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https://www.politico.com/news/2026/08/19/how-data-centers-and-power-lines-could-turn-texas-governors-race-blue-01041065
“It feels like an attack on a culture, a way of life, because now I think rural Texas is feeling like ‘Okay, now they want us, but don’t want our culture — they want our resources,’” said Suzanne Bellsnyder, an Abbott campaign field director in 2014 who now runs the Texas Rural Reporter website.
dogdayafternoon13
As I recall, Texas doesn't have enough power to keep the people cool in the summer and warm in winter. Just saying.
SinisterSlaw
As a life long Texan I can tell you that the Republican government has been royally fucking everyone in the state for decades. Rural counties still vote for them no matter what.
madanthonywayne33924
Take his fucking wheelchair and access ramps
theInternetismyplayground
Slash that fucking scumbags … tyres
MCTMCT
cromstantinople
"Yeah, we'll have a Democrat in there and grit our teeth and bear it"
They've learned nothing. 'Sure, Republicans are making my life worse in every metric but vote for a democrat? Me?! No way, they'd make my life worse...'
MerriMod
That's really the rub: Republicans have brainwashed their states into thinking the shitty lifestyle they inflict is actually as good as it gets, and things would be SO MUCH WORSE if a Dem was in charge. These people think they're on the greener side of the fence; it's why they get so shocked if they actually travel and learn.
"Hopefully we'll come out of it the following election". They're desperate to scurry back to the Republicans. It's fucking pathetic what the GOP have done to people.
DriverIRQnotlessOrEqual
Wahhh cry me a data center
zHurk777
In that voting booth maga man is still going to pull the handle next to the big red R.
thatiscomedygoldrightthere
Somehow, American "conservatives" have convinced people that if they don't support oligarchy, they'll get called names. This sort of verbal terrorism works, for some reason.
SirRealOfTheShire
"pause Texas data center grid approvals", until after he is elected?
Dannyalcatraz
I’m in D/FW.
They’re starting to air commercials about how companies are “rethinking” how they do data centers.
This includes paying for “all of the power they use”.😱😱😱
SomeDetroitGuy
"Marxists" and "Liberals" are miles apart.
nycjtw
"Not when I say them at the same time, you Marxist Liberal!" /s
ChiLLeCheeze
Yeah, but when you're a fascist everything to the left of you is the same thing.
lostinthoughtinathoughlessworld
When they can't refute facts they resort to name calling. I think it's chapter 1 in their policy handbook.
Gerdwo
As a Texan, we finally have momentum to turn the state blue this year. Maybe not the governor, but definitely the senate seat with Talarico. There is more than just hope, polls show we have a lead
dontrike
And Texas will continue to vote republican because.........it's mainly the racism.
stercusmoriturussum
Hmmm.... from what it seems here, half a world away, Texas (and other states) would need that power grid upgrade in any case.
5NoteHalf
Maybe if they'd listened to the “woke Marxist liberals” they wouldn't be in this mess. Side note - I would LOVE to walk up to any of these stupid fucks and ask them to tell me what a Marxist is, and what the philosophy encompasses.
mrthewhitee
Damn, if only you hadn't voted for fascist for decades.
petonious
Aw is that what it took you stupid hicks. You middle of cow chip nation morons.
veronicablood
brainkandle1
He's such a loser. Rolls around claiming "No men in women's sports!" like that is even something a governor should ever be involved in let alone be a campaign promise. Fuck him.
BillyTater
At least pretty much everyone hates data centers. Something we can almost all agree on. It been awhile….
Idontneedrealfacts
texas does not have the electric grid to run more data centers, they already have insane pricing and rolling brown outs. the absolutely do not have the water for them either.
friendsofsandwiches
Boy, I'm SURE they're gonna pay for the wattage during those HIGH heat days.
Be like reading an electric bill from Faulkner.
Should be in the millions.
RIGHT?
BARP
Calling people “woke Marxist liberals” combines ideologies that often conflict. Marxism emphasizes collective ownership, critiques capitalism, and focuses on class struggle and economic equality. Liberalism prioritizes individual rights and freedoms, private property, and, particularly in its classical form, limits on government power. 1/2
BARP
Their views on capitalism, personal freedom, property, and the role of the state are fundamentally different. Using them interchangeably as a label does not strengthen your argument; it only avoids a meaningful discussion of the actual issue. 2/2
ChiLLeCheeze
You could make an argument if you're discussing this with reasonable people. I live in Texas and these people are anything but reasonable. They'll say the stupidest shit and claim victory. No discussions. Fracking is bad. "No it's not." No discussion. Just what they feel or have been told.
BARP
Sadly you are 100% correct.
sequeezey
I'll believe it when I see it. If republicans didn't constantly vote against their own interests, we wouldn't be in this mess.
CHARCHIMUS
their electric grid is already fucked, wouldnt data centers just completely absolutely fuck all the shit up even more?! just classic stupid.
SavageDrums
Yeah, but the holy line will go up for a few more days.....
Kyzyl
Republican? Yes. You said that already.
CHARCHIMUS
michiyl
It's the fault of all the woke people, stealing energy from patriotic companies! /s
nwafellows
I live in one of the bluest corners of one of the bluest states. Even here, you'd be hard-pressed to find enough "woke Marxist Liberals" to form a baseball team. This identity-based politics fearmongering has just completely polluted everything, and every time I hear people like this pearl-clutch about things they can't even define or have personally experienced I get angry. Yet they just KNOW it's a problem.
Donfolstar
As a woke marxist, I want as little as possible to do with liberals.
SomeDetroitGuy
I know a LOT of very very very progressive folks. All of them would self-describe as woke. None of them as Marxists and very few as Liberals. Democratic socialists? Anarchists? Antifascists? Leftists? Radicals? Punks? Sure.
Idontneedrealfacts
I live in western Washington and play on a basketball team named the Woke Marxist Liberals. Its not as many as a baseball team, but still not nothing
Comet260
It's a fear response because EVERYTHING they do and say is based in fear. I am so happy I'm not a red hat.
cambriago13
Woke. Marxist. Liberals. Three things they don't understand and use incorrectly in that one sentence.
Donfolstar
I'm waiting for them to starting throwing in Smurf. The mob will go crossed eyed the first time they hear it (as the thinking part of their mind they have worked for years to suppress surges to the surface only to be shoved down again) then cheer and keep on cheering for all time. God damn woke marxist smurf liberals!!!
MrSatisify
Kyzyl
Rural Texans are the closest thing to "classical liberals" that you might get.
HitandRyan
I dunno man, if they’re MAGA they’re just straight up fascists.
hogeyegrex
Until private equity starts taking all their water and jacking up their electric bills.
cambriago13
Don't tell them that.
Kyzyl
If they walk into a political science classroom, I might have to. Otherwise it's on them to look it up.
wherethehorriblethingsare
Asking them to read is just cruel.
Frenchgeek
Clever: If they manage to open the door on the third try, you got one of the smart ones.