Percentage of Christians in: U.

TomMcGiverin comments on Jan 5, 2025:

Ever since the 70s, when the Repub Party began courting the white evangelicals, Christians have been overrepresented in our politics, compared to their actual numbers in the population..

Are Nugent 8-tracks still there?

TomMcGiverin comments on Feb 17, 2025:

Kid Rock, Lee Greenwood, and Ted Nugent, the only music stars that will perform at Trump rallies or pal around with him, all fellow assholes like Trump. They just look sad and pathetic hanging out as such cultural and political outliers among their music star peers,, and not because of them being actual patriots or virtuous defenders of freedom, etc. They are just fellow right wingers trying to benefit from sucking up to power.. They like to call themselves courageous for bucking the common liberal bent of most music industry people, outside of just country music, by aligning themselves with Repubs and conservatives, but in their case, it's obvious they're just milking all the media exposure and money they can to boost their own careers, by gloming onto Trump's celebrity, popularity with his fans, and power.. And yet, all their actions, as well as all their other rhetoric and beliefs betray them, and exposes them as the racists they are.. Of course, if Toby Keith were still alive, he would be right there with him, another asshole I could never stand..

Some thoughts on the ultimate value of today's conservatives.

TomMcGiverin comments on Feb 10, 2025:

They don't care about history, how others outside their tribe judge them, nor do they have any shame about what they do. All they care about is power, their own privilege, and hurting those they hate. And they sure don't care about truth or objective facts. And yes, they have revised the Bible to where it now says. according to them, that mercy, charity, compassion, and aid to strangers, is only for members of their own tribe..

These assholes are never satisfied....

TomMcGiverin comments on May 20, 2025:

I don't believe Biden or his doctors hid anything as far as his prostate cancer, while he was still president. But I have believed since the primary campaign for the 2020 election that he had dementia, and so have many other Americans, at least after the 2020 election was over and Biden began his term. The way that Biden was being hidden from the media after he began serving as president, continuing into the last election campaign, showed that he and the Dem Party leaders could not be trusted to be honest with the public, as it was clear that his handlers and the DNC were hiding his dementia for the last four years or so. And that greatly affected the last election, not just Harris being a bad candidate, her not having enough time to campaign for herself, her inheriting all the negative baggage of Biden's policies, and the Gaza issue. The American public no longer trusts the Dems to be honest with them on anything, including the economy, and they also feel the Dems don't care about their opinion on who the nominee should be for president. And this will take years, if not decades, for the Dems to earn back their trust on those things. Meanwhile, the Dem Party in DC shows no signs that they care about this distrust, or about stopping Trump, with the lack of fight we see so far in DC from them, and also the common attitude in the national party of just following the usual playbook of letting the Repubs do bad things, wringing their hands about it while they're out of power, and waiting for the voters to swing back to them and vote them back in power in the midterms. The three wrong things about that attitude are, that there may not be any more free and fair elections next year. That it's immoral to just sit back and let the Repubs destroy the fed government and hurt people. And most of all, the people see thru all that, and the latest polling shows that even tho most Americans don't approve of the Trump admin., they also don't feel like voting for the Dems as an alternative to the Repubs. So most likely, the Dem's playbook of being passive, will just result in most voters staying home next year, if there even are elections, rather than voting for Dems. As far as how I feel about Biden having cancer, let's just say that I do believe, or at least try to believe, in karma, and in his case, he's getting his in cash, instead of a check, for all of his years of selling out and in the end, selfishly dooming his party in the last election.

Ah flags, let's talk about flags, Alito flags ought to be part of this convo too.

TomMcGiverin comments on Jun 12, 2025:

In both memes, we see the constant hypocrisy of the Repubs, even tho we all know they couldn't care less about being seen for their hypocrisy, and also, most voters no longer care about that either..

I think we're all bracing for disappointment

TomMcGiverin comments on Feb 11, 2021:

Like a broken clock that is right twice a day, this time even Killary is right.

Bruce Springsteen JEEP 2021 Super Bowl Commercial 2021 LV - YouTube

TomMcGiverin comments on Feb 12, 2021:

I too was disappointed to see this commercial. I like Springsteen and expected better from him. His politics are liberal, but he is always too quick to side with establishment Dems rather than progressives. The one time he went out on a limb to challenge his blue collar, establishment Dem fans was when he took a stand against police racism and brutality with his song American Skin. He got a lot of flack from police unions and his fans, so now he's preaching this vague unity stuff. Rotsa ruck with that.....

