Tone deaf. This has boomerang potential. More so than 2016. Trump doesn't know it, but as far as public opinion is concerned he is on a much shorter leash than back then. He's now a known entity. His opposition is aware, if out of power. He will be a hated man.

he will be making many enemies.

Stay safe but don't let them win, whether big or small.

I wonder what those numbers have been lately.

All it will take from (what I read about that immigration bill - has the senate passed it too? god I hope not), this bill would allow neighbors or strangers to 'snitch' on POC - and all they have to say is I /think/ they are a gang member (or I think they are a shoplifter) and they can be DETAINED, without any kind of due process. They are assumed to have no rights and assumed to be undocumented aliens.

What is Trump going to call his prison work camps?

I cry for America. Please don't snitch on People of Color, it is so wrong, so un-American, so NAZI

He started showing up at units not going to Vietnam. They even did a story on it in the Air Force Times.

I know one, and she can't wait to herd the "illegals" out of here. I doubt she knows they're Christian, like she is.

only now the power will be used for evil

nationalization, however, their authorities also shift - from Article 32 (which includes inherent law enforcement authority) to Title 10 (which includes law enforcement powers only in the very limited circumstances of insurrection or breakdown of civil authority).

For a National Guard unit to be effective with respect to enforcing immigration, retaining a Governor's Command and Control would be needed. Where the courts have prevented Governors from enforcing immigration law, it has been when the Federal Government asserts exclusive federal jurisdiction. That will not happen and I'd instead anticipate federal/state support and cooperation agreements pursuant to a declared national immigration emergency.

The symbol of being a safe person for POC and others in harm's way?

I never took mine off. I will never support this criminal gang or their unAmerican activities. I will support every act of subversive, every bit of opposition, and defend or protect anyone in harm's way because of deconstruction 2025. Felon traitor's enemies are my friends.

enameled white rose pin, which gives me plausible deniability if management asks questions.

So I kept it on.

are not full-time soldiers. Activating them for an indefinite time for a nebulous mission will fuck with their real jobs.

Resistance in the National Guard and the Military in general to Trump's illegal and unconstitutional actions will be critical. People should not resign. They should stay in the military and ally with others in the military who agree with them about not following illegal and unconstitutional orders. Soldiers take an oath to protect the U.S. Constitution. They are also trained to not follow illegal orders. We need people to stay in the Guard and the Military to form a resistance that is loyal to the Constitution, not to Trump. If people that are loyal to the Constitution and opposed to dictatorship leave the military only MAGA forces will remain. Or at least people that are not opposed to following illegal orders or supporting a Fascist Police State.

So there needs to be an organized alliance of soldiers in the military that opposes Trump's illegal plans. This is to prevent a complete takeover of the military by the MAGA forces. There also needs to be a cadre of top officers that are loyal to the Constitution, not to the Dictator Trump. I know General Milley is retired, but frankly he should be the one using his Pentagon contacts to organize this. He is the highest ranking and most visible officer that has come out against Trump and has even called him a wannabe Dictator. We need to maintain maximum loyalty to the Constitution in the military and maximum opposition to dictatorship.

This also applies to federal law enforcement as well, especially FBI but also other agencies. And this also applies to the federal government in general. We must maintain control over as much of the government as possible. If Trump does a mass firing of those who will not take loyalty oaths to him we must fight it in the courts but we should frankly use those people and form some sort of opposition government in blue states controlled by Democratic Governors and Democratic Legislatures. If Trump is going to form a Fascist Police State in this country, we have a natural right and a moral obligation to form a legal resistance and an opposition government.

As far as the MAGA gang going after criminals first, this is right out of the Nazi play book. First they go after undesirables. Once they normalize that, they expand their range and go after other populations. Originally the Nazis went after the mentally ill and the severely disabled. They made a euthanasia law and started executing the disabled and called it mercy killing. This was a dry run for the Holocaust. The program was called Aktion T4. Look it up, there is a Wikipedia article. Anyway once they developed the methods to kill the disabled and normalized it, they expanded the program and that was the start of the mass murders and the eventual formation of the death camps. These people start small and then expand. They must be stopped.

Service members individually must refuse to obey an illegal order - but it realistically must be on it's face illegal,
e.g. "Sergeant, are you really ordering me to shoot the prisoner?" or "Lieutenant, are you telling me to fire on the non-combatants?"

Organized resistance is mutiny. Article 94 of the UCMJ defines Mutiny and Sedition. Participation in, or failing to suppress mutiny or sedition by a member of the Uniformed Services may be punished by death or as a court-martial may direct.

The death penalty likely would apply only in wartime. "As a court-martial may direct" includes up to life without parole.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/10/894

So what should we do if and when soldiers are ordered to do something illegal like shooting demonstrators? What is the remedy? Or do we just let this new Police State roll over us with no resistance?

applicable to everyone.

I was a Soldier for 25 years. If I was given an order that was on it's face illegal (and I never was), I would not have complied. If it's not clearly illegal, it's not in a Service Member's job jar to resolve. The Chain of command can sort it out in the courts...sorting it out in your court-martial for mutiny is a fatal move.

I'll add that civilian control over the military is an existential imperative. Derogate that to civilian control - if and the military feels like it - and you have already lost our nation before any election is ever factored in. Our adversaries would never wait for the dust to settle if it thought the military was ignoring civilian control.