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Why Chicago Lost the Bears

I very much doubt that Chicago is going to be the last minority-dominant Blue city to lose its professional sports franchise. This is nominally about economics, but it’s actually about immigration and demographics.

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.

Immigrants and minorities are intrinsically parasitical in Western societies. This isn’t to say they can never be beneficial in certain circumstances, or that they are inevitably negative, but they can never be, in the favored language of the AI systems, “load-bearing”.

There are no societal systems as such. The Chinese implement communism very, very differently than Russian, or German, or South American communists. So changing the demographics necessarily means changing the societal structure and the society itself. Different peoples have different priorities, as they should and as they always will; no one would ever mistake the way Real Madrid and FC Barcelona are run for an NFL operation.

NIL is going to compound this effect. Already universities in California are suffering badly in the recruiting process because no 18-year-old athlete wants to throw away 13.3 percent of his income. The Big 10 schools are presently riding high because their massive alumni bases allow them bigger budgets, but it won’t be long before the state income taxes begin to penalize them as well.

Chicago may be the first to lose its professional sports team over taxes, but it will not be the last.

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The More Things Change

It’s fascinating to see Roman-style tactics being utilized against the dyscivilizational forces of the invasion:

Anti-ICE rioters are now FULLY KETTLED between TWO WALLS of concrete and two walls of police here in Newark

A MASS ARREST bus has just rolled up.

And has prepared to take rioters into custody.

There is literally NO ESCAPE for them out here!

This is somewhat reminiscent of the battle of Alesia, although I’m skeptical about the idea that an anti-ICE army is going to show up to allow the rioters to defeat ICE and the police.

I saw an old episode of FBI from just before Covid, and Hollywood was already signaling desperately against ICE and the deportations. This has been going on longer, and is getting more serious, than most of us probably realize.

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You Happened, Boris

The abject parody of Winston Churchill isn’t concerned about the invasion of Britain, the Orwellian speech police, the self-sinking of the Royal Navy, or the mass rape of British girls, but call out one Zionist psychopath who infamously celebrated ethnic cleansing in public and he’s up in arms!

Boris Johnson@BorisJohnson
What’s happening to our country when Dame Helen Mirren can be abused in the street?

Why, it has aroused his fury!

Here’s the thing. No one cares anymore about these little performances anymore. Vladimir Putin can drop an Oreshnik right on Big Ben and all the true red-blooded Englishmen would be grateful. Because their enemies are inside the gates, and they have been for some time.

You should have fought the invaders on the beaches, Boris. But you didn’t. You welcomed them and put them up in nice hotels instead.

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The Goalposts Move

I was definitely surprised by The Economist publicly taking aim at the current refugee rights system:

Western attitudes are hardening. In Europe the views of social democrats and right-wing populists are converging.

The system is not working. Designed for post-war Europe, it cannot cope with a world of proliferating conflict, cheap travel and huge wage disparities. Roughly 900m people would like to migrate permanently. Since it is almost impossible for a citizen of a poor country to move legally to a rich one, many move without permission. In the past two decades many have discovered that asylum offers a back door. Instead of crossing a border stealthily, as in the past, they walk up to a border guard and request asylum, knowing that the claim will take years to adjudicate and, in the meantime, they can melt into the shadows and find work.

Voters are right to think the system has been gamed. Most asylum claims in the European Union are now rejected outright. Fear of border chaos has fuelled the rise of populism, from Brexit to Donald Trump, and poisoned the debate about legal migration. To create a system that offers safety for those who need it but also a reasonable flow of labour migration, policymakers need to separate one from the other.

Around 123m people have been displaced by conflict, disaster or persecution, three times more than in 2010, partly because wars are lasting longer. All these people have a right to seek safety. But “safety” need not mean access to a rich country’s labour market.

It’s obvious why they are alarmed. In Britain, the two mainstream parties have been destroyed. And the convergence of SOCIALIST democrats and right-wing NATIONAL populists is always going to terrify a media controlled by a small group of people who were not historically very popular with socialist nationalists.

And then I saw this:

Mr Trump’s policy of mass deportation is both cruel and expensive. Far better to let those who have put down roots stay, while securing the border and changing the incentives for future arrivals. If liberals do not build a better system, populists will build a worse one.

After their policies fail, they always try to move the goalposts in order to prevent those failures from being adequately addressed. At this point, they’re just trying to lock in their gains.

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Replacement Theory in Britain

Remember when they said a) mass immigration was good for the economy and b) without immigrants there wouldn’t be enough workers?

