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Were there any safeguards at all in this deal for the taxpayers? |
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And the Republican Assembly leader said the reason is because we got rid of Scott Walker. |
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Not many. Looks like it just gets prorated down. So the state will pay $230,000 per job and Foxconn doesn't have to create the number of jobs they promised. A sweet deal. Amazon sort of did something similar when they split their HQ2 up. They got the subsidies for say 50,000 new jobs and then told the state they'll only make 25,000 but get the full subsidy. This is going to be a common tactic by companies going forward. Promise a ton of jobs, get huge subsidy, scale back what they planned to do and pocket the massive subsidy that was based on the original job number. |
I should add that Foxconn pulls this shit all the time. They've been doing it for a decade now. Only the dumbest fucking people on the planet fall for it. So I guess congrats to Scott Walker and people who voted for him. You couldn't run a simple Google search.
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He also said that giving Walker the authority to do deals like that independent of the legislature was a mistake because they don't trust Tony Evers so they need(ed) to take that authority away before he could use it. Shameless. |
Now FoxConn isn't just changing focus of what they are doing in WI, they are suspending all work on the project.
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Aaron Rupar on Twitter: "Trump downplays the national debt increasing under his watch: "Well, the trade deals won't kick in for a while."… " sigh |
Regarding the deficit, it's hard to figure out if he's running a con or if he's the one being conned.
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Along similar lines -- topics that piss off someone like me and presumably not too many others:
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...c-rss_20190131 Holy shit does that fire me up. It's possible there's more to the story, but the first impression is a putrid one. |
The initial EEOC complaint was over height discrimination because she's a dwarf? Did not see that twist coming, but maybe that odd detail will help this story gain or maintain traction.
And considering "two officials who did not want to be identified confirmed Klein moved the files to a high shelf" I can assume they're not done trying to plug leaks... |
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Glad to know publicly available testimony on video from the Intelligence Chiefs was completely manipulated and altered by the Deep State Fake News.
Can we just skip to the part of the film where everyone needs to greet the orange clown with Heil Trump? |
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Another thing that would be a huge scandal for any other president but will be lost in mountain of Trump's corruption. |
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"we had huge surpluses with Mexico. With NAFTA, we have huge deficits. We lose $100 billion a year on trade with Mexico. Does that sound good? And this has been going on for many years. So I stopped it. I stopped it a lot." "I stopped it a lot" is just such a mind numbing stupid thing to say. I know Trump says mind numbing stupid things every single time he opens his mouth, but even with my expectations as low as I thought they could go when reading an article about things the man said, that made me stop and shake my head. |
The reason you have a trade deficit is because you are a more prosperous country. We had trade surpluses during the Great Depression. During the last big recession our trade deficit dropped a ton.
It also completely ignores foreign investment. Something that goes up when you have a trade deficit. This is basic economics. |
What in the actual fuck was going on in yearbook publishing in the 1980s?
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This. What happens when the VA Gov resigns? Who even is the Lt. Gov.? |
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The first polling on Schultz is out. Over half don't know him, but among those that do he has a 4% approval rating. Even more amazing is that it's 4% for Dems, 4% for GOPers and 4% for independents.
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And Northam is toast now as the NAACP has just called for his resignation. |
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Wife and I were wondering what colleges (let alone med schools) even HAD yearbooks.
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I had the same thought |
My college had a yearbook
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My wife (steadfastly R) watched clips of Northam's interview and immediately said that no, what he was talking about wasn't abortion but palliative care (she's a NICU nurse). |
Wow, there's a lot of apathy here. No/hardly mention of Booker or Harris recent announcements.
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Not apathy, there is a lot of time before that election-enough to see how they are going to handle Trump in the meantime. There's a couple unexpected running like Marianne Williamson, author and Oprah's spiritual advisor Marianne Williamson, Oprah’s spiritual adviser, is running for president - Vox not holding out much hope for her getting far, but I would have said the same for Trump too. |
Our country is a fucking joke. Jesus Christ.
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Literally every member of the Democratic party is running, so I expect each announcement will get little interest unless there's a big surprise. |
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That is the way I am feeling. Some who have announced are interesting. and all of them have their flaws. It is going to be sometime before we can even so who will gain traction, and who will almost immediately run out of money and drop. |
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nvm. Article I read was incorrect. It is Justin Fairfax. |
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That was the strangest part for me. Why does a medical school have a yearbook and why would you put that in it? Also this is the kind of headline that lets you know its a bad day for your political career.  |
Now Northam is saying he isn't in the picture. But yesterday he apologized for being in the picture. Was he involved in so many racist photo shoots that he can't remember when he was a character and when he wasn't? That doesn't seem like a helpful defense.
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Yeah, this is a textbook example of how NOT to handle a PR crisis. |
Apparently he had a 1 PM press conference scheduled to announce his resignation and then he scrapped that. What an absolute dumpster fire.
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I bet Trump is loving this. He could shoot a white person on 5th Ave and the media would give it very little coverage.
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Rip Van Winkle I presume and you been sleeping the past three years? I get your point, but terrible analogy. Trump can't sneeze and not have it over-covered by all media. |
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I just have a hard time believing he didn't see the picture before he apologized, and I also don't think I would have to ask friends to make sure it wasn't me in the picture. If he did, then he should resign anyway as a complete moron. |
Judge much guys?
Like you all never got black out drunk in college and dressed in KKK garb? |
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Yeah, next they'll be saying dressing as Michael Jackson (including darkening your face) is wrong. |
I guess I am of the era where you could dress up like Michael Jackson without using blackface and you'd be just fine. he must be thriller era?
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I lack the capacity to really understand what it must’ve been like to be an African-American man in medical school—the pinnacle of our educational system—in the 1980’s and to have to excel academically while this culture was going on all around you.
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Would you be completely shocked if at least one Dem 2020 contender’s campaign has reached out to Northam’s people asking him to hold off on resigning until the candidate can issue a statement demanding his resignation?
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