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.
He’s saying they weren’t really there as protestors, but as actors to look like protestors. Organizes should absolutely be getting paid for their work.
I dunno that I deserve to be paid just for showing up and flipping a few birdies at assholes. (Though the food was lit and coffee well appreciated.)
I never even understood where these assholes were getting this shit until recently. Like who would pay people to protest police brutality or fascism? Like if you care and have that kinda coin, just buy some senators?
BUT when I watched a doc on P Diddy and saw supporters or protesters outside of each of his trials with signs, I thought, some or all of those ding dongs have to be paid to be there, right? It would actually make sense for a billionaire in the middle of a jury trial to pay people to hang outside the courthouse and help sway public opinion.
Kind of a tangent but it just reminded me that a bunch of these oligarchs have probably only experienced protests where either people were protesting them or where they hired people to support them, so their whole perspective is completely bonkers. Not that it explains this sports radio dick who can’t possibly be a billionaire.
The president hired people to show up to rallies if they didn’t expect a big turnout, they ran ads on craigslist, 15/hour the ones I saw.
Well you see. With a lot of these things, it’s a lot like how a young child tells lies.
It starts with something like “no, I didn’t eat the cake,” but because the evidence is right there, with the empty cake pan, they have to then blame someone else. A random burglar maybe. Who just came in to steal the cake.
Then they have to explain why there’s crumbs all over their room.
Well, you see, the random burglar decided to break into there room, and eat it there, and they spread the crumbs around very messily to frame the kid.
and then they have to lie about why the frosting is on their face, and how come the dog got some on theirs, too, so the dog now used mind control to force the robber to give him some.
And on and on it goes. round and round and round, with each ‘but what about’, getting a new lie, and a bunch of new holes, making each and every new lie more problematic and more ridiculous by the moment.
The only real difference is that they want to believe. They don’t want to admit trump lied to them, that they’ve been duped into believing and following a fascist, that they are the problem, that their favorite sports jock turned radio host lied to them. (or himself is an incomprehensible idiot. which really. Sports commentator. being an idiot kinda comes with the territory. Madden, need I say more?)
Kind of funny hearing that from a guy being paid to say what he says.
I’m saying it’d make a fine retort to turn it around & point out protesters would be fools to turn down payment.
We’d definitely take any payment offered though, right?
I mean, I… would much rather the money be spent on legal aid funds or something… if they even had the kind of money to pay us. 18k protestors last friday. even just a 5 dollar giftcardis $90,000.
The food and coffee and stuff were pretty much donated, lol. (shout out to misfit coffee for anyone in the area. They didn’t close. They were still open. but they were handing out free coffee to protestors.)
If you do what you love you’ll never work a day in your life.