Wil Jessee

Lifelong Bear fan retired in the North Woods of MN.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

here's Barack Obama's entire speech commemorating the Obama Presidential Center. He reflected on his administration's successes and failures, critiqued the moral rot of contemporary America, and outlined a positive vision of the future -- all without ever mentioning Trump

[Wil Jessee @WilJessee]

100% 🎯

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

I used to wonder how it was possible that Trump could have won in 2016, and then again in 2024, given how emotionally toxic and depraved he is.
I don’t wonder anymore. I think he won for that exact reason. Because he carried at least one broken shard to reflect the broken shards in millions of others.
If you’re a racist, you found your guy. If you’re a misogynist, you found your guy. If money is your only religion, you found your guy. If your heart is armored shut, you found your guy. If you mock the disabled, you found your guy. If intelligence makes you insecure, you found your guy. If you’re a sexual predator, you found your guy. If you trade in humiliation and conspiracy and filth, you found your guy.
If you’ve never done a single hour of emotional inventory, you found your guy. If you cheat, stiff contractors, bankrupt your obligations, and call it savvy, you found your guy. If you lie as easily as you breathe, you found your guy. If cruelty feels like strength, you found your guy. If white grievance is your comfort food, you found your guy. If your ego is a black hole no title can fill, you found your guy. If warmongering fuels your ego, you found your guy, If empathy feels like weakness and dominance feels like oxygen, you found your guy.
If he’d only carried one or two of these pathologies, he might have been dismissed as just another loud, damaged man. But he carried a buffet of them. That was the appeal. Millions could locate themselves somewhere in the wreckage. They didn’t have to agree with all of it. They just had to recognize a piece of themselves in it.
It was never really about him. It was about the validation. The absolution. The permission. He didn’t invent the resentment; he amplified it. He didn’t create the cruelty; he normalized it. He gave millions the intoxicating relief of hearing their ugliest impulses echoed back at rally volume.
Trump is a symptom. The deeper illness is collective. If there’s one sentence that defines his power, it’s this: “He says the things I’m thinking.”
And that’s the part that should chill us.
Because what does it say about us that so many were thinking those things? That tens of millions of Americans harbored resentments so deep, so seething, that they were simply waiting for a demagogue to baptize them as virtue? That after decades of supposed progress on race, gender, and equality, so many white men felt so threatened, so displaced, so furious, that cruelty became a political platform?
Maybe we were living in a fool’s paradise, mistaking silence for healing, politeness for progress.
Now the mask is off. Now we know.
And knowing is a far more dangerous place to stand.
– Michael Jochum, Not Just a Drummer: Reflections on Art, Politics, Dogs, and the Human Condition.

[Wil Jessee @WilJessee]

The Vikings cut him before signing with the Patriots. There are much better options available!

[Bearsszn @bearszn]

The Chicago Bears are trading for Patriots center Garrett Bradbury in exchange for a 2027 5th round pick, per @DMRussini

Well this is interesting. Thoughts on the trade Bears fans? 🤔

[justasistertryingtotweet @Igottafigh64510]

Oh no, we lost a family member, I’m so heartbroken💔

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[Best Of Minnesota @BestPixMN]

Minnesota is the best state in the country. No question about it.

[Chicago Bears @ChicagoBears]

298 passing yds
4 TDs
142.6 passer rating

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[Annie Agar @AnnieAgar]

no greater love than this. ♥️

[Proud Native Americans @proud_native_am]

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[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: Canadian Member of Parliament Charlie Angus nukes the "gangster" Donald Trump with a blistering takedown, reveals how he accidentally helped Canadian liberals, and warns against traveling to America.

Not only that, but Angus revealed that an endorsement from Trump leads to "political death" in Canada.

This is a rhetorical bloodbath...

"Over the last three months our nation has faced an unprecedented threat from our nearest neighbor, a threat to our borders, a threat to our sovereignty, a threat to our very right to exist as an independent democratic nation," said Angus.

"Donald Trump thought we were going to be an easy mark, that we'd be a pushover. Oh, how wrong he was," continued Angus. "And now Canada's standing up to him has made Canada the front line in the defense against the MAGA ideology."

"So no wonder Donald Trump and MAGA are feeling pretty angry at Canada. But what concerns me is the targeting of Canadian citizens who are crossing the border to work or to visit," said Angus. "We have seen too many stories of citizens being pulled out of airport lines and being fingerprinted and deported as though they were criminals..."

"...citizens being kidnapped, to illegal detention by ICE. And it's not just Canadians, we see the attack on backpackers, students, doctors, professors," he went on.

