Mostly Peaceful, But Genuinely Stupid Protests by the Left

<![CDATA[Protests used to be really something in America. Back in the anti-war 70s, college kids and young adults were protesting continued U.S. involvement in Vietnam, and it was effective enough to alter the direction of the country. Those same hippies are now grandparents and great-grandparents, if they're still alive. You might guess that a lot of their grandkids are the ones protesting Elon Musk and Tesla, Donald Trump, ICE, and whatever else they think is wrong. But that doesn't seem to be the case most of the time. Many are foreign nationals here on a student visa. A lot of them are paid protesters.  At Republican Congresscritter town halls all over the country, rooms are filled with people funded and Astroturfed in by left-wing advocacy groups. In Wisconsin over the weekend, Elon and a few Trump cabinet members appeared in their personal capacities to get out the vote in the Wisconsin Supreme Court battle between Republican Judge Brad Schimel and Dane County leftist Judge Susan Crawford. Musk offered two different $1 million dollars prizes for people that attended the rally. Wisconsin's Democratic Attorney General, Josh Kaul, sued to keep that from happening, but the courts did not give him the relief he sought, and the giveaway ensued. When the protesters at the rally began disrupting, Musk noted that it was inevitable that the George Soros contingent would be present. While a lot of the talent from the Trump get out of the vote effort in 2024 have become cheeseheads the last couple of weeks to drive up turnout, Democrats in the Badger state chose a different way of protesting - by running over Schimel yard signs before losing control of their car. ]]>