This is my first post.

[Texaswitchy]

Damn I am.pissed off.

This is not the retirement I had planned.

I knew Trump would mess things up but damn this is a masterpiece of fuckups.

How many people will die

For no reason.

Could not take the WHO tests.

Just set on his ass.

I hope we all make it and we vote him and all the Republicans out of office.

[dewsgirl]

1. Welcome to DU, Texaswitchy.

[Texaswitchy]

4. Thank you.

I have read for awhile before joining.

I just retired.

Had plans.

[dewsgirl]

8. Hang in there...😔

[bearsfootball516]

2. Great first post!!

[Texaswitchy]

6. Thank.you.

Feel better now.

[Roland99]

3. Welcome and here's to a Bluenami in Nov

[Texaswitchy]

23. Thank you.

[csziggy]

5. Welcome to DU!

I've been pissed off for years and have run out of energy to be pissed. Right now I am in the middle of an addition to my house but as soon as that is done, I will channel all my angry energy to getting out the vote and getting our next Democratic President and Senate elected as well as adding more Democrats to the House!

That's a better way to use your energy than just being mad.

[Texaswitchy]

9. Thank you.

[Turbineguy]

7. Welcome to our Crazy Family!

[Texaswitchy]

11. Thank.you.

[CountAllVotes]

10. Welcome to the Democratic Underground Texaswitchy

I'm sure you'll find plenty of folks around here that agree w/you 100%!!

[magicarpet]

12. Damn,.. ain't she full of pee-pee & vinegar....

Welcome aboard !

[Texaswitchy]

19. Thank you.

I am beyond pissed off at this point.

[madinmaryland]

13. Welcome to DU!

[Texaswitchy]

44. Howdy

[A HERETIC I AM]

14. Well, ya gone and done it now, haven't ya?

You were just fine, strolling through the interwebs tubing, minding your own business...


AND THEN YOU FUCKING FOUND THIS PLACE!!!


"Abandon all hope, ye who enter here"

(Welcome aboard. Kindly put on your thickest skin)

[Texaswitchy]

25. I have read posts for awhile.

I am on Twitter.

Found DU from Twitter.

[brush]

64. Welcome. Feisty folks are always welcome.

[coeur_de_lion]

15. Welcome to DU

You are among friends here.

[Texaswitchy]

65. Howdy

[Initech]

16. Here here!!!

[Texaswitchy]

38. Howdy

[Texaswitchy]

59. Howdy

[marlakay]

17. Welcome and we are hoping the same thing

I have a daughter in San Antonio, read your governor not handling this to good so hang in there.

I am retired for last few years, I advise a long walk daily. It clears the head and lots of spring flowers out, I have my neighbors to thank for that because I haven’t planted any yet.

Find a recipe you haven’t tried and now that you have ample time, even if you mess it up who cares? I made 3 loaves of banana bread made with applesauce and honey instead of sugar and oil and came out yummy. I froze 2 loaves.

We ordered some bird feeders online and have been watching the birds.

Don’t know where you live but you can hike, bike, crafts, do photography.....those are all retirement things you can still do.

I didn’t make it to the Irish pub last night, but I had my cousin over we drank wine and laughed and laughed. Life goes on....enjoy!

[Texaswitchy]

22. My mayor and country judge are democrats

They are doing fine.

[marlakay]

30. Good to know you are covered

I live in a red city in a blue state (oregon) and I have republicans locally in control but they are following the lead from our governor and senators all dems.

[Texaswitchy]

33. My county went straight blue last election.

It was a big blue wave.

[Texaswitchy]

41. Everything is closing down.

My friend had surgery so I am helping her out.

We have plenty of everything.

[livetohike]

18. Welcome to DU! n/t

[Texaswitchy]

34. Hi

[bronxiteforever]

20. Hi there! We are glad you are here!

[Texaswitchy]

31. Howdy

[CottonBear]

21. Welcome and be safe.

DU is an amazing online community.
🖐

[lunatica]

24. As one recent retiree to another

Forget your plans for now. But get yourself a streaming service and catch up on all those movies you missed. Binge watch whole seasons of your favorite shows and visit DU as many times as you like, night or day. We’re open 24 hours a day!

