Jerry McGuffin

[Gavin Baker @GavinSBaker]

Regret the tone of my post on data centers yesterday.

What I should have said:

There were reasonable concerns about data centers 18ish months ago: water, taxes, jobs, electricity prices, the environment and what they would do to small towns. Well-structured data center projects have largely addressed these concerns today and we should be celebrating this.

On balance, data centers are awesome for America in every way.

On water: U.S. data centers use a fraction of what golf courses use. A lot of the numbers from 18 months ago were off by over 1000x. Newer data centers use closed-loop systems or recycled water. Should be required by every town approving a data center project.

On taxes: looking only at sales-tax exemptions, as Ronan Farrow did, is the wrong way to evaluate this. Data centers pay significant property taxes. Loudoun County, which is the wealthiest county in America, now collects on the order of $1 billion a year from data centers. In Quincy, WA, data centers are more than half the property-tax roll. Over time, property taxes can go to zero while government spending increases in these towns.

On jobs: this has been unambiguously awesome for blue collar Americans. Demand for electricians, plumbers, welders, HVAC techs, and contractors has gone vertical, and it is not a one-time construction job. These buildings get upgraded and expanded over time. That is why the building trades are fighting for them, and why some unions are now treating opposition to data centers as a reason not to endorse politicians.

On power: the original fear was that households would pay for the incremental electricity demand in the form of higher prices. That is why the ratepayer-protection deals and the new large-load tariffs exist. The right structure is: the data center brings or pays for new generation and signs a contract long enough that existing customers are protected. Where that is happening, utilities are cutting or freezing residential rates and saying so on the record. Where it is not, people are right to object. Electricity prices are going down *today* in a number of large states because of data centers.

On the environment: data centers overwhelming use natural gas today, which is the cleanest power source outside of nuclear, solar and wind. And the companies that are building the data centers are committed to carbon neutrality such that an equivalent amount of solar will likely be built. Maybe more importantly, the data centers need batteries to function effectively and these batteries can also sell energy back into the grid (which recently prevented blackouts in Texas). Over time, data centers will run on solar plus batteries.

On the towns: Poverty in Quincy, WA fell from 29% to 6%. Data center taxes paid for a new high school, a hospital, a library, police and fire stations. This is happening in many left for dead former mill and farm towns that had no other bidder for the land.

Data centers are actually reindustrializing parts of America and creating the kind of working-class jobs both parties have spent decades claiming to support. That should not be a partisan issue. Data centers can and should be awesome for America and they increasingly, overwhelmingly are. Supporting the outsourcing of data centers to China will likely age just as well as support for the outsourcing of high quality, blue collar manufacturing jobs to China has aged.

When the facts change, I change my mind. I hope that reasonable people who had good faith reasons to oppose data centers at least consider updating their beliefs given the change in the facts over the last 18 months. This really matters for America.

I will say I also think the idea of making data centers beautiful is a good one that has yet to be implemented. Data centers should be just as beautiful as Grand Central Station. We can learn a lot from the railroad buildout. Neoclassical revival ftw.

Might write up open-weight AI tomorrow as this is equally essential to America.

[Jerry McGuffin @jerrydmcguffin]

@TheNatufian @bennyjohnson Yea, I see your point. Certainly did not mean to disrespect Dolly. There is something so refreshing about a great entertainer just staying true to their art. And I mean this on both sides of the aisle.

[Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson]

Jelly Roll BURSTS Into Tears On LIVE TV, Rages at Fans for Abandoning Him After Anti-Trump Betrayal

Jelly Roll has now tripled down by giving a political speech on Jimmy Kimmel — walking back his earlier choice not to comment on ICE and law enforcement when he was asked.

To make matters worse, he pushed a warped leftist version of Christianity to promote open borders. He also thanked his “Antifa friends” in the audience.

Never has anyone crashed and burned this fast.

Jelly Roll built an audience of Christians and Patriots who embraced him. The second Hollywood dangles a dollar in front of him, he lights all that goodwill on fire in one week.

It’s not about the jokes. It’s the absolute fraudulent behavior to please Hollywood liberals for money and fame.

[Western Lensman @WesternLensman]

CNN's Strategy of Silence Worked.

One month ago today Rand Paul released the "Fauci Diaries."

Among the many revelations were instances where two of CNN's most high-profile anchors were private pals behind the scenes with the man they were theoretically tasked with reporting on objectively.

If they were actually "journalists" as they purport to be, that is. Which of course, they're not.

"Friendship building" dinner parties. Backchanneling interview questions. Texting insults about Republicans for laughs.

None of it was ever publicly addressed. Not by Tapper, not by Bash, not by anyone at CNN.

Complete and total silence.

The play was to let the furor die, let the news cycles grind away, and let the facts fade from memory.

And it worked.

It's been completely memory-holed, just one month later.

