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Hey you, you’re finally awake

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@LeahRay44 Our government is crazy right now, but as everyday citizens welcome anyone from around the world to our shores and experience the U.S. I’m so glad you’re enjoying our country, and I hope we’re making you feel welcome (:

[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.

[Elsa @elsathora]

Indiana is exactly how I dreamed America would be

Small towns, wide open spaces, cornfields, barns, cute houses, diners, water towers, friendly people, great food, American flags everywhere, and so much more!

Time for the next part of this adventure

Thank you Indiana!

[Angry Cops @AngryCops]

@MattWallace888 It’s a military coin. Every President has one, and it’s given to those as an “ata boy”

[raacton @raacton]

@RyLiberty Big fucking losers day

The Union forever

[raacton @raacton]

@RyanMcbeth @RyLiberty Can we get a world tour going and see if he stands with North Korea

[raacton @raacton]

@RyanMcbeth @PigLazer The best collab

[matthew. @iAmTheWarax]

lol, lmao

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

BREAKING:

Finland will officially join NATO tomorrow

🇫🇮

[raacton @raacton]

@RAWB888 @Joe3Ring @BadWeaponTakes Saying that you will not be a victim of violence if you give up is dangerously naïve. Just give up your stuff otherwise the robber will use violence? Defending yourself with appropriate lethal force will sometimes be the only way you could live to see another day.

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@Rogue_doggy @Gerashchenko_en They don’t even know what Combined Arms Warfare is, so I don’t think so.

[raacton @raacton]

@USArmySMA @JParker8080 That was a good and simple way to help soldiers. Good on you for doing this SMA

[raacton @raacton]

@JParker8080 That’s why you’re the big chief

[S. Ashton-Cirillo @AshtonCirillo]

Smiling with one of my commanders this morning.

It's a difficult situation with my hand.

Right after this photo I was moved to a 5th different hospital.

I'm not worried though.

I trust the ZSU.

[raacton @raacton]

@ashtoncirillo Everyone's allowed to have a beard but us 🤣🤣

[raacton @raacton]

@BillyM2k @WhaleChart I’m not supposed to buy high and sell low? Fuuuuuuuuuuuck

[raacton @raacton]

@LostInThePondUS @sportbible So *that’s* what Vladimir Putin’s plan is

[raacton @raacton]

@RyanMcbeth Now it’s an anti-theological guided missile

[raacton @raacton]

@RyanMcbeth These are always good reminders 💯