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J D Young <jdyoung2@ymail.com> wrote:
>
> Nancy Pelosi's gay activism finally comes full circle and catches
> up. Recall that Nancy Pelosi is a leading gay pervert, transgender
> nutcase promoter of "gay normalcy" and "gay rights". Nancy owns this.
>
> Leading politicians blamed the political right for the brutal attack on
> House Speaker Nancy Pelosi�s husband Paul.
>
> �This is despicable,� said President Biden. He noted that the alleged
> attacker, David DePape, 42, shouted the same line, �Where�s Nancy?� as the
> supporters of Donald Trump, who stormed the US Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
> �And what makes us think that one party can talk about stolen elections?�
> said Biden. �COVID being a hoax? It�s all a bunch of lies.�
>
> California political leaders agreed. �This heinous assault is yet another
> example of the dangerous consequences of the divisive and hateful rhetoric
> that is putting lives at risk and undermining our very democracy and
> democratic institutions,� said California Gov. Gavin Newsom. �This
> attack,� said San Francisco�s state Sen. Scott Weiner, �is terrifying and
> the direct result of toxic right-wing rhetoric.�
>
> Journalists, en masse, agreed with their assessment. DePape �appears to
> have made racist and often rambling posts online,� noted AP, in a report
> that encapsulated the media narrative, �including some that questioned the
> results of the 2020 election, defended former President Donald Trump and
> echoed QAnon conspiracy theories.�
>
> But DePape�s politics have little rhyme or reason. In past years DePape
> shared a post about Stephen Colbert�s 2006 roast of President George W.
> Bush at the White House Correspondents dinner; linked to videos of Disney
> films altered to make it look like the characters were swearing; and
> claimed, �Jesus is the anti-Christ� � not exactly a litany of right-wing
> tropes.
>
> And, as I soon discovered, DePape lived with a notorious local nudist in a
> Berkeley home, complete with a Black Lives Matter sign in the window and
> an LGBT rainbow flag, emblazoned with a marijuana symbol, hanging from a
> tree. A closer look reveals the characteristics of a homeless encampment,
> or what Europeans call �an open drug scene.� In the driveway, there is a
> broken-down camper van. On the street is a yellow school bus, which
> neighbors said DePape occasionally stayed in. Both are filled with garbage
> typical of such structures in homeless encampments. People come and go
> from the house and the vehicles, neighbors say, in part to partake in the
> use of a potent psychedelic drug, ibogaine.
>
> Neighbors described DePape as a homeless addict with politics that was,
> until recently, left-wing, but of secondary importance to his psychotic
> and paranoid behavior.
>
> �What I know about the family is that they�re very radical activists,�
> said one of DePape�s neighbors, a woman who only gave her first name,
> Trish. �They seem very left. They are all about the Black Lives Matter
> movement. Gay pride. But they�re very detached from reality. They have
> called the cops on several of the neighbors, including us, claiming that
> we are plotting against them. It�s really weird to see that they are
> willing to be so aggressive toward somebody else who is also a lefty.�
>
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> The Berkeley home where DePape lived with a local nudist and others.
>
> Not all of the news media missed DePape�s history of drug use, psychosis,
> and homelessness. CNN reported that a woman named Laura Hayes, who said
> she worked with DePape 10 years ago making hemp bracelets, said he had
> been living in a storage shed. �He talks to angels,� she said, and told
> her that �there will be a hard time coming.�
>
> Another woman, Linda Schneider, told CNN and Bay Area NBC TV affiliate,
> KRON4, that she got to know DePape around 2014 and that he was still
> homeless, living in a storage unit, and using hard drugs. �He [was] likely
> a mindless follower of something he saw on social media because I don�t
> think he had the courage to be part of any political or terrorist group,�
> said Schneider. �His drug use began again and he went off his rocker.�
>
> But much of the rest of the news media, particularly local journalists who
> could have interviewed DePape�s neighbors, were swept up in the narrative
> that DePape was more like John Wilkes Booth, the fanatical but sane
> assassin of Abraham Lincoln, than John Hinkley, Jr., the mentally ill man
> who shot Ronald Reagan. DePape is much more like one of the hundreds of
> psychotic homeless people I�ve interviewed in recent years than the
> fanatical climate ideologues who I�ve been writing about in recent weeks.
>
> Wrapped up in their own obsession with Trump Republicans, most journalists
> have missed the real story. David DePape is not a microcosm of the
> political psychosis gripping America in general. Rather, he�s a microcosm
> of the drug-induced psychosis gripping the West Coast in particular.
>
> Drugs, Paranoia, and Pedophilia
> I visited the Berkeley house where DePape had lived with his former lover,
> Oxane �Gypsy� Taub, 53, a charismatic Russian immigrant 11 years David�s
> senior. DePape appears to have fallen under the spell of Taub around 2003,
> when DePape was a quiet, video game-obsessed 21-year-old in Powell River,
> a town of 14,000 people that is a four-hour drive up the coast of British
> Columbia from Vancouver.
>
> A Nov. 27, 2008, article in the Oakland Tribune said Taub and DePape were
> married with three children. But DePape�s stepfather, Gene, told AP
> yesterday that Taub was his stepson�s girlfriend, not wife; that David and
> Taub had two, not three, children together; and that David�s third child
> was with another woman.
>
> The article, which carried the headline, �Need is great on Thanksgiving
> Day in the East Bay,� described Taub, Pape, and their three children
> eating Thanksgiving dinner with the homeless. Taub told the reporter that
> they were there for the community, not because they couldn�t afford to eat
> at home.
>
> Taub was in the news again five years later when she, then 44, married a
> 20-year-old man, Jamyz Smith, naked, at City Hall in San Francisco. A
> photo in the December 16, 2013, edition of The San Francisco Chronicle
> shows DePape, Taub, Smith, and the three children huddled under a blanket
> watching television together. The caption describes DePape as �a family
> friend.� As in The Oakland Tribune article, the focus was on Taub, with no
> quotes from DePape.
>
> Ryan La Coste, who lives in an apartment directly behind the Taub-DePape
> house, said that the day after Taub�s wedding to Smith, �There was a huge
> fight. The guy [Smith] that she married got locked up. And so Taub married
> somebody else. My understanding was that David [DePape] was the best man
> to her husband at the wedding.�
>
> The episode was typical of the chaos that swirled around DePape during the
> years leading up to his alleged attack on Paul Pelosi.
>
> Michael Shellenberger is the best-selling author of �San Fransicko: Why
> Progressives Ruin Cities.� His original reporting can be read at
> MichaelShellenberger.Substack.com.
>
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> addict-estranged-from-pedophile-lover-kids/>

The gay checks she wrote to advance her career have come due for
Nancy Pelosi.