Johnny C

Patriots, Benfica, Portugal, Celtics, Bruins, Fantasy Football, MiniFan

[Johnny C @johnnyc0074]

@PortuGoal1 Tough road either way but 1st place would be better imo

[Fabrizio Romano @FabrizioRomano]

🚨🏅 OFFICIAL: Cristiano Ronaldo with FIFA Man of the Match Award today. 💥🇵🇹

[Johnny C @johnnyc0074]

@McConaughey Yes. 2 goals

[fan 🇵🇹 @NoodleHairCR7]

Messi fans tryna convince me how 6 penalties in 9 games is completely normal

[Johnny C @johnnyc0074]

@nathanmotz 5-0 Portugal. The wake up today

[Rand Paul @RandPaul]

Here is what we know: U.S. taxpayer money, funneled through USAID and NIH, funded gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. That research likely caused the COVID pandemic that killed millions and cost trillions.

Dr. Fauci personally signed off on these experiments, then lied to Congress about it. Biden tried to protect him with a last-minute pardon. That’s the very definition of a cover-up.

[Fall River Reporter @FallRiverReport]

Let’s review “Democracy” in Massachusetts.

72% of the population voted for the legislative audit. It was ignored for 1.5 years and then killed by the legislators, the target of the audit.

66% of voters polled approved of reducing the state income tax from 5% to 4%. It was killed by a team effort of AG Campbell and the Supreme Court which happens to have one of Gov. Healey’s ex-girlfriends on it, who she appointed.

Your legislators get free office space rent in government buildings even though it’s against campaign finance and ethics laws and rules. They also get $22-$29k in office and travel stipends. Non-incumbents must pay for their office space.

MA voters approved a constitutional change that forced legislative pay rises to be tied to inflation. Years later they gave themselves a $20k “leadership pay” for each committee they chair. Some chaired multiple committees and got $40k a year raises. Peasants don’t get to decide what royalty does with the treasury.

Massachusetts is the only state where your governor and legislators are exempt from public information requests.

Ironically, we’ve held three no Kings protests against Trump and Gov. Healey has a 58% approval rating.

[Adam Carolla @adamcarolla]

True

[Johnny C @johnnyc0074]

@10CO10 It’s so frustrating. I’m trying to look on the bright side. Spain tied CV. These things happen, unfortunately more for Portugal than other top nations. They will figure it out and beat Uzbekistan heavily and will have all to play for against Colombia. 🇵🇹 always make us suffer!

[Adam Carolla @adamcarolla]

True

[Howie Carr @HowieCarrShow]

Does LaMar Cook know anything about this?

[Patrick Bet-David @patrickbetdavid]

Capitalism works.

[Johnny C @johnnyc0074]

@PortuGoal1 Twice, 1966 and 1986.

[Reverend Jordan Wells @WellsJorda89710]

We have lost our minds.

A jury convicted Karmelo Anthony of murder for stabbing 17-year-old Austin Metcalf to death. Evidence was presented. Witnesses testified. Self-defense was rejected. He got 35 years.
That’s not a “legal lynching.” That’s justice.

Crying racism because the killer is Black and the victim was White doesn’t change the facts: actions have consequences.
Austin is dead. His family grieves. The system worked.

Stop excusing violence.
#JusticeForAustin #RuleOfLaw #NoMoreExcuses

[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.

[Clay Travis @ClayTravis]

The Chicago Bears are leaving Chicago and Illinois to move to Indiana. Well done, Mayor Johnson and Governor Pritzker, you couldn’t even keep a pro football team in your city and state.

[Anna Paulina Luna @realannapaulina]

Spencer Pratt got 0 out of 24,000 ballot drops that came in … not shady at all. 🥴

[C3 @C_3C_3]

Spencer Pratt got 0 out of 24,000 votes in a late night LA ballot drop.

0/24,000

A guy getting around 30% support got 0 out of 24,000.

Astronomically small probability of happening.

Impossible.

California no longer even hides it.

Doors need to be kicked in.

[UEFA Champions League @ChampionsLeague]

Nuno Mendes, João Neves, Vitinha, Gonçalo Ramos 🏆

#UCLfinal

[Bad Hombre @Badhombre]

Amazing.