Saying Hello--got a nice email directing me to The Lounge

[SiliconValley_Dem]

Enjoyed DU for quite awhile now, but decided to join so I could comment on the primaries and current events.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. Welcome to DU, SiliconValley_Dem!

Welcome aboard!

Hope you'll rapidly feel comfortable with all of us.

[SiliconValley_Dem]

4. Thank you! Already do!

[Laffy Kat]

2. Hai and welcome!

[Lugnut]

3. Hai!

[angstlessk]

5. If you like animals, catbyte is the best

[Dem2theMax]

6. Welcome to the 'sane' asylum.

This is the place that will help you keep your sanity during all of the insanity everywhere else in the world.

If you need to laugh, this is the place to find something to laugh at. If you need to vent, vent away. Chances are, there will be a lot of people who understand what you are going through.

If you know a good joke, or a bad one, please share.

Basically, this is the best place on the internet.

So welcome home!

[Warpy]

7. Welcome to DU

We get to cuss but we don't get to be nasty to anyone but Republicans.

[B Stieg]

8. Welcome to DU!

[calimary]

9. Glad to have you step up!

I’m beyond trying to count how much I’ve learned and gained from the people here, by now..

I’ve often thought of this place as a kind of online think tank. The expertise and analysis here, the thinking and musing and debating that goes on. Perspectives from EVERY walk of life, every age, race, profession, every part of the U.S. and across the globe.

It’s gotten me through some personal rough spots, 9/11, bush/cheney, the Iraq War, and all the ups ‘n’ downs peppering the way, plus offering an island of truth and sanity while we’re otherwise mired in trumpworld. And I’ve met and made friends here. I dare say we all have.

And there’s lots of empathy to be found. No one mourns alone here. And as our own Skittles puts it - somebody’s always here.

Glad you are, too!

[safeinOhio]

10. Welcome and we can use all the

techies we can find.

[PuffedMica]

11. Welcome SiliconValley_Dem

They say never click on links in an email unless it is a trusted source.

Let me say you can trust us. This is the Lounge. Everything is on the up and up and absolutely no shenanigans go on here (except for that PuffedMica poster, I wouldn't trust them with a burnt out match).

[Phoenix61]

12. Welcome!

Lots of great folks hang out here.

[Karadeniz]

13. Yay! Another voice of sanity! Welcome...the more, the merrier!

[SiliconValley_Dem]

14. Thank you all for the terrific welcome