Voter ID laws sound like a good idea, but they're not really necessary, considering all the information the government already collects on everybody. Without looking at your driver's license, they already know your name, age, address, recent purchases, payment history, and your signature is digitized in their databases. I can look up my ballot receipt by giving the number of my address (leaving out the street name) and the day of birth (no month) plus my zip code. requiring government ID cards is redundant and just keeps legal citizens from voting.

It's fake news. Obviously, dead people don't vote. Their living relatives could possibly vote in their names, but more likely, it's people reading voter rolls and matching names of living people to their list of dead people. You may be confusing dead people not-yet removed from voter rolls, which could be in the millions, but any of those having votes turned in is very rare.
ballotpedia.org/Votes_cast_in_the_names_of_deceased_people

It is impossible, however, that anybody aged 360 collecting Social Security. Especially considering that Social Security hasn't been around for 100 years. You may have heard that 150-year-olds are collecting SS, but that's also wrong. Don't believe Trump or Elon Musk on the subject.
www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-doge-social-security-150-year-old-benefits/

Here in the US, many school children start school around 8:00 AM, and in in the winter, in Northern US states, sunrise doesn't happen until after that. Especially if you consider places where kids leave home 30-60 minutes before school starts.

Not sure if you're being facetious, like I'm ignoring that schools could just start classes later in the morning or whatever. I'm not. I'm actually in favor of getting rid of Daylight Savings Time, and let schools adjust their schedules as needed in their areas.

I grew up in California (not so far North) and because I had to be at school by 7:15 for orchestra practice, I often walked to school before dawn, but I don't remember it being bad.

I don't know about any singing, but Trump and Musk are doing plenty on their own to turn the public against them. The Trump/Musk Administration are breaking laws left & right, firing the federal workers who prevent epidemics and nuclear & aviation accidents and it's happening so fast, Trump cannot keep up.
apnews.com/article/doge-firings-layoffs-federal-government-workers-musk-d33cdd7872d64d2bdd8fe70c28652654

apnews.com/article/nuclear-doge-firings-trump-federal-916e6819104f04f44c345b7dde4904d5

One of the great things about California is the size and variety of everything in it. Driving from the top to the bottom is at least a two-day drive. It has lots of coastline. Mountains. Deserts. lakes. If some other state has something, California probably has it, too, except for the crummy weather and certain critters unique to other places. Go ahead and gripe about the Liberal politics, but California has some conservative areas, too, like the Central Valley, & the rural area East of LA.


No, but I wish. Universal healthcare and the higher quality of life would be a nice addition. Selling off parts of the US would take an act of Congress, and it's unlikely the rest of the US would be happy to give up 20% of the national economy.

Right. We should listen to the guy making $8 million per day from government contracts over people concerned about Medicare and Social Security. Without those cuts, how will they be able to pay for billionaires' $trillions in tax cuts?

Big deal. Everybody knows LA is crowded, expensive and the traffic is awful. Still an amazing place to be. Even in that article, they managed to slip that in:

It's not just about Hollywood. CAA represents authors and politicians, too. Former presidents regularly speak at events, and hiring a talent agency just makes it easier to arrange things like speaking engagements or interviews for publication. This doesn't mean that Joe Biden will start appearing in television advertisements or movies.

OK, I guess you don't know what "chain of command" means. The US military doesn't just do what any politician says. When I joined the Army, it was taught and enforced to know the chain of command, where the top is the POTUS, the Secretary of Defense, Army Chief of Staff, and on down to the bottom is our squad leader, and nowhere in between were any Senators or Representatives. Not even the House Speaker. Pelosi could've phoned to request military help from the President, or maybe the state governor. It's no surprise that Trump is lying about Jan 6.

From the article:

Wrong. The Speaker of the House, is not in the chain of command, has no authority to federalize National Guard soldiers. I know this because I was in the US military for over 24 years. Deploying the Guardsmen is up to the president or the state governor. Blaming Capitol security on Pelosi is a long-debunked lie.
newbedfordlight.org/trumps-claim-that-pelosi-turned-down-national-guard-help-on-jan-6-is-just-fantasy/

It's a barely there profile. Just some photos. Maybe take some time to fill in the biographical information. Fill out the blurb to tell the ladies what you're like and what you seek.

