{"id":1971,"date":"2026-10-08T15:11:30","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T15:11:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zeppscommentaries.online\/?p=1971"},"modified":"2026-10-08T15:11:30","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T15:11:30","slug":"bombs-awry-behind-the-bluster-a-real-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zeppscommentaries.online\/?p=1971","title":{"rendered":"Bombs Awry! Behind the bluster, a real threat"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bombs Awry!<\/b><\/p>\n

Behind the bluster, a real threat<\/b><\/p>\n

Bryan Zepp Jamieson<\/i><\/p>\n

October 7th<\/sup>, 2026<\/i><\/p>\n

With nearly everyone else, I would have just assumed that Trump\u2019s remarks about \u201cLet them take out San Diego [or] Los Angeles\u201d would just result from garbled phrasing. With a lot of extemporaneous speeches, the spoken word sounds more coherent than it would appear in writing, especially since the spoken word has all sorts of cues that words on paper lack: tone, pitch, timbre, pauses, timing, and of course facial expressions and body language. Anyone who has caught flak for being funny or \u201ccute\u201d on line realizes that humor without those cues can often be missed or misinterpreted\u2014along with the fact that a given percentage of your readers are going to be humorless twats.<\/p>\n

With Trump, that benefit of the doubt can\u2019t really apply. Humor is out: he\u2019s a cold, cruel man whose idea of hilarity lies in mocking and hurting the weak and defenseless. Forty-eight hours after he said that and the uproar began, his lackeys have spun endless \u201cwhat he meant\u201d excuses, but Trump himself has made no effort to correct or amend his remarks. He meant it.<\/p>\n

These days his speeches totally lack any sense of real purpose, but are the same collection of prepackaged spiel that he uses regardless of occasion or tone that the speech might require. He\u2019ll tell the same \u201cyou knew I was a snake\u201d story at a campaign rally or at a military memorial. I\u2019m not sure he has any actual understanding of half of what he says, but is just repeating himself like a broken Chatty Cathy doll.<\/p>\n

And there is the constant element of actual malice. Trump hates California; not only has the state voted against him overwhelmingly in all three elections he\u2019s faced, but it\u2019s home to Governor Gavin Newsom, who was one of the first politicians to openly mock him, and did so very well. It\u2019s also home to late night entertainers like Stephen Colbert or Jimmy Kimmel, along with all the hated Hollywood personalities who have stepped forth to oppose him.<\/p>\n

The right wing propaganda campaign is that prosperous social democratic states like California, and especially California, are in reality vast wastelands of homelessness, drug use, immigrants and homosexuals. Even here in far northern California, which admittedly is quite different from the rest of the state, it\u2019s not hard to find MAGAts complaining about what a hellhole the \u2018dumocrats\u2019 have turned California into. If you ask them what makes their lives in California a living hell, they\u2019re usually reduced to bitching about gas prices, and the two point two cents per gallon in taxes that were added since Newsom became governor. (Yes, I\u2019ve actually had people tell me that 2.2 cents is the reason prices are so high!) But this plays into Trump\u2019s paws, and even if the vast majority of Californians know the agitprop campaign is bullshit, people in Nebraska and other places eat it up, and even cheer the promised destruction of that librul hellhole to the west that is why their taxes suck, or something.<\/p>\n

Finally, Trump is scared and desperate. Most of his policies have blown up in his face, he\u2019s the least popular president since polling began, and increasingly, it looks like Dems will pick up dozens of seats in the House and perhaps a half dozen seats in the Senate.<\/p>\n

Even Trump has to realize that in the aftermath of such a shellacking, his own party will largely turn against him. He has to seriously consider the consequences of being convicted, expelled, and put on trial for a huge assortment of crimes.<\/p>\n

He needs a 9\/11, a Reichstag fire, an October 7th<\/sup>. To that end, he might consider creating at least the impression of a catastrophe hitting in America, and if there is to be such a thing, have it in a place he doesn\u2019t care about, such as Los Angeles or San Diego.<\/p>\n

While I doubt this would result in mushroom clouds over either of those cities, I could image \u201cnuclear devices\u201d being \u201cdiscovered\u201d in those locales, obviously snuck in by Iranians, or perhaps Canadians. And hey, if that caused widespread panic in southern California that interfered with voting, why, so much the better! Two birds, one stone, right?<\/p>\n

I suspect that given the level of competence and intelligence we\u2019re seen from his administration, any such effort would backfire on him. His ability to bullshit his way out of any threat has worn thin. People realize Mexico isn\u2019t sending rapists, Iran doesn\u2019t have nukes, Haitians aren\u2019t eating our dogs and cats, they aren\u2019t forcing gender change on kids at school, and Canada isn\u2019t shipping tons of fentanyl into the US inside Iranian nuclear plants. (Apparently nuclear plants are illicit drug factories. Stop by your local atomic plant and pick up a couple dime bags for the kids on Halloween!) In short, the Donald softshoe show has run its course.<\/p>\n

But if we assume that Trump can\u2019t conjure up some sort of credible crisis to save his ass, the threat level escalates after the election, especially if it makes clear that Trump has lost control of Congress and possibly his own party. (I don\u2019t think he\u2019s going to try to cancel the election. Even his flunkies realize that might spark a widespread revolt and a very one-sided civil war he would lose.)<\/p>\n

But in<\/i> extremis<\/i>, he\u2019ll do everything he can to maintain control, and he\u2019ll be a raging and unpredictable mass of howling paranoia and narcissistic end-stage rage. He\u2019ll be extremely dangerous. He\u2019ll risk anything and everything. He may even forbid Congress from convening in January.<\/p>\n

For Californians, there\u2019s an extra element of danger. He hates us because we are \u201cdisloyal\u201d and \u201clibrul\u201d. And he is perfectly willing to punish \u2018blue states.\u2019<\/p>\n

Example: under all presidents since FEMA was established, there was no difference in emergency FEMA request grants among various states. It was a steady 85-90%. In Trump\u2019s second term, that has changed. Red states enjoy the same 85-90% approval rate. Blue states are seeing a 20% approval rate. It\u2019s almost like natural disasters no longer afflict blue states! Yeah, that must be it.<\/p>\n

But meanwhile, California is looking at the winter from hell. The most recent projections of El Ni\u00f1o<\/span> effects are flat out terrifying. One model I saw showed expected precipitation along the California coast to be an absurd 300-500% of normal for December through March, which is our wet season. If that actually comes to pass, the floods and landslides would be catastrophic!<\/p>\n

Federal relief? Fuhgeddaboutit. We\u2019re a 20% state\u2014if we\u2019re lucky. More than likely, Trump would just station troops along Oregon, Nevada and Arizona border to shoot Californians trying to escape. So if you happen to have El Ni\u00f1o<\/span>\u2019s email, you might want to send a note politely asking it to hold off until mid January, when hopefully we\u2019ll have a new Congress and Trump has fled to Russia.<\/p>\n

Otherwise, we\u2019re on our own. Good luck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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