Trump's Second Term

Interesting how it's all mixed up. Czech crown is strong because of ammo manufacturing (I guess). Dollar is weak because of Trump. Crown vs. Dollar went 12% since February. But since we convert Japanese yen to crown via dollar, it also went down 12%, and it's at all time low .. and it's already been pretty low. Massive 45% low compared to 2012. And it keeps going.
So thank you, Donald !
 
A preview of the 2026 World Cup and 2028 Summer Olympics perhaps?

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Venezuelan team denied entry into U.S. for Little League's senior tournament

An executive order from President Trump limited entry for Venezuelans in June.
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One of Little League's international tournaments will be played without its planned field.

The Cacique Mara team from Maracaibo, Venezuela, was denied visas into the United States and will be forced to miss the Senior League World Series for players between 13 and 16 years old, Little League confirmed in a statement to South Carolina's WSPA. A team from Victoria, Mexico, will reportedly take Venezuela's spot as the tournament's Latin American team in Easley, South Carolina.

The full statement:
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“Little League® International has been notified that the Cacique Mara Little League team from Venezuela was unfortunately unable to obtain the appropriate visas to travel to the Senior League Baseball World Series in Easley, South Carolina. While this is extremely disappointing, especially to these young athletes, the Little League International Tournament Committee has made the decision to advance the second place team, Santa Maria de Aguayo Little League (Victoria, Mexico), to participate in the Senior League Baseball World Series and ensure the Latin America Region is represented in the tournament and that the players, coaches, and families from Mexico are able to have a memorable World Series experience.”
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The Senior League World Series is held each year in Easley, with six teams from the United States and six international teams. A different team from Maracaibo won the tournament last year.

The Venezuelan team was reportedly deemed ineligible for visas due to a June executive order from President Donald Trump that limits entry into the U.S. from certain countries. Venezuela is one of the countries that currently faces a limited ban.

The Venezuelan team, which was attempting to procure its visas in Bogota, Colombia, posted a statement on Instagram calling the decision a "mockery" via a machine translation. Team Venezuela beat the Mexican team it's being replaced by last month in the Latin American regional tournament.
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‘We’re terribly sorry’: South Park creators respond with humour to White House anger over naked Donald Trump

Speaking at Comic-Con on Thursday, Trey Parker and Matt Stone revealed they spent days negotiating with producers to show the US president’s genitals
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South Park co-creator Trey Parker had the briefest of responses on Thursday to anger from the White House over the latest season premiere, which showed a naked Donald Trump in bed with Satan.

“We’re terribly sorry,” Parker said, followed by a long, deadpan-comic stare.

Parker was asked for his reaction to the fracas on the stage at San Diego’s Comic-Con International at the beginning of a animation panel that also included his South Park partner Matt Stone, Beavis and Butt-Head creator Mike Judge and actor Andy Samberg, who co-created the animated Digman!
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Earlier in the day, the White House issued a statement on the 27th season premiere episode, which aired Wednesday night. Unlike other characters in the animated show, Trump is depicted as an actual photo of the US president on an animated body. There is also an extended scene featuring a hyper-realistic, deepfake video of Trump, completely naked, walking in a desert; and repeated suggestions that Trump’s genitalia are small.

“This show hasn’t been relevant for over 20 years and is hanging on by a thread with uninspired ideas in a desperate attempt for attention,” White House spokesperson Taylor Rogers said in the statement. “President Trump has delivered on more promises in just six months than any other president in our country’s history – and no fourth-rate show can derail President Trump’s hot streak.”
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The whole Maxwell deal is a bit perplexing.
Presumably they are meeting with her to secure a pardon. Obviously she has first hand knowledge of Trump being involved in the sex ring so
they need her to keep quiet, and obviously she can use that knowledge to secure some sort of deal or pardon.

But if Trump does pardon her, if that is all the deal is, that would clearly not satisfy MAGA and it would probably just increase dissatisfaction with how they have handled the Epstein files.

So, I would think that the goal is to pardon her, based on her giving incriminating testimony against others who are on the list. That would satisfy the MAGA crowd and protect Trump.

