I'm 97 and here for my Great Great Grandchildren

[sheshe2]

👇👇👇

— Mitch Jackson ⚖️ (@mitch.social) 2025-10-20T03:20:26.246Z

She is a Great Gran-tifa!

[Emile]

1. I like her already!

[3catwoman3]

2. Go, Granny, go!

[niyad]

13. Thanks for the earworm! Would be a hoot if she WERE from Pasadena!

[3catwoman3]

22. I hope it at least is a good earworm.

For me, it seems that songs that get stuck in my head are usually ones I detest.

[niyad]

24. The legendary "Little Old Lady From Pasadena", which always cracked

me up.

[3catwoman3]

29. I was in high school in the mid- and late 1960s, so remember this song very well.

It was exactly what came to mind when I made my post.

[AllaN01Bear]

3. """

[malaise]

4. Grab him by the Epstein. Files

Rec. Rec. Rec. for great great granny

[COL Mustard]

14. My drag name would be ReLisa DeFiles.

Trust me, you don't want to see me in drag. Ever!

[malaise]

16. Bwaaaaah - I love that one

😂😠.

[niyad]

25. DARN!!!! And we were sooooooo hoping!!!!

[COL Mustard]

27. Trust me....you don't have enough eye bleach!!!

Once, years ago, many many years ago, I actually did dress in drag for a friend's bachelor party. I popped out of the cake at the end, and boy were they all disappointed! Also, I didn't know you could get beer down there!

Good times.

[niyad]

28. Thank you for the smile!

[brer cat]

5. Good for her!

[sheshe2]

7. Thank you, brer. 💙

I agree.

[Champp]

6. Bravissima!

[Grim Chieftain]

8. Oh bless her heart

That really got to me.

[NNadir]

9. That is the highest form of ethics, to care about those who will live after oneself.

[flashman13]

10. Just think about it - this beautiful lady was an eye witness to our last fight against fascism.

[generalbetrayus]

11. How can you not love this woman? She has lived through the Great Depression, World War II,

multiple attempted and actual Presidential assassinations (? and one faux assassination attempt ?), the Nazification of the RethugliKlan Party, and nearing the end of her life, still she is out fighting for the future of her descendants.

[niyad]

12. GRAN-TIFA!!! LOVE IT!!! LOVE HER!!!

[sheshe2]

15. Someone at our rally had a t-shirt that just that.

Other rallies did too!

[KS Toronado]

18. Reminded me of this lady at our local rally

[sheshe2]

19. I love 💕 her spirit!

[niyad]

26. YAYYYYY her!!!!

[Warpy]

17. I think one of my cousins might have done that before her death last year

When we were teenagers,m she discovered sex and I discovered drugs and rock & roll. She was forced to marry a the guy who got her pregnant and who was also way too young and became a mother at 15, a grandmother at 32--something I resented a bit since it also aged me. She was a great grandmother in her 50s and died at 78 and I think she might have mentioned it once or twice before cigarettes finally killed her.

We hadn't seen each other since we were about nine but we sporadically kept in touch. She was a good friend when we were kids and a kickass lady when we got older. The world is poorer now that she's left it. She's proof that you don't have to be approaching 100 to see your great great grandchildren. She always kicked herself for being dumb enough to smoke. Otherwise, she might have lived long enough to meet her first great great great grandchild.

[sheshe2]

20. I can't imagine what it would be like to be a mother that young.

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And then a grandmother at 32. That is way too young. Though your memory of her, she sounds like she was a great person, Warpy. 💕

[Warpy]

23. If she hadn't been forced into a marriage neigher partner was ready for

it might have been a lot easier for her. As it was, she had another kid the following year and after that she was able to get the pill. That's what the early 60s were like.

She kicked that husband to the curb in her early 20s, got her GED and associates in bookkeeping, a job that paid the bills for her amd her two kids because the husband was a classic deadbeat, the marriage and responsibilities too young had broken him beyond repair.

I was much better off discovering drugs and rock & roll.

My cousin did OK, although we both laughed about swapping the title of Family Scandal back and forth for decades. Her kids turned out fine, even if the eldest insisted getting married in her teens. She defied the odds and the marriage has lasted, even if she did age my cousin (and myself) by making my cousin a grandma at 32.

I guess it's obvious, I miss my cousin more than most of my family. I really think she and I were the sane ones in our extended family.

[Bettie]

21. She was around while women made the biggest gains in rights

and freedom in our history.

And she's still here to watch them be eroded by this group of criminals.