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2017-01-31T14:51:22+00:00

I got on my treadmill at 5AM today and my friend, a Communications Prof who just returned from his 3rd Australian trip with students, stopped to say hello. I said "You know if he takes away my disability and medicare I have nothing. I could be trained as the sniper. It has got to be someone who has nothing to lose." For that minute both of us were deadly serious. Now I will start my February letter to the editor...or I could just make a cheesecake.

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I can't tell you how many people have told me... Phentex Jan 2017 #1

"What the hell have you got to lose?" cyclonefence Jan 2017 #2

yep heaven05 Jan 2017 #5

Trust no one. femmocrat Jan 2017 #3

Make the cheesecake. Eyeball_Kid Jan 2017 #4

Phentex

(16,755 posts)

1. I can't tell you how many people have told me...

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Tue Jan 31, 2017, 10:53 AM

Jan 2017

they have nothing to lose. People who otherwise would not be having violent thoughts. I don't think they are just fantasizing at this point.

cyclonefence

(5,167 posts)

2. "What the hell have you got to lose?"

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Tue Jan 31, 2017, 10:54 AM

Jan 2017

Turns out, plenty.

heaven05

(18,124 posts)

5. yep

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Tue Jan 31, 2017, 10:58 AM

Jan 2017

I have heard it A LOT!!!! People are afraid and fear breeds desperation sometimes......and violent resistance to the cause(s) of that fear....WWII resistance fighters against nazis all over Europe...anyone remmeber that???? Please....people are afraid out here...hell I'm afraid of losing my SS and VA benefits. These POS in the WH now don't like old people or vets.....old people....expendable...vets..... assets to die for the fuhrer bannon...the end.

femmocrat

(28,394 posts)

3. Trust no one.

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Tue Jan 31, 2017, 10:54 AM

Jan 2017

Just sayin'.

If you get my drift.

Eyeball_Kid

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4. Make the cheesecake.

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Tue Jan 31, 2017, 10:57 AM

Jan 2017

You have plenty to contribute after you consume the first wedge.

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