The Dollop with Dave Anthony and Gareth Reynolds - 456 - Scott Walker - Reverse Dollop

Episode Date: November 18, 2020

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read a story Dave Dave Dave Dave Dave Dave Dave Dave Dave Dave Dave I was in the middle of my thing I don't think that is gonna be the right description for this episode what are you talking about well because Dave I think we're about to get tossed right in the middle of an old-fashioned Pollard I think we're about to have a reverse dollop you piece of crap what oh my god yes so I think I think I think that you are listening to the dollop this is a bilingual American history podcast and some weeks I Gareth Reynolds lover of bandages electric car owner and casual male receiver reads a story from American history to my

friend Dave Anthony who knows fuck all about this that's that's right and called it quote is jam-packed Jim I'm the fucking hippo guy okay okay and this is not gonna come a tickling clock okay now hit him with the puppy you both present sick arguments November 2nd oh no I whisper it November 2nd 1967 see it's already different you're already in my house it's a little weirder here festive don't touch anything okay do not touch the walls they're sticky anyway November 2nd 1967 Lou Walker short for Lou Ellen and Patricia and Fitch who went by Pat welcome their first son Scott into the world hmm lesser known son David

would follow a couple years later but we don't really care about him now yeah Scott had a fairly normal childhood for instance while living in plain veal while living in plain field Iowa it bothered eight-year-old Scott that the state flag didn't fly in front of the local government building so we did what any normal hmm how old is he he's eight years old he's a he's a he's eight and he's already got issues with where flags are flying he's like that piece of well Dave Dave mommy mommy that piece of cloth it's not appropriately where it should be well Dave it's there's not even a piece of

cloth okay the state flag is not flying in front of the building and yes you're right because he's a born patriot it irked him so he did what any normal child would do and he collected enough money in a mayonnaise jar to buy one for them I'm sorry you said you said so he walked around the town asking for donations to put up a state flag yeah and it had a full jar of mayonnaise and he kept asking for more throw money I mean a lot of the people thought the child was disturbed what he had like a thing a miracle weapon he was like mister will you put a nickel in there for a flag he's not starting great oh

Dave Dave he is gonna get great in 1977 the family moved to Delevin a small Wisconsin town near the Illinois border and about one hour from Milwaukee where Lou had accepted a position as a pastor of the first Baptist Church now I'm hoping that's a beer you open now Scott Walker was ten years old when he moved to Wisconsin there he worked a summer job flipping burgers at McDonald's he became an Eagle Scout and in high school he ran track and was in the band but he also developed an interest in politics so it's just sounds like a normal Wisconsin kid this is just a little burgers he's an Eagle Scout he's running

track he's in the band he puts money in mayonnaise jars to pay for flags and for in front of government buildings it's a regular kid so in 1985 Scott Walker traveled to DC as a part of the Wisconsin based model UN ripoff called Badger Boys Nation which completely sounds like a patriotic boy band we are the Badger Boys Nation what this is Wisconsin so this is this is sending a group of children to be humiliated in our nation's capital yes yes yes yes yes yes but under the name Badger Boys Nation so while there a lot of amazing things happened but something truly remarkable happened to young Scott Walker he met his

personal hero Ronald Reagan what a big moment Walker just infused with douchebag just oh well I won't remember this will I who are you where is everything someone tell me someone tell me an AIDS victim joke so I can get situated have you seen the pants the one I had earlier hello he's the one he look at hey I thought I was the only one who collected nickels in mayonnaise jars so Walker graduated from high school in 1986 his high school yearbooks include several photos of him including one that calls Scott Walker at the Desperado this was because he had some stubble on his face so I saw them

oh I saw the I saw the picture and it's really I it's hard to call it stubble but I guess it sounds like a fucking cool guy I mean basically just described a guy straight out of a Clint Eastwood Western like he just came out and he's just a bad he had stubble on a little bit of rebel on his face rebel he's basically just the fucking most badass dude in the West El Desperado thank you well I did I thought you might push back but here you are on board which I love this guy so you're gonna love him so he went on to Marquette University where he got involved in student government he became a student senator and led to the

impeachment of other student government leaders for spending student government funds on a limo and flowers at the downtown hotel the fister during homecoming I'm sorry hold up cool chill hold up was the hotel called the fister well Dave we've talked about this before on the podcast and we have and yeah yeah it's the fister and it doesn't help that it has a silent P does everybody know that what fisting is in Wisconsin you know as someone who grew up in Wisconsin it took me leaving to process that we had a place that we called the fister and you put your fist in a in a vagina the whole fist in a vagina no

no is that I swear it's a hotel is there a special room in the hotel for is there a washing area I'd like the fister sweet wink wink wink wink ah yes of course with the apparatus so so he so he impeached he tried to impeach other men's student government other student government officials so he's it's cool this is a guy you're like get him in the blood of the country no this guy is great cuz he's looking out for money that doesn't fucking matter I mean that's the important thing is is here if you're if you're at a college you really got to stay on top of that someone bought a limo money and not and all the all the

other fucking money that people actually abusing their power are using no go after the other students for having a good fucking time and buying flowers for sure yeah well also I mean yeah he wasn't involved in this group so that would make you think he was like he means the desperado though the desperate that's how the desperado rolls Dave he's he's not he doesn't believe in laws unless it comes to other students using them for a limo and flowers to go to the fister I can't and again going going to the fister on homecoming is really kind of rude well it's very rude cuz you're not gonna be walking right for a while but

but you lose your virginity at prom you know what you get on homecoming his political science teacher said that Scott quote attended class every day in a three-piece suit it was like teaching Alex Keaton that's a family ties reference and now how and now how was he never beaten with an inch of his life it's hard to explain I don't have that let's let's just let's just what year is this this is like 1987 basically 88 okay so yeah if you're showing up to a college class in a suit you are the greatest douchebag that has ever walked into the state of Wisconsin yeah I like you don't want to like it's not it's not saying

that everybody who wears a suit to class as a douchebag but the biggest douche bags where the suits to class and it's it's fucking performative it is just nonsense it means well also with all that stubble you're like who is this guy is he autumn or a fall or that's the same season I mean that's the thing he's got the suit on and he's wearing that but the face the face is in 1874 California and it's fucking kicking ass thank you David thank you you're swearing a lot but I love it I love every moment of it so later he ran for student body president and lost and if that wasn't bad enough he was then

sanctioned for a legal campaigning and called quote unfit by the student paper for his quote blatant mud slinging so this is college I just want to make that clear that he blatant mud slinging in the college paper we can you imagine mud slinging when you're running just can't imagine being in school being like yeah fuck this you know he left Marquette a senior year without graduating he learned 94 credits of the 128 required for diploma Scott says he left to focus on his political career which seems to be the likeliest outcome however he I mean he was also he was known for telling people that he was gonna be

president one day when he's walking around in that suit but some people did find his early exit puzzling and were left to wonder if he was maybe kicked out or asked to leave that should that should actually be a crime like if you are if you are younger than say 30 and you're walking around saying I'm gonna be president you should be put in a prison like that's what reeducation camps should be for it truly is an issue I getting involved in politics shows that there's something maybe a little off with you saying that you're gonna be president and believing it is it is a it is seriously that's like a deficiency

the only worst thing is saying you want to be a stand-up comedian like you're just bad yeah yeah yes totally agree yes but either way in 1990 to age 22 Scott Walker ran for a seat in the Wisconsin State Assembly he lost by receiving less than one-third of the vote which if you're not a math expert is bad it's not good it's not great but don't worry Dave two years later in May 1992 a 24 year old Walker went to Saz's a smoked ribs barbecue joint on the west side of Milwaukee not far from Miller Brewery and County Stadium where the menu boasts that it's quote home of Leni's battered cheese curds but on this