My summation of Impeachment verdict

TomMcGiverin comments on Feb 14, 2021:

Jimmy Carter himself said several years ago that we are no longer a functioning democracy. It was true then because corporations had taken over the government and we had a plutocracy and kleptocracy. The insurrection and impeachment have simply ripped off the veil so the rot is easier to see.

Texas Republicans Beg Biden for Help Weeks After Endorsing Secession Bill In response to a huge...

TomMcGiverin comments on Feb 16, 2021:

They deserved for Biden to tell them to shove it, same as Trump would have told a blue state in the same boat. Dems are such pussies.

57 GOP State And Local Officials Were At The Capitol Insurrection | HuffPost

TomMcGiverin comments on Feb 16, 2021:

No surprise there. I doubt they will suffer any political consequences for their participation with their state parties or even in their next election. In fact, in red voting areas, it may even help.

Dave Chappelle on Capitol Riot. [youtu.be]

TomMcGiverin comments on Feb 16, 2021:

I feel cheated. I was hoping and expecting several minutes of Chappelle, but all they played was maybe half a minute. Too hot for corporate news channels.

Does teaching "white guilt" also cultivate a "white pride" backlash?

TomMcGiverin comments on Feb 17, 2021:

I don't really have a vote on this. I just know that many, but not all, white people get defensive and lash out when they feel their white identity and white privilege are confronted and threatened with it being taken away from them, at least as they see it. This results in backlash and they act it out by voting for Repubs and other reactionary pols. They also act it out by bashing and seeking power and control over racial and ethnic minorities. I like to think I am fairly non-racist and teachings about white guilt and white privilege don't threaten me personally, so I don't react negatively to it. I take it in, weigh it against my experience, logic, and use my intellect to apply it to how I live and treat others. Because I would like to live in a pluralistic, peaceful society if possible, and because I know that non-whites are not my real enemy is this country. As a socialist, I know my real enemy is the ruling class. Most whites have not figured that out yet, sadly, and neither have a lot of minority race Americans.

We can still jail him

TomMcGiverin comments on Feb 19, 2021:

Hell yes!

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.

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.

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..

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.

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....

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.

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.

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

TomMcGiverin comments on Feb 27, 2021:

All three.

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.

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.

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.

Bam! A little wait (50 minutes), a little prick, another little wait ( minutes) and shot 1 is in the...

TomMcGiverin comments on Mar 11, 2021:

Probably be another month or two for me to wait. I qualify for the next group in line, but my county has a vaccine shortage right now and they haven't even finished the group that is ahead of me.

So, that was fun.

TomMcGiverin comments on Mar 12, 2021:

Fear is a strong motivator, so this scam probably works once in a while in getting someone to reveal personal info so they can get scammed.

Massage Parlor shooter was all about guns and God [news.yahoo.com]

TomMcGiverin comments on Mar 17, 2021:

I can tell just from his Duck Dynasty beard that he is a dipshit. I know that I shouldn't judge someone just from their appearance, so I usually don't, but sometimes the look does tell you everything and I have yet to be wrong about someone with that kind of look.

Got my first Moderna vaccination today, so I’m taking it easy.

TomMcGiverin comments on Mar 18, 2021:

I got it too today, just by luck. I happened to be home when the pharmacy called because I was on the appt. waiting list and they had some extra shots for people who could get out there in two hours or less. I had just had lunch, but I am drinking the water now because I just exercised. Hopefully we'll both be fully protected in about two months or less.

Not kidding

TomMcGiverin comments on Mar 19, 2021:

As long as there are plenty of other people eagerly willing to breed so the species continues, fine with me. Content to contribute to the society in other ways.

I experienced proof of prayer today.

TomMcGiverin comments on Mar 20, 2021:

I still go with Jim Morrison, "You cannot petition the Lord, with prayer!!".

I am very sadden by the shootings/murder in Boulder, CO.

TomMcGiverin comments on Mar 23, 2021:

Mass shootings are now as American as apple pie and baseball. Now we will again go thru our hollow ritual of public outrage in the mass media and our politicians while in the end nothing changes.

