Heath Garrett

The most important virtue in business and in politics is to think things through.

[Heath Garrett @ThinkHeath]

People often say there are no more Johnny Isakson types left. That does not have to be true. We just need men and women with the moral fortitude, the work ethic and the courage to ignore the “insta famous - emo” mentality of the moment.

[Greg Bluestein @bluestein]

It’s hard to put into words what this meant to me.

Giving the convocation address last Friday for the University of Georgia’s School of Public and International Affairs graduation ceremony was one of the great honors of my life.

I spoke about Johnny Isakson’s “six silent secrets” and added a few updates of my own. I talked about the friendships forged at UGA and the values that matter most.

Mostly, I spoke about staying grounded, treating people with dignity and remembering that democracy depends on our ability to disagree without losing our humanity.

To the SPIA graduates: thank you for letting me share the day with you. The work ahead of you matters — and I have no doubt you’re ready for it.

[Patricia Murphy @MurphyAJC]

“He’s a good person.” Probably the best endorsement you can get in a campaign, especially coming from
Nathan Deal—>

[Heath Garrett @ThinkHeath]

@Jake_W A Johnny Isakson Classic.

[Chris Carr @ChrisCarr_Ga]

This primary is about who can win in November.

One really rich guy and one guy’s rich daddy are trying to buy this election. I’m working to earn your vote.

That’s the difference. And that’s why I’m the better choice.

[Heath Garrett @ThinkHeath]

The man who should be Governor! The only nominee who can best any Democrat. Not Daddy’s money, no corruption, no conflicts of interest, not trying to buy your vote - just trying to earn it.

[Chris Carr @ChrisCarr_Ga]

Criminals are using drones to keep committing crimes from behind bars. We’re not waiting on bureaucrats. Shoot ’em down, and I’ll stand with the officers who do.

[Heath Garrett @ThinkHeath]

Thought-worthy distinction between Public Safety System and Justice System……

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Exactly

[Chris Carr @ChrisCarr_Ga]

.@jkirchnercarr is a product of the foster care system. She knows this cause personally, and as First Lady, she’ll be a powerful champion for Georgia’s children, foster families, and adoption.

[Heath Garrett @ThinkHeath]

@ChrisCarr_Ga @jkirchnercarr @RussellBivenTV Now that’s funny, I don’t care who you are….

[Chris Carr @ChrisCarr_Ga]

Thanks @RussellBivenTV for the review! Shoot ‘em down

[Heath Garrett @ThinkHeath]

Shoot’em down!

[Chris Carr @ChrisCarr_Ga]

Criminals are using drones to keep committing crimes from behind bars. We’re not waiting on bureaucrats. Shoot ’em down, and I’ll stand with the officers who do.

[Heath Garrett @ThinkHeath]

Shoot’em Down!

[Chris Carr @ChrisCarr_Ga]

Criminals are using drones to keep committing crimes from behind bars. We’re not waiting on bureaucrats. Shoot ’em down, and I’ll stand with the officers who do.

[Heath Garrett @ThinkHeath]

@ChrisCarr_Ga Making Crime Illegal Again!

[Chris Carr @ChrisCarr_Ga]

Urgent call to action 🚨🚨 🚨: Burt Jones filmed himself in a field to claim there is no data center. I’m calling on all Georgians to send us a video to show you also don’t have a data center behind you.

[Chris Carr @ChrisCarr_Ga]

We just launched a new TV ad.

I’ve spent my career taking on Antifa, domestic terrorism, gangs, human traffickers, and woke DAs who put politics ahead of public safety.

I’m ready to bring that same leadership to the governor’s office and keep Georgia safe.

[The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee]

Amazing New Study Suggests You Can Just Think Thoughts Without Posting Them Online https://t.co/0ISNERmFxv

[Heath Garrett @ThinkHeath]

Most important endorsement in America!

[Charlie Harper @CharlieBHarper]

Huge endorsement in Georgia's race to be Governor:

[Heath Garrett @ThinkHeath]

Sad news indeed. President Mike Adams was a strong and visionary leader who set the stage for academic and athletic excellence at The University of Georgia.