"I'm here today to say to Canadians to avoid travel to the United States if at all possible and to call our government to stand up for our Canadian citizens who are being denied their rights by arbitrary detention in the United States today, that Canada must stand up for our citizens and for the rule of law," said Angus.

"Because what we're seeing — for example with cops pulling over the folk duo Cassie and Maggie to harass them for being Canadian — is not the actions of a democratic nation," he continued. "People whose phones are being seized and searched for any kind of incriminating evidence that they're somehow progressive or woke, that's not the actions of a democratic nation."

"That is the creep of totalitarianism. That is the creep of fascism," Angus said bluntly. "And we need to call that out."

The MP also touted his pride in being Canadian despite the onslaught of abuse from MAGA world—

"And I am super proud to call myself Canadian at this time but it is vital that our leaders join this fight with us, that our leaders call out the arbitrary detentions and the denial of rights of citizens," he said.

"Not just Canadian citizens but all citizens," he continued. "Because we know if he can get away with this there's no reason that a Canadian or a German or someone from the UK isn't going to be picked up and deported to some El Salvadoran concentration camp because that is what is happening in the United States with the complete abdication of the rule of law."

"Canada is a country of the rule of law. Canada is a country of democracy," said Angus. "Canada must stand firm a this time. I urge people not to travel to the United States but to keep the boycott, to keep strong, because Canada will never kiss that gangster's ring."

"We are true. We are north. We are strong. We are free. We will not bend and we will not give an inch," he added.

Angus also touched on how Trump's total alienation of the Canadian people has caused backlash against Canada's own right-wing politicians.

"What do you think of Donald Trump's comments about Pierre Poilievre?" asked a reporter. "Poilievre certainly sees his comments as an endorsement."

The comments in question were made by Trump during an interview with Fox News' Laura Ingraham. He said: "I think it’s easier to deal actually with a Liberal, and maybe they’re going to win, but I don’t really care. It doesn’t matter to me at all."

MP Angus laughed in response to the reporter's question, and then dug in—

"Oh poor Pierre," he said. "Pierre Poilievre has been endorsed by every MAGA right-wing voice that supports Donald Trump. But what Donald Trump is realizing is that getting an endorsement from Donald Trump is political death in Canada."

"So now he's trying to say he doesn't support Pierre Poilievre. Nobody's buying that," said Angus. "Pierre Poilievre is MAGA. Pierre Poilievre is supporting the same kind of extremist policies that Donald Trump is and Donald Trump is trying to do Pierre a favor by saying 'Oh actually I don't like Pierre Poilievre.' Nobody's buying it."

Sorry MAGA, Canada will never be our 51st state. Trump's trade war and mass deportations will succeed at exactly one thing: making the entire world hate us.

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[Randy Shaver @rshaver11]

Prayers needed. My sweet granddaughter Bella is in the ICU here in Florida with a breathing tube (hopefully for not much longer). The last 24 hours have been emotional for all of us. We’re confident she’ll be okay but right now it’s hard to take. My heart aches.

[☀️ Jon Schwarz ☀️ @schwarz]

Jimmy Carter is dead, and the U.S. has never reckoned with the "October Surprise" scandal — the fact that the 1980 Reagan campaign colluded with the Iranian government to make sure the American hostages weren't released before the election. This was genuine treason by the GOP.

[Sky Kruse @KruseSports_]

The more I think about it the more I think the #Bears need to move on from Ryan Poles.

Pair your next HC with a GM and tie them to Caleb and if the next 4 years don’t work restart everything the correct way.

[Max Markham @MaxMarkhamNFL]

This is Ben Johnson’s résumé.
Stop debating.
The Bears need to hire him.

• Spent 4-Years as a QB for the UNC Tar Heels.
• Received his Bachelor’s in Math and Computer Science.
• He holds the rare achievement of
a perfect score on a Mathematical Association of America test.
• Many Ivy league schools wanted him for his mind but he wanted to play football so he decided to walk-on at UNC.
• He would spend his evenings tutoring his teammates in math.
• When his time at UNC was up he was offered a great job in software devopment, however he wanted football.
• In 2007 Tar Heel Connor Barth was asked, who is first to arrive and last to leave? His answer:
QB2 Ben Johnson.
• He has 4-years of offensive play-calling experience.
And in the last 3-years the Lions ‘points for’ total has been 5th, 5th and 1st.

Sum.
Ben Johnson is a genius who not only has experience playing QB but has 4-years of play-calling under his belt, 3 of those years he has been (or among) the best in the NFL. And a big reason why the Lions are still contending even though they’re missing half their defense.

[Jaylon Johnson @NBAxJay1]

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[Wil Jessee @WilJessee]

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