Worth a watch.

TomMcGiverin comments on Mar 23, 2021:

Tom Arnold was in my high school class (Ottumwa, Iowa 1977) and also played very briefly in a high school rock band with my brother. He was one of the biggest assholes in my class, just as unfunny then as he was later (at least to me and my classmates who walked out on him when he did some standup comedy at one of our class reunions), and also stole the money from the one gig he played in my brother's band. My one brush with fame...

Trump Campaign Nondisclosure Agreements Voided by Court Ruling

TomMcGiverin comments on Mar 31, 2021:

I wouldn't get my hopes up. People that would sell their soul to Trump in the first place by working for him are not likely to suddenly grow a conscience. They are more likely to only rat on him if there is a book or movie deal for their story. Like Trump, they are opportunists and greedy, so they will only blab if there is something in it for them. Like Cohen did with his book.

I am growing weary of viewing posts of scantily clad females when I browse posts .

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 1, 2021:

I almost never see things like that on this site. I must be doing something wrong.

The untold story...

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 5, 2021:

Cats gotta do what they naturally do, knock shit off of surfaces.

Real cutie

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 8, 2021:

Very cute cat smile..

This Short Film About the Harm of Evangelical “Purity Culture” is Worth Watching | Hemant Mehta ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 8, 2021:

It's all about keeping them, esp. girls, cloistered, ignorant, and inexperienced, so they're easier to con, manipulate, and dominate. Methinks there is a lot of misogyny and also fear of women behind all that thinking, because it follows that if females are more knowledgeable and experienced about sex, they will demand better from men in marriage and relationships, and the men behind this find that threatening.

Congresswoman calling for Trump advisor to be jailed

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 9, 2021:

I really doubt Miller will ever even be prosecuted. Here in the US, we don't seem to ever prosecute for human rights violations committed within our borders.

Yes Norm, curiosity...

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 11, 2021:

More likely they OD'd on catnip...

It doesn't matter if you are real of a statue...

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 12, 2021:

Poor kitty needs some attention and rubs.

So hidden right meow.

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 15, 2021:

I knew a neighbor cat that was smart enough to know how to hide behind a tree from people.

Far Left, Far right and Centrists

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 17, 2021:

Pretty right on, centrists are so out of touch, either because they are clueless or because they only care about issues that don't cost them anything or might affect their upper middle class comfort.

So, I joined Humanist.

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 19, 2021:

I really have almost no friends that are believers, and even with them, religion is a non-issue. It also almost never comes up in my very limited small talk with neighbors. So I really don't care about believers in general or what they think. Only when it gets into the level of government and society where they try to impose their religion on us. Then it matters to me, but I couldn't care less what they believe or do in their private lives.

Private school in Miami won't hire teachers who are vaccinated

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 27, 2021:

Who ever thought supporting public health could get you blacklisted as a teacher? I always thought that to get that you had to either get caught molesting students or teaching socialism in a red state.

Update time.

TomMcGiverin comments on Apr 29, 2021:

22 hour drive? Is she too broke to fly? I would never put myself thru that long of a car trip, even when I was young.

Has your interest in religion increased or decreased after leaving your religion? Why?

TomMcGiverin comments on May 1, 2021:

Decreased. I rarely think about it anymore.

When your date shows up and ...

TomMcGiverin comments on May 1, 2021:

Poor kitty. Sorry to hear it happens even to them....

My first selfie...What ya think???

TomMcGiverin comments on May 3, 2021:

Wait, this is a fake... All the human selfies have a bathroom in the background, where's the kitty's litter box? Maybe this kitty is a scammer.....hmmm... Coming soon to CatMatch.com.....

Docs Reveal How They Really Feel About Anti-Vaxxers In Scathing Kimmel Segment | HuffPost

TomMcGiverin comments on May 5, 2021:

Funny and truthful, but I doubt it will change the minds of the deluded.

Research Shows Cats Can Get COVID-19

TomMcGiverin comments on May 19, 2021:

Another reason for some cats to be aloof from humans....

This chonky little munchkin has completed my feline family, bringing me to 3 exotic shorthair ...

TomMcGiverin comments on May 21, 2021:

They are all so cute! I envy you..

