Thomas Frank: The Rise of the Country Club Democrats
Occidental Dissent - Jul 23rd 2022 5:17pm EDTThomas Frank was on CNN to discuss how affluent PMCs who are detached from reality have taken over the Democratic Party.
Sloppy Steve Found Guilty Of Contempt of Congress
Occidental Dissent - Jul 23rd 2022 9:50am EDTAs everyone here knows, I don’t care for Dump, Baked Alaska or Steve Bannon, but the larger issue here is Democrats convening show trials, selective enforcement of the law and wielding arbitrary power to silence and crush their political opposition while whining about “authoritarianism.”
Axios: Trump Plots 2024 Revenge Tour
Occidental Dissent - Jul 22nd 2022 9:24am EDTI support the sentiment. I doubt it could be competently executed though. Axios: “Former President Trump’s top allies are preparing to radically reshape the federal government if he is re-elected, purging potentially thousands of civil servants and filling career posts with loyalists to him and his “America First” ideology, people involved in the discussions tell Axios. […]
Poll Watch: Half of Americans Expect Civil War 2 Within Years
Occidental Dissent - Jul 21st 2022 8:29pm EDTOrthodox Slumlord was just denying this in the comments. Daily Mail: “Half of Americans expect to see a second U.S. civil war within years and nearly a fifth say they could one day be toting guns at a political face-off themselves, according to an alarming new study about the nation’s deepening divisions.
Joe Biden Has Cancer and COVID
Occidental Dissent - Jul 21st 2022 11:08am EDTJoe might not make it to 2024.
How To Transition a Rooster To a Hen
Occidental Dissent - Jul 20th 2022 3:32pm EDTThe Science says you can do this.
Thomas Edsall: The Gender Gap Obscures More Than It Reveals
Occidental Dissent - Jul 20th 2022 11:13am EDTThis is a rough summary of how I see the issue. I’ve been called a wignat feminist by incels because I don’t rage against women on this website. I like women. I don’t have a problem with women. I believe men and women are naturally compatible and complementary. Society works when it is built around […]
Tucker Carlson: The Great Replacement Is Real
Occidental Dissent - Jul 19th 2022 11:08pm EDTTucker’s show is arguably the most mainstream media product coming out of the conservative media Potemkin village and it barely distinguishable from white nationalist blogs. If that’s not an alarm bell, I don’t know what is. https://t.co/KJEWJp1JcZ — Jared Holt (@jaredlholt) July 20, 2022 I’m pleased with this. If you had told me in 2019 […]
Bernie Sanders Accuses Joe Manchin Of Sabotaging Joe Biden’s Agenda
Occidental Dissent - Jul 18th 2022 2:40pm EDT“If you compare that to every single other president at this point in their first term throughout polling history, this goes all the way back since the 1940s, he is the worst on both,” CNN’s Harry Enten says. “Inflation is eating his presidency alive.” pic.twitter.com/bBobX3ZPA5 — Virginia Kruta (@VAKruta) July 14, 2022 I don’t think […]
Poll Watch: Joe Biden’s Approval Rating Is Underwater In 44 States
Occidental Dissent - Jul 18th 2022 2:19pm EDTThis is from Morning Consult which is one of the most Democratic leaning polling firms. Morning Consult: A year ago: A year later:
New York Times: Democratic Strategist Explains How To Win Back Working Class
Occidental Dissent - Jul 18th 2022 1:24pm EDTAs the Democratic Party crumbles and completes its evolution into the old Rockefeller Republican Party, we are seeing a big uptick in stories like this. New York Times:
Democrats Swap Working Class Base For College Educated Voters
Occidental Dissent - Jul 18th 2022 12:38pm EDTTwo years ago, I began to draw attention to this divide within the Democratic Party between DILE (Democrat Independent Liberal Elite) voters and DLWC (Democratic Leaning Working Class) voters. This was during the transition and the earliest days of the Joe Biden presidency. It began to dawn on me that the Democratic Party was two […]
