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

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced in July 2026 that U.S. service members ages 30 and older will have their testosterone tested every year - source: https://theconversation.com/more-te...rive-t-levels-not-the-other-way-around-287828
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"Hegseth T-shots" #3,680
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As a psychologist who studies masculinity, I’m certain that while the idea that more testosterone makes a man tougher and more fit to fight seems intuitive, it’s also mostly wrong.
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More testosterone won’t make a better soldier or a tougher man – aggression and strength drive T levels, not the other way around

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is requiring service members to screen for low testosterone levels. Ironically, the military lifestyle itself is more likely to lower T levels.
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So Hegseth / Trump intend to make this official U.S. military policy, without checking the scientific validity of the concept ?!
 
sear said:
So Hegseth / Trump intend to make this official U.S. military policy, without checking the scientific validity of the concept ?!
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Science? We don't need no science!!

The PDR (Physicians Desk Reference) used to have a disclaimer that there was no evidence that steroids improved athletic performance.
 
Shiftless2 said:
"The PDR (Physicians Desk Reference) used to have a disclaimer that there was no evidence that steroids improved athletic performance." #3,682
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Then Lance Armstrong strutted along, and won le Tour de France 7 times.

It'll be interesting to see how the courts deal with this. I hope at worst the U.S. military ends up being able to offer this, provided the individual patients are accurately informed about the long-term consequences of such tinkering.

My impression is prolonged exposure to this treatment leads to testicular atrophy. Ideal for a decades long retirement?
 
The key to the PDR's statement is "athletic performance" - not strength but performance - they won't improve skill or technique (i.e., performance) but they will increase strength and muscle mass and can shorten recovery time.
 
LETTER TO MY FELLOW AMERICANS: ABOUT CANADA
Credit: Douglas Brown

We lost our oldest friend on purpose. How we start deserving them back.

ROSS BOULTON
JUL 14, 2026

I’m an American writer in Baton Rouge. I spent thirty years inside this country’s institutions — utilities, audit agencies, the systems that only work when somebody keeps them honest.

This week a senator asked Canada to be nicer to us. This is my answer, addressed to the right people.

The Letter

A senator from California wrote to Canada this week asking them to be nicer to us.

I read it twice to make sure it was real. Then I got angry, and not at Canada.

Do you know what we did? I’m asking honestly, because most of us don’t. It went by in the noise. Our president called Canada the 51st state. Not once, at a dinner, as a joke. Over and over, from behind the seal of our republic. He looked at a country of 40 million people — a country with its own flag, its own parliament, its own dead from two world wars it entered before we did — and called it a real estate opportunity.

Then we tariffed their steel, and their aluminum too — aluminum we barely make anymore. We shut our own smelters years ago, and then taxed the neighbor who kept our factories running. And he told us Canada would pay those tariffs. That was a lie, and not a complicated one. A tariff is a tax collected at our own ports, paid by our own importers, passed down to us at the register. Canada never wrote a .....

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As far as I’m concerned, there’s only a two second clip from Friday night’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner that’s worth watching. The rest you can learn about in summary, if you want to.

It was the moment when Trump tried to engage Wall Street Journal investigative reporter Khadeeja Safdar in a brief conversation. Safdar rolled her eyes at Trump, turned on her heels and walked away.

Trump wanted to talk to her. Khadeeja Safdar gave him her back. Trump turned to the audience and gave a stupid shrug. It happened on stage in full view of everyone with cameras rolling.

If you don’t already know it, here’s the backstory. In July of 2025, the Wall Street Journal published an exclusive story uncovering a “birthday card” that Trump created for Jeffrey Epstein in 2003. It contained ....

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Where is Mitch McConnell? Serious question. Because for weeks now, taxpayers have been expected to fund his paycheck while his office drips out vague health updates like we’re all supposed to applaud the mystery tour.

Six weeks of sick leave without a real explanation is apparently just fine when you’re a powerful Republican with a Senate seat to protect. Funny how “personal responsibility” and “accountability” are always for everybody else.

This is the same crowd that spent years sneering at ordinary Americans who want paid sick leave, family leave, or universal healthcare. For us, those are “handouts.” For Mitch McConnell, they’re apparently a sacred VIP benefit package.

And let’s be honest: the GOP’s desperation to keep him in office without forcing a special election tells you everything you need to know. The priority is never the people of Kentucky, never transparency, never basic decency. It’s always power, secrecy, and preserving the machine.

American workers are told to drag themselves to work sick, broke, and over it. Mitch McConnell gets months of silence, taxpayer-funded security, taxpayer-funded salary, and a political class scrambling to protect him from consequences. That’s not leadership. That’s a rigged system with better tailoring.

We deserve representatives who show up, tell the truth, and live under the same rules they impose on everyone else. Until then, spare us the lectures about discipline, duty, and “hard work” from the party of hypocrites.

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