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Birds don’t chirp for free

Opinions - 19.01.17 22:47

From RusNext. Русская Весна

In fact, it is, perhaps, even logical. It is sort of flight of the boomerang. But it still sounds pretty funny.

The Washington Times, quite respectable to publish explicit «ducks», informs amazed readers that people ready to participate in paid protests against the President-Elect of the United States, Donald Trump, are offered a monthly $ 2,500 reward plus an hourly fee for the personal participation in the events at the rate of $ 50 hour. At the same time, there is an important condition of taking part in no less than six performances a year. 

The Washington Times publishes very concrete examples of ads placed online by profile companies and organizations. Such as the Californian Demand Protest, positioning itself right at this very peculiar market as, literally, ‘the largest private organization in the US to ensure the grass-roots support’.

Surprisingly, in the United States themselves, this publication is not taken as sensational. Well, there is such an organization. Why not? 

Moreover, this quite a «dusty» job is offered in such pretty serious places as Washington, San Diego, Columbus, Austin, San Francisco, Charlotte, Colorado Springs, Denver, Detroit, El Paso, Fort Worth, Jacksonville, Oakland, Oklahoma City, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Seattle and Tulsa. 

The funniest thing is that, according to the advertisements already posted in twenty states of the country, «activists» are even provided with medical insurance. Only ‘full-time employed workers’, though. Perhaps, to protect them from losses after the imminent abolition of the ‘main achievements’ of the domestic policy pursued by the previous administration, namely the Obamacare so hated by Trump. 

Suddenly, you involuntarily believe the President-Elect of the United States, who complained during the campaign that his opponents from the ‘democratic camp’, whose meetings were attended by few people, provided a paid turnout at them.

However, the publication itself does not rule out that the ads could turn out to be ‘fraudulent’, but there is no smoke without fire, as we know. At the same time, it is not clear how exactly such «fraud» is realized. 

Well, let's say, like indignant «democratic globalists», that Trump himself paid for these ads. But for what purpose? What could be the purpose of such an obvious and stupid provocation: to show how helpless and stupid his opponents are? What's the point? He has already won, and they have already «shown» everything. They have shown everything, in particular, by the fact of the recent publication of ‘Russian sexual compromise’ which is healthy laughed at all over the world. And not only the «civilized» world. 

In addition, the «style» of these provocations somehow suits more opponents of Donald Trump who, despite his eccentricities, looks like a very respectable man against their background.

Personally, I would still proceeded from the fact that if someone has four legs, a tail, a brazen whiskered snout and can meow, you should not wonder who is here pretending to be a cat so brazenly. Because, you know, a cat is a cat. 

There is yet another observation. Seeing the abundance of Hollywood stars, including Alec Baldwin and Mark Ruffalo, who are going, according to their statements, to join the ‘protest against the inauguration of Trump’ in person, you can not help wondering. For, as shown by the recent historical experience, these birds stopped both chirping and singing for free, long ago.

Dmitry Lekukh