The Culture War - Tim Pool - The Chicago Bears ARE LEAVING, 100 Years Of Failed Democrat Policy Has GUTTED Our Culture

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00:01:00.000 There are many things that make me angry when it comes to failed policy.

00:01:04.380 There are many things that happened in Chicago that led me to believe it was not the place for

00:01:10.780 me to live anymore. And it's a combination of factors. High taxes, limited opportunity,

00:01:16.840 financial distress, crime, violence. Now, I'm not going to pretend like I grew up every day running

00:01:23.520 from gunfire, but yet sometimes running from gunfire. I've talked about how where I grew up on the south side,

00:01:30.160 you have a hot dog stand and it had bulletproof plexiglass with actual bullet holes pocked all in several areas

00:01:39.300 because the gangbangers in the Leclerc courts would shoot for no reason.

00:01:42.640 But what I can't stand right now and actually is like a spear through my heart

00:01:49.160 is hearing that the Chicago Bears are leaving Chicago.

00:01:54.880 I saw this news last week and I'm not a big sports guy. I'm not a big football guy. I'm not a big baseball guy.

00:02:01.120 But there's one thing that I do know and love, and that is my home and my traditions.

00:02:04.980 And though I don't live there anymore because of what I see is largely political and economic failures,

00:02:10.780 it is admittedly, again, I'm not there, but extremely painful to hear that the Bears

00:02:18.400 aren't going to be the Chicago Bears anymore. And it makes me angry. I'm going to tell you,

00:02:26.340 tell you something. I watched them tear down statues, these protesters, the far left,

00:02:31.620 whatever you want to call them. I watched them tear down statues of Christopher Columbus,

00:02:35.120 of Thomas Jefferson, of Hans Christian Haag. You probably don't even know who he is,

00:02:40.780 but yeah, he was an abolitionist. Frederick Douglass. They tear these statues down.

00:02:46.860 They spit in the face of what those who came before us built of the things that we know and love.

00:02:54.460 And it's funny to me to be so moved by a shocking story such as this, that the Bears are leaving.

00:03:00.020 Can they stay? Well, my friends, theoretically, they could choose to be the Chicago Bears.

00:03:08.460 The challenge arises due to high property taxes and an inability for the Chicago Bears to build a new

00:03:16.020 domed stadium. They need to modernize. I agree that they need to modernize. They have been at Soldier

00:03:22.940 Field in Chicago for half a century, my whole life. And famously, the Saturday Night Live,

00:03:30.020 skit of the Chicago guys with the mustaches talking about Ditka and the Bears. And y'all know the joke,

00:03:36.720 even if you aren't from Chicago. There is so little, in my view, that makes Chicago what it is.

00:03:43.380 I have to be honest. That growing up, I would see all this talk about the West Coast, all of this talk

00:03:49.680 about the East Coast, and what did Chicago have? But we had a few things. Despite the fact that the

00:03:55.380 Cubs hadn't won a World Series in forever, people still knew the Cubs, man. They were still a premium

00:04:01.500 brand. And we loved the White Sox because they were a winning team. But we had the Chicago Bears,

00:04:07.180 and we had our team. And I know, again, it's not like they're as bad as the Cubs. But hey,

00:04:13.240 they did really well so far this past year. I mean, it was great, right? We had something that was

00:04:19.720 ours that was recognizable. And I view this now as such a shocking and egregious failure of policy

00:04:27.980 that is intolerable. And it's funny. I'm going to say it again. I know you're going to be like,

00:04:33.680 Tim, there's a migration crisis. There's financial distress. There's gang violence. I get it.

