Tommy Bacala

I lied at my very first confession .

[Tommy Bacala @Tdoherty20]

@SenRickScott No American flag ?

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@darrenrovell @JohnSanginito Darren this tweet was terrible and you’re getting cooked. You trying to defend it is making you look even worse you actually are the biggest dork on this app and that’s a feat in itself.

[Tommy Bacala @Tdoherty20]

@RedbirdRiot Now that he has all but officially won, when do you plan on deleting ? Or let me guess you’re not a man of your word and will find some BS reason or try and create some loophole and not follow through.

[Tommy Bacala @Tdoherty20]

@bigcontentguy @LA_DraftDodgers He’s 100% right tho 🤷🏼‍♂️

[Tommy Bacala @Tdoherty20]

@JairComics @jkroberts2476 @Randomvideos107 @CommunityNotes This AI slop account is just trying to get a rise out of people don’t acknowledge it and report it for spam.

[Tommy Bacala @Tdoherty20]

@NYM3stooges @StevenACohen2 @Mets @NjTank99 Revisiting this because you called it. After nearly 6 years of ownership I think it’s safe to say cohen did none of the things you expected and wanted. Well one NLCS appearance and a wild card. For the highest pay roll in baseball not a good look.

[Frank Fleming @NjTank99]

The Baez for PCA deal will go down as one of the worst ever as the Mets fade quickly and PCA becomes a 19 time All star and bats .431

[BODEGA PEPTIDES @bigsnugga]

what was that quote about how nobody knew the roman empire collapsed they just noticed roads and bridges stopped being fixed

[Tommy Bacala @Tdoherty20]

@CryptoN0nc3 @ClayGoyim @HugoHotspur @PamphletsY Just saying they aren’t a traditional communist/socialist country. How come nobody ever uses Cuba as an example ? They have been left alone for the most part. They are doing great.

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@CryptoN0nc3 @ClayGoyim @HugoHotspur @PamphletsY the Chinese government officially defines its system as a "socialist market economy" or "socialism with Chinese characteristics," which heavily incorporates private enterprise, market competition, and profit-driven industries alongside state control

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@rirokpik @MikemanCommeth Oh come on you’re just making it easy now 😂😂

[DoBBy @LargestAdultSon]

there’s like one clip a year that makes me laugh every time i see 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.

[Tommy Bacala @Tdoherty20]

That is Mike Francesca @FrancesaPodcast

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Rosie O'Donnell reveals secret facelift she once called a 'betrayal of feminism' — says she feels 'shameful' about the procedure that cost more than any car she's ever owned. Her 13-year-old tried to stop her, saying, 'I wouldn't be able to respect you if you did it.' O'Donnell delayed months before going through with it in January.

[KORBI 🐦‍⬛ @NoiBoobSweat]

The one kid who had the newports is a lion amongst sheep

[Tommy Bacala @Tdoherty20]

@ChicagosMayor You’re a literal clown.

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@mabukittens This is beer hops

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@allinkid Hurts was carried by the team he was surrounded by let’s just be real about this

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@VinnysCorner1 Desean Jackson

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@OleBeeM @DickInhand6 @AmiriKing No doubt!