Dear lord the Redskins are bad in the red zone . Cousins can take down the field but can ' t pick apart defenses at a high enough level to stick it in . We would be in serious trouble if the Skins could finish a drive . <| sep |> They ' re called fingers , but I ' ve never seen ' em fing . oh , there they go . <| sep |> When wikileaks leaked the Clinton emails , a bunch of Trump devotees decided to take it upon themselves to locate the smoking gun that would put Hillary behind bars . They didn ' t really find anything of substance , so they figured there might be some sort of code involved . They then found some emails revolving around the topic of pizza . They thought some sounded strange . Apparently , someone had left a handkerchief with a pizza map on it ? This was strange , and needed an explanation . It was the void from which they ' d pull out the smoking gun . If pizza was a code for cp , the handkerchief could be interpreted as a piece of clothing with DNA material on itdisgusting ! Was it really a good explanation ? No . But they were primarily looking for anything demanding an explanation , and were highly motivated to find horrible ones . So with the worldview in place democratic cp ring , they could use this worldview to fill any missing gaps . Humans have always been doing this . We have fears . Needs . Religion arose all over the world for a reason . Couple this with an innate tendency to confirm our preconceived notions this is so normal that it is considered unhealthy not to do so , and we have a pattern before us as old as time itself well at least 10 000 years old . The sub dedicated to this project was shut down for breaking the rules . Its followers were upset . Of course , the act of shutting down the sub was interpreted in light of their worldviewspez shut it down because he was involved . And so they started the namecalling . You know the rest . editGiven the downvotes , I thought I ' d delve deeper to see whether this explanation missed anything of importance . I found t h i s c l i n t o n p o d e s tawhatisitandisitcredible writeup . So I guess my ELI 5 didn ' t really hit the mark . New oneThis isn ' t just about the emails . The emails are still what triggered the theory , but it ' s not fair to ignore the rest . It starts off with the discovery of weird pizzarelated emails . On the deep web , there have existed for a long time cp code words . cp cheeze pizza , chicken young boy , pillow prostitute , etc . Assuming this was the same code used by Podesta and other Clinton associated , further evidence was looked for elsewhere . Then we have Laura Silsby . This was a missionary who was believed to have trafficked children from Haiti . Clinton got her off the hook as her lawyer . A woman investigating trafficking in Haiti believed Clinton was involved , was recently found dead . Then we have James Alefantis . He owns the pizza restaurant Comet Ping Pong . He is very politically influential , and it was discovered that Clinton and her associates often held meetings there . His instagram now set to private features strange images with stranger comments . An empty storage room with the hashtag ' murder ' and ' killroom '. A picture of Marina Abramovic who alledgedly dabbles in satanic cooking . And it turns out Podesta has a picture related to this practice in his office . And at home the Podesta ' s have strange art featuring children . Then there ' s a picture of a man holding an infant boy with the hashtag ' chicken '. Then there ' s the symbols . There are some symbols listed by the FBI as being linked to underground cp communities . These symbols are similar to the former Comet Ping Pong logo apparently it was changed after the pizzagate debacle started . And in a video featuring a concert held at the restaurant a person has a ring that is similar to this symbol . On the Comet Ping Pong webpage there are files that can be downloaded that are passwordprotected . Then we have Epstein , who has already been linked to the Clintons and Trump . Then there was a DDoS attack on 4 chan that was linked to a guy who liked pictures of young children on instagram . And that ' s a pretty thorough ELI 5 of pizzagate from the perspective of its theorists . I still believe this is a case of confirmation bias , but it was ignorant of me to write an explanation without actually reading more about what is actually being believed here .