Bryan Grap

UPS driver, Hockey fan, Goalie, Geek and Gamer

[King Trout @The_King_Trout]

Pit boss is eyeballing me like I’m counting the deck.
Homie, I’m over here trying to figure out what 7+8 is.

[Thrilla the Gorilla @ThrillaRilla369]

Happy pride month to Home Depot for not selling a single piece of straight wood.

[Larry Correia @monsterhunter45]

This stupid mother fucker wrote this is response to me saying "Crime is illegal when Republicans do it" and he's too up his own ass to realize he's proving my point.

Trump got convicted of a bunch of irrelevant nonsensical bullshit that hardly anyone can explain. (I was an accountant, and good luck!) And these dipshits are still going off about the "grab them by the pussy" line from all those years ago.

When democrats do vile shit they get active cover, media and legal. When a republican does anything, good, bad, or indifferent they get crucified like it is the worst hate crime/war crime, imaginable.

You can apply that to pretty much anything. Name a thing where democrats did something horrible, it's fine. Find a republican equivalent (real or alleged) and it's the end of the world, freak out, come apart, never fucking shut up about it.

Democrats loot, burn, and murder across the nation for a summer. No biggie. Republicans get uppity one time at the Capitol and it's an "insurrection", thousands of FBI agents investigate, a whole bunch of people go to jail for the next four years, we get Stalinist show trials, and democrats still clutch their pearls and swoon at the mention of it.

Elon waves in a spergy way. OMG nazi hatemonger. Better burn a bunch of Tesla dealerships. Platner has Heinrich Himmler's literal fucking hat decoration tattooed on his chest, it's fine. Who hasn't had the youthful mistake of getting SS ink on your chest in between sessions of sexting minors? Why do you hate veterans?

This applies to regular people too. We've all got examples from our own lives. Generally speaking the D chosen can do all sorts of crime and expect leniency from a squishy judge. When one of them does something so super obviously bad that there's no defending it, retarded dems will still throw a fit and riot on their behalf. (I write as all eyes are on Texas)

Rs do dumb shit and we're gonna get stomped, feds will shoot our dog and burn out house down, and even if we are innocent and get off after all that life destroying hassle, democrats will spend eternity acting like we were convicted anyway.

And everybody knows these unwritten rules. These vapid dishonest fucks just have to pretend otherwise and polite people play along.

So when someone says some bullshit excuse about how if democrats cheat, why don't republicans cheat too? It's because we all know we have a rigged two tier system and shit they do with impunity, we'd get the book thrown at us.

[Yogi @Houseofyogi]

Chicago lost the Bears this week. A team that's been in the city since 1921.

They didn't lose them to a bigger market or a better deal. The Bears decided they'd rather be a tenant in Indiana than deal with Illinois for one more year.

Think about how badly you have to run a place for that to be the smart move.

They lost them for two reasons.

The people running Illinois would rather villainize a builder than keep one. And they're bad at their jobs.

In 2021 the Bears spent $197M on the old Arlington Park racetrack.

Before they could break ground, Cook County valued the empty lot at $192M (Bears said $60M). They were salivating at the chance to extort a building that didn't even exist yet.

That fight dragged on for years.

The Bears were ready to put $2B into the stadium. All they wanted was a promise the county wouldn't reassess them into oblivion, plus $855M for infrastructure everyone uses. Roads, transit, utilities. A $3B project, two thirds of it private money pouring into Illinois.

Springfield had since 2021 to get this done. They dragged it to the final night of session, passed it through the Senate at 3:39AM, and the House went home without voting.

So now it's all gone.

The funniest part? This started because Cook County tried to grab the tax early. They knew a built stadium would pay $53M a year. Now they get under $4M on a vacant lot. No jobs, no buildout, no new anything.

Congrats on fighting for scraps and losing the whole prize.

Pritzker: they're "an $8.5B valued business" that doesn't need propping up.

But be smart for a second. Almost every NFL city throws in public money for a stadium. Not charity. The return is real. Tourism, hotels, restaurants, jobs, game days, property tax on a huge development. The math works.

Indiana did the math. While Illinois sat on it for years, Indiana passed a bill in months, put up $1B, and took the team.

And the Bears took a worse deal to get there. In Illinois they were going to own their stadium. In Indiana they rent it from the state. A team that wanted to build its own home gave up ownership just to escape Chicago.

Nobody won but Indiana. The Bears lost their stadium. Illinois lost the team, the $2B, and $53M a year in taxes.