night but on this night Dave there was more in the air than just curd you see it was karaoke night but it was also the night that Scott met Tannette Tarantino she was 36 years old 12 years older than Walker and had lost her first husband to kidney disease now Scott and Tannette hit it off is she out of Laverne and Shirley like what the fuck just happened what was that name Tannette Tarantino she's is she married a big ragu like what's going on right now you just created you just said oh and also there's a sitcom character from the late 70s and the name is just be developed into normal I've read it so many times

but you're right it's absolutely insane and Laverne and Shirley right Milwaukee so it makes sense so so anyway so Scott and Tannette hit it off and Scott made his move he wrote on a napkin and he slid it to her his notes said quote forgive me for being rude but I've got to go home got to get up early for work but if you want to have dinner sometime he included his name oh my god that is so hot it's hot that is she called him a couple days she called him a couple days later and they scheduled their first date now Dave even hotter just a few months later he took her back to Saz's for karaoke night again and this

time he passed another note on a napkin I'm gonna eat cheese curds out of your ass no no no well you've set the bar too high this time it said forgive me for being rude but will you marry me and he placed a ring on top of the nap in the fuck just happened this is a second proposed this is the second this is second durable no no no no no no no this is a few months later on a repeat date oh okay this this is yeah this it's still insane to propose via a nap even if it's a callback what a romantic yeah it's comedically it works for the callback but the napkin thing I'm just it's not great anyway six months

later on February 6 1993 Scott and Tannette got married February 6th which also just happened to be Ronald Reagan's birthday I had to go thanks for having me as a guest on the spot you don't Dave you don't know that he knew that you don't that could have been a coincidence he did he that's the day he jerked off every day for all day let me just let me just get let me can I please just check the notes and see if you're right no he did he knew yeah yeah that's fair you know he did know it was calculated I was a decision I am obviously a very political person and I have I have heroes Eugene Depp yes yes

there's tons of John Brown tons of them out there and and I would never ever consider getting married on John Brown's birthday well fucking crazy to let something like that ever factor in but let alone to find somebody who's like yes yes Scott yes to that too yes to Reagan's birthday yes to you forever and yes to this Reagan's stuff forever I'm Tannette let's do it Tannette what is that name Tannette Tarantino get over it good Lord get over yourself just because I want to go have some curds and listen to someone do some you know red red wine covers down at Saz's with my sweet hubby who's 12 years

my junior huh well there's some curd air and the and so what tonight's gonna be romantic I think he's gonna pop the question I'm gonna take him to the fister if you know what I mean oh she's 100% fisting him no no that'll be the government's job call that honey and I well did it happen are you in doll oh ma are you there I know you're my puppet master now at 25 Scott Walker became a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly he would be elected there every two years for the next decade now Walker made a name for himself by being a young conservative who made frequent appearances on local TV he supported

welfare reform and oppose mass transit it's a good start an opportunity an opportunity opened up for Walker when people found out that Tom immense the Milwaukee County Executive and County Board had given themselves giant pension backdrops in addition to their hefty annual pensions some of them would receive a lump some payments of more than one million dollars when they retired the County Executive himself was in line for a backdrop payment of about two million so the it's very sweet you get by the way get involved in government if you want to make a lot of money how many times do we have to go

over this I know a lot of people like what should I do just be the people who don't help the people that's how you make it in this society yes so the voters of Milwaukee County revolted at this obvious corruption and government waste Scott Walker campaign for the new open position on a theme of cutting government and fiscal responsibility he promised that if elected he would cut his own salary and cut the fat and waste of the county government so fine age 34 at age 34 well I do also I always love the the red herring of I'm not even gonna take a salary it's like yeah you're gonna make that up somehow prick

hey I can do this without actually taking money from you guys trust me it all good yeah that all chestnut of that I don't even need to get paid it's like yeah right so at the age of 34 Scott Walker was elected County Executive of Milwaukee County the biggest county in Wisconsin and home to one million people but he was also now in charge of Wisconsin's biggest municipality Scott Walker's had his eyes set on higher office as Milwaukee County Executive he set up annual summer executive rides where he would tour the state on a Harley Davidson now so much for trimming the fat from the government because his

executive rides covered 1,500 miles stopped in almost 40 cities and dipped into the neighboring states of Illinois Minnesota Michigan and Iowa these trips allowed for Walker to promote Milwaukee tourism and also to get his name out there for a future run for governor huh yeah now that future run came soon when Scott Walker started his 2005 executive ride he was criticized for using county taxpayer funds to tour the state when he was running for the Republican nomination in the 2006 governor's race now he ended up losing the 2006 primary for governor but he did raise his profile and he won re-election

as the Milwaukee County executive he continued his executive rides around the state however as a part of his cost-cutting ways as county executive Scott Walker banned unnecessary travel for all county employees while taking part in unnecessary travel himself so that's cool that you imagine your boss on a Harley being like hey come on only for important things now I'll see you next month we're going to Iowa this is classic Republican tightening the strings like they just tied it for everybody else and they're like but I gotta do some shit here I gotta by the way I think that's why saying you're

not gonna take a salary is is is just such a it's just so blatant because it's like oh yeah it's just such an easy cover to be like what do you mean a legal donation I don't take a salary yeah you're talking about yeah no it's the ultimate sign that they're gonna fuck up so some county supervisors took notice of the rides and they filed ethnic complaints about the rides because they were being funded by corporate donations which they alleged were illegal but the people of Milwaukee the people on the Milwaukee County ethics board were all appointed by Walker so his executive rides were okay well that's weird that's

almost seems like you shouldn't have the politician in charge of everything a point ethics people to oversee the things that I'm not gonna stop Davies stubble he's not taking a salary this is Desperado Walker we're talking about I was thinking about the corruption and now I'm just thinking about him riding a horse through Wyoming yeah I say that's where I need you that's where I need you in 2010 Scott Walker won the Republican nomination for governor and on his 43rd birthday he was elected governor of Wisconsin with an easy victory over his Democratic opponent the new governor was anti-abortion even in the case of

rape or incest anti-gay marriage believe if quote black lives matter trained cops better end quote was pro charter schools was a global warming denier etc he was a real winner and again Dave he loved Reagan like an unhealthy amount like he had a photo of president Reagan on his desk in his dorm room amount oh did you not have that I did not have that oh I had one for whacking I had a Reagan whack area yeah I used to have I had so the photos I had in my dorm room where I had one in the in the bathroom of Reagan I had one in the shower of Reagan I had one at my desk of Reagan I had one next to the TV of Reagan I had

one on the nightstand of Reagan and you try to shoot Reagan that's right and then one in the closet yes that's right I tried to shoot okay just want to make sure you're that guy so Walker took office with the promise to create 250 thousand private sector jobs in his first term of four years who after focus yes there that's exciting oh that is exciting yes I thought you were right okay yes no that's a lot of jobs that's a lot of jobs that's a lot of jobs that's a lot of jobs Dave that's a lot of jobs but after focusing on jobs when running for governor instead of getting to work on creating jobs he decided to

go after public sector unions like teachers and state workers with those workers those are bad jobs because the money comes thank you from not a private company who are the best if you know American history private corporations are awesome those jobs don't seem to it seems like they're not able to be influenced which I feel like is a problem right doesn't have the hairy claw of capitalism bleeding it out you know if you can't just hold someone's life in your in your hands in a non-union job and be able to squeeze them to death in any moment then they're not really employees well Dave then you're gonna

