• Bwaz@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    Apparently 90% of Trump parade’s attendees were wearing very good camoflage, or maybe advanced army stealth technology!

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    9 hours ago

    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.

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    11 hours ago

    I doubt those numbers for the simple reason trump always lies about how many attended his narcissistic supply events.

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    14 hours ago

    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…

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        If you subtract the military personal who were ordered to attend, that sounds like a very reasonable guess. Maybe they could get swag like the 1%ers. Hats and T-shirts with “I’m one of the 8647 TRUE Americans!”

        Somebody please do this.

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    1 day ago

    That amount of people reminds me of the Mexican independence parades done in Mexico yearly. Usually those parades have much more people density.

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    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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    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.)

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      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.

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    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.

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        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.

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          My neighboring state has toll roads that I drive on 2-3 times a year and I have ezpass to reduce hassle. If there were toll roads in my state it’d be a no brainer.

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            Yeah but you don’t understand the mentality of a Rhode Islander.

            Rhode Islanders only take the Mass Pike if they have to. Very little reason to go to Western MA, 495 goes to the Cape, and 93/95 to NH.

            They only go to Connecticut for Foxwoods/Mohegan or Mystic. No tolls on that route.

            Other than that, the only way they are leaving the state is on a Southwest flight to MCO.