Kristopher Barry

[Kristopher Barry @KSBatPS]

Remember? Feels like yesterday.

[GenTXer2 @GenTXer2]

Who remembers this?!
😂😂😂

Chicago Bears Shufflin’ Crew: “The Super Bowl Shuffle” (1985)

Reached #41, sold 500k copies & raised $300k for Chicago Community Trust.

Enjoy the Super Bowl today, everyone! 🏈

[Rand Paul @RandPaul]

Here is what we know: U.S. taxpayer money, funneled through USAID and NIH, funded gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. That research likely caused the COVID pandemic that killed millions and cost trillions.

Dr. Fauci personally signed off on these experiments, then lied to Congress about it. Biden tried to protect him with a last-minute pardon. That’s the very definition of a cover-up.

[Kristopher Barry @KSBatPS]

@RoKhanna @ZohranKMamdani Hey, when do you plan on responding to Grover Norquist’s letter?

[Kristopher Barry @KSBatPS]

@BennettKonkey @EDGYTIM @GenevaVikingsFB @AllenTrieu @BOOMfootball @BretBielema @coachjstepp @CoachEmbleton @BarryLunneyJr @Rivals @On3 @CoachChris_Roll Congrats Bennett!

[Satya Nadella @satyanadella]

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[Kristopher Barry @KSBatPS]

@MikeNellis @ThienemanSZN This thread makes me laugh

[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.

[Kristopher Barry @KSBatPS]

@DineshDSouza I can’t believe I wasted 2 minutes of my life watching this. This his has to be the dumbest take on a lost election I’ve likely ever seen.

[Kristopher Barry @KSBatPS]

@RepThomasMassie @marklevinshow Exactly

[Former Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 @FmrRepMTG]

Today the U.S. national debt surpassed $39 Trillion, inflation is rising, gas is over $4.50, and we are in another foreign war.

Nothing changed.

Literally nothing.

[Kristopher Barry @KSBatPS]

@SenAdamSchiff @SenAdamSchiff , you are just an awful human being.

[Thomas Massie for Congress @MassieforKY]

I lost the election but we started a revolution. Keep the flame of LIBERTY burning my friends! I will continue to put People and Principles before Party. America First! 🇺🇸

[Kristopher Barry @KSBatPS]

@realDonaldTrump WTF happened to you, what a disgrace

[Thomas Massie for Congress @MassieforKY]

@realDonaldTrump Is this the one?

[Thomas Massie for Congress @MassieforKY]

It’s sad that a week before this election people are making false and unsubstantiated allegations about me in an obvious attempt to influence the outcome of this election.

All of the claims of inappropriate conduct are false. I’ve never offered anyone money in exchange for their silence. I report all of my farm income, including cash, to the IRS.

There are no ethics claims filed against me, nor have there ever been any claims filed against me in my 14 years in office. I have consulted legal counsel and we are considering all options.

[Kristopher Barry @KSBatPS]

@Ben_Peterson_15 @EMUFB @Coach_Creighton @M__Piatkowski @CoachBHumbert @btroher14 @CoachOmli @ErikCampbell @EMUFBRecruiting @CoachHo @GenevaVikingsFB Congratulations Ben!

[Rand Paul @RandPaul]

The national debt just passed $39 trillion. My Six Penny Plan cuts six pennies out of every dollar Washington spends. Balanced budget in five years. If your family can live within its means, so can the federal government.

[Kristopher Barry @KSBatPS]

@LukeEpstein44 @NolanOwenLS @SCNFBOFFICIAL @robertpomazak @Rocco_DiMeco @Koach_BrownII @Delaware_FB Congrats Luke!

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

End all foreign aid

[Peter B @realpeteyb123]

I’m fucking tired.

I’m tired of this shit. I’m tired of giving my loyalty and getting lied to again. I swear on everything, this is the last time I give that kind of loyalty away.

I don’t even want to write this. I’d rather shut this account down, disappear into the Mediterranean, sit in my villa, drink local wine, watch my kids grow up, smoke a cigarette, and forget all of this.

But I can’t.

I’ve done well for myself. I don’t need this. I stay because I care, and I’ll stay a little longer for my kids. But I’m fucking tired.

I’m tired because my fellow Americans are struggling. They can’t buy homes. They can’t go out. They can’t live the life they were promised.

And we sit there and call them lazy.

That’s bullshit.

We send our money everywhere else. We fight wars for others. We fund everything except our own people.

We could have built something great here. For us. For our kids. For generations.

Instead, we’re squandering it.
Like we have for so many decades now.

Weak leadership. Corruption. People who are easily manipulated. And a population that keeps buying into it.

Enough.

Enough of this shit.

[InteractivePolls @IAPolls2022]

Do you support or oppose requiring every voter to have valid ID to vote?

🟢 Support: 81%
🟤 Oppose: 19%
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Dem: 70-30 (+40)
GOP: 92-8 (+84)
Indie: 81-19 (+62)

Harvard/Harris | 3/25-26 | 2,009 RV