David DePape, the man arrested for attacking Paul Pelosi, is one very weird dude. Is he a far right-wing QAnon conspiracy theorist as the Democrats and media are claiming?

We must draw the straight lines that connect violent political rhetoric and violent acts. The Pelosi assailant’s Facebook page looks identical to the Facebook pages of Trump, Taylor Greene, and Boebert. All three of them have glorified violence and Depape acted on it.

— Rep. Eric Swalwell (@RepSwalwell) October 29, 2022

Or is he just a delusional drug-addled hippie?

The San Francisco Bay area man arrested in the attack on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband filled a blog a week before the incident with delusional thoughts, including that an invisible fairy attacked an acquaintance and sometimes appeared to him in the form of a bird, according to online writings under his name.

David DePape, 42, also published hundreds of blog posts in recent months sharing memes in support of fringe commentators and far-right personalities. Many of the posts were filled with screeds against Jews, Black people, Democrats, the media and transgender people.

Quite honestly, after tracking this story these last couple of days, I’m leaning towards drug-addled delusional hippie. It’s important to note that the Washington Post story on DePape leaves several things out. Including the background of the woman he was living with. According to WaPo, it’s only worth noting in passing that Gypsy Taub is a nudist activist who happens to be in jail for attempted child abduction and felony stalking after trying to kidnap a fourteen year old boy. 

Except there’s much much more to the relationship between Taub and DePape. It took Michael Shellenberger very little time to uncover specific details of DePape’s life in Berkley, CA. 

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.

Now, I don’t know about you, but waving Black Lives Matter flags, plus LGBTQ flags doesn’t exactly scream right-wing to me. Also, the drug they were using? Very bad news. Ibogaine is essentially a drug that promotes additional delusions and is not prescribed by any credible doctors in the U.S. 

Furthermore, as is noted here, DePape filmed Taub’s wedding to a twenty year old man. The wedding took place on the steps of the courthouse in San Francisco and the couple were arrested soon after because they got married in the nude. 

Again, NONE of this even remotely resembles anything right-wing. None of DePape’s ramblings online specifically mention Nancy Pelosi. In fact, she’s not mentioned at all, even the Washington Post admits that. 

Yet the Democrats are totally on board with their narrative. The GOP is the party of violence! It’s Trump’s fault! 

For Rep. Jackie Speier, a Bay Area Democrat and longtime Pelosi ally who is a survivor of political violence, the fault lies unmistakably with Trump, who “hasn’t let up in the vitriol he spews out” and has ceaselessly assailed Pelosi as “crazy,” “corrupt” or the embodiment of Democratic wrongdoing.

“There’s no question looking at his social media that he was radicalized online” and “is a classic convert to the very Trumpian, very dangerous philosophy of taking people out that aren’t like them,” Speier said of DePape during a phone interview.

The problem with that narrative is this, the more that is uncovered about David DePape and his weird drug-addled life, the more questions I have regarding the actual events of that night. Especially since Taub gave an interview and specifically stated that BOTH she and DePape are left-wing progressives.  

While Joe Biden and others are quick to jump on the ‘DePape is a right-wing crazy and the GOP/TRUMP must be blamed’ bandwagon, there’s pieces of the story that raise MORE questions and answers aren’t forthcoming. 

David DePape forced his way into the home through a back entrance, Scott said. Officers arrived at the house, knocked on the front door and were let inside by an unknown person. They discovered DePape and Pelosi struggling for a hammer, and after they instructed them to drop the weapon, Scott said, DePape took the hammer and “violently attacked” Pelosi.

All the early narratives said and still say that Paul Pelosi was home alone when DePape broke in. Pelosi was able to make a cryptic 911 call for help. Yet Pelosi wasn’t physically attacked UNTIL the cops were on scene? And WHO was the third person in the home? 

Three things are clear here.

One: The scenario of the attack on Paul Pelosi is missing some key details.

Two: David DePape isn’t a right wing nut job, he’s a drug-addled hippie.

Rising threat? Kavenaugh was almost attacked. Republican congressmen have been shot. Cities burn every time democrats don’t like an outcome if something. What are you talking about ??

— Glenn the realist (@RealistGlenn) October 29, 2022

Three: The Democrats are trying to scapegoat Republicans for this attack which is looking more and more NON POLITICAL by the hour. 

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