Crunchy Nanna

Christ-follower, retired Army wife, mom, cancer fighter, and midlife speaker/writer. Now a full-time RVer seeking the best BBQ in America!

[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.

🦋

[Crunchy Nanna @crunchynanna]

@ShawnChittle Thank you!

[Crunchy Nanna @crunchynanna]

@Hillsdale Thank you!

[Crunchy Nanna @crunchynanna]

@JohnPiper Time to present the whole counsel of God, @JohnPiper. I recommend you start with Nehemiah and learn how God rebuilds a culture of holy worshipers through the faithful leadership of a man with a backbone.

[Franklin Graham @Franklin_Graham]

“If we see the rising tide of evil in our land and decide to do nothing, we are ceding ground to the enemy and being unfaithful in our calling as ambassadors for Christ.” Read more from Pastor Gary Hamrick on influencing the world for Jesus Christ. https://t.co/vhWQ8NjJnw

[Crunchy Nanna @crunchynanna]

So true!

[Dr Manhattva @Manhattva]

For all the kids who see this.

This photo looks like the 80-90’s

This is what America felt like back then

Feels good.

Let’s keep it up.

[Crunchy Nanna @crunchynanna]

@AndrewZywiecMD Cowards! They shouldn’t be platformed. Maybe deposed, but not platformed.

[mike bski @BskiMike22802]

https://t.co/ST02I1fny5

[Crunchy Nanna @crunchynanna]

If we can’t see and recognize evil for what it is, we cannot resist it.

[Man in America @Maninamerica]

https://t.co/clq17ysP4B

[Crunchy Nanna @crunchynanna]

@KidRock @codyjohnson Loved it!

[Blue Lives Matter @bluelivesmtr]

Guys - this makes us FURIOUS. Police have arrested Randal Basilio Santillan, 27, who is an illegal alien. He's charged in the brutal kidnapping and execution of Yessenia Gabriella Norman, 18, of Arizona.

Police say he st-bbed her 27 TIMES.

Where's the mainstream media? Silent...because it doesn't fit their leftist agenda. REPOST and don't let this be silenced!

#thinblueline #lawenforcement

[Jennifer Sey @JenniferSey]

We are trending in Sports on Super Bowl Sunday.

Please share this ad . . . again!

Help @xx_xyathletics be the ad people talk about on Super Bowl Sunday. With no media dollars behind it.

(PS we're against men in women's sports.)

[Riley Gaines @Riley_Gaines_]

Remember a few weeks ago when the ACLU rolled out an ad with Megan Rapinoe defending men in women’s sports?

Here's our response:

[Allie Beth Stuckey @conservmillen]

The evangelicals who only pipe up about politics when Trump does something bad insist that it’s Trump voters who idolize him. In reality, it’s they who place him in this incredibly elevated position that demands their constant attention and outrage. To them, he is a litmus test. To them, support or criticism of him is *the* indicator of whether someone is sane and good.

To me—and I assume to most Trump voters— he is just a person. He represents a large % of our priorities, and he was far, far better than Dem alternatives since 2016. By now, we know what we’re getting. We’re gonna get some unforced errors and some amazing policies. We’re gonna get some things that make us cringe and others that make us cheer.

I will continue to be glad for the policies that help our nation and will call out what doesn’t - like the continued circulation of the abortion pill and the admin’s push for taxpayer funded IVF.

But… what else do yall want to happen? He’s not going to resign. He’s not going to be impeached. Do yall want us to say we wish Kamala had won? Well, I don’t. And I will never.

[Crunchy Nanna @crunchynanna]

“You aren’t being asked to understand someone else’s perspective, you’re being asked to adopt it fully, or risk being cast as deficient, cruel, or dangerous!”

As a midlife woman, I understand how this risk impacts my interactions with people. Honesty is scary and a commitment to objective truth can be lonely. Great article!

[stepfanie tyler @stepfanie]

https://t.co/yWTpBWmhZG

[Crunchy Nanna @crunchynanna]

@SenatorSlotkin You can repeat this line as often as you like. No one buys it. Your video was seditious.

[Crunchy Nanna @crunchynanna]

@Riley_Gaines_ Well, no surprise there.

[Crunchy Nanna @crunchynanna]

@RedLineReportt Who?

[Eric Metaxas @ericmetaxas]

Not to pile on, seriously, but to make a theological point I feel VERY important. When Philip Yancey writes: "My conduct defied everything that I believe about marriage..." I think it's important to say that in fact he did NOT believe what he claims about marriage. Isn't that the real point here? Evangelicals focus so much on "faith" and "belief" that they have forgotten that HOW WE LIVE shows what we REALLY believe. This is part of the subject of my book LETTER TO THE AMERICAN CHURCH. The idea that I can claim I believe all kinds of things while BEHAVING as though I don't shows I don't ACTUALLY believe those things. We can focus TOO MUCH on moral behavior, but we have for some time focused TOO LITTLE on moral behavior. We've become so obsessed with preaching about "grace" and "faith" and against "works righteousness" that we've forgotten that FAITH WITHOUT WORKS IS DEAD. American Christians need to understand that our behavior matters to GOD and that saying we believe something while acting as though we don't means we do NOT have the faith we claim. The American church NEEDS to address this issue.

[Catturd ™ @catturd2]

Venezuela is now more free than New York City.