love this next part because within weeks of becoming governor Scott Walker made national news when he introduced act 10 also known as the budget repair bill what act 10 what act 10 would really do was severely limit the rights of the public sector unions to collectively bargain state workers would pay more for their health insurance premiums and pension contributions this was a major change since Wisconsin was the first state to grant public sector workers collective bargaining rights back in 1959 it was a clear attack on unions and protesters took over the Capitol building because of it there was the

front-page news in the New York Times for weeks at times up to a hundred thousand people marched on Madison and most determined protesters took over the rotunda of the Capitol building holding signs singing shouting playing drums the 14 Democrats refused to show up for the vote so this matters because the state has a three-fifths present requirement to pass any fiscal bill so since act 10 was part of the budget repair bill and the Democrats didn't show up they couldn't vote on it without them now while some in his cabinet were getting cold feet from the enormous outcry Walker Desperado wasn't

okay he knew just what to do to inspire his people it's what he describes as his quote brave heart moment because we all know William Wallace was virulently anti-union he hated unions William Wallace hated unions so this is from his book unintimidated a governor's story from William Wallace's book sorry I should be clear no William Wallace did not he never actually finished his memoir this is from Scott Walker's book unintimidated a governor's story and a nation's challenge but I mean did he wear face paint also he did yes yeah yes yep except his was he would shout premium

instead of freedom so this is what he writes in his stupid book quote after dinner I reminded them his cabinet of the stand president Ronald Reagan took against the air traffic controllers during his first year in office his actions were bigger than just a labor dispute they set the tone for his entire presidency Reagan's show of courage and strength sent a signal that new leadership had arrived in Washington it sent a message that Ronald Reagan was serious that he had backbone that he was going to fulfill his promises and that he was not going to be pushed around and the message had an impact far beyond

America's borders his resolve not only stiffened the spines of members of Congress it also stiffened the resolve of our allies it encouraged Democratic reformers behind the iron curtain it helped win the Cold War oh fuck yeah I did I mean here's the thing and people don't realize this but getting rid of those goddamn I mean just cry baby those fucking what a fly talk boys I don't know what you call them the plane talking guys sure just nonsense jobs and just the whining oh I there can't be they can't be one of me handling ten planes fucking shut it man just get the job done Dave when I read

that the whole section for I thought what will that do to your head and and I like the way you're taking you're taking it better than I thought you would because it seems a bridge too far for most of it and then he talks about how to help to win the Cold War and I thought that was absurd but here you are okay yeah just put the fucking p it's okay this is the problem with you reading the stories you don't put together things so you're a new president you destroy a union of men and women who are just trying to better their lives and make things and I and I want to point out very very specifically make

things safer for people flying in airplanes right and once you get rid of that union now they're out of the way now what can you do fight the Soviet Union it's a two-tiered plan that's right first we get rid of the air traffic controllers then gore be that's right and there again talky plane guys I wouldn't call it talking playing guys you're right sure okay so that was from his book on intimidated well even if his book was unintimidated Dave he was intimidated the governor wouldn't walk through the capital entrance anymore he had to enter the building through a utility tunnel that linked to the

capital from the parking lot one Madison City Councilwoman reported the tunnel entrance was guarded by police officers she saw Governor Walker's wife Tannette whisked into the tunnel and described it as quote all very men in black look the the the sign of a great leader is one who has to burrow into his office every day that's when you know like a fucking mole like that's when you know you're killing it when you're mole entering your office in the state capital that's how they've you I I would have gone with squirrel but I think more is better you're nailing it so in the wake of the big protests Scott Walker got a call

from David Koch a big-time Walker donor what it actually wasn't from David Koch it was a prank call but still Scott Walker spoke to the prankster for 20 minutes and never realized that he wasn't actually talking to David Koch and this is my favorite part about a baseball that would be the only you heard that I was going to talk to him that would be the only reason why is we would only do it if they came back to the capital with all 14 of them the mice into the hell I'll talk if they want to yell at me for an hour you know I'm used to that I can deal with that but I'm not negotiating bring a baseball bat

yeah that's what I have one in my office you'll be happy with that I got a slugger with my name on it beautiful yeah well here's the deal yeah if there are protesters out there and and and and you're a Reagan John Wayne type guy you get a bat and you just fucking clear them out because that's who you are you're a fucking badass you got a little bit of stubble on your face you wear suits you're everything that Batman is essentially he's just in there just like throwing bat haymakers going where's your radar now everyone's like what is he talking about why is he that's a quite a callback good bye Soviet Union farewell

iron curtain you're probably wondering how the prankster got connected to the governor so easily well he did this by saying things that David Coke would actually say the fake coke brother said the governor couldn't return his call because quote my goddamn maid Maria put my phone in the washer I'd have her deported but she works for next to nothing and quote and he was what right through shut the fuck up so when he's talking to his secretary she's like can he call you back he goes he can't call me back cuz my maid Maria I'm gonna have her to port like he just said abhorrent things and the secretary was like oh for

sure that's him that's no that's right so you just if you're a prankster trying to get through to any Republican just say mean things about non-white people on they'll be like yes our guy yeah just attack class and race in two sentences and then you'll be like hello governor of the nation or the state so in the end Republicans just took the Union provision act 10 out of the budget which allowed them to vote on act 10 without the Democrats and so now they could simply pass it and they did yes that was it they so it turns out you can just change the laws and then get whatever you want by just you know yes yes yes

as you'll see Dave it's very easy to just change the laws huh so Walker signed act 10 in the law act 10 was challenged legally but the Wisconsin Supreme Court upheld the new laws this move would hurt many occupations in Wisconsin and like anything else it's really the ripple effect for instance in education this effect teachers benefits and pays so then the teachers start looking for better jobs that sometimes takes them to other states with better deals then there's those vacancies are filled with lesser trained educators and then the kids get worse schooling and then they grow up dumber and then we're in 2020

arguing about masks and now oh and also I should point out that fiscal hawk Walker later that year passed a major tax cut that helped transfer 2.33 billion dollars of wealth over the next 10 years to the corporations and the rich that's my hawk just like taking taking millions of dollars and dropping it into government homes raw it's almost like you had to get rid of the unions to pull that kind of shit off hmm yes and and I gotta say it it is shocking to me how terms like right to work and deregulate how these how these terms are not just constantly poked through how we're not like how we just

don't I immediately identify them as terrible plans for anyone who's not rich and yet it keeps happening anyways there was a backlash the Democrats have begun gathering signatures on recall petitions against all eight eligible Republican state senators and Scott Walker Republicans responded by attempting to recall all eight eligible Democratic state senators arguing that they had shirked their duties by not being present for the vote in the end the two GOP senators lost their seats state senators lost their seat and the Republicans of Wisconsin maintained a narrow majority so and more good news

Dave Scott Walker won his 2012 recall election he was the first governor in American history to survive a recall yes you know why because he's fucking doing his job short except for Schwarzenegger who survived a total recall if you remember that's an important I don't I don't want to you know put a footnote on my own stuff here but he's Schwarzenegger also survived yeah well it's understandable to take off but I don't mind doing it alone and I stand by what I said stand by what I said later that year a video surface of Walker talking to Diane Hendricks Hendricks is the richest woman in

