Too be fair Gavin Newsom would LOVE to play a role like Guiliani did after 9/11, it was the prime of his life and the righteousness came quick and hard to silence critics in those days… Gavin might actually have a remote chance to win president as a heroic and embattled defender from terrorism in a way that he could never win if he is stuck having to actually talk about policy during “peacetime”.
Welp, prepare for war my friends. It is coming to the US far faster than I think people want to admit they logically know it is.
Hours after a terrorist attack on California, Techbros will have already spammed an astroturf campaign using military AI flush with government contract cash about how the only way to make sure this never happens again is to fully eradicate civil liberties and privacy rights and all of California will eat it up hook line and sinker because people in California think they aren’t as stupid as people everywhere else due to having so many tech companies nearby and so they will think “this is a New Thing” and “we should Just Trust The Authoritarians Who Have Our Best Interests At Heart.”
Meanwhile all regulation of big tech will flip on its head and become regulation of the government by big tech.
Then conservatives all over the country will say “look this is why liberals can’t keep you safe and be strong men on foreign policy like us!” and the mainstream media and center of the US will eat that narrative right up too, slamming the afterburners of fascism and rightwing bigotry in this country all the way up to 11 in a matter of days.
Do you see how vulnerable the US is? Why we need to take this dead seriously? If you fly one drone into the mainland US, everybody will lose their minds and the current political status quo will fly apart quicker than anyone expects… and it if it happens it will most certainly benefit extremist rightwing conservatives who don’t give a fuck about keeping you safe, they just want to kill more brown people.
Ah, I see. I thought you were claiming it was feasible or possible for Iran to attack California. You are more talking about the US doing a false flag on its own citizens.
I want to believe that US citizens learned from the jingoistic nonsense of The War on Terror, but the US people are currently falling into fascism. Our best bet is the general distrust in mainstream media the average US hog feels to not trust such an obvious false flag scenario.
No, I am talking about a “happy coincidence” for rightwing religious extremism on both sides.
The attack would very likely be Iranian though maybe as an extra middle finger they might build it out of western components for the political symbolism, but no I don’t think the current US regime is competent enough to do such an act of treason behind the backs of all of the different surveillance agencies and branches of military in the US.
It would stink of very bad shit from miles away in the US, thankfully I don’t see that as likely for many different reasons. Everybody worth a damn in the periphery or that was leaned on to do the grunt work by dumb fascists for the actual implementation of the plan would leak the shit out of the details of such a heinous thing.