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BigmanPigman

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Sat Oct 18, 2025, 07:19 PM Saturday

San Diego had over 80,000 protesters (3 protests merged) [View all]

This was my 34th protest and I never saw anything like this one. It was like a circus and Halloween rolled into one. Huge 6' inflatable costumes were everywhere. It was 83 degrees so I'm glad people didn't drag their dogs along. The street is too hot for their feet and it's too crowded so they get stomped upon.

Lots of seniors are finally showing up in large numbers, too.

I never saw people selling stuff before at the other protests. Flags for $10 and RESIST signs for $12.

No problems parking and NO VIOLENCE as I knew it would be. The thing is is that when you have tens of thousands of people so close together there really isn't any room for violence and the crowd would nail them in a nano second if they tried, at least in San Diego. I think the MAGA instigators were disappointed.

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