Category: Alt-Center, Page 13
Mike Pence Visits Heather Heyer Memorial In Charlottesville
Occidental Dissent - Apr 13th 2022 12:50pm EDTGoofball Mike Pence is back in the news. Raw Story: “Former Vice President Mike Pence on Friday visited a memorial to Heather Heyer, who was murdered while protesting the 2017 “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. Pence aide Marc Short told CBS News Pence “took a moment today to go down and visit the mall […]
The Atlantic: The Miracle of Ukrainian Survival
Occidental Dissent - Apr 13th 2022 11:45am EDTWhat does our liberal establishment have in store for Ukraine? The Atlantic: “This friday, as Passover begins, my thoughts will turn to my late grandmother. Born in Ukraine, she survived the Nazis, the only one in her immediate family to escape the guns of the génocidaires. Each year, at the beginning of the seder, she would stand […]
Senate Unanimously Revives Lend-Lease Program
Occidental Dissent - Apr 13th 2022 10:41am EDTThere was actually a robust, and even bitter debate over the original “lend-lease” in 1941 — a full 31 senators ultimately voted against it. “Remember, if we lend or lease war materials today, we will lend or lease American boys tomorrow,” Sen. Burton Wheeler (D-MT) declared https://t.co/ftTaAt03pm — Michael Tracey (@mtracey) April 12, 2022 A […]
Tucker Carlson: Canadian PM Justin Trudeau Seeking To Forcibly Silence News Outlet
Occidental Dissent - Apr 13th 2022 8:54am EDTThis is a war between democracy and autocracy. If you watch cable television, you will regularly hear the words of Anne Applebaum coming out of the mouth of Joe Biden in Poland and various panels on CNN and MSNBC. In one minute, two-faced liberals celebrate the Great Replacement while denouncing you for noticing them doing […]
Bird Shits On Joe Biden In Iowa
Occidental Dissent - Apr 12th 2022 6:09pm EDTIt looked like a good place to take a dump.
Jimmy Dore: Twitter Censoring Ukraine War Coverage
Occidental Dissent - Apr 12th 2022 4:36pm EDTAnyone who is saying Twitter’s ban violates the First Amendment doesn’t know Twitter is a private company and the First Amendment protects individuals against government. — Robert Reich (@RBReich) January 9, 2021 In Musk’s vision of Twitter and the internet, he’d be the wizard behind the curtain – projecting on the world’s screen a fake […]
Zelensky Announces Arrest Of Viktor Medvedchuk
Occidental Dissent - Apr 12th 2022 3:28pm EDT??BREAKING: Pro-Kremlin lawmaker, Putin’s crony Medvedchuk captured. Zelensky announced that Viktor Medvedchuk, a lawmaker with the pro-Kremlin party Opposition Platform was captured by the Security Service. Medvedchuk is accused of treason. He escaped house arrest in February. pic.twitter.com/M3SIi65uht — The Kyiv Independent (@KyivIndependent) April 12, 2022 This is a war between democracy and autocracy. In […]
Breaking Points: Twitter Chaos Shows Elon Musk Might Pursue Hostile Takeover
Occidental Dissent - Apr 12th 2022 12:29pm EDTThis would be the ideal solution. Elon Musk buys Twitter and fires the current management. Free speech is restored. Donald Trump is unbanned. The Twitter algorithm is made public. Everyone is unbanned and un-shadow banned and we go into Twitter guns blazing.
MSNBC: The Violent Conspiracy Theory That’s Driving The GOP
Occidental Dissent - Apr 12th 2022 12:05pm EDTIn France, a recent poll showed that 60 percent of the French now believe in the Great Replacement. 67 percent are worried it is either happening or will occur. Éric Zemmour just ran for president on saving France from the Great Replacement and the center-right just collapsed there. I can’t find the poll now, but […]
Eric Kaufmann: What Francis Fukuyama Gets Wrong About Liberalism
Occidental Dissent - Apr 12th 2022 10:11am EDTGood article from Eric Kaufmann: Unherd: “In an insightful piece over at Foreign Affairs entitled ‘Liberalism Needs the Nation’, Francis Fukuyama argues that abstract universalist liberalism is too thin to compete with the Right-wing nationalism of a Le Pen, Trump or Putin, but that an inclusive, state-led form of nationhood can keep the populist wolf from the […]
Axios: Inflation Surges To 8.5%, Highest In Over 40 Years
Occidental Dissent - Apr 12th 2022 9:14am EDTI overestimated Joe Biden again. In 2021, I discounted the impact that the tidal wave of federal spending combined with supply chain issues would have on driving up inflation. We were repeatedly told at the time that this was “transitory inflation” which was expected to taper off after a few months. In 2022, I assumed […]
The Bulwark: Putin Wants to Break NATO. Republicans Want to Help Him.
