Knocking down bank overdraft fees down to $8 doesn't look like a fairy tale, and neither does requiring up-front pricing on bills for service. These are common sense "kitchen table" issues that affect most Americans.

Crime is actually trending downward, as it has since 1992. You can look it up. It's lower now than at any time during the Trump Administration.

Biden gave a pretty good speech for the SOTU address. The Republican response, from Senator Britt seemed psychotic, but whatever. Mike Johnson's calling for civility and decorum worked pretty well, except for Rep. Green who couldn't help herself. President Biden played up his experience and command of the facts of the situations, and he presented realistic goals and plans for solutions. Overall, a pretty good job.

Tibet and Taiwan probably disagree.

It's a profile. You've got clear photos, but nothing to describe you or what you're looking for beyond the boxes you checked. Disappointing.

You could enter some text in the headline, description and occupation boxes in your profile to tell the ladies about you. Tell them what you are like and what kind of person you're looking for. Make it easy to read. Have fun with it.

When you leave the descriptions out, it makes your profile look fake, or makes you look lazy.

The photos are well lit, and you look healthy and well-groomed. Good job on that! It'll probably work for the ladies who don't bother to read, but probably chase off the ladies who do like to read further.

So for the half-empty profile, I'd rate it 5/10.

Good luck!

It's a pretty good profile. The photos aren't great (and you said you know that) but they're clear enough. Your text blurb is descriptive enough. I like it.

If or when you decide to change the photos, figure out where the camera lens is and look at it when taking the picture. A smile wouldn't hurt. With cellphone cameras, more light is better. For best results, get a friend to take pictures of you outside in the daylight. Have fun with it.

You left the headline as the default "Hi.." which is weak. When your name comes up in searches, people will see your headline, and when everybody says "Hi.." nobody says anything. Use that to call attention to yourself. Also, there's no limit to the space you use, so don't abbreviate words in your blurb and pay attention to spelling. If you're after the older ladies, they'd probably like you to seem smarter, and you can do that by not typing in Instagram code.


Anyway, it's clear from the photos that you're a good-looking guy and there's nothing offensive in there, so you'll be alright. But for looking like the photos were taken by accident and the lame headline, I'd rate it 8/10.

Good luck!

Secretly conspiring? I don't know how secret you think it is, but they're not being too secret about their intentions. The West wants Russia out of Ukraine, and is working to get ammunition and weapons to Ukraine. The West doesn't want to take down Russia any further than that, despite what Putin or Medvedev say. Russia is dangerous, but a collapsed Russia is dangerous and unpredictable.

That might happen if the SCOTUS agrees that the 14th Amendment has no meaning anymore. Notice that in each state where Trump was taken off the ballot, it was after legal action by Republicans. I guess we'll see, either way, but SCOTUS rarely refuses the original finding of fact, and in each case, Trump was found to have engaged in insurrection.

So you actually see crime increasing? Crime rates are down, and following a general trend lower each year since Dubya left office. I guess it's easier to ignore the statistics when you're being fed the horse dung from Fox each night.

The reason those newscasts stop covering Trump's speeches is because he spews garbage, and those networks have responsibilities to not deliberately spread misinformation. President or not, Trump doesn't deserve unquestioned acceptance of his BS. Even Fox News cuts away sometimes--probably to avoid having to pay another $787 million.

Illinois judge removes Trump from primary ballot
The next state to kick Trump off their ballot. Their election board determined Trump ineligible a month ago, but decided they lacked the authority to actually remove him. This county judge issued her ruling this week and only stayed the removal pending the obvious appeals process. Despite what some are saying, there have been actual trials. Trump engaged in insurrection. It'll be interesting to see how SCOTUS can justify forcing states to keep Trump on the ballot.
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4496068-illinois-judge-removes-trump-from-primary-ballot/

Sure, you could assume research is pointless when you and Conservatives in general just ignore the evidence. Here in the real world, it just makes you look dumb, crying about crime rates when they're going down, or fearing some terrorist attack when we haven't had anything like 9/11 in over 20 years. Time to put your head back in the sand?

If you've got evidence that immigrants are more likely to commit crimes than the rest of the population, I'd be happy to take a look. All the studies I saw looking into immigrant criminality more or less come to the same conclusions, citing various reasons. Immigrants are less likely to commit crimes, much less violent crimes, than native-born US citizens.

Here's a link for the Cato Institute (a libertarian research organization) report:
https://www.cato.org/blog/immigration-crime-what-research-says

You're more likely to be a criminal or terrorist than the average immigrant. Should I worry about you dying from Americans defending themselves?

https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/research/criminalization-immigration-united-states

Yes, there are people from all other countries in the US right now. That doesn't mean that another 9/11 is iminent. And again, 9/11 wasn't carried out by immigrants crossing the border. The 9/11 attackers had student or tourist visas and were here completely legally. Really, it was a failure of the Bush Administration to recognize the threat or even do anything about the intelligence they had at the time. There's no indication that any later president (even Trump) would make the same mistakes.

Congress could pass laws (as is their job) to fix the border, but Trump and the Republicans are incapable of running the government. They're only good at opposition and it's against their nature to actually work for the country. It's not even clear they can keep the government from shutting down. Pathetic.

