Which of those three, Jim Bob Duggar, Donald Trump, James Garner, do white men most identify with?
Which of those three do white men wish they were most like?
Do white men have a sad that they didn’t get a wife like Michelle and eighteen kids to support? (Hey, guys that’s what happens without birth control, including abortion.)
A sad because they didn’t earn billions of dollars and didn’t get to be a “chick magnet” and marrry three hot ones, and produce six kids?
All of the candidates on the two stages last night were preaching for the life styles of the Duggars and Trumps. And bomb, kill, impoverish POC that aren’t your housekeepers, cooks, nannies, gardeners, or commercial sex workers. (And the only reason you can’t afford those employees is that the government taxes and public policies have deprived you of using your talents and skills to get filthy rich.)
Y’all feel that PC language that doesn’t disparage women, POC, non-heterosexuals, non-christians, and native peoples of other countries hampers your freedom of speech to use disgusting and revolting language. And you’ve had enough of that.
I know you have wimmen folk that agree with you and encourage you to believe that you’re stud muffins. But if given a choice would she have chosen you over James Garner?
Few of us begin life as physically attractive as Garner was, but as we age, who we are leaks through our pores. Gives us an aura and personality that figures prominently in how attractive or unattractive we are to others. Honorable, decent and good people also age better — and cosmetic surgery does nothing to alter that.
James Garner had one wife for 57 years. If there were any infidelities, they are the best kept secrets in an industry not noted for fidelity or secrets. Garner himself denied ever having strayed.
Two daughters (one adopted from his wife’s first marriage). Apparently not viewing his manhood as tied to creating lots of little Garners.
None of that came easy for him. His mother died when he was five, was shuffled around among relatives for a few years, and reunited with his father when he remarried. The stepmother sounds like something out of Grimm’s fairytales. He was on his own at age 16.
A tough start and it left tracks as he suffered depression for most of his life. But as he said in a Rockford File episode, stay bitter, angry and miserable. Or move on. (Half or more of the credit for his 57 year marriage does have to go to his wife, Lois Clarke.)
James Garner James Garner 1963 – March on Washington.
On women: …the discussion got to the issue of abortion and Garner says he answered, “I don’t have an opinion, because that’s up to the woman. It has nothing to do with me.”
Yet, non-safe abortions did have something to do with him.
“It wasn’t until I was fifteen that my cousin Betty told me my mother died of uremic poisoning after a botched abortion,” he wrote. “I have no idea whether my father was involved in the decision to have the abortion or whether he blamed himself for her death. We never talked about it in the family.”
There’s one difference between me and [Schwarzenegger and Reagan]: I know I’m not qualified.”
Few of us are, but all of us can choose to be more decent, honest, and reputable than the jerkwads that were on display by the GOP in their first 2016 Presidential faux debates. And the jerkwads that support any of them are no better.
And yes, Mr. Garner, if our only choice is from among unqualified persons for public office, we would have been better off with you than the seemingly never-ending parade of indecent, dishonest, and/or disreputable characters that have appeared on our ballots for decades.
In the 1985 CBS miniseries Space, the character’s party affiliation was changed from Republican as in the book
to reflect Garner’s personal views. Garner said, “My wife would leave me if I played a Republican.”
Yes. Didn’t want to focus too much on his political affiliation because that’s not always a good indication that someone is decent. Recall that Reagan and Trump were once Democrats.
It was surprisingly difficult to think of a male celebrity without any scandals, no “isms,” no divorce, responsible parent, including not contributing to overpopulation, and supportive of women as autonomous human beings. Gregory Peck came close, but not such a good father in the early years of his first family. Springsteen also close but too many children.
I read that he met his wife at the 1952 Democratic Convention and they married two weeks later. Such an amazing love story!
A ’56 Adlai Stevenson for President rally. Whirlwind romances followed by long-term marriage seemed to be more prevalent during period of time (1941-1960). Maybe it was because people were more authentic and honest with others — and two weeks is all that’s needed to get to know someone. Or perhaps they were too stubborn to admit a big mistake and chose misery over divorce. While not common, I have known one woman men and they recognize that woman within three days of meeting.
Thanks for the correction.
“While not common, I have known one woman men and they recognize that woman within three days of meeting. “
The Thunderbolt. Ah yes.
Didn’t exactly mean “love at first sight.” That is usually construed to contain a high level of instantaneous longing and passion. It doesn’t burn as hot for the “one-woman-man” when he can say, “I know this is the right woman for me” and he never reconsiders his “knowingness.”
An example. Was working for a company that was approaching the crash and burn stage. Felt some responsibility for a young trainee — had to get him out of there early enough and with a reputable enough company or he would have ended up working at the sleazier end of the industry. After locating an opening and assuring the manager that T had good basic skills but still needed seasoning, he said to have T call him. I gave T a slip of paper with the name and phone number of the manager and said, “You need to call him today because he has a couple of other applicants.” T hesitated and with a pained expression said, “You don’t understand.” He then went on to say that in his life he wanted only one job, one house, and one girlfriend that would become his one wife.
I don’t think I was as sensitive towards him as he needed at that moment. Probably told him that his job was going to disappear whether he moved then or not. And the opportunity I’d handed him would either be the one forever job that he wanted or would lead to one that could be. He applied for it and was surprised to get hired. It worked out okay for him in the short-term and ultimately became a good stepping stone.
Within a year, his one girlfriend Y decided it was time to part ways. T was devastated. Quit his job and moved to his father’s NE farm. Eight months of heavy manual labor and he felt ready to try to get his “one life” in SoCal back together again.
He had no difficulty getting a better job than the first two and as Y told me later, a long break was all she’d needed.