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Thousands attend anti-Trump rallies in San Luis Obispo County

June 14, 2025

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By KAREN VELIE

San Luis Obispo County residents opposed to President Donald Trump’s administration attended “No Kings” rallies in San Luis Obispo, Atascadero and Cambria on Saturday.

Photo by Jeff Specht

Several thousand people, including Democratic party leaders, attended the peaceful rallies.

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Elected officials included Assemblymember Dawn Addis, California Senator John Laird, SLO County supervisors Bruce Gibson and Jimmy Paulding along with SLO Mayor Erica Stewart and Councilwoman Michelle Shoresman.

Photo by Jeff Specht

Protestors held signs with statements such as: Cage the Tyrant, Legality is not Morality, No Ice, Trans Rights and Free Palestine.

Photo by Jeff Specht

Attendees marched from the courthouse to Mission Plaza.

 


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Trump a good man, and believes in a good and moral God. These folks don’t seem to believe in any religion, I take it. “You got to serve somebody, whether it be the Devil or it be the Lord, but you got to serve somebody,” as Dylan put it.


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We see what we want to see. But in this case you see things that are unseen.

You haven’t seen the man step foot in a church, nor have you seen your neighbors activity on any given Sunday. Yet you ignore the moral failings of one, and assume the moral failing of the other.

What do Christian’s say about casting stones..


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I’m sorry to be the one to tell you, but Trump is not an upstanding Christian. Trump does not serve God, but himself.

https://www.gcrr.org/addendum-b

This is just one list of immoralities, we can agree that some are exaggerated, or out of context… But can you really tell me *none* of this is true.

Trump is a famous adulter, cheat, liar, and business con man.

What is more likely? That everything you’ve seen and heard is a big hoax, or that Trump is cheating you, lying to you, conning you?


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Yawn…


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You got that right …. sleepwalking right into his open arms.


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Hopefully the Rally goers went home to watch the historic Army 250 Parade to pay tribute honoring the brave men and women who defend and protect the free speech rights that allow them to spool out their gibberish.


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Wouldn’t it be better to honor our military through strengthening their veteran’s benefits and continuing to employ many of them in federal jobs after leaving the service?


The parade is a nice touch, but I find it ironic the Trump administration is mulling steep cuts to the VA and DOGE has already gotten rid of thousands of vets who did work for the federal government while Trump honors them with an unprecedented parade.


I’ve always respected our military and our leaders because they DID NOT feel the need to parade our might like the Russians, Chinese Communists or tinpot dictators such as Kim in North Korea. We know we have the mightiest military and there is absolutely no reason to show it off.


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You’re not paying attention. The cuts to the VA will cull the lazy, over-salaried, and wasteful entities that abound throughout the VA. Been there too often, done with that. DOGE has been finding all that is wasteful and stupid all over the federal government, and eliminating the money hemorrhage.


The difference between our military parades, and Russia/China/North Korea, is that our people and equipment know how to fight and get the job done.


Do you really thing Russia is so strong, when they can barely make a dent in a country that had about one full division to deploy, and was equipped with 50 to 70 year old technology and weapons? North Korea’s newest fighter jet, is from the Vietnam era. China is spending gobs of money making ships and planes, but training their people to march in televised parades, instead of warfighting.


Yes. Pride is back in the US Military….and I don’t mean the rainbow kind.


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Let’s see, according to CBS News, DOGE claims to have cut $160 billion, yet researchers say DOGE’s work will cost $135 billion. $25 billion seems a pittance in a trillion dollar budget. A focused examination that took its time and actually sought to cut waste without destroying important programs, as was done in the 1990’s, would have been more effective.


https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/doge-cuts-cost-135-billion-analysis-elon-musk-department-of-government-efficiency/


And when did I tout the Russian military? Apparently they are one of the worst run organizations in the world. That’s why I’m not sure we want to emulate them with a military parade. Our troops certainly could have used the $45 million it cost to entertain Trump in a better way.


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Remember when Trump dodge the draft because of “bone spurs”, or when he said that the American soldiers that died overseas were “chumps”, or when he insulted McCain because he was a POW?


Did you buy his Bible?


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Trump’s birthday parade was a disaster. Empty bleachers, bland ceremonies. Even Trump himself was bored. $45 million we plunked down for that embarrassment.


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I must have missed it. No loss.


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Pretty funny as we celebrate today the founding of our Continental Army to break from KING George of England (aka: tyrant, oligarch, autocrat, dictator, despot, etc. What a bunch of numbskulls. Read history for God’s sake. (oops.. can I say “God”?)


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Did you take poli sci or econ? Any collegiate classes in history, any?


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“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing”

— Edmund Burke


“The public money and public liberty, intended to have been deposited with three branches of magistracy, but found inadvertently to be in the hands of one only, will soon be discovered to be sources of wealth and dominion to those who hold them… They [the assembly] should look forward to a time, and that not a distant one, when a corruption in this, as in the country from which we derive our origin, will have seized the heads of government, and be spread by them through the body of the people; when they will purchase the voices of the people, and make them pay the price. Human nature is the same on every side of the Atlantic, and will be alike influenced by the same causes. The time to guard against corruption and tyranny, is before they shall have gotten hold of us. It is better to keep the wolf out of the fold, than to trust to drawing his teeth and talons after he shall have entered.”

— Thomas Jefferson


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Well, we know who not to vote for next time. Thanks Karen! We saw signs in Atascadero that read 8647, I wonder if those politicians support that mindset as well.


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How exciting, a few folks attended rallies that mean nothing whereas almost 60,000 attended Poly graduation to celebrate the best of our young generation.


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Those are some sour grapes and some incoherent comparisons. I hope our Poly grads know better than to compare nationwide rallies to their own once-in-a-lifetime milestone. Congrats, critical thinking Poly grads.


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On my god….this is how the rallies started in LA….hey Trumpster fire-bring in the National Guard…we will outnumber them 20 to 1…shoot these peaceful demonstrators with rubber bullets so they will react…throw tear gas…we will spend $138 million dollars that will eventually lead to 140 arrests…$1 million per arrest.

Oh wait. They are peaceful.

Maybe we didn’t need to bring in the forces.


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The irony is not lost on me. “Legality is not morality”, from the pro-abortion side.


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