California Governor Gavin Newsom has formally requested Trump administration officials to rescind the order to deploy the National Guard and return control of the force to California, calling the initial order unlawful and “intentionally designed to inflame the situation.”
“I have formally requested the Trump Administration rescind their unlawful deployment of troops in Los Angeles county and return them to my command,” Newsom wrote on X, formerly Twitter. “We didn’t have a problem until Trump got involved. This is a serious breach of state sovereignty — inflaming tensions while pulling resources from where they’re actually needed. Rescind the order. Return control to California.”
Yeah okay. Like a strongly worded letter is gonna do anything?
Gavin: Just fly to DC and physically smack Trump around. You’re in way better shape than he is, you’re guaranteed to win.
I’m assuming that he’s just creating a paper trail for when things inevitably escalate. If this is all he’s got, though, it’s pretty weak.
Sure smells like it. Paper trail
Strongly worded letters are all the current Dems are good at.
As if the public is doing anything more substantial.
The public out there on the streets of LA this weekend are certainly doing substantial things. Why the defeatism? Go join them and help.
It’s not just LA this weekend, either. People have been fighting against ICE all over the country.
It’s not defeatism to point out the public literally voted this in.
Oh, all of us?
No but more people voted for this and that’s how the system works.
So, it’s not defeatism, you’re just arguing for maintaining the status quo? If that’s not defeatism in the face of a system that is mass arresting people, then what is it? What exactly is your point?
Edit: ah, just noticed that you are a moderator of [email protected]. Maybe you really do want to uphold the status quo of Trump’s directives.
I also moderate [email protected] because I’m a big bad dirty conservative.
The first step to fixing a problem is admitting there is one.
Voters voted this is. They are a problem.
There’s more ICE agents on the street than protesters
Where did you find the official count? I want to look it up too.
I mean… gestures at LA?
Nah they’re waiting to be saved by a party that they intentionally ensured had no control over any single segment of the government.
The best Newsom is going to be able to do is pull trump onto his podcast and “have a conversation with him” where he makes more steps to the right to hopefully nab some more “principled Republican” voters.