The Ongoing Retreat to the Solitary Confinement of Trumpery

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  1. ronv

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    You mean when they had 40,000 on the mall urging him to do more on climate change?
     
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    He does boast that Un, Putin, and Xi send him "beautiful letters."
     
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    Where were you when people around the world were protesting Obama?

    At least 35,000 protest in Hanover a day before Obama visits Germany to promote TTIP trade deal
    https://www.businessinsider.com/at-...its-germany-to-promote-ttip-trade-deal-2016-4

    Why are Greeks protesting President Obama's visit?
    https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2016/1116/Why-are-Greeks-protesting-President-Obama-s-visit

    Barack Obama fever gives way to protests on European trip
    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/mar/30/barack-obama-g20-nato-europe

    Protests outside European Parliament as Obama visits
     
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    No question, Trump has the best protests. Obama couldn't get close to a million.
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    MolonLabe2009 Banned

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    I think not.

    Were you even alive when ALL the TEA Party marches happened in 2009/2010?

    The biggest TEA Party march that occurred on September 12, 2009 had nearly a million patriots showed up.

    And there were dozens of TEA party rallies that occur all throughout 2009 and 2010 in which tens of thousands of patriots showed up.
     
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    Please do not use Tea Party and Patriot in the same sentence.
     
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    MolonLabe2009 Banned

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    TEA Party patriots!
     
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    It's usually best not to let the event organizer estimate the crowd size. Officials put the crowd at around 75,000.
     
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    I was close to a million.
     
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    Sorry. Maybe you were a victim of right wing propaganda. Many were.

    So supporters of Saturday’s “tea party” protests against President Barack Obama were quick to highlight their big turnout. To bolster countless claims on blogs and Facebook, many posted a photograph that showed a gargantuan crowd sprawling from Capitol Hill down the National Mall to the Washington Monument.

    But it turns out the photo is more than 10 years old, apparently taken during a 1997 Promise Keepers rally.
    The New York Times reported that “thousands” of protesters “filled the west lawn of the Capitol and spilled onto the National Mall,” while Fox News wrote that “tens of thousands” marched on Washington. CNN said “reporters at the scene described the massive crowd as reaching the tens of thousands.”

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    Pete Piringer, public affairs officer for the D.C. Fire and Emergency Department, said the local government no longer provides official crowd estimates because they can become politicized. But the day of the rally, Piringer unofficially told one reporter that he thought between 60,000 and 75,000 people had shown up.

    “It was in no way an official estimate,” he said.

    We asked Piringer whether there were enough protesters to fill the National Mall, as depicted in the photograph.

    “It was an impressive crowd,” he said. But after marching down Pennsylvania Avenue to the Capitol, the crowd “only filled the Capitol grounds, maybe up to Third Street,” he said.

    To fill the mall the crowd needs to go to 17th Street like Obama's inaguration.

    https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-...arty-photo-shows-large-crowd-different-event/
     
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    Go to the 3:15 mark...

     
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    The only people subject to propaganda is you left-wingers.

     

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