Wisconsin with a net worth of eight billion dollars she donated over half a million dollars to Scott Walker's recall campaign to help him which made her his single largest donor now in the video she asked him about making Wisconsin a right to work state i.e. a state where employees are not forced to join unions or pay union dues thus slowly taking away union strength which I know you're very into Dave I love it I love it you don't like unions yeah yeah because if unions are around then people don't get fucked and that's not what America is thank you thank you Governor Walker responded to her question by saying

quote well we're gonna start in a couple weeks with our budget adjustment bill the first step is we're going to deal with collective bargaining for all public employee unions because you use divide and conquer that opens the door once we do that which he just said that part it's and and when you watch the video the camera is right there like it's not like someone was hiding behind a pillar with their iPhone this is like a news camera filming this conversation with close ups yeah and he says it yeah it's crazy this is this is the kind she reckon said like they're just there they're not hiding evil at any time they're just it's

all all Republicans are doing is just relentlessly and constantly peeling off new layers of their face to reveal an even eviler and bloody mask that's all them yeah it's just non-stop they have to wonder like they have to I mean they have to laugh at us they have to they have to be like yes holy shit we are so lucky that people are so useless anyway so that was recorded but Walker still somehow after after that tape after everything presented himself as a man of the people he regular tweeted out photos of his brown bag lunch to show off his frugality his favorite was a simple ham and cheese sandwich I know

it's just it's just it's so there there's a stupidity in America that is just so just loves this simplicity Reagan on the horse like yeah he has nothing to do with brown brown bag lunch a guy bringing a brown bag you like I used to I used to have brown bags and I still do sometimes Bush on the air carrier in a flight suit saying mission accomplished a man who never did shit it's just I thought Thompson was an old I think senator he used to drive around in a pickup truck and it's just all just you just like fuck off all you do is evil and then you carry around a brown sack and everyone's like oh man that's great

well this is the guy who wore suits in college yeah yeah I mean yes totally yeah and you know we'll get whatever but he was favorite was a simple ham and cheese sandwich but I do bet that if you open that ham and cheese sandwiches just hundreds in there so Scott Walker was a diligent politician who played it by the book he tried to make all the right moves he put in the work he even but he a lot of times he couldn't stick the landing like one year when he was county executive he reached out to a Jewish group about displaying a menorah at the Milwaukee County Courthouse he asked a prominent turn attorney in town to reach

out to the Lubavitch of Wisconsin Scott Walker signed off his letter with thank you again and Molotov thank you again and by the way I'm gonna burn down your fucking temple by the way thank you and here's a threat hold on a sec I want a whole menorah set up right right on the state capital and once we get that when we're done with that I'm gonna burn down your fucking temple okay or are you yet he was the first guy to make the Molotov cocktail which is where he put the menorah on the bottle of gas and he lit all eight candles and he goes what a miracle and then threw it I mean you know he is sort of an idiot obviously

anyways in 2014 Walker because he had a brown bag with a sandwich in it one reelection and another four-year term as governor after being elected governor three times in four years Walker was on a roll he built up a national reputation for being tough and taking on the unions yet again his sights were set on higher office in January 2015 Scott Walker spoke at the Freedom Summit in Des Moines Iowa where presidential hopefuls become contenders the crowd appreciated his Midwestern frugality and gave him a standing ovation some national pundits declared him an early frontrunner for the Republican

nomination he also had the receipts and his time as governor aside from turning Wisconsin less union he had challenged gay marriage pushed for more voter ID laws proudly rejected 38 million dollars in federal affordable care act money and it even signed a bill in the law that required any woman seeking an abortion to have an ultrasound so they see the image of the unborn child before making their decision you know and this was like I stuff and this was this was all stuff that they loved at the Freedom Conference yes yes it is I which like you you for me you could look we could parse the religious aspects of this

forever because religion is obviously such a cancer in political decision-making but again what I never understand is how someone being like I'm fighting for union I'm fighting against unions makes people go like yeah I just don't understand on any like I don't understand how you like as a conservative you hear that and you're like that's right yeah yeah they shouldn't be like it seems like such a an American thing and it seems like the sort of thing that that side would just embrace in totality Scott Walker's presidential run was a disaster he wasn't very good at answering questions which seems important

or seemed important at the time like when he was asked how he would handle the threat of the Islamic State he said quote if I could take on a hundred thousand protesters I can do the same across the world it's true which the more I read the more I fall in love with because he snuck into the capital and they were peaceful protesters he like what is this which is the biggest problem with what occurred is peaceful protesters ain't gonna do it against what you're fighting you got to fight fire with fire peaceful protesting and laws aren't gonna work against breaking the law and evil and he does think that those protesters are

no different than ISIS probably fair but okay well when asked what it would be like to actually send troops into battle Walker brought up his experience as an Eagle Scout which we would agree any war veteran will tell you that it's basically the same thing well when you're when you get I don't know how far up you got in Cub Scouts but when you get up to the we below okay so when you get up to the Eagles out Eagle Scout level you are deploying troops so when I when I was an Eagle Scout I actually sent troops to Boise Idaho to attack there so it's all right we below's I know you're seven eight nine and you're just

working on your Pinewood Derby cars but today's the day we put some hair on that chest and screwed them today we're fighting a war what do you mean we're going to Kandahar what we're dropping you off in Kandahar you're gonna capture and kill Osama bin Laden you come back with five ears of your kills or you do not get the badge I want five ears this is a lobe merit badge this is the hardest one to earn this means that you got five years on your necklace I wear eight yeah yeah yeah that's right and yeah that's why that's why we're using beads right now to make necklaces but what we're talking about is what comes

after you've made your bead necklace which is a fun thing that we do kiss your mama's goodbye you deploy at midnight gentlemen what yeah I mean okay so yeah his president is what sucked everyone's like what is he talking about so he quit the race soon after but after Scott Walker's failed presidential run in 2015 he remembered he was still governor of Wisconsin oh and Scott had to rehabilitate his image after spending so much time neglecting the state to focus on a presidential campaign campaign that fell totally flat he was also caught in a scandal of abusing the state airplane so he spent almost one

million dollars flying around a state with a population just north of five and a half million in 2016 it's not you can really just drive around Wisconsin I don't know if anybody's ever tried that but it's pretty fucking easy it okay in 2016 he flew 351 times think of that I think he might I think he might have just been getting in the plane flying and taking off and then landing at the same airport again just because he needed just yeah okay so some of the flights were obviously crucial though I don't want to like just say that he was just wasting money some of

the flights were crucial you had to go to the most cheese one well the sweet smell of cheese curds from sas is one Wisconsin now says quote in February 2016 Walker had a state had a state plane sent from Madison to pick him up in Milwaukee after getting a haircut and attending a personal event to fly him to a National Rifle Association conference so that is Dave a two thousand five hundred and eighty six dollar haircut right but hold on but if you see his hair yeah yeah I mean you can't show up to an NRA meeting looking all shaggy like looking all desperado yeah yeah you got a fucking you got to trim that shit down

