Some of the loudest booing I've heard so far as Trump makes an appearance at the Washington Commanders NFL game:


Watch the video here:
https://x.com/Ronxyz00/status/1987660678472327284

It was also aired by FOX News live, although I will bet you that if you try to watch FOX at 11pm and if they even dare to re-air it, they'll edit it to turn the volume down on the booing and insert fake, louder cheers into the video (as they did with Trump's disastrous military parade months earlier).

AND: It looks like the Democrats may have caved in and have made a (weak) compromise to re-open the US government.
UPDATE:

Senate Clears Path for Bipartisan Deal Ending 40-Day U.S. Government Shutdown

The U.S. Senate passed a 60-40 procedural vote late Sunday, with eight Democrats joining Republicans to advance a funding measure that reopens federal agencies through January 30, 2026, and extends SNAP benefits to September, concluding the longest government shutdown in history.

The deal, triggered by a September 30 funding dispute over ACA subsidies and immigration, excludes extensions of Affordable Care Act subsidies, leading to premium doublings for over 20 million Americans in 2026. President Trump endorsed the agreement while pushing for filibuster reform and voter ID laws, as Democrats like Senators Schumer and Sanders criticized it for threatening healthcare access amid internal party divisions.

AND: Trump pardons more of his conspirators from the Jan 6th coup attempt:
https://x.com/harryjsisson/status/1987766254963241335

In the middle of the night, Trump pardoned a number of his allies who tried to overturn the 2020 election. The list includes Rudy Giuliani, Mark Meadows, John Eastman, Boris Epshteyn, and more. This doesn’t protect them from state charges. More corrupt BS!!!

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Is America great again yet?

I don't know how much more sane people can take.

Sure enough, Trump has officially now dumped MTG, a former ally, for turning against him, badmouthing her as expected for being a complainer:

Trump ditches longtime ally Marjorie Taylor Greene
https://www.axios.com/2025/11/15/trump-marjorie-taylor-greene-endorsement-epstein

On to other news:

For a couple of months now, Trump has hinted that he would bail out the farmers who voted for him and who have paid dearly, sometimes with their lives, for doing so as they watched their farming businesses go bankrupt due to tariffs and China's counter-tariffs. Still nothing concrete has emerged and as I said previously, I have my doubts that he will genuinely do much to save them. The Trump administration only seems to care about a handful of things (beyond just turning America into a North Korea-style country that is predominantly white Christian nationalist right-wingers).

One is getting access to rare earth minerals from any other source other than China (like absorbing Canada as its 51st state to get it for free), and the second is AI and building a huge AI infrastructure across America - which I am guessing is so that Peter Thiel can install AI-powered monitoring systems on every corner of the country and begin his social credit system that will dictate the lives of every well-behaved American -- those who don't obey get sent to a prison in El Salvador or that water-logged one in Florida.

AI infrastructure means only one thing: AI data centers, gigantic warehouses for row after row of computer chips specializing in doing very fast math calculations but which come with a huge drawback: this kind of hardware requires insane amounts of fresh water to keep the chips cool (so that they don't literally melt or just break down and stop working). For any place within America which have hosted these centers the residents soon learn that it comes at a huge price: skyrocketing energy and water bills every month as well as a huge amount of environmental damage. Nobody in their right mind wants these things in their neck of the woods. That became obvious to me when back in September I happened to see a Facebook post from Alt National Park Service:

We wanted to draw attention to an issue affecting Menomonie, Wisconsin. A proposed $1.6 billion data center on 320 acres of farmland (located between 650th and 690th Avenue) has drawn strong opposition. The City Council quickly annexed and rezoned the land to “Restricted Industrial,” even though the developer, Balloonist LLC, has not revealed who will operate the facility or provided detailed site plans. This secrecy and the speed of approval have eroded community trust, leaving many residents feeling shut out of the decision-making process.

Residents have mobilized through a Facebook group called “Stop the Menomonie Data Center,” now with over 2,000 members, and in community meetings where concerns about transparency dominate. Many question why prime farmland is being sacrificed and whether city officials truly weighed the long-term impacts on people living nearby.