00:04:38.700 But all of these things I've known about since I was a kid, and they've been problems we've been

00:04:43.920 seeking to solve. To see now, as I'm near 40 years old, the Bears are gone. I'm like, well,

00:04:53.720 now you've just crushed one of the key things that makes Chicago, Chicago. They took away the

00:04:58.920 taste of Chicago. I went back, and they didn't do the fireworks for the 4th of July. And I am on the

00:05:05.420 verge of flipping over my 2,000-pound table. I'm not getting the table that we have in here. It's like

00:05:10.680 1,600 pounds. This is the line for me. I don't know. Maybe Chicago doesn't matter the same way

00:05:17.460 to you guys as it does to me. But I went back with my wife, and they said, well, they do fireworks

00:05:23.640 just because now. The city stopped doing it. Navy Pier just does their own private fireworks

00:05:29.700 periodically. So where is the 4th of July, the taste of Chicago and the fireworks? And you know

00:05:34.900 what? Blame me. Say, Tim, you left. If you cared about it so much, why don't you stick around and

00:05:38.800 fight for it? The policies of these people over the past several decades have gutted and

00:05:45.680 destroyed my hometown. People say, Tim's not even from Chicago. He's from the South. I am

00:05:50.920 from Chicago proper. The Midway Orange Line, Midway and Pulaski Orange Line, that's where

00:05:57.580 I grew up. Garfield Ridge area. Now it's close to the suburbs. Sure, it's southwest side.

00:06:03.360 We had our problems. And I felt like, you know, it was time to go. And now I'm just beyond pissed

00:06:12.300 off when I see this story from the Trib. Pritzker, he basically says, guys, the Bears are leaving

00:06:19.520 Chicago. Now the question is whether or not they're going to be the Indiana Bears or the

00:06:23.940 Arlington Heights Bears. But it sounds like there ain't no Chicago Bears anymore.

00:06:30.020 These scumbags and I see Donald Trump. He sends in the National Guard or DHS. 0.99

00:06:40.960 I talked to my friends where we grew up with gang violence, racial violence and all these

00:06:47.200 all these liberals cheering on the socialist mayor who's burning it all down. It's not only

00:06:52.400 his fault. We had a lot of failed mayors and a lot of failed government policy at the state

00:06:56.280 level like Pritzker. I asked my friends, like, are we better off with DHS going in? And yes,

00:07:03.360 absolutely. I asked my friends, what would you rather have the gangbangers going around

00:07:06.660 robbing people or some National Guardsmen? They say, National Guard? National Guard ain't

00:07:10.560 gonna bother me. They don't bother me. So here we are, my friends. I'm gonna read for you what's

00:07:16.780 currently going on with the Chicago Bears, the latest development, of course, with Pritzker

00:07:20.440 saying, I think we can all now recognize it's done. Now, whether or not the Bears go

00:07:25.040 to Indiana, I don't know. But I'm gonna I'm gonna show you the failed policy that has led

00:07:30.720 to this decision. And it's in my opinion, it's not one thing, though. They cite property taxes

00:07:36.140 as the principal issue. Why won't the state just say the Chicago Bears got to stay in Chicago?

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00:08:19.100 with everyone you've ever met. This may be what unifies us when you can get Tim Poole to be like

00:08:25.960 football matters. Yeah, I got to tell you again, guys, I don't watch a lot of football, a little bit

00:08:34.880 here and there. I can't tell you much about the star players, if at all. I've heard some names.

00:08:40.020 I track it only passively. And, you know, recently with the Super Bowl, I was in an Uber

00:08:45.460 and the driver was like, you watching football? And then I was like, hey, he asked me about the

00:08:50.680 Super Bowl. And then I was like, if the Bears ain't in it, I ain't paying attention. See, that's the

00:08:54.640 thing. It's funny, right? If the Cubs, the Sox, the Bears, Chicago Fire, Blackhawks, if a team from

00:09:02.880 Chicago is making it, I'm interested. I just am. It's a part of who we are as Americans, I guess.

00:09:08.460 We have our hometown teams. So you find yourself in some other city and you're like, I'm rooting

00:09:12.220 for this team. And, you know, we're out here in, like, West Virginia. And so, like, I can root for

00:09:18.840 the Ravens. They're not my team, but it's like, hey, you know, like, we're here, right? I got my

00:09:23.660 friends. They're wearing the jerseys or whatever. Here's a Tribune. Pritzker suggests no matter how

00:09:29.300 Indiana v. Illinois fight goes, the new Bears home won't be in Chicago. As Indian and Illinois 0.95

00:09:36.100 lawmakers spar over where the Chicago Bears should build a new stadium, even J.B. Pritzker acknowledged

00:09:41.960 Friday the team's next home is unlikely to rise within Chicago's city limits. Quote, I think now

00:09:48.940 there's a common understanding by most of the General Assembly that they're not going to be able to build

00:09:53.960 in the city of Chicago. Pritzker's pronouncement came a day after Indiana lawmakers took another step

00:09:58.840 toward potentially luring Chicago Bears across the border to Hammond. We got more updates on this.

