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.
Most of these people were broken before 2019
there is documented neurological damage associated with COVID-19. additionally, not engaging with social activities reduces brain function. plus we have 23 years of teaching to tests instead of teaching to teach. we are in a perfect storm of bullshit to enable disconnected misanthropes to take over
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.
Patrick Bateman knew how to deal with this guy.
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.
It’s all projection. They need to do it to win, so they assume everyone else is doing it
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?
Why is the shape of the ball relevant
That’s what makes it “special”. It’s not a round ball. I figured they were fighting over the special ball.
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.
Yes, exploding trees are real. The sap in them freezing is what causes them to explode, although maybe the confusion is that people expect a fireball or smoke when something explodes? I don’t know, but I’ve seen a lot of people saying it’s an urban legend even though it’s real.
Also, yes, fuck this guy. If we were getting paid, we’d be filthy rich.
When it gets real cold the trees make like popping and cracking noises. But we don’t get -40 below here, got to -25 just a few days back though. Anything below 0 I hear the noises occasionally from the trees.
Just another dickhead.
He’s a Nazi, an idiot, or both.
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.
You saying that means nothing
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?
Probably shouldn’t shock us that he’s a chud.
Coping hard
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Why shouldn’t protesters get paid? Is Paul Allen trying to bring back slave labor?
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.
I dunno that I deserve to be paid just for showing up and flipping a few birdies at assholes.
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.)
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