Kelsey Nelson 🦬

lutheran, british comedy aficionado, language nerd

[Cranky Federalist @CrankyFed]

Your pub's flag isn't on the moon

[Soup @Sniping_Soup]

Bad day to be a hotdog

[T_Rizzle @T_Rizzle77]

@mattvanswol The biggest takeaway from this world cup is how much our politicians have pitted us against each other through propaganda. It’s a much different thing when you meet face to face.

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

🚨#BREAKING: A German soccer fan who flew to the USA but was fearful about coming because of news about criminals and people being mean...

...breaks down into TEARS, live on air saying he has FALLEN IN LOVE with America after a random man named "Bob" in Boston gave him a ride home after he was stuck at a game with no way back to his hotel

The German soccer fan's name is Sebastian, he said after meeting Bob, he extended his entire trip.

He said leaving America will hurt worse than watching Germany get knocked out of the World Cup.

"I fall in love with America. I'm sorry, it's just so emotional. Americans are not rude... if we are together, we can achieve great things."

THIS IS THE AMERICA I KNOW!!!!!! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[Being Libertarian @beinlibertarian]

🇺🇸 Awe yeah 🇺🇸

[Trad West @trad_west_]

Happy 4th of July Americans 🇺🇲🦅🇺🇲🦅🇺🇲🦅

[vids that go hard @vidsthatgohard]

It’s officially “put it in reverse terry” season 😂😂

[B e a r m a x x e r @centristpeater]

This should be the bare minimum

[meme bastard 🍕 @mask_bastard]

fun fact: there are two American flags in this photo

[The Vigilant Fox 🦊 @VigilantFox]

Charlie Kirk never got to see America’s 250th birthday.

So, in his honor, watch him shut down the typical liberal “stolen land” argument.

A college student confronts Kirk and says Americans are living on “stolen land” taken from the Mexicans.

Kirk asks who the Mexicans stole it from, then expertly turns his own words against him.

By the end, everyone is cheering for America. Watch how this one plays out.

STUDENT: “I want to acknowledge the fact that we are right now on stolen land and that we are on indigenous land and that we are on original Mexican land right now.”

KIRK: “I love this stolen land argument.”

STUDENT: “…I really make it a point to notice that I’m on stolen land at all times, especially when we think about things like Manifest Destiny.”

KIRK: “Who did the Mexicans steal the land from?”

STUDENT: “Actually, the Mexicans were there originally in Texas…”

KIRK: “Wrong. They stole it from lots of Indian tribes… Texas was not indigenously Mexican… there was the Cherokee. There were many different Native American tribes there. So Mexico was participating in Manifest Destiny at the behest of the Spanish crown.”

[Student acknowledges Kirk is right]

KIRK: “At some point, you have to believe in self-determination. If you can win the land, it’s yours. That is what built the West.”

STUDENT: “I can agree with that.”

KIRK: “So instead of a land acknowledgement… you should have a gratitude acknowledgement. ‘Praise God, I live in America! I’m glad!’ A gratitude acknowledgement would be nice.”

[Crowd erupts]

Charlie would have loved to experience America’s 250th birthday more than anyone.

He defended America on campuses exactly like this one until the day he died. The least we can do is carry his message forward.

Rest in Peace, Legend.

[old toons @oldtoons_]

Another gritty, desaturated remake that treats vibrant color as a flaw to be "corrected" and subdued in the name of "realism." How groundbreaking.

[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

BACK TO THE FUTURE was released 41 years ago today.

Five weeks into filming, Eric Stoltz was fired and replaced by Michael J. Fox. Nearly every scene had to be reshot, making it one of the most expensive casting changes in Hollywood history.

[Sunny @sunnyright]

I mean I’d have to take out a massive loan but it might be worth it

[5 Solas @5Solas]

lol

[GodLogic_GL @GodLogic_GL]

Behold, I am sending you out as sheep in the midst of wolves, so be wise as serpents and innocent as doves. (Matthew 10:16)

[Appalachian Mama @EastTNMama]

It can happen. I detest people acting like they’re too good for this to happen to them. Not everyone has a routine. Some people have other kids with special needs who take twenty mins when you expect them to take three. Some people don’t have help. Some people are absent minded bc they have real problems and distractions in the form of three kids under three. It can happen and the cars get hot fast. I’d rather drive with one shoe off than pretend like it couldn’t happen to me.

[Visa is doing marketing consults (see pinned!) @visakanv]

me telling my extremely pregnant wife about my back being a little stiff and tight today

[Kelsey Nelson 🦬 @someobscurename]

@jimboling ever read this one?

[Annie Crawford @annielcrawford]

It's a worthy exercise to read Out of the Silent Planet next to HG Well's First Men on the Moon so you can delight in CS Lewis's medieval willingness to shamelessly take a story and retell it.

And like all retellings, the changes are potently revealing. The structure, the beats, the tropes, the themes are all nearly identical.

But while Wells tells a good tale, the atmosphere of holiness, the flavor of transcendence, and the spiritual depth of character of Lewis's interplanetary travel story shine bright when set next to Wells' interesting but flat modernism.

[Nugs @Nugjokes]

Every time