Scott Gammon

I Love it when a Plan comes together. Like sci-fi (esp. Star Wars), Native of FL, Right of center, degrees in politics/policy

[Scott Gammon @CloneIntel]

"You only have to wear it when Aunt Clara visits..." :) @DamianMaffei @otisframpton @prauschkolb #Batman

[Scott Gammon @CloneIntel]

@emzanotti @ajzeigler

[Emily Zanotti 🦝 @emzanotti]

In fairness, he’s not the first Nazi to lose the Battle of the Bulge

[Scott Gammon @CloneIntel]

@txind1836 😂

[Emily Zanotti 🦝 @emzanotti]

They show this speech on a loop in the museum at Normandy. It’s that good.

[Movie Moments Analyst @Movies_analyst]

In Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023), Justice Smith admitted he would deliberately change his spellcasting hand gestures to trip up the VFX team. The filmmakers found it so funny that they included the visual effects supervisor’s exhausted reaction at the end.

[Scott Gammon @CloneIntel]

@repub9989 @HollywoodInToto I thought nothing could be worse than a “parody” made by Friedberg & Seltzer - guess I was mistaken.

[Fusilli Spock @awstar11]

@Michael40710737 But I am Rick Wilson. Therefore, you must not trust me.

However, if you do not trust me, then my statement "Trust me" is false.

Which means I have told the truth.

But I cannot tell the truth, because I am a liar.

Therefore, my statement must be false.

Error. Error. Error.

[Scott Gammon @CloneIntel]

Fetterman is the Senate’s version of Nick Fury. 🤘🤘

[Karli Bonne’ 🇺🇸 @KarluskaP]

Sen. John Fetterman when asked about Graham Platner, he said who P hustle? The reporter with a puzzled and perturbed look on her face replied: is that what you call him Fetterman replied: no that’s what he calls himself. 🤣

[Karli Bonne’ 🇺🇸 @KarluskaP]

Sen. John Fetterman when asked about Graham Platner, he said who P hustle? The reporter with a puzzled and perturbed look on her face replied: is that what you call him Fetterman replied: no that’s what he calls himself. 🤣

[Geeky REAL GINGER Sparkles @desert_starr_57]

But which one is the villain?

[Matt Whitlock @MattWhitlock]

“From the working class”:

-Attended Hotchkiss
-Parents bought his home
-Started fake oyster business that only serves his moms restaurant
- Fake harbor master

So they’re selling out any values for a fake working class hero - in order to defeat an effective moderate Senator.

[Scott Gammon @CloneIntel]

@4thOfJuly365 @iOrder66 George found him down at Tosche Station trying to pick up some Power Converters. ;)

[Scott Gammon @CloneIntel]

🙄🙄😂🤣

[Peter J. Hasson @peterjhasson]

Bespectacled liberal men talk about working class men like they’re uncontacted tribes in the Amazon

[Peter J. Hasson @peterjhasson]

Bespectacled liberal men talk about working class men like they’re uncontacted tribes in the Amazon

[Scott Gammon @CloneIntel]

THIS is how you do a Popcorn Bucket! (I’m looking at YOU, Supergirl).

[Growing Up Retro @GrowingUpRetro]

He-Man in theaters today!

Take my money!

[Scott Gammon @CloneIntel]

@hradzka 😎 https://t.co/i9nqnzu7sU

[Scott Gammon @CloneIntel]

@terryschappert This is funnier than Oswalt has ever been. ;)

[Scott Gammon @CloneIntel]

@AlbertTheGee @mkhammer 🤘🤘 https://t.co/djg9h17Qte

[Matt Whitlock @MattWhitlock]

Graham Platner having his best fundraising day after the NYT reported that he hates and abuses women and was lying about his Nazi tattoo tells you everything you need to know about the modern Democratic party.

[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.