From the Theater of the Absurd file—and we’re going to need a warehouse at this point—comes a headline so perfectly on-brand for the modern American left, it feels like a Babylon Bee article.
We’ve joked, we’ve mocked, we’ve meme’d about “rent-a-mobs” for years. Turns out, they’re real. And not just a little real. I’m talking $20 million worth of real.
According to Fox News, the CEO of an “advocacy group” admitted on video that he offered another activist $20 million—twenty million actual American dollars—to help recruit protesters for anti-Trump demonstrations. Let me spell that out again slowly for the people in the back: these clowns tried to buy a mob. Not a political movement. Not a grassroots uprising. A literal checkbook-funded temper tantrum.
That’s not outrage on demand. It’s the literal equivalent of buying human bots and followers… in person.
This wasn’t some punk in a dorm room with a megaphone. This was a self-described organization for “social change” trying to buy anger and outrage on demand.
That’s not democracy. That’s fraud. And it’s also proof that the left has nothing left.
Their claim? President Trump is “rolling back civil rights by historic levels.”
Reality? The exact opposite. Trump delivered real, tangible civil rights advancements:
- Black and Hispanic unemployment hit record lows.
- Wages rose, especially for the working class.
- Real criminal justice reform passed—something these rent-a-mob operatives could only daydream about during the Obama years.
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But facts don’t matter to the professional grievance industry. If reality doesn’t match the narrative, they just buy a new one.
And guess what? It’s not working.
I reported yesterday that because of President Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill—OBBB for short—every man, woman, and child in America is poised to see a personal raise of $4,000–$12,000 in the coming year.
That’s not some campaign promise. That’s math. Real, spendable, keep-your-family-fed math.
Meanwhile, on the left:
- Hakeem Jeffries is droning on for eight hours straight in Congress, moving exactly zero Americans with his filibuster cosplay.
- California’s idiot governor and mayors are issuing orders so absurd they make Soviet Russia look competent.
- And now, leftist advocacy groups are exposing each other’s scams live in prime time.
Let me say that again: the $20 million rent-a-mob offer wasn’t exposed by a conservative sting operation. It was leaked by another activist. The grifters are ratting each other out now. That’s how desperate things have gotten.
You know why? Because they know they’re losing. And badly.
Rent-a-mob culture isn’t new. But watching it collapse this publicly feels like a new low.
Think about it: If the Biden administration had half the results that Trump’s presidency produced, they wouldn’t need to pay people to protest. Americans would show up on their own.
Instead, we get this theater:
- TikTok influencers pretending to care.
- Professional protesters cashing fat checks.
- Fake outrage on loop.
This isn’t activism. It’s a sad, bloated industry that doesn’t know how to make payroll anymore.
You know who isn’t showing up for a check?
- The mom paying lower grocery bills today.
- The dad who just got a bonus because his small business taxes went down.
- The family actually seeing hope again instead of more government dependence.
Those folks don’t need rent-a-mob cash. They’ve got something better: real results, real dignity, real opportunity.
And that’s the part that drives the left insane.
When Americans are winning, they don’t need to scream in the street. And the left can’t stand that. So they throw money at the problem—$20 million at a time—hoping to fake a movement that doesn’t exist.
Here’s the truth: The rent-a-mob isn’t just a joke. It’s a scam. And this time, they got caught.
Epic fail indeed.
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