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Marriage in Europe

TomMcGiverin comments on Mar 10, 2021:

I'd like to meet an attractive atheist woman my age from Canada so I could marry her and escape this shithole of a country, but I'm not holding my breath or making any effort to seek it. Rotsa ruck...

I just got married! My wife has a business in which she is known for her name as much as her ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Mar 10, 2021:

Sounds good and quite fair, as well as liberated, to me. I support other non-conformists. I had my gay best friend serve as my best man at my wedding. Needless to say, my conservative, Catholic homophobic father did not approve..

It's a decision whether you do or don't...

TomMcGiverin comments on Mar 10, 2021:

Never got one, but it's now a moot point as all the women I am willing to date have already had menopause.

Wow ! He literally died to own the libs.

TomMcGiverin comments on Mar 10, 2021:

Darwin award winner. As far as I'm concerned, the world is better off with one less Trumptard. I wonder which redneck state this happened in.

Good Afternoon Everyone! Happy Tuesday.

TomMcGiverin comments on Mar 9, 2021:

I'm going to pay up and renew with Match as soon as I schedule my first Covid shot, hopefully later this month.

I don’t think of myself as a prude and I can swear like a sailor if circumstances bring it out of ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Mar 9, 2021:

You have a right to choose your own comfort level, whatever it may be.. I do think swearing on the first date shows some questionable judgement, but if I were you, I would not be put off by the men if they were otherwise nice guys, of which I am one and I cuss occasionally after I have gotten to know someone. I would say what matters more, if frequent swearing bothers you, then tell them about your discomfort and then see if they care enough to adjust their language for you. If they are willing and able to do so, then you have found a keeper. My late wife asked me to stop drinking after we had dated several months, which I did for her, not because I had a drinking problem, but because she had previously been married to an addict and alcoholic. She asked me to do so in order for her to feel comfortable about me with her baggage over the previous guy. I stopped without hesitation-and still don't drink-because I cared enough to help her be comfortable with me and did not see it as a unreasonable request for who she was and what she had been thru. Best decision I ever made. Wish more women out there in the dating game would recognize that quality about me and give me some credit for it, but they never will until they get to know me enough to find out how supportive I can be to a partner. And between my looks and my non-mainstream traits on music, culture, and lifestyle for the dating pool I live in, I seldom get that far.

US, Allies Drop 46 Bombs Per Day for 20 Years, New CODEPINK Research Reveals The United States ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Mar 8, 2021:

It's the cost of expanding and maintaining an empire. You would think they would have learned something from the British that they threw out of here that empires are eventually not worth the trouble.

I sorely miss George, he was so smart and so insightful about the world. [youtube.com]

TomMcGiverin comments on Mar 8, 2021:

What I liked about Carlin was that he would openly show his anger, not care who he offended, and showed no fear or deference to rich conservative fucks like the guy on his panel here. He never let them act like they were better than him. Instead he showed his contempt openly for them and didn't try to act diplomatic like other celebs do.

Been off for a bit, password issues.

TomMcGiverin comments on Mar 8, 2021:

Actually, that line about most people at least disliking if not hating their jobs is in a movie I saw, can't remember which one tho. Wait, I remember, it's in Office Space, my favorite comedy. I'm very lucky and grateful that I was able to retire at age 60 with inheritance money, some retirement funds, and SS Survivor's benefits. I was tired of working and having to put up with shit from co-workers, bosses, and those I served. I think most of us feel like you by age 60, if not sooner, but are stuck having to work at least several more years anyway.

Been off for a bit, password issues.

TomMcGiverin comments on Mar 8, 2021:

We have a lot of the same mindset about the dating game. Can't promise we'd be a match, but if I lived near you, I'd definitely want to meet you, for whatever encouragement that's worth. I hear you on bad manners and behavior with people on first meetings. I posted here recently about a woman who began a first and only video chat with me by treating it like a job interview and asking me what kind of work I did before I retired, since it wasn't in my profile. She then followed that up with another ? about what my college degrees were in, since they weren't related to my jobs before retirement. As a friend of mine said later about her, she was looking for a pedigreed dog with papers, not a mutt. So I obviously wasn't good enough for her social status-wise. I agree, most people don't like their jobs and really don't want to talk about them at a first meeting, so I don't ask them. I ask them what really excites you and makes you look forward to the future or living the next day. Fairly philosophical, but hey, if they aren't fairly intellectual and introspective, I don't want them anyway. You dodged a bullet with this guy for sure if he still feels for his ex. I think most people expect ?s about their work on a first meeting, so they just lie or perhaps already have gotten used to convincing themselves they like their work so they can fit in and be accepted by the dating prospects. People that seem to be lying or self deluded are a red flag to me, so I don't follow up with them. Let's face it, most people are sheeple that never examine anything in life, esp. themselves, so that is why they act boorishly to others in the dating game. They don't realize what they are doing and they also don't care that they are clueless about everything.