The environmental and public health concerns are substantial. The data center is projected to use around 75,000 gallons of water per day, making it one of the area’s largest consumers, rivaling major industrial users like Cardinal FG and UW-Stout. Residents also warn about noise and light pollution, strain on local utilities, heavier traffic, and disruptions to rural farmland.

Altogether, residents argue that the project threatens farmland, water, air, and quality of life in Menomonie while being pushed forward without clear answers. For many, it’s not just the scale of the facility that’s troubling, but how city officials’ lack of transparency has deepened community mistrust!

There usually aren't a lot of replies to a post like this which seemed to only affect a region of farmland in Wisconsin. Then I started scrolling through the comment section and scrolling and scrolling and scrolling... the responses came from Americans all across the entire country, with so many replies that even the long list I'm about to post here only captures a modest amount of the anger and worry that people have about seeing their state infested by these warehouses:

It happened to us here in KY. So far, we’ve managed to squash it, but they are still trying to sneak it through. Stay tough!
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They are fighting a Google one in Franklin Township (Indianapolis), IN also. They seem poised to deny it
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Any association with AcreTrader??? A Peter Thiel backed company that at one time, JD Vance was associated with as well.
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Beaver Dam, WI where I live has a data center being built right now. HUGE!! Many farmers increased their wealth exponentially!! I don’t recall any open meetings on this or any chatter before ground was broke. Guess we wait and see.
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if you live close to it, the amount of heat, noise pollution and loss of access to water will be a huge problem for you. Not to mention the cost of your own utilities and taxes going up
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the facilities use millions of gallons of water daily. That is a huge part of the problem. The water they use usually becomes contaminated. We fight hard to keep a Great Lakes protected. They are just very terrible for the environment.
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I've seen that the citizens nearby end up paying for all their water and electricity usage on utility bills as well. One video I watched people were saying it smells awful.Terrible for the environment and for the surrounding communities.
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It could be, but also, it could be a Data Center, something for crypto mining etc. This is becoming a major issue here in the Midwest, with investment firms, places like Amazon, Microsoft, Meta etc sweeping in to buy hundreds of acres of land to build these centers to run their AI or mine for crypto. It’s ruinous.
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No, these are all going to be AI computing centers. There are A LOT planned.
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Peter Thiel and the tech bros are branching out like cancer from Silicon Valley.
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no, data centers are used for housing computer systems, and they’re terrible for the environment.
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Data centers are cropping up all over the country fueled by the demand for AI services. It has nothing to do with ICE. They produce an immense amount of heat, and consume huge amounts of water and electricity to operate. Stop using ChatGPT to ask questions, quit using AI assisted search. Everyone using AI integrated tech is fueling the rise in utility prices and will lead to water shortages if growth isn't checked.
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No, it's an actual data processing center. Will most likely be AI related. The computers require huge amounts of energy and water.
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No, that amount of water is for an AI data center
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it’s a tech company that bought the land so, probably not a detention center.
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no, these are huge complexes which operate 24/7 and it's usually tied into AI. They want to be in my Wisconsin because of our rural space and water supplies. They're cropping up right and left. If you're not familiar with them, do some research. They're awful, and hide behind "we're creating jobs", but that's mainly for construction.
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WOW - until this thread, I had no clue that there were sooo many data centers in the works, spread out all over our country!
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Google St Charles Mo data center and see also that an “unnamed party” tried to put in a large data center. The proposal failed due to lack of transparency and the regional impact.
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People in my home city of St. Charles, MO successfully managed to get one of these sketchy data centers blocked. It can be done
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Happening everywhere. The rich benefit. The rest of us donate our resources. Clean Air. Water. Quality of life.
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A very similar situation is happening in Sulphur Springs, Texas. Looks likely to happen, although since folks discovered the plan and are speaking up, the city council has called an emergency meeting for next week.
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So basically the plot of Eddington
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This is also happening in North Mankato, Minnesota. The water issue is huge there because it will affect an aquifer key to most of the state.
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Southeast Indianapolis is currently trying to fight one as well.
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On a smaller scale, this same thing is happening in Harwood, ND with Applied Digital.
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Also Google facility in West Memphis Arkansas and X AI facility “Colossus” in Memphis Tennessee
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Data centers use a lot of water for cooling, but it doesn't all go up in steam, they just can't reuse it immediately because it is already hot. I wonder if there isn't a way to do a quick collection and send it back into public water work systems with minimum clean up (not have to go through the full sanitation process that grey water needs to go through) Someone out there probably knows more than I do about it, just random ideas.
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who knows. There is no longer an EPA to provide oversight so that water could end up anywhere and with any amount of contamination and nobody will know.
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There was a similar plan across the street from us in Guilford County NC - luckily the public outrage was early & organized.
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Same thing is going on in Harwood, North Dakota… just a few miles north of Fargo.
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Similar situation near Amarillo, Texas with a proposed data center.
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It's a closed loop system. It won't be using 75,000 gallons daily.
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They're trying to build one in Monticello (or Otsego) MN as well. They're in the community meetings phase of it all and I really hope my community can band together to stop the project. There's the Project Bigfoot data center being built in Rosemont MN as well.
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some data centers use the evaporation of water to cool the data center hall. Not all use evaporative technology but some do. Closed water cooling systems use little to no water but that technology tends to be more expensive up front for the equipment.
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from what I understand it is used to cool down the equipment. They are building data centers under the ocean to use water more "freely" where they don't have to pay utilities for it.
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There talk of a data center in Bucks County, PA... Thinking it's either an Amazon place or a Meta place. Being built in either Levittown or Langhorne.
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They are doing one in the Farmington, MN area...keeping all info. secret from the public.
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I live in Northern Virginia in the heart of the biggest hub of data centers in the world. Their environmental impact is ALWAYS greatly underestimated.
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Cody Gentz - Menomonie City Council

