I know people bring this up often, but reporters really should follow up on claims like this — whether repeated by Republicans or Democrats — with "do you have any evidence to prove that the protesters were paid?"
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Aaron Rupar
Sen. Roger Marshall on Medicaid demonstrators: "My guess is they're probably hired to do that ... everybody is on a sugar high the last four years because of covid, and it's hard to come off that sugar high."
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Surely, with all the millions of payments, one disgruntled protestor has decided to go public.
Surely
Show us the W-4 forms the protesters had to sign.
Show the 1099s from 2024 sent to those wheelchair people .
Have an undercover old person go to a protest and collect his Soros wages. Chuck Grassley could be the infiltrated.
#roger
Elon Musk lies about almost everything
Have you gone to X lately?
Bizarre statements
Incoherent repetition of obviously stupid claims
No wonder
Tesla is failing
Mars will never be.
Is a flash story to bedazzle the weak minded
Millions of us have been paid.
'Covid' feels like a century ago at this point with the daily assaults of bullshittery since January 20
The skill of the interview and actually listening to the answer your subject gives you as opposed to having 5 canned questions and just asking them
Obfuscation, projection, and whataboutism makes their font of inane pap much more sustainable as nothing is ever solved or agreed to.
They're stenographers, nothing more.
They literally tell Republicans what to say.
Was he trying to be funny? You know, those lives have been on a sugar high for four years?
Sometimes I’m very literal so I missed the intent when I read something.
Sugar high! What an absolute disgrace to his Constituents, his State, his Country!
Ignorance reigns in the GOP ! All for the likes of a common thief! 🤮
Remember #FirstDoNoHarm? That is all you and your @GOP colleagues seem to be able to do.
We see through your lies.
https://x.com/atrupar/status/1922644836374511819
“Senator, you say you ‘guess.’ So you don’t have any proof that these people are paid, correct? You’re just making that claim up.”
flies away into the atmosphere, unasked.