Republicans vs. Democrats

TomMcGiverin comments on Mar 8, 2021:

Quite true. Both parties support the MIC, endless wars, Wall Street, the rich, corporations, etc. The only differences are over identity politics and culture war stuff that the Dems push to make them seem more humane and caring than the Repubs. I will say that the Dems have provided better leadership on Covid than the Repubs, but that only allows more people to live rather than die. Otherwise, they don't really care how poor or deprived capitalism makes you suffer with living.

Lucky is not fat. She is fluffy.

TomMcGiverin comments on Mar 7, 2021:

Even fluffy cats are cute as hell....If only that were as true for people... Lucky wants a tummy rub, or is it a trap?

I have to say that this common sense approach from a Florida Redneck makes a lot of sense.

TomMcGiverin comments on Mar 7, 2021:

Very tedious. Just another woman being a boring tease.

This makes so much more sense than having the flag and god in the pledge. [facebook.com]

TomMcGiverin comments on Mar 7, 2021:

Link is to an unrelated article or video.

How to be happy spending money.

TomMcGiverin comments on Mar 7, 2021:

In the last few years, I have inherited enough money, along with now getting SS Survivor's Benefits, that I am financially comfortable for the first time in my adult life. And unless I have a stroke or some serious illness that drains all my money, I am fairly set for life. But it's come at the cost of losing my wife and both of my parents. I still have friends, but my life is a lot emptier in some ways by not really having any family left. I wasn't happy after my late wife got dementia in 2011. I was happy before that with her in my life. My unhappiness now is mostly rooted in the fear and resignation that I will probably be alone, as far as without a partner or close family, for the rest of my life. I had hoped that I would eventually inherit this money from my parents while my wife was still with me and healthy. If that had happened, I would be very happy at this time, but life plays mean tricks on you sometimes. I think most of us want our lives to have at least a good quality of life as far as adequate connections and relationships, regardless of our financial condition. And if we don't have that level of quality in our social and relationship condition, we need to at least have some hope that things will improve for us later in that area. Same thing with financial condition. Without hope, having serious deficits in our financial or relationship conditions makes life very hard. Three years of no real lasting success in the dating game has really damaged my level of hope in that area. Last night I was at a karaoke show for the first time since Covid, because I just was feeling stir crazy with the social isolation and missing the chance to sing. While I was there, I struck up a short conversation with a younger woman who was with her man and I mentioned my dating struggles. She then layed on me the usual cliche that " You always find someone when you aren't looking, etc." I thanked her for the encouragement, but I had to tell her, and did, that I felt her advice was a cliche that is not based in reality, even if it seemed true for her experience in meeting her man. She also gave me the vague advice that I "needed to expand my range of how far away I would travel to date someone". I told her I already was willing to drive an hour away one way to date someone, but that's the limit. She seemed to be saying that whatever limit I was using was too narrow. How the hell would she know? And note, that I never asked her for advice, she just offered it unsolicited. People should be more aware of when they are being asked and when they aren't. I grow tired of ignorant, but well-meaning people. They want to seem helpful, but they really don't know what they are talking about, esp. with strangers they know little about.

Yeah good Texas republican

TomMcGiverin comments on Mar 7, 2021:

He's just doing what all conservative Repubs do, taking stuff away from vulnerable Americans for their own good and to improve their moral character, because if they would only start living right and pulling themselves up by their own bootstraps, they wouldn't need any gubmit help. Of course, when a rich person commits a wrong, they don't deserve punishment, esp. prison, because they are just suffering a temporary lapse in their morality and will be fine with some prayer and reflection on their wrongdoing, and besides, God will forgive them. This whole conservative attitude of depriving the poor and vulnerable " for their own good", always reminds me of the scene in Cool Hand Luke where Luke asks the warden to "quit being so good" to him.....

