What we know about David DePape, suspect in Paul Pelosi attack
Updated: Oct. 28, 2022 12:09 p.m.
Law enforcement have identified David DePape 42, as a suspect in the Friday morning home invasion violent attack on Paul Pelosi. Officer's said that when they arrived at the Pelosis' home at 3 a.m. they found a man and Pelosi — the husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi — holding a hammer.
The assailant allegedly wrested the hammer from Pelosi's hands and beat him with it. DePape was booked on suspicion of attempted homicide, assault with a deadly weapon and elder abuse. Here is what we know about him so far:
1. He was tapped to be the best man in a 2013 nudist wedding at San Francisco City Hall. David DePape was known as a "father figure" in a three-bedroom Victorian flat in Berkeley, where famed nudist activist Gypsy Taub lived with her three children and fiance Jaymz Smith prior to the wedding she had planned to hold on the steps of City Hall. The couple had tapped DePape, a hemp jewelry maker who lived with them in the crowded home, to be their best man.
2. He listed himself as a member of the Green Party. Voting records show DePape listed himself as a member of the Green Party years ago.
3. He kept a blog with screeds about "the ruling class" and other conspiracy theories. "The elites/ruling class never censor themselves,"DePape wrote in a WordPress blog he apparently maintained and kept updating through August 28 — the date of the last post. With the domain " godisloving.wordpress.com " and banner "Welcome to Big Brothers Censorship Hell," the blog, which lists DePape as an author, is larded with conspiracy theories about elites — including government officials, tech companies and media outlets — who he accuses of censorship.
It includes a series of entries with headlines that invoke conservative beliefs or conspiracy theories promoted in far-right circles. On Aug. 25, DePape created posts with such headlines as "Communist Voodoo science" and "Feminist gets owned." A post on Aug. 25 titled "The woke are Racists with a guilty conscience" has no text or links in the body.
OK this guy was definitely conspiracy brained, but the existence of the ruling class a "conspiracy theory"?
:zizek-ok:
I've literally been told that making any reference to the establishment or ruling class is antisemitism regardless of context :agony-shivering:
Bad actors weaponizing antisemitism mixed with a gullible public that takes whatever the msm says at face value.
Like that one poster here on Hexbear that said that "It's a Wonderful Life" was antisemitic because the antagonist was a banker (ignoring that the protagonist was also a banker and neither was Jewish in any presented way outside of the sus presumption of Jews being bankers!).
That was a fun one. Like sir are you suggesting that a small town banker in the middle of America in the fifties was Jewish because I assure you America was way too anti-Semitic at the time for that to be the case.
This equivocation and cynical defense mechanism of the ruling class only further cements and fuels anti-semitism. Disgusting that the ruling class uses this as a shield against criticism when they know full well that people will see that and then scapegoat Jews when things are bad, citing past bourgeois class violence as proof of evil Jews.
Ehh, lots of bad faith bullshit going around on twitter. Gotta filter out the noise, though it is worth it to check yourself every once in a while. I had a "lizard people" joke about Pelosi that i really loved but I gave it up when someone showed me how the "lizard people" meme is from some weird anti-Semitic book from the 70s or 80s.
I'm just waiting for the inevitable labeling of anyone who talks about the bourgeois as "MAGA Communist Neo-Nazi Conspiracy Theorists".
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You think this will become the new "tankie" ?
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Jose Vega is a LaRouchite. That's what he calls himself. He references LaRouche in his twitter bio.
I don't think that's what the article is intended to say. This guy was a nazi. He used the phrase "the ruling class" repeatedly to refer specifically to jewish people. It's his own code phrase. That's why the article has the phrase in quotes.
I'm scrolling through his blog and a lot of the posts are explicitly anticommunism. There's a post that says that fascism is better than communism. There's holocaust denial posts. There's a lot of antisemitic posts. He uses the phrase "the ruling class" to refer to jewish people.
That's good. At least we can pretty clearly and definitively state that he wasn't one of ours. Fash won't listen, and Libs might not, but ranting about Jews is about as Nazi as you can get.
as we all know, the ruling class is literally a protected class, and hence suggesting the ruling class is actually ruling the world is, well, a conspiracy theory. /s