Here is the original email invitation from Wikileaks:
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/17313
I wanted to take a closer look at the property where this event happened. (The address is in the email). Here is a composite photo of what I observed:
https://sli.mg/uT450t
A few things struck me after taking a closer look at the house and considering the implications of the invitation.
1) Who schedules a regular cookout in late December in cold Washington DC? (This is supposed to be the 3rd annual event). Very odd.
2) The house is very narrow so not ideally suited for large gatherings. It appears that the invitation went out to many people: “you should bring all children that are available”; “3rd annual cookout”; invitation is from and to the same email, implying that guests were bcc’d. This is something you frequently do when you have many invitees. My rough guess is at least 30 guests would have been there. Possibly as many as 50 to 100.
3) They were going to be cooking “an entire suckling pig” presumably. (Unless they had it delivered???) But delivery would be very strange since: a) who the hell delivers entire roasted pigs in Washington DC; and b) it’s supposed to be a cookout!
4) The only place to cookout would be a small deck roughly the size of the garage (see above photo).
Conclusion: I just don’t see an entire pig on a spit in December roasting on this tiny deck in the middle of the most urban section of DC (I know this area well) with dozens of people milling about. This makes no sense at all. Not saying it’s impossible. Just unlikely.
What is more likely is that the event was held indoors and that “cookout” and “entire suckling pig” are also coded talk, just as we suspect that there were no actual handmade tortillas flown in from Mexico, because who the fuck would be that stupid? Not even overpaid, self-important, DC wonks with PHDs are THAT stupid.
Also, interesting to note: this property is very close to Tony Podesta’s DC mansion with the creepy artwork. It’s also very close to where Obama is rumored to live after he leaves the White House. Basically all 3 places are in the same very posh DC neighborhood, which is close to Capitol Hill, the WH and K Street.
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thestormking ago
"1) Who schedules a regular cookout in late December in cold Washington DC? (This is supposed to be the 3rd annual event). Very odd."
Weather conditions were reported to be fairly mild on December 28th 2014 in zip 20009. http://farmersalmanac.com/weather-history/search-results/
Don't let faulty assumptions discredit good, honest research. I would not consider this significant. We have better leads to go on.
The_Periodic_Fable ago
The invite went out 23 days prior. Nobody would expect the late December weather forecast to be reliable that far in advance. Plus the patio is clearly too small to host an outdoor event for dozens of people. This obviously wasn't a real cookout and "entire suckling pig" could be code just like tortillas, or pizza, or domino's on hot dogs. It's possible that a pig was catered in somehow, but this in no way was a real cookout.
thestormking ago
I'm already aware of this however we're not talking about predictions, we're talking about historical records of weather conditions in zip code 20009 collected by the National Climatic Data Center posted by Farmers' Almanac. Third party sources agree. If we check the temperatures for those days we see similar results expressed in Celsius.
December 5th 2014 Weather Conditions for zip 20009
https://www.wunderground.com/history/airport/KDCA/2014/12/5/DailyHistory.html?req_city=Washington&req_state=DC&req_statename=District+of+Columbia&reqdb.zip=20009&reqdb.magic=1&reqdb.wmo=99999
December 28th 2014 Weather Conditions for zip 20009
https://www.wunderground.com/history/airport/KDCA/2014/12/28/DailyHistory.html?req_city=Washington&req_state=DC&req_statename=District+of+Columbia&reqdb.zip=20009&reqdb.magic=1&reqdb.wmo=99999
Weather conditions were fairly mild for December and only got more so as the month went on. That's not to say that the emails aren't suspicious or couldn't be incriminating but if you base your theories upon conjecture and bad evidence then don't expect reasonable people to believe you. Theories should be based upon facts and not the other way around. If there is something to this email then your couching evidence in a bad theory isn't going to expose it.