00:10:04.340 As a key Indiana House committee approved a plan to create an agency that would build a new stadium

00:10:08.900 for the team. I go to people, I go to people and I say they tore down a statue of Frederick Douglass.

00:10:15.640 Okay, that guy was based AF, okay? Abolitionist, former slave, fighting for what it meant to be free

00:10:23.400 in this country that claimed freedom but kept slaves. Man, that guy was awesome. And far left,

00:10:28.840 whack-a-loons tore his statue down and they claim they oppose racism. 0.90

00:10:33.700 Now, you may be saying, Tim, what is that all about? The point is this.

00:10:37.640 How many of you watching, honest question, don't really care all that much like you generally

00:10:41.640 understand, but how many of you are deeply moved by the threat that the Bears could leave Chicago?

00:10:47.040 This is the point. The failed policies, the protests, like all the protests, they are bad.

00:10:53.700 They should be called out. I mean, like free speech and all this is fine. I'm saying the riots,

00:10:57.640 tearing down statues, destroying our culture, destroying our history. But when you have

00:11:01.860 politicians over the last hundred years, failed Democrat policy, threatening our legacy.

00:11:06.600 If a good time sounds like, or golden hour tastes like, and getting back to yourself feels like,

00:11:18.540 you've got a sense of New Brunswick.

00:11:22.460 Threatening what it means to be. I'm sorry, it crossed the line for me. I'm going to say it again.

00:11:28.220 I used to go to the Taste of Chicago. We'd get food. It's not like it was there forever,

00:11:31.900 but we made something and I grew up with it. We used to go to the lake on the 4th of July to see

00:11:36.700 the fireworks and they've gotten rid of it. And I am shocked. I really, really am. This is what I

00:11:42.240 was talking about the other day. I was debating Andrew Heaton on the issue of tariffs. And I said,

00:11:46.720 they come to me and tell me, Tim, if you make your skateboards in China and sell them here,

00:11:52.520 you'll save five bucks a board. And I said, I don't want five bucks a board. I want my country back.

00:11:58.100 But you know what? Times they change, I guess. Maybe it's stupid of me. No, no, I understand.

00:12:06.600 Things change. They don't last forever. The shopping, I used to go to Dominic's when I was

00:12:11.660 a kid on Archer Avenue. And it went out of business a long time ago. I get these things.

00:12:16.660 We used to have a blockbuster video. Blockbuster video is gone. It's now an extended boutique called

00:12:22.480 Peaches. Actually, one of the premier boutique clothing stores or something like this for ladies. 0.99

00:12:27.340 And I don't even know what it's about. All I know is people rave about it, even far, far away

00:12:31.400 on the south side where I grew up. I get it, man. They toured on the playground at the school I went

00:12:37.360 to and they built an expanded school, got bigger. All of that I get. But we have our team. We have our

00:12:43.380 history. We have our statues. We have our flag. And all that's happening is the left is burning it all

00:12:49.060 down. So I tell you this. I can come on my show and I can bitch and moan about why tearing out a 1.00

00:12:54.480 statue is wrong. But you take my hometown team away, team away, and I am going to start losing it. 0.92

00:13:01.920 Quote, for at least a year and a half, there's been a significant effort by the Bears as well

00:13:06.420 as Chicago lawmakers and others to try to figure out if the Bears could build what they need to

00:13:10.200 build in the city of Chicago. They looked and they think and they, I think, gave the old college

00:13:14.780 try to find a place within the city of Chicago and they couldn't. So basically, here's what's going

00:13:19.900 on. I asked Grok to give us the issue, right? The main Chicago Bears tax issue revolves around

