Blusk44

Twitter. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious.

[Blusk44 @BrettLuskin]

@cmain7 I'm just glad you've seen the light.

[Cody Main @cmain7]

https://t.co/2jeVAOEE9M

[Blusk44 @BrettLuskin]

@cmain7 Go back to lifting, nerd.

[Blusk44 @BrettLuskin]

@bordersroad ABS in baseball has restored my sanity. We weren't crazy all those years thinking umps were shit at calling balls and strikes.

[Blusk44 @BrettLuskin]

@cremieuxrecueil No. We must do everything in our power to keep the plebs down. In this case, literally.

[Devon Eriksen @Devon_Eriksen_]

What happened to my bank account? Absolutely nothing.

You believed a lie.

You believed a lie that was told to you by your political class, and your news media, to keep you from asking uncomfortable questions about how much you are paying in tax, where that money is going, and what quality of care you actually receive for the portion of it they didn't steal.

Don't believe me? Look at the pictures.

Look.

At.

Them.

That's my wife, @acrobatichobbit. Before and after.

That's a five centimeter mass. Stage 4 metastatic melanoma. The worst kind of cancer, the most vicious form of assassin your own body can betray you with. That bright area? Blood.

Ten years ago, anywhere in the world, the scan on the left is a death sentence... an endless gauntlet of painful surgeries, followed by chemotherapy, hair loss, uncontrolled vomiting, wasting away to nothing, death.

In America, today, it's not.

We have things here. Genetic therapies. Tailored viruses that attack tumor cells. Drugs that highlight cancers for your immune system, drag them kicking and screaming into the spotlight to be killed.

I won't tell you about her exact course of treatment, because that's none of your goddamned business, but I will tell you that it cost American drug companies and medical researchers a fortune to discover.

A fortune that your nation cannot afford because you chose socialism instead of progress. And socialism, however fine-sounding in theory, simply does not work.

Were she and I British, living in Britain, relying on the National Health Service, I would be a widower now.

Did saving her cost a ruinous amount of money?

Yes. This technology was expensive to create, and the people who did so deserve to pay their mortgages and feed their kids. So do the oncologists and surgeons.

Many of the men who cared for her were old men, experienced men, long past retirement age, still working because when your profession is clawing souls back from the void, sitting on a beach with a pina colada instead just doesn't hit the same.

They deserve every cent.

Did saving her cost a ruinous amount of money?

Yes.

Did I pay it?

No.

Because believe it or not, when things are ruinously expensive, but vitally necessary, we here in America come up with ways to deal with that.

Ways that don't involve creating a big pot of money and entrusting it to corrupt slimeballs.

We have insurance. And sometimes insurance isn't cheap, but the bite it takes is a hell of a lot less of what we have than the tax man takes from you.

And insurance companies sometimes have to make hard decisions about which spending choices will save the most people. I know about this in detail, because that is my wife's profession. She creates the mathematical models that pay for all this stuff.

The insurance that saved her is the exact same plan that she provides to others.

And at the end of an awful year and a half of treatment, awful because cancer medicines make you far sicker than the cancer itself...

We were left whole.

Battered and wounded in spirit, but financially whole, at least.

The only loss we took was the blow to my career as a novelist, because it turns out you can't write stories while your wife is dying, and you don't automatically recover that ability afterwards. Not right away.

I wondered every day if she was going to live or die. I wondered every day what the hell I was going to with myself without her.

But I never wondered, not for a moment, how the hell we were going to pay for all this.

Your government doesn't solve the problem. It is the problem.

They lie to you.

[Art @ZarkFiles]

Communism through (my) ages:
1) When I was 15, a teacher told me "It isn't as bad as they say, and makes a lot of sense."
2) At about 19, college friends, "Socialism isn't communism."
3) At 20, on meeting my grandfather-in-law, "They are evil. We escaped in 1949."
4) At 30, "China is a wonderful developing Democracy"
5) At 35, I was sent to communist China on business. It was a crowded, smelly, dirty, factory of despair and hopelessness. This I saw with my own eyes.
6) At 36, "China doesn't count. Successful socialism is in northern Europe."
7) I moved to northern Europe when I was 40. It was much nicer than China, but also felt like I was living in the past. I had to wait 6 months for a hernia operation.
8) When I was about 45, the migrant crisis began. The socialist/globalist/pacifist allowed them entry into every country, regardless how many crimes they committed along the way. Just 20 minutes from my house, in Calais, I was shocked to see migrants jumping onto trucks, breaking open the doors, scattering the contents across the highway, then climbing in. They went through the Chunnel and got out in England.
9) At 52, the soft socialism around me had transformed into globalism. I was told I had to call people by their preferred pronouns, though it was a lie, and even if I didn't know what the preferences were. I quit.
10) I returned to the US, and am now 60. "Socialism" is no longer a dirty word here. People openly espouse the virtues of it. Politicians run as socialists and win.

Socialism has taken many forms, from the Bolshevism of Russia, to the CCP in China, the Nazis in Germany, Fascists in Italy, and the many forms of it found in Latin America. It is one of the two most destructive ideologies on earth. It is designed to deprive, despirit, and murder everything that comes in contact with it.

Socialism is a great lie at every level. It helps no one, not even those who benefit the most. This is because the cost is the imposition of one's will on everyone else, and that destroys the soul of the usurper and the life of the oppressed.

Socialism always fails on its own, but only after destroying almost everything in its train. It can also be conquered. Those are the options.

[Blusk44 @BrettLuskin]

@cmain7 I add Kraft Mac n cheese and Jack Daniels to every preworkout

We are not the same.

[Blusk44 @BrettLuskin]

@Pairrot12 Yeah but now he has every type of classic car.

[Blusk44 @BrettLuskin]

@CaseyBell4 @cmain7 Do not come in here slandering the CPT kicker chads.

[Blusk44 @BrettLuskin]

@cmain7 Check out these cannons.

[Blusk44 @BrettLuskin]

@Ihartitz Adam Randall

[Blusk44 @BrettLuskin]

People are dunking on JJ for this take, and rightly so. It's pretty clear to anyone with a functioning brain that the data says you should wait until you make your first Pro Bowl before getting married.

[JJ Zachariason @LateRoundQB]

I personally think you should wait until you’re a quality starting quarterback in the NFL before you get married

[Blusk44 @BrettLuskin]

@LateRoundQB Don't forget you also won Comeback Player of the Year. Huge accomplishment!

[Blusk44 @BrettLuskin]

@Grummz You can't eliminate every form of scarcity.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Interesting

[Rickadoozle @rickadoozle]

So You Think You Can Tout (2025): Brown Bob Dylan

Put me in coach @peteroverzet

[Blusk44 @BrettLuskin]

@SamMonsonNFL Ed Hochuli is my dentist. Pulled my wisdom teeth with his bare hands.

[Blusk44 @BrettLuskin]

@adamlevitan @Comm1sh63 @CoachspeakIndex It's pronounced Achane.