PizzaGate began to take hold in the fringe communities I frequented in the early fall of last year. My immediate opinion on the subject was a resounding ‘No Fucking Way.' I was not ready to believe that our government and the Clinton Foundation played a role in the systematic trafficking and exploitation of children. After all, it was only a few odd emails and some really disturbing Instagram pictures, right?

The internet really impressed me during those wonderful fall days. With each new Wikileaks dump, we had thousands of people on Reddit and 4chan scouring and collecting all sorts of nuggets about the shady operations of Podesta and his cronies. None of the accusations that would stem from those ‘investigations’ would receive the same type of resistance PizzaGate did. That began to garner my attention.

Some of the most damning evidence that supporting the claims of PizzaGate are the legitimate connections Clinton has to convicted traffickers and pedophiles like Laura Silsby, Jeffery Epstein and Dennis Hastert. I won't get into it now (again, not what this post is about), but none of those connections we're ever debunked by any reputable journalist; in fact, most claims made by us lunatics were absolutely ignored by the media. It wasn't until a shooter took it upon himself to terrorize Comet Ping Pong (the completely innocent Pizzeria) that Pizzagate was discussed in the 'news,' but only as a dangerous and debunked internet meme whose believers were to blame for the horrendous attack (in which no bullet was fired and no one was hurt). Forgetting all the ways in which that attack seems suspicious itself, the only person to blame for that attack is the shooter.

A conspiracy theorist is simply someone who is asking questions counter to the official accounting of something. Given the poor state of our news media, the lack of transparency from our government and the widespread corruption we see time and time again around the world, you would think by now we would all proudly declare ourselves conspiracy theorists on a noble quest to out the truth, but alas that has yet to happen. Instead, people like me, who enjoy entertaining ALL possibilities (not just the ones the media tells us are true or most likely) are ridiculed and shut down time and time again.