Where's my Chewy order???

TomMcGiverin comments on Mar 7, 2021:

Kitty is a good tree climber.

This "christian" woman tried to hire someone to kill her mother-in-law, saying that she could always...

TomMcGiverin comments on Mar 7, 2021:

Another POS Christian hypocrite. I'm surprised her status and political connections didn't allow her to get away with it.

Conspiracist: I Pretend to Be a Nurse, Then Make People Argue With Me Over Masks | Beth Stoneburner...

TomMcGiverin comments on Mar 6, 2021:

If anyone deserves to get Covid, it's her.

Could someone please update me? What happened to Cutiebeauty and Ms. Kathleen?

TomMcGiverin comments on Mar 6, 2021:

I had them both blocked, so I didn't notice and I don't care.

Are you paying your Fair Share of Taxes [youtube.com]

TomMcGiverin comments on Mar 5, 2021:

Payroll and sales taxes are very regressive. The payroll tax gap is justified by the rich and their allies because the rich don't need Medicare or SS, and they also don't feel any obligation to support programs they don't need just to help their workers who create their wealth or pick their cotton, so to speak. They have disengaged themselves from the working class and they can get away with it because they own the government and they no longer need most of us, as workers or even as consumers of their products and services.

I cannot wait to move out of this rental house.

TomMcGiverin comments on Mar 5, 2021:

If hell existed, there should be a special place in it for slumlords. They are as low as Trump.

Leading cause of death in the world 😱 Simply 1.

TomMcGiverin comments on Mar 4, 2021:

It's always comforting to run across someone more paranoid than me, lol...

Will the tradition-loving Joe Biden let the Senate keep the filibuster?

TomMcGiverin comments on Mar 4, 2021:

The answers are yes and no, in that order.

Good Advice

TomMcGiverin comments on Mar 3, 2021:

I agree with that reasoning, but, human nature being what it is, most people who did the wrong thing during Covid will simply lie and give the PC response so they can avoid being rejected by people who did do the right thing during Covid. It's like asking someone from a dating site if they voted for Trump. If the person asking is attractive looking enough and the person being asked is interested in meeting that person, they will lie instead of being truthful. I always tell the truth and let the chips fall, but I'm not naive enough to believe that most people have the same integrity as me. Experience has proven otherwise for me.

Governors of Texas and Georgia lift masks mandates

TomMcGiverin comments on Mar 2, 2021:

Guess they want to see the numbers spike during the home stretch before most people are eligible for vaccination.

So simple you would think

TomMcGiverin comments on Mar 2, 2021:

That's because religion and conservatism appeal to the same people, most of which want to live selfishly, with privilege and power over others, including the power to discriminate against others.

Happy birthday, Lou Reed.

TomMcGiverin comments on Mar 2, 2021:

Actually Lou disdained the whole hippie scene, as well as the fashion and the ethos, so it's ironic you posted this here. I think he identified more with the beatnik scene, esp. the Beat poets.

Opinion | The Republican Party is making Jim Crow segregationists proud - The Washington Post

TomMcGiverin comments on Mar 2, 2021:

Why shouldn't they? Trump made it acceptable and fashionable again to be openly racist and bigoted.

Happy birthday, Lou Reed.

TomMcGiverin comments on Mar 2, 2021:

The words to that song may seem outdated, but I still think many of his songs are timeless, esp. some of the Velvet Underground's songs. I actually had two of his songs played at my wedding back in 1999. Lou Reed and David Bowie created alternative music, never would have happened without them.

THE ENTIRE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION IN ONE BLOG POST? Link: [united-cats.com]

TomMcGiverin comments on Mar 1, 2021:

You have my condolences as well. My own father died the summer before last. I agree that we are screwed the way it looks right now and I don't think that will change. I take some grim comfort that I will likely die before it all falls apart, but I could be wrong about that, as it may only take another decade or so and I may live another 25 years.

"A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it.

TomMcGiverin comments on Mar 1, 2021:

I'm not sure I agree with that. I could handle a lifetime of happiness as long as there was still some surprises included as well as some occasional change happening here and there.

So over the last couple of months I've been making a foray into the online dating scene.

