I think he knows his chances of getting a full blown dictatorship off the ground are getting very narrow. And while he may believe he's not really inviting someone to blow up San Diego, in his authoritarian brain, he needs to punish people for not going along with him. So why not California? They've been bucking him the whole time. They're big and successful and blue, and since he loves a good sweeping generalization, they all hate him, even the Republican voters there - but since they haven't risen up and helped him enough, it can only mean they're disloyal, so they should be punished too. The whole state is a kind of personification of people not going along with him. They should all be punished.
That's all he's got. It's all he's ever had. Force is the only tool in his kit. He wields it in a few different ways, but it always comes back to him trying to force you to do something he wants done. Of course, he's creepy and cowardly about it - always looking to get someone else to do the dirty work - so it's another in an unbroken string of Stochastic Terrorism.
It doesn't happen like it does in a movie - or how we learned about "The Crash" in school.
This country is really strong, in spite of what we've been hearing. So it takes a long time to tear it all down.
And the catastrophic failure that may, in fact, be coming our way, is not here yet. The fall could certainly be accelerated by some big event that seems to come out of the blue, or there could be any number of things that we already know about that happen in concert. Or whatever.
I don't claim to know, and I seriously believe nobody does. We're all in it together, and we all have to do what we can to prepare for it - hoping it's not as bad as some are saying it'll be.
How's that for a rosy 'good morning' on this fine Monday?
Maybe it's because his brain is going smooth, or maybe it's because he knows there are plenty of rubes out here who still hang on his every word, and will swallow every little piece of shit he floats down to them.
Guys like BKjr can't help but self-sabotage eventually. They have to blow themselves up, and they go way out of their way to take a lot of us with them - their egos demand it.
Here I am in MAGA-occupied America, cheering for an "opponent" to kick our ass.
And maybe I'm being a little over-dramatic, but it feels pretty weird - like maybe this is how the French or the Dutch felt in 1944, waiting for liberation.
Typical of the top-down management-by-asshole style that's apparently all the rage in the Trump regime, Hegseth seems to think the problem isn't actually the problem - the problem is that people know about the problem.
Gosh - companies have been treating employees worse and worse for more than 40 years, and now the plutocrats are whining about how everybody seems to have a bad attitude?
What a puzzlement. These schmucks have to be the dumbest smart guys ever.