When first announced that Foxconn was going to build this, an economist warned that this company has a long history of big promises that they don't deliver on.
Seth, you forgot the mention the best part of this story. Walker and the head of foxcon wrote everything down on a cocktail napkins and Wisconsin was locked in with a napkin and a handshake. It's been despicable from the start!
yep. capitalism is a scam alright. of course the corporations are THE REAL govt. the govt has been kowtowing to their demands for 250 years! corporate lobbyists and lawyers have been writing our laws since day one. what do you think the constitutional convention was? it was a meeting of the rich protecting their own interests. this is what we anti-fascists have been trying to change for over 200 years. and the GOP decides NOW to make an issue of it? the GOP are victims of their own hypocrisy, double standards and situational ethics. i'm no fan of the democrats. both sides support and advocate absolutely insane and delusional positions, but, since trump, the GOP have taken a HUGE lead in the "insanity" sweepstakes.
@@CrankyBubushka ... the thing about the right is that they make a lot of false claims. among other things they claim their economic packages create jobs, they don't, raise wages and standards of living, they don't, and that open carry laws prevent gun violence, they don't. their entire economic spiel is about fantasy and falsehoods. all their policies just end up making rich people richer and leave the lower classes to fend for themselves.
I grew up in the town where Foxconn is being developed and drive through it often. It’s an absolute disaster. They bought the land where my favorite pumpkin patch was as a kid. :(
If you don’t fight like hell you‘re not gonna have a pumpkin patch anymore, but a useless glass orb instead. But that’s happening all over the world with Big Business defining the future. for all of us
And the fox part...the fox in the henhouse was the orange bawbag who got his hands on the country's wealth and destroyed it.... along with many middle class hopes and drams
@s barron you forgot the failed pyramid schemes. Trump Network (which sold vitamins and health products), the Trump Institute (which sold seminars,) and the American Communications Network (referred to as ACN, it sold videophones and telecom services.)
That was freaking hysterical!! OMG Bernie impression but I absolutely see him with a potato. For all we know it might be part of the new green deal. A farm full of potatoes all wired together
I would have killed myself by now if it wasn’t for Seth. I’m an EMT in a major city and this show is sometimes the only thing that makes me smile anymore
John is brittish, grown up in Britain. So the ludicrous systems in the US are even more noticeable. He put his finger on what many people who don't live in the states thinks are messed up. For seth it's has been normality. For him it would be harder to notice issues.
Jesus, listening to "they're woke capitalists! They're leftist! They're liberals!" just hits home how republican politicians have absolutely no idea what words mean.
@@viktorrodriguez5660 Well, I am kind of offended, but in the opposite way. As an actual far-left socialist, I'm insulted that anybody would accuse my ideology of letting vile billionaires like Zuckerberg or Bezos join the club.
They don't know what it means because they don't care what it means. What matters to them is that they have a new boogeyman they can make stuff up about to scare their constituents with
If from Milwaukee and when they first spoke of this Foxconn deal I knew it wasn’t going to happen. Scott Walker messed Wisconsin up I’m glad we voted him out of office.
Lol.... yes... I remember the first episode he did when he came back to the studio... He didn't say "we love you" at the end... I remember posting a comment about that fact at the time too! 😜 Something about us not being loved anymore... lol
I encourage everyone to watch Seth and the “A Closer Look “ segment every night before heading off to bed. It’s a much needed humorous slant on the days’, mostly insane, machinations coming from the Republican Party. Thanks to Seth and the wonderful team of writers who always thread the needle perfectly, by giving his audience news of the day with humor and wit.
I agree Ronald; I really appreciate this show, Last Week Tonight and indie media in general because they brighten our day with original and artistic writing and acting. Thank you Seth and Crew!!
I've been a fan of Seth since the days of Weekend Update, and I've always hoped for.. "more" topical comedy. I had always wished that Weekend Update was a daily thing. I get a little bit of that from The Daily Show, but it just isn't the same. Last Week Tonight is great as well. But having Seth doing topical comedy is just gives me a warm fuzzy feeling. I don't know if its because I'm reminded of his days at SNL, when things were a lot simpler for me (I was in high school at the time) but whatever it is, I dig it. And you're right, it is perfect before bed time.
Trump was giving interviews throughout 2016 saying American workers earned TOO MUCH! Yet they somehow concludes he's get them raises. It's absurd. He could not conceal his greed ever. And he respected others' greed.
Exactly! How can a person understand the whole mentality and physical struggles & joys that come with earning your own wages when their life they never had to work for their money.
