Erin Barnett

Christian, husband, father, veteran. An old soul with a young mind; trapped in a middle aged body.

[Erin Barnett @ebar2010]

@japan_nobunaga Nope. Not a chance.

[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.

[Erin Barnett @ebar2010]

@NoContextHumans Looks staged to me. Fake as can be.

[Erin Barnett @ebar2010]

@FOXNashville Shouldn’t have.

[Erin Barnett @ebar2010]

@davidpollack47 @Lane_Kiffin No, this is @Lane_Kiffin pattern. It’s all on him.

[Erin Barnett @ebar2010]

@s_sergio10634 @KirkHerbstreit Why be an ass?

[Erin Barnett @ebar2010]

@mhalberstram15 @KirkHerbstreit What an ass

[Erin Barnett @ebar2010]

@Rangers How do we order?

[✞🎀TrumpGirlOnFire 🔥 @TrumpGirlOnFire]

"I'm Disgusted by the riots illegal people are doing in LA and NY"—She is from Mexico and came here legally.

#LAProtests #NYProtests

[Markley, van Camp and Robbins @MVCRRadio]

Finally, someone calling it like it is. No, burning Teslas and blocking roads isn’t "justice." It’s chaos.

#mvcr #elonmusk #LAProtests #Trump #RuleOfLaw

[Erin Barnett @ebar2010]

Hey @ChuysRestaurant why would you seat anyone in this booth?

[Erin Barnett @ebar2010]

@IvankaNews_ God.

[USA NEWS 🇺🇸 @usanewshq]

Simple YES or NO poll. Be honest!

Would you support bringing back the Pledge of Allegiance in our schools?

A. YES
B. NO

[Erin Barnett @ebar2010]

@melgibsonhq Hell yes! A

[Erin Barnett @ebar2010]

@Popeyes by far the worst chicken I have ever had happened today. Store 11372. The chicken was almost burn but somehow still cold and the biscuit was like a hockey puck. So sad.

[Matt Wallace @MattWallace888]

🚨JUST IN: Outrage growing after a 17-year-old white student was stabbed to death by a black student during their school track meet in Frisco, Texas ⚠️

[Erin Barnett @ebar2010]

@Riley_Gaines_

[DC_Draino @DC_Draino]

Female fencer takes knee instead of competing against biological male

USA Fencing disqualifies & expels her from the college tournament, even though her male opponent played for the men’s team last year before switching to women’s

How is this legal?!

[Erin Barnett @ebar2010]

@JosephFordCotto Yes. PBS needs to go commercial or go away.