Mass immigration is directly fuelling the crisis for young people trying to find work, research reveals. A staggering 27 migrants from outside the EU aged under 25 are hired for every British youngster, according to the analysis.

And while the young British workforce has grown by less than 1 per cent since 2020, the number of non-EU youth on the UK payroll has increased by 355 per cent in that time, the research from The Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) found.

Reform UK’s home affairs spokesman Zia Yusuf said last night that British workers are ‘being pushed to the back of the queue while mass immigration continues’. He added: ‘Young Brits should be first in line for jobs, training and opportunities in their own country, not forced to compete against record levels of imported labour.’

The CSJ think-tank’s research shows how young migrants are taking up roles at a much faster rate to young Britons, with them snapping up three times as many jobs as young Britons.

Between 2024 and 2025, the number of non-EU under-25s on payrolls increased by 33,200, while the number of UK-nationals of the same age fell by 32,200.

This is despite almost one million 16- to 24-year-olds in the UK currently not currently in education, employment or training (NEET).

And the research shows that migrants are mostly taking entry-level positions despite Alan Milburn saying today that the first rung of the career ladder is ‘simply out of reach’ for young Britons after he was commissioned by the Government to review soaring levels of youth unemployment in Britain.

The fact that the man speaking for the British youth is named “Zia Yusuf” is not a confidence-inspiring sign that Reform UK is the answer, though.

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Replacement Migration is Real

The US government has formally admitted the existence of what was once deemed “conspiracy theory” by the media, and rejected it.

  • The White House: Under President Trump, replacement migration will never be the standard. The United States objects to the Global Compact on Migration and UN efforts to facilitate replacement migration.
  • U.S. Department of State: Last week, the United States refused to participate in the UN’s review of the Global Compact on Migration. The United States objects to the Global Compact on Migration and UN efforts to facilitate replacement migration to the United States and our Western allies.

It’s good that the USA is finally rejecting Clown World’s attempt to subject the Christian West to invasion and its goal to repopulate the West with non-Western, non-Christian foreigners. But rejection replacement migration is no longer enough in light of decades of foreign invasion, remigration is now an absolute priority if America and the European nations are going to survive without resorting to Israeli levels of genocide.

Lest you object to that characterization of the Israeli actions in Gaza, consider how you would describe it if the USA subjected its foreign migrants to precisely the same treatment that the Israeli government has provided the people of Gaza: a proportional effort would require deporting 33 million migrants and killing 10.5 million of them.

Now, considering that the Israelis are already doing this without even being banned from Eurovision or suffering any other consequences, can we really doubt that other countries are, sooner or later, going to follow the Israeli example when they hold far greater claims to their own lands than the Israelis have ever had to Gaza?

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Migrants for the Pro-Immigration Voters

The migrant camp policy of what is now the most powerful party in the UK is absolutely brilliant and its principle of calling the Left on its nonsensical and societally-destructive voting should be adopted by every nationalist party in the West across a wide range of policies:

We need to talk about Reform’s camp policy. I’m not talking about their policy of hiring lots of camp men. They do do that. I’m talking about their policy of putting migrant camps in Green Party areas. Lots of people on the left have said that this is appalling and disgusting. It’s punishing left-wing voters. It’s like, yeah, it is appalling and disgusting, but how can it be punishing left-wing voters? This is what you’ve been doing to other people for years, and you’ve always said that migrants are enriching. They’re our greatest strength! So, why aren’t you delighted that they’re being moved to your areas?

And lots of people in the right have criticized it as well. They’ve said, “Well, this is unfair on right-wing people who live in those areas, and this is just trollling and and this is doing something for attention.” But listen, the right-wing people were going to get those migrants anyway. It’s just now there’s a mechanism for stopping the flow. This is a way to change people’s minds and change people’s behaviors. Specifically, left-wing people who think that we should have open borders and who up until now have been completely insulated from the consequences of those open borders. Let’s have a look at the policy.

Now, it’s clear that the failed Uni Party era is over. And there is a battle for the soul of our country between Reform and the Greens. That’s why today we announce an important new policy. In order to deport all illegal migrants in Britain, we’re going to need to detain tens of thousands at a time. Migrants will not be able to leave these detention centers and each will be held there for a couple of weeks before being deported.

So here’s our promise. A reform government will not put any migrant detention centers in any constituency with a Reform MP. We will not put them where Reform controls the council. And of the remaining areas, we will prioritize Green parliamentary constituencies and Green-controlled councils to put those migrant detention centers. That means areas like right here in Brighton.

Put simply, if you vote in a Reform council or a Reform MP, we guarantee you will not have a migrant detention center near you. However, if you vote Green, there’s a very good chance that you will. This way, everyone gets what they vote for.

Let them complain all they like. If you vote for open borders, then you get all the immigrants. No more sending them off to small towns in Iowa or Idaho. If you vote for data centers, then you get one built in your town. If you vote for windmills, they get built near your house. If you vote to release the crazies from the asylums, you get the homeless shelters in your neighborhoods. If you vote for the early release of violent offenders, then they are released in your town.

The principle is not even remotely unfair. To the contrary, it’s the most fair and democratic outcome possible. We know that pro-military voters have no problem with military bases in their areas; Congressmen even compete with each other to get military bases built in their districts. It’s long past time to call out the moronic Left on their actions and force them to live with the consequences of their wicked idiocy.

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Immigration and National Defense

Outsourcing and relying upon imported war materials is bad enough. Immigration and relying upon enemy nationals to design your own weapons is a total disaster:

The defence industry is being cut off from a significant portion of the UK engineering graduate pipeline because a large proportion of students on advanced engineering courses at leading universities come from overseas and cannot obtain the security clearances needed to work on sensitive defence programmes, a senior industry figure has told the Scottish Affairs Committee.

Cathy Kane, LTPA Portfolio Director at QinetiQ, told the committee on Wednesday that the scale of the problem was visible from her position on an industry advisory board at University College London, saying that “a vast number of the students on the course come from overseas countries” and that for the defence industry, “being able to pull in people coming off those courses and bring them into our industry is a challenge, because we work on sensitive programmes.”

The issue compounds an already significant skills challenge facing the sector, in which the defence industry is competing for a pool of UK-born engineering graduates that is considerably smaller than the total number of people studying engineering, while simultaneously trying to persuade more young people to choose engineering over more financially attractive careers in financial services and other sectors.

It’s astonishing that anyone still believes mass immigration is a net positive for any native people. Ask the American Indian. Ask the Palestinian. Ask what are now the hundreds of thousands of sexually-assaulted women across Europe.

It’s more than a disaster, it’s an existential catastrophe.

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No Children, No Economy

By the time the next economic depression bottoms, it will be illegal for women to not have children in many countries:

Underneath all of this, slower than any war and more permanent than any crisis, is something the financial press doesn’t really mention:

People aren’t having any children.

US fertility hit an all-time low in 2024. The general fertility rate is still falling. IMPLAN puts 1.4 million fewer Americans contributing to housing demand, retail spending, and service consumption in 2025 than trends would have predicted. To put that in numbers: $104 billion in GDP. Not exactly gone, not really disappeared. It just never existed in the first place.

It’s a vicious circle: housing is too expensive, so young people delay children. Fewer children means less future housing demand. Which should eventually reduce prices, except the lag is 20-30 years, and in the meantime housing stays expensive, so the people who couldn’t afford a house still can’t, still don’t have children, and the loop tightens at its own pace regardless of what the Fed does or what happens somewhere in the narrow waterways in exotic places.

Added: the boomers are saying bye sayonara.

The generation that inflated every asset class for 40 years through automatic 401k contributions is, somewhere around now, flipping from net buyers to net sellers. Of course it’s impossible to say like “March, 17: boomers start to cash out their 401ks”… Nope, the tide just turns. The same passive machine that provided an inexorable, automatic bid for equities and bonds and real estate – every payday, every year, for four decades – begins to redeem. Quietly. Continuously. For the next twenty-some years. Every asset they inflated on the way up faces a headwind on the way out. Not a crash. A long, grinding, demographically-inevitable ratchet.

That’s why the central planners of the world turned toward mass immigration. You need consumers to keep the GDP growth going, and with fewer children, there were going to be fewer consumers. Of course, the problem is that the macroeconomic models don’t account for quality of consumer, so it’s only very recently that the mainstream economists have begun to realize that lending to immigrants from grasshopper cultures is absolutely guaranteed to crash the banking system because none of those loans will ever be repaid.

And this is just on the consumption side. Imagine what lowering IQ, time preferences, and productivity does on the production side, although you don’t need to imagine it anymore. We already know what a calamity diversity and inclusion have turned out to be for the US corpocracy.

Indeed, based on a 2025 Danish study, it may even be necessary to ban paid female employment. Such a policy would indubitably be sexist, anti-feminist, and currently illegal in most Western countries. But no one living in any society that elects to show up for the future is going to care what the norms of a few long-dead 21st-century societies happened to be.

Egalitarianism is already conceptually dead. It won’t be many more decades before people stop believing in it.

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