It's OK the mafia space monkeys just formed an intra-solar system union for inner planet construction workers and robots, of course Bezos and Musk are trying to shut them down ~ Bezos insists that bathroom brakes are not necessary as you can always pee in your space suit which can be emptied at the end of the day; unfortunately they have yet to set a date, planet and time for the the initial lawsuits to determine how many hours actually constitutes a "Day" depending on which planet, planetoid or satellite that unionized (Mafia) Space Moneys are actually working from. The Bezos team is pressing their case for a planet Mercury work day as the standard as one day on Mercury is technically 4222.6 hours long. Naturally Musk has a line of extra capacious and extra absorbent space suits he'd like to sell as being mandatory for all unionized Space Monkeys.
When I hear republican politicians and faux journalists using the word "woke" I think of Inigo Montoya saying, "you keep using that word....I do not think it means what you think it means".
They are desperate to turn it into an insult. Like Social Justice Warrior. Republicans and conservatives in general, are morally bankrupt. Not that they had very far to go...
It's like when your parents try to use 'cool' slang, buddying up to you all while you know something is wrong. "Hey there my bro! You up? You chillin'? What's the skinny on the down low so we can get jiggy with it. You picking up what I'm throwing down? Word!"
I had to Google "boondoggle" as I was sure it wasn't a real word. Turns out it is, but I guess it's an American colloquialism. Crikey, as we New Zealanders like to say.
Foxconn is a taiwan corp who built their wealth on building sweatshop factory in China, hire workers to work 12 hours a day , and paying them $400 a month. There is no way their model would ever work in United States.
@Regulatory Affairs gas was high with trump in office too when they call state of emergency they of to help people that was the reason why gas drop but we all know that it was just for a minute
By 'woke', Ted Cruz means "people that don't like me". It's not that they don't like you, Ted: they would go to the 7th level of hell to avoid meeting you. But that won't always be possible, and 'eternity' is a very long time.
I would think the 7th circle of Hell would be exactly the place to meet Ted Cruz, as that's where he's going to be after he relieves us from his presence on Earth. And Donald Trump. And Scott Walker. And Mitch McConnell.
I’m sure meeting Ted Cruz is a level in hell. It’s probably the punishment for GOP members. They don’t have to do anything special, just be a member that voted along party lines because they’re part of the party regardless of if they were voting on tax cuts for the wealthy or taking away healthcare for the poor. Their punishment is to have to listen to Ted Cruz ramble on, trying to justify the shifty things he does, says, and believes. And to make the job easier for the demons, Ted Cruz’s punishment is having to spend eternity trying to justify the shitty things he says, does, and believes to a bunch of GOP members that obviously hate him and will to anything to make him stop but are held at bay so long as he keeps talking
I would so love Seth to do a weekly trump speech- completely in character, it just cracks me up when he rambles on in ”trump” ... one of the best impersonanators that I’ve heard 😆
Thanks for that. The whole Foxconn thing will haunt us here in Wisconsin for decades to come. Let's hope that the voters are made aware of it every election cycle.
Funny.... when this all came about, my friends and I were dismayed! But, after a while we realized that yep! This was a Walker/ Trump conspiracy in the works and they were going to pull it off!! Guess who will end up paying for this??? My friends and I... and,all of WI. Remember this if Scotty gets in his head that he is Presidential material! Scary!
Milwaukee is still trying to get out from under the "stick it to Milwaukee" -Miller Park- American Family Field _stadium construction_ taxes that were, by all rights, supposed to have been sunsetted already, yet for some funny reason keep getting extended. I'm not hopeful for the rest of the state ever escaping this white elephant.
I was thinking how wild it is, that the closest people our generation has had to a William Cronkite or Edward Murrow, has been actual comedians deciding to step up and fill a shocking void.
You can bet they had one shovel, then those clowns argued over who'd get to keep the shovel. I want the shovel No I should have the shovel Arrgh - you, go and get some more shovels. After the ceremony, they all drop the shovels and run off - 'my car should go first'. 'no, my car should go first'.
IKR, America has already got her first "fully functional Android " in Zuckerberg. Not gonna lie they're apparently very scary, and Not at all like Star Trek's Data-very disappointing. 😞
@@c.a.savage5689 I disagree with you both! I think the digressions are hilarious, but often they go on for 1 or 2 beats too long where it feels like Seth ran out of funny half a joke before. If he'd just pull back and stop before his last attempt, then l think they'd be absolutely perfect.
@Tryen2bgd 21 Uh, l don't think Seth Meyers is trying to parody Trump. I think he thinks he's being funny. Which he is. For about a second. Trump was funny when he thought he was being serious and pathetic when he thought he was being funny. Terrible 4-year stand-up act.