00:13:28.100 the team's push for a new stadium. In suburban Arlington Heights, likely where it's going,

00:13:33.520 or maybe Hammond, Indiana. Okay, so they own land in Arlington Heights and they want to build a

00:13:38.160 privately financed domed stadium in the surrounding development. They're seeking the key tax-related

00:13:42.720 concessions from Illinois to make it viable. They go to Arlington Heights, I'm upset. They go to

00:13:46.940 Indiana, I'm pissed. The Chicago Bears in Arlington Heights might still try and keep the name,

00:13:52.180 but it still is just sad. Guys, can't we figure something out for this? Here is the problem.

00:13:59.940 The people of the city don't care enough. They don't care enough. Okay, I got, I'm going to rant

00:14:05.040 too much on this one. Let me give you some of the facts. I know many of you are sitting here saying

00:14:08.460 like, just tell me what's going on. Without special legislation, the Bears could face massive annual

00:14:13.040 property taxes in the range of $100 million to $200 million once the stadium's in full effect

00:14:17.080 because taxes are so high. The team has requested about $850 million in public funds for essential

00:14:22.240 support for their $2 billion stadium. Yeah, if you build it in Chicago, frustrated by slow progress

00:14:29.220 in Illinois, the Bears have explored a competing proposal in Indiana where lawmakers passed legislation

00:14:34.500 just recently offering up to $1 billion in public funds to lure the team to Hammond.

00:14:39.400 I will not tolerate this. Indiana House sends environmental deregulation. Chicago Bears

00:14:46.260 stadium bills back to the Senate. A narrowly divided vote to roll back portions of their

00:14:51.540 environmental code, plus a big, a high profile bid to lure Chicago Bears across state line,

00:14:56.360 anchored a deadline, a deadline day push. Lawmakers also narrowly set up an end of the session

00:15:03.980 negotiation. So they've also narrowly approved a controversial proposal to ban public camping.

00:15:08.040 But the point is this. They're moving forward. One of the most contentious votes of the day came

00:15:13.540 on Senate Bill 277, an environmental policy to over a policy overall that passed a House

00:15:19.320 5345 with 16 Republicans joining Democrats in opposition. The proposal makes dozens of changes

00:15:26.240 to Indian environmental regulations, including replacing certain mandatory requirements.

00:15:30.900 Supporters argued the measure modernizes outdated language, blah, blah, blah. We get the point.

00:15:34.340 The point is ultimately that they want to bring the Chicago Bears to Indiana. And I'm going to break

00:15:43.320 down for you the argument I've made for some time and what I can't stand about all of this stuff that's

00:15:48.840 going on. I've got this story, I believe that's here we go. This is from May 20th, 2024. Why so many

00:15:56.280 black Chicagoans are frustrated by the migrant crisis. I'm going to give you a general story,

00:16:01.040 analogy, metaphor, whatever you want to call it. The year is old, 1750. And a man stakes a claim in a

00:16:08.920 piece of land. And there's no one around for miles. He stakes his claim, builds his farm with his family.

00:16:15.200 His family helps him build a new farm for his new family. And then they they live. And over time,

00:16:22.520 others move nearby and needs arise. And you get the formation of a small town. There's a marketplace

00:16:29.660 in the city center where the farmers can come and trade wares and gears. And you get a small town.

00:16:35.000 Eventually, you build up to around 100 or so people. And now it's maybe the late 1700s,

00:16:39.080 early 1800s. And a man says, let's put let's come together and make some recreation. And they

00:16:43.800 they make a field. I don't know when the first year for baseball was, though, but we'll use baseball as

00:16:47.720 an example. First year of I think it was 1700s baseball in the US. I want to get the exact number for

00:16:53.220 my story. 1846, the first officially recorded organized game. 1792. Indeed. I knew I had my

00:17:04.200 dates right. So it's the late 1700s, early 1800s. And a man says, hey, these this game the kids are

00:17:10.240 playing, you know, we should bring everybody together. We should play. Right. So you create

00:17:14.440 they create a baseball field. A couple generations go by and you start getting your first organized

00:17:19.220 baseball game. Now it's just pre-Civil War. Years go by and now you've got actual organized

00:17:24.320 baseball and there are teams in the community. And one day in this bustling town now with over

00:17:30.980 a thousand people, they go to a city hall meeting, town hall meeting, and they say, what should we do?

