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The guardian reports on a sobering event in Washington DC.
US police have arrested a man wielding an assault rifle who entered a pizza restaurant that was the target of fake news reports it was operating a child abuse ring led by Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and her top campaign aide.
[...] The suspect entered the restaurant and pointed a gun at a restaurant employee, who fled and notified authorities, police said. The man then discharged the weapon inside the restaurant. There were no injuries.
[...] [Police] said the suspect during an interview with investigators revealed that he came to the establishment to "self-investigate" Pizzagate, the police statement said. Pizzagate is a baseless conspiracy, which falsely claims Clinton and her campaign chief John Podesta were running a child sex ring from the restaurant's backrooms.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 06 2016, @04:24PM
You know what hasn't been really discussed? The ground troop leftist themselves.
One of the things consistently cited in why the polling numbers were so off is people constantly being badgered by leftist for even entertaining different points of views (imagine my shock at this revelation) that they simply shut down, nodded their heads, and proceeded to vote, even tepidly, for Trump in private.
And even now leftist are alienating independents (remember, these are mostly people who voted overwhelmingly for Obama) further with their antics.
I wouldn't say that the media is necessarily conspiratorial in their coverage as much as they are a reflection.
And that reflection is of a bunch of petulant children on the left.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 06 2016, @06:56PM
You know what also explains the polling numbers being so off? Election fraud.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 06 2016, @08:33PM
You know, that's funny.
Right about the time the left were screaming racism (correction- when has the left not been screaming about racism) about voter ID laws, that would have been the PERFECT time to turn the tables and demand more secure elections.
Except you guise (not you personally, but more of general "you") went on and on about how secure elections were from fraud, and now you are demanding a recount.
How fucking dumb do you look now?
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Tuesday December 06 2016, @09:10PM
While I'm sure election fraud happened, by both sides, I don't think it was the decisive factor. You can't judge national sentiment by the sentiment in the area in which you live.
But if we don't consider that they election was decided by personalities, then there's also the matter of sound-byte news. No issue was ever covered in any depth by either candidate, so it was basically impossible to vote on their explicit plans. And neither candidate controlled the party platform on which they purportedly stood. (Well, that may not be true for Hillary, she may have controlled it, but that wasn't much of a platform. And if she did, then why didn't the platform agree with here public statements on the TPP? I can think of bad reasons, but no good ones.)
Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Tuesday December 06 2016, @10:03PM
I wish Americans really voted based on a candidate's explicit plans, but they don't. Americans are not such a people. They vote based on an amalgam of emotion and half-heard missquotes while they're waiting in line at the feed store.
In this election it was pretty clear that we didn't need to pay attention to what Hillary or Trump were saying their positions were, because we all knew they were lying. Trump might surprise the hell out of us and actually do something he said he would. Recruiting Goldman Sachs schmucks for his cabinet does not make me sanguine, though.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by mechanicjay on Tuesday December 06 2016, @11:33PM
This really nails it for me. I cared during the primaries, but by the end? This was the first set of presidential debates I skipped out on since I was 11 years old, because it completely didn't matter what either one said, it was all bullshit. It was completely obvious to anyone who took half a step back, that one candidate was playing the media landscape like a fiddle, while the other seemed powerless to change the tune.
The worst part is that is clearly that the media/political establishment still hasn't learned. Trump CONTINUES to play them, every single fucking day and they're still either unware, unable, or unwilling to stop.
My VMS box beat up your Windows box.
(Score: 1) by Francis on Tuesday December 06 2016, @09:55PM
I generally agree with that. The MSM has been ignoring the fact that the progressives and liberals either didn't vote for anybody or crossed over to vote for Trump. She did horribly with independents and conservatives, but the loss of the progressive and liberal votes pretty much doomed her candidacy.
As others have stated, election fraud explains a lot of this. Had she not had the party rigging the primary in her favor, the Democratic candidate probably would have won. Sanders would have had no issues winning PA, MI and WI, his message was resonating with the non-elites.