Other than that go catch up on your favorite hobbies. And take walks, work on your garden and play with family and pets. Life is simple right now.

[Texaswitchy]

27. Planned on travel.

Sold the house.

Bought a van and fixed it nice.

Home is where the van is.

[lunatica]

32. The virus will have come and gone by next year.

Think of it as a postponement.

[Texaswitchy]

36. I hope so.

Keeping close to home with a friend.

Staying at her house.

[marlakay]

35. Head for the mountains as soon as

Weather gets better travel from lake to lake and stay further from people until this is over.

[Texaswitchy]

37. I am thinking about it.

Have van will travel.

Glad I sold and bought the van.

[marlakay]

39. I had to cancel a few big trips we travel to

I was finally going on cruise around italy this fall, canceled. Trip to Seattle, canceled. Easter brunch with family in Napa, canceled.

I haven’t canceled cabin in August yet, hoping by then if I take cleaners I can still go.

[Texaswitchy]

43. I wanted to just drive

Route 66 first.

[Texaswitchy]

29. Wait until 66 to retire.

Fuck Trump and all who voted for him.

[healthnut7]

26. Welcome!

[Texaswitchy]

28. Thank you..

[UpInArms]

40. Welcome to DU, texaswitchy

Long may you post

[Texaswitchy]

42. I will try.

I am a pissed off Texan.

[UpInArms]

45. Texas is one of my former homes

20,000 of us marched down Congress Avenue taking the Capital back for Ann Richards ...

It is up to all of you (in Texas now) to turn that beautiful state blue

[Texaswitchy]

48. I was there.

I would be in Austin right now but for my friend.

She needs me right now.

Her kids love kids can take over later.

We are house bound.

Big yard for a garden.

[UpInArms]

58. Texas ...

For me ...

1969 until 1979 ...

And again

1987 until 1992 ...

Have been calling Missouri my home since 1993

[volstork]

46. Welcome, Texaswitchy

You'll fit in just fine around here!

[Texaswitchy]

49. Howdu

[volstork]

50. Jes' fine!

[Texaswitchy]

55. Seventh generation Texan.

We go way back.

[volstork]

78. Then that means you are really

a Tennessean!

[Texaswitchy]

80. O yeah

O yeah.

A lot of deep.south people.

All over

[hamsterjill]

112. Sixth Generation Texan here.

Welcome!

We’re going to kick some orange ass come November. Some red, too.

Blue wave Texas!!!!

[Texaswitchy]

114. My ancestors had Mexican land grants.

We will kick Republican ass.

[Gothmog]

47. Welcome to DU

Are you in Texas?

[Texaswitchy]

51. Yep.

Houston

Harris county.

Looks like a ghost town.

[Gothmog]

61. I practice law in Harris but live in Fort Bend

[handmade34]

52. ...

we're all in this together

[drray23]

53. Welcome to DU.

Sorry that your first post is under those dire circumstances.

[Texaswitchy]

91. Thank you

I have a roof over my head and plenty to eat


Could be worse.

[Totally Tunsie]

54. Hope you enjoy your time here.

Welcome!

[Texaswitchy]

57. Thank you..

[blm]

56. And THAT'S the way to do it.

Welcome.

[Texaswitchy]

62. Thank you

Two housebound women


We have a big yard and a garden to work on

[kozar]

60. Welcome to DU!!

Im retired also and we had a plan..I hope you did like we did, our big plan seems to be going down in flames with economy and all,,but we have now turned to our plan B,,, Praying you have a plan B also...PS. none of our retirement is even linked to stock market. And we all here I assume,,want Trump to burn,,,,,,,

Koz

[Texaswitchy]

67. I know.

I have a really nice van anyway.

Solar and everything.

[monmouth4]

63. Welcome and great first post. n/t

[Texaswitchy]

66. Thank you.

I was watching the news all day.

Just getting more pissed off all day.

Tomorrow garden work.

[stopwastingmymoney]

68. Fantastic, and welcome

[Texaswitchy]

71. Thank you.

Need to stay away from.the news.

[ooky]

69. Welcome, and agree with everything you said.

[Texaswitchy]

72. Howdy

[BadGimp]

70. Welcome to DU TW!

[Texaswitchy]

74. I know.

Sold my house for a lot of money.

I was going to do some major travel.

