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TomMcGiverin comments on May 23, 2020:

All Biden has going for him is Obama nostalgia and that he's not Trump. Those things were enough to get him the votes of older white voters and black voters in the Dem primaries until the virus shut down the primary race. Biden arrogantly thinks that blacks owe him their vote because of Obama nostalgia. I am still disgusted that so many blacks fell for the Obama nostalgia and voted for him in SC and on Super Tuesday, putting him in front before the virus ended the primary race and Bernie dropped out. We could have had Bernie as the nominee, a much better candidate, but the DNC, older white voters, and black voters picked Biden, so they're to blame, not me...

Biden isn't too keen on marijuana.

TomMcGiverin comments on May 19, 2020:

I can say by being around many Bernie supporters, particularly the younger ones, that if Uncle Joe doesn't support legalizing weed he will never get their votes in Nov..

Poor cat. . . [youtube.com]

TomMcGiverin comments on May 19, 2020:

Poor kitty just defending itself.

Sad.

TomMcGiverin comments on May 19, 2020:

Biden has always been a jerk, but now he also has dementia. Another reason not to vote for him.

Bernie Blackout Trailer Coming May 15th [youtu.be]

TomMcGiverin comments on May 18, 2020:

"Everybody knows the fight is fixed.." - Leonard Cohen

Was that the can opener????

TomMcGiverin comments on May 15, 2020:

Most cats can hear that sound from anywhere.

'No Excuse for This': House Dems Unveil 1,815-Page Bill That Would Bail Out Corporate Lobbyists But...

TomMcGiverin comments on May 15, 2020:

Well, duh. I've only known this for about 30 years.

President Wilson was suffering from the flu and sometimes described as delirious during the peace ...

TomMcGiverin comments on May 15, 2020:

I dunno about Trump being delirious, but Biden clearly has dementia.

Supremely FAULTY State Supreme Court decision in WI! Have any other states' Supreme Court's made any...

TomMcGiverin comments on May 14, 2020:

Hypocrisy by people in high office like the state court? I am shocked, shocked I say.....

The circus is coming! [youtube.com]

TomMcGiverin comments on May 12, 2020:

Conclusive proof that the 1976 movie Network was not just satire, but also prophecy...

[psiloveyou.xyz] Why you aren't attracted to nice guys. Really made me think........

TomMcGiverin comments on May 12, 2020:

Her definition of Nice Guys is synominous with insecure. Sums it up with a lot fewer words. My definition of Nice Guy does not mean they are insecure, but instead that they value women and treat them assertively and with respect. Unfortunately, as some have commented on this thread, many women, esp. when they are younger and more innocent, tend to be more attracted to bad boys or guys who are jerks in how they treat women. It's been that way forever and it goes both ways...

105 Pastors Wrote a Letter To Keep Yoga Out of Ohio Schools.

TomMcGiverin comments on May 12, 2020:

Jeez.. and I thought Iowa was backward....

Help Please! Having lost my wife to cancer a year and a half ago, after being together 55 years, ...

TomMcGiverin comments on May 12, 2020:

Sorry Larry, but those two issues about values and politics would be deal-breakers for me and probably most of us on here. Glad you found out about these before you got very far with her.

Congratulations on keeping the hippie mindset.

TomMcGiverin comments on May 12, 2020:

This sketch is so funny and sick because all of it is so true. It makes me ashamed to be a boomer. Both generations have their faults and also share the same problem of having huge blind spots about their faults. I am proud to say that I never became either of the first two types of boomers. I met some good millenials at the Sanders campaign, but I doubt they are that typical of their generation, which is why the future looks bleak for my twilight years. Thanks for posting this. I tried watching SNL a few times in the last year and I have to say that little of the millenial humor in their sketches seems funny to me. Maybe I just don't appreciate or get the huge layers of snark that are part of every sketch and it's probably due to my age. As far as the two boomers portrayed with stereotypes, I have always hated the music of Jimmy Buffet as well as the song Joy To The World by Three Dog Night. Both of them represent the typical boomer that has no taste in music and the LCD music listener that corporate radio music has always catered to rather than those who prefer underground or alternative music styles. There have always been hipsters who preferred music that was offbeat or ahead of its time while the majority prefer the music that is safe and familiar rather than challenging and stimulating.

Actual data and analysis of deaths due to COVID-19 in Nursing Homes as a function of poverty.