@@antred11 😐😑 Thats the most ignorant thing I’ve seen today. Idc if you don’t like trump or whatever thats fine, but you feel so offended that you censored his name? The last name of someone? You should contact the schools and tell them to censor the names of all bad people in history while you’re at it!
@@dianedenham5259 Reminded me of an episode of Malcolm in the Middle Hal: "Careful with the orange juice, that stuff doesn't grow on trees.... Wait! It does! So why is it so expensive"
Marco Rubio: "No policy maker would allow a company to dump toxic waste, , " Hey Marco, that's exactly what happened in Tampa Bay last week, and every day of every year down in Lake Okeechobee
As I’ve said many times before, I’ll believe corporations are people when Texass executes one. Since the re-introduction of the death penalty, Texass overwhelmingly leads the nation with with 570 executions since 1982. The next closest state is Virginia at 113. A bit of a difference, eh?!
Reminds me of the german cargolift project. They tried to re invent airships. That huge hangar today houses the worlds biggest roach infested indoor waterpark.
Many family homes were bulldozed for the project and the community borrowed millions of dollars to build the roads needed for massive amounts of traffic and semi/construction equipment. Lives were uprooted and (another) community in debt now.
The major news channels dropped investigative journalism years ago for profit-directed programming. Thank you, Seth et al, for keeping that fire burning. Well done!
You kids haven't seen anything yet. Climate change is going to make everyone look back on the Trump years as the "good old days" when only a few hundred-thousand died. Children will be asking, "Were cities real?"
I agree!! Seth is a comedy genius and his writers help give him material that proves he's awesomely hilarious and thrives in this new format!👏👏❤ I DON'T WANT them to EVER go back to an in-studio audience! This is SOOOO MUCH BETTER!!! It's like just hanging with really funny friends and cracking jokes. It's SO MUCH MORE personal and hysterical!! 😄😄😄 ❤🥰❤ #NoMoreLateShowStudioAudiences 🙃 ✌❤🌎
All I see on this video is people clicking on it and then talking among themselves about anything but Seth. I've read it all. It's like Seth isn't even there. Hilarious!
Republicans: "Corporations have no business interfering in politics." Also republicans: "Please masters, don't stop giving stop giving us money. We didn't really mean that you should stay out of politics."
Here's a correction. At 3:38, Seth says that Mario hits the block with his head, when in reality, he punches up with his fist. Even in the graphic, you can clearly see Mario's fist.
@@harrisonluke5195 how is it possible, in an age of lightning-fast availability of information, that there are STILL dudes eagerly sleezing on teenaged actresses in the RU-vid comment sections? CAN'T MBB COMMENT ON THE RIGHT'S HILARIOUS LACK OF IRONY WITHOUT SOME GOON PRESUMING SHE WOULD EVER CARE ABOUT THEIR MISERABLE PICKUP ATTEMPT?
If he was Doing Biden ! He should Slur his words more and forget What he was talking about ! And don’t forget to put Puppet strings on hands feet ,head and Mouth !
If anyone has an old Carolina Reaper Pepper you need to store away here are the coordinates: a hands length behind Mitch McConnell’s zipper, 2 inches south of there and 4 inches into the nearest cavity. You’ll know you squirrelled it properly when you hear the turtle murmur “yikes”!
And then, right after the “yikes”, you’ll see him give a smug little smile and hear him mumble (more to himself than anybody else) “ oh, yeah- that’s the spot, that’s what this picnic has been missing!” He then looks over, gives Lindsey “Ladybug” Graham a wink and asks him if he would like to share this little piece of heaven...
I like how Colbert relies more on physical mannerisms and those aviator glasses. I don’t find his I verbal impressions strong, but he hardly does them anyway, relying on mannerisms, those darn props he loves so much, and Evie’s (sp?) laugh to create comedy. Trevor and Seth crack me up with their impressions and sarcasm.
Foxconn was able to skip the environmental impact study of what building a massive plant would do to the local ecosystem AND let them draw a massive amount of water from Lake Michigan. no other individual or corporation has been allow to do because of the Great Lakes compact, but that doesn’t apply to fox con! Foxconn is right down road from me 😔
Starting @7:00 one of the MOST Awesome imitations of the stream of consciousness nonsense we often hear from Trump and politicians of all kinds. What a delight!
I live in southeast Wisconsin and drove past the orb last week. I only went down that road because the road I wanted to be on was under construction and I had to detour.
When I was a kid we had a horse and it looked a lot like Josh Hawley. NSA guys I hope you found that funny I know you're just doing your job have a nice day
