So I had a little fit on Facebook today,

[TNNurse]

I have tried not to be openly political on there, but the Trump administration has pushed me over the edge.

I am not comfortable being silent with the horrors that are being done in the name of all of us Americans.

I am sure I will lose friends and maybe some relatives but this is too awful to accept. There is no decency in this government.

This place has been a "safe place", I could say what I thought and you did not really know who I am.

Well, I will continue to post under my screen name but I will not hide my real self.

May name is Alice Beth (Cook) Royce, I live in Maryville TN and I will not deny my real beliefs.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. I seldom post anything on Facebook, and never political stuff.

Until yesterday. I went over the edge, too. Welcome to over-the-edge! We have to keep fighting; if we don't it will only get worse.

[csziggy]

30. I don't create original posts but I do post links to important sources

I began doing it to share stories with my husband and limited the sharing to my Facebook friends - my husband, my niece and my sister. A couple of weeks ago I changed the settings so that anyone who looks at my page sees the important news stories and links.

If real life friends see that and disagree, too bad. If they post a response that pisses me off, I block them, no exceptions. Not one real life friend has commented to me about any of my links in real life. I'm not on Facebook to discuss pollitics - I'm on Facebook to follow a few organizations and to share important stories with my husband.

[jayschool2013]

47. Excellent

Share legitimate news. If people choose to get angry at real news, that's their problem. Good work.

[Timewas]

49. For me

I go out of my way to post items that reflect my positions, it helps me winnow out the trash on my friends list..

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

2. Nice to meet you Alice.

Sounds like you may be upset. Don't add injury to heartache. It's perfectly ok to divulge who you are, but, in this day and age....I wouldn't. Life got to you today. It's going to be ok. If it were me though...I'd delete your OP. If you still feel that way tomorrow...then re-post it.
Sorry you had a bad day.

[TNNurse]

5. I appreciate your concern but I will not be silent.

Bad day, hell it has been bad since he got elected.

By the way, I am a southern girl and we often have double names so it is Alice Beth

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

7. It' ok to speak up.

That's what we're generally here for. I was most concerned about the name. Hope things look up.

[pazzyanne]

54. I come from Minnesota nice land.

Lately I have been much more honest and critical on my facebook page also. I post news articles and occasionally a political meme. I have never hated anyone in my life, but I hate tRump and his cabal. I have lost family members because of trumpism because I refuse to say I will support that orange a**. I hear you, and I understand. I'm there too.

[Meowmee]

64. I would not put your name here

For your safety etc. this site was hacked and who knows who is reading here. This is the world we live in now. If it’s already at FB people already know you. I post some political things there but most of my friends etc have similar political views, instagram was where I was most vocal after the election.

[barbtries]

8. i go by my own name

and have for years. I have causes to which i want to draw attention.

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

10. Right on.

Good luck. Don't start shitting on me bc I issued a caution to Alice. Just a friendly comment.

[barbtries]

40. not at all,

i just wanted to point out that there is another way to look at it.

[tazkcmo]

3. If you lose friends over this

You would be correct in questioning their value as friends. As for the family members, that is tough. The only comfort I can offer is that you aren't alone. I have lost relationships with siblings over their support for this Administration's policies and the Shit Flinger in Chief.

[Squinch]

4. I agree with Cruichez. I love your posts and have grown fond of you over the years.

It is very good to meet you, but keep yourself safe please.

[Sherman A1]

52. Agreed

I would one not get too political of Facebook, but if that path works out for the OP that is up to her. I would however, not post my name online in this or any other forum. The Handles or Screen Names are there for a reason.

Hope everyone stays safe.

[KTinaY2008]

6. Me too...

I told someone to take their fake Christianity and shove it.

I'm sick of "Christians" supporting this horrible policy.

[TNNurse]

13. I do not confront people. I just speak my mind.

I have not yet unfriended anyone but I unfollow people regularly. I suspect some have done the same to me.

[ooky]

20. They are not Christians.

Christians put God first. These people put ideology/Republican party before what Jesus Christ commanded of Christians.

These people are the equivalent of the Pharisees.

[lunatica]

9. My name is

Judith Foster and I just moved to New Mexico from California.

I will be registering to vote in November as soon as I buy a condo and establish residency.

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

11. Hi Judy.

nice to meet you.

[lunatica]

26. Thanks!

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

33. Heh heh.

[msongs]

15. good news. wish we could get more CA dems to move to smaller states where their votes

might have more clout. like 50K each to wyoming, s dakota, n dakota. we could take over the senate with a few hundred thousand spread out CA
dems lol

[lunatica]

27. Good luck with that

Californians for the most part are very spoiled weather wise. Watching the movie Fargo made me promise myself never to spend a winter there!

[moose65]

46. You might be on to something!

Surely there are a LOT of baby boomer liberals who are nearing retirement and might be in the mood for a move. If we could “channel” them toward small red states we really could take em over. I agree about warm weather though! How bout we completely flip Arizona first? It’s warm there! 😝😝

[left-of-center2012]

22. Why wait?

Register to vote when you get you N.M. driver's license.
You can also register to vote online @ https://tinyurl.com/ybakzmcm

In order to register as a new voter or update your registration online, your personal information must match the information that is on file with the New Mexico Motor Vehicle Division (MVD).

