Have you ever been paid to protest or post on a political/social forum?

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Have you ever been paid to protest or post on a political/social forum?

  1. Yes

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  2. No

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  3. Know someone [please explain]

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  1. For Topical Use Only

    For Topical Use Only Well-Known Member

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    I have no political affiliation.

    Trump's a buffoon and corrosive with it. I charge less if there are neo nazis to laugh at.
     
  2. jgoins

    jgoins Well-Known Member

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    Maybe it is 50k pesos.
     
  3. crank

    crank Well-Known Member

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    I know someone who is currently paid to demonise non-Progressives. He's not related to me, merely related to a friend, but it's an open secret.
     
  4. Sallyally

    Sallyally Well-Known Member Donor

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    Is the money good? And where does it come from?
     
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  5. VietVet

    VietVet Well-Known Member

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    I LOVE 1984.
    It is prophetic of the current GOP.
    Faux "news" (fox) is the GOP "Ministry of Truth"
    Sean (Baghdad Bob) Spicer is a master of "doublespeak", but the real master of doublespeak is the con-man himself.
    I remember when I read it, I thought that no, people wouldn't be that dumb that they would accept history being re-written - boy, was I wrong. People ARE that dumb.

    When the drums were being beaten for an Iraq invasion, I thought, no, after Vietnam, America would not be that dumb - BUT THEY WERE.

    Now we have a big enough minority, fooled by double-speak, distributed to tilt the electoral college, that gives us an empty celebrity - devoid of morals, ignorant of many, many crucial subjects, with an infantile ego - in charge of the country.

    Orwell could not have dreamed up such a catastrophe.
     
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  6. crank

    crank Well-Known Member

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    No, the money is cr@p. He makes about half what a graduate (of his profession) should make, but he dropped out to pursue the cause. He's paid by one of our two primary political parties. No surprise there.
     
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  7. WCH

    WCH Active Member

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    You're the first one who knew someone who actually got paid to post. However one affects many over time.
     
  8. WCH

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    You didn't come to this realization over the last 8 years? Little has changed...only the players.

    Lobbyist and donors write legislation and feed the info to the masses while the fingers point at each other.
     
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  9. Pollycy

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    Poor Spicer is, IMHO, a "master" of nothing. At times I have wished so much that I could have been up there at the rostrum when some rabid, hyperlib "news" spinner gushed some completely miscast, severely-slanted 'question'. But, I wouldn't last two days in his job because, knowing who and WHAT nearly all of these creatures are, I'd "blow them out of the water". ANYBODY could, but it's politically indelicate to do so.

    It's fascinating to me, nevertheless, to read what you've written in this post, and to find myself agreeing with the text 100% EXCEPT that I would have made my target Obama, instead of Trump. "Devoid of morals"? Ignorance? "Infantile ego"? To me, that's Barack Hussein Obama, right down to the bone marrow.

    The fact that a NOTHINGNESS like Obama could have been elected and RE-ELECTED (!) does indeed betray the fact that too many of us (especially the ~50% that takes 'welfare-suck' from the government) have been turned into little more than craven, dumbed-down parasitic "proles"! Man... we could have one hell of a discussion on "1984", couldn't we...?

    But, yeah, I thought barging into Iraq was a terrible idea -- especially when Idiot "W" Bush decided that we should stay there, blow hundreds of billions of dollars, get thousands of American military personnel killed, and become mired in (as you accurately compare it) another damned "Vietnam". The whole concept of 'nation-building' a 'Jeffersonian-style Democracy' in ANY Islamic country was beyond stupid! Indeed, "Orwell could not have dreamed up such a catastrophe."

    But, Vet, while you're busy throwing rocks at Trump, please be fair enough to reflect on the fact that your wonderous President Messiah did not (NOT) terminate the involvement of the United States in either Iraq OR Afghanistan. He promised he would do so in the 2008 campaign, along with a lot of other things, but it was all a lie. Why? Because Obama never was anything but a puppet and a stooge, running a Welfare State for central bankers who make up the REAL "Big Brother". Think about it....

    [​IMG]By Chuck Asay, as it appeared in the Colorado Springs Gazette, 10 Sep 2012.
     
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  10. VietVet

    VietVet Well-Known Member

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    I zeroed in with bold and underline the main points of disagreement.
    Even my sister, who HATES Obama and is 150% GOP, had to agreed with me that Obama was "clean" and free of scandal. I cannot equate Obama with the foul mouth, serial adulterer in morality. Obama was under scrutiny for 8 years and there was nothing found that was corrupt - with Trump one has to look hard to find something NOT corrupt.
    Next, there is a huge difference between ignorance and inexperience. Both are/were inexperienced on the world stage, but in no way was Obama as ignorant as Trump has proved to be.
    Lastly, even Bimbo Bush went to the White House Correspondents dinner and took being the butt of jokes - as did Obama - Trump cannot accept ANY criticism. He is incredibly vindictive - people who didn't back him can't be part of his regime - even if they are the best qualified and 100% GOP. Many of his lies have to do with things relating to crowd size - like at his Harrisburg rally - nobody except him cares - and he does care - in his mind, he has to hear "Hail Caesar!" in a deafening roar. ALL politicians have big egos, an infantile ego is one that can't take criticism. Trump has the maturity of a snarky high-school cheerleader.
     
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    Saddam and Osama dislike White Citizens in forum.....
     
