The Second Term of Donald J. Trump as President of the United States of America

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The query "trump church reporting child abuse" refers to the Trump administration's Department of Justice (DOJ) intervening in a 2025 Washington state law (Senate Bill 5375) that mandates clergy, including priests, report child abuse or neglect, even if learned in confession, to the authorities. The DOJ argued this law violated the First Amendment by forcing clergy to choose between state law and their religious vows (breaking the seal of confession means automatic excommunication for Catholic priests). A federal judge temporarily blocked the confession reporting requirement, siding with Catholic bishops who sued, while the DOJ's investigation into the law continued, highlighting a major conflict between religious freedom and child protection.
 
Shiftless2 said:
"The query "trump church reporting child abuse" refers to the Trump administration's Department of Justice (DOJ) intervening in a 2025 Washington state law (Senate Bill 5375) that mandates clergy, including priests, report child abuse or neglect, even if learned in confession, to the authorities. The DOJ argued this law violated the First Amendment by forcing clergy to choose between state law and their religious vows (breaking the seal of confession means automatic excommunication for Catholic priests). A federal judge temporarily blocked the confession reporting requirement, siding with Catholic bishops who sued, while the DOJ's investigation into the law continued, highlighting a major conflict between religious freedom and child protection." #2,044
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As a general principle I don't endorse shielding murderers, rapists, or child molesters from the legal consequences they have earned. BUT !
I agree with the sanctity of the confessional. Doesn't mean I like it. But "freedom of religion ...".

The Church shielding felons may seem the bottom of the barrel. It's not.
"Legal ethics" includes:
if an attorney's client in private and in confidence confesses to a murder an innocent man is serving life sentence for, legal ethics reportedly prevent that attorney from freeing the innocent man. Details? Exceptions? Qualifications?

So much for "legal ethics". "The Devil's in the details."
 
Shiftless2 said:
"Doesn't matter how often you tell a lie it's still not true" S2 #2,046
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True, but on the fringes immaterial.
For saturation propaganda can function as truth, whether the oppressed masses actually believe it or not.
Trust those that seek the truth, distrust those that claim to have found it. - paraphrase of words attributed to the Buddha
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You tell 'em Bud !
 
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It's silly to suggest a U.S. president would prioritize the nation s/he leads as second. BUT !

Policy manifesting xenophobic impulse may not actually advance U.S. interests. Self-made $Millionaire & television celebrity O'Leary explains it does not.

If We Don't Take Them, the Chinese Are Going to Take Them" — Kevin O'Leary Says It's 'Insane' to Deny Foreign Students U.S. College Access​

Venture capitalist and "Shark Tank" investor Kevin O'Leary has taken a hard stance against policies that restrict foreign students, calling them one of the "worst ideas" for the U.S. economy.
O'Leary said that the true return on investment of U.S. universities is in the global talent network they foster, recently posting on X that students in his Harvard classes will forget everything he tells them.
"What you're not going to forget are the people sitting beside you — they're becoming your network for the rest of your life," he said.
 
Still thinking about vacationing in the US? Or visiting family, friends, whatever? Or even changing planes in the US on your way to someplace else?

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BREAKING: AIRPORT DANGER! Trump turns TSA into deportation police in terrifying new surveillance dragnet.

In a stunning escalation of Trump’s mass-deportation crusade, the administration has quietly transformed the Transportation Security Administration into an immigration dragnet—handing over every single air traveler’s name to ICE so agents can stalk airports for people to deport.

Under a secret program exposed by The New York Times, the TSA now gives ICE passenger lists multiple times a week, allowing immigration officers to sit at airports like bounty hunters waiting for names to pop up in their database. Once a match hits, ICE swoops in.

The result? The arrest and two-day deportation of 19-year-old Any Lucía López Belloza, a Babson College freshman who was simply traveling to visit family for Thanksgiving. She passed security with no issue, grabbed a coffee at her gate—then suddenly her boarding pass wouldn’t scan. Within minutes, agents were waiting for her.

“Oh, you’re Any,” one said, before pulling her away. She was deported 48 hours later.

And she’s not alone. The same program flagged Marta Brizeyda Renderos Leiva, ripped out of a Salt Lake City airport in a scene so disturbing the video went viral. Former ICE officials admit that in some regions, 75% of flagged names lead to arrests.

This is not airport security. This is state surveillance weaponized for political fear.

The TSA—an agency created to stop terrorists—is now a pipeline for Trump’s dream of 3,000 deportations a day, a target pushed by white nationalist adviser Stephen Miller. ICE officers are now receiving ....

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President says wages rising faster than inflation for first time in years during Wednesday speech​

By Emma Colton Fox News / Published December 17, 2025 9:50pm EST

"The last administration and their allies in Congress looted our Treasury for trillions of dollars ..." Trump
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Finally!
As a conservative deficit hawk, it's encouraging to see our president talk sense for a change. BUT !

"The last administration and their allies in Congress looted our Treasury for trillions of dollars, driving up prices and everything at levels never seen before." Trump Dec. 17, 2025
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President talk sense? It didn't last until the end of his sentence.
"The last administration and their allies in Congress looted our Treasury for trillions of dollars ..." President Trump
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It's called deficit spending.
Deficit means expenditures exceed revenues.
Debt it the accumulated deficits.
The national debt ($38.40 T) is the total amount of outstanding borrowing by the U.S. Federal Government accumulated over the nation’s history.
The U.S. national debt is $38,396,179,577,012 Updated daily from the Debt to the Penny dataset.
"What's pernicious about deficits for conservatives is this. It makes big government cheap. What we're doing, we're turning to the country, the "conservative" administration turns to the country and says:
We're going to give you a dollar's worth of government, we're going to charge you seventy five cents for it. And we're going to let your kids pay the other quarter." George Will Nov 30, 2003
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"The last administration and their allies in Congress looted our Treasury for trillions of dollars ... ." Trump Dec. 17, 2025
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Mr. President:
According to https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-finance-guide/national-debt/ during your first four year presidential term the U.S. federal debt increased by $6.98 $Trillion.
During the four year term of Democrat Joe Biden, accounting for inflation the U.S. federal debt increased by $2.84 $Trillion.

