Josh Marshall declares Matt Taibbi 'officially pizzagate-curious' after FBI thread

Twitchy.com ^ | 12/17/2022 | Brett T

[NetAddicted]

Earlier this week, Elon Musk tweeted an emoji of a white rabbit and told people to follow it … Caroline Orr Bueno, Ph.D., explained that Musk was “explicitly” encouraging his 120 million followers to start following QAnon, “a domestic terrorism movement.” An explicit directive to follow QAnon would have gone something like, “Follow QAnon,” but she doubled down, revealing that Musk was using “memetic warfare” to conceal his creation of a network to organize violence.

QAnon is most commonly associated with “Pizzagate,” which held that there was a pedophile ring being run out of a D.C. pizza shop. We’ve heard quite a bit about QAnon lately as the public at large cracks down on child exploitation: When people called out Balenciaga for its ad campaign pairing little children with teddy bears dressed in BDSM gear, three New York Times style writers placed part of the blame for the backlash on QAnon and Fox News. “When High Fashion and QAnon Collide” was the title of the piece.

Now Josh Marshall of Talking Points Memo is calling #TwitterFiles journalist Matt Taibbi “pizzagate curious.”

Instead of chasing child sex predators or terrorists, the FBI has agents — lots of them — analyzing and mass-flagging social media posts. Not as part of any criminal investigation, but as a permanent, end-in-itself surveillance operation. People should not be okay with this.

— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 16, 2022

Taibbi now officially pizzagate curious https://t.co/1LFgz9Ymr9

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) December 16, 2022

We already knew you were a little icky, Josh, but wow

— Latentem (@Latentem) December 17, 2022

Josh, earlier this year I interviewed an FBI agent literally pulled off a child exploitation detail to chase misdemeanor J6 cases. Here the point is agents flagging social media instead of real work. This makes me “Pizzagate-curious”? How desperate for a point can you get? https://t.co/3k9g6I9RyO

— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 17, 2022

How many FBI agents are devoted to solving the murders of 4 college kids in Idaho?

80 full time agents were assigned to Twitter. How many to Facebook, Google?

— Sandy 〽️ (@RightGlockMom) December 17, 2022

Didn’t they send 15 FBI agents to investigate the “noose” in Bubba Wallace’s garage?

Josh is ratio-curious: he is curious how quickly Matt’s QT can ratio him.

— Justin (@Aristofoneez) December 17, 2022

Establish branding, reinforce the messaging over months, and it then becomes a useful shorthand label you can slap on anything that can't be argued away.

— Varkie (@VarkieLiefe) December 17, 2022

Oddly enough, this type of FBI behavior is what leads to the kind of distrusting environment that births the same conspiracy theories they’d later be monitoring.

— A (@pleibian) December 17, 2022

Josh is about as useful and insightful as Olbermann at this point in history.

— please don't follow (@Shimrod23) December 17, 2022

That’s how they try to shut people down, Matt. I’m so tired of it. Never have I seen a more cultish group than they … so those are the words they use. No thoughtful dialogue … just hateful words.

— Laura KBB (@NonsenseEnd) December 17, 2022

It’s a pretty simple and proveable statement. Every cop camping behind a tree for a speed trap is a cop that could be actually fighting crime. No different here.

— FrankJay (@fjs_ig) December 17, 2022

Kind of like how you’re groomer adjacent, Josh?

— Conspiracy Theorist Expert (@ConspiracyBan) December 17, 2022

That's quite a leap you are making there. Christ almighty.

— Milkbone (@clarksthockey) December 16, 2022

Forgot how defensive libs get when people accuse pedos. Kind of weird.

— Pedro (@PluisPedro) December 17, 2022

Wow… that’s you’re takeaway ?

— Xakattak (@zachmoos) December 17, 2022

"The FBI telling Twitter to delete parody accounts is good, actually. And we knew this all along. Anyone reporting on it must have lost their mind"

— Alice (@AliceFromQueens) December 17, 2022

Maybe Marshall needs to have another look at the latest batch of #TwitterFiles to see just how closely the FBI was policing low-follower parody accounts. QAnon’s just a label liberals use to get conservatives to shut up.

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LOL: Everyone is making fun of TPM’s Josh Marshall for TWEETING about his Mastodon herdhttps://t.co/Z7UPpJ8NUg

— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) December 17, 2022

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[BobL]

“QAnon is most commonly associated with “Pizzagate,” which held that there was a pedophile ring being run out of a D.C. pizza shop.”

The problem with pizzagate is that it was ‘debunked’ without anyone ever explaining how it was ‘debunked’, as far as I know. What people saw was a LOT of very strange references to pizza in DNC emails (released by Wikileaks) that otherwise had nothing at all to do with food, combined with the fact that pizza references are known code words that pedophiles use. So perhaps these references were code for something else, but no one that I know of has ever said what that ‘something else’ is.

