Norm

Just an old soul living in the new world

[Norm @NormandyG77]

Welcome to Texas

[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.

[Norm @NormandyG77]

@joncoopertweets @hookem I’m not sure you know what “read the room” means

[Norm @NormandyG77]

Busy weeding the lawn with my son today.

[Norm @NormandyG77]

These people are moronic.

[E X X ➠A L E R T S @ExxAlerts]

ALERT: Woman is perplexed by how people fail to recognize how racist lawns are and how they are based in white supremacy.

“Bring back weeds! Bring back clover yards… or do we just have to white-wash everything, make it a competition, and use it as a sign of your worth as a human being in society?”

[Norm @NormandyG77]

@Bjerregaard81 @newstart_2024 Planning your life around the expectation of getting divorced is next level backward thinking.

[Norm @NormandyG77]

The necessity of a dual income household in America has not been a good thing for families, mental health, or overall well being.

[Camus @newstart_2024]

A 40-year-old working mom of two just said what a lot of women are quietly thinking after years in the corporate grind:

“I fell for it. Go to college, get the degree, you can have it all — career, kids, the whole thing.
I don’t want to do it all anymore.
I want to take my kids to school, pick them up, be there when they get home, chaperone field trips, volunteer, go to the gym, clean the house, do laundry, cook dinner… just be home.”

She’s blunt: “It’s not worth it. Don’t fall for that sh... Find a way to be with your family.”

It’s raw, honest, and hits different when you hear it from someone who’s lived both sides.

Moms (and dads) — have you ever reached that point where the “have it all” dream started feeling like a trap?
What would your ideal balance actually look like if money or societal pressure wasn’t part of the equation?

Your thoughts 👇

[Tracy Beanz @tracybeanz]

🤣Legit laugh out loud.

[Norm @NormandyG77]

@ExxAlerts Lol

[Norm @NormandyG77]

@FreedomOfArtNow @wcdispatch You sound like you pay full price and tip Mexican beach vendors for ponchos.

[KFC @KFCBarstool]

Connor Hellebyuck and this dude, the biggest heroes in America right now

[Caleb Hull @CalebJHull]

USA USA USA USA USA USA

[Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius]

According to the Ivy League-bred subtards at the New York Times, old laws should be disregarded.

So much for that Constitution thingee and that other Bill of Rights doodad.

I'm sure "journalists" like our pal Jia Lynn here will be able to gin up some much better, modern governing documents that would give them power over people like us who disagree with their stupidity.

[Norm @NormandyG77]

@CynicalPublius Thank you for putting this out. This guy will be sitting in an empty building until the TX Lege reconvenes in January 2027 at which point he won’t even be a part of it. Pointless election that they wasted money on for optics.

[Norm @NormandyG77]

@cbarbermd Quit spreading AI propaganda. Cop has 6 fingers.

[Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius]

RE: Don Lemon

So Democrats are screeching that Don Lemon is being persecuted in violation of his First Amendment rights as a journalist.

At times like this, I like to flip the facts of the scenario ideologically while leaving the legal facts the same, and see if the argument still holds up.

So here goes.

Let’s pretend Kamala won the 2024 election.

Let’s further pretend that there is a mosque in a deep, deep red Oklahoma county, and that mosque’s imam is suspected of being a Muslim Brotherhood leader.

Let’s further pretend that the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers organized a secret protest against that mosque that was to occur during prayer services.

Let’s further pretend that they carried through on the protest, loudly storming the mosque, chanting “Remember 9/11,” wholly disrupting the prayer service and scaring innocent children who were in attendance with their parents.

Let’s also pretend that Laura Loomer accompanied the protest, reporting on it as a journalist.

Finally, let’s pretend that Kamala’s Attorney General (Mark Elias) had Laura arrested.

Would Democrats be screeching about Laura’s First Amendment rights?

Of course not—even though the legal issues in my scenario are EXACTLY the same as those that are the bases for the current charges against Lemon.

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Being a Democrat means always having situational ethics and never having any core beliefs other than power.

[Three Year Letterman @3YearLetterman]

🚨 BRAKING 🚨

Don Lemon has just been illegally ARRESTED by federal officials in connection with the church interruption. Hear’s why that’s illegal

1. The first amendment protects your right to interrupt a religious service with speech. This is necessary to preserve the separation of church and state

2. Federal officials cannot arrest him unless he crossed state lines. As a Minnesota resident, he did not, and only the local police can arrest him

I expect these charges to be dropped

[Norm @NormandyG77]

@lewybdzay Hope you’re doing well, buddy!

[Norm @NormandyG77]

Wondered this for a long time myself.

[Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius]

Why is every nation in the world allowed to prioritize its own self interest, other than the USA?

[Norm @NormandyG77]

@CynicalPublius Insightful bot farm account. 🤦🏼‍♂️

[Norm @NormandyG77]

@CynicalPublius The things I’m seeing from people I believed were good, decent people is incredibly vile.