Colleen

Daughter of God. American globetrotter. Fangirl. Writer.

[Colleen @AM_Colleen]

@japan_nobunaga Thank you. My dad was US Air Force and we lived on Okinawa for 3 years. I know there are still some wounds, but I find our alliance after such a brutal war to be something miraculous. It speaks enormously well of the Japanese too that we have been able to work so well together.

[Colleen @AM_Colleen]

@todayyearsold Imagine that. On a holiday celebrating our rejection of overbearing and tyrannical government, Americans decide to reject more government dictates. 🧨🎆

[Selene Mariposa @Selene_Mariposa]

America turns 250 today.

Let me read back the resume.

We started by telling a king to pound sand, in writing.

By 1803 we bought half a continent from France for about four cents an acre.

We fought a war with ourselves and somehow stayed one country.

We strung a railroad across the entire thing.

We handed the world the lightbulb, the telephone, and the airplane in about thirty years flat.

Then a man named Willis Carrier invented air conditioning and made half the planet actually livable.

You are welcome, Texas. You are welcome, Dubai.

Twice the whole world caught fire, and twice we showed up and helped put it out.

We split the atom.

We put men on the moon in 1969.

Then we went back and hit golf balls up there, because why not.

We invented jazz, blues, rock and roll, and hip-hop, and the whole planet is still dancing to it.

We put a burger and fries on every corner of the earth.

We built rockets that fly themselves home and land standing straight up.

We flew a helicopter on Mars.

We launched a car into actual space and it is still out there cruising.

We also invented ranch dressing and somehow talked the entire world into putting it on pizza.

Priorities.

We even invented three of our own sports so we could win them.

Baseball, basketball, and football.

Real football, the kind with hands, because we named it and we are not taking corrections.

The rest of the planet can keep soccer, which is fine, we are hosting it in our backyard this summer anyway.

And yes, Canadian football exists, wider field, extra man, one fewer down, and we try very hard not to think about it.

Frankly it was generous of us to invent our own games.

If we put all that energy into soccer, nobody else would ever lift that trophy again.

We would win it so often they would just rename it the America’s Cup and hand us the keys.

You are welcome for the suspense.

And in 2026 we threw a birthday so big a German tourist live-tweeted our gas stations to 750,000 people.

Not every chapter was clean.

We argued, we stumbled, we fixed what we broke, and we kept building.

That is the whole trick.

Two hundred and fifty years in, and we are still the loudest, brightest, most improbable experiment on the map.

Not bad for a country that started as a strongly worded letter to a king.

Happy birthday, America.

🦋

[Colleen @AM_Colleen]

@james_xond Allowed? Yes, they should be allowed to do what they want with it, including leaving it to their kids without the government taking any of it. They earned that money, either by labor or taking risks to invest so companies could succeed and provide employment, goods and services.

[Colleen @AM_Colleen]

@ApexSeeker_ There has never been a time in history when it was “affordable” to have children. Except for the tiniest minority, it has always required sacrifice. Stop waiting for the world to be perfect.

[Colleen @AM_Colleen]

@end3of6days9 Pepsi. Yuck!

[Colleen @AM_Colleen]

@ClimateWarrior7 Did a little more checking, back to thinking it’s probably parody. It’s so hard to tell these days!!!!

[Colleen @AM_Colleen]

@ClimateWarrior7 Honestly thought this was parody until I checked the profile. Still not totally convinced, but leaning toward believing it’s serious. Yikes.

[Colleen @AM_Colleen]

@emnode @RobProvince At least Elon lives and works in the US, his interest is pretty transparent.

[Colleen @AM_Colleen]

@knight_pjc @RachealCallum7 Season 5 was clearly the show being renewed beyond what the writers were expecting. Considering that, it has some good points. It made September pretty interesting.

[Colleen @AM_Colleen]

@4rizzleHdizzle @RachealCallum7 You’ll be happy with the later seasons then.

[Colleen @AM_Colleen]

@RachealCallum7 Oh, you are in for a RIDE!!!!!!!

[Colleen @AM_Colleen]

@Selene_Mariposa @PBrady77 What can you point to in American literature that is built on the Bhagavad Gita or the Quran? Find that and you have an argument to include them as literature in American schools.

[Colleen @AM_Colleen]

@Selene_Mariposa I disagree. It should be taught the way Greek and Roman myths are, as part of our culture’s foundational literature. It’s even more important to know the story of Moses than the story of Hercules in order to understand American literature and governance.

[Colleen @AM_Colleen]

@medoyaa Whoever was left after they sit down in the clearly open seats.

[Colleen @AM_Colleen]

@saniyafatma1278 Done that, let her look in my eyes and hear my voice until the last moment. Tore me apart, but she deserved that time.

[Colleen @AM_Colleen]

@sarahtexe Yes. Education is the responsibility of the states, the federal government has no business getting involved. And considering we’ve been getting worse education results since the Department was established, it hasn’t even managed to accomplish anything.

[Colleen @AM_Colleen]

@SissyJade @evitaduffy_1 You’re right, it’s totally unfair to people with mental disabilities to compare them with liberals. The liberals are so much dumber by magnitude.

[Colleen @AM_Colleen]

@mprater @ChrisMartzWX Being a good steward means not getting distracted by the noise or jumping on fads that sound good but could actually do more harm than good. The earth is patient enough for us to make sure we understand something before trying to affect it.

[Colleen @AM_Colleen]

@WayneBlackard @ChrisMartzWX Because that’s where they can get funding.