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

Rigby5 said:
"The problem is that the feds should never have been collecting tax revenue over health care related social issues like Medicaid." R5 #3,659
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The argument in favor of such things as socialized medicine along a European model is $economy of scale, reduced per capita $cost. BUT !
sear said:

Feds freeze $1B to California, Minnesota Medicaid s #3,657​

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The downside is it risks greater coercive power to government.

Rigby5 said:
"And it is not legal for the feds to then just withhold funds." R5
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It's the Trump administration. For our president statutes are suggestions, and the Constitution merely a guideline. Compliance optional.
 
Shiftless2 said:

Trump Now Wants E. Jean Carroll to Return the $5.6M He Paid for Sexual Abuse and Defamation​

Trump’s legal team is seeking an emergency injunction to order Carroll to return the judgment she won in the case

Less than two weeks after paying E. Jean Carroll $5.6 million tied to a civil sexual abuse and defamation case, President Donald Trump is asking for the money back.


Trump’s legal team is seeking an emergency injunction that would force Carroll to return the amount she was paid following a judge’s July 8 ruling that ordered the payment process to begin, according to The Independent.


The money, sent to Carroll from an escrow account overseen by the court, came three years after ....

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I do not like this case very much.
I do not understand why she volunteered, and then waited so long?
 
sear said:
The argument in favor of such things as socialized medicine along a European model is $economy of scale, reduced per capita $cost. BUT !

The downside is it risks greater coercive power to government.


It's the Trump administration. For our president statutes are suggestions, and the Constitution merely a guideline. Compliance optional.
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Same problem I have with ICE, since it is supposed to only be judicial due process that can do things like this legally.
 
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The Secretary of Defense who screens the military for testosterone got asked hard questions yesterday and fell apart in front of the cameras.

Pressed by Sen. Gary Peters on why the Iran war has no winning strategy five months in, Hegseth snapped: "You have Trump Derangement Syndrome!"

Pressed by Sen. Jack Reed on the closed Strait of Hormuz, he reached back years: "We had U.S. boats that surrendered to Iranian ships under the Biden administration."

Reed's reply: "We are talking [about] a war you started."

Peters put the rest on the record — "You, sir, are the failure. Not the men and women who are on that front line."

Here's who those men and women could have been led by. This month, per the New York Times, Hegseth blocked seven senior Navy officers from two-star admiral positions — five of them women or people of color — after the Navy's own promotion board selected them.

Among the names he cut: Rear Adm. Amy Bauernschmidt, the first woman ever to command a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier.

In March he did the same to two Black and two female Army officers, striking their names himself after Army leadership refused for months to do it for him.

In September he told the assembled generals why: too many leaders promoted "based on gender quotas, based on historic so-called firsts."

The Pentagon says promotions "are given to those who have earned them."

Bauernschmidt earned a carrier. Hegseth earned a Fox News contract.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, asked about the blocked promotions, said what the record already shows: "He's an unqualified man in his role, so of course he's threatened by women who are twice as good as he is."

Of course.

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The U.S. just shattered the record for measles cases, and experts say the surge is driven by anti-vaxxers.

As of late July 2026, the United States has officially recorded 2,295 cases of measles, eclipsing all of last year's total and marking the highest annual count since 1991.

Public health experts at Johns Hopkins University, who compiled the data, are deeply concerned by the speed of the transmission, noting that reaching this milestone so early in the year highlights a breakdown in community herd immunity.

Major outbreaks in states like South Carolina and Utah have driven the spike, proving that the highly contagious airborne virus can rapidly exploit gaps in local vaccination coverage.

The resurgence threatens the United States' official measles-elimination status, a designation the country has proudly held since 2000. For decades, the double-dose Measles, Mumps, and Rubella (MMR) vaccine successfully kept the disease at bay, but recent years have seen immunization rates slip below the critical 95 percent threshold required to prevent widespread transmission.

Epidemiologists warn that without aggressive efforts to combat vaccine misinformation and improve routine vaccination rates in under-immunized pockets, the U.S. will continue to see preventable pediatric hospitalizations and outbreaks spread through schools, households, and community spaces.

source: Sun, L. H. (2026). U.S. measles cases hit 35-year record with months left in 2026. The Washington Post.

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On that topic, assuming that someone does decide to open a new plant in the US it will take years from the planning stage until it's actually operational. And due to automation not only won't the jobs be there but they won't be the sort of thing that's accessible to someone with a high school diploma.

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Those jobs are gone forever. Let’s gear up for what’s next.

“Generals always fight the last war.” — an old World War II saying Manufacturing jobs were a huge part of America’s post-World War II economic miracle. In the early 1980’s, 20 million Americans worked in factories, assembling consumer products like ...
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