Menomonie City Council member here. I voted against the annexation and rezoning. I appreciate that this important story is getting covered, but there is more nuance than is being reported. I am quite confident that every member of the council is taking this extremely seriously, and nobody is interested in getting steamrolled by a megacorporation. A big part of the problem is the system in which we operate - a system skewed to the benefit of capital and corporations.

It is common practice for developers and companies to be very secretive about projects, utilizing shell LLCs and NDAs to hide from the media, their competitors, and so forth. This can end up causing cities who refuse NDAs to miss out on economic development, jobs, tax revenue, etc. I do not support the practice. The city council has the same information the general public does. We are still a long way off from any data center taking root, and we'll all be paying very close attention to our constituents' feedback.
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This why you need to show up for local elections! People forget the implications by thinking municipal elections do not matter - it is your city government that determines taxes, school funding, zoning, police & fire, etc.
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I’ve read that the data center in Port Washington will use in excess of 1M gallons of Lake Michigan water per day.
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The same thing is happening in Blakely Borough, PA and throughout Lackawanna County, PA. local community members are fighting back!
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Currently happening in Adamstown, MD as well.
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One proposed in Delaware City, Delaware.
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This is exactly the same in Port Washington, WI. There has been plenty of opposition but the elected officials have just railroaded it through. This is projected to be the largest in the state and would use over 1 million gallons of water per day.
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Good luck to people down wind of the exhaust smokestacks now that pollution restrictions have been gutted by MAHA / EPA. And hope farmers have good water rights. Seems like the area is going to be tapped out soon. But the city council members will be flush with nice new cars and vacation homes soon.
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Happening here in Harwood, ND as well.
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Same as in Caledonia, WI!
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This is also happening in Janesville Wisconsin. It was uncovered the city manager sent an email setting expectations for our council members to "support the city's position" after residents started asking questions and pushing back.
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This just was thwarted in St. Charles, MO.
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same in Canaan valley, WV.
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Something similar is happening in Janesville, WI too at the old GM plant. That land is still contaminated from GM.
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Yorkville, IL
3 proposed in a town of less than 30,000
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All over Ohio too
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Check out College Station, TX. Same thing. Just came out as a possibility, no communication, people are showing up to meetings big time. They are not happy.
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Happening in Sulphur Springs, Tx too
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Add to everything, that is on the Great Lakes. It's one of the largest freshwater sources in the world. It would decimate the lakes.
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Same thing happened in St. Charles, Missouri. We were able to stop it and became the first city in the United States to ban the application process for data centers. Sadly, it’s only a one year ban.