I mean we're talking about guns and just killing people so you got to have a nice tight cut when you're up here when you look like a euthanized mole yeah it's important to have the right do you know fuck yeah it is now we're talking so it's worth it right so this stuff yeah I call this purity and nitpicking but that's fair these are these I should I'll go easy fine reasons to travel is all I'm here okay well with President Trump now in the White House the left was energized and it was gonna be a tough race to be reelected governor in 2018 it was right around the corner so Governor Walker needed to hit a home run now he

had that pesky pledge to create 250,000 jobs in his first term and well into his second term he was far short of that goal so on July 17th on July 20 in July 2017 Governor Walker traveled to Washington for a major announcement at the White House alongside President Trump Vice President Pence speaker the House Paul Ryan and Terry go the founder and chairman of Foxconn what a great combo that's just that's just a great combination of people I you know when you see when you see those guys together you go I think we're just one horsemen of the apocalypse short yeah yeah where I mean we're killing it right

there we're fucking killing it like that's just like how can America not work it's a power squad yeah power squad yeah the big announcement they were making was that Foxconn would be building a major ten billion dollar factory in southeastern Wisconsin to manufacture LCD panels yes now those nets up well Dave we'll get to that okay more than 11 Walker bent over backwards to win the Foxconn deal and promised it would bring 13,000 jobs to the state the investment from the state would be three billion dollars in subsidies oh hold on would be the fourth wait can I stop you there why not

mad don't don't do math okay now I'm just gonna say why don't you take the three billion in stop no no no no enough I'm cutting off and his mic and just do in his mic and just do infrastructure projects that's 13,000 jobs quiet shush shush shush shush shush shush shush shush knock knock who's there shut the fuck up I was just saying there's an extra middle man there that doesn't need to be there Dave it you sound crazy okay okay listen to me they're gonna bring 13,000 jobs to the state potentially all it's going to cost them is three billion dollars right so I'm saying why not just hire people for that three

billion dollars no that doesn't make sense no no because listen because Foxconn promised the annual salary of these 13,000 jobs would be 53,000 dollars plus benefits oh so you're making kings I mean essentially you're making 13,000 so so with the three billion dollar subsidy that basically tells you that each job cost the state 231,000 dollars or it's not called a win this is why I was saying that you can't just take government money and build infrastructure projects or build out the internet like there's no reason to actually do something to get help the state when you can create a fake phone

company that's not gonna do anything and come on $250,000 you're being unfair just burning money it's burning money and the burning money is good because it's not because it's not public waste motherfucker that would actually make a lot of sense for Foxconn to just propose doing that like we're a burning money factory yeah okay so the three billion dollar subsidy is the fourth biggest investment deal incentives deal in American history and it's the largest government handout to a foreign company ever President Trump said it would be quote the eighth wonder of the world and can you disagree with that now

can you disagree with that and boy is he kind of right okay so a little about Foxconn Foxconn is based out of Taiwan and is the world's fourth largest technology company by revenue behind only Apple Samsung and Amazon it ranks ahead of Google and Microsoft great now even if you haven't heard of Foxconn you've certainly used their products before Foxconn is a contract manufacturer which means it makes products for other companies they manufacture televisions kindles iPods iPads iPhones Xboxes Nintendo's playstations and blackberries the most important things to our

civilization now by some estimates Foxconn manufacturers almost 40% of all consumer electronic products worldwide but being such a massive producer of goods isn't easy especially on the employees that's what you're alluding to for instance in 2009 at a Foxconn factory in Shenzhen China a prototype of the new Apple iPhone went missing Foxconn's internal investigation pinned the missing iPhone on Sun Danyong a 25-year-old college graduate who graduated from one of China's top technology universities Mr. Sun sware Mr. Sun swore he didn't take the missing iPhone Foxconn security guards

intimidated Mr. Sun and beat him he sent a desperate text to his girlfriend quote dear I'm sorry go back home tomorrow I ran into some problems don't tell my family don't contact me I'm begging you for the first time please do it I'm sorry he then jumped from the 12th floor of his apartment building to his death China labor watch a watchdog that keeps an eye that's just business that's that's just how business is like that's that's I'll tell you what the heroes at Foxconn showed up the next day and kept working how about that that's right because they care about the fucking company and they care about the company

being making product and getting it out there that's what employees care about they care about getting phones made well and I know when they were there they were like come on guys Wisconsin's depending on us yeah so China labor watch a watchdog group that keeps an eye on Chinese factories said that Mr. Sun suicide the above suicide was due to Foxconn's in quote Foxconn's inhumane and militant management system which lacks fundamental respect for human rights he also threw himself up they also got thrown off a building well fair Foxconn his factories all over the fire yes yes I mean but it is I mean it is just so

crazy like we do a very good job of ignoring the connection to the lives of people who give us all the products and things that people are so spoiled by and you think about fucking Christmas like what's coming up the amount of screened devices that are about to be handed out and it's it's built on the back of slave labor and I know we know that but it is it's crazy Foxconn has factories all over the world but it's largest known as Foxconn City in Shenzhen China it has as many as 450,000 people working at Foxconn City and about a quarter of them live in company dorms inside the corporate compound

which every time I read it depresses me that sounds great you're with your friends you never have how long until Amazon is doing that but how much time are you saving if you never have to leave your office like you work you work what insurance say you work for an insurance company and they set up a little bunk and maybe a place to play handball and you get a cafeteria there why do you need a house or like a place some people say you need sunlight but I think Foxconn's shown us that you don't need free-range workers yeah plus we got to think about the future and we're gonna have to evolve into being

mole people so this is all very walkers ahead of us yeah it's all very good so but honestly it's fucked up 18 Foxconn workers attempted suicide in 2010 by jumping from the Foxconn buildings almost all of them died the body of my Jingyan age 19 was found on the ground in front of his dorm building at 430 in the morning mr. Ma had been working 11 hour overnight shifts to fuse electronic parts together every day of the week after dispute with the supervisor he was demoted to cleaning bathrooms payroll records this is insane payroll records show that in the last month of his life mr. Ma worked

286 hours that included 112 hours of overtime three times the amount allowed by Chinese law in total mr. Ma earned about one dollar an hour so if anybody doesn't know what that is that's actually capitalism that's just the capitalist system at work yeah that's why I like yeah that's just that is why when people defend when you see the Democrats defending capitalism and saying they are actually capitalists it's like I mean capitalism is a heroin addict like it's coming back for more it's not you cannot be this idea that you can rein it in or that it's just it is a heroin addict talking to you to

get its next fix yeah and it's been living like that for so long and it keeps getting worse so eventually Foxconn addressed the issue and surrounded all of its tall buildings with safety nets to prevent worker suicides there you go which is the solution obviously the solution is not to give people rights or to respect the labor laws it is to put a net out there it's called the social social safety net that's right so that's what that is I've been hearing about that wondering where it was yeah yeah that's they finally have a social safety net there for the workers the government's g-spot really great and

just to be clear Dave this is the company that Governor Scott Walker was paying three billion dollars to to bring to Wisconsin whoa whoa whoa you say that you do this old fucking blah blah blah people don't get and then you just gloss over the fact that we're talking about 13,000 Wisconsin jobs that he's making fifty fifty three thousand dollars all it's doing is costing the state 250,000 per person and it just leads to just suit mass suicides so it makes sense per job not per person by the way per job okay there's a difference okay I'm Foxconn announced that they would build their factory in Racine County just

south of Milwaukee now Dave as the ultimate dollop reporter I was lucky enough to talk to State Senator Chris Larson who still laments this deal I talked to him on the phone for about 20 minutes and he told me all about the concessions the state was making to have this deal happen and they're pretty crazy Foxconn wanted to have their own airport they wanted priority for roads if they had a dispute at the local level they wanted to be able to go directly to the Supreme Court Foxconn was the largest corporate giveaway in American history stepping over public rights they were allowed to build those

communities for eminent domain meaning if your home was where they wanted to build you moved the state would also exempt Foxconn from many of the usual environmental rules Foxconn would not have to prepare an environmental impact statement they would be able to discharge materials into wetlands they could reroute streams they also were allowed to take 7 million gallons of water a day from Lake Michigan Larson told me that it was promoted as a quote game changer and that all of Wisconsin businesses would benefit from this deal so you so you don't know what jobs are is that what I'm hearing from you you

