Optimistic pessimist

Proud father. WhiteSox, Bears, Blackhawks, Dog lover. Father first. Christian. Conservative. #NRA RINOS must go! Don't agree with all retweets.

[End Wokeness @EndWokeness]

Decline is a choice. Remember that.

[Kate @kate_p45]

Did you know?
Articles of Impeachment against activist Judge James Boasberg have been gathering dust in the House Judiciary Committee since March 18, 2025, over 14 months ago.

@Jim_Jordan and @SpeakerJohnson have done ABSOLUTELY NOTHING about Boasberg or any of these rogue, judges who think they are the executive branch.
No hearings. No votes. No accountability. Just endless talk while activist judges block deportations, put foreigners over citizens, and act like unelected kings.
This is why nothing gets done. Weak leadership lets the judicial deep state run wild.
Time to demand action. Impeach these judges, defund the courts or get out of the way.

[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.

[John Solomon @jsolomonReports]

Democrat Senator has been funding left-wing group behind anti-ICE protests, mass unrest strategy https://t.co/EKE8TJ2Ghy

[Joe Abraham @angeldadjoe]

Says the 40-year politician… 40 YEARS!?!? …who helped create many of the very problems Illinois families are suffering through today.

Take a look at that picture, Senator. Katie is standing with my parents, who legally immigrated here from a third world nation expecting nothing but the opportunity to build a life through hard work and personal responsibility.
They did exactly that.
They never demanded taxpayer support or acted entitled to anything this nation offers.

I’m proud of that, Senator.

They came to contribute to America, not because politicians created incentives and policies that corrupt the integrity of immigration for political purposes.

You have:
Zero self-reflection.
Zero humility.
Zero accountability.

Just endless lectures from someone who never has to live with the consequences of his own policies.

Katie should still be here.

[Rob Bluey @RobertBluey]

Listening to my fellow CNN panelists last night, I felt like it was 2017 all over again. RUSSIA, RUSSIA, RUSSIA!

First, they denied the intelligence community was part of The Swamp. Then, they accused me of lying about Barack Obama’s central role in the Trump-Russia collusion hoax. And finally, they lectured me for suggesting there was anything nefarious about the whole ordeal.

Fortunately, we have plenty of receipts thanks to the Dao Prize-winning journalism of @FDRLST.

Let’s begin ...

[MJ Tomko @Tomko_1]

BREAKING:
Italian Beef has announced its intentions to relocate from Chicago to Indianapolis, Indiana. A Chicago staple since the Great Depression, Italian Beef cited high crime, corruption and an overall unfriendly business climate as its reasons for leaving Chicago and Illinois.

[Agrippa @agrippa_dr]

Gavin thought this wouldn’t age poorly because he couldn’t fathom completing a public works project.

[Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby]

Ro will be traveling to Maine tomorrow to actually campaign for Graham Platner.

You quite literally cannot make this up.

[Jeanne Ives @JeanneIves]

Speaker Welch - Get Your Facts Straight - Indiana will pay their portion of investment in the stadium by taxes collected on ticket, food, and merchandise sales at the site of the Bears stadium. There's no extra taxes on IN residents. They have done this for 40 years with their other stadium deals. Meanwhile, your party, that's been in charge in Chicago for almost 100 years, still hasn't paid their portion of the Bears stadium improvements. You're terrible at managing money- admit it now.

[Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok]

Every single Democrat just voted against $100 million to fund operations for Child Exploitation Investigations and save children from s*x trafficking.

[Vince Langman @LangmanVince]

In case you're still wondering how this brain-dead imbecile got 81 million votes in 2020, check out what's happening in California this week!

[Jimmy Failla @jimmyfailla]

Sad to see the Chicago Bears leave Illinois after eighty five years because liberal leaders didn’t wanna chip in for a new stadium. They should’ve drafted a roster full of illegal immigrants, the state would’ve given them BILLIONS.

[ThienemanSZN @ThienemanSZN]

$400 Million on the Obama library but can’t spend anything on infrastructure for the Bears great job politicians 👍

[Chuck Naso @ChuckNaso]

They will try to blame it on someone else (classic playbook) but these two doofuses let the Bears leave Chicago.

[Vince Langman @LangmanVince]

The Chicago Bears managed to stay in Chicago despite the 1929 Great Depression, WWII, and the 2008 financial crisis, but they couldn't survive two incompetent Democratic leaders in Illinois and now they are moving next door to the Republican run red state of Indiana!

[TaraBull @TaraBull]

After today, their story helped to restore my faith in humanity 🙏🏻 ❤️

[Scott Celt @celtictruth1776]

@theblaze The Senate needs more Eric Schmitts and the House needs more Brandon Gills.

[The🐰FOO @PolitiBunny]

@lisamurkowski What's the point of having you as a Republican when you don't represent Republicans, Lisa? You're all bait and switch.

[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.