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@FoxNews Honestly curious, what Digital Services does Europe provide to the US?

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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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@elonmusk Is there a documentary that explains the history of South Africa through present times that you'd recommend?

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@elonmusk We love our MP3, except, we love driving and wish we could turn off some of the "automated" features.

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@elonmusk Regarding disability, people are living longer as medical care gets better, so you end up with more disabled people because they're living, but not able to work.
I am thankful to be alive after surviving leukemia and having been diagnosed with MS. Chemo brain disables me.

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@PeacockTVCare @rtaylor3rd @peacock Don't forget Supercross and Motocross!

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@Matt_Pinner Boston Legal

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I am horrified. I cannot believe it.

I analyzed public databases and media reporting on violent confrontations with ICE over the past year.

Just 9 counties accounted for TWO-THIRDS of violent confrontations with ICE in America.

This is twice all violent confrontations in the remaining 3,134 counties COMBINED.

A violent confrontation in these 9 counties was 590 TIMES more likely than any of these other 3,134 counties.

590 times.

I plotted these 9 counties, and I found that all 9 counties are sanctuary jurisdictions run by Democrat politicians that resist immigration law enforcement.

These violent confrontations are RARE in states and cities where local officials cooperate with law enforcement.

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@peacock The app version on the Firestick is not working correctly for live events. Watching Supercross last Saturday, we could not pause for more than a couple seconds without it restarting. We also could not rewind. On my phone, this was working fine.

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@AmazonHelp I've tried posting on the community forums with no success. Is there a way to forward my concerns to a development team for them to review the issue?

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@SupercrossLIVE @peacock isn't letting me pause! It only lets me pause for a few seconds then starts playing.

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@dashlane I keep getting notifications that I have too many logins without passwords and need to upgrade (despite being a premium member). It would be nice if you had some tools available that let me clean up my logins easier.

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@elonmusk Need more DOGE, with more transparency. Easy reports that the average American can understand. Analytics, data visualizations, dashboards.

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@elonmusk It makes me so sad.

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@oelma__ It says the couple went on a picnic, so I'm thinking, two.

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@henrykleeKTVU @PittsburgPD @ContraCostaDA And the whole argument stems from the old lady backing over some of his potted plants or something. We don't have that on video but if she's hitting things with her car she shouldn't be driving. This lady should be apologizing for her mother!

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@henrykleeKTVU @PittsburgPD @ContraCostaDA The fact that it's December and this hasn't been settled in court yet is disgusting. Do not let these women go on lesser charges. This "mother" just taught her 18 year old that it's okay to kick a small innocent dog! Ugh!