[stopwastingmymoney]

76. Groan...

[demigoddess]

73. Welcome, and I agree with you. Well said.

[Texaswitchy]

75. Thank you .

Needed to vent.

[cpmx2006]

77. Welcome we need all the input we can get

I have been a member ever since the orange turd took control of our country. We r better than the shit stain con fake president we have endured the past 3 plus yrs and it looks like the crap he has forced on us is finally catching up with his lying ass...Please encourage everyone u know to vote his lying disgraceful ass out next November..

[Texaswitchy]

87. Howdy

I begged people to vote for Hillary.

[proud patriot]

79. Welcome

[cpmx2006]

81. Welcome TO DUI

Trumps life began when he was shit on a rock by a buzzard and hatched by the sun...

[jrthin]

82. Welcome. I so agree w/you.

[AllaN01Bear]

83. hihowdi and welcome abord(blows bosun's whistle to pipe u abord)

i agreee.

[Texaswitchy]

85. Howdy

[pdxflyboy]

84. Texaswitchy......Welcome!

N/T

[Texaswitchy]

88. Howdy

[PatrickforO]

86. Welcome and hope you're right. Trump is guilty of so many crimes against

the American people it isn't even funny, and the blood of everyone who dies here is on his hands.

And, when I think of those poor immigrant children languishing in the for-profit concentration camps Trump and his white supremacist administration set up, I want to vomit.

[Texaswitchy]

89. Howdy

I fear for those kids.

The virus will find them.

[PatrickforO]

93. And they may never find their parents or their parents them.

It is an unspeakably evil crime.

[Texaswitchy]

94. Beyound evil

Love me the little boy from the Twilight zone .

[Volaris]

90. Welcome to DU!

'...a masterpiece of fuckups...'

Lol I needed that today, and spot on!

[Texaswitchy]

92. Howdy.

I kept it as clean as possible.


.

[PatSeg]

95. Welcome to DU!

You are not alone!

[Politicub]

96. Yes!! Welcome!

Glad you're here.

[wryter2000]

97. Welcome

Great first post

[kst]

98. Here's what Snopes says about the WHO test kits

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/us-coronavirus-test/

What's True
The U.S. did not use COVID-19 diagnostic tests produced by the World Health Organization (WHO) in favor of producing its own.

What's False
The U.S. did not turn down an offer to use those tests (as no such offer was extended), nor was it unusual for the United States to design and produce its own diagnostic tests in lieu of those made elsewhere.

[seta1950]

99. Welcome

The gop needs to go away for a few generations

[hangaleft]

121. Make that a few millennia...

[keithbvadu2]

140. The old GOP has already left.

The old GOP has already left.

Certainly not any old style republicans with morals, honor, ethics and integrity.

Those folks are gone.

[Pluvious]

100. Welcome friend - there's no better refuge

For myself, it was the egregious Cheney/Bush madness that de-lurked me here at DU.

Just remember, we've been targeted before my forces of malfeasance, and we have many cunning trolls and their agitator ilk working this community.

Peace be with you.

[calimary]

101. Welcome to DU, Texaswitchy!

I doubt this is the kind of retirement that ANY of us had planned.

Just - whatever you do - DO NOT FORGET TO VOTE!!!

That's how we get his ass OUT of OUR White House!

[TwistedTinkerbelle]

102. Hello and welcome!

I'm in Texas too, a good bit to the north of you, Hood county a bit southwest of DFW.

[Texaswitchy]

108. A good long drive from Houston.

[Maru Kitteh]

103. Every last R must go my dear, every last one

and welcome to DU.

[Aristus]

104. Welcome.

[Dem2theMax]

105. Welcome!

For a first post, that was darned near perfect.
You are in the right place.

[customerserviceguy]

106. Glad to have you here

Yeah, it sucks.

[Demonaut]

107. been busy tonite, getting a lot off your chest?

it's good relief

[Texaswitchy]

109. I had convention to go to starting Friday.

Really liked going.

Stay a nice hotel and hang out with friends.

This would have been #31.

Maybe next year.

[Demonaut]

110. at least you had 30, thank you for sharing

[Texaswitchy]

113. I know.

It was so much fun.