TomMcGiverin comments on May 11, 2020:

Nursing homes have always been about understaffing as the way to making profits.

Trump Disbanding Coronavirus Task Force While U.

TomMcGiverin comments on May 9, 2020:

What really made it was the background music played during the video of Trump at the mask factory. They were playing the Guns And Roses version of Live And Let Die....

Cute. I think it IS a story somewhere.

TomMcGiverin comments on May 9, 2020:

Almost all cats are befriendable, even if the only reason they grow to like you is that you feed them..

New Trump Press Secretary Tells Reporters She’ll Never Lie to Them At her first briefing ever...

TomMcGiverin comments on May 9, 2020:

I remember back when Jimmy Carter was running for prez right after Nixon and Watergate, saying the same thing to the American people. Even he ended up lying sometime after that. Talk about promising the moon...

Trump Taps Top Donor to Lead Struggling U.

TomMcGiverin comments on May 8, 2020:

Just from looking at his pic I can see that he is a typical Repub smirking prick...

Watch: Mike Pence Caught on Hot Mic Asking if He Can Carry Empty PPE Boxes Into a Nursing Home 'For ...

TomMcGiverin comments on May 8, 2020:

Pence came to my state, Iowa, today to visit the Repub guv Kim Reynolds. He praised her for her reopening efforts with the state's businesses and economy, even tho the latest models say our new cases will not peak until June 8. Thoroughly nauseating and shades of W.'s "heck of a job, Brownie" with Katrina relief..

More than 12,000 Catholic churches in the U.S. applied for PPP loans – and 9,000 got them

TomMcGiverin comments on May 8, 2020:

I'm embarrassed to say that the Unitarian Church that I am a nominal member of got one of those loans. They really did need the money as many of their members are unemployed and/or retired on small fixed incomes or otherwise employed in low wage jobs. As a result, about a fifth of their members did not return pledge forms for this year's pledge drive and the church was short about 70K on what they hoped to raise for the next year. To their credit, they are keeping all their staff on the payroll even tho they quit holding services and programming in person and they also provide fair benefits to their staff as well as good pay for a church. The church is a tax exempt non-profit the same as the United Way, for example.

[youtube.com] Why Rock Couldn't Stay at the Commune [firstthings.com]

TomMcGiverin comments on May 7, 2020:

Before age and all that cigarette smoking ruined her singing voice, she had the best female voice in pop and folk music. Better than Judy Collins or Joan Baez. She had a five octave range too.

Love this writer. What do you think about Capitalism’s voracious appetite?

TomMcGiverin comments on May 6, 2020:

At least in the US, this pandemic should make it clear that all of us peons are merely commodities that are easily replaceable and expendable to capitalism and the ruling class. However, most will probably not see the clear message and will instead fall for the partisan blaming game rather than blame their real enemies and rebel.

Fun with rednecks! So, its becoming a real fault line in America, who wears masks and who ...

TomMcGiverin comments on May 5, 2020:

Have your fun with rednecks. As for me, I try to flee as soon as I hear banjo music...

Trump Cheers On Governors Ignoring WH Coronavirus Guidelines Even as deaths here in the US have...

TomMcGiverin comments on May 5, 2020:

We are finally getting to see how little value the lives of most Americans are worth to the ruling class, esp. the Repubs. The Purge movies are seeming more and more like non-fiction.

Guard shot for requiring customer to wear mask This is us now, America crashing - becoming a ...

TomMcGiverin comments on May 5, 2020:

Judging from the names, it sounds like this was black on black crime.

Where else in America (besides New York) will voters overwhelmingly reject pro-corporate politics?

TomMcGiverin comments on May 4, 2020:

Iowa can barely ever get comfortable with electing mainstream Dems, much less ever give socialists or progressives a chance. We have been a one-party (Repub) state since 2007, even tho the state did vote for Obama twice. The fact that Cuomo is still so popular in the state proves that voters may still be very comfortable with corporatist pols. Cuomo sure as hell is one as well as being a friend of the 1% rather than the 99%.

Secret FEMA charts warn U.

TomMcGiverin comments on May 4, 2020:

Trump doesn't care. These people are all expendable garbage to him and most of them are Social Security and Medicaid/Medicare recipients that he doesn't want to see collect anyway. Plenty of other desperate people to replace the workers that this virus kills. This virus functions like the Purge series of movies, only instead of killing them all off in one night it will happen over a couple years.

