The “No Kings” events drew A LOT more than 4 million.
G. Elliot Morris on Bluesky did a breakdown of the numbers and his very conservative, low-end number was 4mil. Top end was 6mil.
Highest estimate I’ve heard is 13M. Can’t back it up, but I wouldn’t be surprised. There were 100 in my little town, and we got way more honks of support than rude fingers.
Source? Everything I read said 4-5 iirc
Just the multiplier alone - take any individual protest and multiply it by over 2,000 … gets big fast.
I actually had five very convenient choices
- should I go into Boston for the big one, to really showcase our strength?
- should I goto Lexington for the historical context, the commemorating the start of the revolutionary war, throwing off the yoke of the king?
- should I goto my ex’s town, if she had the kids?
- should I goto the nearby town threats a collection of malls, make a day of it and get shopping done?
- no, I’ll goto to MY town, stand up with MY town. We had a couple thousand very enthusiastic protesters in MY town and it was awesome
Even Salem had a huge crowd, and I was there at 10am - people started walking with signs.
The magic number to reach the 3.5% “Tipping Point” is about 12 million. We didn’t hit that on No Kings day, but we did pretty well. With protests scattered around the country, it’s hard to have an accurate count, but the massive crowds in large cities across America have to be intimidating to the MAGA Nazis.
It’s important to understand that while they want to have 12 million VISIBLE protesters, there are MANY more resistors at home who would never attend a protest for various reasons. Those people are still resistors in their own way, even if it’s just staying free of conservative propaganda and voting Democrat. Then there are people like me, who are unlikely to go to a demonstration, but actively oppose the MAGA Nazis online, in forums like Lemmy.
Add the keyboard warriors to the physical protesters, and that 3.5%/ 12 million Tipping Point looks a lot closer.
If he claims that number then the real number closer to 2500.
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…
I heard it was only 8647 people that showed…
/s
If you subtract the military personal who were ordered to attend, that sounds like a very reasonable guess. Maybe they could get swag like the 1%ers. Hats and T-shirts with “I’m one of the 8647 TRUE Americans!”
Somebody please do this.
They’re probably including people watching online or on TV. Which makes those numbers even more pathetic.
The crowd for trump’s parade didn’t even top 10,000 people
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
Personal cloaking devices.
I doubt those numbers for the simple reason trump always lies about how many attended his narcissistic supply events.
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.
More than 10 times ? Good for No Kings.
What a surprise, he and his people inflate the numbers. Surprised they didn’t say, “Largest attendance for a military parade in history!”
