General Discussion

I did some googling, because I remembered what you did but couldn't recall any further details. I found out some interesting stuff...

In December 2016, Edgar Maddison Welch marched into the Comet Ping Pong pizza restaurant in Washington, DC, armed with an AR-15 and a handgun, with the evident intention of rescuing the nonexistent children who were supposedly being held and abused in the restaurant's nonexistent basement. He was eventually arrested and was convicted of armed assault and sentenced to four years in prison, followed by three years of supervised release. (Interesting footnote: the judge who sentenced him was Ketanji Brown Jackson, then a federal judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.)

Earlier this year, Welch, now out of prison, was shot during a traffic stop, in which he was the front seat passenger. Cops recognized him as someone with an outstanding arrest warrant for violating probation and attempted to arrest him, upon which he pulled a handgun from his jacket, pointed it at an officer, and refused to put the gun down when ordered to do so. He ended up getting shot, because, well, that's what cops do when somebody points a gun at one of them and refuses to drop the weapon. (He died from his injuries a couple of days later.)

The first thing I pulled up on my Google search was a bunch of articles on the traffic stop. Here's one of them: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/pizzagate-gunman-killed-police-traffic-stop-north-carolina-rcna187082

More details about the pizza Gate shooting incident are here: https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/north-carolina-man-sentenced-four-year-prison-term-armed-assault-northwest-washington

Welch sure sounds like a fine, upstanding example of MAGA manhood, doesn't he? I'm sure the only reason he wasn't at the January 6th insurrection is that he would have still been behind bars at the time.

Seriously, he sounds like a deranged sicko, but i can't help seeing him as one more person whose blood is ultimately on the Orange Hellbeast's hands. Schlump has gotten where he is by convincing unstable and ignorant individuals like Welch that he gives a crap about them and manipulating them to do his bidding. Don't get me wrong; I hold people like Welch responsible for their poor choices, but I also hold Schlump responsible for his unscrupulous use of people who are stupid, unwell, or both to do violent things for his personal benefit.