Pritzker after they left: "I wasn't willing to give up billions of dollars of taxpayer money to give it to a billionaire-owned family or team."

There it is. "Billionaire-owned."

That's how Democrats talk about any business right before they run it out of town. Call them a billionaire, act like you're saving working families, take a victory lap while the tax base drives across the state line.

Meanwhile they're running the whole state into the ground. And you already know how this ends. You're living in it.

Pensions are $143B in the hole, worst in the country and not close. You pay $6,285 a year in property taxes, double the $2,969 national average, for a city that's $1.15B in the red. The mayor called its finances "the point of no return."

When you run things this badly, you sell what's left.

They leased the parking meters for 75 years to Morgan Stanley and a sovereign wealth fund in Abu Dhabi. Took $1.15B and burned through it in two years. The investors already made it all back, with 58 years left to collect.

Sold the Skyway. Sold the downtown garages. Every asset that made money, gone for one check.

But a fixed property tax rate for a team that's been here 106 years? That's "propping up billionaires."

Companies are leaving. Boeing for Virginia. Caterpillar for Texas. Citadel for Miami. In 2023 alone Illinois lost 56,000 people and $6B in income to other states. The ones who left earned a third more than the ones who moved in.

Indiana didn't outbid anyone. AAA credit, 16 years straight. A $676M surplus. Fourth-lowest debt per person in the country. They just weren't a disaster.

Illinois could have collected $53M a year. It chose zero. Ignore all the bad management but make sure to stick it to those evil, pesky billionaires.

[Pepperbox TV @pepperboxtv]

I can’t believe this happened at our Cinco de Mayo party…

🎥 A @ViolentIntern production

[Steve 🇺🇸 @SteveLovesAmmo]

Good morning ☀️😃

[Josh Brooks @F530Josh]

SF Bro who bet on himself with his own cash right before fast roping onto a foreign president’s roof and stealing him like a snickers bar from a gas station is going to do more time than all of the Somali fraudsters who stole $18bn from Minnesota combined.

Bookmark this.

[₩₳Ɽ ₱₳₮Ⱨ @WarPath2pt0]

Weekend's here folks--let's gas it up

[Bryan Grap @BGrap35]

@UnsubscribeCast @monsterhunter45 Larry's Monster Hunter International series is an amazing read/listen. jacked werewolves and gay vampires for @The_King_Trout

[Bryan Grap @BGrap35]

@monsterhunter45 @HLC_actual Monster Hunter International is my favorite series on Audible. I would love to hear a podcast with you both

[MERICA MEMED @Mericamemed]

Best I can do is a case of beer (which I’ll be drinking with him)

[TONY™ @TONYxTWO]

Clarence Thomas every time he hears Ketanji Brown Jackson speak 😭

[DRUSKI @druski]

How Conservative Women in America act 😂🇺🇸

[Roman Helmet Guy @romanhelmetguy]

Islamic terrorist attacks are just blowback from America’s GWOT, which was just blowback from 9/11, which was just blowback from America supporting Israel, which was just blowback from the Ottomans fighting against America and Britain in WW1, which was just blowback from Britain seizing Egypt and supporting Greek freedom from the Ottomans, which was just blowback from the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople and hundreds of years of oppression, which was just blowback from the Crusades, which were just blowback from the Seljuk conquest of Anatolia, which was just blowback from the Byzantine Empire’s expansion into Syria under the Macedonian dynasty, which was just blowback from the Arab conquest of Byzantine Syria and Egypt and North Africa and repeated siege attempts against Constantinople, which was just blowback from the Byzantines no longer paying Arab tribes to defend the frontier against Persia, which was just blowback from an extended Persian invasion of the Byzantine Empire, which was just blowback from 700 years of warfare between Rome and Persia, which was just blowback from Alexander the Great’s conquest of Persia, which was just blowback from Darius and Xerxes’ invasions of Greece, which was just blowback from Athens supporting the Ionian revolts against the Persian Empire, which was just blowback from Cyrus the Great conquering the Ionian Greeks of Anatolia, but before that everybody in history probably got along.

[Team USA @TeamUSA]

Appointment television. 🍿

#WinterParalympics

[The Fat Electrician @Fat_Electrician]

We should come together as a society and fund a building in every town for kids to go and learn important stuff like this………..

[Bet105 @bet_105]

Connor Hellebuyck has been Secretary of Defense for less than a week, and he's already bombed Iran

[Lauren🏒 @Ms_NYRangers]

Well, well, well. Look who came crawling back

[Riley @Ri_S_OB]

LeBron never did that