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.
went to dunkin and the drive thru person said “that’ll be 11 million dollars” and i said “oh no!” and she said “i’m just playin it’s $11.99” and man. she got my ass. what a great bit
So sick how we can just go get beers with our boys every Friday forever. We could’ve been born when people were dying of typhoid and digging trenches but we were born at the same time as Miller Lite and Avicii. That’s so sick.
BREAKING: Jessica Tarlov leaves Fox speechless after debunking the lies Trump and his regime have been spreading about the murder of Renee Good.
She brought receipts.
Neighbors just released a new angle of the ICE shooting and it settles any debate on what actually happened.
This was a mother doing something completely ordinary: Dropping somebody off, then trying to leave. She goes to pull out, stops for one car to pass, then waves the agents to drive past. Within seconds, those ICE agents exit their vehicle and rush her, shouting and escalating the situation. Panicked, she tries to drive away and gets shot in the face three times.
She posed no threat, showed no intent to harm, and was interfering with no one. She was a civilian going about her life. The official statements that followed contradict the footage and read like an attempt to rewrite what happened.
This was a reckless, unjustified killing, followed by a dishonest effort to evade responsibility. It’s horrifying, and it exposes something deeply wrong with the US government and these ICE agents. They must be held accountable.
This is not a partisan issue. I need you to lock in gang.
AOC: “I understand that VP Vance believes shooting a young mother of three in the face three times is an acceptable America that he wants to live in, and I do not. That is a fundamental difference between VP Vance and I. I do not believe the American people should be assassinated in the street.”
Q: “You said that there is no reason to give newborn babies hepatitis B vaccines, but hepatitis B can be contracted, not just during sexually transmitted diseases…So when you say, 'You feel,' is that appropriate to just be telling the public?”
Trump: “I think it's absolutely appropriate.”
Q: The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists put out a statement saying that 'acetaminophen remains a safe trusted option for pain relief during pregnancy.' That's at odds with what you said.
TRUMP: That's the establishment. They're funded by lots of different groups. And you know what? Maybe they're right.
Reminder: If Bernie's Social Security bill was signed into law, Social Security would be solvent for the next 75 years, benefits would go up by $2,400 & the bottom 91% of Americans would not pay a penny more in taxes.
Instead, Republicans want you to work until you drop dead.
When President Clinton banned assault rifles in 1994, mass shootings dropped by 43%. After Republicans let the ban expire in 2004, they increased by 243% — please don’t tell me bans don’t work, because I don’t want to hear it.