"Looted trillions"? Biden was bad? President Trump was $twice as bad.
 
sear said:
The national debt ($38.40 T) is the total amount of outstanding borrowing by the U.S. Federal Government accumulated over the nation’s history.
The U.S. national debt is $38,396,179,577,012 Updated daily from the Debt to the Penny dataset.
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Don't forget that doesn't include the funding shortfalls for Social Security and Medicare (which are excluded by definition) so you can add another $150 Trillion for that. And that;s not counting any number of underfunded government pension plans.
 
Shiftless2 said:
"Don't forget that doesn't include the funding shortfalls for Social Security and Medicare (which are excluded by definition) so you can add another $150 Trillion for that. And that;s not counting any number of underfunded government pension plans." S2 #2,051
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$Spending the grandkid's $money is atrocity enough.
What's the theory that we can spend their $money better than they can?
 
sear said:
Did this occur during the Trump administration?
Do you think the outcome would have been different if you stood 20' back, capturing the action on video camera?


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If Trump likes the U.S. so much, why all this?
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I never got within 100' of the screaming woman being pulled from her car.
One of them was already walking back to a black unmarked SUV, and I stopped and waited while he approached me.
Then I just asked him "what is going on?"
And he attacked me for no reason.
And yes, it was just 3 months ago, so the fault of Trump.
They had no warrant.
It was illegal for them to arrest anyone without a warrant.
 
sear said:
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$Spending the grandkid's $money is atrocity enough.
What's the theory that we can spend their $money better than they can?
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Worse yet is that by borrowing that money we are spending, then we are saddling future generations with interest dept in addition to what we took from them.
 
sear said:
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$Spending the grandkid's $money is atrocity enough.
What's the theory that we can spend their $money better than they can?
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Actually, where Social Security and Medicare are concerned it's not just the grandkids but it includes the great grandkids and the great grandkids. and maybe more

Remember The last known widow of a U.S. Civil War veteran was Helen Viola Jackson, who passed away on December 16, 2020.
 
Shiftless2 said:
"He's learned from his role model" S2 #2,057
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There's little room for doubt, Trump likes dictators. Do we know how closely Trump has studied, & mirrors them?
"Washington under Trump has become Nero's court; an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers, and a jester on ketamine in charge of purging civil service. We were at war with a dictator, Putin, and now we're at war with a dictator supported by a traitor. It is a tragedy for the free world but first and foremost it is a tragedy for the United States!" ~ French Senator Claude Malhuret
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“We fell in love.” President Trump commenting on his relationship w/North Korea's Kim Jong Un
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"You also have said, and tell me if this is correct, that it was only a group of about 3 or 4 people around Vladimir Putin who knew that he [Putin] was actually planning the invasion." CBS-TV Face the Nation Margaret Brennan 23/02/26

"Um hm. Right. I think that's true. ... Putin had narrowed his circle of advisors. And it was a circle in which he prized loyalty over competence. It was a group of people who tended to tell him [Putin] what he wanted to hear. That was one of the deepest flaws I think in the Russian decision-making just before the War. It was such a closed circle of people, reinforcing one another's profoundly mistaken assumptions." United States Central Intelligence Agency Director William Burns on CBS-TV Face the Nation 23/02/26
 
sear said:
There's little room for doubt, Trump likes dictators. Do we know how closely Trump has studied, & mirrors them?



"You also have said, and tell me if this is correct, that it was only a group of about 3 or 4 people around Vladimir Putin who knew that he [Putin] was actually planning the invasion." CBS-TV Face the Nation Margaret Brennan 23/02/26

"Um hm. Right. I think that's true. ... Putin had narrowed his circle of advisors. And it was a circle in which he prized loyalty over competence. It was a group of people who tended to tell him [Putin] what he wanted to hear. That was one of the deepest flaws I think in the Russian decision-making just before the War. It was such a closed circle of people, reinforcing one another's profoundly mistaken assumptions." United States Central Intelligence Agency Director William Burns on CBS-TV Face the Nation 23/02/26
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I think everyone knew that Russia was going to invade, because they had to.
They could never allow the Ukraine to join NATO since when Turkey or Poland joined, that means nukes pointed at Russia.
And Russia has no defense grid between the Ukraine and Russia.
And the US would not have pre-armed the Ukraine with all these weapons they wanted to test, if they did not expect actual combat.
 
Rigby5 said:
"I think everyone knew that Russia was going to invade, because they had to." R5 #2,059
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Because if Russia hadn't invaded Ukraine, Ukraine would have invaded and assimilated Crimea?

Rigby5 said:
"They could never allow the Ukraine to join NATO since when Turkey or Poland joined, that means nukes pointed at Russia." R5 #2,059
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You present the war hawk argument from the Kremlin about as well as they do.
There is another perspective.
I suspect, if God descended, and offered Russia to the U.S., the E.U., or NATO, with absolute zero strings attached, there wouldn't have been any takers.
We've got our own problems.

Rigby5 said:
"I think everyone knew that Russia was going to invade, because they had to." R5 #2,059
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"Over the years, the United States has sent many of its fine young men and women into great peril to fight for freedom beyond our borders. The only amount of land we have ever asked for in return is enough to bury those that did not return." U.S. Secretary Colin Powell
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