Occidental Dissent - Apr 12th 2022 8:06am EDTYes, we do. We have our own reasons to get rid of NATO. I’ve yet to hear a compelling case for NATO in the 21st century. The Bulwark: “Vladimir Putin’s central objective in Europe isn’t to capture Kyiv, the Donbas, or any other part of Ukraine. It’s to weaken the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, which […]
NBC Narratives: Russian Businesses In NYC Face Backlash After Ukraine War
Occidental Dissent - Apr 11th 2022 7:04pm EDTSorry, I couldn’t resist. I’ve lost count of how many times I have been called a racist, a bigot, a xenophobe, a hater and all kinds of slurs by liberals over the years. I have never harassed or vandalized a Mexican or Chinese restaurant.
History Time: The Entire History of Viking Britain
Occidental Dissent - Apr 11th 2022 6:29pm EDTI’m going to forget about Ukraine and veg out and spend the rest of the evening watching this.
Coach Red Pill: Scott Ritter and the Battle of Donbas
Occidental Dissent - Apr 11th 2022 5:56pm EDTNow watching.
Patrick Lancaster: The Missing of Mariupol
Occidental Dissent - Apr 11th 2022 5:41pm EDTWar correspondent and hero Patrick Lancaster reports from Mariupol.
Breaking Points: Gretchen Whitmer “Kidnappers” Acquitted
Occidental Dissent - Apr 11th 2022 5:06pm EDTAs I mentioned earlier this morning, we need to gut the Deep State and abolish the “intelligence community” and focus on shoring up our civil liberties and constitutional rights, which are under assault by power hungry liberals who are saving “democracy” from “authoritarianism.” Note: A 1/6 defendant was also recently acquitted.
Washington Post: Selma Is Tired of Being Just a Symbol
Occidental Dissent - Apr 11th 2022 1:37pm EDT“All this city got is history. If this bridge wasn’t here, it would just be another f—-d-up place nobody would visit.” – Arsenio Gardner, Selma resident It is that time a year again Oh wait … it turns out that this year the empty ritual of the annual march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in […]
George Packer: How We Can Be Worthy of Ukraine
Occidental Dissent - Apr 11th 2022 12:44pm EDTUkraine is viagra for Boomers and liberal imperialists and especially those Americans who fall into both of these categories and who write for establishment mouthpieces like The Atlantic. The Atlantic: “Don’t forget about Ukraine,” President Volodymyr Zelensky said last Sunday at the end of an interview with CBS. “We have the same values, we have […]
WSJ: The Return of the Old American Right
Occidental Dissent - Apr 11th 2022 12:24pm EDTMatthew Continetti is Bill Kristol’s son-in-law. He has a new book coming out about the history of the American Right. WSJ: “It’s hard to think of two American presidents with less in common than Calvin Coolidge and Donald Trump. For one thing, Coolidge held a variety of public offices, from Massachusetts governor to vice president, […]
Compact: Why Le Pen Surged – and Zemmour Flopped
Occidental Dissent - Apr 11th 2022 11:30am EDTHere in the United States, we are facing the same problem, which I have spent the last year highlighting. Populist and nationalist voters tend to be working class and middle class voters in small towns and rural areas. Those of us who live in the countryside tend to have traditional values. Who supports antiracism, “trans,” […]
Mark Levin Is Sick Of The Putin Wing Of The Republican Party
Occidental Dissent - Apr 11th 2022 9:59am EDTThe feeling is mutual. We’re sick and tired of people like Mark Levin who have squandered trillions of dollars and whose legacy is nothing but a trail of destruction that runs through the Balkans, North Africa, the Middle East, Central Asia and now eastern Europe. We’re sick of them sowing chaos abroad and neglecting our […]
Fareed Zakaria: Will Putin Hinder Rightwing Populist Leaders?
Occidental Dissent - Apr 10th 2022 9:18pm EDTWhy did Zemmour fade and Le Pen surge in the French presidential election?@compactmag_ has the one piece of analysis you need to read. Bottom line: Zemmour went against his own insight from 2019: The French right can’t rely on the bourgeoisie. https://t.co/jx6iYcL2w8 — Sohrab Ahmari (@SohrabAhmari) April 11, 2022 Results for France’s established conservative and […]
WSJ: The Right’s Russia Temptation
Occidental Dissent - Apr 10th 2022 6:52pm EDTJeffrey Scott Shapiro is alarmed by our lack of hostility toward Russia. In the 19th century, the United States had good relations with the Russian Empire. We bought Alaska from Russia. We traded with the Russia of the tsars. This was at a time when the Russian Empire controlled Ukraine, Central Asia, the Baltic states, […]
2022 French Presidential Election: Round One
Occidental Dissent - Apr 10th 2022 2:09pm EDTBREAKING: official projections as polls close in the First Round French Elections Emmanuel Macron: 28.1% Marine Le Pen: 23.3%#presidentielles2022 — Tony Connelly (@tconnellyRTE) April 10, 2022 #Pecresse calls for her supporters to vote for #Macron in the second round. Warns against threat of the far-left + far-right and highlights #LePen‘s links with #Putin #Election2022 — […]