The GC

A guy who likes to ski

[The GC @BrianWortinger]

@eurofounder COVID ruined it. It was 15% standard, 20% for exceptional service and really limited to sit down restaurants and occasionally coffee shops.

Then everyone got greedy

[The GC @BrianWortinger]

@SGTWipper1Each They are less weak than the Air Force except for one Saturday in December

[The GC @BrianWortinger]

@SenateGOP @TaxCuts Pass the SAVE Act

[Selene Mariposa @Selene_Mariposa]

The World Cup has turned America into a discovery channel for the rest of the world.

And they are not handling it well.
In the best possible way.

Here is what they are discovering:

Free public restrooms. Europeans pay every time.
Free water at every restaurant. Just appears.
Free refills. Coffee. Sodas. Iced tea. Unlimited.
Free chips and salsa before you even order.
Free warm bread with dinner.
Ice in drinks like civilized people.
Air conditioning everywhere. Not a moral debate. A fact.
Parking lots attached to the actual place you are going.
Drive throughs where the food comes to the car while you sit in it.
Ranch dressing by the gallon.
Tex-Mex that cannot be explained only experienced.
Dental care that actually works.
Buccee’s. There are no words for Buccee’s.

Then they found the grocery stores.

Five of them within one mile.
Each one the size of an aircraft hangar.
Burgers. Steaks. Brisket. Ribs. Pulled pork. Lamb. Veal. Every cut of every animal ever domesticated by human civilization available in one refrigerated aisle at ten in the morning on a Tuesday.

The Germans stood in the meat section for forty five minutes.
In silence.
Processing.

They finally understand why we do not have trains.

We have roads wide enough for the cars we actually drive.
Parking lots the size of small European countries.
Airports in every city worth visiting.

Why would we need trains.

The Germans are taking ranch home by the bottle.
The Dutch found queso and briefly lost the ability to speak.
The Japanese are photographing HEB like it is the Louvre.
The Czechs are weeping in West, Texas.

Welcome to America.
Everything is free, enormous, air conditioned, comes with chips, and has five grocery stores within a mile that will sell you any cut of any animal you have ever imagined.

Write that down. 🦋

[The GC @BrianWortinger]

@tanpukunokami Of course. Work as well.

[The GC @BrianWortinger]

@SenateGOP Pass the SAVE Act and maybe you’d have 60 votes

[The GC @BrianWortinger]

@SGTWipper1Each Depends on what we just did 😜

[The GC @BrianWortinger]

@SenateGOP Pass the SAVE Act

Put AMERICAN families first

[The GC @BrianWortinger]

@FiredUpCoug 2, 4, and 5 are illegal to purchase in Colorado on August 1st

[The GC @BrianWortinger]

@ScottPresler Keep going!

[The GC @BrianWortinger]

What say my Britons? I mean what would you say if you could read this and respond without getting imprisoned

https://t.co/QlKfGLTJc8

[The GC @BrianWortinger]

🙏

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

USA. A Mexican restaurant. We had not yet ordered anything, and the food was already arriving.

Chips. Salsa. Unrequested. Free.

I stopped the waiter. "We have not earned these."

"They just come with the table, man."

They come with the TABLE. In my land, hospitality is a debt. Every gift creates an obligation, weighed carefully, returned in the proper season with interest of feeling. Here, the gift arrives before you have even proven you can pay for dinner.

This is not an appetizer. This is a declaration: we trust you. Eat.

I ate with the gravity the moment deserved. And then — I must report this calmly — the basket emptied, and a new one appeared.

"Did we…?"

"Refill," the waiter said. "It's bottomless."

Bottomless. They have wells of salsa. The supply lines of this nation are beyond anything my ancestors imagined.

My friend warned me. "Don't fill up on chips, dude."

Too late. I had accepted three baskets. Honor demanded each one be finished — an unfinished gift is an insult. By the time my actual food arrived, I was a ruined man.

I was not hungry. I was not comfortable. I had been defeated by a courtesy.

Generosity that arrives before the request cannot be repaid. It can only be survived.

I know the rule now. I have made my peace with the basket. One basket. Two at the most.

Who am I deceiving. There is no number of baskets I would refuse. The trust of a nation is in that salsa, and I intend to honor all of it.

[The GC @BrianWortinger]

@ThoughtCrimes80 ‘Sup

[Rothmus 🏴 @Rothmus]

Meme update. None of your problems are because someone else is a trillionaire.

Everything you complain about, rising prices, housing shortages, stagnant wages, is caused by inflation, unlimited government spending, artificially restricted supply, overregulation, and the government that creates all of it.

But you want more of that because you’re too retarded to understand second order consequences.

[The GC @BrianWortinger]

@SenWarren No, we don’t.

[The GC @BrianWortinger]

@IsaacHayes3 This has to be engagement farming. Nobody is truly this ignorant.

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@BasedMikeLee Correct

[The GC @BrianWortinger]

@SenRickScott I don’t think there is enough runway left to fully fix this, but I would love to see some moves in the right direction.

I wrote a research paper on this in 2002 with the exact same conclusion. The trust fund is exhausted in 2032 and at that point we have to cut benefits by 25%.

[The GC @BrianWortinger]

@CaryKelly11 Sounds like she didn’t learn anything from her MBA

[The GC @BrianWortinger]

@Michael_Haz Just reply, “it didn’t work”