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#TeamJesus ☝️✝️🙏 Success is not what you do compared to other people. Success is what you do compared to what you were created to do - Lecrae + Ephesians 2:10

[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]

Well said

[Liam Out Loud @liam_out_loud]

Western civilization rests on three pillars:

1. Greek reason
2. Roman law
3. Christian moral order

All three are being demolished at the same time, and the chaos you feel is the predictable downstream effect of pulling out the load-bearing structures of your own house.

[JS✝️🅰️🔋 @Saved102718]

@rightfielder19 @danielsgoldman For example: https://t.co/dDyfi8LUcG

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@TheJoeySwoll @WatchMarquee @CircaLasVegas Go Cubs!

[JS✝️🅰️🔋 @Saved102718]

@AnthonyGalli @mattvanswol @annie_j04 Actually you need about 67% on the USMLEs to pass:

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@MasterMaliq Jesus was a savior.

Muhammad was an oppressor.

That's the difference.

[JS✝️🅰️🔋 @Saved102718]

@Dosway04 I am pretty sure this is illegal and Anna is getting screwed over.

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@johnmilbank3 I was going to quote Matthew 7:15, but this seems more appropriate. 🤡

[JS✝️🅰️🔋 @Saved102718]

@OnlyBangersEth

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@ocampo_IPS @ShabbosK Really? If there are so many, provide links. You won’t because you can’t.

[JS✝️🅰️🔋 @Saved102718]

@Cahleom @AwakenChirp Yes, it’s funny how critics of Christianity attack religion instead and then proceed to attribute the faults of other world views or poor Christian examples. When someone plays Beethoven poorly, blame the musician, not the composer.

[JohnnyFSE @JohnnyFSE]

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@MapEffects @michaeljknowles The actual word or the concept/description? The description appears several places.

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@HormuzLedger @annmarie Or maybe Iran IRGC = Somali pirates???

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[Josh Barzon @JoshuaBarzon]

The timeline of biblical events that occurred on Good Friday when Jesus was crucified.

[JS✝️🅰️🔋 @Saved102718]

@0hour1 If you can read this, God has a plan for you that will bring your life meaning and fulfillment. You have gone through the hard part. Don’t check out before the big reveal. The world is better with you in it.

[Samantha Smith @SamanthaTaghoy]

ISIS has just issued a statement to Islamists in the West, telling them to set fire to churches around the world.

Where are the press conferences?
Where are the political leaders?
Where is the UN?

This is attempted genocide.

“All Lives Matter!”
Except Christians, apparently…