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‘The Left Has Gone Insane’: Tucker on Progressives’ Use of Political … – Fox News Insider

In his opening remarks tonight, Tucker Carlson denounced Montana Republican congressional candidate Greg Gianforte for body-slamming a reporter who tried to ask him a question.

Tucker said this highlights the growing problem of violence in politics, which is simply never acceptable.

He saidGianforte, who has been charged with misdemeanor assault, may be a Republican, but the threat of violence in the current political climate comes overwhelmingly from the progressive left.

"The left has gone insane. And if you don't believe it, check out what's been happening to non-liberal members of congress lately," Tucker said, pointing to Republican members of Congress Martha McSally, Tom Garrett and David Kustoff, who have recently been on the receiving end of harassment and death threats.

He acknowledged there will always be "loonies" in a country of 320 million, and political movements shouldn't be judged solely by their violent outliers.

"And yet when every conservative speaker on campus is an excuse to riot, when every Trump rally is a chance to assault someone wearing a 'Make America Great Again' hat, when your party's elder stateswoman is famous for celebrating racial violence during the L.A. riots - as Maxine Waters is - it's no longer a matter of outliers," Tucker said. "It's something very different."

He said political parties exist to conduct politics, which is supposed to be conflict without bloodshed.

"The moment those parties embrace violence - not just committing it, but also excusing, condoning, fantasizing about it - they are no longer political organizations. They're awfully close to militias," Tucker said. "And the rest of us are definitely much closer to the breakdown of everything we cherish in this country. Violence is the bright line, and they're very close to crossing it."

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Progressives In Congress Call For $2 Trillion In Infrastructure … – HuffPost

WASHINGTON Progressive members of Congress on Thursday unveiled their own plan to overhaul the nations crumbling roads, bridges and waterways an ambitious proposal that dwarfs plans offered both by President Donald Trump and Senate Democrats.

The so-called 21st Century New Deal for Jobs invests $2 trillion over the next 10 years to make badly needed repairs to the nations transportation, water, energy and information systems. It contains several progressive priorities, including the use of Davis-Bacon prevailing wage standards, maintenance of racial and gender equity in hiring, focus on low-income communities and carbon-free energy production.

Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.), who spearheaded the effort, said the plan would employ 2.5 million Americans in its first year.

This is how we take our country back. This is how we do job creation, he said at a press conference organized by the Congressional Progressive Caucus on Capitol Hill.

Unlike Trumps $1 trillion infrastructure plan, which prioritizes tax incentives to fund infrastructure projects by a 5-1 margin, the progressive initiative relies directly on public investment. The CPC says it would be paid by the closing of unspecified corporate tax loopholes, a new tax on Wall Street transactions, and by repatriating funds held by U.S. companies overseas.

While Trump has yet to release his promised infrastructure plan, its broad outlines look very different from the wish list offered by progressives. The presidents proposal is said to include only $200 billion in public spending. The remainder of the initiative is said to rely on private tax incentives meant to spur investment in infrastructure projects. Such funding mechanisms, known as public-private partnerships, often involve privately financed toll roads.

Deficit-averse Republicans in Congress are unlikely to consider a big spending proposal. The progressive infrastructure effort, rather, attempts to offer a clear contrast between Democratic and Republican policies ahead of the 2018 midterm election.

President Trump has suggested that he will address the infrastructure gap. His ideas, however, are insufficient. They are riddled with fancy and unnecessary gimmicks, and laced with tax breaks for his wealthy friends, the CPC says. We cannot afford to accept a plan like this that helps Wall Street investors, but leaves ordinary Americans behind.

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Progressives and Jihadists: A Multicultural Matrimony of Cultural Genocide Wedded in Bliss – Canada Free Press

If you want to coexist with Islamic savages, ISIS is looking for new recruits

Assimilation is a crime against humanityThere is no moderate or immoderate Islam. Islam is Islam, and thats itThe mosques are our barracks, the minarets our bayonets, the cupolas our helmets, and the faithful our soldiers. -- Tyyip Erdogan, President of Turkey, 2008

The progressive altar of multiculturalism and diversity was bloodied yet again with the lives of the innocent. Many young girls, one as young as eight, were savagely murdered by a 22-year-old Islamic suicide-bombing loser who detonated a bomb full of nails, bolts and other shrapnel. Twenty-two innocent people murdered, families obliterated, dozens maimed and scarred for life by, yet again, another Muslim male.

