Investigators say that a small fire at Comet Ping Pong Pizza in Washington D.C., the site of a conspiracy theory-motivated shooting in 2016, was set intentionally and are hunting down the alleged arsonist.
According to a local Fox affiliate, employees were able to quell the blaze before firefighters arrived.
In December 2016, Edgar Maddison Welch stormed the shop with an AR-15 style rifle and fired off three shots due to a (fully debunked) conspiracy theory that then-candidate Hillary Clinton and other Democrats were running a child sex trafficking ring in the restaurant’s basement.
In a period of very serious craziness, the mere existence of this absurd conspiracy theory shows us how challenging (probably impossible) it is to try to reason with Trump’s base.
Times have changed. At the place I used to work at, we called them grease fires…
The difference here may be the statement that the fire appears to have been set intentionally. A former co-worker liked to call this sort of thing Jewish Lightning, which I presume was okay since he was Jewish. (It also presumes that the business in question isn’t doing particularly well, which may or may not apply here.)
Someday we’re going to learn that Pizzagate started as an innocent viral marketing campaign, and got warped into the shady trafficking story by one of the deranged nutjobs that the GOP cultivates as a faux-electorate.
I kind of want to visit if I ever end up in the area, but I don’t want to die as a bystander to some fringe lunatic acting out because he’s off his meds and he saw a black person talking on television or something.
OK, OK, but did they rescue the children?