Merri Ann

There is nothing empowering about demanding special treatment. I block stupid people … mostly liberals

[Merri Ann @MerriAnn5]

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[DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican]

America250 was originally going to be ran by NGOs with an explicit, left-leaning agenda to promote global, multilateral “democracy,” as demonstrated by @SKDoubleDub33 . Then Trump rooted out most of that nonsense. I suspect what we’re seeing is a revenge tour by the original NGOs who are painting the current celebration as “partisan.”

If they can’t be in control, they have to destroy it for everyone else.

[Merri Ann @MerriAnn5]

@ByronYork He thinks he can speak to his boss like that and NOT be fired … he just doesn’t live in the real world

[Nick Freitas @NickJFreitas]

@DefiantLs This is why it is nearly impossible to have a logical conversation with the left. They live in an alternate reality.

[Merri Ann @MerriAnn5]

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[Robert Sepehr @robertsepehr]

@Milajoy Obama did not have the IQ, virtue, integrity or ability to lead. An Afrocentric Marxist community organizer that only knew how to race hustle, commit fraud, and exploit victimhood mentality. End DEI.

[Robert Sepehr @robertsepehr]

@Milajoy Obama did not have the IQ, virtue, integrity or ability to lead. An Afrocentric Marxist community organizer that only knew how to race hustle, commit fraud, and exploit victimhood mentality. End DEI.

[G G @gwgerrond]

@TedRall You have Healthcare, Obamacare made everything perfect with Healthcare. If that isn't true, then Obamacare is a failure.

[Merri Ann @MerriAnn5]

@Ann0553 @atensnut @knassios @EricLDaugh Used to live there.Had an opportunity to have an overnight stay there a few years back.Tornado sirens started to go off (the weather had been weird all day). The amount of foreigners that remained outside baffled by the sirens was strange.The hotel staff had to force them inside

[factscomefirst @Ann0553]

@atensnut @knassios @EricLDaugh This started 20 years ago. I checked in to a hotel by the Galleria and I thought I was in India or Pakistan ….. I was stunned!

[We the people @fanusac]

@atensnut @EricLDaugh And it’s not that we hate peopke from India but we simply can’t handle that much immigration from any country. Indians aren’t terrorists, many assimilate well but the volume is just too much

[Merri Ann @MerriAnn5]

@atensnut @EricLDaugh I used to live in Frisco … was about 90% white at the time. Last time I visited … It looked to be now 90% Indian

[Merri Ann @MerriAnn5]

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[NotKennyRogers @NotKennyRogers]

Just a bunch of toxically masculine Christian Nationalists walking directly into Nazi machine gun fire to help save the world.

This is yet another reason why I will always be proud to be an American.

[NotKennyRogers @NotKennyRogers]

Just a bunch of toxically masculine Christian Nationalists walking directly into Nazi machine gun fire to help save the world.

This is yet another reason why I will always be proud to be an American.

[Andrew Kolvet @AndrewKolvet]

So let’s me get this straight…

California, the home of hospice fraud, SNAP fraud, immigration fraud, and homelessness NGO fraud…

Is also a state with ZERO voter fraud.

Everything is fine. Nothing to see here, folks.

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[C3 @C_3C_3]

Spencer Pratt got 0 out of 24,000 votes in a late night LA ballot drop.

0/24,000

A guy getting around 30% support got 0 out of 24,000.

Astronomically small probability of happening.

Impossible.

California no longer even hides it.

Doors need to be kicked in.

[Merri Ann @MerriAnn5]

@nodie1982 @Houseofyogi Your very first thing is that you didn’t read it … if you’re to make a completely moronic statement don’t start by telling everyone you didn’t read it … you are a moron 🙄

[Yogi @Houseofyogi]

@nodie1982 I didn't say that. But great work making it up in your head.

[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.

[Merri Ann @MerriAnn5]

@VioletandDandy @realBrandonGill Same … it’s baffling

[Brandon Gill @realBrandonGill]

Having realized that young white men in America are becoming more conservative than ever, the Democrat Party set out to find leftist white men who could run for office and try to relate to their concerns.

The result was James Talarico and Graham Platner.

[Merri Ann @MerriAnn5]

@LakeCinbbc @catturd2 Yes it will work… you’ll be taking all their financial resources … hit them where it hurts

[Catturd ™ @catturd2]

Democrats in California are gonna count until they get the results they want. Then they’ll stop counting.

They’ve been cheating like this for years.

Best thing for any honest person still in California to do - leave the state and take your money and businesses with you, and never look back.