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Posted: May 29, 2017 12:01 AM

I know its theoretically wrong for a Republican candidate to smack around an annoying liberal journalist, but that still doesnt mean that I care. Our ability to care is a finite resource, and, in the vast scheme of things, millions of us have chosen to devote exactly none of it toward caring enough to engage in fussy self-flagellation because of what happened to Slappy La Brokenshades.

Sorry, not sorry.

And thats not a good thing, not by any measure, but it is a real thing. Liberals have chosen to coarsen our culture. Their validation and encouragement of raw hate, their flouting of laws (Hi leakers! Hi Hillary!) and their utter refusal to accept democratic outcomes they disapprove of have consequences. What is itself so surprising is how liberals and their media rentboyz are so surprised to find that we normals are beginning to feel about them the way they feel about us and that were starting to act on it. If you hate us, guess what?

Were going to start hating you right back.

Cue the boring moralizing and sanctimonious whimpering of the femmy, bow-tied, submissive branch of conservatism whose obsolete members were shocked to find themselves left behind by the masses to whom these geeks sinecures were not the most important objective of the movement. This is where they sniff, Were better than that, and one has to ask ,Whos we? Because, by nature, people are not better than that. They are not designed to sit back and take it while they are abused, condescended to, and told by a classless ruling class that there are now two sets of rules and guess what? the old rules are only going to be enforced against them.

We dont like the new rules Id sure prefer a society where no one was getting attacked, having walked through the ruins of a country that took that path but we normals didnt choose the new rules. The left did. It gave us Ferguson, Middlebury College, Berkeley, and Punch a Nazi which, conveniently for the left, translates as punch normals. And many of us have had personal experiences with this New Hate jobs lost, hassles, and worse. Some scumbags at an anti-Trump rally attacked my friend and horribly injured his dog. His freaking dog.

So when we start to adopt their rules, theyre shocked? Have they ever met human beings before? Its not a surprise. Its inevitable.

Team Fredocon, when they arent, Oh well, I never!-ing about Trump and his uncouth supporters, moan about the threat of Whataboutism, the tendency for people to explain their sub-optimal behavior by asking, What about so-and-so? He did the same thing and you didnt care. But while whataboutism may be a logical fallacy, its still a devastatingly compelling argument.

Humans especially normal Americans wont tolerate a double standard. But double standards apply all the time to liberals they do it and its fine, but we do it and its Armageddon. The same jerks screaming for OReillys scalp worship Bill Clinton and his drunken, perv-enabling pseudo-wife.

Or take the Trump-Russia black hole of idiocy please. Remember how Obama whispered to the Russkies, I'll have more flexibility after election and that was cool? But according to an anonymous source reading a bar tab over the phone to some credulous WaPo hack one of Trumps relatives ordered a vodka once and its TREASON TREASON TREASON!!!!!!

It certainly applies to, What about when they hit conservatives with a lock in a sock and the liberal media didnt care? Yeah, what about that? Where was the sackcloth and ashes act from Schumer, Pelosi, and Felonia von Pantsuit when our side was being bloodied and beaten? There wasnt one, because the left supports us getting bloodied and beaten. It likes the zesty zing of violence. It makes them feel big and tough and edgy, except that it starts being a heck of a lot less fun when we right-wingers start adopting the same rules and punching back.

The left is shocked that the right has now stopped caring about the old rules, since for so long the left relied on the right to subordinate its human instincts and conform to those rules even when the left ignored them. We refused to stoop to their level, and for a long time, we were better than that. But you can only have one side being better than that for so long before people get sick of being the butt of the hypocrisy.

Hypocrisy is poison not because it makes people stop knowing right from wrong, but because it makes its victims stop caring about right and wrong. Ben Jacobs got smacked around, and millions of us just dont give a damn.

We all know it was wrong for Greg Gianforte to beat up Ben Jacobs. But we also know the general attitude of the media is that when we conservatives get beat-up by leftists its perfectly excusable even laudable and thanks to the fact that Twitter is forever, we now know that Ben Jacobs himself specifically thinks its A-OK to slug conservative kids. So can someone tell me why anyone should be shocked that we conservatives refuse to devote one iota of caring to poor Bens wedgie?

This isnt a good thing. This is nothing to be proud of. We should not be happy that our society is heading toward the lowest common denominator, which itself is in freefall. But the alternative is worse. Should we allow ourselves to continue to be figuratively and literally beaten up while smiling at our own purity, secure in the knowledge that even though our dignity and freedom are stripped from us, we have not fought back? Not happening. Letting these bastards play by their own rules, and thereby crush us, seems a pretty high price to pay just to gain the approval of the smug and sanctimonious David Frums and John Kasichs of the world.

