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Trump team claims 250,000 watched military parade. ‘No Kings’ events drew 4 million
(www.independent.co.uk)
The "No Kings" events drew A LOT more than 4 million.
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G. Elliot Morris on Bluesky did a breakdown of the numbers and his very conservative, low-end number was 4mil. Top end was 6mil.
What's his methodology?
He counted them
Not all. 5 million is an undercount from what I saw.
What’s your methodology?
it was revealed to me in a dream
Oh shit, we can’t doubt the prophecy.
Alt National Parks usually have good counts. They say 12.1
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Source? Everything I read said 4-5 iirc
50501 has reported ~~11~~ 12.1 Million.
ETA Source: https://50501.chat/post/338144
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If he claims that number then the real number closer to 2500.
I’m guessing 30-60k, based on the density of participants and their initial estimates on crowd size. They expected 200k and most seats were empty as they grew more distant. Why would you prepare for 5-10x your projected crowd? No, they just had a poor showing between the weather and the approval rating.
Because a lot of actually-cool trolls signed up for the parade with no intention of actually attending
I did my part!
That’s genius lol
10x more people just trolling than actual attendees.
I'd almost bet they wanted the fake sign ups to happen too, just to have a fake number to point to. I do love the spirit of fucking with their resources though.
not to mention, I saw a news report where people went to the parade just because of their ties to the army, and not to see the presidential nonsense.
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The population of the DC metro area is about 6.3 million people.
Even as an embellished number, 250k is weak sauce.
For comparison:
The Bristol Day Parade (longest continually running 4th of July parade in the US) draws around 200k, and that's in fucking Rhode Island with a paltry 1m population. And Rhode Islanders don't like long drives or traffic. I'm 40, lived in RI/SEMA my whole life, and never went.
Macy's Thanksgiving Parade draws 2.5M. 1M spend NYE in Times Square.
It's on the wrong side of the bay. I'm not going all that way for a fucking parade.
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Long drives and Rhode Island are mutually exclusive.
I’ll bet he’s seething today. Like ketchup on the walls, needing 20+ diaper changes seething. Probably didn’t sleep last night because he was glued to the teevee, clicking through news reports and getting angrier by the minute at the coverage.
Whomever runs interference was likely up all night trying to find favourable articles to print to placate him during his briefing this morning, and it didn’t work. They probably had to dodge a hurled half-empty Diet Coke as they scurried away.
His narcissistic injury must be yuge. I hope it was. (Though we’ll all pay for it soon, this image is worth it.)
(e come to think of it, we’d be better off if he had an actual jester. I totally get the point of them now.)
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They're probably including people watching online or on TV. Which makes those numbers even more pathetic.
Yeah compared to a grassroots risky protest against a militant wannabe dictator with the morning starting off with political murders by the opponent.
I saw all kinds of people protesting in the least likely areas. One image burned into my brain from Saturday was a solemn older couple, walking alone, she hunched over with a walker, him walking beside her, with a no kings sign and a billowing American flag in the sunlight. I was afraid to protest and almost started crying when I drove by.
I will NEVER forget that sight.
They know it was barely 20.000. they know. They could never admit it ofcourse.
And the "not admitting and not wanting to be truthfull" is the whole problem.
I'm afraid it might mean that the next demonstration will need to become slightly more forcefull. And more forcefull after that.
Right until they acknowledge the legitimate concerns... Or they are removed...
Apparently 90% of Trump parade's attendees were wearing very good camoflage, or maybe advanced army stealth technology!
Bots have a hard time with in person events it seems
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The crowd for trump’s parade didn’t even top 10,000 people
I doubt those numbers for the simple reason trump always lies about how many attended his narcissistic supply events.
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Looks like there's a lot more real Americans than traitors in this country.
Time to take the gloves off and let them know it.
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More than 10 times ? Good for No Kings.
How many of them were there willingly?
Like that even matters to rapists.
Or for free, I’m sure many of them will be crying when Trump doesn’t pay the thousand bucks
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That has way less views than even an old episode of "Friends".
What a surprise, he and his people inflate the numbers. Surprised they didn't say, "Largest attendance for a military parade in history!"
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