I read there was a job listing for professional protestors in the Austin Craigslist for that demonstration..
Of course the word professional can have more than one meeting.
I’m not surprised-those people gather like ants to a picnic-when the anti-war protests were hot in Austin when I was a teen, there were rent-a-mobs brought in from California in vans and chartered buses-you could get stoned second hand from the smoke wafting out when they opened up the doors, too...
And in the 2000 Bush/Gore fight, when some friends and I went to participate in the rallies in SA, we saw rent-a-mob drones with Gore signs getting out of vans with Cali plates, and also a charter bus-we all experienced deja vu- only the magic smoke was missing ...
Austin has gotten a reputation of putting out the welcome for hired mobs of liberal wackos...