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Can Someone Tell Me How I Get Paid to Protest Trump? [1]
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Date: 2025-03-04
I keep hearing from Republicans about how all these anti-Trump protesters around the country are being paid, and I thought, since I’m already participating in such events as much as possible, maybe I should look into that. I’m not a rich man.
So I did what any 21st Century human does. I googled it. “How do I get paid to protest Trump?”
And what showed up were some stories about Republicans saying protesters were being paid, and others about people ridiculing those claims. There was a story from some pro-MAGA website about protesters being paid, but it was from 2017 and apparently quickly debunked. And then there was a 2021 story from Open Secrets that I had forgotten about — about how some of the organizers of January 6 were paid $3.5 million by the Trump campaign (they got that from Federal Election Commission filings). So at least I determined that it’s possible. On at least one occasion in US history, protesters were paid. I accomplished that.
But you would think if someone was trying to gin up the protest business, they would be trying to get the word out. You know — Sign Up Here. Maybe even pay Google to put you at the top of the list. But I found nothing remotely like that. It was like when I tried to join ANTIFA. You can’t find them to join. (But then again, they’ re anarchists. You don’t expect them to be well-organized.)
So I thought if anyone could help me, it would be the activist audience of Daily Kos. So how about it? Can anyone help me? I’ll keep protesting regardless, but I could really use the money.
Have you seen the price of eggs?
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