In this episode, we talk about the Tesla boycott, the MAGA hats, and the fact that Elon Musk is a paid agitator. We also talk about paid protesters and the role they play in the anti-Tesla movement.
00:00:08.680I sent my friend Albie here to the Tesla boycott in Palo Alto.
00:00:12.240I was in Jamaica for like an anniversary trip at the time when this was going down.
00:00:16.020Then I sent another friend of mine to the one in Burbank.
00:00:18.720But yeah, it was kind of interesting like with the Tesla boycott movement.
00:00:21.680I see it as a broader offshoot of the anti-Elon stop the coup movement.
00:00:25.740But then at some point after that began, they started targeting Tesla factories directly.
00:00:30.660And their idea was that if they lower Tesla stock price, that will in turn take away from Elon's economic power, which would disempower Trump in some capacity.
00:00:40.200And again, this goes back to the Joker to me, because in the movie Joker, Elon would be Batman and Joker would be the guys that are going after him.
00:02:48.480There's always, you know, numbers that show up that some of these guys are paid agitators and paid protesters.
00:02:56.000When you've been out there, whether it's the Luigi Mangione or any of the other stuff, do you ever ask them the question or did you guys get paid to do this?
00:03:07.160Yeah, I don't think I've ever seen a paid protester.
00:03:09.960I mean, it's a narrative that gets pushed a lot, which makes sense because there is NGOs that organize protests, but they're making that decision to do the protest.
00:03:18.180Like, okay, there are groups that receive funding who decide themselves to protest, and they use some of that funding to do stuff like, you know, make signs.
00:03:26.700But they're still making the decision most of the time.
00:03:28.960It's not like someone like George Soros is like, hey, go over there and have a sign that says Elon sucks.
00:03:35.420It's them being genuinely upset and thinking, okay, cool, let's use some of this funding to do something.
00:03:41.140On the other hand, I have actually seen, though, paid protest groups go into places that are more radical like Portland and Seattle and disrupt, you know, more direct action movements.
00:03:51.720Like, for example, I remember in Portland, Oregon, during the crazy summer of 2020, there were organizations, I'm not going to say the name, that were basically paid by the city of Portland and the state itself to go into the protest groups and encourage nonviolence.
00:04:05.000So all the protest groups that I've seen that are paid are mostly, like, peacemakers that are represented by the state.
00:04:20.060During the AOC rally, they were like, hey, we had 34,000 people there.
00:04:23.600But GPS data analysis revealed that the number was closer to 20,000, still big but not record-breaking.
00:04:29.320And it continues saying a whopping 84% of the devices had shown up at at least nine other protests, including Antifa, BLM events, pro-Hamas, pro-Palestine demonstrations, and Kamala Harris campaigns.
00:04:41.84084% of them and over 30% of them had attended 20 or more.
00:04:52.340Data analysts say the crowd was anything but organic.
00:04:54.600The majority were tied to activist networks like Disruption Project, Indivisible, Democratic Socialists of America, Rise and Resist, and Troublemakers, all reportedly funded by ActBlue and some receiving backing by VIA, USAID, optics over authenticity.
00:05:10.840The playbook hasn't changed just the targets.
00:05:13.800Yeah, I was at the Bernie Sanders AOC rally doing some interviews three days ago in Bakersfield, California.
00:05:19.080And I just think there's a big difference between NGOs and political groups and parties that receive some level of funding and then decide to go to the events as opposed to, like, direct orders.
00:05:28.940The people who are showing up, they may be receiving some level of funding, you know, in a nebulous way, but they believe what they're doing.
00:05:35.840It's not as if when you say paid protester, it kind of suggests that they don't actually feel that way, that they're just showing up simply because they received orders from the person that's cutting them a check.
00:05:44.460I think there's a mix, and it's easy to cast them – it's easy especially when you disagree with someone to think they can't actually think that.
00:05:51.700But, you know, the Democratic Socialists of America, they are there with their clipboards asking people to donate and volunteer and sign up.
00:05:58.660But, you know, I think there's some element to organization.
00:06:01.120But a lot of people just – you know, the protest crowd is relatively small, and they show up to everything.
00:06:07.160Well, the same people that went to 2020 protests for George Floyd are the same people that were protesting Israel on college campuses are the same people who vote for AOC and Bernie.
00:06:15.520It's kind of like a – it's a demographic.
00:06:17.760You know, it's kind of like I'm willing to bet that a solid percentage of the people that showed up to a Trump rally here in Florida probably also have been to five or more Trump events in the past five years.
00:06:28.860Yeah, but that's different because what it says is if somebody's been to 20 or more, you don't have a life to go to 20 or more.
00:06:35.420It's impossible to go to 20 or more unless if you don't have a job.
00:06:39.680And if 34% have been to 20 or more, so maybe not majority, let's say 50% is real.
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