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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSpicer says Trump protesters are "paid professionals." Paid by WHOM exactly?
What is the wage of a "paid professional" protester anyway? Anybody here a member of the Paid Professional Protesters Union? They can't even pin this one on their arch Bogey Man, George Soros. Even if they are working cheap, say $50 a day, out of which they have to pay their own expenses, including food, transportation and lodging, three million people worldwide cost $150 million a day. Even billionaires get budget conscious at that kind of frivolous spending.
Besides, Spicer and Trump should consider that our country faces a far greater danger than paid professional protesters outside the White House, namely the overpaid amateurs INSIDE the White House.
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)I have been out many times since November.
Do I have to pay taxes on it?
DFW
(54,427 posts)wordpix
(18,652 posts)Gothmog
(145,481 posts)Where is my money?
EllieBC
(3,031 posts)Never mind alternative facts. Trump and Company live in an alternative universe. They refuse to accept that even some Trump supporters are now questioning him.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)If the lie doesn't take root, they never look back just move to the next lie.
crazycatlady
(4,492 posts)The only thing I'm being paid for regarding anything related to protesting is pussyhats. However, the cost of the pussyhats covers labor, materials, and shipping (if applicable).
Turn CO Blue
(4,221 posts)Kber
(5,043 posts)given how good we are at it!
Native
(5,943 posts)Sanity Claws
(21,851 posts)I have been doing it for free and would like to collect some cash.
Didn't think so. What a bunch of whining phonies.
TexasBushwhacker
(20,209 posts)enough to protest in the street, in the winter time. Not hundreds, not thousands, but MILLIONS. Trump keeps saying he won the popular vote, that there were millions of illegal votes, even though there is no evidence of that. Howard Stern all Trump really wants is to be loved, yet every day people are reminding him that he and his policies are not acceptable. It isn't just that people don't love him. They are seeing him for the crook and fool that he is. Sad!
herding cats
(19,566 posts)We need full benefits and standardized pay scale.
regnaD kciN
(26,045 posts)''...just like all those people I hire to cheer me at my press conferences!"
Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,501 posts).
Leghorn21
(13,526 posts)George...if I ever hear of anyone else handing out them thar checks, will post here toot sweet!
Starry Messenger
(32,342 posts)mike_c
(36,281 posts)...and so can you! Top protesters make even more! Order your copy of this revealing, money-making guide to careers in professional protesting for only $39.95. Start your new career today! Send $39.95 to mike_c before these are all gone!
Leghorn21
(13,526 posts)Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)Croney
(4,661 posts)All the income tax going uncollected from these paid protesters could pay for a pretty big wall. Somebody get right on that.
leftstreet
(36,110 posts)jmg257
(11,996 posts)Demsrule86
(68,632 posts)I went to the March. No one had to paid...we spend dollars to show our contempt for would be Fuhrer Trump.
panader0
(25,816 posts)KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)JHB
(37,161 posts)...and these days "from Moscow" is a Republican thing.
peggysue2
(10,836 posts)Still waiting for my Soros check for the DC Million Women's March, plane fare and lodging. It was a Christmas gift, but still I could pay back my daughter-in-law who let me share her hotel room with another woman. And my pink pussy hat! I paid $28. Hope Soros will fly for the extra expenditure. And food, of course, including that $4 bottle of water at the Maryland House. Pricey!!
Spicer et al are beyond lame. Guess they've forgotten the Tea Party gang, the marches they swooned over and proclaimed a true symbol of patriotism.
How soon they forget.
Lanius
(599 posts)I'd love to be a paid professional activist! I'd be out there every week if it meant a check in the mail.
DFW
(54,427 posts)Just a word to the wise........
Solly Mack
(90,779 posts)DFW
(54,427 posts)He's in a permanent "mom always liked you best" mode.
Solly Mack
(90,779 posts)Parents can love their children and still know when one of them is a schlepper.
rzemanfl
(29,566 posts)Is it because they are SMART like your boss?
Eyeball_Kid
(7,433 posts)Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)tazkcmo
(7,300 posts)kairos12
(12,866 posts)Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)Botany
(70,552 posts)In Cleveland OH alone the tab would be:
30,000 x $25.00 = $75,000.00 (the police said 15,000 but I would guess it was @ least 30,000)
Now in the women's marches alone they had to have been @ least 4 million across America
4,000,000 x $25.00 = $100,000,000
"They" really say any damn thing that they want.
But sadly for the Fox News watchers they will buy into this crap.
bdamomma
(63,917 posts)or should I say anarchists. They are paid by Bannon to give us peaceful protesters a bad name.