The Blitz

Hello, good morning if you're just waking up! Anything interesting going on over there, wherever you are? Looking forward to spring/or (if you're one of those aberrations living on the underside of the human home world) autumn? How's the car running, hanging in there still? Did your dog and/or cat get that minor surgery it needed? I'm sure it looks funny with the cone on its neck, ha ha! Kids doing OK in school? Did you end up having to hold that one back a year after they got kicked in the head by that horse at the petting zoo when you guys were on that budget trip to Bulgaria? How about work, is that still good? Work? No? No work?

Hey, either way, it could be worse, you could be like me and having to look to the skies for a rain of steel and flame manifesting fiery geopolitical vengeance from above.

To be clear, I'm not exactly panicking about this. We don't have an Iron Dome over here like Israel or anything, we have something more powerful: the lack of any commensurate experience by anyone in living memory. As long as we don't get bombed, being bombed remains unimaginable. Basically we are on a very long successful streak of fending off disasters with our hopes. Not all disasters, we've been pretty spotty on those, but the ones that look and smell and feel like war on domestic soil. Everyone here is keeping our collective shit together despite the (still vague) threat. We're doing normal California shit like not taking public transit and gloating about the weather we've clearly intentionally manifested/deserve as people. If something should happen to (literally?) pierce that feeling of invulnerability, however, be prepared for a collapse of composure we haven't seen since 1993. Just more on a societal level.

Southern California is pretty big and I live a fair distance inland, in a spread-out exurb away from any targets of value (as far as I know), so I don't feel all that personally threatened, but my main concern is that if Trump is in the market for regime change with his Iran thing, would he also be willing to let Iran bomb California to try to accelerate some regime change right here in the state?

We know for example that he has a penchant for withholding or withdrawing support for stuff or people he has decided don't bow and/or scrape low enough for his liking. And further, he's specifically picked out California for his own form of malignant neglect according to his whim.

Would he go the whole way and hold back military protection from a blue state if it were attacked by a foreign power? I mean look, we already started bombing Iran, as the internet would understate, "for... reasons?" And it's important that you say it that way if you speak it out loud, "FOR DOT DOT DOT REASONS QUESTION MARK." Win any debate instantly with that technique, especially if screamed.

Of course this is not the time for irony or mocking. We're a nation at war. Or, er, not really at war, but you know, a war-like, uh, conflict. Which is awkward since they just spent a bunch of time and money and vomiting red-meat into microphones insisting that the Department of Defense is now the Department of The-Double-U-Word. It's tough to claim your disinterested in a thing when it's now on the letterhead of all the new stationery you just ordered. I've never seen an administration backtrack and double down at the same time, but I guess these are unprecedented times for a reason.

What that reason is specifically, like all things of this particularly stupid historical moment, evades me. Ideally any potential drone strikes in proximity to my home area do the same.