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Linda Fulcher's avatar

Glad I am a subscriber. Intend to continue being one. Fuck these barbarians. I'm 74 and have been through the mill politically since 1964. If they want to put me in a camp, so be it. I won't back down.

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Jessie S.'s avatar

I’m not going into a camp. I’ll go out guns a blazin’ before these slithering human snakes round me up! Oh hell no!

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Linda Fulcher's avatar

Too poor to buy a gun. Too old and unhealthy to run away. Just have to wait and see what happens.

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Jessie S.'s avatar

That makes me sad. 😔 Keep in touch with us here as long as we all can. You are not alone. We will find you and protect you as much as we possibly can. We are in this fight together.🙏

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Linda Fulcher's avatar

Thank you. You're very kind. I'm feeling very alone at the moment. Totally estranged from my right-wing family, and almost all of my friends are dead or gone down the fascist rabbit hole. Trying to stay sane and keep laughing, or I'll go mad. I find the study of history to be oddly comforting.

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Jessie S.'s avatar

Oh my dear, you are not alone. I promise you that. 💙I felt very alone myself yesterday, and in raw despair. I didn’t get out of bed until noon and I work from home. I had no meetings so I buried my head under the covers and wept. Today, I feel a bit better. Not watching the news like I usually do helps. And being here connecting with you helps me, too. Thank you for being here. 🙏

Do you read Heather Cox Richardson? She’s on here. She’s terrific. She puts all of this nightmare in historic context. I’ve learned more from her than most history classes I’ve ever taken.

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Linda Fulcher's avatar

Yes, I do read her. She's wonderful, as is Joyce White Vance. I also read the newsletter Above the Law, which is literate and elegant and snarky as hell and often makes me laugh out loud at the absurdity of the assholes in the legal profession. Glad I'm a retired paralegal and don't have to deal with legal jerks any longer, although I miss the great attorneys I worked with.

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Lisa Thalmann's avatar

I am too old and unhealthy to run away but even if I could, I wouldn't either! I am blessed to have a son, daughter, and 8 grandchildren. My son has already told me that nobody better try and harm me - they've got me!

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Beth Cook's avatar

I understand. I’m 67 retired and widowed. What will it take for MAGAts to see what’s coming.

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Fingers's avatar

Gun can be a few hundred, same for compact repeating crossbows and the later requires zero registration and zero checks.

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Linda Fulcher's avatar

Still can't afford it.

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Karter Michael's avatar

can you afford a bat and some barbed wire? might be a good alternative so at least you’d be somewhat protected!

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Tad Huckabee's avatar

12gauge with bayonet by the front door. One oz. slugs. Im not going either.

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Diane E Bellard's avatar

Me too! I’m 72 and refuse to be quiet. We have the constitution on our side and a whole host of amazing groups like the ACLU ready to defend us.

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Linda Fulcher's avatar

Be careful. I worked for the ACLU for a number of years and they ain't what they used to be in the 1960s and 1970s. Don't put your hopes in them - they sold their own staff to the FBI in the 1950s to keep that bastard Morris Ernst safe, Look it up. That said, I've spent my life organizing and agitating and shooting my mouth off and I won't stop now. Paralegal by trade, retired now, but I learned enough constitutional law along the way to have a glimmer of hope that we can survive this. I just don't think I'll live to see the end of it. Sad that after a lifetime spent studying fascism I'll be spending my last years living under it. Never expected this, not after having survived Nixon, Reagan and Bush.

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Susan Keefer's avatar

I’m in the same spot that you are. I’m just hoping that they implode because of their stupidity.

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Linda Fulcher's avatar

A consummation devoutly to be wished. I hope you can hang on. I'm trying to.

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Susan Keefer's avatar

I’m hanging on and fighting back anyway that I can. 💙

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Linda Fulcher's avatar

Brava. That's all we can do. Take care of yourself and those you love and help everyone you possibly can.

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Susan Keefer's avatar

The same to you.

If you’re interested or haven’t already, I and thousands of resisters have moved from Twitter to Bluesky. Maybe we’ll see you there. 🦋

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Linda Fulcher's avatar

Never was on Twitter or any other social media. Don't intend to start now. Bluesky was started by Jack Dorsey, the founder of Twitter, another asshole. I don't trust any tech bros.

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Susan Keefer's avatar

The reason that we moved to Bluesky is because it’s now owned independently and Dorsey is gone. I understand if you’re not into social media.

Take care and hope to see you again right here.

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Linda Fulcher's avatar

Don't want to be a part of social media but I'll be here. Not going anywhere unless they drag me away.

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fill triplett's avatar

This will tell you exactly _*WHY & HOW this happened_* and what we can expect happening from history! 😢😮

https://www.tiktok.com/@johngrimes215/video/7434934027267738910?_t=8rFBOSoZl5m&_r=1

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Linda Fulcher's avatar

I am a student of history, especially of Nazi Germany and American history. I know exactly how we ended up here. This is who we are and always have been - a vicious, ignorant, bigoted country that is full of hate and worships thugs. I'm too poor and too old to get out so I'll just have to find some way to survive.

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Ginger's avatar

this 77 yo is standing right behind you.... Keep on keeping on

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Zadett Rosslyn's avatar

I feel the same but I am willing to die so be it

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Chris Hierholzer's avatar

You should at least hit them with your walker.

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Linda Fulcher's avatar

Still standing on my own two feet, thank you. It's just a bit patronizing to assume that I need a walker.

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Judi White's avatar

64 woman from Ohio..

I’m with ya Linda ! Building a unisex bathroom isn’t rocket science but MAGA can’t even solve a damn bathroom problem let alone solve the war in Ukraine or Gaza ! Wat happened to “I’ll fix it in ONE DAY “ ??? These freakin MORONS are about to find out wat he means by “I’ll protect your women “ ! A convicted RAPIST,because YOU as MEN in AMERICA CANNOT ! You are too spineless!! Where are the REAL men ??? I would hang my head in shame to call myself a man.!

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