On the pizza parlor scenario, I did spend about 2 hours researching wtf it was all about with the way it was brought up a week or so before the election. lots of weird/sick art, some interesting but largely generic and non-specific allusions to a smear tactic that didn't have much definitive anything but definite weirdness. Weirdness isn't illegal. I said as much on that conspiratorial thread that was blazing on TOS in the weeks before the election.
You can't tell me that there hasn't been a concerted effort from the left to keep Hillary out of the race. Insert twitter-verse explosion of tweets mostly subtle but many not so subtle. You know she wants to get in if the best they can produce is sleepy Biden, etc, etc.
I don't have a say/voice in Pub politics, never did. I'm just a semi-retired dude with a few rent houses and a family trying to skirt by day by day, paying down the debts, living the Longhorn Texas dwelling Blast-furnace to Baby it's cold outside dream.
Obama said it, not me.
edit: maybe I didn't catch the sarc in your post cause it popped up just as I was finishing my lame response to Master Brisket.