Eric Mayo

University of Alabama Alumnus | Tennessean by Choice | Space Force Enthusiast | Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness

[Eric Mayo @EricJMayo]

That just says it all, doesn't it @KirkHerbstreit?

[Eric Mayo @EricJMayo]

Smells like disrespect.

[Southeastern Conference @SEC]

🏈 2026 #SECFB Media Preseason Poll, All-SEC Team announced – @GeorgiaFootball predicted to win SEC Championship:

📊 https://t.co/Vh0n4DOmYC

#SECMD26 x #ItJustMeansMore

[Eric Mayo @EricJMayo]

@jadamlowe @Vivian_E_Jones Also no enforcement based on what I’m hearing from the students I lead at church. It is a real problem that needs a real solution!

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

The average national constitution lasts about 19 years. The United States has used the same one since 1789, which makes it the oldest working national constitution on Earth.

That gap is the anomaly the original post is talking about. Since 1789 the world has produced close to 800 national constitutions, and only about half of them lasted past 19 years. France is the sharpest contrast. It started at the same line as America, and since then it has gone through five separate republics, two empires, a couple of monarchies, and at least fourteen constitutions. It is on version five right now, written back in 1958. The next-oldest national constitution still in use belongs to Norway, and it only dates to 1814, a full 25 years behind.

Most attempts at a lasting written government fall apart inside a single generation. America's has held through a civil war, two world wars, a depression that put about a quarter of workers out of a job, and 27 amendments, without ever being thrown out and started over.

About 4% of humanity lives inside US borders, and they produce close to a quarter of the world's economic output measured at market prices. The American economy is bigger than the next three put together, China and Germany and Japan combined. Eight of the ten biggest public companies on the planet, ranked by market value, are American. US stock markets alone hold a little over 40% of all the equity value on Earth.

None of that was ever the default setting for human societies. For most of recorded history the normal ending was collapse, conquest, coup, or a slow decline into something you would not recognize. Stable money, peaceful handovers of power, and courts that last longer than the people who built them are the rare exception, not the normal starting point.

When a system runs this smoothly for this long, the stability starts to feel like gravity, like the normal way things are. The historical record says the opposite. What looks completely ordinary from inside America is one of the least likely things a large group of people has ever built and kept going.

[Eric Mayo @EricJMayo]

Yes I’ll be there. Thanks for asking!

[Marsha Blackburn @VoteMarsha]

Let me be direct: Data centers are going to be a good and important part of Tennessee's economic growth, but we've got to be thoughtful about their placement.

I was a part of that board when the Nashville Zoo was getting started, and we're pleased with how it has grown to serve our community.

Let's revisit the placement of a data center beside the Nashville Zoo.

[Eric Mayo @EricJMayo]

This is the energy I’ll be taking to my Mexican restaurant experiences going forward.

[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.

[Alabama Baseball @AlabamaBSB]

FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE 1999, THE CRIMSON TIDE IS HEADED TO OMAHA!

#RollTide

[Alabama Baseball @AlabamaBSB]

Is this heaven? No, it's Tuscaloosa.

#RollTide

[Alabama Baseball @AlabamaBSB]

THE ABSOLUTE SCENES.

#RollTide

[Eric Mayo @EricJMayo]

He tweeted this unironically, which is objectively hilarious.

[Bruce Pearl @coachbrucepearl]

Everything School

[Bryan Alderman @BroBry93]

“Overcome them…”

I’m pretty sure some think they’re attempting another “conservative” resurgence and they’d like to be rid of a lot of us don’t toe their line on this issue.

The irony of Megan continuing to speak into it shouldn’t be lost on SBC’ers.

[Eric Mayo @EricJMayo]

The road to Omaha runs *over* Auburn.

[Eric Mayo @EricJMayo]

Writ HER name in crimson flame! On to the winner’s bracket!

[Southeastern Conference @SEC]

YAMMMMMMM 💪

@AlabamaSB x @NCAASoftball /ESPN

[Eric Mayo @EricJMayo]

@jaredcornutt This is why drafting matters much more than intentions. I’m sure Dr. Mohler intends well, but the language doesn’t do just what he wants. Draft it correctly and avoid the bad actors and you’d get sweeping support.

[Eric Mayo @EricJMayo]

I think we should expose who is who. If the sport is going to shift, don’t be cowards about it.

[Waaaay Offsides Cotton @AlafrigginBama]

According to On3 - 8 SEC ADs voted for a 24-team playoff.

[Eric Mayo @EricJMayo]

Postseason baseball in Tuscaloosa!

[NCAA Baseball @NCAABaseball]

7️⃣ Seed

@AlabamaBSB 🐘

#RoadToOmaha

[Eric Mayo @EricJMayo]

Team 30 is ROLLING!

[Alabama Softball @AlabamaSB]

For the 16th time in program history, Alabama is heading to the Women's College World Series

#Team30 #RollTide

[Nick Perkins @NickyPerks]

We are officially Zabien Brown vs Tennessee days away from College Football returning

[Eric Mayo @EricJMayo]

Good riddance!

[Open Source Intel @Osint613]

Massie has been defeated.

[Eric Mayo @EricJMayo]

Facts.

[Jeremy Faison @RepFaison]

This 100%!

I’ve often encouraged our members to vote their district. However, we have a few members who seem to vote with D’s just as often as they vote with R’s.

At some point, if a legislator no longer consistently aligns with the party principles, they should run as an independent.

Good word @JDVance