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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: 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.