I live very close to Washington D.C., for what that's worth. I am pretty middle of the road - A registered Republican. I hope this is a serious forum, not just for letting off steam.
Welcome aboard. I'm an Arlington VA resident for now. Spend a lot of time in Arlington/Alexandria when not working. Oddly, I never really go into DC.
Welcome! Plenty of loons on both extreme sides of the aisle, but lots of reasonable people in either party and everywhere in between. Popular threads go nuts pretty quickly. I once participated in a new thread on Friday and by Monday morning, it was something like 80 pages! It's hard to keep up, sometimes.
Score cards for the Loons and the Wingnuts are 10 cents a piece. You'll run through a couple of dozen per week..... Oh, and Welcome!
That depends on what you have to offer as, original thought. Consider The usual laissez faire Trump getting tough or something more original such as or even Welcome pending. Moi
Are you really? Well if you're rich beyond my wildest dreams too, will you marry me?? Wait a minute . . . what's this? 'Gender: Male'? Forget I said that! Welcome to PF anyway.
Just giving out "welcomes" like @Sallyally Devalues YOUR "welcome" don'tchyaknow? Newbies should demonstrate original thought or agreement with Moi to gain a "welcome". @motrucker Welcome pending. Moi Trump sure taught "them". BTW Welcomers. @motrucker has not been "on Board" since his introduction. Witness all those wasted "welcomes". You could have given them to charity or put them in the bank.
Only towards the bottom 99%! Welcoming everyone devalues your welcome, costs or none. A knowledgeable recipient would know @Sallyally just welcomes anyone. And this latest recipient of the @Sallyally Welcome has not been on Board since . . . Another welcome wasted. Moi No Welcome Yet Extended to @motrucker Maybe, after some evaluation, some may care to withdraw their welcome to a pending status, eh A welcome is a terrible think to waste!
It isn't wasted. The new member may be trundling around the forum like a butterfly, having a little taste of humour, a little taste of Russo- Ukraine drama and perhaps a soupçon of what are you watching/reading. Not everyone has the need or the confidence to plunge in, guns blazing, when just newly joined.