If someone has already posted this, sorry for the repeated info.

TomMcGiverin comments on May 25, 2021:

No surprise here. Religious people tend to cover up or put on a front of being more nice, moral, etc. because they want to impress their religious peers and also to convince themselves they are getting to go to heaven.

Ah young love, and bad jokes

TomMcGiverin comments on May 25, 2021:

Sounds about right. At least she didn't murder him and claim provocation....Some people are tone deaf enough to make such jokes to a spouse. Most of us who've been married learned to do better than that.

At fucking last

TomMcGiverin comments on May 26, 2021:

So true! Last Sat. night I went to my first live music show since Covid. It felt like I was fully alive again for the first time in over 14 months.

Duck Dynasty’s Phil Robertson Had a Secret Daughter from an Affair in the 1970s | Hemant Mehta | ...

TomMcGiverin comments on May 29, 2021:

I couldn't care less about those ugly rednecks.

In case you wondered which was which

TomMcGiverin comments on Jun 2, 2021:

The Repubs know the difference too, they just constantly lie about who the fascists and terrorists are and aren't. And the corporate media is glad to play along with them and never challenge their lying, since the corporate media hate and defame anyone from the left who challenges the status quo.

I’m here to find my soul mate

TomMcGiverin comments on Jun 9, 2021:

Good luck on that one, Sparky. Esp. since you say "Only God can give you peace of mind" and this is a site for non-believers, lol. I predict a short stay here for you...

There is no christian persecution.

TomMcGiverin comments on Jun 13, 2021:

No shit.

Unfortunately not surprised

TomMcGiverin comments on Jun 17, 2021:

Guess they must be feeling some embarrassment, not that that ever stops them from pursuing their agendas. Orwell would be proud of this latest example of Newspeak....

Structural engineer warned of problems before the collapse

TomMcGiverin comments on Jun 27, 2021:

One reason I live in a three story building in a state where earthquakes are unknown.

CNN Brianna calls out Tucker Carlson, he is white rage

TomMcGiverin comments on Jun 27, 2021:

He's also a rich, entitled asshole, who, like his hero Trump, gets enraged at anyone who doesn't kiss his ass. He so needs to have his ass kicked physically by someone, but it'll never happen.

Good, very good.

TomMcGiverin comments on Jun 28, 2021:

Cats are so easily amused..

You are not just a cat ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Jun 29, 2021:

Aww, how sweet. This is true with some cats, others are totally indifferent, as long as they get their food, water, and litter box cleaned.

Disturbing Plea Agreement For Former Cop That Murdered Innocent Individual

TomMcGiverin comments on Jul 3, 2021:

"Everybody knows, everybody knows. That's how it goes, and everybody knows".....- L. Cohen

War criminal Rumsfeld dies, but his militarist legacy lives on That Rumsfeld reached the age of ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Jul 3, 2021:

Nice to know that if there were a hell, one of Cheney's buddies is already there waiting for him now.

Sometimes the presents cats bring are surprisingly not so appreciated...

TomMcGiverin comments on Jul 4, 2021:

It's the thought that counts...

In 1927 in Plains, Georgia, a three-year-old boy named Jimmy Carter lived next door to an auto ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Jul 7, 2021:

He is by far the most decent man we have had as president in my lifetime.

Not feeling good today and my nurse is sleeping on the job. Go figure.

TomMcGiverin comments on Jul 7, 2021:

Most cats don't do much besides snoozing. 20 hours a day seems about right.

Jen Psaki had enough of Greene

TomMcGiverin comments on Jul 7, 2021:

No brains, very pretty, and a complete psycho. Sounds like the dream girl of most male Trumpers.....

An excellent point

TomMcGiverin comments on Jul 14, 2021:

I have a couple friends who are way different than me on politics, and the only way we can get along is if we leave that topic off limits. One of them is a Libertarian, the other is a very centrist Dem who keeps refusing to recognize the faults and corruption of the Dem Party. But both of them agree with me about morality and share my morality, so I am willing to keep them as friends because of that.

Now that's a prayer lol

TomMcGiverin comments on Jul 15, 2021:

A big Amen from me!

