This is quite a distance aways from you proclaiming he's a guilty sick fuck.
You do understand that pizzagate stemmed from dedicated political enemies of John Podesta and Hillary Clinton trying to smear them and pretending Podesta was speaking in code and then faking evidence to support this deception, right? The pedo code is made up and fake. For example, what does pasta with walnut sauce mean to you?
If you actually were ready to give him the benefit of the doubt, you can easily do that with hearing from him.
I'll take a shot at what that would look like.
Ambramovic is well known and well respected performance artist, known for deliberately provocative art. Some people like her stuff, some hate it. There's no real middle ground with her. My brother is into really into her stuff and was a patron of an art institute she was starting. The Spirit Cooking in the email was just a dinner she was making for patrons. The highlight of the dinner was a Tibetan Golden Ball. It's sort of a meditative practice, where you peel almonds and count out a certain number of seeds and then mix it together, I think with chocolate and then it's covered it gold leaf and you eat it. You can see what this is here
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/11/james-franco-marina-abram_n_572351.html
If you want to learn about the actual Marina Abramovic and the not cartoon made of her I recommend viewing this documentary on her https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qlbrsh0jKLY About 15 minutes in, there is some footage of what goes on at the institute my brother contributed to
Spirit Cooking is also a work she did twenty years ago. People have twisted the metaphors in that work to. There was a performance part and an actual recipe book. The recipes are basically absurdist poems. Are you familiar with absurdist art? It's not meant to be taken literally. Some of the recipes you have to make on earthquake nights, some call for eating pain. Her "anti high blood pressure" recipe calls holding a phython on your lap while sitting on a block of ice." One of the recipes calls for eating her fingertips. This has never happened, because it's not literal. Trust me, she has all ten of her fingertips.https://images.artnet.com/aoa_lot_images/118882/marina-abramovi%C4%87-spirit-cooking-with-essential-aphrodisiac-recipes-complete-portfolio-prints-and-multiples-zoom-14_441_500.jpg
The hot dog stand is long running joke I have. I love food and I love cooking and my job is super high pressure and super busy, so the idea of doing some real easy job in a tropical setting has a lot of appeal for me. And hotdogs are about the easiest thing to cook.
I didn't say dominoes on pasta my friend did, but that's exactly what it means. We often play dominoes with our friends and I changed up my Christmas gifts one year. I used to give pasta and sauces as a gift and this year I gave cheese. It just means playing with a belly full of pasta or cheese. You know it's funny, they thought me talking about food so much meant it must be code. I think to myself, have these people never meant an Italian? We are all obsessed with food. I'm a pretty serious cook and you can find some of my recipes online. This scandal was this close to be called risottogate, you know, as my risotto recipe is now pretty famous."
Would any of that genuinely change your mind? Because if you are open to it, you can go through Podesta's non cherry picked emails and see if he's talking in code. If want to see what Marina Abramovic is about you can spend two hours and watch that movie. Given Podesta the benefit of the doubt doesn't require him giving an explanation. You can already do that. Just put aside the idea promoted by his enemies that he is speaking in code. Are his emails scary now? Because they are not.
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This is quite a distance aways from you proclaiming he's a guilty sick fuck.
You do understand that pizzagate stemmed from dedicated political enemies of John Podesta and Hillary Clinton trying to smear them and pretending Podesta was speaking in code and then faking evidence to support this deception, right? The pedo code is made up and fake. For example, what does pasta with walnut sauce mean to you? If you actually were ready to give him the benefit of the doubt, you can easily do that with hearing from him.
I'll take a shot at what that would look like.
Ambramovic is well known and well respected performance artist, known for deliberately provocative art. Some people like her stuff, some hate it. There's no real middle ground with her. My brother is into really into her stuff and was a patron of an art institute she was starting. The Spirit Cooking in the email was just a dinner she was making for patrons. The highlight of the dinner was a Tibetan Golden Ball. It's sort of a meditative practice, where you peel almonds and count out a certain number of seeds and then mix it together, I think with chocolate and then it's covered it gold leaf and you eat it. You can see what this is here http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/11/james-franco-marina-abram_n_572351.html
If you want to learn about the actual Marina Abramovic and the not cartoon made of her I recommend viewing this documentary on her https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qlbrsh0jKLY About 15 minutes in, there is some footage of what goes on at the institute my brother contributed to
Spirit Cooking is also a work she did twenty years ago. People have twisted the metaphors in that work to. There was a performance part and an actual recipe book. The recipes are basically absurdist poems. Are you familiar with absurdist art? It's not meant to be taken literally. Some of the recipes you have to make on earthquake nights, some call for eating pain. Her "anti high blood pressure" recipe calls holding a phython on your lap while sitting on a block of ice." One of the recipes calls for eating her fingertips. This has never happened, because it's not literal. Trust me, she has all ten of her fingertips. https://images.artnet.com/aoa_lot_images/118882/marina-abramovi%C4%87-spirit-cooking-with-essential-aphrodisiac-recipes-complete-portfolio-prints-and-multiples-zoom-14_441_500.jpg
The handkerchief was more of a kitchen towel. I picked it up it Italy. It looked like this https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/67/8e/1a/678e1ab22d63d2d49f02abbad9ddd6b4.jpg
The hot dog stand is long running joke I have. I love food and I love cooking and my job is super high pressure and super busy, so the idea of doing some real easy job in a tropical setting has a lot of appeal for me. And hotdogs are about the easiest thing to cook.
I didn't say dominoes on pasta my friend did, but that's exactly what it means. We often play dominoes with our friends and I changed up my Christmas gifts one year. I used to give pasta and sauces as a gift and this year I gave cheese. It just means playing with a belly full of pasta or cheese. You know it's funny, they thought me talking about food so much meant it must be code. I think to myself, have these people never meant an Italian? We are all obsessed with food. I'm a pretty serious cook and you can find some of my recipes online. This scandal was this close to be called risottogate, you know, as my risotto recipe is now pretty famous."
Would any of that genuinely change your mind? Because if you are open to it, you can go through Podesta's non cherry picked emails and see if he's talking in code. If want to see what Marina Abramovic is about you can spend two hours and watch that movie. Given Podesta the benefit of the doubt doesn't require him giving an explanation. You can already do that. Just put aside the idea promoted by his enemies that he is speaking in code. Are his emails scary now? Because they are not.