[UGA @universityofga]

We are saddened to share that UGA President Emeritus Michael F. Adams has passed away. We extend our heartfelt condolences to his family and loved ones. Over 16 years of service, he helped shape the University of Georgia’s trajectory and left a lasting mark on our institution.

Read more about his impact here: https://t.co/mzF2OyrH2L

[Heath Garrett @ThinkHeath]

A good perspective.

[Haviv Rettig Gur @havivrettiggur]

I tried to follow Davos. I really did. But I couldn't. Too many fatuous elites (forgive me) lamenting that someone was moving their cheese.

You can agree with their concerns over Trump's policies, but you shouldn't take seriously the never-ending, soul-wearying anxiety and moral panic. Anxiety isn't analysis. It isn't a strategy. It isn't going to make the world safer and better. And it isn't a good lens for understanding the things that worry us.

The West is led by people who suffer from what French sociologists once called "déformation professionnelle," the way a professional class can collapse in unison into the narrow mental habits and specialized vocabularies of their institutions and professional interests.

This is a variant of the "curse-of-knowledge bias," when a class of people raised on a particular vocabulary or analytical framework becomes incapable of observing events outside that specialized framework, or even of imagining how someone who lacks that lens might see things. It's mentally easier to just assume that everyone else, be they working-class Englishmen or Iranian ayatollahs, thinks like them and will ultimately behave as they expect.

That's how you arrive at elites across so many Western nations who viewed mass immigration as a mere economic calculation and couldn't see the social and cultural upheaval they were driving. That's how you get a European elite that came to view hard power politics as inherently evil, a boorish misuse of power, and so allowed themselves to grow happily complacent about Europe's dire military weakness -- rather than understand that geopolitics are an inescapable arena in which a weakening of the good guys inevitably means a strengthening of the bad guys.

That's how you get a whole class of Western policymakers to whom religious radicalism is assumed to be insincere and performative. The bean-counters and policy-paper writers of Western governments are rarely religious themselves nowadays, so they can't really imagine that anyone else out there takes their religion seriously enough to let it drive policy.

It's no wonder such people do such a bad job at running the world. They can't even see it for what it is. Their world is a mirror reflecting their own most self-righteous understanding of themselves back at them.

And so they fall back on the only cost-free arrow left in their quiver: Endless, tiresome moral panic.

If you want to actually understand the world without the perpetual panic, you need to listen to voices that aren't part of the Davos consensus.

Here's one small example. In Winston's latest episode, @MsMelChen describes Trump's strategic vision better than all but a handful of the Davos participants could have (including Trump himself, by the way; that's not his strong suit).

And suddenly it makes sense. It isn't just random and malicious nuttiness.

Friends, the world does actually make sense. I promise. It isn't disintegrating. Things are less fragmented and dangerous than they look (though real dangers loom, of course). The US is 25% of global GDP. Europe is another 20%. They are mighty enough to build any future they want. They just have to stop pretending they are hobbits and the world is an idyllic Shire, and stop being perpetually surprised to discover otherwise.

Less panic, less moralizing, more power and confidence for the good guys. It's a simple recipe, but it'll get the job done.

[Heath Garrett @ThinkHeath]

This is an unsustainable trajectory for a free and prosperous society. We are all beginning to understand the problem: digital detachment combined with trendy gender ideologies marginalizing young men and indoctrinating young women.

[Brad Wilcox @BradWilcoxIFS]

NYT: We're Living Through "Great Detachment" marked by:

✔️ Just 50% of HS seniors today have dated compared to 85% in 1980s
✔️ Marriage rate down 60% since 1970 such that only 1-in-2 adults are now married
✔️ Total fertility rate has hit record low of 1.6 babies per woman

[Brad Wilcox @BradWilcoxIFS]

NYT: We're Living Through "Great Detachment" marked by:

✔️ Just 50% of HS seniors today have dated compared to 85% in 1980s
✔️ Marriage rate down 60% since 1970 such that only 1-in-2 adults are now married
✔️ Total fertility rate has hit record low of 1.6 babies per woman