00:17:39.300 You know, we have small, limited public funds. We have a grant. And well, we should we should we

00:17:44.940 need to do something. Right. And a man stands up and says, listen. My great granddaddy, my great,

00:17:50.800 great granddaddy helped come together in this town and build this field where we all play baseball

00:17:55.900 together. And, you know, I got to say the old scoreboards falling apart. Grass is not being

00:18:02.460 mowed properly. I think it's time we revitalize this and make sure that our kids can have what our

00:18:07.860 grandparents gave to us. All in favor. 79 out of 79 percent. Yeah, everyone cheers. The other half

00:18:14.600 are like, well, do we need baseball? But everyone cheers and claps and they say, we're going to all

00:18:17.280 pitch in. We're going to put together and we're going to fix up this baseball field. And it is

00:18:20.680 revitalized. A legacy of the people who built this town, giving something beautiful to their children

00:18:25.760 and saying it was nice for me. I want you to have this and more. Well, now we get into the modern era.

00:18:31.940 It's the 90s. And a man goes to town hall and now there's 10,000 people in this big town. It's not

00:18:39.420 the biggest, you know, especially for the 90s. They say, look, I know we're not the biggest town.

00:18:45.040 I know we're not the best, but we do have our town baseball field, local school, and the kids play

00:18:50.160 there all day. And I think it's time that we allocate some funding and revitalize it just like

00:18:54.260 our great, great grandparents did and their grandparents before them. And everyone claps and

00:18:57.660 cheers. Overwhelming fanfare. And they say we're going to put the money towards

00:19:01.880 fixing up our baseball field. It's small. I know. Well, now the year is 2020 and town hall once

00:19:10.900 again. And a man says 30 years ago, my grandfather came before you and he said, we're going to fix up

00:19:18.280 this baseball field. I think it's high time we do the same. And so sure enough, everybody claps and

00:19:23.960 cheers and they say, yay. And the vote fails. 47 to 53. And they decide they're not going to

00:19:31.860 spend money on the baseball field. In fact, they're going to build a new migrant welcome 0.95

00:19:35.260 center. And the reason why? Well, over the past 20 years, the city's become a haven for Haitian

00:19:41.180 migrants that were brought in by the various administrations. They invited these people

00:19:46.320 in and said, we're going to center all of you in this small town. Now, the Haitian migrants outnumber 1.00

00:19:52.880 the voting bloc, not the actual population, but the voting bloc. Why? Well, these individuals have

00:19:59.160 interests. They're not wrong to have interests. And when they sit there looking at each other,

00:20:04.140 hearing that the town is going to spend money on a baseball field, they go, what? We don't need a

00:20:09.240 baseball field, nor do we care about baseball. We as migrants know how hard it is for our friends

00:20:15.500 and family to come here and not have not understand how to work and a place to go.

00:20:20.200 We need a migrant facility and welcome center. And so they vote. And that's what you get.

00:20:27.660 And what you get is your legacy and what your great grandparents built and what your family

00:20:33.040 and friends talked about and the games that you used to go to, gone. The park starts falling apart.

00:20:38.680 Eventually, people stop going. And I saw this happen when I went on the 4th of July back to my

00:20:43.160 hometown in Chicago. And I went to Vidham Park and it was the 4th of July and nobody was playing

00:20:48.560 baseball. Nobody was outside. The weeds were overgrowing in the baseball fields and there

00:20:52.800 were soccer goals. I don't mind soccer. We got the Chicago Fire. It is what it is.

00:20:57.440 But what happened to when I was a kid, all the kids running around and playing? Every street,

00:21:02.760 you'd see kids goofing off. There's fireworks. There's barbecues. Smoke fell in the air.

