Shilling For The Democrats

Affordability.

Every leftie running for office is talking about it.

Social media is suddenly saturated with sad stories of folks barely making ends meet and blaming it all on - who else - Donald Trump.

What these seemingly sincere posters don’t tell you is that they’re being paid to make these videos. In other words, they’re actors.

Don’t take my word for it. Here’s The New York Times with a piece headlined “An Army of Paid Creators Is Carpeting the Web With Political Content. Unlike celebrity influencers with large followings, these creators produce a blizzard of videos for a fraction of the cost of traditional online campaigns and, in the process, shift public conversation.

Early this year, Project Bullhorn, a Democratic-aligned venture that has said it wants to combat right-wing dominance on social media, turned to SideShift to seek out “U.G.C. creators to speak on the rising crisis of affordability around the United States ahead of the 2026 midterms,” according to a job posting on the site. 

Initially, it offered $30 per video, but the affordability crisis apparently hit Project Bullhorn as well: That rate recently dropped to $25, the job listing showed.

The Times identified more than 100 social media accounts that took part in Project Bullhorn’s campaign by analyzing the activity of thousands of content creators who signed up with SideShift.

The videos they produced featured creators talking about the high cost of food, fuel and housing around the country; few disclosed they were paid for their posts.

What Project Bullhorn and other shadowy groups that pay for content know, is that when a Greek chorus “organically” rises up on social media, it influences how people think.

And vote.

It’s also dishonest as hell. None of these creators point out that inflation hit 9.5% during the Biden years and today’s more modest inflation is merely piling on already-high prices.

They certainly don’t point out that, according to September 2026 data from the U.S. Census Bureau, inflation-adjusted median household income reached a record high of $87,460 in 2025. A 2.6% increase over 2024. Oh, and the U.S, poverty rate dropped to a historic low of 10.2% in 2025.

This tsunami of videos flooding TikTok, Instagram, and X share a single goal: to get angry voters to the polls to take out their rage on the party in control: Republicans.

Here’s a NYT example:

Judging from his TikTok feed, Drew was struggling to get by as a young man living near Dallas. Grocery bills were skyrocketing, he said, and he was looking for thrift stores to help keep costs down.

In reality, according to his LinkedIn profile, Drew was a man from Utah named Alex Forrester, who said he was now in Florida. “All of it was paid for,” he said in a video posted in late June, which was later deleted. “I don’t even live in Texas,” adding an expletive.

While everyone is wringing their hands over AI, America is getting played by leftist social media creators with iPhones, scripts and cold cash.