We conservatives have been warning for a long time that liberals are not going to like it when everyone plays by the new rules, and surprise! they dont. But guess what? Most of us dont like the new rules either. Yet its ridiculous to expect human beings to remain in perpetual denial about the situation they face, and to forever live under a double standard that results in their faces getting pressed into the dirt.

The hypocrisy has become intolerable, and we have stopped tolerating it. This is just the beginning of the reaction, and - make no mistake this entire situation is a bad thing. Our society is making choices that can lead only to ruin (and my new novel describing the consequences just dropped).

Lincoln mentioned the better angels of our nature also at a time when Democrats were rejecting the rule of law in order to promote their subjugation of those they considered lesser beings and the important thing to note is that angels is plural. You need two angels, not one angel and one demon. But thats what we have, and if it doesnt change well have two demons, and everyone should care about that.

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In chapter two, the question shifts to how this was allowed to happen at all. A prominent place was awarded to a giant and "difficult artwork," which, when challenged about its causing offense, neither the museum nor the artist felt was worth the fight.

The reopening of the sculpture garden has been postponed until June 10, one week later than planned. Leadership of the Walker, the Minneapolis Parks and Recreation Board, and the artist, Sam Dunant, are meeting with a group of elders from the Dakota Sioux, whose ancestors made up the 38-plus-2 hanged at Mankato and Fort Snelling.

According to a statement the Walker issued Monday, Dakota elders are requesting "that others who feel allied in this endeavor, but who are not Dakota, or whom may represent other communities across the state and region, to please be patient and respect the process that is currently underway."

A similar plea for patience from "others... allied in this endeavor" came from the author Marlon James, the Jamaican-born Man Booker prize winner and writer-in-residence at Macalester College.

James (a known liberal worthy of a "professor watchlist") spent parts of the weekend watching the controversy blow up in his Facebook feed. What he saw bothered him.

Not that he meant to defend the Walker -- "that awful institution," he called it -- nor Dunant, nor his "Emmett Till piece, and the art of all privileged people making money off other people's adversity." James was instead concerned with how Twin Cities progressives discussing the piece attacked one another, displaying a viciousness conservative counterparts reserve only for their political enemies on the left.

On Saturday, James posted:

Monday, James revisited the idea in a longer post which examines Facebook's role, "decency" in political arguments, and how the left hobbles its movement by expending so much energy fighting its own.

James' post has been shared more than 300 times as of Tuesday morning. We've reprinted it in its entirety below.

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Liberal MPs will not be proposing amendments to the Canada Infrastructure Bank Act even as they move to rewrite other parts of Finance Minister Bill Morneaus budget bill.

After two weeks of hearings, members of the House of Commons finance committee began their line-by-line review of Bill C-44 on Monday, including debates over amendments.

The more than 300-page omnibus budget bill covers a wide range of issues that were included as part of the governments March budget.

The Liberal members, who hold a majority on the committee, announced on Friday that they would be proposing several amendments to address concerns over the bills changes to the powers of the Parliamentary Budget Officer, a spending watchdog office.

The PBO is expressing initial support for the proposed changes.

However, Liberal MPs on the committee said Monday that their amendments will be limited to the PBO provisions and they have no intention of suggesting changes to the sections creating a $35-billion infrastructure bank, which have also been controversial.

Some witnesses raised concerns, but others were quite supportive, as well, said Liberal MP and committee member Jennifer OConnell, in reference to the infrastructure provisions. Where Im coming from, Im quite comfortable with the bill as is.

Since the budget legislation was introduced in April, the provisions creating an infrastructure bank have faced criticism on several fronts. From a procedural point of view, critics have said that an initiative as large as this should have been introduced as a stand-alone bill, for more detailed study, rather than as part of an omnibus budget bill.

The proposed bank would encourage new infrastructure projects that would be led and owned by private-sector partners such as pension funds, which would receive a rate of return in exchange for taking on the debt and other risks associated with the project.

Opposition MPs have repeatedly questioned the purpose of the bank, warning that it takes infrastructure decisions out of the hands of elected officials. Industry officials have raised concerns from the opposite direction, saying that there may be too much political involvement. The Ontario Teachers Pension Plan Board and a former president of the Business Development Bank of Canada have cautioned that the proposed bank will not be independent enough to protect directors from political interference.

