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How a Papa Johns pizza surge near the Pentagon tipped off social media before Trump's decisive Iran strike
NY Post ^ | 6/21/25 | Alexandra Koch

Posted on 06/22/2025 1:54:53 AM PDT by Libloather

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Stopped in a Johns Hopkins hospital building a few months back. They had a Starbucks in the lobby. Time to install a pizza joint inside the Pentagon.
1 posted on 06/22/2025 1:54:53 AM PDT by Libloather
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I know this sounds loopy as all get-out but stranger things ... Would like to see if it could have been legit. DOD might want to start keeping food prep “In House” more often than not.


2 posted on 06/22/2025 1:57:10 AM PDT by Spacetrucker
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Well, considering it was a Saturday Night, too hot to cook, probably a lot of takeout, not just from the Pentagon.


3 posted on 06/22/2025 2:01:06 AM PDT by Omnivore-Dan
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Less than an hour before the announcement, the account said "HIGH activity is being reported at the closest Papa Johns to the Pentagon."

Yet nobody connected the dots and Democrats failed to spill the beans.

4 posted on 06/22/2025 2:15:34 AM PDT by Right_Wing_Madman
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That seems to be a tip-off to an enemy nation that could be used to minimalize casualties.


5 posted on 06/22/2025 2:37:13 AM PDT by Jonty30 (He was so fat that it took a year for his memory foam mattress to forget him. )
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I’ve suggested that, before. DJT could throw a curve to whomever monitors such things....pay for random pizza parties, out-of-pocket.

Pizza delivery drivers may be suspect, as well. Remember the Fort Dix attack? Recon by pizza delivery drivers. I hope it’s better now, but pizza deliveries become so routine on military bases that I think their vehicles escape a lot of scrutiny.

6 posted on 06/22/2025 2:43:58 AM PDT by gundog (The ends justify the mean tweets. )
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Foreign intelligence was on to this “tell” back in the 90’s and before. “Social Media” is trying to claim creds on an old school link analysis...


7 posted on 06/22/2025 2:47:20 AM PDT by Clutch Martin ("The dawn cracks hard like a bull whip and it ain't taking no lip from the night before" Tom Waits)
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Papa John’s is the pick of the litter for pizza in DC? How sad.


8 posted on 06/22/2025 2:56:53 AM PDT by Bernard (Issue an annual budget. And Issue a federal government balance sheet. Let's see what we got.)
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Pat Gray on TheBlaze was talking about this earlier last week.


9 posted on 06/22/2025 3:05:26 AM PDT by MachIV
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“Papa John’s! The official pizza of US bombing runs!”...future ad...

[Couldn’t they have picked a better pizza, at least?]


10 posted on 06/22/2025 3:52:36 AM PDT by Adder (End fascism...defeat all Democrats.)
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From 5 days ago. Who needs Papa John’s

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/06/17/china-sends-mystery-transport-planes-into-iran/


11 posted on 06/22/2025 3:57:07 AM PDT by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away!)
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This reads like a Babylon Bee piece.

That said, the White House needs to build its own kitchen with pizza oven.


12 posted on 06/22/2025 4:12:06 AM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus)
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I just went on a tour of the Pentagon last week. Here are the food options within the confines of the building:

McDonald’s, Five Guys, Popeye’s, Subway, Panera, Starbucks, Dunkin’, Baskin‑Robbins, Lebanese Taverna, SmokeDatt BBQ, Panda Express, KFC–Pizza Hut–Taco Bell, Sbarro, Moe’s, Jamba, Potbelly, Tropical Smoothie, Fresh Kitchen, Market Basket Café, and Halal Guys.

These were not open when I was on the tour, but there were other 24 hour cafeterias that were serving food.

The Pentagon is incredibly huge and simple to navigate, plus, they get all the cable channels.


13 posted on 06/22/2025 4:17:51 AM PDT by KingLudd
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Having worked inside the Pentagon (2010 to 2013)...I’ll just say pizza options are ‘crap’ for normal hours. So if you were talking 6 PM to 2 AM...you’d have no choice but to call a pizza shop within a 8-min drive of the building...having some soldier/airman take possession near the entry point.


14 posted on 06/22/2025 4:25:03 AM PDT by pepsionice
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“Yeah, I need 20 extra-large Shaqaroni’s delivered to the Pentagon, please.”

Status: Plausible


15 posted on 06/22/2025 4:28:31 AM PDT by alancarp (George Orwell was an optimist.)
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The operational consideration was likely the “phase of the moon.” Last night it was waning crescent — almost no moon. If that was the overriding consideration then the ‘go’ decision was probably made a week ago.


16 posted on 06/22/2025 4:34:10 AM PDT by Tallguy
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OR, follow the loose lips, here at FR.


17 posted on 06/22/2025 4:36:53 AM PDT by linMcHlp
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MREs if nothing else, in the Army we were taught how to carry our own excrement to hinder enemy intelligence and in some units you don’t leave scat at all on a mission, the Pentagon needs to follow security measures.


18 posted on 06/22/2025 5:05:44 AM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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Yeah it’s ‘strange’ but not impossible. I would call on the SecDef to take note that the pentagon’s being watched and it needs to be completely opaque. For all we know there was a ChiCom in there monitoring, and this was his signal. Take measures to mitigate/minimize this type of opsec risk.


19 posted on 06/22/2025 5:16:03 AM PDT by Samurai_Jack (This is not about hypocrisy, this is about hierarchy!)
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I know this sounds loopy as all get-out but stranger things ... Would like to see if it could have been legit. DOD might want to start keeping food prep “In House” more often than not.

Its an open secret. I've known about it since the early 90s when the first gulf war occurred. And I was nowhere near DC at the time. I was in Korea. Word travels.

20 posted on 06/22/2025 5:35:00 AM PDT by IYAS9YAS (There are two kinds of people: Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.)
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