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.
Why would they attack California. Florida makes much more sense.
Geographically, I think the US military and allies pretty much have the Atlantic buttoned up (the Arctic aside) compared to the vastness of the Pacific along with its many potentially opposing powers with long reaches on the other side of it.
Politically, Big Tech is in California.
I don’t believe this FBI for shit.
No, me neither for the record. Kash Patel is a joke as Director and the FBI failed to stop an armed coup organized on facebook in the open from happening… and the FBI was worse than useless BEFORE those things even happened.
However I think the warning here is real, the fundamental design advantage of a shahed-like flying bomb is that they can be built and then launched from almost anywhere. There is no hunting down every drone and launch point the way you could conceivably do so with say missile trucks.
The key point Ukraine has underlined over and over again is that distance is no matter to long range strike drones, even smaller ones can cover large ranges and take circuituous routes to targets, this makes the natural impunity to attack most people in the US assume we have an illusion in a way it never really has been up until this point. Ukraine is thoroughly teaching Russia this lesson the hard way for Russia, the rest of the world would do well to elect to learn these lessons proactively before shit hits the fan for them.
Iran could not likely seriously hurt the US, but it could fly a couple of shaheds into targets and exploit the media coverage to send the whole country into a panic and that would unfortunately likely be enough for the US to completely have amnesia about the existential dangers of supporting fascist domestic politics and Islamophobia. see Iraq and Afghanistan Wars…
I want to emphasize, I am not advocating for being terrified Iran can fly a drone into your house, fearmongering about terrorists from the middle east invading our shores are indeed very dangerous narratives to feed into given the long brutal history of Islamophobia in the US. What I am saying there is the political possibility Iran could leverage a handful of very small scale strikes on the US to impact world politics.
Look at the tiny little fluffy song birds every year making massive migrations up and down the Americas that put to shame any kind of journey you have ever undertaken and think about how that applies to North America’s vulnerability to small aerial UAV attack based on the basic physics logic being expressed here by the counterintuitive reality “tiny thing go far”.
Are these things capable of flying across the ocean? If so, why would Iran send them across the Pacific instead of the much closer Atlantic? It would make more sense to hit Washington or New York than California.
Ukraine drone striking Russia is a very different situation as Ukraine is not seperated by 8,000 miles of ocean from Russia. It is much easier to secretly load trucks with drones than it is to secretly load boats with them.
Iran is doing enough damage bombing military US assets in the middle east and closing the Straight of Hormuz. It would be nonsensical to overextend in this manner.
It seems absurd to even entertain the idea that Iran would send drone strikes to California. It would be a stupid action only the USA would attempt to do since it seems obvious such an attack would galvanize the US into more military action, which Iran doesn’t want.
You ever heard of a narco boat? One of those rigged to launch shahed type flying bombs would work wonders on US politics for Republicans.
Even if the boat was a piece of unproperly prototyped trash, just the imagery of it washing up on the shores of California broken would make the price well worth if for those that want to accelerate rightwing extremism on both sides of the Iran-Israel/US War.
It seems absurd to even entertain the idea that Iran would send drone strikes to California.
I know it seems absurd but my point is that this is a collective delusion the US is putting itself through.
This attack wouldn’t be some kind of devastating hit on the US, in terms of impact yes having to launch an attack across the world would make it only feasible for Iran to make a handful of small strikes, but that is irrelevant to the US media and political ruling class. All of that would be completely and utterly invisibilized in the media panic and political narratives as the imagery of a couple of shahed attacks on US soil was repeated over and over again.
Further the nano second attacks like these happened on US soil the government would baselessly declare them intimately tied to Antifa “radical leftists” and up the violence against peaceful protestors in the US tenfold while Chuck Schumer and the mainstream media cheered them on. ICE violence against migrants and perceived migrants could also be raised tenfold without any accountability. Finally, they can integrate the new kid on the block “Narcoterrorists” into the story with immediately baselessly claiming it was narcoterrorist groups in central america that helped facilitate the attack for Iran and that was why murdering the fisherman on boats was necessary blah blah blah… Does this sound familiar?
“Truth be told, this is just a narco boat. You know, we stole the idea from friends down south,” Brig. Gen. Simon Doran, who is currently the director of strategy and plans for the Marine Corps, said in 2024. “And so this is, you know, 55-feet long, completely autonomous. It’s able to go hundreds or thousands of miles. It’s able to carry weapon systems that we have that are new. It can carry fuel. It can carry food. It can carry pretty much anything you want to put in it.”
https://defensescoop.com/2026/03/04/alpv-autonomous-low-profile-vessel-marine-corps-diu/
I have to ask… were you really not paying attention during the 9/11 US years because this is the same bullshit repeated over and over again?
As a final note on this part of what you said…
Are these things capable of flying across the ocean? If so, why would Iran send them across the Pacific instead of the much closer Atlantic? It would make more sense to hit Washington or New York than California.
…let me point you to the Bar-Tailed Godwit
On September 28, one small bird completed a very long flight. An adult, male Bar-tailed Godwit, known by its tag number 4BBRW, touched down in New South Wales, Australia, after more than 8,100 miles in transit from Alaska —flapping its wings for 239 hours without rest, and setting the world record for the longest continual flight by any land bird by distance. And 4BBRW isn’t even done yet. In the next few days, the Godwit is expected to end its southbound migration in New Zealand after its well-earned island stopover, says Adrian Riegen, a builder from West Auckland and a passionate birdwatcher.
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The exact distance traveled varies from flock to flock and individual to individual. The birds make navigational decisions to optimize favorable winds and avoid severe weather—and one tenth of a degree of difference in the starting angle could add or subtract mileage. Even with all these variables, godwits are startlingly accurate and consistent, returning to the same sites year after year and setting off on their migrations within a window of a few days. “There’s one particular bird that goes [north] almost exactly on the 25th of March every year and has done for 13 years,” Riegen says.
Distance is an illusionary barrier for small unmanned vehicles.
https://nextgendefense.com/us-firm-hybrid-seaglider/
https://www.wesodonnell.com/p/ukraines-drone-boats-are-now-aircraft
https://www.kyivpost.com/post/55694
https://militarnyi.com/en/news/kraken-to-develop-stealthy-naval-drones-for-us-special-operations/
It doesn’t even need to be something exotic. Drones can fit in shipping containers and be launched either from a warehouse or the ship itself. Fully visible, just with a fake manifest. Ukraine performed a drone attack deep into Russia by transporting the drones in pre built tiny houses and having unsuspecting truck drivers move them into position.
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.
You mean Kash Patel’s FBI that helped redact pedophile Donald Trump from the Epstein files?
Yeah, I’ll go ahead and assume this is a lie used as justification for our new war in Iran.
