Anonymous ID: 93a20e Dec. 10, 2018, 10:55 p.m. No.4252681   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun   >>2683 >>2701 >>2707 >>2730 >>2739

WHAT IS THIS FUCKERY?

 

John Podesta Is Ready to Talk About Pizzagate

 

John Podesta has given it a lot of thought and believes the best way to deal with the trolls is to ignore them. His wife, Mary, however, takes a different approach. When angry people call their home in the middle of the night, she has a conversation with them.

 

โ€œShe sits on the phone and talks to them, which is disconcerting actually to most of the people who are calling just to leave a nasty message on your voicemail,โ€ Podesta says. โ€œWhen somebody actually engages them and says, โ€˜Why are you doing this?โ€™ they fold pretty quickly. But she has more patience for that than I do.โ€

 

Podesta is easily forgiven for having little time for his tormentors. Since 2016, he has been the victim of a deranged and viral conspiracy theory known as Pizzagate. The theory โ€” which has its roots in the emails stolen from his personal account by Russian hackers and dumped online by WikiLeaks โ€” claimed that Podesta was a pedophile and that he, Hillary Clinton and a Washington, D.C., restaurateur named James Alefantis ran a child sex-trafficking ring from the basement of Alefantisโ€™ pizzeria, Comet Ping Pong.

 

On its face, Pizzagate was insane, with zero basis in reality. Yet in the frenzied days after Donald Trumpโ€™s election, it caught fire on social media platforms including Twitter, YouTube, Reddit and 4Chan, metastasizing into a story so twisted and bizarre that it radicalized online trolls and traumatized others who, through no fault of their own, had gotten sucked into the conspiracy.

 

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/john-podesta-pizzagate-766489/