TomMcGiverin comments on Feb 28, 2021:

No doubt about it, online dating is a cesspool. But the sad truth is that after age 50, when you're no longer in any kind of school and all your longtime friends are smugly married and not able to fix you up with anyone because they only know other married people, online dating really is your only option to be able to meet most of the available singles out there in that age bracket. Deal with it or lump it, those are the choices. It's not like the 1970s, when you could just go to a singles bar and most of the single people in your area would be there regularly to meet.

Biden drops minimum wage hike from COVID-19 relief bill Seizing on an advisory ruling Thursday by...

TomMcGiverin comments on Feb 28, 2021:

Biden was never really interested in a $15 minimum wage, he was just lying to win the election. Why should anybody be surprised when a declared neoliberal does this? The fact that Bernie and AOC fall in line about this shows what frauds they are as well.

Cashing in on racialist politics: Black Lives Matter foundation raised $90 million in 2020 The ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Feb 28, 2021:

Identity politics at its most profitable.

Most people are bad at arguing. These 2 techniques will make you better.

TomMcGiverin comments on Feb 28, 2021:

You aren't the only one, I'm sure. But you also aren't like me. I have no interest in getting those people back into my life. I don't miss them and am better off without them.

John Fetterman annouced he is running for Senate seat in Pennsylvania. in 2022 [youtu.be]

TomMcGiverin comments on Feb 27, 2021:

I've seen this guy speak several times on TV and he makes way too much sense, besides being intelligent and very honest for a pol. He needs to stay away from small aircraft...

The People Haven’t Risen Up For The Same Reason Abuse Victims Don’t Leave Their Abusers ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Feb 27, 2021:

The Dem Party is an abusive partner. I recommend sane people on the left leave it as soon as possible.

Bill Maher does great job of standing up for single and childless people at the end of this video.

TomMcGiverin comments on Feb 27, 2021:

Him and Chris Hedges are the only two people I can always count on to tell the real, depressing truth about things, like the gig economy and worship of family in America, both of which are based on myths.

Who is really behind this off-the-wall conspiracy cult?

TomMcGiverin comments on Feb 27, 2021:

All three.

im worried they will win

TomMcGiverin comments on Feb 27, 2021:

Love the statement about the billionaire's kids having a work requirement, since we all know how important it is for people who get help from the govt., whether an inheritance tax cut or a child tax credit, to have the proper Calvinistic character. I mean, anything else would be hypocrisy or discrimination, right? As for DeJoy, I am now convinced that destroying the postal service and giving its business, at least the profitable parts, to its competitors, is a bipartisan goal, so I am not hopeful that Biden will do the right thing, can DeJoy, and replace him with someone who is good for the postal service. And anyway, the postal service is not a big priority for him right now even if he was interested in doing the right thing. I expect we will get some happy talk about it and no real positive action.

CPAC Will Literally Feature A Golden Statue Of Donald Trump - YouTube

TomMcGiverin comments on Feb 27, 2021:

If this isn't idolatry, I don't know what is.

I have lived in Portland five years!, not a single day of those years have I truly experienced ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Feb 26, 2021:

I have no idea what it must feel like being black on a site made up almost completely of white non-believers. But I do feel your pain and understand, as do some other male members, what it's like to be part of another group of middle-aged and older men that it seems most women do not want to date, namely bald men. And, like the women that don't want to date black men, there appears to be a lot of self-serving denial about it by many women who won't date bald men, but don't want to look shallow or narrow-minded, so they claim that they and most women do not have this bias. So I can relate to that and it is frustrating to know you have no chance with a certain % of women, but you have no way of knowing who is and isn't part of each group because it's a sensitive subject that most people don't want to honestly speak about with candor.

Maskless MAGA Marauders

TomMcGiverin comments on Feb 26, 2021:

It would be interesting to know that, as well as how many cops working that day at the capital have gotten Covid. We'll probably never know.

Why So Many Veterans Find the Path to Extremism | Military.com

TomMcGiverin comments on Feb 26, 2021:

It makes perfect sense to me and explains why we need to be afraid of how many right wing white supremacists are in the current ranks of the military and law enforcement.

No touch, will bite.

TomMcGiverin comments on Feb 25, 2021:

The infamous tummy trap...

Is This any Way To run a Railroad? [propublica.org]

TomMcGiverin comments on Feb 25, 2021:

Inside job, just like 9-11. They had the intel and knew it was coming. Could have stopped it, didn't want to. Same old shit, different people in command.

