Oct 20, 2025

Standing Up To Trump


Alvin Holsey, the Naval Admiral at the top of the command chain involved in attacking the supposed smuggler boats off Venezuela, has resigned his post. He supposedly said “I cannot, in good conscience, authorize or execute orders that risk innocent lives and compromise the principles I swore to uphold.”

Hegseth has responded by moving the assignment from the Navy to the Marines.

Meanwhile, back here in Allentown, hundreds of people lined Cedar Crest Blvd. for the No Kings Day protest. Ryan Mackenzie's office has become ground zero for locals expressing themselves against the Trump administration. I believe that others from different segments across the government will start coming forward in resignation and protest. Hegseth and the administration only has so many fingers to plug the leaks.

I'm not here to be polite

2 comments:

  1. These occasional street gatherings to protest are puzzling to me. First of all, the protesters are shown to primarily consist of mostly White, retirement-aged women. Why so little representation from younger adults and persons of other colors?

    Can't understand the end goal objectives, either. Does that list include resignations, indictments, prison terms, etc. How will these "concerned citizens" know their efforts were successful? There must be a few markers to indicate progress.

    A commenter elsewhere pointed out, in real life, a nation led by an actual King-like despot would never allow such public gatherings to occur in the first place. Try doing this in a place like North Korea.

    At least the folks had nice weather, Bless their Hearts.


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  2. anon@12:53: The markers are called "mid-terms"

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