«Trump improved upon Mitt Romney’s margin with voters making under $30,000 a year by 16 points. But he still lost them—by 12 whole points.

The bulk of Trump’s support didn’t come from people who are most down on their luck. It came from people who are afraid they’re next.

…

So what did correspond with Trump support?

Racial resentment among white voters was particularly determinative.»

https://talkpoverty.org/2016/11/16/stop-blaming-low-income-voters-donald-trumps-victory/index.html

@tarheel 🔗 https://mstdn.io/users/tarheel/statuses/110826037160088717

https://www.epicurious.com/recipes-menus/history-of-the-rule-breaking-gunshop-fizz

INTERESTING.

https://vinepair.com/articles/chartreuse-vegetal-explainer-guide/

Hmmm.

“Cohen said it normally takes three months to a year and a half for cases to be heard in Fulton County Superior Couty. He thinks it would take years for Trump’s case to go to trial and believes his lawyers would likely try to postpone it until after the 2024 Presidential Election.” https://www.11alive.com/article/news/special-reports/ga-trump-investigation/fulton-county-insiders-expect-former-president-donald-trump-indicted-this-week-georgia/85-10b10a28-e537-49a5-a17e-042d86dd4777#:~:text=Cohen%20said%20it%20normally%20takes%20three%20months%20to%20a%20year%20and%20a%20half%20for%20cases%20to%20be%20heard%20in%20Fulton%20County%20Superior%20Couty.%20He%20thinks%20it%20would%20take%20years%20for%20Trump%27s%20case%20to%20go%20to%20trial%20and%20believes%20his%20lawyers%20would%20likely%20try%20to%20postpone%20it%20until%20after%20the%202024%20Presidential%20Election.

“Then again, by the nineteenth century, owners could purchase life insurance on their slaves (from some of the most reputable insurance companies in the country) and be paid three-quarters of their market value upon their death. These insurance companies, including modern household names New York Life, Aetna, and U.S. Life, were just some of the many northern corporations whose fortunes were bound up with slavery.”

https://a.co/6s8JND1

Wait, there’s more:

“In fact, by the time war loomed, New York merchants had gotten so rich from the slave economy—40 percent of the city’s exporting businesses through warehousing, shipping insurance, and sales were Southern cotton exports—that the mayor of New York advocated that his city secede along with the South.

In very stark and quantifiable terms, the exploitation, enslavement, and murder of African and Indigenous American people turned blood into wealth for the white power structure. Those who profited made no room for the oppressed to share in the rewards from their lands or labor; what others had, they took. The racial zero sum was crafted in the cradle of the New World.”

🤯

«As to why white Americans, who have thirteen times the median household wealth of black Americans, feel threatened by diminished discrimination against black people, neither Sommers nor Norton had an answer that was satisfying to any of us.»

https://a.co/9gAbpeo

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/us-department-of-education-reaffirms-baylor-s-religious-exemption-in-response-to-sexual-harassment-complaints/ar-AA1fbnin

«The U.S Department of Education exempted Baylor University from sexual harassment claims regulated under Title IX last month, after the Christian university asked the agency to dismiss discrimination complaints made by students, arguing that the claims were inconsistent with the university’s religious tenets.»

Alrighty, then.

Kurt Vonnegut:

“When I was 15, I spent a month working on an archeological dig. I was talking to one of the archeologists one day during our lunch break and he asked those kinds of ‘getting to know you’ questions you ask young people: Do you play sports? What’s your favorite subject? And I told him, no I don’t play any sports. I do theater, I’m in choir, I play the violin and piano, I used to take art classes.

“And he went wow. That’s amazing! And I said, ‘Oh no, but I’m not any good at any of them.’

“And he said something then that I will never forget and which absolutely blew my mind because no one had ever said anything like it to me before: ‘I don’t think being good at things is the point of doing them. I think you’ve got all these wonderful experiences with different skills, and that all teaches you things and makes you an interesting person, no matter how well you do them.’

“And that honestly changed my life. Because I went from a failure, someone who hadn’t been talented enough at anything to excel, to someone who did things because I enjoyed them. I had been raised in such an achievement-oriented environment, so inundated with the myth of Talent, that I thought it was only worth doing things if you could ‘win’ at them.”

https://medium.com/writers-blokke/a-life-lesson-from-kurt-vonnegut-of-all-people-4cbd3284c740