John Hamann

Husband, Father, Catholic, Conservative Business Owner residing in Communist-controlled Illinois.

[John Hamann @JRH_Q]

Bring it!

[John Hamann @JRH_Q]

@99tf @bennyjohnson @JBPritzker Hey moron, it is a different state so all this concession, hotel, dining, and bar tax income will be leaving Illinois so JB and his politburo will have to add more taxes elsewhere to pay for their proletariat class.

[John Hamann @JRH_Q]

Bingo!

[John Hamann @JRH_Q]

@illinoispolicy Well, not much to celebrate. With the sky high price of everything in Illinois, it takes more welfare to keep low and previously middle income voters from kicking the bums out.

[Kyle L @kylas610]

OK, that had to fucking hurt bro watch where you put your nuts next time 🤣🤣😳😹

[John Hamann @JRH_Q]

@SholdonDaniels Keep the Bear but rename it the Hammond Freedom just to rub it in their face.

[John Hamann @JRH_Q]

@xx48232660 @RapidResponse47 I’m old enough to remember the Clinton Foundation’s theft of Haiti relief money and Biden’s Ukraine profiteering.

[John Hamann @JRH_Q]

@RapidResponse47 Why go into the snake pit whey you know you’re going to get bit repeatedly with their lies and misrepresentations?

[John Hamann @JRH_Q]

@GovPritzker Let’s look at State of Illinois contracts. I know businesses are being shut out all over the state in favor of your “authorized vendors.”

[Kevin Sorbo @ksorbs]

Property tax is theft too.

[John Hamann @JRH_Q]

@CoachSatunas I’m not celebrating alleged savings, I’m laughing at this marxist regime’s self-inflicted damage.

[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.

[John Hamann @JRH_Q]

@WallStreetApes Was with you until “these people.” While some poor countries’ citizens may have grown dependent on fraud for basic needs, stereotyping in this case isn’t helpful. I do believe that all foreign owned businesses should have a high degree of verification but not just one demographic

[John Hamann @JRH_Q]

@MZanona Yep, he should continue with the lawsuit. When he wins he'll have 8.224 Billion more dollars to fund a non-profit to defend people against government weaponization and there won't be a damn thing they can do about it.

[Shahriq Khan @RealShahriqKhan]

When I was Muslim, I used to ask Christians:

“If Jesus was really God, why did He eat, sleep, and bleed like us?”

And honestly, I used to ask it with pride like it was some unbeatable argument.

But later I realized something:

That question was not exposing Christianity.

It was exposing my misunderstanding of what kind of God Jesus claimed to be.

Because the real question is not:

“Why would God become weak?”

The real question is:

“What kind of God would willingly step into human suffering at all?”

Islam taught me about a God who was distant and untouchable.

But Christianity introduced me to a God who stepped into hunger, exhaustion, grief, pain, betrayal, blood, and suffering with us.

And suddenly His humanity stopped feeling like weakness to me.

It became proof of love.

If Jesus ate, it means He came close enough to experience hunger beside us.

If He slept, it means He embraced the exhaustion we carry.

If He bled, it means He did not stand above suffering watching us from a distance.

He entered it Himself.

Philippians 2 says Christ emptied Himself and took on flesh.

Not because He stopped being God, but because He wanted humanity to finally see what God is actually like.

And it turns out God is willing to suffer for the people He loves.

That changed everything for me.

Because every other religion demanded sacrifice from humanity.

Jesus became the sacrifice Himself.

And no prophet in history ever claimed that.

[Art @ZarkFiles]

The E. Jean Carroll case against President Trump is one of the strangest civil cases in American history. The foundational problem is this: Carroll could not identify when the alleged incident occurred — not even the year with any precision.
That should have killed the case as dead as a skunk on the road right there.
Without a temporal anchor, no defendant — regardless of guilt or innocence — can mount an alibi defense. Trump, who has maintained detailed calendars and staff records for decades, was denied the most basic tool of self-defense: the ability to establish where he was. That is not a technicality. It is a due process violation at the constitutional level.
Then Carroll produced the one piece of physical evidence she claimed corroborated her account — the dress she wore during the alleged incident. It was subsequently established that the dress was designed after the incident could have occurred. The sole corroborating evidence falsified her timeline.
The case proceeded anyway.
The resulting verdict was then weaponized in a defamation suit — where Trump was held liable for denying the allegation, while being procedurally barred from defending against it, because it was already "proven" in another court, regardless how flawed the procedure was. He was punished, in effect, for asserting his own innocence.
Compounding everything: coordinated professional and physical threats so thoroughly intimidated the legal community that attorneys refused these cases regardless of available fees. When you systematically destroy a defendant's ability to retain counsel of choice, you forfeit the right to a legitimate verdict.
An allegation is not evidence. Process without substance is not law. And a verdict produced under these conditions carries no legitimate authority — whatever its formal status.

Not only is it the right move to investigate Carroll, but every other person involved as well. Trump is owed serious damages here, and there may be a few people who belong in prison for their roles in the case.

[John Hamann @JRH_Q]

@DataRepublican @btysonmd @LeaderJohnThune @SenateGOP Sent them home might I add without even going into recess…yet another obstruction.

[John Hamann @JRH_Q]

@Badhombre What is that saying…correlation does not imply causation.

[John Hamann @JRH_Q]

@nasescobar316 @ABCWorldNews @dntBaHeathen @AaronKatersky You can’t judge what happened by the cut up media footage. The employee who we see touch her was trying to get between her and the other employee. Was prior contact made? We don’t know.

[Brian Costin @BrianCostin]

The Illinois legislature passed a "Junk Fee" transparency bill today.

Shockingly, they specifically exempted government taxes and fees from the bill. They don't want you to know how much tax you are paying to the government.

Here's what your gasoline receipt would look like in Chicago if we had tax transparency.