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Strong Letters from Creditors
You might note that the President’s postings on his ‘Truth Social’ platform and on other news releases often conclude with the phrase ‘Thank you for your attention to this matter.’
I believe he learned that phrase from communications he probably was receiving over the years from those to whom he owed money and were not getting paid. It’s a typical conclusion found in strong letters from creditors to those who don’t pay their bills. Trump apparently thinks it is normal to be told that.
Actually, Donald Trump’s bills are now being paid these days! He lets you do it for him as documented in the ‘Big Beautiful Budget Bill’ he pressured Congress into passing with the threat of primary contests as his weapon. The very wealthy, including businesses run by the Trump family, pay less taxes and the government spends less on operations that benefit the people, taking the President’s personal balance sheet out of the red.
Still a mystery, however, is where the billion dollars a day the war in Iran is reportedly costing the United States is coming from. I don’t recall Congress voting to authorize it, which is its job according to the Constitution. As of this morning, questioning the specific objectives of our attack on Iran is not yet considered unpatriotic.
Tomorrow, it might be.
(Recall that Ko-Ko, the Lord High Executioner in Gilbert and Sullivan’s satirical operetta, ‘the Mikado,’ boasted that he was keeping ‘a little list of those who would not be missed,’ as pointed out on March 2 in Jackspotpourri. Others, today, may be keeping similar lists.)
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| Henry Lytton, acclaimed English actor, playing Ko Ko in a 1926 production of the Mikado |
JL
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More Reasons Not to Trust the President
Professor Heather Cox Richardson’s postings dated March 7 and March 9 on her ‘Letters from an American’ touches a lot of bases, quoting many sources, leading me to conclude that the President is playing the entire Iranian military situation by ear with no real objectives solidly in mind. His own words, varying from day to day, seem to prove it.
Click here or copy and paste https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/ on your device’s browser line to read about his inconsistencies.
If there’s a bottom line to this, it will be bad news for those sufficiently foolish or gullible to have voted for Trump and any candidates who support him.
JL
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Timothy Snyder’s Frightening Column – the Desire for Terror
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| Timothy Snyder |
A direct attack on the United States, in response to its attack on Iran, would enable undemocratic forces in this country to impose dictatorial powers in order to combat it. Professor Snyder, an expert on tyranny, wrote about this on March 8, and offers some thoughts as to who might attack the United States, and who in this country might welcome it. To read about it, please click here or copy and paste https://snyder.substack.com/p/the-desire-for-terror on your browser line.
JL
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Housekeeping on Jackspotpourri
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More on the Sources of Information in Jackspotpourri: The sources of information used by Jackspotpourri include a delivered local daily ‘paper’ newspaper (now the South Florida Sun Sentinel) and what appears in my daily email; that includes the views of many contributors, including the New York Times and other respected journals.
Be aware that when I open that email, I first quickly glance at and screen out those sent to my very old former email address and those considered ‘promotional’ by Gmail’s system as no more than advertisements or requests for donations.
Besides these sources, I also utilize the Google search engine where I can look up any subject I want. Lately, these search results have been headed by a very generalized summary clearly labeled as being developed by AI (Artificial Intelligence). On occasion I might use such search results, but when I do, I will say that I am doing so. Generally, however, I try not to use such summaries in preparing Jackspotpourri.
Following such ‘AI’ search results, there follows the other results of my search. *Unlike the anonymous AI-generated summaries, the sources of these results are clearly indicated, giving them a greater credibility than any AI summary. I feel that It comes down to who YOU want to be in the driver’s seat in seeking information: yourself or something else (Artificial Intelligence), the structure of which somewhere along the way had to have been created by others, with whose identity I am neither familiar nor comfortable. At least when I read a column by Timothy Snyder, for example, I know from where it comes, and to some extent, what to expect.
Caution should be exercised in using Artificial Intelligence. Always!
JL
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