Progressive leaders and politicians in the UK are just as much to blame for this Islamic carnage and wear the blood of these victims on their hands. Progressives in the US are equally as guilty as the progressive mantra, spouted by both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, have provided protection for the jihadists by their willful avoidance of identifying the enemy of Western Civilization.

Pray for Manchester? Why not. How about we pray that the leaders in the UK pull their progressive heads out of their behinds in order to start protecting their citizenry instead of protecting jihadists through accusations of Islamaphobia levied against any outspoken observer or skeptic of Islam.

In the UK, its a hate crime to speak truthfully about Islam. I guess its not a hate crime to destroy families and cultures with seventh century savagery and blow up little English girls.

Prime Minister Theresa May would not only be wise but HUMANE to ban No Go Zones, burkhas, radical Imams, and Sharia Courts that have invaded swathes of Great Britain. The centuries-old Islamic Conquest has penetrated the UK so deeply that the most popular name of new born boys is Mohammed. The first Muslim Mayor of London, Mayor Khan, said that terror is just part and parcel of living in a big city.

Really? I am old enough to remember a time when terror wasnt part and parcel of living in a big city. Maybe in third world hellholes terror is a common occurrence, but not in any civilized society. The political theology of Islam and cultural, legal norms of Sharia, is anything but civilized, unless you consider female genital mutilation, honor killings, the execution of homosexuals, stoning of rape victims, and treating women like chattle, cornerstones of free civilizations.

This normalization or mainstreaming of terror protects jihadists and destroys civilized cultures and innocent livesgenerations of families destroyed. But hey, par for the course of living in a big city, according to Londonistans mayor.

The choice between accepting little girls being blown up in the name of this sickening death cult and exterminating this evil should be an easy one. Yet, when progressive leaders welcome unvetted refugees, knowingly allowing hundreds if not thousands of jihadists to walk amongst their citizens, and then accuse those citizens of Islamophobia for expressing their fears, they are no better than the savages who they have allowed to invade their countries and endanger their citizenry. Progressive leaders are not only de-facto savages, but are traitors to their homeland for willfully endangering their citizenry in the progressive, deadly guise of multiculturalism and diversity.

And if you think anything I just said is Islamophobic?

xxxx you!

If you want to coexist with Islamic savages, ISIS is looking for new recruits. I am sure there is a nice flat in a Shariah No-Go Zone in London for you. Yet, I hear its a little rainy this time of year but a burkha should keep you nice and dry, you soulless, ignorant, progressive piece of human debris.

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Vox: Populist Surge Led to a Surge of Formerly Inactive Progressives – The Nonprofit Quarterly (registration)

May 22, 2017; Vox

This fall, when Donald Trump won the U.S. presidential election, many people felt it as more than a political loss. They despaired or felt unsafe, as though they and their communities were being attacked and their fellow citizens only watched silently. It has been frustrating to watch as years of progress on a number of issueswomens rights, climate protection, education, criminal justice reformare stymied or reversed. To many progressives, it feels as the past has intruded upon the present and hidden holders of unpopular opinions have come out of the woodwork in greater numbers than were ever anticipated.

But is that whats really happening? Vox recently collected polls on major issues from numerous sources, and found some surprising results. Nearly two-thirds of Americans agree that immigration helps the United States more than it hurts and oppose the much-touted wall on the Mexican border; more than half of Americans say they want a government that does more to solve problems and meet peoples needs rather than leaving it to businesses; nearly three-quarters of Americans see foreign trade as an economic opportunity, not a threat.

We are not at war with our fellow citizens; we agree on more than we think. This isnt to say there arent people with extreme views or that issues like climate change, civil rights, and economic justice championed by liberals and progressives dont still need constant attention. But if these numbers are anything to go by, advocacy works. Lots of these progressive-conservative ratios have flipped within the last 10 years. But what are we doing with that consensus?Given those figures, Democrats should have triumphed, but instead they were beaten in the great majority of races, resulting in a net gain of almost 1,000 federal and state offices for the GOP since 2008. If most Americans support foreign trade, how did we get a president who threatens to pull out of NATO and NAFTA?