Photos 2 & 3 are the same. Maybe that's just you being clever and tricking people to think their phone screen is broken and their swipe doesn't work, but it also looks like you don't know how to upload photos and reposted the same photo twice.

Anyway, from the pictures, it seems you're a good-looking, healthy, young man, so you should do alright, but for the profile that's just some photos and lots of "no answer", I can only give it a 3/10.

Good luck!

"Woke" isn't about destroying the country. It's simply being aware of injustice, and it's been around for decades, so unless you think the POTUS isn't a serious position, then you're ignoring Presidents Clinton, Obama and Biden.

The Democrats' problem is communication. You have whole news networks dedicated to spewing the Republican talking points and mindlessly praising Dear Leader Trump, and while some Democrats say they need a Democratic Fox News equivalent, they really just need to figure out how to get their message to the people, and maybe find better messengers. The octogenarians doing it now are just failing. The right has billionaires throwing all sorts of money and resources to get their tax cuts and make people believe that immigrants are taking Americans' jobs and murdering their daughters, while statistically, the opposite is true. But, yeah, let's spend $189 billion to tank the economy and deport 11 million hard-working immigrants who are, otherwise, contributing to the greatest economy on Earth.

Yes, the US support of Israel's genocide is bad, but the US is not supporting a dirty bomb against Russia. We're barely authorizing strikes into Russia at all, and only on military targets. If you've got evidence of the US helping anybody make dirty bombs, I'd like to see it; that'd be a war crime.

Only 1.5?

What things happened? Green new scam? $50 million in Condoms for Hezbollah? I guess those Iranians got their money back, so there's that.

Did you mean the "woke" bit? The thing about that is most republicans seem to have difficulty even saying what "woke" means, other than saying it's bad.

Neat. The Biden Administration got Mexico to post 10,000 troops on the border back in 2021. And Canada agreed to spend $1,3 billion on border security back in December, for Biden. So Trump stopped his tariffs for something they were doing, already.
www.cnn.com/2025/02/04/politics/trump-blinks-trade-war-analysis/index.html

Firing all the officers who had anything to do with investigations into Jan-6 crimes is not "making the FBI fair and competent." They're career officers, doing their jobs, investigating the crimes we all saw happen. Same goes for the DOJ firings. And the investigations into Trump were not weaponization. They were simply investigating the crimes we all saw happen. Can you explain the stacks of document boxes Trump kept at Mar A Lago? Do you know anybody who watched the Jan 6 riots and didn't wonder what took Trump so long? Trump's an idiot if he actually thought Nancy Pelosi was responsible for the security at the Capitol. Well, he's probably an idiot, anyway, but despite all the crap he says, Pelosi and the DC Mayor have nothing to do with the security of that place beyond some tangentially administrative roles.

And USAID is an organization created by an act of Congress, and the President cannot simply eliminate it. Not to mention the fact that foreign aid helps keep our adversaries from controlling the rest of the world, like Africa and Southeast Asia. It's certainly not, as Musk said, "a criminal organization."

Those claims have already been debunked. There was never a federal program to incorporate "woke ideology" anywhere, and no money was spent on condoms for Gaza. Trump and his press secretary saying so didn't make it true.
apnews.com/article/gaza-condoms-fact-check-trump-50-million-26884cac6c7097d7316ca50ca4145a82

And there is no "green new scam." I suppose you mean the "Green New Deal," but that never even made it to a Congressional vote.

Lastly, I'd like to know what you're basing your assertion that the US was a laughing stock under Biden. The money that Iran got was Iranian-owned bank accounts that were unfrozen. If Iran is funding terrorism, it's more likely that they're using the money they get from Russia, selling weapons for use against Ukraine.

Yes, the tariffs are going to be a disaster.

I'm watching the Forex market today, and see the US Dollar exploding in price. While it may sound nice to Americans to have a "strong dollar," it only means that the dollar is more expensive than it used to be, so the US will be a worse place to do business. People will lose jobs over this mess. Not to mention how much these tariffs make our economic partner nations angry. Maybe Tim, or someone else in Canada can confirm what Canadians think about buying US products, but I'm hearing on news reports that some Canadians are confronting shoppers they see buying them.