J. S. Greene

COLOSSIANS 3:23, Pharmacist, Auburn Alum,

[dank @cptdankkk]

Bo Jackson says NIL is ruining college sports

“I think it's teaching young kids how to run away from their problems. Number two, it's ruining college sports”

“What they've done is, they've let the horses out the barn and forgot to close the gate. And they ain't getting them horses back in the barn”

“You giving these kids all this money. Nobody have no financial sense. And their agents aren't telling them. They going out spending money like it's growing on trees”

“They're driving cars and wearing jewelry that cost more than their parents' home. And it's just ridiculous”

“You get pissed off because I yell at you for doing the dumb things on the field, so you going to go enter the transfer portal and you can leave and take that money with you?”

“No, it shouldn't work like that because if you're going to sign a contract, come play with me, you got to adhere to the rules just like the professional players do. Bottom line”

[Homeland Security @DHSgov]

FACT CHECK: Nearly 70% of ICE arrests are criminal illegal aliens charged or convicted of a crime in the U.S. Many of the individuals the media counts as 'non-criminals' are actually terrorists, human rights abusers, and foreign fugitives who just don't have a rap sheet in the U.S.

We are going after the worst of the worst, including gang members, pedophiles, and rapists.

[Mann Made Cinema @Hotshot_Movie]

Raman gets last place on mail-in votes. Raman gets last place on in-person votes. Then suddenly surges ahead *only* with mail-in ballots submitted AFTER the election.

LMAO.

[MW4Liberty @MW4Liberty]

Today I learned $1 Trillion in wealth is excessive but $40 Trillion in debt is totally cool… 💁‍♂️

[Nick Freitas @NickJFreitas]

@GavinNewsom Yeah…the guy employing tens of thousands of people and providing goods and services for hundreds of millions of people is “rigging the system” but the guy who has blown billions on scam projects is our “defender” …ok Gav.

[Lydia Moynihan @LydiaMoynihan]

Voter rolls in LA country increased by 691,000 people since 2018 despite the county losing 366,600 residents…

I can understand why people have serious questions about ballot harvesting, voter registration, and election results in LA county.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Nothing else matters if civilization falls

[John Cleese @JohnCleese]

Perhaps it's just one of those everyday beheadings
that the Welsh Methodists are usually involved in

[Sophie Corcoran @sophielouisecc]

I see we have now reached the beheadings in the street phase of cultural enrichment

[Bonchie @bonchieredstate]

Imagine almost having your head sawed off by an Islamic migrant, and the press, so desperate not to offend Muslims, describes your attempted murder as just a "stabbing" and puts serious injuries in scare quotes.

[RT @RT_com]

Police: ‘DO NOT share footage' of Belfast beheading attempt on social media

‘We all remember, over the last two years, significant disorder that only led to damage in our local communities’

[Freddy🇩🇪 @FreddyLA7]

This is the craziest stadium I’ve ever been to, and I’ve been to a lot of ones.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

🤔

[End Wokeness @EndWokeness]

In-person votes, for comparison:
🔴 Pratt: 34.5%
🔵 Bass: 29.4%
🔵 Raman: 26%

[End Wokeness @EndWokeness]

Mail-ins arriving before Election Day:
🔵 Bass: 38.1%
🔴 Pratt: 27.9%
🔵 Raman: 20%

Mail-ins arriving after Election Day:
🔵 Raman: 37% (+17% surge)
🔵 Bass: 34.9% (-3% drop)
🔴 Pratt: 19% (-9% drop)

Who are we kidding here? This is fraud.

[Martin Sellner @MartinSellner_]

The utter hypocrisy of German media.

[End Wokeness @EndWokeness]

Election night batches in Los Angeles:
🔵 Karen Bass: 38%
🔴 Spencer Pratt: 28%
🔵 Nithya Raman: 20%

New batch (5 days after the election):
🔵 Nithya Raman: 40%
🔵 Karen Bass: 33%
🔴 Spencer Pratt: 18%

Keep in mind only the top 2 advance to the next round, which is why the third place candidate suddenly surged

Not even hiding it

[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.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Even 2010 tbh