Off the grid

[spot]

I might not find this a useful thread but who knows, Mr President is way off his head at this point.

I'm not going to track the rubbish noise, I'm simply going to note the length of periods when he's not seen addressing a camera day after day. My guess is they'll become more extensive and more frequent.

Who knows, I might even plot a graph.

Reagan got squirrelled away. I don't think that can happen any longer, I think Trump's team is in a bit of a dilemma. There may be a lot of "Today the President said" and suchlike which I'll ignore. Just days when he isn't addressing a camera. I shall ignore suggestions he may have a double because that would be something entirely different and beyond my skills.

We can consider it a countdown to the Vance Presidency. One can only hope it takes a long time, the longer the better. All the way to November 2026 would be surprising. All the way to November 2025 might be 50-50 the way this week is going.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... al-fitness

[LarsMac]

I must confess that, at this point, I fear the looming "Vance Administration" much more that whatever the incumbent Administration will come up with.

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They were explaining before that so many times they thought they could get there. It never happened, just never happened. I also want to thank Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and their teams at the State Department. And I see that we have Chris Wright, outside and Senator Steve Daines sitting right here.

Thank you, Chris. Thank you, very much. And Steve, thank you very much. And we have some other wonderful dignitaries including the dignitaries from your country, but they provided tremendous diplomatic assistance. And Marco, congratulations. It's a big thing, keep going. He's got many jobs. And then, of course, you would say Steve was quite influential.

I call him Henry Kissinger, who doesn't leak. For more than 35 years, Armenia and Azerbaijan have fought a bitter conflict that resulted in tremendous suffering for both nations. They suffered gravely for so many years. Many tried to find a resolution, including the European Union. The Russians worked very hard on it, never happened.

Sleepy Joe Biden tried, but you know what happened there. He tried for probably 12 minutes and didn't work out. And many other countries tried and they were unsuccessful. But with this accord, we've finally succeeded in making peace, and we just left the Oval Office, where we signed voluminous documents and very important elements to the agreement.

The country of Armenia and Azerbaijan are committing to stop all fighting forever, open up commerce, travel and diplomatic relations and respect each other's sovereignty and territorial integrity, so importantly. And I just spent a lot of time with these two men. I think they're going to have a great relationship, you want to know the truth.

They didn't see each other that much, but they probably will. I think they're going to have -- I think you two are going to have a great -- a great relationship. I have no doubt. And if you don't, call me and I'll straighten it out, OK? Very importantly, we have also resolved the key issue that foiled previous negotiations.

This declaration establishes what they are calling, a great honor for me. I didn't ask for this, the Trump route for International Peace and Prosperity, which is a special transit area that will allow Azerbaijan to get full access to its territory of Nakhichevan, while fully respecting Armenia's sovereignty.

So they're going to be able to really live and work together, and it's amazing. So, it's a very important territory, I guess, very special territory to you and to you and now they work it together. Armenia is also creating an exclusive partnership with the United States to develop this corridor, which could extend for up to 99 years.

And then they promise in 99 years, they'll extend it, right? You'll promise, but we anticipate significant infrastructure development by American companies. They're very anxious to go in to these two countries and they're going to spend a lot of money, a lot of money, which will economically benefit all three of our nations.

This is incredibly positive news for the future of the entire region and it's a very important region, as you know. Additionally, the US is signing a bilateral agreement with both countries to expand cooperation in energy trade and technology, including AI. And in terms of energy, Chris is here representing our country and there's nobody better than Chris Wright.

And Chris, I understand it's very fertile, it's very fertile area, so I appreciate everything you've done. You've done amazingly well.

You've got -- we've got the gasoline prices coming way down from where they were and it's really been something to watch. We are drilling like we haven't drilled in many years, I guess I could say ever before. And we just -- we just started. We're also lifting restrictions on defense cooperation between Azerbaijan and the United States of America.

https://rollcall.com/factbase/trump/tra ... st-8-2025/

[FourPart]

He's doing anything & everything to deflect from the Epstein Files.

[Bryn Mawr]

He's doing anything & everything to deflect from the Epstein Files.

Hi, how is life?

[FourPart]

Pretty good. Been in a new job since April last year as a Technical Analyst, working for Tucasi, a company that deals with Online Payments for Schools (SCOPay) - things like Dinners, Trips, Extended Day, Products, Lettings, etc. This also includes the Import of new Pupils & removal of old ones. Our Customer Base is the School Offices, with an extremely high Satisfaction rate, so the quality of calls is nothing like the aggressive & stressful ones I've had to deal with in the past. It's a job you can actually look forward to.
I'm on 3 weeks Leave at the moment, making use of the Summer Hols, when things can get mind numbingly dull, as not many Schools have anyone working the Offices then. But come September, it's going to be all Hell let loose with those Schools who didn't get things sorted at the end of Term & leave it until the last minute once the kids have actually started.

[Bryn Mawr]

Pretty good. Been in a new job since April last year as a Technical Analyst, working for Tucasi, a company that deals with Online Payments for Schools (SCOPay) - things like Dinners, Trips, Extended Day, Products, Lettings, etc. This also includes the Import of new Pupils & removal of old ones. Our Customer Base is the School Offices, with an extremely high Satisfaction rate, so the quality of calls is nothing like the aggressive & stressful ones I've had to deal with in the past. It's a job you can actually look forward to.
I'm on 3 weeks Leave at the moment, making use of the Summer Hols, when things can get mind numbingly dull, as not many Schools have anyone working the Offices then. But come September, it's going to be all Hell let loose with those Schools who didn't get things sorted at the end of Term & leave it until the last minute once the kids have actually started.

Best of luck

Good to hear your doing well - aggressive callers on a help desk I can certainly live without, I think I’d have a lot of line faults with the signal dropping out.

[LarsMac]

He's doing anything & everything to deflect from the Epstein Files.

Sadly, It actually seems to be working.

[spot]

He's doing anything & everything to deflect from the Epstein Files.

Sadly, It actually seems to be working.

My impression is that his supporters know absolutely that he's been a sex-crazed pest toward women for as long has he's been a socialite, Epstein's entourage included, and have never been fazed by it. Pussy-grabbing is fine in that half of America. Women are a sub-species. So long as nothing goes near a court he's in the clear.