But it seems to me, that has a high risk of backfiring, since anyone she incriminates could potentially have incriminating info on Trump. Until now, it has been 'mutually assured destruction' which would keep everyone on the list sworn to silence. But if she outs them, they have no incentive to stay quiet about Trump, they could use their own knowledge to give themselves legal cover, since Trump is clearly the biggest prize for any potential prosecution. So I am not sure how this will play out, but it is strange...
 
TragicMonkey said:
You're forgetting, Trump cannot be prosecuted.
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He can be prosecuted for being in a sex ring, that aint an official act. Even if the current admin refused to prosecute that would not stop a future one. And he can be prosecuted by his own base, which is more important to him. He just lost 'Qanon Shaman'--he would lose a lot more if more Epstein dirt came forward.
 
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stanfr said:
The whole Maxwell deal is a bit perplexing.
Presumably they are meeting with her to secure a pardon. Obviously she has first hand knowledge of Trump being involved in the sex ring so
they need her to keep quiet, and obviously she can use that knowledge to secure some sort of deal or pardon.

But if Trump does pardon her, if that is all the deal is, that would clearly not satisfy MAGA and it would probably just increase dissatisfaction with how they have handled the Epstein files.

So, I would think that the goal is to pardon her, based on her giving incriminating testimony against others who are on the list. That would satisfy the MAGA crowd and protect Trump.

But it seems to me, that has a high risk of backfiring, since anyone she incriminates could potentially have incriminating info on Trump. Until now, it has been 'mutually assured destruction' which would keep everyone on the list sworn to silence. But if she outs them, they have no incentive to stay quiet about Trump, they could use their own knowledge to give themselves legal cover, since Trump is clearly the biggest prize for any potential prosecution. So I am not sure how this will play out, but it is strange...
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i think they’re flying by the seat of their pants on this one.
 
Andy_Ross said:
Batteries don't exist.

Thiessen: Just so people understand wind and solar only work when there is wind and sun. We don't have technology to store the energy from wind and solar…

https://twitter.com/x/status/1948842701765685553
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Batteries- and for large scale storage- pumped hydro....
https://www.snowyhydro.com.au/snowy-20/about/

Doesnt even need to be on a river...
https://genexpower.com.au/250mw-kidston-pumped-storage-hydro-project/
Using an old shut down mine as a pumped hydro storage system lol
 
Hercules Rockefeller said:
Also, energy isn't something you just distribute around. You would need some sort of magical network of wires or something.
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Ironically- the solar uptake means that the cross country feeder in the country town I grew up in, which by the late 80's was being stressed and in the 1990's was close to maxing out daily- is STILL in use without being upgraded- in 2025!!!

The widespread solar uptake starting in the mid 1990's has meant that old original feeder hasn't needed an upgrade well past its original life expectancy....
Because practically every house in town had solar by 2005, it has lessened the daily demand on that feeder- even though the industrial estate has grown 4 fold in size, and the towns population has nearly tripled....
 
Dabop said:
Ironically- the solar uptake means that the cross country feeder in the country town I grew up in, which by the late 80's was being stressed and in the 1990's was close to maxing out daily- is STILL in use without being upgraded- in 2025!!!

The widespread solar uptake starting in the mid 1990's has meant that old original feeder hasn't needed an upgrade well past its original life expectancy....
Because practically every house in town had solar by 2005, it has lessened the daily demand on that feeder- even though the industrial estate has grown 4 fold in size, and the towns population has nearly tripled....
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Yeah, but that's in Australia. The sun and electricity works differently in the USA.
 
stanfr said:
He can be prosecuted for being in a sex ring, that aint an official act. Even if the current admin refused to prosecute that would not stop a future one. And he can be prosecuted by his own base, which is more important to him. He just lost 'Qanon Shaman'--he would lose a lot more if more Epstein dirt came forward.
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I've lost hope his cult is going to turn on him, but every bit of good news is welcome.
Maybe it's time to restart that Good News thread I made a while back.
 
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