Washington gunman motivated by fake news 'Pizzagate' conspiracy

[DGuller]

Garbon, have you heard of a scientific notation?

[dps]

Did we seriously need that giant wall of text garbo?

Was the point received?

Yeah, but it was in the 2nd line.

[Razgovory]

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/12/10/business/media/pizzagate.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=image&module=first-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news

Good run down including the part of the conspiracy theory Derspeiss believed in, that "obviously they were using pizza and other words as code for something."

From: Jim Steyer
To: John Podesta and Mary Podesta

Hey John,

We know you're a true master of cuisine and we have appreciated that for years ...

But walnut sauce for the pasta? Mary, plz tell us the straight story, was the sauce actually very tasty?

And

From: John Podesta
To: Jim Steyer and Mary Podesta

It's an amazing Ligurian dish made with crushed walnuts made into a paste. So stop being so California.

I wonder what kind of code they could be using...

[Ed Anger]

Nuts? Clearly genderfluid bathrooms.

[Tonitrus]

Eww, keep your gender fluids out of public bathrooms please. 

[CountDeMoney]

Eww, keep your gender fluids out of public bathrooms please. 

Sometimes it's salty, sometimes it's sweet! 

[derspiess]

Seriously.  There is a non-zero chance it happened.

Did you black out in the polling booth?

No, but as I always do I stared at the names on the ballot for a minute or so and imagined each person being president.  Except for Richard Duncan, the "Nonparty candidate".  No idea who that dude was.

[Oexmelin]

I understand. It's just not your fault if all the presidents you imagine are white men. 

[derspiess]

I understand. It's just not your fault if all the presidents you imagine are white men. 

I imagined Hillary.  And it was bad.

[Valmy]

I understand. It's just not your fault if all the presidents you imagine are white men. 

I imagined Hillary.  And it was bad.

Did you imagine Jill?

[derspiess]

I understand. It's just not your fault if all the presidents you imagine are white men. 

I imagined Hillary.  And it was bad.

Did you imagine Jill?

Yeah, briefly.  Made me giggle.