About 60 years ago, I heard a neighbor boy back down the class bully with this:

[Atticus]

"I may be the first to bleed, but I'll be the last one standing."

He said that while looking the bully square in the eye and the "tough guy" decided to smirk and walk away.

I hope that attitude still exists in enough Americans to put the Trumpies out of business.

It's ok to be scared. Just don't back down.

[SWBTATTReg]

1. A perfect way to handle bullies.

Bullies may talk big, may BS a lot, but when it comes down to brass tacks, these bullies are long gone, they can't get out the doors fast enough.

[Downtown Hound]

2. I only know one thing

If they try and take my democracy from me and replace it with some bullshit Christofascist hellhole, they're going to get a fight from me unlike anything they ever imagined.

That's a promise.

[Atticus]

3. 👍 nt

[TlalocW]

5. I know you're making a larger point

But I have to share the story that one of my older sisters (14 years older) shared after an almost-altercation she got into with a Karen (literally her name, and she was). Anyway, during their stand-off, Karen made a generic threat of kicking my sister's ass, and my sister replied, "I hope you brought your lunch."

When she told us this story to me, my brother, and her oldest daughter (five years younger than I am), she had this look of pride on her face which slowly disappeared as we, as a group, asked, "Well, what does THAT mean? Hope you brought your lunch?" Of course, I know what it means now (especially since she had to explain it), but we had never heard that expression, and she was very frustrated with how her denouement to her story was received. It's now a running joke in the family when she tells us to do something to reply with, "And if I don't, are you going to kick my ass or buy me lunch or whatever the hell it is you do?"

TlalocW

[denbot]

6. Kick

[KS Toronado]

7. I always looked bullies & trouble makers right in the eye and said...

"I don't care if you wake up in the hospital"