We need to stop this rumor that protestors are being paid. It's bullshit!

[Equinox Moon]

One regular response should be, by whom? Who is paying?

[asiliveandbreathe]

1. I would love to hear from those Utahans who were there..

They need to step up and speak out!

[GP6971]

2. And demand proof. n/t

[Eliot Rosewater]

3. Too late, half the country believes it, you cant change their minds.

It would take a professional cult deprogrammer to do it.

[Equinox Moon]

10. That's just it.

It is a problem. They are even spewing this rumor on fox, apparently $50.00/hour. We need an effective counter response.

[Eliot Rosewater]

18. Agree we need a response, and the response is thousands need to show up at

any and all appearances by any and all deplorable rightwing GOP assholes no matter if they are getting a cup of coffee at
Starbucks or at a town hall.

The larger the crowds, the smaller their deflection of them becomes.

[Equinox Moon]

21. That's good.

And, the good news is, it is happening and will grow.

Do you have a suggestion for a short slogan?

[Eliot Rosewater]

23. You couldnt pay me NOT to protest?

[Equinox Moon]

24. Ooooooooo, that's good

[Eliot Rosewater]

25. Money cant buy you love!

(beatles)

[Eliot Rosewater]

27. I thought The President was pro capitalism.

[sagesnow]

4. My response to that bs is always

Where do I collect my check?

[Eliot Rosewater]

26. I thought The President was pro capitalism.

[Liberal In Texas]

5. I think I've heard Soros.

You know, he is single-handedly funding the left! LOL
If there is pay I'd sure like to know where to sign up.

[Hayabusa]

46. George Soros has been the right-wing's boogeyman

since at least 2004. It's hilarious. Everything is Soros.

[underpants]

6. We've been told to camouflage ourselves by wearing Ivanka's clothesline

[Equinox Moon]

13. good one!

[sagesnow]

38. Can't she afford a dryer,

instead of a clothesline.
Ba-da-bing.

[underpants]

40. With a clothes line

It's all about the spacing

[sagesnow]

42. Clothesline- Merriam-Webster

Spacing not needed.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/clothesline

[underpants]

44. I seem to have struck a cord

[sagesnow]

47. Sorry underpants...

Thought maybe you didn't get my dumb joke. Should have realized you did.

[underpants]

49. No probthat was fun

[TrekLuver]

7. When they say I'm getting paid by Soros I say and you're getting paid by the Koch Bro's.

[JHan]

8. The GOP's favorite strategy: swiftboating everyone and everything they consider a threat.

[Tom Rinaldo]

9. It's not a rumor. It's a deliberate propaganda fabrication

It has to be called what it is. a lie unsupported by any facts. The Koch brothers actually paid for buses to move protestors around to anti-ACA rallies when the legislation was being debated. That is a fact.

[Equinox Moon]

15. Correct. Deliberate propaganda.

We need to create our own about it.

[treestar]

11. calculate how much it would cost

and then point out that Soros is so much richer that Orange Disaster, that he ought to be POTUS.

[Corey_Baker08]

12. The Sad Thing Is It's A Play From The Bernie Or Bust Handbook

[rgbecker]

16. ?????? Please explain.

Handbook? Play? Bernie or Bust????

[Equinox Moon]

17. I'm with you.

What???

[riversedge]

14. they will just ay Soro. Better is to say Proved it or you LIE

[demigoddess]

19. it is defection. it is propaganda. it is nothing.

[bravenak]

20. I just yell 'LIAR!'

Or something similar in nature. Then laugh real loud because it's funny.

[Raster]

31. Seriously. Whenever anyone spouts any tRumpian* bullshit...

...I say very loudly: "that is fucking bullshit, and you need to educate yourself." Many acquaintances have learned not to even try and start their shitshow with me. I am completely over the "can't we all get along" bullshit. I am also NOT WILLING to give anyone or anything tRumpian* a chance, a listen, OR consideration. That also is NOT. FUCKING. HAPPENING.

I live in blood-red Maricopa County Arizona and am completely over the conserva-rabble thinking they have a right to spout their shit at me, and complete over them thinking I may want to hear it.

[bravenak]

33. Thank you! Bone tired of biting my tongue so some asshole damn lie and lie

I don't even listen anymore. I just yell and call it alternative facts.

[Raster]

35. Back at ya! I have a damned good grasp on reality...

...and I KNOW everything tRumpian* is wrong for me, wrong for the people I care about and wrong for this country. And I take GREAT JOY in seeing and knowing that THE MAJORITY OF AMERICANS FEEL THE SAME. We are NOT alone!

