Alison Patient

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[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.

[Alison Patient @apatient1960]

@WorkElizab In case you were unaware, which is completely plausible after reading your post, you are an asshat.

[Vivid.🇮🇱 @VividProwess]

Bill Clinton: “The Palestinians were offered a state. They refused. A state wasn't their goal. Killing Jews was."

This must be shared every single day.

[Vince Langman @LangmanVince]

Spencer Pratt released another AI banger! 👏

This guy could win this thing!

[pdina @pdina13]

What Meghan Markle truly needs is honest, direct dialogue about her behavior and public conduct. Too often, she appears surrounded by people who avoid accountability instead of offering constructive criticism. At some point, someone has to be willing to call out what many see as inappropriate behavior and challenge the constant victim narrative with real, uncomfortable truth.

[Alison Patient @apatient1960]

@ronsterd89 Skin

[Alison Patient @apatient1960]

@lippyent I’m a boomer…I had milk crate furniture until I was in my late 20s! 🤣

[Alison Patient @apatient1960]

@Here_s_Hoping I had some that were deteriorating. My sister cut the embroidered part off and attached it to new pillow cases. They are on my beds right now.

[Alison Patient @apatient1960]

@Denise_fergus I’m so sorry. This is the devil’s work on earth.

[Alison Patient @apatient1960]

@Chicago1Ray I love this guy.

[savage daughter @DonnaPrissyrn1]

Most are oblivious

[Alison Patient @apatient1960]

@mikeroweworks OMG... opening scene: jaws music theme and the tail of the plane breaking through the clouds. Started laughing and didn't stop until the end credits. To his dying day if something weird happened, my dad would call out: Assume Crash Positions!

[Sandi Ray Sivertson @All About Balloons Phoenix. @SandiRay717308]

@DefiantLs I do appreciate his acting skills, but it sounds familiar.

[Alison Patient @apatient1960]

@crpandemonium I saw that. So true.

[Mila Joy @Milajoy]

I don't know about you, but I'm SICK of Ilhan Omar.

She needs to GO AWAY.

[Chris Nelson 🏝️🇺🇸 @ReOpenChris]

🚨Sheriff Grady Judd shuts down reporter!

“I call them illegal immigrants because that's what they are. They're illegal immigrants.

74% of the illegal immigrants that we've detained have had criminal charges against them.

The other 26% were riding with them.”

[Imtiaz Mahmood @ImtiazMadmood]

We need Christopher Hitchens now more than ever.

[Vivid.🇮🇱 @VividProwess]

Bill Maher:

"Israel is the Jews’ homeland and Jews have always lived there. You can look it up. It’s in this book called the Bible. Calling Jews colonizers is like calling Native Americans colonizers here. It’s ridiculous"

He’s 100% correct.

[@Chicago1Ray 🇺🇸 @Chicago1Ray]

SAY HER NAME - DeCara Thompson

This man is asking everyone if they know (19) yr old DeCara Thompson who was mu'rdered, r'aped, and thrown over a bridge, by Hugo Hernandez- Mendez, an illegal from Guatemala

No coverage like that of Renee Good

No ($1.5M) raised for her

You people out there demonstrating, your moral compass is f'd up, why weren't you out there for Miss Thompson

I have a daughter, and God forbid something happens to her, but something does, I guarantee that person won't see justice, via the justice system, justice would come another way, i promise you that

[Alison Patient @apatient1960]

@PhilKabler If only I could get the time back that I spent in the House Chamber! I’m glad someone is excited by the experience. 😊