Daniel's Digest: Republicans Making Us Buy the Farm
Dear Patriot,
So what would you spend your final months in power focused on?
Well, for our friends in the GOPe, it’s the surveillance state, the White House ballroom, promoting marijuana, and now the $1.5 trillion farm bill.
Aside from containing a provision exempting pesticide companies from liability and shoving more ethanol (E15) down our engines, this bill continues the same socialist policies that cement agricultural monopolies that are harming family farms. Artificial government subsidies and crop programs have steered farming and land ownership unnaturally towards crops we don’t need. There are zero reforms in this bill. I will be discussing it in further detail on my show.
Meanwhile, here are a number of other stories and tidbits I’m looking at this week:
Culture
-After Ohio legalized recreational marijuana, cases of pediatric intoxication surged by 424 percent: Marijuana is one of the most devastating things for our society. In Ohio, thanks to the stupid ballot measure process, voters approved full recreational marijuana in 2023. This piece from Kevin Sabet is one of the best resources chronicling the harms to our society so people like Kim Rivers can line their pockets.
-Marijuana support drops by 15 points among Republicans in just two years: People are being mugged by reality. The share of Republicans who thought marijuana use should be legal grew from 29% in 2010 to a record high of 55% in 2023. But then it plummeted to just 40% by November 2025. Imagine if Trump would be on the right side of this issue?
- Top MAGA influencer Emily Hart revealed to be AI — created by a guy in India: The “right” has become so dumbed down that Indians are now creating fake bot influencers that push the uncreative tropes and mannerisms that they have been acculturated to!
Technocracy
-IEA reports that 50% of all growth in electricity use is from data centers: It’s inconceivable that this is not the culprit for rising electricity prices. Overall global energy demand growth slowed to 1.3% in 2025, slightly below the previous decade’s average of 1.4% and significantly lower than in 2024, as global recessions have cooled demand. However, electricity use spiked 3% because of data centers. Furthermore, Utility Dive reports Texas’s peak demand for electricity could quadruple by 2032 because of data centers.
-OpenAI misses revenue target as it faces $1.5 trillion in commitments: OpenAI missed its revenue target last quarter. It already faced $1.5 trillion in debt obligations and now must confront them with less revenue. The company’s CFO is telling board members that the data center spending is unsustainable with such little revenue. This entire enterprise is a ponzi scheme.
- Hyperscale data center project in Utah — expected to generate and consume more power than entire state: The Box Elder County Utah Commission is about to sign off on a mega data center project on 40,000 acres of private and DOD lands that, when completed will eventually use 9 GWs of power. To my knowledge, that would be the largest energy user of all the hyperscalers. To put that in perspective, the entire state of Utah uses 4 GWs. It is inconceivable that this will not harm consumers, yet the state and counties are offering numerous use and property tax incentives, not to mention federal favors with land use. Gov. Spencer Cox complains about AI and digital addiction all the time, yet he won’t lift a finger to stop his state from becoming a parking lot for this Agenda 2030 dystopia.
- Georgia Power, the largest energy provider in the state, imposed six rate hikes in the last three years: CBS reports how Georgia has experienced six rate hikes in three years, perfectly coinciding with the state becoming a top five destination for data centers. Promises to not cause rate hikes rings hollow when they are already doing so.
-Archbald, PA residents revolt after town leaders plan 14% of its land for data centers: For those who accuse me of being anti-progress or anti-development, this story should give you a sense of the unprecedented nature of this data center conquest. Tucked in the Pocono Mountains northeast of Scranton, Archbald was a beautiful mountain town of 7,000. Now, town council leaders have sold out to Big Tech and plan to build six sprawling hyperscale data centers covering about 14% of the town’s land. Those campuses would include 51 data warehouses — each about the size of a Walmart Supercenter — including seven buildings encompassing more than a million square feet. If all the data centers were built, they would occupy about 2.5 miles of land.
We have simply never done this before. And remember, this is playing out to varying degrees in hundreds of places throughout the country. And of course, they offer nothing but surveillance and slop relative to edge computing. This Washington Post story chronicles how the acrimony is tearing apart the town. Over the past month, most of the seven-person Archbald Borough Council, along with several planning board members, have resigned.
-Local governments race to attract data centers, often in spite of concerns from their constituents: Here is another piece on how local government officials are bought out to screw with their constituencies. This piece again captures the shear magnitude of data centers, which is much greater than the power plants we need to power all of us plus the data centers.
“When you take into account the infrastructure needed to supply data centers with enough electricity and water to operate, the total land required can be 100 times the size of the footprints of the buildings themselves, “which are already pretty big,” said Miller.
The Piedmont Environmental Council created a map of data centers in Virginia in the absence of any such overview from the state, showing an estimated 370 million square feet of existing and proposed data centers.”
-Maine governor vetoes data center moratorium: Maine Gov. Janet Mills announced her veto of L.D. 307, which imposed a moratorium on data centers. What’s clear is that even though many Democrats are running on our issue, they strategically ensure that the bills are ultimately defeated because Big Tech controls the establishment elements of both parties. We saw the same thing in Virginia where the governor ensured even Democrat bills reining in data centers did not go the distance.
-More than 50% of internet traffic is composed of bots: The CEO of Lumen, which handles 65% of global internet traffic, penned a letter to other tech company heads warning that more than half of all internet traffic has now become bots. “The intensity of, and pace and the volume of data is proliferating quite rapidly,” she said in an interview. “More than 50 per cent of the traffic on the Internet today is created by autonomous workers. That’s remarkable because as most CEOs would tell you, we are just beginning our AI journey. So if it already comprises 50 per cent, imagine what it’s going to look like in a year, three years, five years.”