The Conservatives and NDP raised those concerns, as well, on Monday.

This is a scandal waiting to happen, said Conservative MP Kellie Leitch during Question Period.

Infrastructure Minister Amarjeet Sohi accused the opposition of arguing that the bank is both too independent and not-independent enough.

We have struck the right balance, Mr. Sohi said Monday.

As for the PBO provisions, the Liberals said their changes address concerns about the independence of the PBO to select its research topics and to control when and how reports are released.

The suggested changes by the Liberal members of the committee appear to address most of PBOs concerns, Mostafa Askari, the assistant PBO, said in an e-mail on Monday. Mr. Askari cautioned that the committee has not yet approved specific amendments.

Former parliamentary budget officer Kevin Page, who was very critical of the original provisions in the bill, also said Monday that he approves of the proposed amendments.

Opposition MPs are still studying the Liberal amendments to the PBO sections and have said that they may not actually accomplish what the Liberal MPs say they will.

Opposition parties are also expected to propose their own amendments to the budget bill, which would require the support of at least some of the Liberal MPs in order to be passed.

Once the bill is approved by the committee, it will then go to the House for final approval and then on to the Senate. Senate committees have been holding prestudies on the bill. Some senators have mused about potential amendments, including the possibility of removing the infrastructure-bank provisions from the budget bill.

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The comparison seems apt on paper. Northam boasts support from all of the state's prominent Democrats and has a lengthy career in state government, which helped make him the consensus pick of the party establishment. Perriello, meanwhile, entered the race late, has zero experience in state government and is running as an unabashed liberal.

Tribbett believes Perriello's run is a test case for Democrats in Virginia.

"The Democratic model in Virginia for several decades has been trying to get elected in a red state," he said. "Now that Virginia is a blue state and it looks like it is getting bluer, the model for electing a governor in Virginia has changed."

Northam represents the type of successful candidates that Virginia Democrats have run for years. Governor-turned-Senator Mark Warner once proudly boasted his "A" rating from the National Rifle Association, talked up his "Sportsmen for Warner" advocacy group and embraced the endorsement of NASCAR stars.

In 2017, the two gubernatorial candidates are fighting over their mixed record on 2nd Amendment issues. Perriello is distancing himself from his own A rating from the NRA as a member of Congress. Northam is spinning a perfect 100% legislative voting record in 2013 from the Virginia Citizens Defense League, a local gun rights advocacy group.

"I can't imagine Chuck Robb or Gerry Baliles or Mark Warner or Tim Kaine running the type of campaign that Tom Perriello is running," said Larry Sabato, the director of the University of Virginia's Center of Politics, referring to Democrats who triumphed in races for governor since the 1980s.

Northam has stuck to the strategy that works. He has crisscrossed the state for the better part of the past four years in his capacity as the number two Democrat elected in state government. He has stuck close to current Gov. Terry McAuliffe, who is term-limited under Virginia's unique state law that forbids governors from seeking re-election.

Northam is focusing on a very specific set of issues Democrats rely on, talking up his support for abortion rights, expanding access to health care and keeping the state budget balanced.

"Voters in Virginia are looking a bit more at the comparative qualifications," said Sabato. "Northam has two terms in the (state) Senate, one term as lieutenant governor. He is essentially next in line."

His solid campaign has helped him keep his support from the state's popular Democratic leaders rock solid. But while they continue to stick by his campaign, they are reluctant to criticize Perriello in any way.

"Listen, Tom had every right to get into the race, and I haven't said a bad word, and I'd never say a bad word," said McAuliffe. "If Tom were the nominee the next day, I would be the first guy out there campaigning. What matters to me is getting a Democrat elected governor."

And while Northam retains that support, Sabato argues a simple endorsement only goes so far.

"They think they lend their names and that is worth thousands of votes," he said. "Actually it is worth the vote of their spouse, about half of the time."

Free from the confines of the traditional campaign, Perriello has run an unconventional race, embracing the endorsement of liberal leaders from outside Virginia, holding a rally with Sanders, touting endorsements from former Clinton top aide John Podesta and Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren as well as raking in funding from sources outside the commonwealth.

To date, Perriello has raised 51% of his more than $2 million in fundraising dollars from donors who do not live in the state. He has cashed big checks from figures like liberal activist George Soros and his family. All told, Perriello has raised more than $385,000 from people with the last name Soros. By comparison, 91% of Northam's more than $3 million in campaign cash comes from donors inside Virginia.

"It's the kind of thing that just a few years ago in Virginia would've beaten a Democrat," said Sabato.