don't understand how fucking great it is to have a job because what you're talking about is people who are gonna get jobs and pay taxes into the system it's a win-win the system is good the system is good you are right but the the 7 million gallons of water a day blew my mind as well now Dave are you sitting down will you sit down so unfortunately for Wisconsin Foxconn quickly started to break its promises now here are some numbers from urban Milwaukee who've been doing an incredible job of reporting on Foxconn especially reporter Bruce Murphy the 10 billion dollar factory they promised to

build shrink to 9 billion Foxconn had pledged to build a gen 10.5 plant which manufactures 75 inch screens but they soon said that they would be building a gen 6 plant which would manufacture 39 inch TV screens this would result in a much smaller plant however the 3 billion dollars in subsidies thankfully grew to 4.1 billion which just makes sense Dave so Foxconn Foxconn I think because they were like people are like this is a crazy deal Foxconn promised that it would gift the University of Wisconsin Madison with $100 million so during the summer of 2018 which by the way that is is that not is that not why doesn't the

state just give the college money what it's all it's that it's such a fucking grip it's like our entire country is built to just be a fucking grift machine where people just come in and go how much can we fuck over everybody giving tax money to the government how much can we just go just fuck the shit out of them how how bad can it get how much will people take let's see let's test it no honestly how like it's like how deep does the dicking go like how deep can it go and every year we're like they've got another inch in Intel yachts are on fire it doesn't stop oh that's well there we have our title but it to

me it also is a little bit like the I'm not gonna take a salary I bring a sack it's like just take the fucking salary and don't be a corrupt piece of shit it's like don't give the hundred million dollar just make do good do good for the state and then you don't have to give a hundred million dollars he doesn't want to take the salary because his whole thing is to destroy government he's getting tons of money from the Koch brothers tons of money tons of money tons and tons of money so during the summer of 2018 media reports revealed that despite workers frequent frequent mentions of jobs paying $53,000 a year

Foxconn would be able to get away with paying 93% of its workers $30,000 a year and still meet the job creation requirements mandated by the state of Wisconsin for subsidies $30,000 in Wisconsin a family of four earning $30,000 a year can qualify for food stamps so 93% of the jobs right away are not what you were told of course not and yeah so there you go but at least the subsidies went up to remember it one and I've said this before and I'll say this again the government waste money and private corporations run a tight ship that's true yeah totally yeah I mean that that's why I like people are

obsessed with you know business people running our country but it's like yeah but these business people also got there by being insanely corrupt no business people got to see I mean Mitt Romney is the fucking devil and he is considered like the left-wing of the Republican Party they're all fucking bad people the Democrats are just littered with human monsters they they don't fucking care to get Amazon out of or to not have it come in and do the same shit because this is what Amazon does everywhere you have to fight the Democrats and the fucking Republicans which is what they did which is what they did in in New York and all

that stuff about AOC and all those people stopping Amazon this is what they were stopping in in yeah this is what they were stopping this is a fucking nightmare yeah no it's true and people get you know people like no but it would be right around my house my home prices would go up and it's like yeah it for sure for a minute makes sense and helps you but long-term the insustainability of companies on this it's just it I don't know when it comes crashing down but holy fuck is it gonna be crazy but okay so even if you did get one of these jobs where you would get $30,000 a year they weren't dream jobs that they

were promised I believe it or not employees found it very weird that they had to bring their own supplies to work even pencils well one of the one of the largest companies in the world and you have to bring your own pencil the story kept changing as far as what they would be making hey look fellas we were just doing the numbers and we're gonna have 13,000 employees and great if we give them pencils just just crunching the numbers per year that's gonna cost us about $600 well they'll just bring their own pencils then I think oh shit I didn't even think about that end of meeting you guys want to get some

margaritas on the house what's up I I do want to get margaritas for sure for free because everything's for free but some of the employees were saying they were having difficulty breathing and they want some sort of apparatus that will help some respirator something like that we could either do that which is gonna cost us around $25,000 a year or we can give them the hold your breath holiday bonus hey which is where if you're able to hold your breath most of the year at the end of the year we'll give you a $25 to give certificate to Sam's Club which will get you a big thing of pretzels I actually have a

actually have an answer that'll kind of combine everything sure if we can have them stab themselves in the back with the pencil through to their lungs it'll give them another place to breathe so they'll be able to breathe and what we'll say is we're enriching your body with another air hole yeah well that's what we are Fox at Foxconn we're pro more than one air hole I have one more question who wanted a salted rim did you guys want salted rims or did you want non-salt because let's fucking party I love it the other day I put a thousand dollars in my ass to see what it felt like to poop money let's get the jet up

in the air let's just fly around let's crash the jet into homeless shelter so now the last quote was saying the story kept changing as far as what they would be making and the reason for that is because Dave they seriously seriously had no clue what to do or make they it's almost like they won the lottery they thought about becoming used for fish farming or maybe they could wait what fish farming what are you talking about like they I can't remember what kind of fish but they were talking about because they have all this land they have all this land now and they don't know what to do they're sort of building on it but

they also are like well what can we do what's around here like fish so they were like we could do fish but then they also they thought they could start exporting ice cream and then eventually and I believe they did for a while they just started storing boats on it just this huge company so like we're gonna build all these screens and all these electronics and we're gonna get of all these people jobs and then they just have land because they were able to plow because of eminent domain and they don't they literally don't know what the fuck to do so Wisconsin started decades ago is a place where people just had boats on

land and then after all this they give away five billion dollars and it's back to a place where they just are storing boats on land 4.1 billion but everything else is accurate I get that I get that we might and we make iPads but here hear me out hear me out mink farm you know I mean what are we gonna do with those land I don't know I don't know how to do minks well let's just fucking start making them maybe we could make the world's biggest marble circle holy shit fun oh no we got play marbles and you know why we got the land for that you know what else we can do just what we can burn it and just I guess makes it

smoke can you make money from smoke hmm I think there's potentially a way let's do this let's blow it up and see what happens oh shit I mean we can blow it up and have a lot more left over because they gave us so much holy plus a few of them left their pencils behind so we're in the green in the pencil some of them are some of them are stuck in people's backs and we're trying to figure that out well they were freeing their lungs yeah yeah for a lot of people recognize that they that that's what that was you know I mean it's very important oh shit okay solid gold cock rings are here

oh it's cold whoo so a lot of this Foxconn stuff comes from Josh Zeiza who wrote a great article for it in the verge so one employee said of these experience working at Foxconn quote I was there and it's not real I mean it's not this is something I can't talk about ever again because people think you're crazy like none of this could ever happen how could it happen in the US end quote now what do you mean it's not real what's not real the comp the job the company any of it he's like he's like this is not a company it's a big there's not there's there they hire people and there's no job there's like literally

nothing to do people don't know what to do some people are doing some stuff but it's all like busy work while they figure out what the fuck they're gonna do and I'll get to it in a second but the whole reason why they're hiring people is because they have targets to hit for the subsidies so you know it is totally crazy but basically they're hiring people and these people just have no clue what they're doing Foxconn is fucking over a lot of people they actively recruited foreign students on federal visas to threaten their immigration status and force longer hour and loger lower wages well you got a

guy but okay I'm that's actually good because you got to squeeze look if they don't do that they're not gonna make money and they want the American dream well buddy you got it many people quit their jobs to move to work to Foxconn only to get there to either be fired right away or never get the job or discover that the position didn't exist or get an email being like wait three weeks and then we'll hire you for another position like people were like what the fuck is going on their hiring was insane can I just yeah argue this it's super hard to hire consistently and keep track of hiring people when

