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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: elann ✸✹🐝  😊 😞
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Subject: Re: Canada is seeking new friends
Date: 09/15/26 2:56 PM
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Yup. To Leftists, one the one hand, Trump is a sheer imbecile. A completely unintelligent, bombastic, low-class, total boob. The Stupidest Man Alive.

On the other hand, he is a master, demonic, Machiavellian strategist. All other world leaders are completely at his mercy. They are his puppets, totally.

Nothing happens in the entire world, unless somehow, Trump causes it to happen. He is omniscient. He is omnipotent.


Nice try, but no, there is no contradiction.

True, Trump is the stupidest man to ever occupy the White House. Not because he lacks intelligence but because he's a narcissistic psychopath. Because he has wrong and twisted ideas about the world, and his motivations are bad.

He is as close to being omnipotent as one could imagine, because he's been handed the most powerful military force in the world, and the strongest economy, to do with as he fantasizes, and he's abusing that power without any legal or moral restraints.

Demonic, sure. Machiavellian, maybe, in a stupid kind of way. If you think of world affairs as a three dimensional chess game, then Trump was given 80% of the pieces on the board, but he's playing it at the level of a kindergartener playing checkers.
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