"It is well beyond anything I have ever seen before," described Tribbett. "It is a once-in-a-generation opportunity for Democrats to create an organizational structure that we've never had."

But Sabato warns that while Perriello's lurch to the left is what made his primary campaign viable, it could end up hurting his chances in the general election. Perriello's lack of state government experience and the fact that he has few contacts and connections in Richmond could be a drag on his campaign. However, despite Northam's obvious advantages in that department, his campaign has yet to seize on the issue in a tangible way that might expose Perriello's flaws.

"Either the Northam campaign is legitimately confident because of their private polls or they overconfident and lethargic," said Sabato.

Public polls show the race in a virtual tie, which means that the outcome of the June 13 primary will likely come down to turnout -- how many voters show up and exactly where they show up. If turnout is average, that could be an advantage for Northam. If turnout exceeds expectations that will likely indicate a surge of new voters -- people potentially energized by Perriello's underdog campaign.

"Older voters and the traditional voters will participate no matter what," said Tribbett. "The new voters that come in that add to your electorate tend to be younger voters. They tend to be people participating in a primary for the first time and they would be more open to a challenger to the establishment."

But at this point, most Virginia Democrats remain reluctant to pick a winner, demonstrating the unpredictable nature of the electorate especially barely seven months after Donald Trump's shocking presidential win.

The winner of the Northam-Perriello fight will face the winner of what has at times been an animated fight between Prince William County Supervisor Corey Stewart, State Sen. Frank Wagner, and former Republican National Committee Chairman Ed Gillespie, who came very close to upsetting Warner in a 2014 senate fight and is the perceived favorite in the upcoming primary.

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When a candidate for Congress assaults a journalist just before election day, you'd expect him to lose his race. Not in Montana this week.

Republican Greg Gianforte allegedly body-slammed Ben Jacobs of the Guardian newspaper. The act that witnesses and an audio recording suggest was unprovoked was, if true, disgraceful.

Gianforte was charged with misdemeanor assault. But he still beat Democrat Rob Quist in Thursday's election, which was believed to be close even before the physical confrontation occurred.

Why did the Democrat lose to such a faulty Republican opponent? One answer is the state's Democratic governor, Steve Bullock, who ordered the all-mail election, which means most votes were cast before the dust-up occurred or was widely known about.

But that is only part of the answer. Although Montana did not break down the election day versus early vote totals, we do know that in at least two big counties, Gianforte did better on election day than he had in the early vote.

This and other signals within the county vote tallies suggests that many voters just didn't care about the smackdown of a Fleet Street hack. Sure enough, local reporting provides anecdotal evidence of that. Michael Tracey, a correspondent for the left-wing Young Turks YouTube channel, talked to some election day voters, and got the sort of response you might expect: "I don't believe anything anymore," one woman said of the media reporting on the alleged body-slam. Another voter, a man, may have gotten closer to the heart of the problem: "I don't care what they say ... a vote for Quist is a vote for Pelosi."

Democratic leaders spent this spring on a "unity tour" that demonstrated not only how far they are outside the mainstream of political opinion, but also how unwelcoming they are of those within it. They not only disowned but perhaps also mortally wounded their own candidate for Mayor of Omaha because he did not sufficiently toe the party line on abortion. That issue has nothing to do with the mayoralty of Omaha, yet Tom Perez, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, made a national example out of Heath Mello by declaring that pro-life candidates like him are basically dead to the national party.

This is just one example, but the incident helps illustrate how, even with public opinion running strongly against President Trump, Democrats continue to lose. They have staked out several issues, such as immigration enforcement, voter ID, and the trade-offs between environmental and economic concerns, and avoid common sense positions on these matters. They depict reasonable positions, such as that deportation is sometimes appropriate, as racist. And then they wonder why people in the heartland don't want to be represented by them.

The Montana voter's comment about Pelosi is ironic, because Pelosi is one of the few liberal Democrats who understands the need to field some centrists if the party wishes to build a House majority. But it also shows what an invidious position centrist Democrats are in when they are running for office in interior states. Even as they take abuse from zealots like Perez in the national party they are repudiated by voters.

Republicans' success in Montana may mean little in 2018. After President Barack Obama's big win in 2008, Republicans won no important elections until the fall, and didn't win any special elections to Congress until the following January. But the GOP went on to take the House in a landslide in 2010.

Republicans will now have one more House vote on healthcare and other issues. And it's all because Montana voters have reached the point where they would pick almost anyone before choosing to elect a Democrat.

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