there are really no jobs to do so yes your your kind of saying it's it's fucked that they were hiring people and then firing people stuff but that's a tough thing I mean you're literally just hiring people to stand around so how do you keep that's that's life in the not a business that's that's how it goes this is my favorite quote when employees said he experienced this a number of times quote the best is when you're in the elevator with someone and then they just scream out of nowhere they've had enough because things don't make sense here that's good so still not sure what to do Foxconn again they have all this

land they have all this money so they decided to build innovation centers now this is a place where you could quote help inspire innovative ideas hey guys Dave guys that came up with a name that doesn't mean anything but we can put on the front of a building and it'll be a place hmm what is it it's called an innovative center oh right we can put that right next to the fathom station yeah yeah do you know people who innovate I know people who are looking at to ruminate oh we are actually having a whole rumination conference area we'll do we'll do innovation centers we'll do rumination areas and then we'll do the

fathom stations that's great that's great yeah and we can have just we can build a giant office park and they can just yeah it'll be like it'll be like cosplay for business people because sometimes they'll need to collaborate which is also why we are building a collaboration center we could fill their briefcases with the fish we have a lot of those laying around because that never went anywhere yep we got tons of money so basically the idea was to make it a we work they basically turned it into we works and they called it they called it blaze but again it did and if you don't understand if you don't understand

what we work is we work is there were office buildings and the guy said how can we make money off of office buildings so he rented out offices in office buildings and turned them into offices and that well that's the thing the article that Josh Zeiser writes that like it really is amazing because I remember when I first heard about we work and I was like I don't get it and then like a year later the market was like we also don't get it anymore it was just like but deep you remember I read didn't I read you a bunch of quotes from that article and it was just the most mind-numbingly insane stupid idea dumb

man yeah tons of money but he made a ton of money because people were like people just buy into it like people people are so starved to have careers in this country that they don't even actually realize sometimes that you are just taking play like going to we work is like kind of like role-playing as having jobs you know or being in a business yeah like there's pasta salad there are fellow employees but you're paying to go to work like it just never made any fucking sense to me well you get to rent out your own place as opposed to renting it from someone yes true I guess it is it's a fucking great it's a great

if he if the we work if the we work guy wasn't there what would you do rent it from another person that doesn't make any sense you know what they should have also are there kids should have called it the Foxconn facilities we don't works so so still they're rubbing up against the idea that they just have no idea what to do with their money they're just killing time they essentially it feels like they're North Korea the business now it was time for the state of Wisconsin to have an election that would very much be a referendum on Walker the Democrats had nominated Tony Evers to be the states who was the state superintendent of

education to try to beat Walker every poll showed that the election would be a toss-up when governor Walker announced that he was running for reelection he didn't even mention Foxconn or the Foxconn deal probably because each household in Wisconsin was now on the hook for $1,774 to the Taiwanese company so maddening we have an implicit trust in our government that if it were a lifetime movie and it were the person we were dating we would have left 15 times I mean it's an abusive relationship there's a point that people don't get and it's what you know the left always brings up if if if your

solution to what is essentially this is a story of capitalism failing capitalism is failing and it's starting to try and make money in places where you can't make money and it's eating itself alive that's what's happening with capitalism it is now consuming itself and and the problem is is that there is not a party an opposition party that says yeah hey there's actually another way to do things it's called socialism so until there is a party that offers an alternate solution these elections will always be tossed up between the guy who is completely an insane and corrupt and essentially a a money madman he is a

lunatic madman he is as extreme as a human being can get there is no more extreme than Scott Walker everything you just heard is a fucking madman and then on the other side is a shade over so it's like hey this guy this madman believes in this system all based on money and then and then the other side is like well government's not really that good yes yes and I mean in every you are watching pro wrestling I mean it is pro wrestling and you've picked your fighter and you love your fighter it is shocking constantly shocking but hours after the polls closed on November 6 2018 the race was called for Democrat

Tony Evers he won by 1% the people had chosen a new direction but the Republican state legislature had started to propose limiting the power of the office of governor before Tony Evers would even be sworn in Republicans wanted to ensure they could limit early voting in future elections they wanted to limit the new governor's ability with to withdraw the state from a lawsuit challenging the Affordable Care Act but they needed governor Walker's signature before he left office just like when Walker was first governor massive protests occurred inside the Capitol building a former Republican governor

urged Walker to not sign the reforms calling them quote completely political and a power grab a prominent Republican donor in Wisconsin wrote Walker an email and told him quote you can have a long successful career ahead don't stain it by this pointless poor loser action the Republican donor added quote ask yourself what would my father say what would the greatest man who ever lived Jesus Christ say and Dave on December 14th as governor Scott Walker signed a bill to limit the power of governor of Wisconsin so he listened to well that's what Jesus Christ would capitalized he was very he was very

anti-government that's why there's all those stories of Jesus taking everyone's bread so when I talked to Senator Chris Larson he told me that Evers was quote hamstrung an unable to govern and that he was quote restricted to be an effective governor the state Senate could possibly the state Senate could basically fire people in his cabinet and he had no extra veto powers Scott Walker held the press conference arguing that the kneecapping of the authority of the office of governor of Wisconsin really was no change at all he stood in front of a giant poster board of a Venn diagram that listed the same powers in both

circles so it said like Walker administration and Evers administration and then their powers underneath it which were the same and then in the middle overlapping portion of his Venn diagram it just said both administration's same powers which is a a lie and be not how a Venn diagram works you have to see the picture you are just like who how did it get all the way to the public they're dumb but it's it's like it would I mean it's I don't even know why you would consider a Venn diagram a thing if you think this is what it is like you must be like why are people so obsessed with these things

they're just things and on and on the Foxconn bullshit went governor Evers wanted to revise the Foxconn deal that Walker had struck but it was really a moot point because Foxconn couldn't offer up their plans anyway their only plan was to ignore the new administration Evers sent emails that weren't replied to by Foxconn representatives repeatedly in June and July in 2019 the emails were asking super unfair questions like when will the factory be finished and what the hell will it produce and how many employees will they actually hire the contract that Walker had negotiated on

a piece of his office station paper stationary paper was performance based wait what did I not mention that oh yeah Dave Dave he drew the deal up for the 3.1 billion dollars in subsidies on his office paper when you see it it's like what a nine-year-old would consider a contract to be how how I did that make you feel good or bad be honest there there is there is such a level of stupidity in this country that is it just it's fucking mind-boggling and it's instead of home of the brave land of the free it should just be when you're wrong shout it I mean yeah be dumb be loud it it doesn't

it doesn't matter if you're signing a contract with T-mobile to get a new phone or but but you still want low yeah there's actually people that are on all signs of things and the reason that they're there is so you don't get fucked look and and you're the whole the whole idea is just self-preservation like on the other side are lawyers and then on your side well you should probably have someone who speaks and understands yeah someone is technical and this is like a man this is like a this is a child this is a a child with a child's understanding of how governments function how the world's fun and these

are and I also think that while he is an empty vessel and he is just simply a skin puppet to put corporate interests into he also is sticking to this folksy thing like I can just imagine loving the idea that you know we drew the Foxconn deal up on a piece of stationary paper in my office but it is it is not only a terrible deal but it is a terrible person who does that sort of thing to the future the futures of a state of people I mean whether you're whether you're Republican or Democrat or a new party your people's party matters not you to not be careful and not really I mean the Foxconn deal just stinks every step

of the way and it probably could have been managed different and people would have been hurt less if he did actually negotiate a fucking real deal instead of just putting this shit on stationary and I'm sure eventually they did draw up something but they both sign it Terry Gao Terry go and Scott Walker both signed this fucking thing that literally just says three point one billion I mean they be ten thousand jobs and that's it it was like to dickhead spitting in their hand yeah and then shaking and being like yeah now we've sealed the deal like which is by the way still how our Scott Walker shakes hands during COVID not a

