Annnd then we bombed Iran

So, to be clear: the U.S. is once again committing war crimes by attacking a sovereign foreign nation -- in this particular case, because Israel decided to commit war crimes by attacking a sovereign foreign nation, but I swear to fucking God this happens every single time we get a Republican president in office and I'm going to really need people to quit electing these assholes. 

And by all accounts it was an amazingly sophisticated tactical operation, which is almost a shame since the strategy behind it appears to be 100% bullshit all the way down. Current reports -- the ones that aren't just idiotically repeating the White House's claims, anyway -- suggest that we probably didn't destroy any fissile material, we don't currently know where Iran's supply of it even is, and we've given them a splendid rationale for actively creating nuclear weapons of their own. No point in non-proliferation if the nations making treaties with you are just going to turn around and attack you anyway. 

Plus, we've got our own secret police -- what else can you call them when they show up in masks and refuse to identity themselves in any way? -- kidnapping and disappearing American citizens, legal visitors to the country, and the "good ones" who are seeking legal citizenship while the President is basically trying to sabotage the State of California by pulling the National Guard away from firefighting and having them sit around with their thumbs up their asses in Los Angeles instead. A president whose chief of staff -- the guy currently vetting security for basically the entire Executive Branch -- apparently hasn't submitted any of the paperwork to get vetted himself and probably isn't at all who he says he is. And that's after the unelected druggy billionaire and his cronies got turned loose to data mine government data -- data that's now almost certainly in the hands of anybody who wants it, because these guys have a worse sense of operational security than my younger son did at age six.

I'm so tired. Angry, but also so tired. And I really don't think I'm exaggerating when I say that's it's going to take the country forty years or more to recover from this assault; with this much damage done, we're going to have to rebuild the federal government from the ground up -- and without the collected institutional knowledge of how it used to work. 

On the bright side... My family's healthy, the boys are happy, we aren't struggling for resources (yet -- the tariff bullshit has a pretty long fuse, and disappearing farmworkers is going to have effects downstream sooner or later) and nobody is currently bombing our suburb. If I didn't give a shit about other people, it'd be pretty easy to pretend everything was fine.