I also drove by one being built just outside of Southbend, IN this weekend (Notre Dame). It was…alarming.
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I lived in Menomonie and went to UW Stout and grew up in that area. It’s an absolutely gorgeous area, I can’t minimize that. And SO many companies have tried to come into the area and steal the water and land from us.

Thank you for sharing this and amplifying their efforts, it’s so sad potentially seeing an area you love being destroyed. John Menard of Menards hardware stores has already done his best to destroy the environment in the area. When I was younger he dumped toxic waste into our water table and has done SO much environmental damage but keeps just getting fined. So the city council and surrounding law enforcement already doesn’t have a history of caring about environment over money. So let’s fight this with the might of the people and hope we can scare this company off.
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UGH We are dealing with something similar right here in our little corner of the world.

We live in a *residential agricultural* zoned area and a developer bought 150 acres and wants it rezoned "light industrial" ... we have goats and dogs and came out here for the quiet farm life..
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In Oregon we are seeing this in Hillsboro to North Plains, I believe. Whats left of prime farmland (some historic land/buildings) are being dozed for data and large industrial like Amazon, which has already built one center. I don’t have stats but I know many have tried fighting it and are concerned about the impact. When
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If St. Charles, MO residents could block the one that was destined to be built on farmland and threatened their water source, Menomonee can too!! It was a big secret too and passed through board approval process quickly.
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This has gotta be some kind of AI generated super-snoop op. That kind of water use is only reasonable for cooling super hot computing systems like those used in AI and crypto mining. Better also check yer electric bill. AI uses exorbitant amounts of electricity. AI, like its cousin crypto mining is likely to replace things like gold mining as the most polluting human activity on the planet.
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They voted Republican :-P
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Say goodbye to your water supply
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Here in Cherokee County, NC also- county commissioners are so quick to approve without doing adequate research/due diligence. Started with bitcoin and evolved to AI.
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The promise that the politician, almost always a right-wing politician by the way (because you know he's probably been paid off by Meta or Amazon or OpenAI to push for it), makes to the community is that having the AI data center will bring jobs to the local community, but a few people disputed the long-term benefits:

Data centers only employ a good amount of people during construction. Once built, very few people are required to operate.

Fun fact: the number of sustainable long-term jobs at data centers is extremely limited. Maybe 25-50. Mostly automated with centralized maintenance functions and the skill levels are far beyond local candidates. The contribution to a local economy is virtually zero and the impacts to utilities are huge. Governments are clueless about how to tax these things as the revenue flowing passively through them is significant but with zero local billing they can’t be taxed appropriately.

Canada isn't immune to this AI push either, so keep in mind the negative consequences if you see your local political leader advocating for it all of a sudden.  But it all goes to my point that I suspect Trump doesn't really want these farmers to thrive, he'd rather their farms go under and those huge acres of farmland then be sold off and used as AI data centers since anywhere as you've seen above, the residents oppose their construction with extreme prejudice. There's a lot of money to be made in erecting these centers, far more than growing soybeans and carrots, the Republicans just need the farmers out of the way.



 

Hoekstra was the same jerk during his tenure as US Ambassador to Netherlands, 2018 - 2021.

Netherlands was his birth country. His family emigrated to the US when he was 12. I guess he slept through the school classes on the liberation of Netherlands by Canadian troops.

On January 20, 2024, Hoekstra was elected chair of the Michigan Republican Party. He is listed as a "contributor" to Project 2025...yeah that infamous piece of work.