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Yup, Newsom is a piece of shit for a bunch of reasons. He's also governor of a state that's had its own National Guard troops illegally mobilized against its own citizens, and he's saying the right things, loudly and clearly.
However.
Since those National Guard troops have been mobilized illegally (the mobilization order from the federal government goes through the governor, even if the governor didn't request it), Newsom has the duty as the commander of the California National Guard to order the Guard to ignore this illegal mobilization. I have a hard time thinking that Newsom and the state legal team don't know this. Of course, the fallout from that needs to be considered very solemnly, but to my mind, weighing that fallout against the effects of what is already happening is a simple measure.
If Gavin Newsom is the source for the claim that Gavin Newsom didn't know the Guard was going to be mobilized and did not want to allow it to happen, the most charitable interpretation I'll commit to is that we don't know the truth. The dude has two faces.
This is an astute observation.