Monday's Executive order creates America's Paramilitary Brownshirts

[JCMach1]

...To that end, it orders the secretary to create a "standing National Guard quick reaction force" that "can be deployed whenever the circumstances necessitate," not just in the nation's capital but in "other cities where public safety and order has been lost."

Monday's order calls for the creation of "an online portal for Americans with law enforcement or other relevant backgrounds and experience." Agency heads then "shall each deputize the members of this unit to enforce federal law."

Alec Karakatsanis, the executive director of the Civil Rights Corps, described it in a post on X as "an online portal to permit random fascist vigilantes to join soldiers," adding that it was "one of the scariest things I've seen in US politics in my adult life."...

https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-vigilante-portal

[MrWowWow]

1. This'll Cost Money

Congress controls the U.S. Treasury purse strings.

[crud]

2. minor technicality

This criminal presidents unlawful decrees should be ignored and are as meaningless as his delusional rambling tweets.

But I don't see Dem leaders saying those things, so he will get away with it.

[Fiendish Thingy]

3. Executive Orders don't Trump Posse Comitatus

IIRC, the rapid response force is only 1,700 personnel- not even enough to control a medium size city.

[JCMach1]

4. Online Portal, deputized as Federal LE... Ummmmm

Absolutely brownshirt territory.

Possse Commitatus does not apply to LE.

And no doubt they will use emergency $ so they can easily bypass the MAGA legislative branch.

Effectively would create a 2 tier system

1. Federal NG reaction force as political enforcers (SS)

2. An online portal to identify RW nuttos like proudboys, KKK and friends to be deputized LE as more as a shock and political intimidation force (SA/Brownshirts)

This crap has Miller's and Hegseth's fingerprints all over it.

[Fiendish Thingy]

5. Nope.

The EO specifically applies to active duty military, who cannot be legally deputized as LEOs to circumvent Posse Comitatus.

Just more distractions from Epstein, the failing economy and Trump’s failures in general.

This EO will meet the same fate as Alligator Alcatraz, soon to be an empty ghost town/prison.

[JCMach1]

7. Not me saying it- serious shit

And yes, it could be more trial ballooning by this crew, but we can't ignore it.

Alec Karakatsanis, the executive director of the Civil Rights Corps, described it in a post on X as "an online portal to permit random fascist vigilantes to join soldiers," adding that it was "one of the scariest things I've seen in US politics in my adult life."

[Fiendish Thingy]

8. I don't see anything in there about being deputized as LEOs

Yes, it’s serious, and I expect it will be a colossal failure, with the risk of mass casualty events before it gets shut down.

[JCMach1]

10. See below... There is a number of interlocking. EO's

Combined with Emergency powers. There are also links to Brennan Center analysis among others.

[JCMach1]

9. Here are a couple of deeper dives for those wanting to dig into the weeds

https://grok.com/share/bGVnYWN5_6b67c0e2-778a-4825-bf52-242a27214982

Policy Itself

https://grok.com/share/bGVnYWN5_a2f0caa1-6677-4da5-957f-3fb20f2acfdc

Important Responses to Monday's EO

[TheBlackAdder]

6. Local RW Sheriffs will subscribe to create their own fiefdoms.

It won’t cost much to get this done.

All of that surplus military hardware and vehicles given to local police departments will finally see use.

[roamer65]

11. Vigilantes are "fair game".

Self defense applies.