The bullshit repubilcans

TomMcGiverin comments on Jul 16, 2021:

No shit, that's exactly how it works for the left, whether it's voting rights, anti-war, or BLM, we get the bare knuckle treatment and they get the kid gloves. Same way BLM gets lots of cops, military, tear gas, rubber bullets and injuries, while conservative protesters get no arrests at the scene, no rough treatment, and the cops pulling back to let them do as they wish, or even taking selfies with them and giving them aid, like in Kenosha, WI. And of course, no national guard troops when they protest. It removes all doubt which side the government, the military, and the cops are allied with, and it sure ain't anyone on the left.

Arlene, my housekeeper of 12 years, passed away last month.

TomMcGiverin comments on Jul 18, 2021:

Maybe, like they do at most Unitarian memorial services, they should have allowed friends of the deceased to be able to get up and share some reflections on the person who died. But I know that is rarely done or allowed at Christian churches, which is too bad. Their house, their rules. I know that when I die, my closest friend will have all the say about my memorial service, unless I have another partner by then, and I have directed them to only allow the speakers that I have already designated to speak about me at the service. That is for two reasons. First, my siblings have had little contact with me during my adult life and frankly, they do not understand, appreciate, or respect me, so I don't want them to be able to comment on me at the service, when they are basically strangers to me for the last few decades. Secondly, I have seen way too many instances at memorial services where someone the dead person despised, got up there during the open sharing period for friends and family of the deceased and used the platform to spew out a lot of phony baloney admiration or complimentary stuff about the deceased. I am not trying to control the service from the grave, so to speak, but simply trying to preserve the values and attitude of trying to practice truth and integrity the same way I have in my life. I also know I can count on my friends who I designate to also mention some of my faults and character flaws, as well as my virtues and positive acts, so there will be balance, lol...

Great sign we need more

TomMcGiverin comments on Jul 23, 2021:

Giving them the shoe that fits..

Iowa’s GOP Eliminated a Family Planning Program Only to See Abortions Skyrocket | Rebekah Kohlhepp...

TomMcGiverin comments on Jul 24, 2021:

It makes sense in their warped mental universe, because, according to them, all you need to do is live right, by getting married young, after being abstinent, then have your kids and then get your tubes tied. Anyone who doesn't practice abstinence before marriage, has sex outside of marriage, or has an unwanted pregnancy, just doesn't have the right values, and deserves to have to suffer thru an unwanted birth. In their minds, abortions only happen because people aren't living right or by the religious right's standards. It's not about really wanting to prevent abortions, it's more about controlling women and forcing them to be good Christians who only have sex within marriage and for making babies. In other words, values that could only be formulated by insecure patriarchal men and incels, which is who Repub men tend to be.

This is great real bipartIsan effort

TomMcGiverin comments on Jul 26, 2021:

The thing is, lots of time and money will be wasted on this, same as with the two impeachments on Trump, because in the end, nobody will get jailed or kicked out of congress for helping the rioters. While I agree with the intent and goals of this investigation, I am tired of pointless exercises in DC by our congress instead of focusing just on action that will improve the lives of most Americans. I think lots of other people, both on the left and the middle, are getting just as tired as me of this stuff.

Tuesday morning cuteness

TomMcGiverin comments on Jul 27, 2021:

Sandal warmers.

Munchie wasnt thrilled that I sneezed and woke him up. 😹

TomMcGiverin comments on Jul 29, 2021:

Cats are never thrilled about being woke up. Munchie needs his beauty sleep and sleep is a cat's main activity anyway....

Received this latest post on my facebook timeline: People mocking the emotions of cops from January...

TomMcGiverin comments on Jul 30, 2021:

All of that just shows that all the crap from Trump's supporters about being for law and order, backing the blue, etc. is really just about racism and keeping colored people in their place, rather than any real respect or support of law and order, or any real support for cops.

Most of them wouldn't understand the irony

TomMcGiverin comments on Aug 1, 2021:

No shit. And probably also, the person is trying to overcompensate for something, like feeling weak or powerless, or maybe having a small dick. Maybe it would be safer if they just got a huge pickup truck like most of these fools.

Most of them wouldn't understand the irony

TomMcGiverin comments on Aug 1, 2021:

I have found that most right wingers have no sense of irony, nor of hypocrisy or inconsistency on their part or that of the leaders they support. They seem to subscribe to the attitude of "Consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds". To them, great minds and great leaders do not have to be consistent in their beliefs and actions, or even tell the truth.

