Perry was talking of himself being in charge of the Texas National Guard and he referred to them as 20,000 “people”.
The person you responded to thought Perry was talking about the population of Texas. That person was corrected by a number of people.
There was no ‘mis-hearing’ to hear if you were paying attention.
I was replying to what was in the post, not in previous 4 exchanges. I thought they were talking about China ending up in the dustbin.