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.
With a U.S. population of 340.11 million (Wikipedia number) that's 1.18 - 1.76%. That's... pretty pathetic considering what was being protested.
1 - 2 people out of every 100 in America stand against fascism, the rest... who knows?
Edit: at this rate more Americans will have downvoted my comments than bothered to say they're opposed to fascism. No wonder you elected a reality TV star with mush for brains as your leader. Well done, you took to the streets, but not enough of you, not while you're still free to do so. Get good or suffer the consequences. You've seen what's coming, do something about it. If only 1-2 out of 100 of you can be arsed to say no, then the jackboots will take that as a green light to do what they want. After that, getting more numbers to show up will become increasingly difficult. Now is your chance, seize it while you still can. Don't just clap yourself on the back, say "well done, we showed them" and go back to your day job as if life is back to normal. Do as the French do, keep protesting until your demands are met.
GTFO. It was the third largest in US history. For that many people to mobilize and organize in this country was something to be proud of, and I am the first to admit how cynical I am and unimpressed by the response we've made so far.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_protests_and_demonstrations_in_the_United_States_by_size
For context:
5% of the Italian population protested the Iraq war.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/15_February_2003_anti-war_protests
Approximately two million people joined their hands to form a human chain spanning 690 kilometres (430 mi) across the three Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, which at the time were occupied and annexed by the USSR and had a combined population of approximately eight million.[2]
That's 25% of the population.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltic_Way
3.3% of the Phillipines population protested in 1986 whilst under a dictatorship.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/People_Power_Revolution
Edit:
37.5% of the US population watched the Super Bowl in 2025 but less than 2% protested a fascist takeover of the country. Shows your priorities. The downvotes also really tell that your feels are hurt more than caring about the reals of the situation.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Bowl_television_ratings
Edit 2: 200k just marched in The Netherlands against genocide. That's 1.09% of their population marching for an issue that doesn't even personally affect them, because they have principles. But y'all can't even get double that for an issue that will personally effect the rest of your lives. Shame.
GTFO. They're waking up. Get over yourself.
4 years of the alarm ringing, a 4 year snooze, and then 6 months of the alarm ringing again is an awfully long time to take to wake up. All whilst living in the "richest" country in the world, with the freedom to carry guns, and say what you want. That's... Even more pathetic than I first thought.
Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed seeing the pictures and videos of thousands, millions, of people marching, but you can do better.
"3.3% is pathetic considering what they were protesting" 🙄 that's how you sound.
I mean you are including all babies and people in nursing homes and in prison and in the military and have jobs that they can't not go to and in psych facilities. Its still pathetic really but just pointing out using the whole population is a bit off. Also really rural is sorta hard. I can say the folks driving and being inconvenienced by it seemed jazzed and supportive in their honks and call outs (you can tell pissed off from alright) and there were folks in building windows shouting encouragement. I guess im saying I have seen protests get a lot less nice of reactions to people not in them.
Are you kidding me? When Minnesota’s were basically cancelled due to political violence and who knows how many people had to work? 1-2% of the entire population is fucking huge.
That's an absolutely huge amount of people.
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
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
50501 has reported ~~11~~ 12.1 Million.
ETA Source: https://50501.chat/post/338144
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.
Yeah that's the other thing. It's in Bristol!
That's practically Massachusetts! And not even like, Boston...it's like...Swansea. Suburban, nearly rural.
To get from Providence, you practically have to go into Massachusetts first.
To get from Warwick (where PVD airport is) or points south, you have to take the Pell bridge, which is a toll road, in addition to a bridge. Iirc, the only toll road in RI for 2-axle vehicles...so not a lot of people even really have EZPass. And you gotta cross the Jamestown Bridge first.
These are all things most Rhode Islanders loathe doing.
And yet despite that, it gets 80% of what Trump claimed his draw was. Pathetic.
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.)
come to think of it, we’d be better off if he had an actual jester. I totally get the point of them now.
Maybe that's what Elon was for. Unfortunately he sucked at his job.
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
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.
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.
That has way less views than even an old episode of "Friends".
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
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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