These are the things that must match:
Your social security number,
Your driver’s license number or state identification number, and
Your date of birth.

P.S. I'm in Albuquerque.

[lunatica]

25. Thanks!

Don’t I need to have a home address in NM?

[left-of-center2012]

62. "a home address in NM?"

You'd need that also for the D.L.

My point, do you need wait until you buy a condo?

Are you not moving here until you buy a condo?

[lunatica]

63. I'm in the process of buying a condo now.

Hopefully it’ll be mine by the middle or end of July. Right now I’m staying with a friend.

[left-of-center2012]

12. I post political stuff on FB daily

Rarely has anyone not liked what I post.
The few who do get shown the door.

I 'friend' like minded folk.
Surprising (to me) are the number of foreign 'friends' who "like" the anti-Trump posts.

No big deal.

[womanofthehills]

28. I also post political stuff on Facebook daily

I live in a small NM town that was mostly conservative till all us liberal artists moved in and around the town about 20 yrs ago. Right now, there is a "discussion" going on. It's been ongoing for 2 days about the kids in Trumps camps. Six liberals vs two conservatives - the good thing is we are "educating" the other conservatives to some degree even if they still are loyal to Trump.

I've had a four conservative "friends" unfriend me but most haven't

[hatrack]

14. Can't say I blame you . . . .

I'm all out of restraint and faux polite and patience with people who are A-OK with this abomination.

I'm not going to pretend to "respect" the slack-jawed morons who love Shitstain and who (just like their Fecal God) enjoy hurting people who can't fight back.

Not one word more from them. Not one more word.

[TNNurse]

17. The ones that really bother me are those who I know to be generally

honest hard working people who have swallowed this crap and believe all the lies.

[hatrack]

21. We can't disillusion them - only their God can do that . . .

And, if little trade war with the rest of the planet goes as it seems to be going (Easy To Win! Huge!! MAGA!!), that should do the trick.

Sad to say, it's not enough to be honest and hard-working, important though those qualities are. You have to pay attention, and think for yourself, and know bullshit when you see it.

[womanofthehills]

37. I find that all those honest hard working people seem to have racist tendencies

and they don't feel everyone has the right to things like food and health care. Like "I work so hard, why do people get food stamps - and esp. "drug test for food stamps" (while they are all doing drugs themselves) -- I see this on my Facebook and I always remind them of the little children who will go hungry without food stamps.

[mcar]

16. Love Maryville!

Hello Alice.

This Floridian stopped giving a fck on my FB page a good while ago. It's my page, after all!

[cutroot]

18. Years ago I posted that any republicans should just un-friend me now.

It really cleared all of the crap off of my page. I only go to facebook for family things. It is so much more enjoyable now. I do not miss any of the people that I lost.

[TNNurse]

19. Unfortunately, some are family.

[cutroot]

32. That is ok. You can eliminate the outrageous posts one at a time and un-follow them

When I want to I can go and visit their page and quickly scroll through for pictures and things I want to see. You just won't get the mind-numbing feed on a daily basis

[lpbk2713]

36. You can pick your friends but you can't pick your family.

That was a popular commentary from a family I knew with sixteen children.

Aside from that, please reconsider editing out your personal info. Some assholes you
find on the www are not above making others' lives difficult using internet anonymity.

[coeur_de_lion]

23. Right with you my dear!

I am schooling someone on FaceBook right this minute. Spitting nails.

So pissed off at this Fredo supporter if I could reach through the screen and smack his face I would do it. I've been quiet way too long out of respect but I don't respect any trump supporter, not anymore.

[samnsara]

24. i even unfriended my sisters and life long friends..who needs em?

...I find emotional support in many other places. Such as DU... I even joined a Gunsmoke fan club board ( HA! Im never a joiner and I just started watching Gunsmoke but I somehow googled into the place and it was very caaalllllmmmmiinggg) and Mayberryish.


So other than posting something very anti trump..or posting about animals i dont even go back to read the responses.

[Hortensis]

44. Gunsmoke fan club. Funny!

This just reminded me. Back in SoCal I once joined a specialty gardening club for iris lovers, but it was my "Yeah, that's another iris, right?" husband who fell in love with the group, and they with him. Go figure. Gunsmoke.

I only use FB to see family and friend photos. Never looked at FB news and now that I have I can't understand how or why anyone reads that format. I keep feeling there must be some different FB everyone goes to and I can't find.

This thread makes me think I should post a statement about this, though. I'll have to figure it out.

[Ohiogal]

29. We are privileged to have you here, Alice Beth!

You certainly aren't alone ... many of us are also fed up to here with it all

Glad we're on the same side!

[Cha]

31. Ohhh.. Poignant post, TNNurse

:grrouphug:

[DUgosh]

34. I sent you a friend request on fb

I’ve lost close relationships, but I’ve made new ones! I’ve got a group of supportive women on Fb that have my back, I will have yours too.

