Disturbing

I heard about some rich moron (I read his interview, and the guy believes a lot of bullshit) funding the South Dakota National Guard to go to the Mexican border, and that raises a lot of issues in and of itself. (Like - can anybody with enough money hire them out? Are they now acting like a private mercenary force? Wtf?!?)

But this Twitter thread indicates other governors are doing the same. Though perhaps not with funding by wealthy fools?

I haven't been able to confirm all the states mentioned in the thread, though a quick search did show Arizona was doing the same. (To the Arizona border? Or to Texas? And I'm assuming the SD guard is going to Texas)

Coincidentally enough, Trump is at the border now.

Anyways, although I have a hard time imagining the Guard would go along with anything too foolish (many of the members served on active duty before joining the Guard, and even though the National Guard reports to the governor they're generally patriotic and loyal to the US as a whole) it almost sounds like the kind of bone headed plan we've seen from these morons all along, in that they might, possibly, think that they can build their own army and are foolish enough to think the guardsmembers will blindly follow orders to fight the federal government.