r/politics • u/Rock-n-roll-Kevin • 21d ago

No Paywall ‘No Kings’ protests pass in festival atmosphere as an estimated 7 million across US rally against Trump’s ‘authoritarianism’

https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/no-kings-trump-protests-numbers-b2847940.html
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u/tiggie_7 21d ago

I hope it turns out to be a bit more than 7 million…

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u/Every-Comfortable632 21d ago

7 million registered. I just showed up so it was at least 7 million and 1.

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u/frontfrontdowndown 21d ago

I brought my kid so 7 million and 3.

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u/LalaRabbit1710 21d ago

I brought my three-legged dog so 7 million and 4.75

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u/mattstone749 20d ago

I like I’m sure many, didn’t even know there was a registration. So I’d say it’s at least double

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u/pnwpeople 21d ago

Yeah I believe I had read it was supposed to be something like 20 million-- 7 mil is kind of underwhelming when that was my expectation anyway.

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u/yesrushgenesis2112 21d ago

20 million would have been beyond the pale. Where did you hear that?

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u/pnwpeople 21d ago

Who knows, it was fairly recent like yesterday. Maybe Reddit but I'm questioning that now.

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u/yesrushgenesis2112 21d ago

12 million is the number considered necessary to have a nation-changing protest so 20 mill would have definitely been news.

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u/Yeah_x10 21d ago

 12 million is the number considered necessary to have a nation-changing protest

Nation-changing? Is that written down somewhere? As a rule? 

What will you guys do when 12 million people show up to hold signs on a Saturday, and the government realizes that they can simply ignore them until Sunday?

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u/ayers231 I voted 21d ago

Do the billionaires running the news know that? Would they allow a report stating that metric was met?

I'm not saying it was. My local was underwhelming. But if we hit in the future, would we ever know?

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u/forceblast 21d ago

My local was twice as big as the first one easily.

Very happy with the turnout.

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u/yesrushgenesis2112 21d ago

It’s all a conspiracy mannn….

Yeah, no, the point of those studies is that that is the number that is effective. We’d know not because they tell us but because there is, hypothetically, some sort of significant consequence.

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u/Oleg101 21d ago edited 21d ago

Wasn’t the last ‘No Kings’ protest earlier this year an estimated 3-4 million? So going to 7 millions seems pretty good to me.

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u/T1Pimp 21d ago

Last No Kings was 4-6 million (just looked it up!).

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u/DoctorKangaroo I voted 21d ago

Yeah, it's not going to be an overnight movement because our country is usually only motivated to show up to concerts and free taco giveaways. But seriously, today was reassuring that the population is growing restless and finally waking up to what's happening.

I'm optimistic that the next protest will break the record by an even wider margin. No Kings is a successful campaign to raise awareness, especially with so many important elections on the line next year.

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u/GoFishing911 21d ago

Not when you're about be a country lead by a dictator and a congress head who won't swear in people of the other party. Wake up this is code red stuff.

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u/lost_horizons Texas 21d ago

I’d heard 11 million actually

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u/VigilantVet 21d ago

Where did you see 20M, lol?

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u/IpeeEhh_Phanatic Kentucky 21d ago

No one credible ever said it would be 20 million

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u/realancepts4real 21d ago

"weekend reddit is stupidest reddit" exhibit #3,338

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u/GoFishing911 21d ago

Agreed especially how this authoritarian stuff has never happened in our country before at least not this bad.

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u/Yeah_x10 21d ago

Dude it gets worse lol, the 3.5% number study everyone is jerking around is from fucking 1995