June 10, 2019 9:42 AM
Morning Reads for Monday, June 10, 2019
Happy Monday!
- Interesting point of view on the trade war.
- The latest on the College Admissions scandal.
- She is beauty, she is grace…it’s Miss Georgia Week!
- A “less disruptive” Siri sounds awesome. I am literally never asking her for help.
- Why hasn’t Governor Kemp made a decision on the new Insurance Insurance Commissioner? Some thoughts here.
- Augusta is getting in on the Solar movement that is sweeping the state.
- Fascinating study on the brain’s response to pain.
- Why does Georgia have so many counties?
- Occupational licenses across state lines are still an issue.
- Uh…Go Dawgs?
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https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/06/stacey-abrams-stolen-election-myth-endures-democratic-party/ I wish she would move to Hollywood. Her acting has the whole clown car believing her.
During a service at an old synagogue in Eastern Europe, when a particular prayer was said, half the congregants stood up and half remained sitting. The half that was seated would yell at those standing to sit down, and the ones standing yelled at the ones sitting to stand up.
The new rabbi, learned as he was in the Law and commentaries, didn’t know what to do. His congregation suggested that he consult a 98-year-old man who was one of the original founders of their shul, but now was bedridden in a nursing home. The rabbi hoped the elderly man would be able to tell him what the actual tradition was, so he went to the nursing home with a representative of each faction of the congregation.
The one whose followers stood during the prayer asked the old man, “Is the tradition to stand during this prayer?” The old man answered, “No, that is not the tradition.”
The one whose followers sat said, “Then the tradition is to sit!” The old man answered, “No, that is not the tradition.”
Then the rabbi desperately pleaded to the old man, “But the congregants fight all the time, yelling at each other about whether they should sit or stand!” The old man interrupted, exclaiming, “Ah yes! THAT is the tradition!”
So now there is a secret part of the Mexico deal that will be revealed later.
Either this is another lie, or Trump is revealing the existence of a “secret plan”.
When are Republican senators going to be able admit that Individual 1 has some serious mental problems?
Not that I like Mike Pence, but this is painful to watch.
“Mental problems”
He’s just a liar. It’s not that complicated.
This is interesting and noteworthy:
https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/05/politics/republican-party-voter-makeup-trump-bill-mcinturff/index.html
This CNN article (oh my God!!! CNN?!?!?) cites to data from a Republican pollster. That data shows that 50% of the Republican party was non-college-educated white people in 2010. 40% of the Republican party in 2010 was college-educated white people. In 2018, the percentage of non-college-educated whites grew to 59% of the Republican Party, while college-educated whites decreased to 29% of the Republican Party.
This says so much. Look, I’m not saying that college-educated folks are “better” than non-college educated folks. I’m not saying their opinions matter more or that their votes should be counted, like, twice or something.
I am saying this – – college does many things, some good and some not so good. One of the best things that college does, typically, is tear people away from their hometowns, families, comfort zones, and familiar way of thinking and familiar way of life and put them in a new environment with people from all sorts of different walks of life. White folks from the farm in rural Georgia may meet African Americans from the inner city for the first time in their lives, etc. Rich folks meet poor folks. Christians meet Muslims, etc.
Most of America (in terms of how we grow up) is segregated. It is called “de facto segregation.” This isn’t the government keeping one group of people away from other groups of people. This is groups of people choosing to stay away from other groups of people. You want to see some of the most segregated places in America? Check out churches and barber shops. In America, there are “white churches” and “black churches,” “white barber shops” and “black barber shops.”
Most people like the comfort of what they’re raised with. Most people identify with the religion and politics of their parents, who likewise identify with the religion and politics of their families and communities.
What college does is force people to interact with folks they ordinarily would not interact with beyond check-out counters and restaurant tables.
The reason this is significant for the Republican party is pretty simple. A whooping 59% of the Republican Party has not benefited form this type of mixing-it-up with folks unlike you. And the old proverb about not knowing a fellow until walking a mile in his shoes is very true.
You want to know why the Republican Party is increasingly comfortable with Trump’s immigration policies, trade policies, racial-rhetoric (see, Charlottesville (and many more)), etc.? His white people base never benefited from breaking out of their segregated communities.
I’m sure Trumpers will tag me as “Ivory Tower” or “elitist.” But they will throw out those attacks so that they don’t have to actually think about the logic presented herein.