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Ads in two dozen cities offer protesters up to $2,500 to agitate at Trump inaugural
washingtontimes.com ^ | 1/17/2017 | Valerie Richardson

Posted on 01/17/2017 7:00:42 AM PST by rktman

Donald Trump may have a point about paid protesters: Job ads running in more than 20 cities offer $2,500 per month for agitators to demonstrate at this week’s presidential inauguration events.

Demand Protest, a San Francisco company that bills itself as the “largest private grassroots support organization in the United States,” posted identical ads Jan. 12 in multiple cities on Backpage.com seeking “operatives.”

“Get paid fighting against Trump!” says the ad.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Philosophy; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: anarchists; fundingtheleft; rentamob; rioters; trumpinaugural
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To: rktman

Went to the Demand Protest website- It’s gone! Here is the cached version:

We Assemble Movements: From grassroots organizations to advocacy groups, we seed the narratives and gather the audience you desire. When your strategy demands paid protest, we organize and bring it to life.

Unassailable Authenticity: We are strategists mobilizing millennials across the globe with seeded audiences and desirable messages. With absolute discretion a top priority, our operatives create convincing scenes that become the building blocks of massive movements. When you need the appearance of outrage, we are able to deliver it at scale while keeping your reputation intact.

Demonstrations: We develop, recruit, manage, and execute on your high-level objectives. Our trained operatives can lead entire crowds or simply steer events in your favor.

Movements: We have the proven expertise required to expertly shape political, corporate, or public health perceptions.

Intelligence: Our operatives can embrace and steer existing organizations, providing you valuable insights about those involved and their future actions.

Training:Our strategists can train your organization in our methods of creating effective demonstrations and design the situations that will deliver your goals. Enter your email address for Demand Protest news and events

Full Service: Rest easy knowing that every detail of your campaign is in the hands of experts.

Recruitment: Our top priority is preventing any associations back to you. Our operatives only know us, and we have a proven track record of maintaining secrecy.

Directed Action: We demand action of our operatives on the ground and provide them in-person support. Create the scenes that will sway public opinion and perception without any guesswork.

Deniability: By taking every precaution, keeping our clients secret, and only hiring the best individuals, we can ensure that all actions will appear genuine to media and public observers.

Partner Stories: We drive radical results. 93% of partners launch additional campaigns with us.

“ We have seen some momentous changes as a result of our first two campaigns. It was astonishing to watch operatives go above and beyond, sometimes to their own detriment, to drive our story with the public. ”

Campaign ChairUnnamed 2016 Presidential Campaign: “Not only were we able to counter feel-good misconceptions held by millennials, we were able to drive a measurable decline in key metrics and introduce a powerful new story.”

Executive DirectorUnnamed Public Health Non-profit “Young Americans were lacking enthusiasm when it came to our goals ... Demand Protest was able to formulate a strategy and street campaign that quickly ignited fierce feelings and action.”
ChairmanUnnamed Fund Management

17 Causes.....15 Partners... 48 Campaigns 1817....Operatives ...Connect with us...Let’s write tomorrow together.....(415) 666-2650


21 posted on 01/17/2017 7:35:37 AM PST by Beautiful_Gracious_Skies ('45 will be the best ever)
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To: Resettozero

Exactly! Freepers can show-up looking disheveled and "lose" their protest sign along the protest route.
Wear a bright M.A.G.A. shirt as an "undercover" base layer to show to police and/or other fellow Trump supporters as needed.
Sounds like a potential way to make money off of fat George Soros.

22 posted on 01/17/2017 7:36:46 AM PST by Blue Jays ( Rock hard ~ Ride free)
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To: pfony1

My sources tell me the operation is located in Portland, OR probably getting funding from San Francisco.
Portland has a long track record of running Internet Attack websites way back to the 90’s.

They were behind the CPU battles between Intel and AMD and they would flood all the tech websites with Anti-Intel stories.
Eventually, someone ID’d the Portland operation and it got shut down.
Pay them enough $$$ and they will attack anyone or any company.


