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Can't find the exact segment, but these guys who provided the videos to multiple news sources claim minimum over 500k https://youtu.be/mE-XvGMiyRQ?t=1488 https

Can't find the exact segment, but these guys who provided the videos to multiple news sources claim minimum over 500k https://youtu.be/mE-XvGMiyRQ?t=1488 https://youtu.be/mE-XvGMiyRQ?t=1488 "For sure hundreds of thousands" Those who went to the Capital are probably less, I'm not sure anyone has estimated that. I'm sure many people left after Trump's speech.

titzer 6y ago
Sorry, but a link to a video of two dudes on a podcast saying "for sure hundreds of thousands" is not evidence. Not even a picture of these hundreds of thousands? Absurd.
- lettergram 6y ago
  Those are two registered reporters who provided much of the coverage Jan 6. Edit: registered White House press core Edit: they had their cameras, that’s most of what you see on CNN if you saw police scenes of fighting
  - jeffbee 6y ago
    "Registered" with whom?
  - titzer 6y ago
    And they what? Forgot their cameras that day?
  - gruez 6y ago
    >Those are two registered reporters who provided much of the coverage Jan 6. >Edit: registered White House press core Isn't this just appeal to authority? It's not even a good authority. If he was a crowd counting expert, and was doing a count from a helicopter, I'd be more inclined to believe him. As it stands it's still some guy making a casual estimate from his very limited viewpoint.
jeffbee 6y ago
500000 people, eh? Here's a photo of Trump's Jan. 6 2021 crowd: https://nxsttv.com/nmw/wp-content/uploads/sites/107/2021/01/rally1.jpg https://nxsttv.com/nmw/wp-content/uploads/sites/107/2021/01/... Here's 100000 people at a college football game: https://blog.lime.link/content/images/2018/12/100000.jpg https://blog.lime.link/content/images/2018/12/100000.jpg
- lettergram 6y ago
  This was just a small section: https://elmoudjaweb.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Trump-addresses-supporters-at-DC-rally-ahead-of-Congress-vote.jpg https://elmoudjaweb.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Trump-add... All the hotels were booked for 45 min around and in DC. That is literally hundreds of thousands of people.
  - gruez 6y ago
    >All the hotels were booked for 45 min around and in DC. That is literally hundreds of thousands of people. Source? Specifically, what's the hotel capacity "45 min around and in DC", and what's the the normal occupancy rate (ie. last year, or in the weeks leading up to the protest)?
  - titzer 6y ago
    Holy crap, that's a bad photoshop job. Look how tiny people's heads are right next to a van, and trees, and lampposts. And they're all staring straight forward...at what? It's just ridiculous that people are peddling obviously faked pictures and then don't trust the "media". So bad.
    - jeffbee 6y ago
      Oh, this one might be 'shopped but it is not that inconsistent with photos from reputable news agencies (AFP, Getty, AP). The thing is it's still not half a million people. Whoever thinks it was is radically underestimating the volume of half a million people.

titzer 6y ago

Sorry, but a link to a video of two dudes on a podcast saying "for sure hundreds of thousands" is not evidence. Not even a picture of these hundreds of thousands? Absurd.

lettergram 6y ago
Those are two registered reporters who provided much of the coverage Jan 6. Edit: registered White House press core Edit: they had their cameras, that’s most of what you see on CNN if you saw police scenes of fighting
- jeffbee 6y ago
  "Registered" with whom?
- titzer 6y ago
  And they what? Forgot their cameras that day?
- gruez 6y ago
  >Those are two registered reporters who provided much of the coverage Jan 6. >Edit: registered White House press core Isn't this just appeal to authority? It's not even a good authority. If he was a crowd counting expert, and was doing a count from a helicopter, I'd be more inclined to believe him. As it stands it's still some guy making a casual estimate from his very limited viewpoint.

jeffbee 6y ago

500000 people, eh? Here's a photo of Trump's Jan. 6 2021 crowd: https://nxsttv.com/nmw/wp-content/uploads/sites/107/2021/01/rally1.jpg https://nxsttv.com/nmw/wp-content/uploads/sites/107/2021/01/... Here's 100000 people at a college football game: https://blog.lime.link/content/images/2018/12/100000.jpg https://blog.lime.link/content/images/2018/12/100000.jpg

lettergram 6y ago
This was just a small section: https://elmoudjaweb.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Trump-addresses-supporters-at-DC-rally-ahead-of-Congress-vote.jpg https://elmoudjaweb.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Trump-add... All the hotels were booked for 45 min around and in DC. That is literally hundreds of thousands of people.
- gruez 6y ago
  >All the hotels were booked for 45 min around and in DC. That is literally hundreds of thousands of people. Source? Specifically, what's the hotel capacity "45 min around and in DC", and what's the the normal occupancy rate (ie. last year, or in the weeks leading up to the protest)?
- titzer 6y ago
  Holy crap, that's a bad photoshop job. Look how tiny people's heads are right next to a van, and trees, and lampposts. And they're all staring straight forward...at what? It's just ridiculous that people are peddling obviously faked pictures and then don't trust the "media". So bad.
  - jeffbee 6y ago
    Oh, this one might be 'shopped but it is not that inconsistent with photos from reputable news agencies (AFP, Getty, AP). The thing is it's still not half a million people. Whoever thinks it was is radically underestimating the volume of half a million people.