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Not sure I believe that number. But hell, I can't estimate crowds to save my life. At one point I was in the largest rock concert of all time, still have no clue.
All I can say is the one I went to easily had 2,000. And that's in the reddest part of Florida, and only 1 of 2 protests in Pensacola.
Not sure if I'm misunderstanding you here... But the number from this post is for the stupid military parade in DC with the tanks, not the no kings protests. I've seen claims that there were over 6 million attendees for those.
So 8 highschools. That's pretty good. A well known Mexican Pueblo doesn't even match that by at least 5 or 6 more people for Sunday church.
My highschool was more than 2000 people. And it was so new that our first semester was on two different campuses and they were still building int around us for another two years when we did move in.
Now I live in a very different area. The localist mega church gets 17,000+ butts in seats each week.
8500 people is less than normal tourism on a Saturday for DC. It was actually a net negative for attendance over just a normal day.
Four public high schools in my city and their combined attendance is over 9000
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Nah, it was bigger than Obama’s inauguration.
I told my partner, and she asked "Does that include the band?"
Jesus. That's way lower than the generous estimate I considered credible enough from /r/theydidthemath yesterday.
Unfortunately, there after a lot of photoshopped/ generated / cut images so it is really hard to tell if there were many people on trump's show. I wished people would post the real photos instead of such obviously fake shit.
So, according to Trump after he's told that number, "millions and millions and millions, a parade like you've never seen! Streets overflowing! Yuge! Tremendous! The biggest and bestest parade of all time, I'd say! Putin and Kim were seeing it on their big screens, they called me just to tell me how beautiful of a parade mine was, and asked for advice on how to improve theirs! - I just know they must've had tears in their eyes seeing my big beautiful parade".
All while frantically playing his imaginary accordion. 🤡
I'm sure he was playing with something while talking to Putin but I doubt it was an accordion.
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Where is the 8,647 number coming from? I don't believe it was 250k, but I don't believe 8,647 either.
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Ah, right.
Not to judge, but that "crowd" looks a bit, uh, frumpy.
The saddest trombone.