Women Who Cook While Menstruating Will Be Reborn As Dogs, Hindu Leader Says | David Gee | Friendly ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Feb 25, 2021:

That doesn't seem fair. Personally, I'd prefer to be reborn as a spoiled house cat.

I rarely visit the site anymore, so in effort to make good use of this brief visit and the aim of ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Feb 25, 2021:

Looks like you have only one female member of your age group that lives in your local area, and she's a beauty queen besides that, which, in my experience, means she probably thinks she's too good to date someone like you or me. That's what happened with a woman like that which I messaged soon after I joined here. Rotsa ruck with your situation.

Well, I haven't been on Agnostics in a good while.

TomMcGiverin comments on Feb 25, 2021:

Sounds like a real prize- NOT. I ran into one of those just last week on Batch. Next...Glad you figured him out quick and didn't waste much time on him.

I watched some of the testimony by former Capitol Police Chief Steve Sund.

TomMcGiverin comments on Feb 24, 2021:

It was an inside job. The rioters had help from some officers at the line level and, more importantly, help at the command level. Glad that the head of the Capital Police was canned and also the Sergant At Arms from both branches of congress also had to go.

On being secretive - no photos.

TomMcGiverin comments on Feb 23, 2021:

I have run across several women on Batch that will not post photos of themselves on the site because they fear harassment and ridicule from their students, even when the women teach at the college level. They are also afraid of their faculty peers seeing that they are on a dating site. Not having photos on the profile is a severe handicap in getting anyone to respond to the profile, and I won't message someone with no photos, no matter what body type they say they are. We all want to see proof of someone's looks, at least everybody I've talked to. The old joke is that the only photo anyone wants to see in a profile, particularly a man, is a nude photo on a scale holding a financial statement.

It will soon be March and the emergency $2,000 survival checks that Biden and the dems promised ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Feb 23, 2021:

I'll take out of touch AND just don't care for $500, Alex....

The USA does not have a monopoly on raving idiots.

TomMcGiverin comments on Feb 23, 2021:

I already have blocks for those two assholes...

Mass Shooting at Louisiana Gun Shop Leaves Three Dead and Two Wounded Three people were killed ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Feb 22, 2021:

Redneck right wingers with guns, what could possibly go wrong?

Anti-Trumpers are done with the GOP. Where do they go now? - POLITICO

TomMcGiverin comments on Feb 22, 2021:

They really do have nowhere to go, which is why I think most of them will crawl back to the Repubs, who know they will... What they really need is a new third party that is openly fascist, that's where they belong. We'll probably see something like that at least attempted, with a name like Patriot Party or something like that. They remind me of the ruling party in the Purge series of movies, The New Founding Fathers Of America Party.

Im not high when i post this marriage?

TomMcGiverin comments on Feb 22, 2021:

I think that the main reason marriages started declining then and continue to decline is mainly economic. 1973 was the year that real wages for Americans began to decline permanently. I think declining wages discourage marriage because people realize they can no longer be able to support themselves, a partner, and children on the income that most Americans get. Simply too poor to get married, start families, and be able to support them. One reason I chose to never have kids or marry someone with kids, is that I knew I would likely be too poor to afford that situation and did not want to live in poverty the rest of my like.

Monday morning cuteness

TomMcGiverin comments on Feb 22, 2021:

Kitty's head is bundled up for the Minnesota winter.

Among my Christian friends here in the Deep South USA I find there is a high correlation between ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Feb 21, 2021:

I pity you for living in Alabama.

The last few weeks on Batch, I've been occupying myself, for amusement, out of boredom, and also out...

TomMcGiverin comments on Feb 21, 2021:

Apparently N. just read my final reply on Batch. Our conversations are erased from my inbox. She must have read my reply and then deleted all the messages between us. Just for laughs I typed a couple words of another message to her, but she has me blocked from sending her any further messages, even tho I am not blocked from seeing her profile, at least not yet. No surprise here at all..

Rush Limbaugh dead at 70: A media blowhard for American capitalism - World Socialist Web Site

TomMcGiverin comments on Feb 21, 2021:

Reagan and Rush deserve a lot of the blame for the rise in right wing populism, but so does the Dem Party for always effectively killing any left wing populism that ever rose as a response to Reagan and Rush, even as early as the 1980s. I remember how they crushed Jesse Jackson, Dennis Kuccinich, Jerry Brown, and others on the left as well as Nader, trying to promote left wing populism, long before Bernie became a national figure. They have been at this a long time and had plenty of practice before screwing Bernie in 2016.

