Over 20,000 in San Diego. And the cops commended us on the way the protest was run.
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Over 80,000 is what the organizers said at the protest.
I did my part. And yeah, we had tons of people
Why did they choose a picture that looks like the us is on fire? Propaganda much?
For the same reason they described it as ”New York and Philadelphia plus some small towns”, instead of “over 2,000 cities and towns”
I attended the rally in Madison today. It was a large and enthusiastic crowd, estimated at over 15,000. There was a lot of anger, but it was all directed toward positive ends. The protest was peaceful and non-destructive.
I have to give credit to the State Troopers who provided security for the event. They got right everything the police in LA have gotten wrong. Our police were pleasant, helpful, and low-key.
There was a good lineup of speakers. One of was a reporter and author named John Nichols who has written several books with Bernie Sanders. He arranged for Bernie to speak to the rally by phone.
I left feeling more positive than I have for quite a while. It's easy to feel helpless, and the authoritarians are doing their best to promote that feeling. Being part of a huge crowd with a common goal makes fixing this mess seem possible.
Checking in from Ca, great turnout all around the North Bay area. Very kind and supportive people all around. We are standing and marching for a better way forward.
Edit: Drove through some small towns too on the way home and the turnout was amazing in those communities, too. Lots of civically minded and caring folks helping people stay safe and cool in the summer heat as well. Wonderful turnout across all generations.
Nice! I was in Palo Alto today. The sidewalk on Embarcadero was packed from El Camino all the way to Rinconada park. Great turnout. I heard there was a line of people along El Camino from the Palo Alto Telsa dealer to the Sunnyvale Tesla dealer as well but we didn't check that out.
Contrast this with NYT, USA Today, or WaPo, who are downplaying it with headlines that say "thousands" or "tens of thousands" protesting.
There were over 2000 protest locations alone. Thousands would mean that an average of 1-5 people showed up at each location which you can find plenty, plenty, plenty of photos to prove otherwise. For instance, you can find places with hundreds turning out in deep red small towns
My town had hundreds at several intersections. People rotating in and out all day. Cars constantly blaring horns. Just a little suburb.
My town was thousands. It was very inspiring
Edit: yep, I’m seeing estimates of 2,000 for my town
No way it was only thousands. My city was easily thousands alone. Maybe tens of thousands but it was too many for me to estimate clearly.
My smallish downtown had 5 thousand confirmed.
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I wonder what the total was and if we made it to 3.5 %
One group's estimate is least 11 million, which is at the 3.5% figure and they are still counting! Been rising hourly by millions as they continue to count the thousands of protest locations
The 3.5% is not necessarily the full iron clad guarantee it's touted as, but the high turnout is encouraging. Keep the pressure up!
Also, 3.5% was based on ongoing civil resistance campaigns with clear goals... so I don't know that participation in a singular rally applies.
Get 11 million people to participate in actively disrupting ICE activities or striking then you are cooking. But it's a start.
11 million civilians would overwhelm even the best guarded places on earth, let alone an ice raid.
Edit: to prove that point, 11 million people suddenly joining the Ukrainian army would overwhelm the entire front and could easily push them back to 2014 borders. And this is true regardless of logistics, which would become an issue later, but a surge of 11 million people would push so hard and so fast that even with a minimum loadout and just infantry, not including drones and logistics, just 11 million semi-trained people with small arms, and 7 magazines (standard us load) would so quickly overwhelm the Russians that any logistics (other than food and housing) would be mostly inconsequential. It would be THAT big and overwhelming... D-Day was ~160k.
And now I realize you might mean spread out over the country lol. 11 million people in an uproar in one city would be absolutely devastating.
And now I realize you might mean spread out over the country lol. 11 million people in an uproar in one city would be absolutely devastating.
No, this is the best use of 11 million people, it was perfect, beautiful and intimidatingly encompassing in the way only love can be.
Haha sure I meant across the country though, not in one place.
Get that number of people involved in a general strike that lasts a week or more and things will change in this country.
I've heard anywhere from 7 to 11 million.
I was there. It was nice seeing so many people out, and I personally loved hearing people chant fuck Donald Trump.
wow today was so joyous, thank you all!
NYC had good turnout despite the rain.
Where I'm from, hundreds showed up and only about 8 counter-protested.
They were being herded, too. The bitches.
If all these people voted for someone else, Trump would not be our president. WAIT!
Some people who voted for Trump have repented and joined the movement for democracy in America.
But also, there are serious doubts about the integrity of the 2024 elections and a nontrivial possibility that Trump didn't win the election.
Yep. Important to not assume the election was fraudulent. But there is a case filed to interrogate some anomalous results in at least some districts. It's definitely possible that foul play was involved.
Some reasons to suspect foul play:
https://www.planetcritical.com/p/cyber-security-experts-warn-election-hacked
https://thiswillhold.substack.com/p/she-won-they-didnt-just-change-the
If it turns out to be fraudulent, I expect he will immediately step down, and everybody ruling, EO, and anything in-between that his administration has made will be immediately made null and void, and the person who actually won will assume office...oh, and then he gets to visit the inside of a prison where he belongs.
😂 good one. We're all fucked because republicans are allowing this fascistic charade to continue to happen.
The fucking traitors know exactly what's happening, and they hate America enough to actively ignore it.
They won't do their jobs until forced to.
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I said essentially this last night and was down voted to hell lol apparently I needed the sarcasm.
I wasn't being sarcastic, I was being hopeful.
That was sarcasm?
It's Trump. You know, the adjudicated serial rapist (Inmate #P01135809).
There was foul play.
There was objectively foul play, the real question is if it was enough to turn the election.
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Doubtful. It’s a lot for a protest but not for an election.
What percentage of these people do you think voted for Trump in the first place?
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What is planned after this ?
Party at the moon tower, full kegs, everybody's gonna be there. You ought to go.
Pray to his god we see M-1 and stic.man happen before it becomes too late.
I dunno, the M2 comp is pretty sick. If we could get that in a convertible version and shed like 400 lbs, it'd be a must-buy.
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