[kimbutgar]

35. I have been off Facebook for over 1 1/2 months

Today, I changed my profile picture to that crying little girl with the border patrol agents in the pink shirt.

Then I logged out.

[lkinwi]

38. I can't stay quiet about this either, and I actually have a republican agreeing with me.

[dhol82]

41. That's impressive.

I have not been able to budge any of the trumpers that pass by.

[dhol82]

39. I post lots of political stuff

If somebody gets offended they are free to unfriend me and never come back.
No problem.
All of my friends know exactly who I am.

[The Blue Flower]

42. I stopped posting on fb at all

Until the child concentration camps became the news. It has affected me so viscerally and deeply, I had to get the word out.

[lunasun]

43. Never was on fb, but I appreciate you taking a stand online with truth

I will continue to enjoy your posts!

[jayschool2013]

45. It's not political to share legitimate news

It's not political to share legitimate news from traditionally reliable sources. That's just curating information.

Only because of the right-wing noise machine that has told us for the past 40 years that news is just leftist propaganda does anyone have to feel that sharing news is a political statement.

Of course, there are people on the fringes of progressivism who don't trust traditional news sources, either, but that's a much smaller and much less strident crowd than you see on the right. In fact, pretty much every Republican you may see or encounter on social media will consider trusted news sources as "fake news." And that, to me, strikes at the very heart of the democratic republic we are trying so hard to maintain.

[Duppers]

48. I'm the same person everywhere I go..

Everywhere I post. Even on fb I've always been a proud liberal and have no repub friends and very, very few religious friends. (Atheist here.) I'm simply not tolerant, so I fail at one aspect of liberalism.

Don't beat yourself up. In my book ya did the right thing.

I had to stop posting on FB years ago because I had to censor myself. Had to stop myself from attacking a wonderful guy, former DUer. I'd rather he just think I'm a minor shit for ignoring him or know I can be a major shit by attacking him.

Anyway, you live over Chilhowee Mountain and west of where I'll be moving to in Blount Co. (Walland). We live in a gloriously scenic county, don't we! Nature rocks!

Neighbor!

[volstork]

50. Dear Alice--

I agree with your viewpoint, and am equally horrified by what is happening. I went to undergrad in Knoxville, and spent happy times driving through Maryville to and from the Smokies. I am a native Tennessean, and am a physician in Nashville. I have friends there in Maryville in the medical community that you might know.

Thank you for being here, for being decent and good, and for standing up for your beliefs and for those little ones that have no one to comfort them.

[40RatRod]

51. You rock Alice!!!

From an East Tenn transplant now in middle GA. Unfortunately there are not many of us around here who feel the same way. Mostly a bunch of good old boys with their MAGA decals.

[blake2012]

53. So glad I said goodbye to Facebook in March

Food tastes better, the sun feels warmer. I am enjoying life 1000% more.

I’m sorry to hear you had a bad day on there.

[CanonRay]

55. You go, Alice!

[JoeOtterbein]

56. Thank you Alice Beth! And Congratulations!

For joining us who refuse to hide! It feels even more empowering!

[onlyadream]

57. Today I posted on FB the audio of the crying children

I then told all my FB friends to unfriend me if they support trump.
I tried to look past everything, but this is the straw.

[YOHABLO]

58. Anyone who loves Molly Ivins is a friend of mine.

[MarkEzra]

59. Standing Up and Speaking Out

Me too. Dr Mark Ezra. Laguna Woods, CA. These days are for the stout of heart.

[relayerbob]

60. Yeah, I did that too today

This has become just too dangerously over the top

[Honeycombe8]

61. That's brave of you. But the name doesn't matter. It's enough to know you spoke out.

I'm having to do the same. Posts by jerks in forums & groups where I'd normally let it slide. It's time to speak up every time I see cruelty & ignorance rear its head. Not to say anything is to imply agreement. So I must. I try not to be ugly. But I have to say something, if only to point out that the film they saw is propaganda and to use their common sense & not believe it, when the free press isn't allowed into all the places to film.

We HAVE to point out what's wrong in what's going on. Now's not the time to be silent.

[Dem2]

65. I've already gone down the path

At least I know who the good people are and who aren't good people. Many silent people and those who stopped following, it speaks volumes.

[fleabiscuit]

66. Good on you. nt

[Upthevibe]

67. Hi Alice....

I have the utmost respect for you regarding your decision.

[TNNurse]

68. I have to wonder

if I had been in Germany in the late 30s and early 40s what would I have done.

The late author Pat Conroy had a line in his cookbook that essentially said: I hope to raise children who would hide Jews ---in reference to an old Jewish neighbor.

I do not have children, we just need to speak.

[HAB911]

69. +++++++++++

All my family (cousins) are aghast at my political postings on FB (they never left Atlanta, both figuratively and literally) Recent friends have been warned that I'm a raging leftwing liberal and will take no prisoners, lol. I'm with you!

[TNNurse]

70. To think we went to elementary school together

and reconnected on here. Probably have not seen each other in close to 60 (OMG) years but have found common ground.

[HAB911]

71. Absolutely amazing

what are the chances?!