The Georgia Hour, episode 187: Kemp’s Korean Power Play: A Battery Boom and the Dirty Tricks

In this high-ener­gy episode of The Geor­gia Hour with BKP—brought to you by voiceofruralamerica.com—host BKP dives head­first into the chaot­ic under­bel­ly of Geor­gia pol­i­tics, rac­ing through a packed agen­da before dash­ing off to back-to-back meet­ings. Kick­ing off with shoutouts to insight­ful Sub­stacks like Scott Howard’s deep dives into geopo­lit­i­cal entan­gle­ments (e.g., Thun­der­com­m’s Chi­nese-root­ed hard­ware part­ner­ships), BKP urges lis­ten­ers to share more Geor­gia-focused reads for his week­end deep-dive home­work.

The bulk of the show lasers in on the heat­ed U.S. Sen­ate race to unseat Demo­c­rat John Ossoff, where BKP skew­ers GOP Chair­man Josh McK­oon as “the Great Divider”—a Kemp lap­dog orches­trat­ing a “cease-fire” to shield new­com­er Derek Doo­ley from attacks by incum­bents Mike Collins and Bud­dy Carter. Blast­ing McK­oon’s hypocrisy (from rigged con­ven­tions to Trump loy­al­ty barbs), BKP reveals Kem­p’s behind-the-scenes maneu­ver­ing: pre-race calls to side­lined can­di­dates, puff-piece media tours for Doo­ley, and a fran­tic push for a Trump endorse­ment to kneecap Collins. Don’t sleep on Carter, BKP warns—he’s pound­ing the pave­ment and polling strong—while polls tight­en ahead of his Gainesville can­di­date break­downs next week, includ­ing Sec­re­tary of State, Lt. Gov­er­nor, and AG races.

BKP does­n’t hold back on broad­er absur­di­ties: mock­ing AG Chris Car­r’s eleventh-hour “polit­i­cal stunt” back­ing cit­i­zen­ship-proof vot­er rules, and spot­light­ing a con­tro­ver­sial Octo­ber 26 Alpharet­ta meet-and-greet for a dozen Mus­lim Demo­c­ra­t­ic candidates—from guber­na­to­r­i­al hope­ful to state­house contenders—drawing fire from Lau­ra Loomer and her “band of big­ots,” who’ve forced secu­ri­ty pleas and dona­tion dri­ves. He ties this to the Novem­ber 4 PSC elec­tion as a lit­mus test for Demo­c­ra­t­ic momen­tum post-“No Kings” ral­lies, quizzing lis­ten­ers on SB 202’s sur­prise Sun­day vot­ing ori­gins.

The episode’s explo­sive core uncov­ers Geor­gia’s shad­owy “bat­tery boom” fuel­ing data cen­ters: BKP con­nects dots from Geor­gia Pow­er’s push for 10 nuclear reac­tors’ worth of gas-fired plants, solar, and mas­sive bat­tery stor­age to jus­ti­fy unprece­dent­ed grid expan­sions, all while Gov­er­nor Bri­an Kemp schmoozes in South Korea. Fresh from a trade mis­sion amid Hyundai-LG raids and work­er visa deten­tions, Kemp pledges 90-day visas for Kore­an spe­cial­ists, expands tax incen­tives for SK Bat­tery Amer­i­ca’s gigafac­to­ries in Com­merce and Bar­tow (with Hyundai joint ven­tures), and assures exec­u­tives of admin­is­tra­tive perks. BKP smells a rat—data cen­ters guz­zling city-scale pow­er, Kore­an “high-tech bat­ter­ies” as the linch­pin, and zero pub­lic input—labeling it a long-brew­ing elite pow­er grab where tax­pay­ers foot the bill via shift­ed bur­dens, not relief.

Wrap­ping with fiery reminders—slamming Ossof­f’s shut­down votes, the “Albi­no Rhi­no” scan­dals, “Frost the Fourth’s” senior swin­dles, and Geor­gians “suf­fer­ing” under elite indifference—BKP signs off with birth­day wish­es, week­end elec­tion home­work, and a call to arms: “Our chil­dren deserve bet­ter.” Stream full seg­ments on Rum­ble, and hit up voiceofruralamerica.com for texts, emails, and more unfil­tered rur­al rage.