Events

The US and Israel have launched "major military operations" in Iran, with no strategic clarity or stated rationale other than "regime change:"

I promised to include former White House speech writer James Fallows' reaction to Tuesday night's Klan rally State of the Union address. Suffice it to say, Fallows was not pleased:

In his latest post, satirist Jeff Maurer argues that the Democrats in Congress walked into a trap "genitals first" when the OAFPOTUS "invited" Congress to stand in support of a fairly basic premise of national sovereignty. (My representative, Mike Quigley, skipped the speech.) The OAFPOTUS counted on the Democrats remaining seated, and he was right. As Maurer says,

I did promise reactions to the unrelenting stream of bullshit we all heard last night, so let's go:

I eagerly await James Fallows' take on last night's clown-car-hits-dumpster-fire, and I'm holding off my "SOTU reax roundup" post until I can include his. It turns out, the world didn't stop for two hours yesterday: