Old Gregorius

We are on to the Islanders

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@Rico_Bosco 37-14-3 +2k

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@hobie_tweets What he said was perfect.. he complimented the spurs and emphasized that they won the game.. he highlighted the factual discrepancy in fouls.. he reiterated that he isn’t a guy that normally gets on refs.. he then said the Knicks fouled the spurs but the Spurs were also fouling

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@PeterJenki49286 @DanteTheDon @Mooney4780 @kingkrabbyp @ThrillaRilla369 Am I supposed to be angry that cloud computing has made Google, Amazon, and oracle founders immensely wealthy?? No, cuz if it wasn’t for cloud computing every business would jack up prices to pay for more costly data storage & some Chinese USB company would be reaping the rewards

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@PeterJenki49286 @DanteTheDon @Mooney4780 @kingkrabbyp @ThrillaRilla369 I’m supposed to be angry that Elon musk has revolutionized energy storage and solar panels (Tesla) or reusable rockets (spacex) or satellite internet (starlink).. I wouldn’t give a fuck if he alone held 75% of the wealth of the country.. his companies are all advancing the world

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@DanteTheDon @PeterJenki49286 @Mooney4780 @kingkrabbyp @ThrillaRilla369 This makes CEOs of top companies richer but it also makes 401ks and pensions and other retirement accounts richer.. also I think it’s fucking retarded to have the govt step in and tell Elon musk how much money he can make.. best solar panels, best satellite internet, best cars

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@DanteTheDon @PeterJenki49286 @Mooney4780 @kingkrabbyp @ThrillaRilla369 Since the United States has lost its manufacturing base (which is very bad and should be a top priority of all administrations) our trade deficit results in foreign dollars coming into our equity markets (instead of purchasing US goods) inflating stock prices

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@hobie_tweets Impeach him, this is the last straw

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@mattmurley19 @spittinchiclets Marner isn’t spelled E-I-C-H-E-L

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@hobie_tweets The no call on OG 3 which ended up stopping the Spurs run was the cherry on top of a clear built in bias by the refs.. I think Silver is smart enough to not pull that shit again and instead of an epic seven game series he will settle for the most dominant playoff run in history

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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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@DougKezirian @SportsCheetah Thoughts on laddering Josh Hart and KAT 3-pointers

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@PeterJenki49286 @DanteTheDon @Mooney4780 @kingkrabbyp @ThrillaRilla369 My point is that Thomas Massie isolationism would bring a much harder life on all Americans that I don’t think many are ready for.. I wish we could be isolationist.. I really do but that’s just not how the world works

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@nickythegood @CMacWFAN The AL is bad but as someone who watched the 2015 Mets an elite pitching rotation doesn’t require a hall of famer slugger to make the playoffs

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@BarstoolHubbs Go get Mike Trout and keep Judge in bubble wrap until the playoffs

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@DanteTheDon @Mooney4780 @kingkrabbyp @ThrillaRilla369 Life wouldn’t be the 90’s it would be the 20’s and 30’s.. would prob be a more fulfilling life as you experienced when you were on the cattle drive but that wouldn’t be a week of hard work it would be every day with no let up

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@nickythegood @nyytakes Counterpoint.. your GM is a moron

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@DanteTheDon @Mooney4780 @kingkrabbyp @ThrillaRilla369 It is very funny that you are very anti the current system when this is the system that allows people to be content creators and DJs.. if we had the system you opine for the economy would be much more inefficient & ppl would work much much harder and life would be more demanding

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@hobie_tweets Very sad people’s hatred for New York blinds them to how likeable this team is

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@CaitlinPacific @EricRSammons I’ve been waiting my whole life for the homily that explains how unimportant the homily is in comparison to the rest of the Mass

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@kendallbaker

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@coc0L0ko @rainygday @spencerpratt @alexstein99 If the Democratic Party loses one election, the next time they are in power they will actually work for your votes cuz they will finally learn it’s not a given