Any counter arguments with backup links are appreciated. (Was sent a link to this article by liberal relative with whom I have had an ongoing discussion about the paid protesters.)
This tripe is not worth posting, reading, or responding to...
Mr. P must have “BUMPED his head on the toilet when he woke up to right this piece of crap.
The photo of the yellow and black sign that said “Peoples Power Assembly” is one good example of how the Communists use their signs to dominate a protest and make the reader think that they are anything more than a handful of psychopathic Marxists.
PPA is a front, esp. in Baltimore during the Freddy Grey protests, for the old-line once Trotskyite, now No. Korean Stalinists of the Workers World Party. In Baltimore it is led by Sharon Black, an identified WWP leader (in their own publications), not the Baltimore Sun who failed to identify her Marxist affiliation.
As for the protestors as a whole, esp. in New York City, I could raise 25,000 freaks and reds if I yelled “Free Donuts”. Kids just wanna protest, as Cyndi Lauper would say.
Most demonstrators couldn’t tell you who the new VP is going to be, who their own congresspersons are, where the Washington Monument is located, and who is buried in Lincoln’s tomb. They are just that dumb, under-educated, semi-literate, world events ignoramuses, and that’s just their good qualities.
I remember the protests of the 60’s thru 80’s that I covered as a reporter. At least some of the protestors could say a complete, intelligible sentence without having 6 “likes”, “huh”, “well”, and “so’s” in them.
These new protestors are society’s latest bunch of losers, even if their parents spend $25-50,000 a year trying to get them a college education. Instead of a BA or BS (which they are full of), they now graduate, if at all, with a “BR” degree as in “barrister” or “barmaid, bartender, or waiter/waitress”.
There is very little demand for teachers of “Ebonics”, “Gender Studies” except in California schools, and “The Social Life of Asexual Clams”.
Now let the real revolution begin. First thing we do is to ban “stupidity” as a national policy in education. From there on, it’s full speed ahead to clear the deadwood from society.
There is an element of truth to their statement, as with all successful lies. Some of the protestors are real, and we don't know what fraction that is. Some are paid. The Craigslist ads are proof of the payment. You could even respond to one personally (act enthusiastic about the money) and give your personal experience.
THese people are bussed in out of state
The proof is in the organization of the democrats, which is federative action with top down control. Nothing is local grass root. It is not how they want to organize the country and let alone organize themselves.
The MSM Mafia lying again and again and again.
The Boston protest, for example, was organized via a Facebook page that boston.com (the Boston Globe web site) referenced and linked to. It got over 4,000 I think it was to sign up for their rally the day after the election. And it was listed on that Facebook page as organized by three socialist/communist/Soros-front type organizations. (E.g., “socialist” in their name.)
Others have found the craigslist ads for the thugs.
“One out of every 40 people in America lives in New York City. The area’s population is 8.4 million, more than in 39 other states. For every vote cast for Donald Trump in the city last Tuesday, more than four were cast for Hillary Clinton; she earned 79 percent of the vote. “
above “The perfect argument for Electoral college”
Oh, OK. I did not realize that Manhattan wanted Hillary. That changes everything. Maybe Trump should just pass on this whole thing. //s
Let’s see - they travel on busses that have to be paid for. They have preprinted signs that have to be paid for. It is exactly the astroturf tactics that have been exposed so vividly by Wikileaks.
The compost therefore insists they are genuine and spontaneous!
Good morning.
Sorry, I can’t help you because I don’t care what Phillip Bump thinks. Further more, I know that the WaPo is a paid shill for the Clinton campaign and the DNC (see WikiLeaks).
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To the contrary, it makes sense because someone had organized and orchestrate the "protests." There are thousands of misguided "useful idiots" willing to take the subway at their own expense to protest. Among those "protestors" would be curious onlookers participating because their school or workplace is closed.
Transportation in New York and other cities is convenient and cheap.
More likely than not the professional protesters (community organizers) and a compliant media were behind the counter productive action.
It doesn’t matter if they are manufactured or not. They are sedition, in its pure form, and they must end.
They are not peaceable assembly to petition for redress, and they should be broken up with force. To the extent that they have sanction from the States of New York, Illinois, and California they threaten to be transform into combinations too powerful to be suppressed by local authority, and we know where that goes.
Obsessing about Soros paying them and other nonsense misses the point. Whether they are paid disruptors or spontaneous revolutionaries, the effect is the same, and so is the cure.
How about refuting it with the idea that these protests don't even make sense?
I can see protesting unjust government policy, individual office holder corruption, or the undue influence of lobbyists on the political system.
But protesting the results of an American election? It doesn't even make any sense.
This is the long agreed upon mechanism for the peaceful transfer of power and it once again worked beautifully.
How does one protest that? It's senseless.
There is no reason to argue against the details of the protests. Their very premise is fatally flawed.
For what purpose?
Since I do not believe there is an undifferentiated "right to protest", I'd like to know what you all think makes this seditious assembly protected by the Constitution.
I am aware that seditious assemblies carried out under a completely invented "right to protest" have been permitted since 1965 or so, but the original meaning of the free speech and assembly for the purpose of petition are being erased by these marches.
These "protesters" are not assembled for the purpose of petitioning the government, even symbolically.
The acts they are protesting (appointment of Electors) are acts of the People, not of the government, and I cannot imagine any way to justify them using Amendment I or any other part of the Constitution.
Time for dogs and fire hoses.
The comments are pro trump at least 2 to 1. Prior to the election the post articles were typically pro hillary maybe 4 to 1.
WaPo hasn't learned a single thing and will circle the drain screaming like a demented Hillary....
They are still desperately searching for the new lie to tell. The media is a pack of dogs sniffing each other’s ass saying “You got a new lie? I don’t. Hey who has a new lie?”