Eric Johnson
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Eric Johnson
@Johnson4Georgia
Retired Architect and former Republican State Senator. (I like to think I was a water lily in the swamp!)
Savannah, GA Katılım Kasım 2008
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@Johnson4Georgia Wow. That's a chilling thought. And sadly, not much of a stretch.
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Chamath Palihapitiya just said what Silicon Valley is terrified to say out loud.
On Joe Rogan. To millions of people. Without flinching.
Chamath: “The only person that we can trust is Elon.”
Not whispered at a dinner party. Not buried in a podcast nobody listens to.
Said on the record. Full weight behind it.
And then he told you why.
Chamath: “I feel like he’s the least corruptible. He’s the most independent thinking. And I think he’s the one that has an actual empathy for people.”
One of the sharpest capital allocators in Silicon Valley history looked at every founder building AI.
Every single one.
And chose the one the media spends the most energy telling you to hate.
That alone should stop you cold.
Chamath: “Then there are folks where there’s just an insane profit motive.”
He’s talking about OpenAI. He’s talking about Google. He’s talking about companies that swallowed billions from Wall Street and now answer to shareholders before they answer to humanity.
Chamath: “They’re less in control of the businesses that they run.”
The people building the most powerful technology in human history do not control their own companies.
Their boards do. Their investors do. Their liquidation preferences do.
And these are the ones we’re trusting with superintelligence.
Chamath: “He’s like, I need to get to Mars.”
This is the fracture line nobody wants to touch.
Every other AI founder is optimizing for the next earnings call. The next funding round. The next quarterly number that keeps the machine fed.
Elon is optimizing for the next planet.
One group builds to satisfy investors. The other builds to survive as a species.
Those aren’t different strategies. Those are different operating systems running on different hardware.
And it changes everything about how you build.
When your time horizon is 90 days, you cut corners. You monetize behavior. You trade safety for speed because the board needs a number by Friday.
When your time horizon is interplanetary, you can’t afford a single shortcut. Because shortcuts don’t survive launch.
Chamath: “Where is this going to end up?”
The only question that matters. And nobody in power wants you asking it.
Because the answer comes down to who gets there first.
If it’s a company owned by Wall Street, superintelligence becomes the most sophisticated extraction engine ever built. Every decision optimized. Every behavior predicted. Every market captured. Not for you. For the balance sheet.
If it’s someone who can’t be bought, pressured, or voted out by a board of directors, there’s at least a chance it bends toward something bigger than quarterly revenue.
History never remembers who built the most powerful technology.
It remembers who controlled it. And what they used it for.
The only founder in AI who cannot be fired by a board, leveraged by an investor, or replaced by a shareholder vote is the one they spend the most energy telling you not to trust.
Ask yourself why.
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WHY I SUPPORT RICK JACKSON FOR GOVERNOR (1 of 2)
I have been engaged in Republican politics for almost 50 years including 17 years in the legislature in both the minority and majority. I have recruited and managed dozens of candidates at the state and local level. I was one of the architects that flipped Georgia from blue to red in 2002 and I don’t want it to become blue again - especially the open border, anti-law enforcement and socialism that the modern Democratic Party now promotes.
The truth is that our state is shifting from red to purple. Trump’s margins in 2020 and 2024 were very narrow. We now have two liberal US Senators. We just lost 2 statewide PSC races. Democrats are motivated and Republicans are complacent. The State House and judiciary are at risk. My concerns drew me back into politics and into the Rick Jackson campaign.
I have 3 reasons that I believe should hopefully influence you to join me. I have described Rick as having the charisma of Reagan, the backstory of JD Vance and the business success of Trump. First, like Reagan, he is likable and approachable with an unshakable conservative ideology. Second, like Vance, his rags to riches story appeals to the underdogs and reinforces what makes America great. Third, like Trump, his business success prepares him to implement reforms and make tough decisions based on right and wrong and not based on contributions and lobbyists. Also, like Trump, he came out of nowhere, disrupting the status quo and pulling people into the political process who had given up because the politicians didn’t care about them.
