Ted Cruz

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Verdict with Ted Cruz · The Chinese Communists Caught Spending Big Bucks Trying to Make You Hate Data Centers, plus Trump’s Venezuela Oil Deal · 31 Aug 2026 podcast

Yeah, no, so there are two things that are referred to. matched

One are bots and one are sock puppets, and they're different things. matched

So a bot is a fake account. matched

It's an account that is automated, it's an account that is made to look like a human being, and they go to great efforts to make it look like a real person, someone that seems like a, you know, ordinary American that just got a view. matched

That's a bot and and there are millions of bots online. matched

They're also sock puppets, and sock puppets are real people. matched

They are real human beings. matched

They're people that you know and I know, but they just happen to be taking a check. matched

Uh, from someone to put out particular content, either misinformation or just propaganda. matched

And so they're a real person, but they're secretly on the take. matched

Both of those have become, I think, an epidemic online. matched

And and listen, uh, you and I spend a lot of our time engaged in the political world, engaged in the policy world, and I will say six months ago. matched

The question of data centers was not a major political issue. matched

Six months ago you didn't hear about data centers much. matched

They were being built, but it was sort of you'd have a groundbreaking and there'd be a press release and reporters would go. matched

You know, I remember six months ago or so there was a big Google data center in West Texas. matched

I went to the groundbreaking, it was billions of dollars being invested, and a hundred percent of the reaction at the time was enthusiasm. matched

Usually when you have billions of dollars being invested, big construction matched

Project, lots of jobs. matched

Everyone in the community was was excited about it. matched

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