Vance suffers an epileptic seizure, shits himself, and bites off Donny Jr.

Trump panics and strokes out; Vance suffocates on the severed pecker.

Johnson goes to call for help, slips on Vance’s shit, and falls face first onto Trump’s stainless steel buttplug.

They need to spread out. LAPD can handle a 10,000 person riot, but they’d be overwhelmed by 20, 100-person protests.

If you’re going to protest, pick 20 possible protest sites in the city, and share your list with everyone. When the riot cops finally show up at your site, move to another; force them to repeatedly redeploy.

Newsom can un-fuck the CA NG troops. He is constitutionally empowered to appoint the officers of the NG units. He can discharge them, effectively disbanding the National Guard units. California has a State Guard as well as National Guard. The State Guard answers solely to the Governor; it cannot be federalized. Newsom can offer the officers and troops commissions in the State Guard or the State Police, while disbanding the National Guard units.

Except Trunp federalized the California state force

No, he did not. He federalized the California National guard. The State Guard is a lesser-known organization that answers solely to the Governor. They cannot be federalized. Which is why we’re probably going to be seeing states putting more of their resources into their State Guards and less into their National Guard units.

As for the CA National Guard: Article I, Section 8, Clause 16. The State retains the sole authority to appoint the officers of the Militia.

10 USC 246. The National Guard is the Militia.

Newsom has the authority to appoint the officers of the National Guard. Revoking the appointments of the Commissioned and Non-Commissioned officers of the California National Guard, he effectively disbands the organization.

Trump has no authority to override Newsom’s authority here.

Most states have a token State Guard that answers only to their governor, not the federal government. If Trump keeps this shit up, states are going to start disbanding their National Guard units, and shifting them into State control.

I’ve only run across them a couple times. My state has fewer than 200 State Guardsmen.

IMO, It’s more of a legal framework than a military force. The state’s National Guard could be decapitated, and its body grafted in place under the SG.

That determination can only be authoritatively be made by the courts. Until the courts say otherwise, the president’s order is presumed lawful, and the subordinate officers are compelled to obey it.

The order is one that the president is allowed to make in the specific circumstances described in the order. If the courts determine those circumstances are present, the order will have been determined to be lawful.

Newsom’s authority is limited to the “appointment of officers”. He can functionally disband the California National Guard, but he can’t otherwise countermand the president’s order.

NG and ANG units are not exclusively state militias. They are also federal militias. The federal government can activate NG and ANG units into both state and federal service.

The State Guard can only be activated by the state’s governor.

The California National Guard is militia from the state of California, but it is not the state’s militia. The state also has the California State Guard, which is exclusively under the authority of the governor.

Many (Most?) states have their own dedicated militia, as well as National Guard units.

The command structure allows the president to issue those orders. The president’s justification for issuing those orders is illegal; the orders themselves are not.

The command structure also constitutionally empowers Newsom to fire the commissioned and non-commissioned officers of the California National Guard, effectively disbanding their units.

I’m betting that California has some emergency provision allowing the governor to deputize these individuals into the California State Police.

I think Trump has done enough here to actually get himself convicted by the senate.

The National Guard is not part of the military.

The National Guard is part of the militia. 10 USC 246.

The relevant difference here is that the president does not have the power to appoint National Guard officers. That power is reserved to the states under Article I, Section 8, Clause 16.

Newsom is constitutionally empowered to disband the California National Guard, by discharging their Commissioned and Non-Commissioned officers.

But I parse that “shall” to mean the Governor is forced to comply.

Under what penalty if the governor refuses to comply?

The constitution grants the authority for appointing national guard (“militia”) officers to the state. The governor hires those officers; the governor can fire those officers and disband their units rather than accept federalization.

That’s not completely true.

Your employer withholds your federal taxes from your paycheck.

The state of California employs a lot of people. The state can intercept those funds, refusing to send them to the IRS. That obviously only affects state employees, but it is feasible.

The state could go on to act as a staffing agency, “hiring” workers whose labor is then contracted to private businesses. The state would then be doing the withholding for their employees, and the business would be contracting with the state.

Tin soldiers and the Donvict’s coming. We’re finally on our own…

That’s not actually a problem, though. It’s better when both parties support your issue; then there is no viable opposition to that issue.

We’ll send him halfway back, and let you decide whether or not to bring him the other half.

That’s not true. All nuclear weapons

Intercontinental Ballistic Missile. ICBM. You’ll note that there is no “N” in that initialism. The presence or absence of a nuclear weapon is irrelevant. The missile itself is what I am talking about.

The missile, and all of the essential technology for building and operating it, are subject to export controls. ITAR and EAR, which apply not only to the physical items, but to the IP associated with those items as well.

ITAR doesn’t prevent SpaceX from moving its base of operations to another country.

ITAR allows SpaceX to take the name of the company to another country, and that’s about it.

Not the hardware, software, IP, or anything they would need to actually conduct their operations from that country.

StarLink could (probably) be moved out of the US, and rely on foreign launchers to maintain their satellite constellations. But not SpaceX, unless the US government specifically permits them to do so. Which they won’t.

SpaceX operates a fleet of privately owned ICBMs under license from the US government. Without the license and authority of the US government, SpaceX’s fundamental operations would be criminal: You and I would be arrested if we tried to build an ICBM without government permission.

The intellectual property they are using is subject to ITAR regulation. Any American trying to transfer that IP outside of the US would be quickly indicted. Any foreign government using or authorizing the use of that IP would be heavily sanctioned.

A senior official who dismantled the US government’s Russian disinformation unit is married to a Russian woman with links to the Kremlin

They’re talking about Melania, right?

A reasonable president wouldn’t have sent him in the first place. A reasonable president would be asking for him back, offering favorable diplomatic terms.

If refused, as Trump has claimed, a reasonable president would be parking a carrier group off the coast of Acajutia, and having F/A-18s doing nightly, low-altitude, glass-breaking, supersonic passes over Casa Presidencial.