00:21:08.020 Why can't the future generation have these things? And don't get me wrong,

00:21:10.720 there's cultural problems that we engaged in. Many of our kids are on the internet. Many of us

00:21:15.460 didn't have kids. I get it. You know, the reality is I should have stayed there. Theoretically,

00:21:20.900 like if things were going well, I would have stayed there. I would have had a family of my own around

00:21:25.120 my early 20s. And then this 4th of July, my teenage kids would be grilling alongside me

00:21:30.400 and they'd be playing baseball. And they'd probably be skateboarding. But to be honest,

00:21:35.520 I'd probably have my kids do Little League or something and that stuff. It's America.

00:21:39.020 We'd still go to baseball games. Went to one recently. It's so awesome. I love it. Always will.

00:21:43.340 Not even a diehard sports fan for organized sports. Baseball, it's just so fun. We got a box for

00:21:51.300 everybody in the company. We hung out. We had nachos. We had hot dogs. It was a lot of fun

00:21:56.400 to watch the game. It was a lot of fun. And what was it? I think it was like the Sox at the Nationals

00:22:02.640 or whatever. The Sox lost. It is what it is. This is where we're at right now. The failures of policy

00:22:08.120 and the disinterest of the people of Chicago. Because the point is this. If all of the people

00:22:14.760 of Chicago really wanted to make sure the Bears would stay, this would not be happening and there

00:22:19.340 would be no question. I don't fault Indiana for saying we're going to have the Hammond Bears.

00:22:25.380 I know the Bears will still exist, but this is a Chicago institution, my friends. A Chicago

00:22:31.660 institution. The Bears. The Bears. The Bears. A Chicago institution. And so, I ask why it is

00:22:40.800 that people in Chicago are in distress. Why it is that my family all left. If they didn't go to

00:22:47.920 the suburbs, they just left entirely. Why I have many friends who left. I was talking to my wife

00:22:53.940 recently about how, honestly, it'd be great to go back. You know why? Growing up there, I remember

00:23:00.040 the summer nights. I remember the smell of springtime and the smell of fall. There's nice

00:23:05.080 residential neighborhoods where you can go trick-or-treating. You can't really do that out

00:23:08.580 here. Houses that are just so far away, no one trick-or-treats. And I got a kid now, and I'd love

00:23:13.000 to have my kid go trick-or-treating. And then we'll check the candy for razor blades. And so, we've

00:23:17.180 talked about how we like the weather. I know it's too hot in the summer and it's too cold in the winter,

00:23:20.900 but then you get summer and winter sports. Although skiing's not really that great. But we like the snow.

00:23:25.540 We grew up there. I like when it's snowing on Christmas morning. I like presents under the

00:23:30.780 tree. I want my children, I want future generations to experience all that was great, all of the good

00:23:37.160 that we held, and we can do away with the bad. Unfortunately, you know what I see? I see the bad

00:23:42.880 is only getting worse. Map shows U.S. cities with most people in financial distress. Let's see who ranks

00:23:49.780 number one. We don't need the bulletin. Let's see. Chicago had the largest year-over-year increase

00:23:56.660 in the share of people with distressed accounts, and the largest spike in the average number of

00:24:00.880 distressed accounts per person. On top of that, it ranks first in Google search interest for both

00:24:05.800 debt and loans, signaling heightened demand for borrowing. We got this Chicago Mayor Brandon

00:24:12.240 Johnson. New low approval ratings. It's just failure and failure and failure.

00:24:18.600 And a city council vote on $70 million in migrant funding highlighted the situation faced by

00:24:25.380 communities like South Shore. Migrants have been resettled in black communities where people have

00:24:29.820 been fighting for decades for development and resources. And this was the point exemplified

00:24:35.500 so perfectly how over the last year I have been talking about this story of the baseball field

00:24:41.900 and how the migrants, they have their interests, and I respect it. I really do. You know,

00:24:47.080 the people who come here from other countries that know America is great, when asked what do they

00:24:51.700 want, they're going to say, resources for us. Everyone will vote for their interests. I get it.

