Aug 25, 2026 · 49 min · 22 segments
🚩Kentucky's Senate President, Robert Stivers, writes an op-ed in support of data centers. Leaving me to ask only one question: Why would he do that? Beshear is coming out with meaningless executive…
Andrew CooperriderHostWhy is that? Well, first, you have to understand, if everybody loved these...
They would be gladly running on it, right? Don't fall for any politicians standing up there saying, I'm going to take a strong stand against data centers.
As obvious when you look at some past actions when it comes to data centers and statements and now what they're trying to shift to.
But regardless, the issue all of them have is they want these data centers.
Left, right, Democrat or Republican, you pay attention to politics long enough, you realize they all want More power.
Not per se money necessarily into their pockets, though there's plenty of that that goes on.
But, you know, when people sit there and they say, well, what drives? Well, they must be getting a payoff from somebody.
It's not even necessarily that politicians are getting per se a payoff in the form of monetary benefits into their pocket.
something where they're looking for some financial payoff necessarily in the end now in politics money does equal power but that once again that doesn't mean you need to line your pockets anybody who's uh actually the uh kevin spacey's character in house of cards kind of lines this out well when he's talking about somebody who was working alongside him in congress that ended up becoming a lobbyist making a lot more money becoming a lobbyist and he talks about how sure you can line your pocket with a This is how you get real power.
Why is that? Well, first, you have to understand, if everybody loved these...
They would be gladly running on it, right? Don't fall for any politicians standing up there saying, I'm going to take a strong stand against data centers.
As obvious when you look at some past actions when it comes to data centers and statements and now what they're trying to shift to.
But regardless, the issue all of them have is they want these data centers.
Left, right, Democrat or Republican, you pay attention to politics long enough, you realize they all want More power.
Not per se money necessarily into their pockets, though there's plenty of that that goes on.
But, you know, when people sit there and they say, well, what drives? Well, they must be getting a payoff from somebody.
It's not even necessarily that politicians are getting per se a payoff in the form of monetary benefits into their pocket.
something where they're looking for some financial payoff necessarily in the end now in politics money does equal power but that once again that doesn't mean you need to line your pockets anybody who's uh actually the uh kevin spacey's character in house of cards kind of lines this out well when he's talking about somebody who was working alongside him in congress that ended up becoming a lobbyist making a lot more money becoming a lobbyist and he talks about how sure you can line your pocket with a This is how you get real power.
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