Ruy Teixeira Dishes Dirt On CAP
Occidental Dissent - Jul 17th 2022 4:22pm EDTRuy Teixeira has expanded on his radicalization by the “far right” in the WSJ. WSJ: “An old line is that revolutions devour their children, but apparently they’re equally unkind to their elders. Ruy Teixeira spent many years at the Center for American Progress (CAP), a progressive Washington think tank that provides much of the agenda […]
Poll Watch: Joe Biden Divides BIPOCs
Occidental Dissent - Jul 17th 2022 1:47pm EDTJoe is losing Asian and “Latinx” voters. He still has the support of blacks, but the bloc vote has crumbled there too. This won’t translate as much into a shift in voting patterns, but it is still catastrophic for Democrats. Pew Research Center:
Review: The Handmaid’s Tale: Season 1
Occidental Dissent - Jul 16th 2022 3:02pm EDTEditor’s Note: SPOILER WARNING. I was unfamiliar with The Handmaid’s Tale until the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation hearings. Americans tend to live in separate realities these days. We don’t watch the same television shows as radical progressives. I first became aware of the show and the novel it was based on when Lacy MacAuley, a prominent […]
Poll Watch: Most Red State Voters Support Dissolving The Union
Occidental Dissent - Jul 16th 2022 9:21am EDT“The Union must be dissolved under its present course of administration. It requires no conspiracy to destroy – no exertion on our part to drag it to its dissolution. It goes down with the inevitable weight of its own gravitation, into that dark abyss of anarchy and ruin, where all tyrannies have fallen.” “The long, […]
MSNBC: Floating Abortion Clinic May Be Loophole Patients Need
Occidental Dissent - Jul 15th 2022 10:50pm EDTSlate:
Ruy Teixeira: Working Class and Hispanic Voters Are Losing Interest in the Party of Abortion, Gun Control and the January 6th Hearings
Occidental Dissent - Jul 14th 2022 3:19pm EDTRuy Teixeira, the political scientist who wrote The Emerging Democratic Majority in 2002, which was eventually deteriorated into the conventional wisdom among White liberals that “demographics is destiny,” chimes in on the unanticipated rise of the East Cosst AWFLs. Ruy Teixeira:
Axios: The Great Realignment
Occidental Dissent - Jul 14th 2022 12:41pm EDTThis is rapidly becoming the conventional wisdom. Axios:
Monkeypox Homosexual Spread
Occidental Dissent - Jul 13th 2022 12:54pm EDTNow watching
Axios: The Democratic Electorate’s Seismic Shift
Occidental Dissent - Jul 13th 2022 10:36am EDTImagine my shock. The Democratic Party is evolving into the party of affluent, college educated PMCs, especially White women who LARP like they are in the Handmaid’s Tale, who live in coastal metros. Axios: “Democrats now have a bigger advantage among white college graduates than they do with nonwhite voters, according to a New York Times/Siena College poll. […]
Axios: Inflation Soars To 9.1% In June
Occidental Dissent - Jul 13th 2022 10:20am EDTImagine where it would be today if progressives had gotten their way on climate change and Congress had passed the additional $6 to $8 trillion in spending that they so desperately wanted in 2021. Axios:
Tucker Carlson: Sri Lanka’s Green New Deal
Occidental Dissent - Jul 12th 2022 10:51pm EDTWhat’s going on in Sri Lanka?
Jamie Raskin: “American Carnage Is Donald Trump’s True Legacy”
Occidental Dissent - Jul 12th 2022 6:31pm EDTPretty much this.
Charlie Kirk: Church and State Should Be Mixed Together
Occidental Dissent - Jul 12th 2022 5:16pm EDTCharlie Kirk: “There is no separation of church and state. It’s a fabrication. It’s a fiction. It’s not in the Constitution. It’s made up by secular humanists” pic.twitter.com/R4dkUSxGwI — Jason Campbell (@JasonSCampbell) July 6, 2022 I’m seeing a lot of dumb commentary on this. The First Amendment only says that Congress cannot establish a state […]