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Park Service Says DC Crowd on 11/14: 11,666 (Original Post)
Thekaspervote
Nov 2020
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regnaD kciN
(27,740 posts)1. Eleven thousand and...uh...what?
Seems kind of appropriate.
Orange Buffoon
(251 posts)2. Yeah--there's that "666" again.
Stinky The Clown
(68,969 posts)3. That's just over a million if you use maggotmath.
Nevilledog
(55,179 posts)4. 666 is oddly specific.
I'm guessing someone at the Park Service is a Biden supporter.
Girard442
(6,944 posts)6. Yeah, that's a little like hefting a can of beans in your hand...
...and "estimating" it weighs 8.0023 ounces.
Dark n Stormy Knight
(10,486 posts)7. Yep. Just what I was thinking!
Nice touch, really.
cwydro
(51,308 posts)5. Superspreader.
Yes indeedy.
mercuryblues
(16,547 posts)8. That makes sense
Freedom park has a 13,000 capacity and was not quite filled up. I knew they were lying about crowd size from the get-go.
Note there were 3 different white supremacist groups groups feeding into the rally. Plus 1 counter protest group.
Gothmog
(183,479 posts)9. This event was well short of a million people
My Pet Orangutan
(12,598 posts)10. The event was well short of a million brain cells
brer cat
(27,744 posts)11. +++ nt
Nevilledog
(55,179 posts)12. Heck, it was barely large enough to get a single set of teeth.