Letters From An American 08/01/2021

TomMcGiverin comments on Aug 2, 2021:

The article is so right on many points. The few I would single out are how you cannot trust or really expect to bring change within the system. AOC, even Bernie, have sold us out already in the past and we cannot expect to bring change simply thru the one-party system we have already. You heard me right, we have a one-party system with two wings, where the wings distract us from their cooperation and collusion on serving the ruling class, corporations, and endless war, by using their culture war battles between them. We need to challenge the system in the streets and thru revolution, if possible, unless we can finally get most eligible voters to quit dropping out of voting or continuing to vote for the two major parties, and instead vote only for third party candidates in fed elections. And the article is so right about how quickly progress can be taken away thru our corrupt pols in both major parties, partly because the corporate media conveniently either ignores our progressive history or puts out disinformation about our true history.

I won't eat 3 items. How about you?

TomMcGiverin comments on Aug 3, 2021:

Probably half the items on the list are things I won't eat.

The horrible state of affairs today

TomMcGiverin comments on Aug 9, 2021:

Quite true. Our pols, esp. Repub pols, love to talk about how much they value kids, but the cold hard reality is that they don't, except maybe for their own brood...

Atheist Agenda How do they know us so well? PS – Not sure what time 8:80 a.m. is. 😄

TomMcGiverin comments on Aug 9, 2021:

Doesn't fit me. I enjoy sleeping late and am too lazy to do all that stuff...

Some random Kittie memes

TomMcGiverin comments on Aug 14, 2021:

The Alien one proves that the cat is the only one smart enough to stick with the smart woman....

Simple premise

TomMcGiverin comments on Aug 16, 2021:

So true. While broad statements like the original one, about all being in the same boat, may be comforting to most, and also serve the purpose of the ruling class and politicians to trick Americans into ignoring class differences and inequality, specifics are much more helpful if the goal of communication is to be accurate and truthful. America is very much a class society, with one of the highest levels of wealth inequality in the world for developed countries, but because its class system is denied by the corporate media and not as openly displayed as, say, the British system, most people forget or deny it exists. That is why, for example, the Trickle Down economic policies of the Republicans since Reagan, would be more accurately described as, " A rising tide lifts all yachts, rather than all boats"..

Perspective

TomMcGiverin comments on Aug 17, 2021:

No, I think success is more about relationships than achievements or material wealth, but my perspective is influenced by having more "success" at the former than the latter. It appears, from my experiences with online dating, that most women in my local dating pool, at least among the ones who are college-educated and professional class, that success is more about the latter than the former, and that they will only date men who are "successful" in the latter sense. Which is ironic, since all of them are divorced, and one would think that their top priority in trying again with another relationship would be someone with a good record in relationships, both with friends and significant others, but apparently the impressive resume is more important to them in who they choose for their next potential partner. So, in my opinion, they get what they deserve, which, from what I hear, is usually another failed relationship.

Does your cat do this ?

TomMcGiverin comments on Aug 18, 2021:

Not pleasant, but it probably beats what a former girlfriend said her cat did to her sometimes, which was to fart into her face...

Just a reminder about privilege

TomMcGiverin comments on Aug 20, 2021:

Those kind of people never give a rat's ass about any members of minority groups being discriminated against. The meme about white privilege assumes the people who whine about masks have empathy for others. I have seen and known their type my whole damned life, and I assure you they are completely lacking in empathy for those different than them. That is why they are conservatives and racists in the first place. In fact, they have little empathy in general towards other human beings, including those of their own race, esp. if those people are poor and the person lacking empathy is well off. They only understand and empathize with those of their own kind.

It Took Divorce to Make My Marriage Equal | Glamour

TomMcGiverin comments on Aug 23, 2021:

I first heard of this woman when I saw her giving a book reading on C-Span and was awed by her wit and wisdom, which led me to read her book God Land, which was so right on about Christianity and Midwestern culture and values here in Iowa, my state. This essay is just as insightful and on the money as all of her points in God Land. I strongly encourage anyone, believer or not, to read her books for an authentic and honest view of working class life and ordinary marriage in America, esp. in the Midwest, a part of the country-flyover land-that is always ignored in mass media, literature, or movies/TV, except for stories about meth and true crime, at least in my observation. In God Land, she writes about the decay and end of her marriage, as her hubby became a Trumper, and how her local church fell apart over conflicts over power and differences in beliefs, leading her to a search for a Christian church where she felt comfortable, wanted, and heard.

