Why do people WANT this to be real? Sit on that question for a minute.
I spent a lot of time going through the presented evidence. It looked like a bunch of tenuous connections between things that didn't quite pan out into tangible evidence.
It would not shock me one bit if the Podestas were involved with some nasty stuff. But owning edgy modern art is not evidence. People need to drop that.
The code word stuff would be silly, but it's disturbing because addled alt-right brains have constructed a massive pedophilia symbology around it. I can totally see some of the vague emails (dominoes, cheese, pasta) referring to weed and shrooms way, way before some smorgasbord of child abuse. Every occurrence of a spiral pattern somewhere is being touted as a pedophile symbol.
The Alefantis Instagram captures aren't convincing of anything. The chickenlover one is the only one where it looked like the image might be linked to a known pedophile term. Even then he could be razzing somebody in a tacky way, rather than prescribing abuse. No problem seeing the other ones with kids as just a hipster gay guy that likes kids the regular way.
And the hillbilly outrage about Marina Abramovic's performance art is just embarrassing. It's like nobody listened to Slayer or watched Friday the 13th as a kid. Yes, Abramovic has a strong footprint at the top of the art world and she likes to be provocative and push the envelope, as do a large percentage of artists. The New York art world is very tied to money and the influence class, so yes you'll see her around elites. Artists explore the boundaries of birth, life, death, body, thought. Her stuff is somewhat less disturbing than Bosch, Bacon and Giger, none of which have been accused of aiding and abetting pedophilia or ritual baby killing.
It feeds into the sad but probably true perception that liberals love art and conservatives wouldn't know it if it hit em in the face. Then again, sure, Abramovic might just be some kind of Satanic guru.
There were also crude paintings used for rock band poster art that really had some nasty overt imagery that I'd like to un-see. But I never saw any attribution connecting it directly the case at hand other than being generally subversive.
More power to people who continue to investigate. But investigation doesn't really characterize what's all over reddit, just a whole lot of villainizing people nobody's got anything solid on. Pizzagaters want it to be true so much that they'll grab onto any ridiculous tangent as though it's another indisputable piece of the puzzle. So if there is any truth to the allegations, it's getting covered up by a pile of credulous nonsense.
Most damning evidence against the validity of pizzagate is the particular category of people who are leading the charge - the people who think trump is going to fulfill their every political dream. Naturally, they think Clinton is somehow going to fulfill humanity's worst nightmares of cruelty. Funny, because trump seems to be just fine with Hillary now.