Rethuglicans are scared to death, and will say just about anything to try and mitigate responsibility for their actions and their delusional positions.

The difference between yesterday's Tea Party and today's Resistance is that the Tea Party was based on racism, outright lies and vicious hyperbole aimed at a low information, reactionary audience. Today's Resistance is based on facts, common purpose and critical thought and is inclusive of EVERYONE that wants to move this Country in a different direction.

This is NOT going to be easy. This is going to be tiring and a general pain in the ass. But we must persist. They want us to give up. They want us to fail. The only way they can win is if we cede the high ground and let them win.

[LaydeeBug]

22. They *are* being paid...to perform violent act...They KNOW

there are paid protestors because THEY are paying them. O'Keefe even got caught.

Don't let them frame the fucking narrative.

[Equinox Moon]

28. "Don't let them frame the fucking narrative."

Exactly. That is the point of the thread.

Do you have a slogan we could spread as a meme?

[LaydeeBug]

41. It takes some stone to blame somebody else for what you did

Bill Clinton said that.

[Raster]

36. Hear! Hear!

Don't let them frame the fucking narrative.

[Initech]

29. My response is usually: We get paid for this?

That shuts them up pretty quickly!

[Equinox Moon]

30. I like it.

[unitedwethrive]

32. It's amazing that anyone even believes that!

[Jim Beard]

34. I know I am going to get hit hard with my statements but I have walked through

fire before.

There are some that are being paid BUT NOT in this latest large protest. I have been claiming that some of the more violent ones in the protest at the inauguration and at Berkley were paid.

I should know by now that it would get thrown back at me by the right wing. Its almost like a trap. The right wingers do the dirty tricks and later blame the other side for what they are doing.

The right wing pays a few protesters and then they let FOX News do the rest. Doesn't matter what the truth is.

[blogslut]

37. It's totally real!

@Richard_Kadrey

[Equinox Moon]

50. Too funny!

[NoGoodNamesLeft]

39. Time for old fashioned petitions with signatures of state residents

Gather them up and deliver them to the state offices of the assholes.

[Generic Other]

43. Not a paid protester but know where to buy a shirt

https://www.everafterguide.com/kids-i-am-not-a-paid-protester-t-shirt-president-america-2016-8-royal-blue-6ae152c36a1f5968.html

Funny how it's the paid shills accusing the protesters.

[Ms. Toad]

45. By Trump - at least during the early stages of his campaign.

You do know that he paid the actors cheering his announcement that he was running for president, right?


And, of course, since it is something he has actually done - he assumes everyone else is doing it as well.

[JI7]

48. this is a case of WANTING TO BELIEVE

[democratisphere]

51. The deplorables believe anything Sean 'the asshole' Hannity tells them.

Remember you are dealing with idiots.

[Equinox Moon]

52. Indeed.

Do they get together and make this shit up?

[democratisphere]

54. They are all reading from the same script provided by the

alt-right super conservative, alternative facts, "think" tanks.

[Equinox Moon]

56. "So-called" think tanks.

Idiots.

[democratisphere]

59. Good one!

[AC_Mem]

53. Tell them PROVE IT

Don't spew alternative "facts" - PROVE YOUR POINT. and when you prove it - put it on the news! they can't do it because its bullshit and they know it.

Most of the billionaires who want to buy America so that they can destroy it for their own offshore accounts, are aligned with the GOP! And there were many tea partiers who WERE paid -which is why they are probably transferring that onto progressives now! Not to mention the fact that 45 had a paid team during his candidacy and probably still has them - although i guess his cheering section are on the whitehouse payroll now

Actually - best to just laugh in their faces. They are either complete fools or brainwashed. Pity their ignorance.

[Equinox Moon]

55. Yep. They can't prove it, because it is bullshit.

The only paid protestors are the anarchists that bring violence, which I don't understand. Why go to jail and have a record for violence because someone paid you. Just dumb.

[bdamomma]

57. ok who said that first

was kellyanne conjob? then people just keep repeating it over and over? Fox news was repeating it??? what total BS.

[Equinox Moon]

62. Yep. Fox, so-called news has been reporting people are paid $50.00/hour to protest.

[WinkyDink]

58. Funded by the same group that paid for those 3 million Fake Votes.

[Glamrock]

60. One guy told me that they were paid protesters.

I laughed, said $50 an hour huh? I'll be here at the same time tomorrow. If you can find where to sign up, I'll go in your place and let you keep the money. When you can't find anything by tomorrow morning, go ahead and call FOX or Rush and find out if they can point you in the right direction. My guess is no, because it's bullshit. See ya tomorrow.