The 3.5 Percent Rule - No Kings

[lame54]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3.5%25_rule

1st No Kings - 1.5 Percent

2nd No Kings - 2.4 Percent

3rd No Kings - ???

[calimary]

1. C'mon 3.5!!!

Bears repeating:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3.5%25_rule

[SSJVegeta]

2. Second was 2.7 of all adults. 4.5 of all 2024 voters.

That's gotta count for something.

[littlemissmartypants]

3. Has No Kings 3 been scheduled?

[SSJVegeta]

4. No Kings 3 could very well be a general strike

...if Brandon Johnson's declaration was any indication.

[littlemissmartypants]

6. It will be spectacular. We need to be doing some Rebellious Living* Now.

Put the squeeze collectively on their balance sheets.

*https://rebelliousmagazine.com/rebellious-living-finishing-my-no-buy-year-strong/

[SSJVegeta]

8. This isnt getting nearly the kind of attention it needs to

But I really hope it does soon.

[Wednesdays]

12. "Has No Kings 3 been scheduled?"

They're going to talk about this very thing Tuesday. Join in the discussion!
https://www.mobilize.us/nokings/event/858246/?utm_source=indivisible

8:00 P.M. – 9:00 P.M. EDT (5:00 P.M. – 6:00 P.M. PDT). Join from anywhere.

[Celerity]

5. 2.4 per cent is almost 8.4 million. The No Kings organisers said the turnout was almost 7 million.

3.5 per cent would be around 12.2 million.


https://www.nokings.org/news/nearly-7-million-people-attend-overwhelmingly-peaceful-no-kings-day-of-action

[lame54]

9. Final tally 8.1

[Celerity]

11. Based off what? That dodgy X account Alt National Park Service? I saw another estimate floating about the board:

Data journalist G. Elliott Morris, in partnership with Atlanta-based science newsroom The Xylom, gives a median estimate of 5.2 million, with 8.2 million as the upper boundary.

Importantly, unlike AltNPS, Morris shows his work.

https://www.gelliottmorris.com/p/second-no-kings-day-protests-likely

Of course some DUers only trumpet the upper boundary number of 8.2 million and ignore the median estimate of 5.2 million.

I recall in June that multiple posters here were claiming the first No Kings back then had 12, 15 million people turn out (a few others were ludicrously saying 10 percent of the total US population, which would meant almost 35 million) and anyone who took the slightest issue with their numbers was a defeatist or perhaps even a closet Trumper. Another DU posted about Alt National Park Service clai9ming 12 million showed up then.

The Alt National Park Service has spent months stealing from journalists, directly plagiarizing the work of others more than a hundred times.

With more than 4.3 million followers on Facebook and nearly 900k here on Bluesky, they've built a massive following on theft.

— AltWatcher (@altwatcher.bsky.social) 2025-08-01T19:50:25.563Z

I created a massive spreadsheet to track every instance of stolen work, and honestly, it was less work than it sounds like. In most cases, I found the original source of AltNPS’s post with a simple Google Search.

Finding and citing sources is easy, which makes AltNPS's plagiarism even more damning.

— AltWatcher (@altwatcher.bsky.social) 2025-08-01T19:54:20.450Z

[littlemissmartypants]

7. The number has been revised up to 8.1 and they are probably still getting data. 🤔

[mainer]

10. weather needs to be taken into account for #3

Hold it in June. Hard to protest when it's 20 degrees outside.