Thank you DU!

[TomSlick]

This is my 5000th post. I've lost track of how long I have been on DU - at least four years.

I am so thankful for DU. As someone in ruby red Arkansas, I sometimes think DU is my only link to sanity. I sincerely enjoy interacting with my fellow DUers (at least most of the time).

Thank you to the DU administrators and all my DU friends that I have never met. None of you know the good you have done for me. You have made me smile when I really needed it. More importantly, you have assured me that I am not alone.

Thank you all.

Tom Slick

[rzemanfl]

1. Since May 15, 2017. Congrats. n/t

[TomSlick]

8. Thanks.

I must have been using my wife's account in 2016.

[mercuryblues]

2. congrats!

print this out and frame it

Account status: Active
Member since: Mon May 15, 2017, 09:46 PM
Number of posts: 5,000

[TomSlick]

9. Thanks.

[MLAA]

3. Congrats!

[Arkansas Granny]

4. Congratulations, from another ruby-red Arkansas resident.

How do you think the mandatory mask mandate will shake out tomorrow? I know a lot of people who think this has been blown out of proportion.

[TomSlick]

10. I expect it to be largely ignored.

I was at Wally World this afternoon. I'd say about half of the customers had masks.

My BiL suggested yesterday that issuing a mask order four months into a pandemic is like giving condoms at a baby shower.

[Sherman A1]

19. Love the comparison

To the baby shower

[TomSlick]

26. The surprising bit is that the BiL is a NRA-supporting Trumpster. (Every family has one.)

However, he is a public school teacher who is genuinely concerned about the potential effect of the pandemic on his profession.

[secondwind]

5. DU is really like a home away from home for me.

It lifts me up when I need it.

We are all in this together.

[TomSlick]

11. We are, indeed, all in this together.

If we don't stick together, we will be well and truly stuck.

[question everything]

6. Still hard to believe that "ruby red Arkansas" gave us Bill Clinton

Glad you are here

[TomSlick]

12. Bill was just that good a politician.

Of course, Bill also came along before Arkansas became so ruby red. Arkansas turned so red with the election of President Obama. Too many here will be slow to forgive the Democratic party of putting an AA man in the White House.

[question everything]

13. Of course, once upon a time S. Dakota gave us McGovern, Idaho - Frank Church,

Indiana - Birch Bayh

[TomSlick]

14. Once upon a time, giants roamed the earth.

[murielm99]

15. It could happen again.

We are in a time of cataclysmic change. The change won't be all bad.

I hope I live to see it.

[Ohiogal]

7. It's so comforting to know

That we are not alone! I echo your sentiments.

Congratulations!

[bucolic_frolic]

16. That's what we're here for

Sanity, strength, and building principles and motivation. We got to you!

[tiptonic]

17. Same here

I started many years ago, using DU when i was transferred (for 5 years) to Texas. Like u said, they kept me from going insane. Rachel Maddow was on Air America radio, at the same time. Thanks to DU and Rachel..

[seta1950]

23. Still

Today Rachel Maddow and DU can’t live without

[SergeStorms]

18. We've all thought that exact same thought...

at one time or another. I was directed to DU from another site shortly after the Gore/Bush fiasco. I went by another screen name back then, and was tombstoned (intentionally, on my own stupid part) in 2007 and took a "lurking hiatus". I begged the administrators to be allowed back in, they forgave me, and the rest is history. Back then, as it is now, DU is sometimes my only link to like-minded people. I'd go crazy without DU, there's no doubt in my mind.

Stay strong in Arkansas, TomSlick. We at DU are all in this together.

[wendyb-NC]

20. Well said, I feel the same way.

DU is my shelter in the storm. Glad you're here, along with all the wonderful DU members who post so many wonderful insight, for this current time, and the challenges we all face, as democrats. It's good to be among kindred spirits.

[Karadeniz]

21. I know how you feel!❤

[seta1950]

22. It's

Great to be able to come here and interact with like minded sane people , even for someone from California ( the beautiful).

[backtoblue]

24. Congrats from a fellow Arkie

[TomSlick]

27. I'm always pleased to hear from another Arkie on DU.

We are not alone!

[tblue37]

25. You joined May 15, 2017--so a little over 3 years. You can see that on your profile. nt

[TomSlick]

28. Yeah, but I posted under my wife's account for awhile - at least since 2016.

She finally insisted I get my own account.

[niyad]

29. Congratulations. DU has been helping keep what little is left of my sanity since early in

The nightmare of chimps. I treasure all of you.

[TomSlick]

30. Wow, 70,000 posts!

I'm impressed.

[niyad]

31. Not quite there yet! Some posters are in six digits!

[Stuart G]

32. Tom, your post was not ignored, more important..."You Are Not Alone," K and R

[TomSlick]

33. Thanks!

I really appreciate my DU friends.