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Finally, I want to know the true faith of the person that I support. Rick Jackson is an active church-going Christian that has put his money to good use advancing the kingdom – literally hundreds of millions of dollars. He believes, correctly, that it is God’s money and he is only a steward of his blessings. His causes include crisis pregnancy, pro-life and foster care charities and created a program that provides free college tuition for kids coming out of foster homes. The accusation that Rick has supported abortion and transgender surgeries is absolutely false and has been confirmed by Fact Checkers.
Jon Ossoff is at the top of the ballot in November and will be extremely tough to beat. We need Rick to shore up the ticket and help our nominee for US Senate and the down ballot Republicans. We need a Trump-like disrupter to unite the grassroots and independents. We need a generous, inspirational nominee who lives his faith and that voters can trust. Please join me and thousands of Georgians who have rallied to his campaign. If you haven’t met him in person, attend one of his town halls and see for yourself why he is leading in the polls.
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@1_old_hiker @BrianKempGA I absolutely agree. At least shorten early voting to a week. Change to new machines with input from Gov. and new SOS and $ from legislators.
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@Johnson4Georgia @BrianKempGA Mostly I agree with this, but many of us DON'T have confidence in our elections. So long as we have these long periods of early voting and huge numbers of mail-in ballots, the possibility of fraud is too high. Election day should be one day with very limited absentee rules.
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Gov. @BrianKempGA got it right. You don’t rewrite the rules in the middle of the game - especially while Georgians are voting. Doing that would just lead to lawsuits and chaos. The rule of law matters, and steady conservative leadership means putting principle over politics. That’s how you protect confidence in elections.
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@SavvyTamz_57 The Supreme Court said Louisiana’s is unconstitutional. Georgia’s map is still at Court of Appeals. Will it be declared unconstitutional? Yes. But it hasn’t yet.
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You do when the game is unconstitutional.
Eric Johnson@Johnson4Georgia
Gov. @BrianKempGA got it right. You don’t rewrite the rules in the middle of the game - especially while Georgians are voting. Doing that would just lead to lawsuits and chaos. The rule of law matters, and steady conservative leadership means putting principle over politics. That’s how you protect confidence in elections.
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@WarRoomGeorgia @BrianKempGA The Supreme Court said Louisiana’s is unconstitutional. Georgia’s map is still at Court of Appeals. Will it be declared unconstitutional? Yes. But it hasn’t yet.
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@Johnson4Georgia @BrianKempGA The constitution is the supreme law of the land. The Justices have spoken. Where is the provision that say's "do it when he wants to"? Or "don't do it, if you're in the middle of an election"?
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"JIM WILL NEVER LET YOU DOWN!"
President @realDonaldTrump is right. I will not let you down, Southeast Georgia.
Early voting for the Republican Primary is open from April 27th thru May 15th. Election Day is May 19th.
Find your polling place at JimKingston.org, get out and vote, and bring a friend with you!
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@EWErickson I think Republicans are old school and prefer voting on Election Day.
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Republicans are losing the early vote this year. In 2022, they won it.
Patricia Murphy@MurphyAJC
NEW from @GaSecofState: Georgia broke its midterm early-voting turnout record last week, with a 28% increase over 2022. Of those, 131,155 voted in the Democratic primary, 105,232 voted in GOP primary, and 3,741 pulled a nonpartisan ballot.
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@MurphyAJC @ajc Rick has dropped after all the lies and out-of-context attacks. But Burt can’t get above 25%. He is stuck. It will be an interesting 3 weeks!
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🚨 NEW @ajc Georgia GOP Governor’s race poll:
Rick Jackson: 27%
Burt Jones: 25%
Brad Raffensperger: 14%
Chris Carr: 3%
+ Undecided: 30% ajc.com/politics/2026/…
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Kimmel’s hateful and violent rhetoric is intended to divide our country. His monologue about my family isn’t comedy- his words are corrosive and deepens the political sickness within America.
People like Kimmel shouldn’t have the opportunity to enter our homes each evening to spread hate.
A coward, Kimmel hides behind ABC because he knows the network will keep running cover to protect him.
Enough is enough. It is time for ABC to take a stand. How many times will ABC’s leadership enable Kimmel’s atrocious behavior at the expense of our community.
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