00:24:58.180 But why is it good for us to welcome in people who will say, your traditions, your world,

00:25:06.000 the good and beautiful things that were created by your forefathers, your ancestors,

00:25:10.840 your grandparents, they are not worth it anymore. I reject that outright. And they're funneling 70

00:25:17.800 plus million for welcome centers and migrant facilities. And they can't cut a deal so that

00:25:24.340 our hometown team can stay, can be a Chicago team. Now I'm going to stress this. I understand

00:25:30.760 Chicago's got limited space availability. The Bears bought in Arlington Heights.

00:25:35.320 So I stress this again. I lament the Arlington Heights Bears. They'll probably still call it the

00:25:41.900 Chicago Bears. I'll roll my eyes. We drive down 55 in a Lake Shore drive and there's Soldier Field.

00:25:48.840 That's the place. I know it wasn't always there. I know that it was hard fought to get there in the

00:25:55.440 first place. These things, just because they were built once before, does it mean they will remain

00:26:00.160 always. But I don't see a good and legitimate reason why we cannot, as the city of Chicago,

00:26:08.440 cut a deal and make it happen, whatever that deal may be. Because again, I'll stress this.

00:26:14.140 If the city actually cared about what it meant to be in Chicago, the city actually cared

00:26:18.240 what it meant to be an American, they'd move mountains for this. The truth is you can just do

00:26:24.960 things. And they could easily make this happen. You may say, Tim, there's not enough land.

00:26:31.380 One of the things Pritzker was talking about, I'll jump back to the story, is he says it's just,

00:26:35.820 it's overly dense, right? Let me see if I can find that quote. He says, he was at a meeting.

00:26:44.360 Let's see. Bears representatives have repeatedly assured the village that news regarding India does

00:26:48.240 not mean they have made a decision on a final site location. The news from Indiana underscores the

00:26:53.200 need for urgency on matters for Illinois leadership to work towards passing the mega projects bill.

00:26:57.980 I hope, I beg, and I pray that the reality is Indiana's providing some leverage to force Illinois

00:27:06.020 to get their act together. But here's what he said. For at least a year and a half, you know,

00:27:12.960 they gave the old college try. Transportation and a sufficiently large site are very hard to find in

00:27:17.580 a dense city like the city of Chicago, Pritzker said. So that's why I think we're down to the question

00:27:22.020 of whether they're going to build an Arlington Heights or they're going to build something in

00:27:24.940 the state of Indiana. It's intolerable if they go to Indiana. I'd appreciate the institution will

00:27:29.380 still exist. Fine. But Arlington Heights is even unacceptable. Guys, again, I know it's difficult,

00:27:37.200 wishful thinking. But if this really was a home, a city and a people, they'd say, okay, here's what

00:27:44.960 we're going to do. You start buying up property. How much space do you need? And we make it happen.

00:27:52.880 So it'll cost you $3 billion. If the city of Chicago is a unified people that believed in

00:27:57.500 their institutions, they'd say we can do it because a community can do it. My point is ultimately this.

00:28:03.560 If there is a will, there is a way. And today there is no will. We are a fractured people.

00:28:09.080 We are a struggling people. We've got, you know, Chicago. What is it? Is this? Where did that story

00:28:16.940 go? I had another story talking about actually, is it this one? I don't know. This is the protesters

00:28:23.100 in Chicago. Again, affluent white female liberals protesting against the migration issue. This is the 0.55

00:28:29.200 point. If we were a people that deeply cared, but we're not. So I can tell you just this. It's a

00:28:35.860 distressed place, Chicago, overall rank. Number one, people are upset. The city is fragmented

00:28:42.100 culturally, politically. The taxes are insane. There's reasons why I left and it breaks my heart.

00:28:49.460 There's political corruption to an extreme degree. And that's been the case for some time.

00:28:53.980 And it's why I don't know that I could live in the city of Chicago. I told you guys the story about

00:28:59.400 my friends and I were pulled over at gunpoint by Chicago police and they tried to frame us.

00:29:02.860 So this is not a joke. It's not a fact. NBC reported on it. They claimed we matched a

00:29:07.480 description. I'll give you the quick version. My friends were there in 2012 during a NATO protest,

00:29:13.120 just covering the protest. We get pulled over by around 12 vehicles, some of them unmarked black

00:29:17.780 vehicles. They illegally search the vehicle and find nothing and then tell us to get lost.