This is not the place (if there ever is one) to analyze the election, but to ask where the work of nonprofits is needed or supported and what shape it should take. If most Americans opinions on climate change and immigration align with the values of progressive civic society, how can we connect that to policies and policymakers who hold those views as well? Do we have a wider base of funding and support than we thought?

As Vox points out, part of the disparity between the views shown in the chart and those represented in government is due to gerrymandering; in several states, progressive candidates got more than half of the popular votes but less than half of the Congressional seats. Racially biased voting districts have been challenged in North Carolina and other places, but voting rights are not yet universal and districts reflect that bias.

Part of it has to do with the story we tell about our society and how people feel they fit into it. People understand themselves and their history through stories; white Americans are used to being the protagonists of Americas story, and that may be more important to voters than gun control or tax policy. In fact, as NPQ reported, racial identity played a major role in the results. Yuval Noah Harari wondered in The New Yorker if liberalism was at an end, saying, As people lose faith in the systems ability to fulfill their expectations, they become disillusioned even amid unprecedented peace and prosperity. As pure liberalism proves itself inadequate to deal with huge problems like climate change or cybersecurity, as alternative histories brought to light by civil rights campaigns threaten the story white Americans grew up hearing about themselves, reactionary voting can result in representation that doesnt align with (some) policy values. But perhaps theres an opportunity here to bridge a divide.

The opportunity for nonprofits is to capitalize on and expand the areas of consensus. Most Americans support public intervention to help solve big problemsa decidedly illiberal view in economic terms, but one that is great news for the public sector. The story of nonprofit advocacy and civic values did not stop or swerve with the November election; there is reason to believe that the good work being done is having an effect. Now, as Voxs Ruy Teixeira said, you may return to your regularly scheduled panic.Erin Rubin

Erin Rubin is the Editorial Coordinator & Community Builder at the Nonprofit Quarterly. Previously, she worked as an administrator at Harvard Business School and as an editorial project manager at Pearson Education, where she helped develop a digital resource library for remedial learners. Erin has also worked with David R. Godine, Publishers, and the Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, & Writers. As a member of the TEDxBeaconStreet organizing team, she works to communicate innovative ideas and translate them into action

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Tee Hee: California Progressives Allege Voter Fraud in Democratic Party Election, Demand Voter ID – Townhall

Earlier this month, we highlighted apopcorn-worthy story of former DNC workers suing the Democratic Party -- ostensible champions of the little guy -- over sub-minimum wage salaries, and an alleged refusal to offer overtime pay. This story out of Californiamay be even richer. You may have heard that the stateparty'sannual convention was marred bydiscord and vulgarity, with national DNC Chairman Tom "F-Bomb"Perezgetting booedby delegates even before histerrible fundraising numbers came out. One of the most controversial moments of the tumultuous meeting was the narrow election of an establishment Democrat to chair the state party, beating a Bernie-style left-winger. The defeated candidate's supporters were furious, insisting that the outcome was highly suspicious, if not outright fraudulent. And one of theirspecificobjections was absolutely delicious:

People voting in a close election "without proper ID"? Perish the thought. Even California's beleaguered Republican Partycouldn't whiff on this one. Swing and a drive:

I, for one, am disgusted by California progressives' support for "voter suppression" methods such as requiring proper identification to ensure the integrity of an election. Their demandthat only eligible voters be permitted to cast ballots, according to established rules, is an outrage. And quite possibly racist, or something. Because as we've been told, voter frauddoesn't exist. It'sa myth. Conjuredout of thin air by the terrible Republicans. To combat afake problem. Or maybe, when the chips are down and the stakes matter to them, lefties realize that thevast majority of Americans who are in favor of voter ID laws support a common sense measure to safeguard electoral results. By the way, a primary source of acrimony at this week's convention wasfury from grassroots lefties over some elected Democrats'concerns about a proposedsingle-payer healthcare scheme:

Ah, but in case you missed it,there's ateeny tiny problem (among others)with their gloriouscause:

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