...and that is just one of many strange aspects of pizzagate that the media insists is debunked (like cheating in national elections), yet has never provided answered to the many questions, nor ever cared to try to find out those answers.

[Scarlett156]

Qanon didn’t start out as a Scientology fad but it is now. Thus a lot of the derogatory verbiage directed at the Q aggregate. (It’s so funny, really, that Scientology idiots will call themselves anything BUT scientologists! They just somehow realize that it’s nothing to be proud of...)

A lot of their “we’re helping/protecting Trump” stuff is kinda like the way a psycho says he’s “helping” the people he kills by taking them out of this evil world.

Pizzagate is real. I looked at this short video (about 9 minutes long) yesterday: https://twitter.com/CreasonJana/status/1604076556095209473

Hollywood producer talking about the enormous number of children trafficked, abused, tortured, murdered by entertainment and political elites. “They all know about it; no one says anything.”

[EEGator]

Every chick I have ever met that was a Psychology major was crazy.
Fun for a while, then crazy.

[Gene Eric]

Q and Anon are two separate things I thought

[Shady]

Yes. Q was a psy-op from the Deep State, “Trust Sessions, Trust Barr” that’s all you need to know that the whole thing was malarkey.

[Codeflier]

There is no doubt in my mind that the Democrats are behind Q.

[C210N]

that’s all you need to know

The naysayer's way to tell folks to not learn, dig, discern for themselves. ThankQ for your concern for people 'wasting their time' in due diligence.

[brownsfan]

“Matt Taibbi is Pizzagate curious? Geez louise. What the fake media focus (focuses?) on, rather than the truth.”

If you can’t disprove the charges, destroy the messenger. The left has perfected it, and it works.

[bagster]

The Luzzattos - People of interest - Anne Luzzatto, Tamera Luzzatto & Anthony Luzzatto Gardner

(excerpt)

Anne Luzzatto’s Facebook profile is of her grandchildren and her on a vacation in Venice.

These are the children mentioned in the Podesta email:

Notice the comments – “Great photo…Ruby?”, “Looks like Venice!!!”

Venice is also a favorite holiday destination for Tony Podesta, where he has a vacation home which is mentioned in Heather and Tony’s divorce proceedings.

Anne Luzzatto is not simply a grandmother. She is also a member of the elite CFR (Council on Foreign Relations). The CFR boasts many of richest and most powerful individuals in the US.

Other members include: Jeffrey Epstein, George Soros, Anthony Luzzatto Gardner

Tamera Luzzatto, former chief of staff for Hilary Clinton, is the person who sent the email about the “Farmer L Update” (above) to Podesta. She also is a member of the Pew Institute. She is evidently well acquainted with the Podestas.

(much more at link)

Oh, yea. Pizzagate is very real. And its just the tip of the iceberg.

#ThesePeopleAreSick

#BiggerThanYouKnow

[griswold3]

Establish branding, reinforce the messaging over months, and it then becomes a useful shorthand label you can slap on anything that can’t be argued away.

— Varkie (@VarkieLiefe) December 17, 2022
^^This^^

[one guy in new jersey]

Are you JoshMarshall curious, HG?

[C210N]

I’m interested in Pizzagate...

The term 'pizzagate' is perhaps similar as the eneMedia term 'QAnon', which tries to minimize or trivialize the truth.

'Pizzagate' is an attempt to isolate a terrible monsterous issue into some DC restaurant, albeit with nefarious activities, to dissipate Child Trafficking thru so many things we've heard over the past year or so - from the recent Balenciaga, busting child trafficking rings, disney's wokeness, pedophilia, etc.

[one guy in new jersey]

Sessions took the air out of Trump’s tires so slowly, effectively, sneakily, strategically, and seemingly innocently, that he might be the biggest reason we don’t have a Bad Orange Man POTUS right now.

[Ann Archy]

Just like cindy McCain saying everyone knew about Epstein!

[MayflowerMadam]

“I say Pizzagate is very real.”

So does Lara Logan, and she’s a serious journalist.

[MayflowerMadam]

“Every chick I have ever met that was a Psychology major was crazy.”

And most HR administrators I ever met were Psychology majors — and beyond crazy. They were evil.

[Hatteras]

When sickos like the Podesta Pervs walking around with the DC political elite, this is all I need see to know...

Lump that with all the names on the Lolita Express passenger lists? Don't pee on my leg and try and convince me it's raining.

[EEGator]

HR is the worst. They should not be in charge of hiring.
Some 30 year old with zero technical skill telling a 25 year Professional Engineer who to hire is insane.

[MayflowerMadam]

Agree with all three sentences.

And I was on the “inside”. So frustrating and demoralizing. Could not WAIT to retire! (Which I did in 2008.)

[EEGator]

Nice, enjoy retirement.

I’m technical, not a manager, and 100% remote.
Give me work, and go away…