Ted Cruz

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15,113 appearances 102 recordings 19 series first heard Nov 2024 last heard 3d ago

Ted Cruz’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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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

And and by the way, here's how it gets worse. matched

It is an issue in every campaign across the country. matched

And what I'm telling these business leaders. matched

Із if you think the politics is bad now. matched

If we get to election day and the narrative that comes out of election day is the politicians who supported AI or supported data centers, they lost. matched

As bad as you think the politics is now, it will get 10x worse next year. matched

Because look, politicians are risk averse. matched

If they think, wait a second, if i i i i i if I support data centers, I will lose my job. matched

They will run like scared children the other direction. matched

And so that herd mentality. matched

It it's why I'm not saying it's a hundred percent this is gonna happen. matched

It depends how the election goes, it depends on on on where the public debate moves, but I'll tell you what I'm urging the the the business leaders to do. matched

Ha have you ever studied public choice theory? matched

Oh yes. matched

So it's a school of e economics. matched

Public choice theory is a school of economics that examines how decision making is made in a democratic society and it examines it through an e economic lens. matched

And and one of the basic foundational principles of of public choice theory matched

Is that if you have really concentrated benefits with a limited number of people but significant benefits, and you have on the other side really diffuse harms across a lot of people, and the harms might be orders of magnitude greater than the benefits, much, much worse harms than benefits, but they're diffuse among a lot of people. matched

Public choice theory lays out how in almost every circumstance the concentrated benefits will defeat the diffuse harms, even though for society that's a much worse outcome 'cause you're getting a lot more harm than good. matched

What does that mean for data centers? matched

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