I wrote about Douglas County, GA vs Douglas County, CO a couple of weeks ago. Douglas, GA was part of two Congressional districts. One of them, GA-13, is a D+28 district represented by 12-term 79 year-old David Scott. Well, in an interesting update, Reader R wrote to tell us that Scott has a primary opponent, Everton Blair. Blair is a 31 years old, Harvard- and Stanford-educated, and served as chair of the Douglas County School Board. More on the race:
Blair is joining a growing albeit still small field of Democrats who are eyeing Scott's seat, regardless of whether the veteran congressman seeks another term. State Sen. Emanuel Jones, D-Decatur, has also announced plans to run for the 13th District seat, which includes all or at least parts of Gwinnett, Rockdale, Newton, DeKalb, Henry and Clayton counties.
Jonathan Bonner and Simeon Nunnally have also filed paperwork saying they too plan to run for the Democratic Party's nomination for the seat, accord to Federal Elections Commission paperwork.
Meanwhile, Blair spent four years on the Gwinnett County Board of Education, becoming the first Black person to ever be elected to the school board when he won in 2018. The Shiloh High School graduate, who was elected to represent the district he grew up in, eventually became the board's chairman.
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Scott, who is in his late 70s and was the subject of a 2024 Politico article speculating on his health, lost his seniority position as a ranking Democrat on the House Agriculture Committee in December.
“With so much falling apart under this administration, we need more representatives who are in touch with reality and have the courage to fight for our future," Blair said. "The leaders who got us into this mess are not the ones that are going to get us out of it.”
It’s a sad and unfortunate thing when someone who should have retired has to be pushed out like this, but it has to happen.
Reader S sent me this piece on the Abundance Agenda that details the broligarchs who are involved. Marc Andreessen looms large, as do a few others. There’s a funny anecdote about a group of billionaires trying to create a utopia called “California Forever” but having a hard time because they have to work and play well with others.
Finally, our Facebook monitor, Gloria DryGarden, has a post she wanted to share. This one isn’t right-wing talking points. I never got into Facebook, and I don’t even have an account in my real name there, but I know from talking with others that it can be a right-wing cesspool. I wonder if counter-programming like this works:
They’re destroying the world because they’re cornered.
For decades, they ruled from the top. Billionaires, tech gods, political dynasties. They had the money, the platforms, the power. And they pretended to be benevolent.
They gave TED Talks. Funded charities. And sold us the fantasy that they were building the future for us.
Then something changed.
The tools of power slipped out of their hands. AI exploded. Crypto broke borders. No-code let anyone build. Knowledge decentralized. Connection became free.
Suddenly, a kid in Lagos could disrupt a bank. A designer in Manila could launch a global product. A protest in Sao Paolo could go viral in minutes.
We didn’t need gatekeepers anymore.
And they saw it.
In numbers. In behavior. In culture. They watched as people started to build without them, buy without them, learn without them, trust each other more than the system.
And that’s when the panic set in.
Because they knew what was coming. A connected world. A conscious population. A generation that doesn’t want to climb the ladder, but burn it down and build something better.
It was existential.
So they didn’t double down on progress. They chose survival. And survival meant sabotage.
They unleashed chaos. They amplified division. Pushed lies. Weaponized platforms. They didn't need to become richer, they wanted to buy time.
Trump was the first major crack.
He didn’t rise because he was brilliant. He rose because he was banned.
A billionaire outcast, humiliated by the club, mocked by Obama, denied reentry.
So he did what wounded men with too much money do, he set fire to everything.
With MAGA as his weapon, he channeled his grudge. And while the red hats stole the show, the billionaire robber barons rewrote the tax code and deregulated everything in sight.
Then came Musk.
He had everything. Money, admiration, and the "genius" label. But when the system started turning on him, he cracked too. From labor accusations, to pandemic criticism, investigations, and missed promises.
So he bought Twitter.
To control speech. To punish those who stopped singing him praises.
He turned it into a funnel for disinformation, outrage, and revenge.
Because if you control the conversation, you control reality.
Together, these men, and the billionaires quietly funding them, built a new model designed to block the future, while pretending to build it.
They don’t care about democracy. They care about immunity.
They don’t want to lead a functioning society. They want to rule the wreckage.
Because in a world where people are empowered, they become irrelevant.
So they’ve chosen collapse.
Burning every system.
Exploiting every fear.
Silencing every voice.
All to buy one more year on the throne.
This is preservation.
If we don’t see it, we’ll wake up in their world, confused, divided, and powerless, and wondering how did we get here.
But if we do see it. If we connect the dots. If we rise together.
They lose.
And that’s why they’re afraid.”
- Hussein Hallak
