Patrick Patrick

#ForTheLand #DawgPound #LetEmKnow

[James Klüg @jamesklug]

You cannot maintain a functioning society if people who are this stupid are involved in politics

[HowlingMutant @Howlingmutant0]

Listen to your penis, powerful concept

[Douglass Mackey @douglassmackey]

The black coach of the track team, Rob Starr, testified against Karmelo Anthony today.

And 4 out of the 6 teammates testifying against him were black.

Karmelo is cooked, despite your attempt to make it racial narcissism.

[Jason Whitlock @jasonwhitlock]

BINGO. There is no black unity. There is anti-white unity among a large swath of black Americans.

[Patrick Patrick @flashpatricks]

@MattZeitlin His eyes glow

[Principal Jon @Principal_Jon]

In high school I was asked to read:

The Great Gatsby
Of Mice and Men
Grapes of Wrath

My daughter's high school asked her to read:
Diary of a Wimpy Kid

Have we stopped believing kids can do hard things?

[memetic_sisyphus @memeticsisyphus]

This is from this week:

[🏛 𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 🏛 @nonregemesse]

There were no women on the beaches of Normandy.

[Three Year Letterman @3YearLetterman]

Counterpoint: Watching the Mets spend $375 million to lose 12 games in a row and be dead last in the NL East is fucking hilarious

[Quinn @MindOfQuinn]

Browns fans turning on Myles and Joe Thomas in the same week.

[Andre Williams @andrewilliamsus]

If Karmelo Anthony can murder somebody because he’s being “bullied”.

Then school shooters can shoot up schools because they’re being bullied

Niggas need to shut the fuck up and just take the L

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

🤔

[Matthew @OswaldsTopGuy]

"If you deport the people doing the rape then rape will go down"

Leftists:

[Jalen “banned” Coker @JcokeBurner]

Dude beside me at the restaurant just told his wife that he cheated on her and she is crying loudly, over at my table it’s miller time though. #millertime

[Michael Knowles @michaeljknowles]

Vietnam; Nixon’s resignation; Weather Underground terrorism; the assassinations of JFK, RFK, MLK; 9/11; etc.—all pale in comparison to the horror of Trump’s arresting criminals and repainting the Reflecting Pool.

[Anthony Cumia @AnthonyCumia]

If you can’t see the difference between the two cases, you’re a fucking r’tard.

[Vik von Lustig 🇺🇸 @realcountlustig]

This is very weird. I have been assured by euros that there is no heat like European heat

[John Cleese @JohnCleese]

Criticising Islam is within the British tradition of people
discussing the merits of religions, and I can scarcely believe that some faceless authoritarian should be allowed to punish a person for doing so

Should I expect to be punished for Life of Brian ?

Absolutely disgraceful

[Larry Elder @larryelder]

Let’s face it. Trump Derangement Syndrome is exhausting.

[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.