Security guard Family Dollar in Flint MI shot to death for telling customer to wear a mask.

TomMcGiverin comments on May 4, 2020:

It doesn't give the name of the shooter, but my guess is that from the victim's name the guard was black and the shooter was white. I figured it was only a matter of time until one of these redneck armed "rebels" against the lockdown would end up shooting someone innocent. States need to rethink these open carry laws.

Do you think the police even realize this?

TomMcGiverin comments on May 4, 2020:

I think most of them do and don't care if others see them as racist and discriminatory. They feel most black and brown people deserve it.

Yuh beddurr kurrekt yurr wayz.....

TomMcGiverin comments on May 4, 2020:

Cats need something to fill that time between meals and sleep..

Evangelical fundamentalists who openly defied social distancing guidelines are dying of COVID-19 | ...

TomMcGiverin comments on May 4, 2020:

You're assuming they might feel bad about dying prematurely when in fact they might be overjoyed about meeting Jesus sooner.

[youtube.com] Love Sylvester in Jail.

TomMcGiverin comments on May 4, 2020:

I'm glad Sylvester lives on and is well cared for after Steve's death.

[youtube.com] Worst Date Ever -Meet Sylvester the Cat!!!!!

TomMcGiverin comments on May 4, 2020:

A case of feline fatal attraction..Sylvester needs to stay off Tinder...

[psiloveyou.xyz] My husband had settled for me and I had settled for him?

TomMcGiverin comments on May 3, 2020:

I didn't settle in my one LTR. My guess is most people settle, how much is a matter of degree..

Republican Forced to Apologize for Wearing Confederate Face Mask Republican state Senator Dale ...

TomMcGiverin comments on May 2, 2020:

I wonder how comfortable he would feel if some of the black legislators from the Detroit area began showing up at the capital wearing Black Panther berets and other clothing of that style?

As weed gets closer to legal (when you can grow it in your yard and sell it to your neighbor it will...

TomMcGiverin comments on May 2, 2020:

I'll pass. I haven't smoked weed since my 20s and haven't missed it.

Hundreds of Armed Protesters Gather at Michigan’s State Capitol Hundreds of armed protesters,...

TomMcGiverin comments on May 2, 2020:

It's funny how much this shit is almost identical to stuff from The Onion...

Hundreds of Armed Protesters Gather at Michigan’s State Capitol Hundreds of armed protesters,...

TomMcGiverin comments on May 2, 2020:

They look like the kind of guys that carry big guns to compensate for having small dicks..Same with driving huge pickup trucks..

Purrmaid 😂

TomMcGiverin comments on May 2, 2020:

Can't believe someone got the cat into that costume.

Quarantine kittie shirts!!!!

TomMcGiverin comments on May 2, 2020:

Kitties with attitude..

Anyone see this on Netflix? [youtube.com]

TomMcGiverin comments on May 2, 2020:

The clip may be from the film Reynaldo And Clara. From his outfit and the violinist I am guessing it was from the same Rolling Thunder tour.

Pulitzer winner Chris Hedges: These "are the good times — compared to what's coming next" | ...

TomMcGiverin comments on May 2, 2020:

What's really sick is when I think back on the good old days of Nixon's presidency before Watergate. We actually had a lot of social and economic policies under him that were downright progressive compared to where the Dems are nowadays. Oh, the curse of being old...

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell claims that it would be a “Blue State Bailout” for the ...

TomMcGiverin comments on May 2, 2020:

My guess would be that Iowa, my state, gets more fed money than it gives, esp. all the farmers that get subsidies from the feds. My state has been voting red most of the time for quite a while.

Wanna play? [youtu.be]

TomMcGiverin comments on May 1, 2020:

Not surprised at how this cat loves head rubs, like most cats.

So if Tara Reade appears to have a credible case or accusation against Biden for sexual assault, do ...

TomMcGiverin comments on May 1, 2020:

Biden just keeps bringing the hits... Too many reasons not to vote for him or Trump..

This is a Facebook memory from last year when I was in Budapest.

TomMcGiverin comments on May 1, 2020:

Ronnie was mentally out to lunch early in his first term with dementia. That's partly why I don't want Biden elected. We've already seen enough dementia from him and Trump. I will vote my conscience for someone who is sane and has a functioning brain. But don't worry, Biden will be replaced this summer by the DNC.

