ChefBoyRLee

Christ died for your sins. #GoCubs🐻 #GoBigRed🎈#BearDown🐻

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@SDJfiveK Yall finally have a good season in 15 years and all of a sudden your whole fan base is Billy beane. 😴😴

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@SDJfiveK He’s never slugged. His entire career. He was the last qualified hitter with a homerun last year. Contact hitting use to be treasured

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@TheWARmonger_ Don’t tell the haters that please.

[The Drunk Republican @DrunkRepub]

The leftist mind cannot comprehend that Europeans might simply be enjoying America. Or worse yet red states.

There is simply no way the mainstream media narrative surrounding flyover country could be this easily shattered, by Europeans of all people.

THEY’RE SUPPOSED TO BE PROGRESSIVE! No, they must be “pandering” to the idiots who live there.

Talk about mental gymnastics.

If the point of social media is to connect humanity, then the chronicles of Old World tourists enjoying the unsung parts of the U.S. are social media at its full potential.

World Cup X is as good as it gets, and yet many are fuming.

Their disdain for this moment is further proof that the leftist mind’s ground state is misery, and that should they once again rule over us more misery will be the result.

Because if they can’t find joy in German soccer bros marveling at a Buc-ees in Bumfuck, Texas, I seriously doubt they can find it anywhere.

And people like that should not be in charge of the greatest country in the world.

[ChairmanOohMowMow @ooh_mow]

It’s been fascinating to watch Europeans run around America while here for the World Cup.

They’re eating Texas barbecue, and touring state parks, like it’s a lifelong dream.

And we take it all for granted.

Americans spend so much time arguing with each other, that we forget how inspiring this country is.

Probably by design.

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@thepattywheels @MLB Considering it was a 15% catch and a 5 star play yea. It’s bed rage bait Patrick

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@thepattywheels @MLB Bad rage bait

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@TheWARmonger_ @Cubs Just projecting yourself from the PCA haters I get it.

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@RedbirdRiot

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@NickAdamsinUSA Trump isn’t going to marry you lil bro

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@ThienemanSZN Nico makes that play if Dansby is in at short.

Dansby shitty bat is impacting the team and the mfer ain’t even playing

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Nico makes that play if Dansby is in as SS btw…

Another way Dansby bat is negatively impacting this team and the MFer ain’t even playing

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@PCAte_ @PCHate_

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@MLB @Gatorade

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@ThienemanSZN @BleacherJeff Beat that grifting losers ass!

[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.

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@Cubs No one here deserves this

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