Freedom Rider: Impeachment Theater Democracy is hanging on by a thread -- not due to marauding ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Feb 21, 2021:

I couldn't agree more with any of this. At least two of us are not ignorant rubes that fall for the distraction and propaganda. Too bad we will always be way outnumbered.

Kiri has discovered plastic bags are fun.... [youtu.be]

TomMcGiverin comments on Feb 21, 2021:

My former neighbor's cat loved to play with plastic tissues and to lay in boxes.

The last few weeks on Batch, I've been occupying myself, for amusement, out of boredom, and also out...

TomMcGiverin comments on Feb 21, 2021:

> Update: This afternoon N. sent me a terse reply with no apology about her having ghosted me for four days before her reply today. I quote as follows: Sorry we are not a match and I wish you the best". I sent her a reply of about 100 words explaining why I thought she ghosted me and critiquing her standards for rejecting me as not having a successful professional career and thus not being high status enough for her and her friends. I explained how my two degrees did prove quite helpful in my marriage as a partner with my wife, who was a social worker, and later as a caregiver for her and then as her guardian. I also mentioned that my marriage as my one LTR in life, proved I was a competent and worthy partner for someone and as far as I'm concerned I am a successful person in life as proven by my marriage, certainly as much of one as any divorced woman like her, whose marriage failed. I also suggested she might revise her profile essay to remove the words caring and empathetic from her self description and that she take a look at her selection skills and her values when it comes to choosing a partner. I also said that she could have learned all this other information about me soon enough if she had not rejected me prematurely for not being enough of a high status male. We shall see if she reports me to Batch for being insulting or abusive, etc. in my reply to her, but as of now, I feel I said nothing out of line in my reply to her terse, non-apology for ghosting me and I do not deserve any kind of suspension or banning from Batch. If she has the right to ghost me without any explanation or apology, then I feel I have to right to assertively have my say in reply when she renewed contact with me, not that I think it will have any influence or change in her. I simply enjoy standing up for myself and having my say. I have never ghosted anyone or even done anything like that in the dating game before online dating and I never will. I will always maintain contact, give them a real goodbye, and an explanation as well, whether they ask for it or not, whenever I reject someone after having seen them in person more than once. So when someone ghosts me and then sends me a half-assed or terse message, I am damn well going to give it back to them and have my final say about them. Thoughts??

That's the big difference

TomMcGiverin comments on Feb 21, 2021:

That is a difference between individual members of the parties on isolated incidences of either promoting or opposing a relief effort. It's apples and oranges to compare that to how the vast majority of both parties membership acts when it comes to long term policy and legislation, such as military funding, tax policy, environmental policy, economic policy, endless wars, health care policy. My point stands, namely that both parties are owned by the same people and support the same ruling class policies on everything that really matters as far as long term laws and legislation. AOC is given no real power in her own party and is allowed to be a shining star for the media of progressive policy only in order for her to serve the useful purpose of the Dem Party leadership, of conning most people into thinking she is the leader and norm for Dem Party policy, which she isn't by any stretch of the imagination. The same applies to Bernie Sanders and other member of The Squad. They are simply a marketing tool for the Dem Party leadership, but no way in hell will the party ever allow one of them to get the party nomination for prez or even VP.

Sunday morning cuteness

TomMcGiverin comments on Feb 21, 2021:

Fight the oppressive power, kitties!.....

Sunday morning fun

TomMcGiverin comments on Feb 21, 2021:

Like I said somewhere else, Rush's body or ashes will undoubtedly be interred in some high security vault or crypt that the masses will not be able to visit or desecrate. Sort of a post death version of a gated community.

Biden visits Bob Dole at home

TomMcGiverin comments on Feb 20, 2021:

Even tho Dole was a Repub, tho a moderate one back when the party had a number of them, I always liked him and thought he was a decent man. He was also the funniest politician I have ever heard. He really was " too funny to be president", the title of his memoir... I'm glad Biden made that visit. Dole deserved it.