Meanwhile, Tapper, Bash and CNN chug along pretending they possess a shred of ethical standards or journalistic integrity.

This is CNN.

This will always be CNN.

[Jerry McGuffin @jerrydmcguffin]

@JSeyff Hands down the Tesla. I was not on board when we got it but now I understand the future. It’s not a “car”, it’s your personal robot, that takes you anywhere you want to go. Seriously life changing. Hold your nose and pay for the technology.

[Adam Carolla @adamcarolla]

I love this

[Adam Carolla @adamcarolla]

Because CNN was in on the grift

[Rob Schneider 🇺🇸 @RobSchneider]

Chris Cuomo hates evidence of him being a pharma douchebag…
But he was. 👇👇👇👇🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🤮

[Sayer Ji @sayerjigmi]

💉💉A time capsule from the pandemic. Every clip is a public official, on the record, describing their fellow citizens. No commentary needed. Just watch how it sounded.

[Jerry McGuffin @jerrydmcguffin]

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[Adam Carolla @adamcarolla]

This aged nicely

[Janice Dean @JaniceDean]

Reposting this because it makes @ChrisCuomo mad.

[MAZE @mazemoore]

Another really amazing pandemic clip.

October, 2021. CNN sends a reporter to Miami to investigate a school that is considered "anti-vax."

While there the reporter runs into a parent who says that he is not going to have his children get the Covid vaccine.

While being harassed by the CNN lackey, the parent says that fully vaccinated people are still dying from Covid and that Fauci is not the best scientist in the world. The CNN clown scoffs at him and tells him he is wrong.

This exact same week the former head of the CDC Robert Redfield said that more than 40% of people who died from Covid over the past 6-8 weeks in Maryland were fully vaccinated. Soon after, the CEO of Pfizer said publicly that two doses of the vaccine offered almost no protection at all against Covid.

The parent was right. The arrogant CNN reporter was wrong.

[iTrustCapital @iTrustCapital]

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[Jerry McGuffin @jerrydmcguffin]

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[Amy Mek @AmyMek]

🚨 ALERT TEXAS:

McKinney is Becoming an Islamic Stronghold!

The McKinney Islamic Association (MIA) isn’t just expanding—it’s building an Islamic migration hub in Texas. They’ve secured 5.57 acres for a massive 40,000 sqft Islamic center featuring a prayer hall, gym, classrooms, and community hub designed to Islamize the area at an explosive rate.

🔹 Their own words:

👉 “McKinney is fast growing… We have tons of Muslims moving in… The migration rate is astronomical… We are building for the next 50-60 years.”

🔹 Their goal:

To transform McKinney into an Islamic enclave, funneling in Muslims from New York, Chicago, California, and beyond.

🔹 Their funding drive:

They’re aggressively raising millions—how much of it is foreign-funded? We’ve seen this playbook before.

And of course, McKinney Mayor George Fuller was there, pandering for votes at the expense of Texans. He boasts about McKinney’s “diversity,” but can he name one Islamic country that embraces Christians and Jews?

🔹 Where are the Christian megachurches in Mecca?
🔹 Why is Islamic expansion in America celebrated,
while Christianity is suppressed in Islamic nations?

Americans don’t see the wool being pulled over their eyes because we’ve been conditioned to be tolerant and embrace multiculturalism. Islam, however, does not reciprocate. It demands dominance, not coexistence.

🚨 The Most Controversial Part—Saved for Last! 🚨

🔹 Meet Their Imam: Mohamed AlGebaly—sent by the Egyptian government and trained at Al-Azhar University (the Vatican of Islam).

👉 Why did Egypt send him to Texas?
👉 Did you know Al-Azhar JUST mandated Jew-hatred?

He is also the President of the Islamic Tribunal—a Sharia type Court operating in Texas. Their website openly states:

🛑 “Conflicts must be solved using Islamic jurisprudence and Sharia ”

🔹 He also serves on the Fatwa Hotline with the Assembly of Muslim Jurists of North America.

⚠️ Why do Texas Muslims need Islamic legal rulings (fatwas)? Is this why Egypt sent him?

I thought Greg Abbott said Sharia was banned in Texas?

🚨 THIS is Hijrah—Islamic migration for conquest—and it’s happening in your backyard.

WAKE UP, TEXAS. 🚨

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

Racist Commie Mamdani is going to make you show ID in his markets. You want your government-subsidized arugula? Show your papers! Ask for ID to vote? BIGOT!!!

Are you starting to realize what disingenuous lying buffoons these commies are?

[Adam Carolla @adamcarolla]

She lied just like Fauci. She should be held accountable but instead she got a job at Harvard. She is compromised

[Liz Churchill @liz_churchill10]

The unvaccinated were the most hated people on Earth. They lost their jobs. Friends and families disowned them. They were reported and arrested. Society treated them like lepers…and 7 years later…it turns out that they were right about everything…