Denise H Gibson

Mother of 3 - Mizzou Tiger for Life - Republican Fan in Public - Cardinals Fan in Private

[Mila Joy @Milajoy]

Spencer Pratt (@spencerpratt) needs to tell his voters to check their ballot status and file a complaint if it hasn't been received yet.

MANY people who voted for Spencer are finding out their ballots haven't been received.

You can check ballot status here: https://t.co/h6ftjTv9Ry

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

The level of fraud here is mind-blowing

[Denise H Gibson @ChicagoMamaG]

@bradpomerance You’re funny. Naive too. But funny.

[Denise H Gibson @ChicagoMamaG]

@ProfMJCleveland Yellowstone!!

[Denise H Gibson @ChicagoMamaG]

This. 👇

[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.

[Denise H Gibson @ChicagoMamaG]

@davidaxelrod @Elex_Michaelson @CNN That was funny!! 😂😂😂😂

[Denise H Gibson @ChicagoMamaG]

@FloraLuzz_ The USA is not an airport. You don’t have to announce your departures.

[Denise H Gibson @ChicagoMamaG]

@EricLDaugh Boom. 🔥

[Denise H Gibson @ChicagoMamaG]

Yes. Classified as a Boomer - born in 1960. Fully embracing Gen Jones. I finally feel seen.

[Supersonic Redhead🛫 @Supersonic_Red]

A quick note on Generation Jones because I keep seeing the same two comments.

First, I did not invent Generation Jones.
I know I’ve covered this many times, but I’m saying it once more… with feeling!

The term was coined by social commentator Jonathan Pontell decades ago. It describes those of us born in the latter part of the Baby Boom, generally from the mid 1950s through the mid 1960s. The idea wasn’t that we were better or worse than anyone else. The idea was that our experiences were different.

And that’s where some people get upset.

“Why are you dividing people even more?”

I’m not. I’m trying to understand people. It is my nature to seek to understand.

Human beings naturally recognize patterns. In fact, pattern recognition is one of the hallmarks of intelligence. We categorize things constantly. We categorize music, literature, politics, sports, professions, regions, cultures, and historical eras. Not because we hate each other, but because understanding differences helps us understand ourselves.

The Baby Boomers were originally lumped into a single generation spanning roughly 20 years. That’s a huge group of people.

Someone born in 1946 had a very different experience from someone born in 1964.

The older Boomers remember Eisenhower, the early years of the Cold War, and, as young adults, the height of the counterculture movement.

I was born in late 1962. JFK was buried on my first birthday. I wasn’t a hippie. I wasn’t at Woodstock. By the time I was entering adulthood, America was dealing with stagflation, gas lines, sky high mortgage rates, and a very different economy.

Those experiences shape people.

That’s why the Generation Jones conversations have been so much fun.

For the first time, thousands of people are saying, “Wait a minute. That’s exactly how I remember it.”

We’re remembering rotary phones, typewriters, station wagons, lawn darts, latchkey afternoons, riding our bikes until dark, and growing up in the strange space between the analog and digital worlds.

Nobody is required to identify with Generation Jones.

Nobody is being excluded.

But the response has been remarkable because so many people finally feel seen.

And honestly, that’s what I’ve enjoyed most.

Not the labels.

The stories.

The memories.

The realization that millions of us had similar experiences and somehow found each other on the internet fifty years later.

It’s been one of the most unexpectedly joyful things I’ve ever posted about, and I don’t plan to stop anytime soon.

[Denise H Gibson @ChicagoMamaG]

@maddenifico Well, the $15M has to come from somewhere. Might as well start with one of players who contributed to them getting sued in the 1st place.

[Denise H Gibson @ChicagoMamaG]

@RepTedLieu Project much?!? 😂😂😂#MAGA

[Denise H Gibson @ChicagoMamaG]

@harryjsisson 😂😂😂

[Denise H Gibson @ChicagoMamaG]

@guypbenson And this is exactly why our 1st ammendment is so vital to the USA.

[Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson]

This powerful 60-second video captures the true meaning of Memorial Day

CHILLS 🇺🇸

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 JUST NOW: SecWar Pete Hegseth is infuriating leftists by dropping this TRUTH BOMB at West Point

"You can't throw your pronouns at the enemy." 🔥

"Social engineering and woke ideology are fine for Harvard. Silly — but fine."

"On the battlefield, there is NO PLACE for them." 🇺🇸

[Denise H Gibson @ChicagoMamaG]

@NancySinatra Feel free to move there if you think it’s so great. I’m staying put in the USA.

[Denise H Gibson @ChicagoMamaG]

@SenAdamSchiff Hello pot? This is kettle.

[Denise H Gibson @ChicagoMamaG]

@Supersonic_Red I finally felt “seen” for the 1st time. Generation Jones. I like it!

[Denise H Gibson @ChicagoMamaG]

@JonathanTurley Nope. I support banning foreign born legislators. Just like for POTUS.

[Denise H Gibson @ChicagoMamaG]

@BraddrofliT Join the club of every POTUS that follows one from another party.