>>516043618 (OP)
Every single niggerfaggot that just posted some niggerfaggot shit against Charlie Kirk. I’ve taken out about 14 of you lol faggots in very clever ways. No one will ever know. I want you liberals to know that you are actively being hunted down now. You are irredeemable and therefore should be removed. God praise Hitler
Two options:
There is a package of pencils.
There are a package of pencils.
Correct: There is a package of pencils.
We're referring to the singular package rather than the multitude of pencils. Similarly in "there is a lot of us" we're referring to the singular "lot" rather than the multitude of "us."
Examples:
There are a lot of people here.
There are a lot of us now.
Claiming to be referring to the singular "lot" is an easy way out, but the truth is that English speakers are far more accustomed to the usage I described. This is why it reads better this way, and why conversations like this wouldn’t even happen if it had been written that way.