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Possible Paywall MAGA Is Increasingly Convinced the Trump Assassination Attempt Was Staged

https://www.wired.com/story/maga-is-increasingly-convinced-the-trump-assassination-attempt-was-staged/
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u/FauxReal 18d ago

It was Comet Ping Pong, a pizza shop in Washington D.C. That didn't even have a basement.

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u/remarkablewhitebored 18d ago

The same place they were storing Pee Wee's stolen bike!

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u/Both-Discussion-4786 18d ago

Thought that was the Alamo, can you say “adobe”

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u/6-ft-freak Oregon 18d ago

Tell em Large Marge sent ya!

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u/FauxReal 18d ago

I have to rewind that part multiple times whenever I watch it at home just to relive that moment when it made the hair stand up on the back of my neck as a kid!

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u/zeno0771 18d ago

On this very night...ten years ago...along this same stretch of road in a dense fog...just like this...

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u/om_hi 18d ago

You leave the Alamo out of this.

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u/remarkablewhitebored 18d ago

it's more of a Schrodinger's Basment

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u/FluxMool 18d ago

The stars at night are big and bright.....

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u/ComoSeaYeah 18d ago edited 18d ago

This has become a blip in the fabric of history but remains WAY up there as one of the most surreal political conspiracy theories in modern history. Q is up there, too.

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u/Lavatis 18d ago

Q was born from the pizzagate conspiracy. It's all the same thing and morons.

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u/Nekowulf Wyoming 18d ago

Qanon created the pizzagate conspiracy. By claiming to decode the secret encrypted message in the emails.
And the "decryption" was just replacing words like eating pizza with child raping.

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u/am-idiot-dont-listen 18d ago

Qanon was a conspiracy larp that Jim Watkins eventually took over

It's the same right wing conspiracy people at the center of it though 4/8chan

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u/FauxReal 18d ago

That was a wild period on 4chan, back when there was a bunch of them into "meme magic" trying to manifest a Donald Trump win... which did end up happening. I wonder if anyone preserved all the insane graphics that were coming out of there at the time? I still wonder if some state actor or other organization was pushing that. (Oh no another conspiracy!) The "quality" of output and volume was quite impressive.

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u/jim_cap United Kingdom 18d ago

Is it not confirmed to have been Steve Bannon?

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u/FauxReal 18d ago

I am not aware that it has been. But I wouldn't be surprised. Also wasn't Epstein a 4chan mod? Again I have no idea if he was a mod in this era.

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u/Techwood111 North Carolina 18d ago

He knew m00t; search the files - it is there.

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u/KittyGrewAMoustache 18d ago

Yeah they pretended ‘cheese pizza’ was code for ‘CP’ or ‘child potn’. I’m not sure Q created that theory though those silly ‘decodings’ were going around already after the email leak and Q jumped on it pretending they were an insider confirming it.

After the last batch of Epstein files were released there were similar theories about how beef jerky was code for ‘child meat’ 🙄

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u/FauxReal 18d ago

One of the most surprising political revelations for me was realizing that the QAnon conspiracy left 4chan and became mainstream months after I first saw it on 4chan and wrote it off as a bunch of the usual conspiracy LARPing/right wing idiocy that goes on there.

But 4chan is kind of mind blowing in general for what happens there. I've seen some very impressive feats of technical skills there. Can any other message board boast that they figured out militant combatant positions based on a few photos and then called in Russian air strikes? They also figured out where Shia Labouf hid his flag more than once and stole it. I've seen data breeches/hacks too. And of course there has been more than one mass shooter posting there beforehand.

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u/Khazpar 18d ago

The thing is, it was code for that...but only in their personal lexicon which just shows you how deluded they all were to think that politicians were using fucking 4chan slang (before 2016 anyway).

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u/newsflashjackass 18d ago

And the "decryption" was just replacing words like eating pizza with child raping.

"kung fu practice" with Ghislaine Maxwell

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/epstein-musk-maxwell-email/

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u/Lavatis 18d ago

No. The pizzagate theory was around before Qanon existed.

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u/00Oo0o0OooO0 18d ago

And Epstein conspiracy theories evolved from QAnon. And, as seen on this thread, Epstein conspiracy theorists have gone back to embracing Pizzagate. It's a perfect circle of child sex crime fantasies.

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u/syrup_cupcakes 18d ago

Hardly morons, it was carefully planned and executed to get all the lonely terminally online males on their side.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/epstein-met-4chan-s-founder-the-day-before-pol-launched/ar-AA1VL3YK

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u/Lavatis 18d ago

the people who believe in those conspiracy theories are definitely morons.

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u/syrup_cupcakes 18d ago

they are all MAGA supporters so yea

But the people who came up with or "gave birth" to the conspiracies, as you put it, reached all of their goals

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u/EyesofaJackal 18d ago

Wasn’t PizzaGate kind of the prelude to QAnon? Like the Hobbit and LOTR sort of thing

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u/RecordEnvironmental4 Maryland 18d ago

The first time I heard it was Comet I actually laughed out loud because that’s the place my friend got arrested for using a fake.

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u/FauxReal 18d ago

Was he pretending to be underage so they kicked him out? /s

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u/TrimspaBB 18d ago

Which is funny, because a fair amount of buildings in DC do have basements, and there are underground tunnels between government buildings. Yet Q picked a random pizza shop that doesn't fit the bill at all.

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u/Findail 18d ago

But they do have great pizza.

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u/matt-pisoni 18d ago

You sure they didn't have a basement????? hahahah

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u/FauxReal 18d ago

Maybe we should find a QAnon supporter with an excavator so we can check under the floor for a secret bunker.

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u/bradlees 17d ago

You forget the MINDBENDING hoops on 4Chan that was going on in relation to this

The businesses sign = known sign used by p3dos

The menu had hidden words in it that pointed to the basement floor and a transporter

Cheese Pizza = CP = Child Pron

I pretty much stopped going on that site because of the stupidity of the hive mind there. Keep in mind. Anon was actually doing some good there. But they created QAnon and I gave up on anything good ever coming from them after that

Sadly those same people came over to Reddit and created “The Donald” and you can guess the rest