I won’t waste your time with some long-winded preamble. Let’s just cut to the chase. We’re currently being inundated with ‘news’ stories about big crowds of people showing up for Bernie Sanders rallies and these spontaneous protests of Telsa. Now, this is America, and people are certainly allowed to protest. Or rally. Whatever. More and more, though, we’re being told about paid protester and rent a riots. Which leads to this: What is a rent a riot? Is that a real thing?

Let’s get into all of it. How can cell phones give us insight to who is attending rallies? What about the signs they hold up? And if these crowds aren’t organic, who’s paying? And is all of this rent a riot business just a bunch of B.S? These are the questions we want answers to.

This is America, we’re allowed to disagree. But cooking the books is frowned upon.

Let’s start off with the idea of a Rent A Riot.

Now check out this theory about Bernie Sanders events and cell phone data. That’s a lot of rallies these folks are attending!

Maybe the just follow Bernie around like Grateful Dead fans?

Now let’s talk about the Tesla protest events. Why would you protest and not want to talk about why you were there? That strikes me as odd, to put it mildly.

And who’s buying the signs? Who’s footing the tab, there and why scrub the internet of your group and what it does?

Something seems fishy. These ‘spontaneous’ protests feel ‘off’ to me and my spidey senses are tingling. Looks like investors smell a rat too. Tesla Stock is still humming right along. Free speech is an awesome thing. And free speech on the internet gets us all closer to the truth. It will be good to know if these are rent a riots or actual protests.