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.
Everyone knew the burning cross in Chicago was from a leftist...
Now it's confirmed: a gay socialist asian that basically publicly threatened Trump.
Every time there's some massive hate symbol like this, it's from the left.
🚨 Here is 10 minutes of me confronting the California politicians who authored the "Stop Nick Shirley Act"...
When confronted about AB 2624:
- Lied about authoring the bill
- Couldn't justify the bill
- Acted like they didn't know about the bill
This bill will CRIMINALIZE exposing fraud, violates the 1st Amendment, protects NGOs from disclosing taxpayer dollars, and these politicians see no problem with it. The fraud is now exposed and they need new laws to hide it.
EXPOSE ALL THE FRAUD.
"Rep. Omar, you were just talking about how Trump's economy has failed the American people, but I think the American people really wanna know how you went from a negative $65,000 before coming into Congress to over $30 million in just 7 years?"
Well?
Clay Travis: "Since we started war in Iran, you are more likely to have been murdered in Chicago than to have been killed by Iran, if you're in the armed forces."
"The streets of Chicago are more dangerous for Americans than the skies above Iran."
🔥🚨BREAKING: Democratic Representative Ilhan Omar and her husband are under investigation.
Financial records show they went from $42 in their bank account to up to $25 million in a year.
Feeling the "Christmas cheer" yet?
Researchers find that certain activities consistently make people happy -- or not so happy.
Psychology professor @slyubomirsky explains what they are:
I believe most of these individuals terrorizing Los Angeles aren’t even Mexican and likely don’t speak Spanish. They are Americans with Mexican heritage—a big difference. The issue is that many were raised, like most Democrats, without a strong love and respect for our country. They might have visited Mexico a few times, but that’s about it.
I was born in Mexico and came here the legal way. I am a PROUD American, and unlike many who were born and raised here, I don’t take our country for granted.
This is Karmelo Anthony.
He stabbed 17 year old high school student Austin Metcalf to death in a dispute over a seat at a track meet event at their school in Frisco, Texas.
BLM and liberal activists are claiming he is the VICTIM.
You better mow your lawn.
Why?
Because if some local governments decide your grass is too long, they will move to seize your home.
This really happens.
I covered one such case 6 years ago.
Here’s what’s happened since:
One of the best ways to overcome addiction is to find something better to do.
From my third course on Peterson Academy: Personality and Its Transformations.