discovered that his employees were getting similar abusive messages, he looked online to unravel the accusations. He found dozens of made-up articles about Mrs. Clinton kidnapping, molesting and trafficking children in the restaurant’s back rooms. The articles appeared on Facebook and on websites such as The New Nationalist and The Vigilant Citizen, with one headline blaring: “Pizzagate: How 4Chan Uncovered the Sick World of Washington’s Occult Elite.”
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I haven't seen anyone claim it was posted at the pizza place.
you have to understand there are lot of people trying to piece this together. Clearly some details can get mixed up.
That’s brilliant. Saying and sharing, if you don’t mind.
Comet Ping Pong is a pizza place. Anyone can walk in and get a pizza. The question isn’t the foods they have. It’s the services they allegedly perform. The NYT is just plain worthless.
They ran a Podesta’s not a Satanist story as well a few days before the election. #SpiritCooking.
The PizzaGate has hit the level where they feel the need to knock it down as crazy ‘conspiracy theory.’
The phrase ‘conspiracy theory’ was, btw, invented by the C.I.A. to discredit those seeking the truth. Ironic!
I think this is connected to the “Insurance Files” on the Weiner laptop and they are trying to do damage control ahead of time.
Once Trump is in power I expect that information not to be part of an indictment but first to be dumped on the net in huge files. The public will then demand prosecution and it won’t be from Trump on high - it’ll be organic from the masses demanding justice.
We have not yet seen anything rising to proof, but my hunch is it’ll eventually come to light.
But I’m a stupid optimist and sadly many of these folks have escaped prosecution in other countries.
This is a paragraph from the NYT article:
“None of it was true. While Mr. Alefantis has some prominent Democratic friends in Washington and was a supporter of Mrs. Clinton, he has never met her, does not sell or abuse children, and is not being investigated by law enforcement for any of these claims. He and his 40 employees had unwittingly become real people caught in the middle of a storm of fake news.”
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He’s never met Clinton but he has photos at the White House with Obama playing ping pong and is David Brock’s ex.
Note though that there’s no mention of the very odd Instagram photos and the comments by his friends.
Those really were the main fuel to the PizzaGate fire and a clueless NYT reader will remain clueless unless they seek info outside the ‘paper of record.’
He ‘does not sell or abuse children.’ NYT doing investigative journalism? Nope. Just telling you what to believe based on what they were told by their leftist friend.
Is not under investigation. Check back late January and we will see...
The best proof it is, is the denial by the Slimes.
Now we know it is!
The NYT is in a tough spot on this just like Spirit Cooking.
They can tell the red county working stiff morons in flyover country that they are just too dimwitted to understand true art. “Oh, you thought the Satanic symbols, fake blood, and cannibalism was for real? How droll. It’s just art.”
Now with the Comet Pizza bit their explanation is: “Conspiracy, loons, see how you need your betters to police the net for you or you children in flyover country will kill each other with your Trump-voting stupidity.”
They are denying the story because they know there’s a heck of a lot of smoke there and want to discredit it before it grows larger.
You also have to consider how news stories are used these days. It’s not just the print edition - which nobody reads but those over 60.
They use the news stories as Snopes-style leftist talking point ‘debunking’ pieces.
They want the FIRST thing the flyover country folks see when using Google to search “pizzagate” to be this story.
LOOK NO FURTHER — don’t look at the man behind the curtain, so to speak.
Just read our article and it’ll tell you the “real news.”
Btw, that ‘fake news’ stuff was audience tested, focus group approved - just like they did with Islamophobia.’
They want to get the American public back on the MSM plantation. “WE tell you the truth and how to think, you rubes. You shut up and listen and believe how we want and vote how we want.”
When Hillary casually said she was okay with ‘partial birth abortion’ that told you want you need to know about the left.
They are okay with murdering babies in the womb are out.
Why would they care about children?
They are Satanic and evil and we did expose it with SpiritCooking and that changed hundreds of thousands of votes. It kept a lot of church going black folks home on election day as well.
Ping
Yeah...and those weird paintings on the wall.
That’s a boy love symbol?
OMG!
Do you know where that artwork is posted?
OMG! I can’t believe anybody brought kids to that place.
It was in a recent #pizzagate thread here on FR, that’s all I can tell you.
I read some art that was said to have come from Cosmic Pizza was actually artwork from a woman with multiple personalities, who’d been sexually molested as a child.
The media has protected the Clintons from day one. I don’t expect there to be any difference now.
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