12.1 MILLION. Americans Surpassed the 3.5% Protest Threshold With Single Largest Coordinated Protest in U.S. History

[IrishBubbaLiberal]

Americans Surpassed the 3.5% Protest Threshold With Single Largest Coordinated Protest in U.S. History

12.1 Million Protestors: History Shows No Government Can Survive These Numbers

Americans Surpassed the 3.5% Protest Threshold With Single Largest Coordinated Protest in U.S. History

12.1 Million Protestors: History Shows No Government Can Survive These Numbers

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— You Ready Grandma (@youreadygrandma.bsky.social) 2025-06-15T13:45:16.806Z

[Bernardo de La Paz]

1. Thank you to everyone involved! . . . . nt

[UpInArms]

2. Yesterday was a grand day ...

There were so many first time protestors who joined in small town Missouri …

https://www.maryvilleforum.com/news/over-150-protest-in-maryville-no-kings-demonstration/article_a88c0dda-033e-4b00-b5a2-08e526aaa9c0.html

Schlaiss said they had not taken part in a protest previously, instead only going as far as many drivers did Saturday — honking their horns in support. But the aggressive actions of federal agents, sometimes apparently without due process, drove Schlaiss to get involved.

“I think it’s important that we get people on the streets telling Trump and the government that we’re not OK with what they’re doing,” Schlaiss said. “... A lot of the recent ICE activities — taking parents away from children or even sending children to detention centers that are unsafe — that’s the biggest thing, for sure.”

Tom Zweifel, of Maryville, said it was also his first time at a protest, and struggled to come up with one particular incident that made him feel the need to stand up and be counted.

“Every day it’s a new low,” he said, which is why he wanted to “voice my opinion on the current administration.”

[Demovictory9]

11. It was. Im glad i went

[xmas74]

24. Marshall had between 250-300.

I started in Lees Summit with initial counts of between 1500-2000 standing on Douglas/Chipman. We drove back to Warrensburg where 500 showed up to the courthouse lawn! Clinton had a little over 100.

[UpInArms]

25. Thank you!

[malaise]

3. K & R

He finally got the most numbers…drumroll but against him😀

[stillcool]

4. I've already been seeing

the sad posts by the nay-sayers. It's eating them up.

[Hotler]

5. K & R

[hvn_nbr_2]

6. That didn't happen

According to CNN.com, it didn't happen. Not one word on the CNN.com homepage. The biggest demonstration in American history but Plutocracy Propaganda Network says nothing happened.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

7. Wow, you are correct! I was amazed, so I looked. Bizarre avoidance. . . . . nt

[William Seger]

9. They now have a tiny "Anti-Trump protests" link at the top

... but the title of that page is "Trump pursues his agenda after a week of protests across the US" and the main story there is Padilla. There's another link to protests, but it's an article from Friday about "millions expected."

[flashman13]

8. Could you provide the source of the 12.1 million number?

[Celerity]

17. It's wish projection reverse engineering. If you take the current US population (approx 347m) then 3.5% is 12.15 million

[flashman13]

19. I'm familiar with the 3.5% number. What is the source of the 12.1 million number?

[Celerity]

20. that is what I just showed

they took the US population, applied the 3.5 per cent rule number

and then claimed 12.1 million people showed up

[rzemanfl]

28. The Republicans would say 34.7 million if it was them, because the math is easy.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

22. It's bogus. Read the substack link and they show no work and no references. . . . nt

[miyazaki]

10. To me this also stands as an attestation the election stunk.

Need more and even bigger protests so this never blows over.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

12. There were protests in all 50 states

[Amaryllis]

23. HAnds Off was simulaneious in all 50 states.

[WarGamer]

13. that's pretty good... to put in perspective

Game of Thrones averaged about 12 million viewers per episode by Season 2.... topping out at 44 million in season 8

[Hekate]

14. So is the perspective that we should just turn on the tv and zone out to fantasy?

[WarGamer]

15. Ummm... no.

The perspective is that GoT was extremely popular so if the same number people protested that watched an average episode of GoT Season 2 that's pretty damn good.

[Bluesaph]

16. SUSTAINED ... key word!

It cannot be a one and done! We need to keep doing it and attract more and more people!

[BannonsLiver]

18. It seemed very successful even if the usual suspect is doing their gaslighting shtick.

[tavernier]

21. I'm shocked, shocked!

to hear that gaslighting is going on in here!

[SoFlaBro]

29. How fucking often do they do this same gaslighting shtick?

[BannonsLiver]

32. Great question

1. When someone posts something positive about Ukraine.

2. When someone posts something negative about Putin/Russia.

3. When someone posts something positive about Democrats that also makes Trump look bad, as evidenced by the most recent No Kings hot takes. There was a big push to gaslight people into believing Saturday’s Trump b-day parade wasn’t really about Trump, but rather a celebration of the Army, which was widely mocked here. Justifiably so.

4. When someone posts something negative about Elmo Musk, Space X or Tesla.

These are the most common. Ukraine in particular seems to be one of their key erogenous zones.

[littlemissmartypants]

26. You Ready Grandma is defined as a satire site. Is this information legit?

Sorry for being such a skeptic.



❤️

Satire followed by the Founder of The Onion 🧅. Complimented by Mike Reiss 4x Emmy winning showrunner-writer-producer of The Simpsons.

[SheltieLover]

27. Ty for posting realistic number!

[Skittles]

30. remember how much coverage the Teabaggers got?

DISGUSTING

[luvallpeeps]

31. That made my poor heart sing. N/T