You think another 9/11 is coming from the Southern border? Even the first one didn't come from the Southern border--those guys were visa holders from Saudi Arabia. The Southern border isn't the beginning and end of national security. It's just one of the things being held up by DJT and Congressional Republicans. Further proof that Republicans can't govern.

Good luck with your hopes on the Georgia case.

Sure it is, Slimme. Biden's such a laughingstock that he's rallied all the NATO countries together to help Ukraine resist the Russian invasion, and returned America to the Paris Climate Accords, showing understanding that global climate change is a serious matter. The US economy under Biden is doing better than every other national economy after countless conservative pundits declared that it would crash into recession along with our stock market and create explosive unemployment. The competent administration has defied all the doomsayers. But Biden has plenty more work to do, so doesn't whine and cry about pundits and comedians poking fun at his old age. We appreciate that the freedom to tease is a good thing, and see that Biden's above that kind of pettiness.

The law is coming after Trump right now. There were so many crimes that the courts are having difficulty scheduling them over the next months and years, and even Trump supporters can't keep the different cases straight.

But go ahead and tell yourself that some YouTube video proves Biden is the joke.

US Steel isn't even the biggest US steel company. That would be Nucor, and there are dozens of other steel companies in the US. Even if a Japanese firm comes and buys US Steel, it won't be able to take the mines overseas. Possibly the mills, but given the bulk and weight of steel, that doesn't make sense, either. Downsizing can happen even if the company stays US-owned, so it's not really clear that you're not confused on this. Companies are bought and sold in the US every day.

As far as wind and solar go, it's not like the land can't be used for other things at the same time. Farmers grow crops under and between solar panels and wind turbine towers. In the US we install solar panels on rooftops, too.

Try doing that with a coal or gas power plant.

Lastly, it's OK if other countries make jokes about Biden. They laughed at Trump, too. At least biden is getting the job done, and not breaking laws while at it.

It's an OK profile, with some weird photos and misspelled words, and your headline goes on a bit.

You seem really proud of your tattoos, and they look expensive, so I guess that makes sense. Do you even own a good shirt? Most of your photos are angled so that we're looking up your nostrils, which is weird and several are somewhat blurry, like you copied a copy of the photo. The other problem is that you're facing the camera, but not looking into the lens. The best one is with your paint-smeared hand, which, as a handyman, makes sense, but it's also not a really good picture. Your main picture almost gives off serial killer vibes.

For better results, you could dress up a little, find a well-lit place, like out in the daylight, hold the camera at eye level, and look into the camera lens when snapping the photo. It wouldn't hurt to smile more.

I like that you kept your blurb fairly short. Only you could be more descriptive of the type of person you seek. We see you want to hang out and get to know women. What kind of woman? You don't seem picky or serious. Maybe that's OK. And you wrote "ti" when you probably meant "to" and "incounters" where you meant "encounters." Not a good look.

I also like that you actually used the headline. Leaving it the default "Hi.." is lame, so good for you. Only, you seem to go on a bit long. Your profile already says what you're looking for, and the headline should be all about you, and keep that short.

Anyway, You seem like a good-looking guy & the women looking for your type will probably see through the blurry photos and odd spelling, and reach you easily enough. But for the creepy photos and the messy blurb with misspellings, I'd rate it 6/10.

Good luck!

You seem to be confused about US Steel. Just because "US" is in the name, that doesn't mean it's a state-sponsored company. US Steel is just one of many different steel manufacturers. A Japanese steel company buying them (if it's approved) doesn't necessarily mean any of the mills will close or anybody will lose jobs. This is not the family silver. It's a steel company with a portfolio of mines and mills, and another steel company with a lot of money wants in.

Oil and Steel are not the backbone of the US economy. 70% of the US economy is in services, like finance and consulting. Mining and manufacturing is less than 10%. If/when another country sells oil and steel for less, that's what gets bought, even here in America, because our industries are not federalized.

Renewable energy can absolutely replace fossil fuel powerplants. In several parts of the world, they've replaced whole natural gas powerplants with just battery arrays. Install enough batteries with enough solar and wind power generation and you have powerplants that are more reliable, less polluting and possibly even cheaper than most other powerplants. And battery costs are trending downward. Also, reducing reliance on fossil fuels pays dividends by reducing disease from pollution and by weakening the petroleum market which is relied upon by Russia & their Middle East allies.

Weird take. Crime rates are down, continuing the trend over the past couple decades, and despite the spike from 2020. If you have a source that shows crime is up, I'd like to see it..

I knew the Presidential Greatness Rankings would break your brain. Sure, it doesn't really matter, but it does shine a light on the ineffectiveness of the Trump Administration and the quiet results of Biden's. Trump is a criminal and a failure, and totally deserves the last place. Putting Reagan below Biden is a sober assessment of Reagan's failures that Republicans happily forgot. "Trickle-down" economics was always a scam and breaking laws to arm Nicaraguan rebels behind Congress' back was a bad idea, too.
Reagan should've been lower in the rankings, but he was telegenic and well-liked, if forgetful toward the end.

Biden's gotten lots of things done, despite Republicans in Congress sandbagging the country as much as they can, to abide Trump's calls to wreck the economy.

Did you see the recent Presidential rankings? Trump came in dead-last. Biden made 14th place--beating Reagan!

https://thehill.com/homenews/4476288-presidential-experts-rank-biden-14th-among-presidents-in-survey-trump-comes-in-last/