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    Obama is fifht best president ever or in eight Place after Truman, Nixon, Ford, Reagan, Clinton, GW and Trump facts about.....
     
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  13. Pollycy

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    No big disagreement with what you've said, honestly. Trump never was "my guy", Vet -- but he definitely was the classic 'lesser-of-two-evils'.
    Back on topic (sort of), if I were being paid to attack Democrats, I could do so with such ease, as anybody could who's been paying attention.

    Hilarity Clinton was possibly the only candidate the Democrats could have come up with who was WORSE than Obama. Obama flat-out broke the law at least three times in five years, and he lied (LIED) about terminating American involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan. He even lied about closing Gitmo (which I was never in favor of), when he could have do so very easily.

    Hilarity? Her crimes against national security and classified information should have had her standing in a court room long before now, but the Clintons' friend (from w-a-y back in Arkansas days), FBI Director James Comey, and Obama's AG, Loretta Lynch, made sure that didn't happen, even though "the evidence was piled to the ceiling and spilling out the windows" (my phrase).

    Moving on, the criminal syndicate she created with her sycophants in the State Department made a virtual whorehouse out of it, granting special consideration to wealthy international donors to the "Clinton Foundation", but she got completely away with that, too, even though it was SO plain to see exactly what happened.

    None of this makes me a Trump "fan-boy", though. You have no idea how much I wish he would get the hell off of 'Twitter', and THINK clearly, all the way through an issue, BEFORE he makes his 'pronouncements' on them. I'm grateful that he's prevented the installation of any more hyperliberal, ultra-partisan trash on the Supreme Court, but I want him to do a LOT better in many other areas, too.

    You see, I really could write this kind of thing, and I'd be pretty good at it, too. What I haven't figured out is how to get PAID to do it... especially since I criticize both the Left and the Right....
     
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  14. VietVet

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    Your "stuff" about Obama and Hillary is fiction, suitable for the National Enquirer - possibly Hannity or Limbaugh - or Breitbart - someplace with no qualms about accuracy.
     
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    I'd prefer he payed well..
     
  16. Pollycy

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    Oh, no, Vet... I could do as I have already done many times over the past year and provide exact information, quotes, and links to stories that even you would have to accept as accurate saying that Obama broke the law, and, that Hillary Clinton broke laws regarding national security and classified information. Oh, and have you already forgotten the eye-popping stories about Huma Abedin and that other moron in Hilarity's State Department falling all over themselves to give special attention to a wealthy African (?) donor to the "Clinton Foundation"? My biggest complaint is that Jeff Sessions hasn't already gone after the whole rotten, stupid, corrupt bunch of them like an avenging angel... that much is very disappointing. He could have all of them, including Hilarity Clinton, charged with specific crimes before sunset if he'd get off his ass and DO so....

    Nevertheless, there's a point at which I won't do your homework for you anymore. The information is THERE, but you and your cohort decided that you don't want to see what you don't want to see. Now, you can either go back and read my old posts going back to about the time that Comey let Hilarity off the hook by declaring, without any legal grounds for doing so, that Hilarity had not acted with "INTENT", and that therefore no charges should be brought against her, or you can just forget it. SHE BROKE THE LAW, Vet, whether you want to admit it or not. Do you know what a SCIF is? Neither, evidently, did Hilarity.... Start there....

    Obama breaking the law? Three quick hints: 1. Broke War Powers Act overthrowing the legitimate government of Libya and turning it over to Islamo-Nazis -- who control it to this day! 2. Illegal "Recess Appointments". Even Obama's stooges on the Supreme Court had to say, flat-out, that his action was ILLEGAL. 3. Illegal prisoner-swap out of Gitmo. This was a law that Obama himself had signed INTO law just a few months before!

    Just when I think that maybe we at least have some basis for understanding, I'm reminded again that you aren't interested in anything that contradicts your rosy delusion that everything Democrat is somehow automatically "good", and that everything else is "bad", inaccurate, or deliberately false and evil. Without any willingness for each of us to face faults in our own partisan beliefs, we'll never arrive at a point where we can even work together, and that's exactly where this country is today. And, where it will remain... until we finally destroy ourselves from within....

    [​IMG]. Somebody should give these old T-shirts to Hillary Clinton and Obama!
     
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    Just_a_Citizen Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Not doublespeak at all. The site pushed no agenda, other than allowing for member agenda's to be presented.... BY those with their agendas.
     
  18. perdidochas

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    I see what you're saying now. So you do agree with me that putting out an opinion is pushing an agenda.
     
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    Well, opinion pieces can be pushing an agenda, I guess anyone's opinion is helped along in the formation stages, by whatever agenda a person has in offering it.

    I don't necessarily agree that the expression of one's opinion, is directly pushing an agenda.

    So, to encapsulate.
    Yes, and No.
     
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    I'm like a lot of others. I've never known of anyone to be paid nor have I been paid, but for pay I could possibly be swayed if I like the issue.
     
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    Greataxe Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    You would only get that pay living on Fantasy Island.
     
  23. For Topical Use Only

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    I own that too.
     
  24. Daniel Light

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    I make $250,000 a year posting on political sites ... send me $250.00 and I'll share my secrets.




    Or maybe that was $2.50 a year ... doesn't matter - send me the $250.00 and I'll share my secrets.
     
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    RPA1 Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    The word is PAID guys!!! OK carry on.
     

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