Anna Bahr just blew up the social media by saying that Bernie Sanders had his biggest rally in Los Angeles-36,000 people packed into Gloria Molina Grand Park. That’s stadium-level numbers; and, yes, it’s real. The event was chalk-full of famous legends: not just Bernie, but also Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and bet-the-surprise Neil Young. True to form, the internet had thoughts.now
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First came the hype team-their A.i. fact checker Grok flew in to verify sources like the L.a. Times for the rally. And then came back the Rose-Mary with the ‘Looks like a Trump rally everywhere else, ‘ which, okay, sure. Brandon Gibney wanted to say ‘36,000 more chromosomes.’ The Twitter never wants to miss this!
Then conspiracy theories began. Brotherwatt1 claimed that they were merely ‘paid professional protesters,’ while Here4USA referred to them as ‘paid actors.’ Like, do you all actually think 36,000 people just showed up for a paycheck? Meanwhile, Flush75 called Bernie a ‘shepherd for the DNC,’ saying he had taken campaign money but ‘turned his back’ on supporters. Ouch.
The MAGA crowd couldn’t hold back. Tyler Whetstone brought in the idea of ‘Trump won the election. Lol.’ Because nothing makes mention of 2020 quite like talking about it in 2025! AmericanEighth went for the unenviable task of invoking the ghost of a fictional Marjorie Taylor Greene rally with country stars-because that’s totally the same vibe as a Bernie-AOC-Neil Young collab.
And lastly, the wannabes. TylerWhetstone says 36,000 is ‘only 1/3rd of the capacity of the University of Michigan’s football stadium.’ Nice humbug, but Bernie is not running for quarterback.
The wildest take? Yeah_right1213 joked that it was Coachella with Bernie as the ‘surprise appearance.’ Honestly, that’d be a vibe.
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Bottom line, Bernie still attracts large crowds, and responses are a messy mix of awe, salt, and conspiracy. Some of you love him; some think he is a pharma turd (nice thumbs up armyvet19kilo for that one). Clearly, he is the current talk of the town.