@TheFaithMaga@JamieBonkiewicz You're an idiot. Right-wing "accelerationists," not liberals. But of course, as soon as someone says, "Trump has done a perfect job," that person loses all credibility and is deemed to be a total cult member and dumbass.
Beneath a lantern declaring "Express Lane," I observed a sacred instruction, written in bold characters: FIFTEEN ITEMS OR LESS.
I had sixteen items.
I want to describe what that moment does to a man of honor. The lane: open. The cashier: waiting. And in my cart, one onion too many. A single onion, standing between me and the law.
I returned it. I walked that onion back across the entire store to its bin and set it down among its people. A woman watched me do this.
"They don't actually count," she said.
THEY DON'T ACTUALLY COUNT.
She said it kindly, the way one tells a foreigner a harmless truth. It is not harmless. Listen to what she revealed: the express lane has NO GUARD. No gate. No count. Just a number on a sign and the silent agreement of three hundred million people.
In Japan, the rule would be enforced. Here the rule is simply... trusted. Which makes it heavier, not lighter. A law with no guard is guarded by everyone.
And then, as I stood in my onion-less righteousness, a man entered the express lane with, I counted twice, NINETEEN items.
Nothing happened. The cashier scanned all nineteen. The earth did not open. I looked around for justice and found a teenager bagging bread.
The cashier saw my face. "It's fine, hon. It's slow today."
It is NOT fine. Fifteen is not a suggestion. Fifteen is a VOW. That man walked into the sunshine unpunished, nineteen items in six bags, free as a goose.
I said nothing. A samurai does not ask the lane to be just. He polices his own cart, and his own soul.
So hear my law, America, and use it freely: I now shop with FOURTEEN items. Exactly fourteen. One under the limit.
A buffer. Against miscounts. Against temptation. Against nineteen-item men.
The express lane is the fastest moral test in your country, and I will keep passing it with room to spare.
@smokehousecasey@Timodc That was an excellent retort. Gotta give you credit. Other than that, you're pretty delusional if you think MAGA will accept JDVance. Trump is a dirt bag felon and rapist, but Vance doesn't have those qualities, so he won't be as attractive to MAGA as Trump has been.
@AmoneyResists@CommunityNotes@EricTrump The logic isn't really there is it? How does deleting a post confirm it was a fabrication? All it "confirms" is that it was deleted. Those Trump boys are really idiots propped up by others when it comes to intelligence.
@Clayonthebeat11@Timodc The racist and bigoted assholes who love Republican "policies" are getting their full use out of you. What a fucking dumbass. They're keeping you around for shits and giggles while you give them the rope they'll use to kill you when they no longer need your boot licking. Idiot.
@TheRickWilson ...while running in-person debate tournaments for middle and high school students that she participated in. Fishback denied the allegations and threatened to sue the parents who made them, but later moved in with and was briefly engaged to her after she turned 18. (Wikipedia)
@TheRickWilson This is a heck of a sentence about a political candidate for anything: "Fishback has been involved in various legal disputes. In 2022, the Broward County School District cut ties with him and a debate league he ran following allegations that he sexually groomed an underage girl..
@SecRollins@POTUS@USDA@WhiteHouse This is a parody account, right? No one can sustain being such an obsequious lickspittle for as long as you have done and be serious about it.
@MiddleGuy7@JoJoFromJerz Better question, why the fuck does the felon in the White House think he has the authority to do whatever his mush brain thinks up?