So if Tara Reade appears to have a credible case or accusation against Biden for sexual assault, do ...

TomMcGiverin comments on May 1, 2020:

I just watched the video of Biden on Morning Joe being interviewed about Tara Reade. He not only seems to be lying, but his dementia is getting worse. Watch for him to get replaced by the DNC this summer to deal with both the sexual assault scandal and his dementia.

Does anyone here think that a civil war in america isn't inevitable ot this point?

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 30, 2020:

If the south ever seceeded again, I would welcome it.

JUST GOT BLOCKED ON FACEBOOK AGAIN!!!!!! This time for answering a question.

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 30, 2020:

No good deed goes unpunished...

What it really means. Very unfair.

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 30, 2020:

No surprise. At least this one small business owner has wised up that Repubs don't care about small businesses. Unfortunately, most small business owners all vote for Repubs because they are deluded and think that party cares about them as well as the hope that someday their small business will become a big business.

Do these arguments also apply to the political left?

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 29, 2020:

The video is right in that conservatives over simplify and over generalize to suit their argument. They also say that human nature can't be changed or regulated, but of course they contradict this when they support trickle down economics and corporate welfare because they believe that rich people and corporations are different from poor and average people so that giving them incentives to create jobs will motivate them to do so. Even tho research shows this does not happen.

You'll notice LGBT pride parades are being canceled, but they aren't protesting....

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 29, 2020:

Maybe queer folk are also generally smarter than the Bible-thumpers...

Anything left out? Are either Biden OR Trump up to the task? [rwer.wordpress.com]

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 29, 2020:

I hope I'm wrong, but I am afraid we are doomed either way..

That's how he truly sits in front of a mirror

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 29, 2020:

The Stuart Smalley of right wingers.

So when Kim Yo Jung takes over as Supreme Leader, North Korea gets a female head of state before the...

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 27, 2020:

So is this guy dead already or what?

My youngest bro just shared this with me. Seems to sum it up nicely. [youtu.be]

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 27, 2020:

I agree with the complaints about what's wrong and why, but I disagree with the idea that simply getting voters to quit voting red and blue would change things. I suspect that if most of us did wake up and start voting for third parties enough to get most of their candidates elected to congress, the federal government would just declare martial law and get rid of elections. I wholly agree with the song's viewpoint about how rednecks are deluded to think that their gun ownership by itself changes anything about preventing tyranny. First, because all their other rights keep being taken while they cling to their guns, and secondly, because if they ever throw down as a group against the government, they will get creamed by superior numbers, firepower, and communications.

I understand the concern about Joe Biden.

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 27, 2020:

Trump or Biden, either way we lose....

I confess, this is me:

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 26, 2020:

Cats love to hunt, even if vicariously....

I've been inching my way to level 8 for eternity.

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 26, 2020:

I reached level 8 a few months ago and ordered my shirt. I have yet to see it.

Classical liberalism. [youtube.com]

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 25, 2020:

Identity politics is a bullshit distraction from the lack of class warfare by the major political parties on behalf of the 99%. And man is it effective...

No surprise here.

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 25, 2020:

Everybody knows...

Found this on Wikipedia.

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 24, 2020:

It is a thing that is the economic philosophy of both major parties, with a few notable exceptions like Bernie Sanders. When practiced in government policy, it is an evil.

Naomi Klein delivers a scathing analysis and rebuke of Larry Summers.

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 24, 2020:

He is a true believer- in neoliberalism- like all the rest of the DNC crowd that's very cozy with the Repubs and their same donors.

I've found a new way to weed out the majority from dating sites.

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 23, 2020:

Reminds me of when I would show the profiles of women on Batch to my female friends and when they saw a woman who never smiled in their photos or else had a forced smile, my friends would call that "resting bitch face". I took their word for it and followed their judgement.

[elephantjournal.com] The unexpected culprit thats killing our love lives. Agree/Disagree?

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 23, 2020:

Reminds me a lot of American politics. Limited choices about who to vote for in the two major parties and the choices you have were already picked for you by the big money donors who control the whole process behind the scenes..

Good Afternoon Everyone! Happy Thursday! My stimulus check finally came - US mail to the wrong ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 23, 2020:

My fed check arrived too. I am donating it to my local food bank.

Young americans should start refusing to sign up for the draft as a protest against the fact we have...

