Stephanie 🇺🇸

Forty-something mom and wife. Catholic. I love plants, traveling, reading, learning new things, and arguing with strangers online. America 1st🇺🇸

[Stephanie 🇺🇸 @ImpossiblyPink]

@ok_alriight I had a fish just like that from a carnival as a teen. Lived 5 years in a plastic 2 gallon tank. Even had babies. (And ate them 😬)

[Nick Sortor @nicksortor]

🔥 HELL YEAH! A pilot just used his airplane to draw a USA 250th banner using his flight path

It took him over FIVE HOURS of flying time to do this.

What a PATRIOT! 🇺🇸

[Stephanie 🇺🇸 @ImpossiblyPink]

@Nibiru1000 And still don’t know who put pipe bombs out on Jan 6 🙄

[Stephanie 🇺🇸 @ImpossiblyPink]

@RichieMcGinniss It’s pretty much over here in the counties northeast of Baltimore. Looks like Carroll was getting it worse.

[Stephanie 🇺🇸 @ImpossiblyPink]

@RichieMcGinniss I’ll report back!

[Stephanie 🇺🇸 @ImpossiblyPink]

@nypost Why is he in an office chair, outside, in a hospital gown, unconscious? I’m so confused.

[Stephanie 🇺🇸 @ImpossiblyPink]

@Lillyin_London They don’t really look that different. He is making a different expression. She appears to have been crying.

[Stephanie 🇺🇸 @ImpossiblyPink]

@tariqnasheed Archaeologists have found extensive evidence of Indigenous American civilizations, of European colonization, of the African slave trade, and none of pre-Columbian African settlements.

[Stephanie 🇺🇸 @ImpossiblyPink]

@tariqnasheed Where is the archeological evidence of black Americans being here before the slave trade, as opposed to native Americans?

[Stephanie 🇺🇸 @ImpossiblyPink]

@IggyBolshevik @joeroganhq The US has interfered with communist governments for what, 80 years? More? It rarely works out well.

[Stephanie 🇺🇸 @ImpossiblyPink]

@orthoanbheanin @mattvanswol @Mighty5Thor That is the lamest excuse ever.

[Stephanie 🇺🇸 @ImpossiblyPink]

@austinblackwoo @ULTRA_MAJESTY I didn’t single it out. I was responding to you and the OP. But if you think elementary and middle school students have any reason to learn about anal sex, then the problem isn’t with me.

[Stephanie 🇺🇸 @ImpossiblyPink]

@CastingOutNines @joeroganhq Ideally, anyone with a healthy family has a safe place to retreat and start again.

[Stephanie 🇺🇸 @ImpossiblyPink]

@Demo4fhs Only cheap foods anymore are eggs, grilled cheese, rice and beans, and pasta. Carbs carbs carbs.

[Stephanie 🇺🇸 @ImpossiblyPink]

@austinblackwoo @ULTRA_MAJESTY https://t.co/Y5ND9KlIyy

[Adam | Faithful Messenger @Adam_FaithfulM]

God gave Moses 50 chapters of instructions for a tent.

Fifty.

More space in the Bible is devoted to the design of the Tabernacle than to the creation of the universe.

That's not an accident.

Every measurement, material, and color was pointing to something, and once you see it, you can't unsee it.

A thread. 🧵

[Stephanie 🇺🇸 @ImpossiblyPink]

@memecrashes @StructuredThou1 My family has had a handful of accidental injuries over the years requiring surgery. The longest wait from injury to surgery was one month, after having a CT and then an MRI and then pre-op checks. How long would a surgery like that take in the UK?

[Grok @grok]

The US leads the world in healthcare and biotech research — #1 in publications, clinical trials, patents, VC funding, and Nobel prizes in medicine. It also sets the global standard for treating trauma like heart attacks, strokes, and accidents via advanced tech, trauma centers, and rapid innovation in procedures and devices. Health insurance helps manage costs, though the system has clear access challenges.

[Stephanie 🇺🇸 @ImpossiblyPink]

@Devon_Eriksen_ @JackPosobiec My only issue is that the government probably funded a lot of that research yet seems to yield none of the financial benefits for her citizens.

I’d be very interested to know how much research is funded by the NHS vs how many lifesaving drugs are imported from the US.

[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.