Dear California,
Please go back to sleep. You will be promptly notified if you are hit with an attack of WMD magnitude.
Until that time; please keep you commentary to yourselves and let the adults handle events.
Thank you.
Hey now, we're not all idiots. I think the journalist was the biggest idiot with his stupid leading paragraph. Then there were a few dimwits interviewed, however some of the people knew what was going on.