23 posted on 01/17/2017 7:38:38 AM PST by Zathras
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To: rktman

$2500? And now we’ve come to this. Why just a short while ago things were much more civilized when Madonna was offering free bjs just for voting.


24 posted on 01/17/2017 7:41:37 AM PST by xp38
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To: rktman

How do you prove you are agitating, get arrested?


25 posted on 01/17/2017 7:48:40 AM PST by Nailbiter
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To: rktman
Ads in two dozen cities offer protesters up to $2,500 to agitate at Trump inaugural

Obama's America

The Obama legacy is one of racism...Obama's....the biggest racist of them all.

26 posted on 01/17/2017 7:54:12 AM PST by yoe (USA do not let BHO further divide this nation as he "hangs around.....")
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies
The site is gone? They probably never thought so many people would actually believe it was real. What started out as a joke turned into fake news by people on the right who desperately wanted to believe it.

This is not unlike how the left desperately wants to believe the "golden showers" story.

27 posted on 01/17/2017 7:54:20 AM PST by SSS Two
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies
Thanks! Good info.

If they are willing to feign any kind of deep, burning conviction, has anyone ever heard of such a thing as paid participants in conservative activities?

28 posted on 01/17/2017 7:57:13 AM PST by gloryblaze
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To: rktman

Would this not fall under RICO statutes for organized crime?


29 posted on 01/17/2017 8:01:55 AM PST by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: American in Israel

For conservatives, yes. For libs-———another day at the office.


30 posted on 01/17/2017 8:03:53 AM PST by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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To: rktman

Just a warning to all you soulless mercenary protesters out there: We all know you are doing it for the money, but your bosses ARE liberals. See the cash, the do-re-mi, the lettuce FIRST. Taking their word that they will pay you on Tuesday, for law breaking today just means you’ll be a broke jail bird come Tuesday.


31 posted on 01/17/2017 8:10:04 AM PST by lafroste (Look at my profile page. Thanks.)
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To: rktman

You better get paid upfront to help pay for your court costs


32 posted on 01/17/2017 8:13:04 AM PST by butlerweave
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To: SSS Two

The site was real, they have been running ads nearly identical on Craig’s List for nearly a year. It’s real news. They hire and pay people to protest.


33 posted on 01/17/2017 8:17:11 AM PST by Beautiful_Gracious_Skies ('45 will be the best ever)
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To: Honorary Serb; rktman; All

“This whole operation REEKS of Soros!!!!”

Of course it’s Soros.

Trump needs to arrest him as a terrorist.


34 posted on 01/17/2017 8:22:45 AM PST by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) since Nov 2014 (GOPe is that easy to read))
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To: publius911

publius911, take me with you. I agree. Even older people can reload and take facial photos. I would help all I could.

And speaking of slimebags, I wonder what is wrong with all those women who worry about Trumps’ purported misogyny. They should be looking at what has happened to women in Germany and Sweden and doing evrything they can to get rid of the Islamist and genital cutters in our own country. Sometimes I feel shame when my sex acts like this. Mostly it is a laughing matter, but not this time.


35 posted on 01/17/2017 8:28:06 AM PST by Bodega (we are developing less and less common sense...world wide)
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To: Resettozero

Bingo!! With hidden CAMERAS!


36 posted on 01/17/2017 8:34:49 AM PST by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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To: SSS Two

The ad is still up at Backpage.com Charlotte, pretty much the same wording.....

http://charlotte.backpage.com/MiscJobs/get-paid-fighting-against-trump/33127435


37 posted on 01/17/2017 8:36:10 AM PST by Robe (A nation can survive its fools and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.)
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To: rktman

If any of these idiots think they’re actually going to get paid, they’re chumps.


38 posted on 01/17/2017 8:37:18 AM PST by wrcase
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To: rktman

Anybody got a screenshot of the ads?


39 posted on 01/17/2017 8:38:57 AM PST by Oatka
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To: Oatka

Well, we do have to admit Trump was telling the truth about creating jobs. He did NOT say he was going to create “civil disobedience” workers. Time to shut those idiotic people down once and for all.


40 posted on 01/17/2017 8:43:20 AM PST by DaveA37
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