[Initech]

125. We all had things planned before the virus.

Concerts, sporting events, anniversary parties, graduation parties, gatherings, conventions, prom, formals, vacations, shit, even just going out to dinner.

To see the world shut down like this just fucking sucks.

[lpbk2713]

111. Well said Texaswitchy.

And welcome to DU.

[Renew Deal]

115. Welcome to DU!

[mahina]

116. Welcome to DU.

Brighter days.

[luvallpeeps]

117. Thanks for joining the club.

Welcome! Yea, it's one GIANT CLUSTERFUCK after the other ain't it?

[littlemissmartypants]

118. Couldn't agree more! Welcome to DU, Texaswitchy. Be sure to check out the many great groups! ❤ nt

[Trueblue Texan]

119. Right there with ya!

Nice to have another Texan on the ground! The more of us there are, the more we can convince others, Texas is PURPLE!

[joost5]

120. Welcome. You're amonst friends here.

[Soph0571]

122. Welcome to DU!!

Great first post!

[trof]

123. Welcome to DU.

I feel exactly the same way.
This is not the retirement I had planned on.

[SallyHemmings]

124. Welcome!!!

[underpants]

126. Hi!

[Withywindle]

127. Welcome to DU!

You're in good company here - we're all righteously nail-spittingly angry. It didn't have to be this way. This place is a great source of moral support.

[mvd]

128. Welcome to DU

Excellent first post! Looking forward to more.

[MFM008]

129. Welcome

😁👍🏻👋

[Karadeniz]

130. Hello, Tex! Hope to hear more from you, but you'll have to work to top "masterpiece of f'ups"!

[Texaswitchy]

133. I will try.

[Nululu]

131. Also my first post, also retired angry democrat

Apologies for errors as I learn my way around.

Propublica has excellent articles about the USA testing mess. The House is investigating why we didn't make WHO test kits instead opting to reinvent test kits. Thanks to the democratic majority.

If they did this because they wanted to make test kits more expensive or make more money we should all be outraged.

South Korea adopted the WHO kits and are testing 16,000 -20,000 people a day, we're testing 1600 a week.

It's a disgrace.

[Texaswitchy]

132. Money

It had to do with money.

Money to be made from the test kits.

[marble falls]

139. Thanks to the DNC for the investigations or the DNC was the problem??

[DFW]

134. Worst case scenario?

Hard to say. But a worst case scenario was already imaginable the moment the election of 2016 was certified for the loser. At that moment, all America was "the loser." Some of them just didn't realize it. A smaller number still doesn't.

We have already been fooled thrice since the election of 2000 (including 2004 and 2016). Is there anyone left on either side that thinks they won't try to make it four for six?

[GentryDixon]

135. Welcome to DU.

It's the pits that we are all experiencing this.

I told my husband today he needs to know how to go into the bank account & monitor the bills. Most all are paid online, but some are credit cards charges which he needs to pay monthly.

My immune system has no chance of fighting this, so I'm trying to bring him up to speed. I've been trying to do this for 5 years, but I told him today it was now, or never.

[Texaswitchy]

136. I am ok.

But my.friend is not

She had major surgery.

[GentryDixon]

138. You just need to be there for her.

I am coming up on my 5 year anniversary of my kidney transplant, so every day is a blessing for me. 😁

[Nululu]

143. Great idea. We did our wills

We need to exchange important information, banking, bills, grocery delivery, etc

[Kkeyz]

137. Trump virus

Trump has been trying to redirect any response to his mishandling of the coronavirus by his alarmist and racist labeling of the coronavirus as the “Chinese virus” and the “Kung flu”. I suggest that we allocate blame appropriately by referring to the coronavirus as the “trump virus”. If the blame for this global health crisis is going to go to anyone, it should go to the politician who dismantled all the infrastructure left in place by the Obama administration that allowed us to prepare for this pandemic.

[keithbvadu2]

141. Welcome to the bunch... Don't be shy about saying; "The Trump economy"

Welcome to the bunch... Don't be shy about saying; "The Trump economy"

His followers seem to need reminding.

[Brainfodder]

142. WELCOME, Not taking the W.H.O. tests to wait for $ grubbing family BS testing instead?

HTF could they think that was OK?

Capitalism is a ISM so it is a disease?

Sure looking like, and more each passing day?

Good Luck!