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

And I gotta say, if you're an American company, the prospect of competing against another company that is business partners with the federal government, the US government, and that has a special deal with the Venezuelan government matched

That's gonna make you as a private company pause and say, Wait, is is this a fair playing field? matched

Can I compete here? matched

And and so how that's worked out, it's unclear at this point, but those are a concern a number in the energy world are raising, and I think those are reasonable concerns to ask. matched

Uh, there is also the longer term concern that this deal is being done through the Office of Strategic Capital at the Department of War. matched

And it is being done in exchange for equity ownership in the company. matched

We've talked before on this podcast how I am very uncomfortable. matched

uh with this administration's taking equity positions in lots and lots of companies. matched

I think that is a very bad precedent. matched

I think it puts us on a slippery slope. matched

They started it with Intel taking a big equity position in Intel. matched

I think look look, if you look at the definition of socialism. matched

Socialism is government ownership of the means of production or distribution in an economy. matched

If the federal government starts taking a major equity position and just matched

So the textbook definition of socialism. matched

is government ownership. matched

Or control. matched

Of the means of production or distribution in an economy. matched

At the end of the day, if we end up with the federal government having equity s shares, ownership stakes in the biggest company of companies of America, that is socialism. matched

It is the definition of socialism. matched

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