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 23, 2020:

The draft system doesn't induct anyone anymore, but the last I heard if you don't register for it when you turn 18, then the government can turn you down for any federal student loan programs. That is the stick that they still hold to force compliance. The draft system will never induct people again for two reasons" One, the conscription law would never hold up in court these days since women are not subject to the draft, so it is discriminatory and thus illegal. Second, we now have a poverty draft which makes the old system of the draft unnecessary for the government to fill the ranks with cannon fodder for their wars in the Middle East.

Universal Basic income is the topic of discussion.

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 22, 2020:

It would need to be a lot more than 1K a month...

Bernie Supporters Angry Over Campaign Donations - YouTube

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 22, 2020:

That's why this time I didn't volunteer for him or give him money like I did last time, because I couldn't afford to have my heart broken if he got screwed again this time and then caved to the party.

This article in the Atlantic seems to think that the never trumpers will forge a coalition with the ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 22, 2020:

I would agree with your viewpoint. Most people put their own privilege and wealth ahead of voting for someone who might be more competent or fair in how they govern. I am an exception, but that's because I'm a socialist and I identify or ally with those lower on the economic scale rather than just those at my level or higher. Unfortunately most Americans only identify with their own economic class or those above them.

Frig I wish Sanders was gonna be the next American President.

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 22, 2020:

The DNC and the corporate media will never allow it.

2021 is the year I will renounce the Democratic Party I do acknowledge that I no longer regard ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 22, 2020:

Now is as good a time as any to give up on the Dems. At least at the national level, they are a fake opposition party to the Repubs.

Is Trump trying to deliberately create a second wave of Covid-19 to derail the elections?

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 22, 2020:

I don't think so, but I wouldn't put it past him. I think the reason he is trying to reopen the economy too soon is simply out of ideology and the wish to help his buddies in the business world who want to make profits and keep the stock market up. The lives and health of Americans are not important to him at all.

Good Morning Everyone! Happy Wednesday! Wow this week is going by fast! Been on the phone and ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 22, 2020:

While I feel Cuomo has been a better leader during this crisis once it hit his state hard, he is still far from perfect and not the white knight the corporate media are building him up to be, possibly so he could be the replacement candidate for the Dems if Biden drops out this summer due to his dementia. Cuomo waited too long to close down businesses in his state, unlike California and Washington did once the virus hit their states. Also, the more I watch him in his daily press conferences, the more I find him annoying in how he loves the sound of his own voice and has a style of talking down to his audience. Having said all that, of course he is far superior to Trump and most or all of the Repub governors in the US as far as how they are handling the crisis in their states.

well this sucks!!!! how are you?

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 21, 2020:

Waiting to see if Reynolds opens up any of the closed types of businesses in May. Considering the number of confirmed cases hasn't peaked yet, I'm thinking it will be middle or late May before much of the state is allowed to open most types of businesses. As far as bars and restaurants, I wouldn't plan on anything until late summer if even then, except for maybe western Iowa.

UPDATE: Lisa has been on the phone all day trying to find out about her stimulus check, ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 21, 2020:

I have been checking with my credit union, where my SS payments go directly into my checking account. I check every few days and so far no fed stimulus payment. How soon should I get one?

Firms in tax havens axed from state bailout in Denmark, Poland - Business Insider

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 20, 2020:

Too bad that in the US both parties would be racing each other to see who could bail them out first.

Crystal Ball Time - What do you think is going to come of all this?

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 20, 2020:

The current mortality rates for the US overall appear to be about 3.5%. That is dividing the deaths by the number of confirmed cases. That's a lot more than 1%, but it is a lot lower than other causes of death.

Biden 2020!!! Who is with me???

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 20, 2020:

Only people who want a repeat of the Reagan years, when we had a doddering old fool with dementia as prez and his advisors and wife Nancy were running the country. Not to worry, there's no way Joe will win the election or avoid being replaced by the DNC at the convention. They can't hide him all the time the next few months.

US virus data and calculations from Friday April 17.

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 19, 2020:

Guess that means we have a higher mortality rate.

How long before christians are using the afterlife to jsutify letting people die for the economy ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 19, 2020:

Mark Twain said, " Heaven for virtue, hell for company".

Democrats and Republicans Fuck You In The Ass And You LOVE It! Nancy Pelosi and her $11k freezers...