Steve Hermeyer

Independent critical thinker, observer, and MAGA supporter. 🇺🇸 USAF Vietnam-era Vet. No XRP. I hate autocorrect.

[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.

[Mary Margaret Olohan @MaryMargOlohan]

NEW: Five FBI employees were fired today over the infamous Richmond Catholic memo on “radical traditionalist Catholics,” FBI source confirms to @realDailyWire.

[Steve Hermeyer @BlueStateBkues]

@MsAvaArmstrong @SenSusanCollins She didn’t.

[David Marshall 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @Sausageandeggx]

They broke his bones, gouged his eyes out, cut out his tongue and castrated him. He died of a heart attack after being set on fire and dragged himself 50 meters across the floor.

[Gunther Eagleman™ @GuntherEagleman]

JB Pritker ran off one of the most iconic sports franchises in history... The Bears are leaving Chicago.

He really is that bad.

[Steve Hermeyer @BlueStateBkues]

@bennyjohnson Morton Salt just left Chicago. The exodus will parallel Portland, Seattle, and LA.

[AvaArmstrong,🇺🇸 Author @MsAvaArmstrong]

it's time to put JD Vance in ----

[Steve Hermeyer @BlueStateBkues]

@MsAvaArmstrong It’s past time. Taking charge of the Senate must be a very serious priority. Thune and the dementia ridden vegetable McConnell must not be allowed to be in control.

@realDonaldTrump
@JDVance
@StephenM
@mrddmia
@SebGorka

[Derrick Evans @DerrickEvans4WV]

Come on South Carolina, vote Lindsey Graham out of office.

Mark Lynch is a PATRIOT. Vote for Mark Lynch.

[Catturd ™ @catturd2]

I have no problem with that.

[LibertyPDX @LibertyPDX1]

If you live in Portland as I do, and consider yourself a pretty normal person....

...... You've never seen humanity so upside down as you have here in Portland. Facts

[American AF 🇺🇸 @iAnonPatriot]

GIVE THIS THUG THE DEATH PENALTY!

[Tironianae 🍊🍊 Z. - Ultra Verbum Vincet @Tironianae]

🚨 JUSTICE SERVED! James O’Keefe’s hidden camera investigation just delivered another massive W.

Skid Row election fraudster Brenda Brown, caught red handed on undercover video paying homeless people to register to vote in Los Angeles, has PLEADED GUILTY to federal election fraud charges.

She now faces:

• 5 years in federal prison
• 3 years supervised release
• $10,000 fine

O’Keefe Media Group + Trump DOJ = real accountability.

No more getting away with stealing elections.

[Attorney Sholdon Daniels @SholdonDaniels]

Mitch McConnell is fully senile and has no idea what is going on.

Frederica is the same.

Congress is a nursing home right now.

[Buzz Patterson @BuzzPatterson]

Finally. Some real action in California.

A top federal prosecutor just confirmed: multiple active election fraud investigations with the FBI, plus a major voter rolls audit with @AAGDhillon heading to the Ninth Circuit.

Universal mail-in ballots and no voter ID isn’t “convenience,”it’s a structural invitation to fraud that cancels out legal votes.

No more looking the other way. Every illegal ballot undermines our Republic.

Thank you, @USAttyEssayli. Clean elections or bust.

[Brian Cates - Political Columnist & Pundit @drawandstrike]

Pretty sure he’s gonna have standing to sue, with the full weight of the DOJ backing him up.

[Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson]

Damning New Testimony in the Karmelo Anthony Murder Trial Could Seal His Fate...

A teammate who was sitting right next to the two teens and witnessed the stabbing testified that:

-Students repeatedly asked Anthony to leave their tent
-Anthony refused, told Austin Metcalf, "Touch me and find out"
-The physical contact was "minor pushing at most"
-Anthony sat with his hand inside his backpack the whole time

When the prosecutor asked who was provoking the confrontation, the witness answered plainly: "Karmelo Anthony."

He testified he did not believe it was self-defense.

This is sworn testimony, from one of Anthony's own peers who was right there.

Let the facts speak.

We need justice for Austin Metcalf.

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 NOW: Scott Presler is pushing to team up with ELON MUSK to DEFEAT Alaska's Ranked Choice Voting scam and to oust Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R), who opposed the SAVE America Act

YES! THIS WOULD BE GREAT!

PRESLER: "Elon, In order to defeat Senator Lisa Murkowski in 2028, we first have to DEFEAT Ranked Choice Voting."

"There is an initiative on the ballot this year in Alaska to defeat RCV: Alaska Ballot Measure 2. A YES vote would eliminate RCV."

@ElonMusk is on Team America, he sees the betrayal! 🇺🇸

[Vince Langman @LangmanVince]

🚨 After 105 years the Chicago Bears are moving to Republican run Indiana because of the incompetent, DEI, Democrat mayor of Chicago and clueless, Democrat Governor of Illinois, JB Pritzker!

Elections have consequences Illinois!

[John McAfee 🇺🇸 News @mcafeenew]

🚨MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE JUST GOT BUSTED — ACTING AG TODD BLANCHE DROPS BOMBSHELL: THE “MAGA” TRAITOR TOOK $20 MILLION IN BRIBES TO BETRAY TRUMP AND SELL OUT HER OWN PARTY!

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This backstabbing, money-grubbing cunt is finished.

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche just went nuclear: there’s credible evidence that Marjorie Taylor Greene pocketed massive bribes to stab President Trump and the entire MAGA movement in the back.

$20 MILLION in unexplained net worth since her first election. She tried to lie and say it was “stock trades” — but there’s ZERO paper trail. Blanche laid it out cold: if she was paid for political favors, she’s smashed at least FOUR federal statutes.

“I hope for her sake that she still has a good lawyer,” he said… because she’s gonna need one when the cuffs come out.

This is the same loudmouth who pretended to be America First while allegedly cashing in like every other Deep State whore in Washington.

Greene sold her soul for dirty money and thought nobody would notice.WRONG.The mask is off. The grift is exposed. And MAGA doesn’t forgive traitors.

Share this everywhere — let every single patriot see exactly who this greedy bitch really is!

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