1. Will this Covid bring the US economy back to the dirty 30s?

TomMcGiverin comments on Feb 20, 2021:

I will limit myself to just saying two things. The photo appears to be a cow, and, Covid's effect on any one individual is very hard to predict. There are people over 90 who have survived it and there are people in their 30s who have died from it. It's too deadly and unpredictable to be careless about and trifle with. It's your life and your health, so do what you want regarding Covid, but don't dare endanger my health with your choices. You have no right to do so.

Ron DeSantis Orders Florida’s Flags Lowered to Honor Rush Limbaugh Florida’s Republican ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Feb 20, 2021:

Everybody mooning Rush on his way to the grave is a fitting send-off...

I was just trying to log in to agnostic.

TomMcGiverin comments on Feb 20, 2021:

Happened to me too a little earlier this morning. Like the other guy said, it happens from time to time and I just check back later.

Modern dating.

TomMcGiverin comments on Feb 20, 2021:

In spite of how scary that sounds, the more common, realistic risk of online dating is good old hurt feelings and disappointment, no matter how low you keep your expectations.

Take that trump fans

TomMcGiverin comments on Feb 20, 2021:

I really wanted Bernie instead, but I held my nose and voted for Biden, mainly because he wasn't Trump and I knew with Biden we would at least get better leadership on Covid as well as a better chance at getting the kind of economic relief for Covid as well. Outside of that stuff, I expect little improvement in our country from Biden. In the rest of things besides the Covid crisis, Biden will be better mannered than Trump, but he really won't change much for the better, just like he said in his speech to fat cat donors before the primary campaign. Of course, Biden and the Dems will blame that lack of action and change on the Repubs, but, like Obama, the real reason will be that they don't support it in the first place. Most Americans are sheeple who are too stupid to see that and blame it all on either the red or the blue, not on both, like they should. If Biden's admin. plays out the way I expect, I promise we will have another Repub prez in four years, and he will be worse than Trump. You heard it here first..

Texas Republicans! 🙄

TomMcGiverin comments on Feb 19, 2021:

All three are equally huge assholes. I can't pick one over the others.

Faced with real consequences for participating in insurrection, MAGA followers turn on Trump

TomMcGiverin comments on Feb 19, 2021:

My fear is that most of them will never face much in the way of consequences for the riot, certainly not as much as they deserve. I am also disturbed that whoever killed that one cop does not seem to be likely to be charged with murder and also that Kyle Rittenhouse will probably never be convicted of anything serious for the two murders he committed last summer in Kenosha, WI.

Are you an individualist? [youtube.com]

TomMcGiverin comments on Feb 19, 2021:

Quite the opposite, I am a proud socialist and a believer in collectiveism. America's biggest problem is this hyper-individualism. It blinds us to having empathy for others as well as to seeing our common interests, such as single payer health care for all and a guarrentied income. We need both of them ASAP, but individualism prevents voters from seeing the rational solutions to our problems. I don't see it going away in my lifetime, if ever, because it's only gotten worse during my adult life, beginning with the Reagan presidency. The older I get, the more I wish I had met a compatible Canadian woman when I was young, so I could have married and lived there with her. A Euro woman would have been even better. The US is more and more seeming like a hostile society where I don't belong, but I'm doomed to die here, probably while still alone. Even as a young adult, I quickly realized that, in the vast majority of people, birth location and family ties were destiny when it came to earnings and career success, and that educational and employment opportunities were the vehicles thru which that destiny was provided. Also, as long as most Americans remain very materialistic and buy into consumerism, they will continue to support a competitive society and economy instead of collectiveism and cooperation, because they also seem to never lose their belief that someday they or their kids will get lucky and become rich, against the odds.

Love George Carlin's political commentary. [youtu.be]

TomMcGiverin comments on Feb 19, 2021:

Does anybody recognize who the dickhead was debating Carlin there?

Definitely them

TomMcGiverin comments on Feb 19, 2021:

So true. You only need to be smarter than the rubes and know which buttons to push.

We can still jail him

TomMcGiverin comments on Feb 19, 2021:

Hell yes!

I truly am sad and afraid for our kids

TomMcGiverin comments on Feb 19, 2021:

Part of my reasoning in choosing to never have kids..

Go Ted, go! And Take Mitch McConnell with you...

TomMcGiverin comments on Feb 19, 2021:

Good one..

Deregulate the power grid, fail to winterize the equipment, blame a socialist policy when disaster ...