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Trump is ordering more and more troops. Now I'm wishing a million people would flood the streets (Original Post) RoeVWade Jun 2025 OP
Yes, a million people on the move! biophile Jun 2025 #1
There WILL be millions...NO KINGS protest June 14 BigmanPigman Jun 2025 #2
This needs to be the biggest protest in America history. OrlandoDem2 Jun 2025 #3
It already is. BigmanPigman Jun 2025 #4
We need people in L.A. now. mwmisses4289 Jun 2025 #5
We went into Iraq with about 150-200,000 troops... Wounded Bear Jun 2025 #6

biophile

(1,421 posts)
1. Yes, a million people on the move!
Mon Jun 9, 2025, 08:19 PM
Jun 2025

Wherever the soldiers go, just keep moving around and away. Be there - but not where the weapons are. Be like a flock of starlings in the sky!
At least, that would be my plan- it’s kind of hard to get a million people to be that fluid, though 😏🤔.

BigmanPigman

(55,137 posts)
2. There WILL be millions...NO KINGS protest June 14
Mon Jun 9, 2025, 08:45 PM
Jun 2025

There are over 2,000 planned protests (I believe the actual number will be closer to 3,000).

On HANDS OFF April 5th protest had 5.2 million. This protest will have double that.

Protests are in Europe as well. This will be the largest mass protest in US history. And there will be no violence since Dems are smart, not like the losers on Jan. 6th. If a MAGAT tries to start some violence we won't take the

Newsom is being called "Newscum". I am soooooooooo embarrassed to be an American.

Wounded Bear

(64,323 posts)
6. We went into Iraq with about 150-200,000 troops...
Mon Jun 9, 2025, 09:31 PM
Jun 2025

The generals told Bush they would need 300,000 troops to properly police the country after the war ended. They didn't get them.

Iraq is roughly the size of California. Now assuming there won't be quite as many militant assholes in California creating problems as there were in Iraq, 2000 National Guard troops and 700 Marines seems like a pretty small force to "take over" a state.

The US Army plus the Marines are not big enough to "take over" the entire country.

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