This is the crux of my argument on how the misallocation of capital and government-created monopolies are, for the first time, using technology to go backwards, not forwards. There is nobody who can look at you with a straight face and say the internet experience is not worse today than it was five years ago. We’ve ‘enshitified’ the internet with nothing but slop.
States
-The Arizona legislature passed the Medical Freedom Act, which would ban businesses, schools, and state or local governments from mandating medical interventions. That includes “any medical procedure, treatment, device, drug, injection, medication or action taken to diagnose, prevent or cure a disease.” So it’s not just the COVID shot. Sadly, the Democrat governor will not sign it. Unfortunately, in the 20 other states where we have trifectas, we lack governors willing to sign it. And in Florida, where we have a governor pushing for it in a special session, the speaker of the house is promoting it.
Elections
-Dems have cataclysmic 10-point lead in the Wisconsin generic ballot: In what was long considered the closest battleground state, Democrats now command a 10-point generic ballot lead according to a Marquite Law School poll.
-Poll shows Dem Talarico ahead in Texas Senate race: A Texas Public Opinion Research from April 17 to 20 found James Talarico leading Sen. John Cornyn by three percentage points, 44% to 41%, and Attorney General Ken Paxton by a margin of five percentage points, 46% to 41%. Even if this poll is too optimistic for Democrats, it aligns with the Wisconsin poll and demonstrates that Texas is in play. It doesn’t mean they will ultimate lose Texas, but it does mean that if Texas is this competitive, the GOP is completely screwed. At this point, that would not be a bad thing, so long as we have a plan post collapse.
Congress
-Micron pushes Congress to ban chip exports to China: For once, we actually have bipartisan support behind a good initiative to ban chip sales to China. In fact, Micron, the largest memory chip manufacturer in the U.S., is lobbying to pass the Match Act, which would do exactly that. So the question is why is the Trump administration not doing this on their own, given that we supposedly have to use all our land and power to “beat” China with data centers?
Immigration
- Former Deputy ICE Director Madison Sheahan invited a 19-year-old female junior staffer into her bed: I honestly, don’t know which category to place this story. But in a pattern we are seeing with the Trump fake right, and the Noem DHS in particular, degeneracy is rampant. Madison Sheahan allegedly invited a 19-year-old female junior staffer into her bed after a Trump campaign party in 2020 and engaged in a secret sexual relationship for two years. Madison Sheahan is seeking the Republican nomination for Ohio’s 9th congressional district, which is currently held by a Democrat. This is par for the course.
-Trump’s “gold card” granted to just one foreign national so far: I guess this is a good thing. Remember when Trump illegally created a visa program to pay $1 million and come here to potentially get put on a track to citizenship? Bloomberg reports that only one person has received this benefit so far.
-Trump DHS scaling back immigration arrests without warrant, at courthouses: There is a bright red line between immigration enforcement and other law enforcement in that the former does not require traditional due process if we are merely trying to send you back from where you came. Retreating from conducting courthouse arrests and entering homes without judicial warrants is not only a sign of unconditional surrender in itself, but it also helps affirm the precedent that immigration offenses be treated like every other domestic crime of a citizen, which means we will have to litigate every illegal immigrant out of here, which, of course, means we will never remove large numbers of them.
Trump administration
-Turning Point USA sets up meeting between White House and disgruntled MAHA leaders: It’s become obvious to RFK supporters and medical freedom activists that they were used as tools, so many of them are voicing opposition to decisions of this administration, such as their promotion of glyphosate and data centers. Clearly, when TPUSA gets involved, it’s not to pressure the White House on behalf of the activists but to pressure or charm the activists into standing down on behalf of the admin.
-Budget airlines including Frontier are pitching the US government on a $2.5 billion aid deal, as the White House continues talks with Spirit: After the White House expressed support for bailing out Spirit Airlines, now the other budget airlines are trying to get on the gravy train. The last thing we need to do is bail out these trashy airlines. They need to burn to the ground so that we can reset the baseline and restore human dignity to flying.
Foreign policy/Military
-Damage done to U.S. bases in Middle East expected to cost billions: I have a novel idea. Now that those bases are destroyed, just leave the rubble and spend the money on deterring China? There is no reason we should think about rebuilding those bases.
Economy
-College tuition has increased 914% since 1983: According to a report last month from JP Morgan, college tuition has increased 914% since 1983, more than any household item. Just eyeballing the numbers, this is roughly the same percentage increase in government subsidies to higher education and student loans over the same time! The more you subsidize something, the more you inflate it. From 2005 to 2025, education debt surged 343%, yet a record number of college graduates can’t land their first jobs. Now is the time to pull the plug on this circuitous cycle of failure.
-Half of Americans Say It’s Hard to Afford Food Now, according to a New Survey: If you want to know why the incumbent party will continue to get slaughtered, it’s all about affordability. And until someone has a plan to fix food and health care and cut spending, this will continue. According to a Lending Tree survey of 2,000 consumers, half said they were experiencing difficulty affording food, while only 22% expressed no concern at all. The kicker is that this included 57% of those in the cohort earning $100,000 or more. 84% report cutting back on restaurants, which is going to plague the economy long term.
My latest
-Blaze column: The founders gave us the remedy for rogue state judges: Impeach
In Liberty,
Daniel
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