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Episode #1061: Like and Subscribe Your Light Bulbs
First Broadcast: 8/10/26
James Talarico, the Democratic candidate for the Senate from Texas, is currently leading his Republican challenger, Ken Paxton, in the polls by 2 points. On a more local level, Bobby Pulido, the Democratic candidate for Texas's 15th Congressional Dictrict, is currently leading his Republican challenger, Monica De La Cruz, by 6 points in a district that Donald Trump won by 18 points in the 2024 Presidential election--a 24-point swing in Democrats' favor. Are these signs--in Texas!--the early warnings of a massive blue wave coming in this year's midterm elections? Is this possibly why Texas Governor Greg Abbott suddenly announced a moratorium on all new data centers that haven't been audited by the Texas government for their water and power usage yet? And since this happened less than a month after Governor Kathy Hochul announced a similar moratorium on data centers in New York State, does this signify a rare cross-party consensus that transcends all the other issues currently dividing so many Americans today? If so, then it's immensely baffling why anyone thought it was a good idea for former New York City Mayor Eric Adams to show up in a small town in Wisconsin to encourage its residents to embrace building a data center there. As you can imagine, the locals at this meeting did not take kindly to this idea, and loudly booed Adams in response. I probably would have done the same, because why would any thinking person be in favor or building something that's guaranteed to increase the price of electricity, divert an enormous amount of water away from the people, plants, and animals who need it to live, and increase local temperatures at a time when global warming needs to be reduced, all for the sake of creating more racist campaign ads and helping countless students cheat on their assignments? Let's hope the next few elections get more politicians like Zohran Mamdani into office, because so far the results here have been pretty good overall! Maybe elect someone whose mission isn't to impress people who only exist in fan fiction? Just a thought!
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