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The week's question
In March 2025, in the thread "Re: OT, out", Umm asked the members: "Do you think it is because America is made up of magical soil that makes businesses based in America magically profitable?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: ges ✧❂🐝 HONORARY
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Subject: Wise words for West Point grads
Date: 05/25/25 9:47 PM
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Our noble POTUS imparted words of wisdom to the graduates of West Point. Advice they can carry with them for the rest of their lives.

“…a trophy wife. it didn’t work out too well. but it doesn’t— and that doesn’t work out too well, I must tell you. a lot of trophy wives. doesn’t work out. but it made him happy for a little while, at least. but he found a new wife. he sold his little boat, he got a big yacht, one of the biggest yachts anywhere in the world. he moved for a time to Monte Carlo, but he lived a good life. and time went by and he got bored, and fifteen years later, the company that he sold to called him, and they said, ‘the housing business is not for us.’ you have to understand, when Bill Levitt was hot, when he had momentum, he’d go to the job sites every night. he’d pick up every loose nail. he’d pick up every scrap of wood. if there was a bolt or a screw laying on the ground he’d pick it up.”

A narcissist will be the last person to understand that they are losing it mentally.
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