lot of people know that he insists on it he only started doing it since the pandemic so so okay so Foxconn would only get paid a good amount of the money if they were hitting employee growth quotas so they fell short in 2019 or they were falling short in 2019 but they were making a mad dash to get enough people hired to make tens of millions of dollars that they had rightly earned for literally doing nothing so Foxconn did not hit it in 2018 so they were hell bent on doing in 2019 so in December of 2019 go met with Trump in DC and he assured Trump that quote he would bring more jobs to Wisconsin Foxconn needed to

have hired at least 520 people and by the end of the year they showed that they had employed 550 people however they hired 60% of their workers in November in December so they were clearly just doing that to get the subsidies there was nothing for them to do my god many of the people just sat in these offices that they were piled into and watched Netflix one recalls watching all of Game of Thrones to get caught up for the last season now Foxconn and then Foxconn just fires most of them in January after they've served their purpose however however I was under the Tony Evers administration Foxconn was not given the

subsidies and this is what it had come to fake hires for a fake business to make real money that wasn't theirs one employee quote the most common misunderstanding with Foxconn is people here thought Foxconn had a strategy to do a to do and a business plan when they were coming into Wisconsin they did not they had no plans at all but what Trump either didn't know or didn't care about or a combination of these two was another thing that I talked to Senator Chris Larson about for Foxconn it wasn't all about and for Foxconn it was all about the Trump tariffs and the trade war the tariffs would affect Foxconn's

biggest factory in China and general business model Chris Larson said quote Foxconn has been successful in the illusion that they are investing in America and and that they would get them out of the tariffs grasp now Larson also wanted to make it clear that many people knew this deal stunk from the beginning he said that it never made sense it was billed to be a duplicate factory like the largest one in China but soon Foxconn saw labor costs were higher even with a $7.25 minimum wage that was too much for them which really shows you how unbelievable they operate in other countries but the $7.25

minimum wage was too much and they did it all to curry favor with the administration against China Foxconn was made to seem like they are quote investing in America and a swing state in the district of the Speaker of the House all at the behest of a governor who needed to create jobs and quote that's Chris Larson so in 2020 that's this year Dave I don't do you know that okay and this year Donald Trump was planning a campaign stop to show off what great things Foxconn had accomplished unfortunately they had accomplished nothing so they hurried to finish building and make it look like they were

doing things with fake assembly lines and kiosks but the big thing that it built was a big large glass sphere building now wait I want to be that I want to be the guy at the at the company who is coming up with fake things for people to do because the president how great I mean okay god there's a just go around in a wheel yeah and just now you guys and and say like we're almost there we're almost there we're almost there you guys can you lift something I can lift this guy should I just lift him yeah yeah him Ted right nice to meet you I'm gonna look at a bunch you guys are good can you guys I know you don't have

books but can you like read look at our hands like we're reading off our hands like we wrote something on our hands great we would have to do it with pencil though and our own pencils because we're not allowed to well there aren't any company writing devices we'll just take him out of your bag oh well that's actually where my third hole goes for breathing so I don't want to disturb that they say it might deflate then and then when I breathe it sounds like a fart okay we know that's what I'm saying Trump is coming to town we want to do this right you know guys I think the main thing you have is to look really

stressed out and just say deadlines a lot angrily if anyone asked you anything yeah yeah I mean I want people walking back and forth yeah just smoking inside is permitted obviously but yeah and then I think that'll be enough probably to fool him do we all feel pretty good about that I mean he's a shrewd man yeah I just need I just want this guy to come out and yell like five minutes in to just come out and yell we saw just and then everyone cheer but we signed the deal yeah quiet everyone hide he's coming so so they're making this fake company and and then the thing that they just because they are like very much

Silicon Valley in Wisconsin they decide that they're just gonna build a big glass sphere building and it's gonna look like a mini Epcot Center and they do and they build it and they don't know what to do with it they still aren't sure what it's gonna be used for it was big it was dumb it had nothing inside of it really which made it the perfect addition to the Foxconn brand unfortunately the trip was canceled indefinitely due to COVID but Trump still said Foxconn had built quote one of the most incredible plants I've ever seen and Trump promised even bigger things if reelected quote they will do

what I tell them to do he said if we win if we win the election Foxconn is gonna come into our country with money like no other company has come into our country which I could read over and over again and never tire of and that's basically where things stand now David a company that has fleeced the state of Wisconsin for billions of dollars and given basically nothing in return to date Foxconn has built under 2% of the 20 million square feet that it said it would oh and the University of Wisconsin Madison only got 700,000 of the $100 million promise and it happened wait that's is that less it's a little bit

less I did I crunched the numbers and it's not as much as a hundred million 700,000 and it all happened because of Scott Walker six months after leaving the governor's mansion Scott Walker was hired as the CEO of the Young America's Foundation Yaff a group whose mission statement is to quote increase the number of young Americans who understand are inspired by the ideas of individual freedom a strong national defense free enterprise and traditional values which no no no the organization owns the Reagan ranch in California and Stephen Miller is a Yaff alum if you're looking to see the prototypical dream

boat that they push out Scott Walker's fashion oh come on stop that's what the F in Yaff stands for young American fascism now Scott Walker's salary to work at Yaff is about $1 million per year now I love that you're laughing at that part it's just like just America is just the land of you could just be the most motherfucker ever and make so much money I mean the number of stupid people who make tons of money in America is like if you're such a failure like if you're dumb and loud there's a 70% chance you're gonna be successful in this country oh yeah you have a great shot as far as what else Walker is up to

he continues to champion conservative principles and he tweets at AOC a lot look to understand Scott Walker you really do have to start with Ronald Reagan Scott bought into his belief system of smaller government and lower taxes but Scott really is the ultimate empty suit absolutely no ideas beyond shrinking government and a true puppet of the billionaire donors and that would be bad enough but what makes this story of Scott Walker so bad is the complete 100% total destructive hypocrisy for decades he preached small government and the power of the free market but when it came down to it when he needed a

political win he turned a big government and market intervention and he blew billions of dollars of Wisconsin taxpayers money in corporate handouts to a ruthless Taiwanese electronical multinational corporation and he got burned but not as badly as the people of Wisconsin did he promised 250,000 jobs in four years in his full eight years in office he created a total of 233,101 private sector jobs falling nearly 17,000 jobs short and he did a lot of it at the cost of unions Wisconsin went for Trump in 2016 it did not in 2020 well most likely but on a sweeter note Scott Walker and his wife Tannette still eat

its asses almost every year on their anniversary slash Reagan's birthday and they get what they always get Dave what Ronnie would get from Scott's book Unintimidated quote macaroni and cheese casserole and red white and blue jelly belly jelly beans and have musicians perform patriotic songs and Irish music it is a wonderful evening and serves as a reminder for me each year to be hopeful and optimistic just like Ronald Reagan and that's Scott Walker okay so the best the best reporting for this that I found was from urban Milwaukee Bruce Murphy especially has done some great reporting Chris Larson was very

helpful as well as I think it's one Wisconsin now yeah one Wisconsin now is great and then the article that had a lot of this stuff about Foxconn recently that just came out was from the Verge and it was Josh Zeiza but his name is spelled with a D so DZ I easy a Josh Zeiza but Bruce Murphy Josh Zeiza one Wisconsin now were the key sources and then many others JS online journal you know and yeah urban Milwaukee too there we go yay