Politely Put or Just Plain Weird: "Thank you for your attention to this matter." Now is the time for peace or you sign your own death warrant, thank you, says Donald J. Trump

 

Trump, oddly, ended his Truth Social post announcement of the attack on Iran with the phrase typcially used to close a collection letter. This is also called a dunning letter.

This comes from a president known for not paying bills.

In the two historic “truths” he used the phrase “thank you.” While it is odd, a head scratcher, in the first context, it is totally bouncing off the walls odd in the second. This is an outright warning, a death threat, against Iran. Who, in the name of holy hell raining from the heavens, is he thanking? Is he thanking the reader of his message for reading the message? Is this his version of closing a letter with “sincerely yours” or “yours truly?”

Is the “thank you” meant for the leaders of Iran? Is he saying “thank you for not signing your own death warrant?’ This is macabre.

While others are writing about far more serious matters like whether or not Trump has fired the first shot in what will turn out to be an endless war, this oddity stood out to me. 

Trump doesn’t seem to care, if he even knows, that these messages will be studied and parsed by students of history. We know he has speech writers who can craft words that actually sound like they come from a sane person. (He only meandered off the written words a few time in this presentation about the attack.) 

His inserting “thank you” in these consequential posted messages may seem to some to be trivial, but obviously I view this as demonstrating that Trump, who takes every opportunity to call Biden a dumb and demented president, is either dumb, deranged, or both.

Nobody should be wondering whether or not Trump’s decision to bomb Iran was made with due deliberation and analysis of possibly short and long term consequences. Trump was being called Donald Two Weeks (web search).

This led me to wonder if he took this to mean Donald Too Weak. It is possible that his decision was ultimately a reaction to the perception that he wasn’t the Rambo-tough warrior he fancies himself to be. 

Recommended more serious reading:

Trump Claims 'Peace' With Iran Will Come While Threatening Further War

Scroll down to the bottom of this HUFFPOST article to see what Reid Smith, the vice president of foreign policy at Stand Together, an organization founded by the right-wing billionaire Charles Koch, had to say.

There are more updates to this here.

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There may be those who remember history and want to repeat it. --- "History warns us: every major economic crash has led to a world war. Trump’s corruption, debt, and tariffs may be lighting the fuse." Thom Hartmann

 

Read Thom Hartmann's Substack. The subtitle, "history warns us: every major economic crash has led to a world war. Trump’s corruption, debt, and tariffs may be lighting the fuse…" is what my partner, Ann, just read to me when she looked at this and said I should read Thom’s Substack.

When I did, I thought of two sayings about history. The obvious one is about what happens to those who don't learn from history. We can thank George Santayana's “The Life of Reason, or The Phases of Human Progress" for "those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."

The other is from Shakespeare: "What's past is prologue." This is a quotation from his play The Tempest. Of course it now means that history sets the context for the present.

What this doesn't address is that it is possible that there are those in power who do understand this. When it comes to a depression, they don't care. Far more alarming, when it comes to war, they may actually want one. Trump who enjoys playing the wrestling villain, generally bullying all his enemies, and his macho posturing henchmen like Hegeseth and Homan, (and a few henchwomen) may actually want a war.

They have all these weapons. To them they may be toys they are itching to play with. It's not like when I drove across country for the first time before moving to Portland to visit before moving here from Massachusetts. This was in a fast sports car. At 5:00 AM with no cars on the highway I waited for a very wide woodsy divided median on a straight stretch so there wouldn't be a police car on the oposite side to clock my speed. Then floored it. I got it up to 140 mph before the governor on the car wouldn't let me go any faster. It was scary and exhilerating. Boys will be boys, right?

All I risked was a hefty speeding ticket and maybe one for reckless driving, not starting a war. (I may have gotten off with a warning because the many cops I've known like to have a chance to engage in a high speed chase and open up their giant engine police cars and see how fast they can go. I know some have done this in the wee hours of the morning because when I was a reserve cop myself we clocked a sheriff deputy at over 120mpg when we were running radar from a bridge over the expressway though town.)

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