00:29:22.920 By the time we make it back to the apartment we're staying at, the doors open, the lights are on.

00:29:26.580 Long story short, an individual that requested a ride from us tried to put drugs in our car.

00:29:33.340 He was being told by an individual who was dating a cop. We heard from friends the police scanner was

00:29:39.540 looking for our vehicle. And the ultimate conclusion was actually quite simple.

00:29:46.120 If we had allowed this individual to put drugs in our car under false pretenses, we didn't know the

00:29:52.140 person was trying to do it. They were trying to just grab a bag and put it in our car. We didn't

00:29:54.560 know it was in it. And I said, absolutely not. Had I just said, yeah, grab what you want,

00:29:58.020 come for a ride. If we got pulled over, prison. Prison for all of us. And you can watch the story

00:30:05.780 on NBC News. They talk about how this happened to us. And I can go into more detail and provide

00:30:11.340 more information on it. But for the political corruption in Chicago, which has been historic,

00:30:15.900 I just thought it's not a place that I could go right now as someone who challenges the corruption

00:30:21.460 itself. I'd walk in and, you know, it's as simple as, oh, look, we found drugs. Prison,

00:30:28.300 four years, guaranteed, mandatory minimum. I don't trust going to Chicago is safe in this

00:30:33.280 political environment, especially with what you see with Pritzker and Trump and all of that stuff.

00:30:37.200 Now, maybe you can call it paranoia. I know it's not. Because again, there's video of me,

00:30:41.680 Luke Rutkowski, my friend Jeff, Jess, getting pulled over, surrounded at gunpoint,

00:30:46.740 where they illegally search our vehicle. It happened. It's a corrupt place. And it's sad

00:30:52.240 because it's where I come from. But now what I see is the city doesn't have a shared identity.

00:30:58.620 They don't care about the bears. If they really did, they would move mountains, 0.95

00:31:03.540 come hell or high water. The Chicago bears would be in Chicago.

00:31:06.360 And there's ways to pull it off. But the truth is this. Let me just say one of the easiest things

00:31:13.200 a city could do, especially Chicago, with as much money as it makes, is secure a couple billion for

00:31:17.920 a stadium. Indeed, they could do it. And they could do it in the city limits. But if there's no interest

00:31:24.040 and no one really cares all that much, then they'll go to Arlington Heights where the land is cheaper

00:31:28.720 and there's less people. Arlington Heights. I got no beef with Arlington Heights, okay? I've skated there.

00:31:35.460 I have friends from there. We all know Arlington Heights. Indiana. I respect you, Indiana.

00:31:42.040 The fact that Indiana is moving mountains to try and get the Chicago Bears,

00:31:45.880 it breaks my heart that it might work. Because Indiana is basically saying we know what we need

00:31:50.960 to do to get a team as storied as the Bears. So I'm pissed. Maybe I'm just a dying old man

00:31:58.060 watching what once was go away. It is what it is, I guess. But I really do blame a variety of things.

00:32:05.360 We are weak culturally. We have generations of weakness and we have cultural fragmentation.

00:32:12.840 Perhaps, many of you may say, Tim, sometimes it just happens. Culture decays. Indeed. Indeed.

00:32:21.160 Perhaps no one's to blame. There's always going to be faults somewhere. So, best of luck, Chicago Bears.

00:32:28.000 The Bears. The Bears may just be the Hammond Bears. Who wants to say that? Nobody. It is what it is.

00:32:37.200 Thanks for that, everybody. I could probably talk for like seven years about this and why it pisses me off.

00:32:41.500 So I'll just wrap it up now. I usually go about 30 minutes on this show.

00:32:44.020 Follow me on X on Instagram at TimCast. Thank you so much. And we will see you tonight,

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The Culture War - Tim Pool - February 25, 2026

The Chicago Bears ARE LEAVING, 100 Years Of Failed Democrat Policy Has GUTTED Our Culture

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