During Friday’s episode of The Paul Allen Show on Twin Cities radio station KFAN, Allen, Chad Greenway, and Alec Lewis opened the show discussing the intense cold weather in the region. One person mentioned the recent story about a Los Angeles Rams player putting cayenne in his socks to stay warm, and Allen mentioned the urban legend about trees “exploding” from cold weather.
Umprompted, Allen then interjected by asking, “In conditions like this, do paid protesters get hazard pay? Those are the things that I’ve been thinking about this morning.”
A few minutes later, the conversation switched to football, and Allen once again worked a paid-protester reference into a discussion about NFL coaching hires.
“Everybody’s catching strays this week. [Brian] Flores, Kevin Stefanski from Baker [Mayfield], Charlie ‘Biyatch’ caught one out of nowhere. They’re just all over, paid protesters caught one this morning,” he said, referencing his earlier comments.
Wtf is wrong with these people
I have a theory that covid fucked the brains of people up bad. Mental decline has been pretty drastic ever since covid.
shit has been going on alot longer than 4-5 years, you were just more isolated from their stupidity because they were less emboldened.
people have a way of taking off their masks when republicans come to power, personally i prefer this to the faux-civility of establishment democrats.
Patrick Bateman knew how to deal with this guy.
Where does one apply to be paid to protest? With the number of Americans living paycheck to paycheck I would love to be able to direct them to a resource that will provide them some support while they stand up to tyranny.
Man, it would be so easy to show proof of this if it happened.
But Musk paying millions for votes (in a “lottery”) is a-ok though.
As was bussing Trump supporters to DC for the January 6th riots.
And bussing supporters and political operatives to Florida for the Brooks Brothers riot that stopped a vote recount and essentially handed Republicans the presidency in 2000.
They’ve been refining these tactics - while baselessly accusing their opponents of using them - for decades. The “victory at any cost” mentality took over because its adherents kept winning due to nobody prosecuting them for their blatant crimes.
If protesters were paid, I’d be one of the 1%. I’ve been boycotting Nestle for DECADES.
Not that they can come to logical conclusions, but have they ever considered who is supposedly paying them if all the billionaires and corporations are supporting Trump and the fascist government?
Why george soros of course. Who else. They have no imagination. Israel superfans accuse their protesters of being paid too, won’t own up to whom is supposedly paying them, its soros when they do, if they think they are talking to a friendly. Sort of ironic seeing as soros is jewish, and a target for conspiracy theories.
It’s all valid projection. The Jan 6 folks had free bussing and likely many were paid. Republicans are trained to accuse others of the very things they do. The criminals don’t worry now that the commander in crime and pedophilia has their backs.
I was browsing conservative accounts on X with xcancel and other nitter instances yesterday to get a feeling on their reaction about the attacks on the 2nd amendment. What shocked me the most was how many of them had questionable content of underage girls in their feeds, it’s really disgusting and actually explains why they don’t have a problem with Trump being a rapist and pedophile.
Something something George Soros.
Same. And the hatred still burns bright white and hot
Boycott NFL
I never did understand the “battle” over a ball that isn’t even round.
They seem to have enough money, why can’t they buy another ball and both teams can go home happy?
It isn’t about the ball. The point is large muscular men in tight shiny pants continously bending over immediately before piling on top of each other only to start the sequence over a minute later.
Televised orgies without the head concussions would be an improvement, methinks.
Trees exploding in the cold isn’t an urban myth. I’ve heard it, and seen the aftermath. It’s gotta be really cold. Like -40 cold, but ya fact, not myth.
Also fuck this guy and his paid protester narrative. I’m so over fascism. Shit it is just getting tedious…
I think the urban myth part was some of the photos being shared that showed very dramatic results. There was one right here on lemmy that someone posted from the wikipedia page on exploding trees without bothering to read its caption - it that had been destroyed by a lightning strike.
He’s a Nazi, an idiot, or both.
Just another dickhead.
Coping hard
They hire people off of Craigslist and idk where else to show up to some of the president’s rallies. The one I saw on a post years back, in the first term I think, offered 15 an hour, they had to cheer and stay the whole time.
Paid seat-fillers at rallies or other public events are not the same as “paid protesters.”
The ones making the accusations pay people to attend events. It is worth a mention.
Lies
It’s verified.
Seems most likely to have been a prank (or protest?) to me:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/know-craigslist-ad-dc-seat-100000302.html
Not the same thing, this was years back, the one was id like az or something. Idk why you would assume it is whatever you are talking about.
People worked those gigs, fot paid, it was verified, and not all that uncommon as others have pointed out.
I remember the same happening. They were curating the appearance of diversity by putting certain people behind Trump. I remember seeing posts about pay, especially during the campaign leading up to the 2024 election because Trump was so unpopular at that time that his rallies were largely empty. They were doing all kinds of camera tricks to try to create the sense that he filled a stadium. Meanwhile 90 percent of the upper level was empty and half the main floor was empty as well.
I don’t have the energy to dig it up and source it for the Lemmings but I definitely remember this stuff taking place.
Paid protestor? Maybe not. Paid rally attendees for propaganda? Absolutely.
Trust me bro. I don’t have the proof, but trust me bro because it was verified and I just can’t seem to post it because of reasons! I know I learned in school to make a statement and support it with cited evidence, but JUST TRUST ME BRO!
Those are the vibes you’re giving. Someone else posted a link and you claim that isn’t it. Well, put up or shut the fuck up.
Geez you are pretty upset. Maybe you should smoke some grass or something. I am not reading that though, take my anecdote or no, the oresident paid people for rallies, so naturally accuses others of such things.
“Trust me, bro!” Put up or shut up. Waiting on proof rather than anecdotes to spread false information.
Or do you reply with deflection because you’re a paid actor? How are them Rubles treating you, Comrade?
You saying that means nothing
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