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When I was in my twenties the news carried a story of a guy accused of forcible confinement and extortion. He and an accomplice went into a house and held the woman hostage while the man was forced to go and withdraw money from his bank account.
The guy was in the local news because he had lived in my home town. I went to grade 3 with him and knew him as a 9 year old fairly well. According to the logic of pizzagaters I am now tainted as a possible kidnapper. ![]() ![]() |
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#842 |
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How do you sleep at night??
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I don't know why you bring up Parliament. None of the people caught in the Norwegian Operation Dark Room were members of Parliament.
There were two politicians caught. One had held a position high up in his party, and held some positions at municipal level, but never held an elected position. The other was elected into the municipal council. The two were from the Progress Party and Labour, two opposing parties. There are 426 municipalities in Norway, each with their own elected council. It would probably be a miracle if there were no pedophiles among the politicians in Norway. Source in Norwegian: http://www.dagbladet.no/nyheter/dark...enkte/65365143 |
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#845 |
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#849 |
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Oh they are VERY excited about this!
https://twitter.com/d_seaman/status/826200866612862976 “investigation is underway“ Lol |
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Already claiming victory, too.
https://twitter.com/d_seaman/status/826536419619282944
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https://www.wsj.com/articles/prosecu...94771?mod=e2tw Note that the article contains zero instances of the words "pizza", "comet", or "podesta" and makes mention of Hillary only in reference to the emails in the Weiner case that had nothing whatsoever to do with the Clinton investigation. |
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#851 |
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Pizzagate Massiv excited about the Rogan/Jones show.
Pizzagate came up. "let the dominoes fall" I've never been a huge Rogan fan but he reminds me of my cousin. Great guy. Super nice. Great conversationalist. But will give any idea a fair shake. Rogan's same way. This tendency leads them both to bad ideas. I must admit I'm just pissed really - to see Rogan give Jones legitimacy and a platform for this ****. Not the first fringe guy to visit Rogan but Im more pissed at this then say, the ancient astronaut people he might have on. LOTS of people love Rogan. Its increasing Pizzagate and Jones visibility for sure. |
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Alex Jones issues an apology over "Pizzagate" conspiracy theory...
https://www.aol.com/article/news/201...eory/22011558/ You know what this means, right? Yep, obviously, they've got to him. |
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#859 |
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They offered him his choice of toppings.
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I happened to catch a bit of 60 Minutes last night, and they were interviewing Mike Cernovich for a story on actual fake news, and he defended his promotion of Pizzagate and other stories, insisting they were completely true.
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OMG! It turns out that the West Coast Branch is the J.Paul Getty Museum!
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Pedos everywhere!
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#866 |
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Are you kidding? Most Pizzagate believers are full on MAGA Trump supporters.
In the Voat forums the overwhelming sentiment was that Sessions was going to begin action against Podesta immediately on appointment. They claim that any arrest even vaguely related to prostitution, trafficking or children is a part of Trump closing in on pizzagate. |
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#867 |
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In the small sample of pizzagate believers on my nightlife board - seems the common thread is more anti-hillary venom, like dripping venom Hillary-is-the-anti-christ level stuff. Like all lines of evil in the American polity stem from her lying, bankster-loving face.
They often make reference to how much better off we are with Trump since Hillary "woulda been worse", yet they stop short of coming out as full throated Trump MAGA believers, the anti-Hillary venom means her opponent's victory is still a good thing. Maybe as Canadians we don't have as many overt Trump supporters up here. here is an example from the biggest pizzagate/sandy hook believer on the baord: "April 3rd, and Hillary still isn't and will never be president.I think cause they imagine that Obama's third term under Hillary would essentially be more NWO, and now we have an "anti-globalist" - who nonetheless appears to be doubling down on US interventionism in the ME in a more enthusiastic way than Obama ever did.... but I think their cognitive dissonance doesn't let them percieve the ways the American Empire Project is being furthered by the Trump admin in ways they would be castigating Hillary for if she did the same. They live in a comic book. |
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“ it has become my conviction that things mean pretty much what we want them to mean. We’ll pluck significance from the least consequential happenstance if it suits us and happily ignore the most flagrantly obvious symmetry between separate aspects of our lives if it threatens some cherished prejudice or cosily comforting belief" -Iain Banks |
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#869 |
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The shop owner writes about the "pizzagate" experience.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...=.3626662355c4 |
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#870 |
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Quote from a conspiracy theorist on another board, im loathe to look this up, anyone know what he's talking about?
"some fairly disturbing videos have come to light regarding Podesta. I can't wrap my head around the authenticity or realness of the latest one...but it's not pleasant to listen to, let alone watch. It involves, what sounds like a young boy. For the life of me, i can't see how this was ' staged '." |
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Shakey video in a dark room with colored lights, can't see anything. Kid screaming and someone who sounds like Podesta shouting 'Whats my name? You will call me father!' Not exactly a silver bullet. YT link below
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#872 |
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Thanks - i didn't even want to start looking, thinking my searches might get me on some kid of list for perverts or something!!
I figured if this was a smoking gun, should be in the hands of the police and he should be arrested by now |
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Most importantly, while some conspiracy theorists claim the video was somehow found in a secret file on the Comet Ping Pong website, the earliest source, which seems to be everyone's source is a Youtube channel from a group best known for creating alternate reality games. A genre that uses things like staged Youtube videos to create fictional worlds.
Make of that what you will. |
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