Tricky Trump's lies come home to roost - Foxconn factory that fizzled

[BoyNextDoor]

When Sean McFarlane recently returned to the site where his lifelong home was demolished, he found in its place a retention pond and hundreds of geese perched on a hill.


'They demolished my house for this?'

The quiet scene came as a shock. The Wisconsin village of Mount Pleasant had effectively forced him, his girlfriend and four children from their home in 2017 to make way for a proposed 20m sq ft hi-tech plant owned by the Taiwanese electronics giant Foxconn, a plant Donald Trump had said would soon be the “eighth wonder of the world”.

Though Trump and the former Republican Wisconsin governor Scott Walker declared with the 2017 Foxconn announcement that they had revived a critical upper midwest swing state’s manufacturing sector, the project is now viewed as a loss for Republicans. Meanwhile, there’s a growing sense that Mount Pleasant residents’ lives were upended for what was little more than elaborate political theater designed to score a phony public relations win for Trump and Walker.


Joe Biden won in Wisconsin, flipping a state Donald Trump won in 2016. You would have thunk it would have been by more than 20K votes after this sort of colossal fuckup

 

[YDB95]

Joe Biden won in Wisconsin, flipping a state Donald Trump won in 2016. You would have thunk it would have been by more than 20K votes after this sort of colossal fuckup

With apologies to any Dairy Staters reading this, Wisconsin has more than its share of deplorables. It is, after all, the state that gave us Paul Ryan and Scott Walker, and that replaced the great Russ Feingold with Ron Johnson, arguably the dumbest member of the Senate (and that's saying a lot, isn't it?)

 

[phrodeau]

With apologies to any Dairy Staters reading this, Wisconsin has more than its share of deplorables. It is, after all, the state that gave us Paul Ryan and Scott Walker, and that replaced the great Russ Feingold with Ron Johnson, arguably the dumbest member of the Senate (and that's saying a lot, isn't it?)

And Joseph McCarthy.