In Texas they told me to stop at Buc-ee's for gas.
I have been to shrines. I have stood in temples that took two hundred years to build.
I was not prepared for the gas station.
There were one hundred and twenty fuel pumps.
I counted them because I did not believe them.
A man beside me was filling a truck the size of my first apartment, and he was not filling it because it was empty.
He was filling it because he was here, and here is where a man fills things.
Inside was a hall so vast I lost the horizon.
A wall of jerky. A wall of fudge I did not know the country produced.
A brisket sandwich handed to me by a man in a beaver costume.
And I want to be clear, the beaver is not a mascot.
The beaver is a saint.
The people speak of him the way my grandmother spoke of the mountain behind her house.
And the bathrooms.
I had been warned about the bathrooms and I had dismissed the warning as the pride of a loud people.
I was wrong to dismiss it.
The bathrooms are famous across the whole state and they have earned it.
I have slept in worse hotels. I nearly bowed upon entering.
A janitor was polishing the floor with the devotion of a man tending a garden he loved, and when I thanked him he said "welcome in," which I have since learned is what Texas says instead of hello, and also instead of I am glad you exist.
I went in for gas. I was inside for ninety minutes.
I came out with fudge, a shirt printed with a joke I do not fully understand, forty dollars of jerky, and a feeling I can only describe as having been to church.
I did not need any of it.
I needed all of it.
I have walked through the great cathedrals of the old world. I lit no candle there.
I lit no candle at Buc-ee's either.
But I did fill the truck.
And I understand now that in Texas, this is the same thing.
🚨 NOW: Speaker Johnson just dropped this chilling line to every American to block the rise of COMMUNISM
"This is not a GAME! Everybody needs to understand these crazy little Mamdanis who are popping up all around the country — they are a DANGER to you and your family. This is not a GAME!"
"If they promise you free stuff, there is far more beneath those promises that even some of these people do not understand themselves."
"And so we are here as the Republican Party to stand on the founding principles of the greatest nation in the history of the world. It is our duty to do that."
"And we're doing it on behalf of all of you, even the journalists who don't agree with our policies all the time."
"You better agree on these principles because that's what keeps you free."
"By the way, it's what keeps the press free, okay? This is essential for your well-being and your family. This is not a game."
"This is not our Father's Democrat Party. This is not, we're not arguing our marginal tax rates anymore. We're arguing whether or not freedom is going to survive!" @SpeakerJohnson
He’s the President of the United States — not your ex, not your personal villain, and not the cause of your misery. You don’t have to support him. That’s America.
But if someone is simply backing the sitting President and it makes you rage, cut people off, attack families, or act like garbage — you are the problem.
You’ve turned politics into a personality disorder: nonstop outrage and toddler meltdowns online. Grow up. He won. The sky didn’t fall. Pay your bills, care for your family, touch grass, and move on.
My angel mother who gave me birth, gets one day to recognize her a year.
The heroes who died for our country get one day to recognize them.
The birth of Jesus gets one day a year to celebrate.
And you actually believe I’m gonna give an entire month for you because you’re gay?
NO !!!
Who else feels this way I’m sick of this shit?
I will never stop exposing the barbaric truth about the abortion industry and will always unapologetically defend the right to life.
https://t.co/zPtLYGxSbZ
He accomplished two important things with this line of questioning: 1) He exposed abortion for what it really is, stripping away the euphemisms that hide its barbarity, and 2) he revealed that abortion's proponents are too embarrassed and uncomfortable to have the conversation without the euphemisms because it makes them look monstrous. In other words, they care more about how they're perceived than anything else, including the wellbeing of innocent, defenseless babies. So they are, in fact, monstrous — and terrible at hiding it.
Very well done.