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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: albaby1 ✶❂🐝 GOLD
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Subject: Re: Trump confesses
Date: 06/04/26 4:17 PM
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What is incentivizing him, may be exposed, when the books are published.

What could it possibly be? What plausible incentive would be sufficient to cause him to deliberately suffer all these problems? Deliberately causing one of the worst energy crises in history results in massive political unpopularity which undermines every single other thing he's trying to do (from his IRS grift to the ballroom to you name it), jeopardizes all the billions of dollars of sweet sovereign wealth money from Gulf States who know have huge holes punched in their budgets and raw feelings towards Trump for blowing up their spot, makes him personally unpopular and appear unable to achieve his goals (which he hates), and gets virtually every country in the world ticked off at his policy.

What possible incentive could possibly exist?
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