This guy has balls of steel! He goes right in the belly of the beast to expose the Trumplicans for ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Aug 26, 2021:

This squares with what many others have told me, such that you can find Trumpers, rednecks, and right wing assholes anywhere in the US, even in Boston, California, and New York. Loved the video, idiots, nutjubs, and paranoids...

Found in my FB folder

TomMcGiverin comments on Aug 29, 2021:

Cats planning world domination..

I don't drink however I found this amusing.

TomMcGiverin comments on Aug 30, 2021:

I haven't drank alcohol since 1996. Originally, it was because my late wife was married to an alcoholic before she met me, and she asked me to stop drinking so she could feel more emotionally secure with me, but after 2010, I no longer had any choice in the matter, as I had developed atril fibrillation in my heart. After that, drinking would only cause me to have espisodes of atril fib and also work against my heart medication and the blood thinners I have to take to prevent a stroke if I go into atril fib..

Jim Jordan gets schooled while attacking Dr Fauci

TomMcGiverin comments on Aug 31, 2021:

The First Amendment, liberties, and freedoms don't matter much if you are dead or seriously ill with Covid. This fuck refuses to admit how much more important public health is than those things for most of us, and he also won't admit that he really doesn't care about those who die or get seriously ill from Covid. To him, their deaths and suffering are way less important than his own political ambition and power.

Va. Supreme Court sides with teacher who refused to use transgender students' pronouns - Axios

TomMcGiverin comments on Sep 1, 2021:

I know I will get flack for this, and I agree that gays rights and such matter, and I am a supporter of such, but personally this whole pronoun thing seems a bit overwrought. In fact, at times I think people carry it to such an extreme that it becomes PC run amok. I say just have the teachers call the kids by their first name, whatever it is on their student info, and leave it at that. I guess I never cared what teachers called me by as long as it wasn't some insult or made up name, but then again I am hetero and cis, as they say nowadays. I think it's way more important for schools to focus on dealing with the bullying that happens between kids, of which I experienced my share. I wish they had been trying to deal with that back in my day.

Human Connection is fundamentally difficult.

TomMcGiverin comments on Nov 12, 2018:

It's difficult to make it work even if you are compatible with someone and then, at least for me, there are these several ways in which I am so out of the mainstream for people in my local area that it will at least take a while to find someone right. I know that I am searching for a type of woman that makes up maybe a few percent of any available women at a given time in my local area. Not a needle in a haystack, but sometimes it seems like not a whole lot bigger probability than that. This site is both my support group and my focus group, as far as the women on it, for helping me find my way thru the online dating process. It took me 20 years of sporadic, unsuccessful dating to find my late wife, but it was worth it, much as I had given up hope at times or wanted to quit trying, so, yes, it's difficult but worth it.

In loving Memory of JFK! 55 years ago this day our history was forever overtly changed! How ...

TomMcGiverin comments on Nov 22, 2018:

I was only five years old and too young to get the whole picture, but not that many years later when I was in my late teens I realized that this event revealed the truth of how we no longer had a real democracy, if we ever had lived in one before.

Hope none of you women of child-bearing age live in Oklahoma! [friendlyatheist.patheos.com]

TomMcGiverin comments on Dec 1, 2018:

I live in Iowa, where a fetal heartbeat bill was passed with the approval of both houses of the legislature under Repub control and signed by a female Repub governor. The bill is equally draconian as this in its attitude towards women. What keeps baffling me is how these Repubs keep getting women to vote for them in numbers that allow them to win in my state. Maybe one answer can be found in The Handmaid's Tale, where the society has the role of the Aunts available for those women who choose to sell out their gender sisters in order to score a better deal and more status in the society. Maybe that is what Repub women do in order to live with more money or status in the present system.

I want peace ✌✌✌

TomMcGiverin comments on Dec 14, 2018:

As a obvious John Lennon type character once said on Monty Python, "I'd like to start a war for peace".