Timothy Birdnow

A lucid discussion about No Kings and Shutdowns by three clever birds here in the Aviary:

Bill H. points out:

It is claimed that 7 million people attended these protests, which amounts to about 2% of the population. I have to say that I do not find 2% to be particularly impressive.

Dana Mathewson adds:

I wonder if it's 7 million total attendance, or 7 million estimated attendance based on the published pictures, which are mostly showing just concentrated areas of crowds, while much of the remaining area is sparsely populated.

Tim replies:

I hear ya Bill!

Good point Dana; there is no official counter. In fact the media was reporting this number which came from the organizers of the protest, according to NBC. I have no doubt it is WAY too large.

Chuck U. and company are digging in their heels on this shutdown and the Democrats want to frighten the little bunny rabbits in the GOP with this big protest; they know they'll believe the numbers and flee from Trump and the MAGA types.

Make no mistake; the shutdown is about more than just Schumer's fear of AOC. He knows that the GOP has always taken the blame IN MEDIA POLLING and that the GOP was utterly destroyed by the shutdown during the Clinton years; in fact, it ended the Contract with America. Schumer wants to do this again, get the GOP to surrender and then they are his bitches for a generation. This protest was about more than the shutdown of course but the shutdown is a vehicle to get the Democrats out of the penalty box and so are these inflated numbers.

Bill, as you say, it's just 2% and if it was really a mass movement why did Trump win in the first place? Why are his n umbers higher than most Presidents at this time in their presidency?

This thing was a giant gaslight, I believe.

Didn't Joe Biden "win" with about seven million phantom votes in 2020, votes which disappeared in the '24 election?I suspect many of these protesters were the "folks" who voted for Biden in '20 who were so difficult to trace.

BTW Hannity read an advertisement to get people to come to the protests and they were offering a luxury bus with food and no doubt booze to take people there. There was probably a stipend too; we need to find out who was funding this as it was clearly not an organic thing.

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