Tinidril

Even truer for the National Guard when it has to call up soldiers.

The average age for active duty enlisted is 28.5yo, not 18.

Yes, active duty law enforcement is more competent at the intricacies of law enforcement, but that's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about things like trigger discipline and doing proper reconnaissance before charging into a situation.

As far as I'm aware, the guard still doesn't have the power of arrest anyways. They will have to coordinate such actions with local law enforcement. They have no prosecutors or jails store detainees.

I don't want to downplay the alarm bells going off over this move. It's definitely as bad as many are saying. On the other hand, I do want to set some right expectations. National guardsmen are modern professional soldiers and, as such, are far more disciplined than average police officers. Civilian casualties are always a possibility, and might even be what this administration wants, but I think it's unlikely that we'll see anything like another Kent State. If anything, I'll bet most of the guardsmen are pretty frustrated with Trump for being called up for bullshit reasons.

State militias were never intended to fight the national government. In fact, they were intended to help fight insurrection.

Article 1, Section 8, Clause 15. The Congress shall have Power * * * To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions.

Friends and family members might be here though.

The same voices keep saying that Jan 6 was a peaceful protest that was misunderstood.

Sounds good to me. My main point was that a state could do it.

Just declare that jobs within the state no longer collect it, and provide a hotline to identify employers who don't comply. It's not like the IRS has the people to manage federal enforcement.

That's not all bad. At least mom and dad are fighting over who gets custody of MAGA. It would actually kind of suck if Elon went back to pretending to be a good guy and fronting for liberals pretending to address climate change.

We all are gonna die someday.

It also doesn't work. It completely gives in to conservative framing, and conservatives will always win against liberals on being "tough" on the border.

Whatever it is, it's not whataboutism when it involves the same exact war and what instigated it. That applies directly to the question of why the US got involved.