Jake

[Greg Price @greg_price11]

JB Pritzker wants to be President of the United States, yet is such an incompetent buffoon that he's about to be known as the Illinois Governor who lost the Chicago Bears to Indiana.

[Riley Gaines @Riley_Gaines_]

You have far too much time if you, a middle aged objectively rotund man, spend a beautiful Saturday morning protesting a girl in her mid twenties by saying she should've swam faster 4 years ago because she didn't want to a man in the locker room.

Seek therapy.

[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.

[Captain Caleb @captaincaleb18]

Osama Bin Warren gets hired and 3 years later the Bears are moving to a new state 😭

[Sophie Cunningham FAN CLUB @SophieC_FanClub]

Walk that WALK…

[Geiger Capital @Geiger_Capital]

The White House ballroom will be the same…

An insane controversy just because Trump is the one doing it. Then when it’s finished and works out great, every future Democratic administration is going to use it constantly.

[‏ً @ak179_]

Your mum is 100% correct

[Mike Bales 🫡🇺🇸 @MikeBales]

He’s the President of the United States — not your ex, not your personal villain, and not the cause of your misery. You don’t have to support him. That’s America.

But if someone is simply backing the sitting President and it makes you rage, cut people off, attack families, or act like garbage — you are the problem.

You’ve turned politics into a personality disorder: nonstop outrage and toddler meltdowns online. Grow up. He won. The sky didn’t fall. Pay your bills, care for your family, touch grass, and move on.

[𝕮𝖔𝖓𝖓𝖔𝖗 𝕻𝖎𝖑𝖘 @TheConnorPils]

It’s baffling to me how many people are completely unaware of why this cover is “plain”

It’s not “lazy” or “uncreative,” it’s literally a recreation of one of the most iconic Chicago sports pictures of all time.

[Riley Gaines @Riley_Gaines_]

Being white doesn't make you racist.

I don't give James Talarico permission to apologize for me on behalf of my whiteness. He doesn't get to drag me in to his self-admitted racist views.

[Ken Mitchell @WCGBearsDenDude]

The Bears were not asking for a DIME of taxpayer money to build their stadium. They asked to not be taxed into oblivion, and for the government to build the roads, sewers, train facilities (on an existing line) and that's it. This is just political blah-blah-blah ass covering.

[Matt Wallace @MattWallace888]

George Floyd couldn't breathe because he was overdosing after robbing a store

Henry Nowak couldn't breathe because he was stabbed by a foreigner and gasping for air while police refused to help

Which one do you think the media covered relentlessly?

[Jack @jackunheard]

JILL BIDEN: "The doctors told me Joe was fine. I’m not a doctor! I mean, I am a doctor…HAHAHA."

Aint. No. Way.

You can't make this up.

[Jack @jackunheard]

This is 1000x worse than George Floyd.

[Kangmin Lee | 이강민 @kangminlee]

The silence from all the people who mourned the death of George Floyd is deafening.

[Jersey Jerry @Jerrythekid21]

61,667 Men make a choice each month. June is Men’s Mental Health Awareness Month. Life is better with you here. Bro to bro, Love you 💙.

[sullen girl | 🦢⋆𐙚₊˚⊹♡ @ontheflipsiide]

but muslims told me hijab is a choice?

[David Santa Carla 🦇 @TheOnlyDSC]

Many such cases…

[Sassafrass84 @Sassafrass_84]

The most accurate description of leftists.👇

Pride Month be like:
LGBT: I'm gay
Everyone else: Ok
LGBT: I'm REALLY fucking gay
Everyone else: ok
LGBT: Teach your kids about it or you're a bigot
Everyone else: Okay, that's a little too far—
LGBT: FUCK YOU, YOU TRANSPHOBIC NAZI FASCIST
Everyone else: Yeah… this movement has lost the plot.
LGBT: OmG I'm literally shaking, so oppressed, biggest victim in human history.

And that boys and girls is it in a nutshell.