How many people were at the Charlie Kirk "memorial"?

[kentuck]

A few weeks ago, I knew very little about Mr Kirk. But, it appears he was a strong voice in the Christian Nationalist movement?

His wife asked for forgiveness for her husband's murderer. Trump said he hated them. Judging from the applause, more of the crowd agreed with Donald Trump.

More importantly, what does this movement mean to the Democratic Party? Can there be millions of Republicans following this person and we are oblivious to it?

What was his appeal?

[OLDMDDEM]

1. I heard that 95,000 attended.

[yorkster]

10. That's s bit terrifying.

The whole thing, the sanctification, the massive "remembrance " made me feel like we are a nation divided against itself.
And I barely saw any of it.

[OLDMDDEM]

12. Yes, I agree.

[global1]

15. Where Did These People Come From?.......

How did they amass 95,000 people to attend this venue in Arizona?

Where these people bussed in? Did they come from all over the U.S. or were these people just in the vicinity of this venue?

I'm blown away by the numbers. Especially cause before he was killed - I really never heard of this guy.

All of a sudden he's become the martyr of the MAGA movement.

[OLDMDDEM]

16. Good question. Hard to say. I can remember during the first Trump campaign that if you watched the camera scan

the people behind him, it was always the same people in different dress at each event.

[Emile]

2. Kirk who?

[Johonny]

3. He had the same appeal as Rush Limbaugh

But to a different generation and on a different media. The message of white male suffering and the solution of white male idealism is exactly the same. It appeals to uneducated white males that used to be middle class but have been left behind by the very economy their parents spent their life voting for and they're about to do the same.

[mr715]

5. "Uneducated"

Not just this.

His pitch was directly on college campuses, so a significant amount of "miseducated" should be included.

[Johonny]

13. Most of the college act, though

Was done not to gain massive college followings, but to create online marketing to show how college made you stupid, wasn't worth it, turn guys into pussy etc . . .

This was in support of the anti-education message targeted at people that are anti-education.

[Lovie777]

4. I knew about him....

He was a vile human being, and what I picked up from the funeral the whole lot of them are despicable and destroying the true meaning of Christianity.

[mr715]

11. Yeah

"Vile" covers it

[thomski64]

6. Repuke voters and Magats adored him..

.. because he was a putrid racist piece of shit. Just like they are..

[milestogo]

7. No shortage of bigots in this country.

[Gum Logger]

8. The predators ball

Nasty bunch of social darwinsts. Got to hand it to them. They are intense

[mr715]

9. He talks quickly and is young.

He goes on college campuses and makes fools out of freshman philosophers. Real bold, alpha male behavior.

Same mold as Ben Shapiro, Jordan Peterson, and Steven Crowder. Gross human. No real appeal.

But he can have the cadence and syntax of a smart person, and so dumb people think he is smart.

[leftstreet]

14. Weird that no family or friends spoke

Just the wife

No parents, friends, childhood mates, etc

[Wiz Imp]

19. Weird? No. On purpose. This wasn't about Kirk. It was purely to promote MAGA politics.

[leftstreet]

20. I bet they tried to get some

hoping to legitimize it as a memorial, rather than a rally

[Maeve]

17. Venue Capacity 63,400 (expandable to 72,200; standing room to 78,600)

The huge claims of 100-200,000 include views on various media

[Wiz Imp]

18. Stadium Capacity was 73,000

MAGA are inflating the numbers (though even 73,000 is a disgustingly high number)

[LuckyCharms]

21. Trump says 3.5 trillion, plus another 9 trillion in the overflow area.

[maxrandb]

22. Don't Know! Don't Care! Earth, Wind & Fire drew 250K to The California Jam in 1974

Earth, Wind & Fire performed at the California Jam festival on April 6, 1974, at the Ontario Motor Speedway in Ontario, California. They were part of a lineup that also included acts like Deep Purple, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, the Eagles, Black Oak Arkansas, Rare Earth, Seals & Croft and Black Sabbath, drawing an audience of over 250,000 people.