• Rich Lowry: The Media’s Finest Hour

    Occidental Dissent - Aug 24th 2021 1:04pm EDT

    The “journalists” are pro-endless war and pro-imperialism and aligned with the “intelligence community” and military-industrial complex. In fact, they are so aligned with the Deep State and Pentagon and the Blob in Washington that they are willing to trash Joe Biden and push down his poll numbers in order to sustain the occupation of Afghanistan. […]

  • Mitch McConnell: Afghanistan Withdrawal Weakened Our Efforts In “War on Terror”

    Occidental Dissent - Aug 24th 2021 12:32pm EDT

    What is the alternative to our devastating withdrawal from Afghanistan? Break the peace deal with the Taliban Go to war with the Taliban Occupy Afghanistan forever against the will of its own people Resettle hundreds of thousands of Afghan refugees in the West Salute the failed generals and “intelligence community” who assured us for 20 […]

  • Julian Assange: The U.S. Goal Is Endless War, Not a Successful War

    Occidental Dissent - Aug 24th 2021 11:38am EDT

    It was mainly due to Julian Assange and WikiLeaks that we found in the first place how rotten the war in Afghanistan was because the generals had been blowing smoke up the ass of Congress. None of them gave a shit about what was going on in Afghanistan as long as the grift continued. Powered […]

  • Breaking Points: How The Hell Did Joe Biden Actually Do Something Right?

    Occidental Dissent - Aug 23rd 2021 8:59pm EDT

    Joe’s long experience in the Swamp came in handy for once.

  • China Mocks America’s Withdrawal From Afghanistan

    Occidental Dissent - Aug 23rd 2021 9:09am EDT

    Where’s the lie? The GOP is incapable of conceiving of a future which doesn’t involve squandering an endless stream of money and lives on that rathole.

  • Tom Cotton: Repercussions From Afghanistan Withdrawal Will Reverberate For Many Years

    Occidental Dissent - Aug 22nd 2021 4:11pm EDT

    Lets hope that Afghanistan proves to be the “graveyard of empires.” There are plenty of other countries around the world that we need to get out of as well before it is too late. There are plenty of other potential wars which ought to be avoided because the lesson of this one is also nothing […]

  • Ben Sasse Slams Afghanistan Withdrawal

    Occidental Dissent - Aug 22nd 2021 3:16pm EDT

    I’ve spent the last eight months criticizing Joe Biden. What’s the alternative though? Do we want to engage in another round of pointless backlash politics and bring the GOP back to power? Would we be better off with Ben Sasse and the True Cons and MIGA running our foreign policy? Did Trump ever really intend […]

  • Poll: Americans Still Support Afghanistan Withdrawal

    Occidental Dissent - Aug 22nd 2021 1:53pm EDT

    New this AM: Americans react negatively to events in Afghanistan, more concerned about terrorism Biden ratings down — both overall and handling troop removal, plus qualities like competence/effectiveness But public distinguishing between idea of withdrawal and its handling 1/6 pic.twitter.com/kDwtwVjVt4 — Kabir Khanna (@kabir_here) August 22, 2021 Support for withdrawal itself down 14 pts since […]

  • Brian Stelter: The Fall of Afghanistan

    Occidental Dissent - Aug 22nd 2021 1:37pm EDT

    Here’s the first half of my interview with @ClarissaWard – about what it was like to leave Afghanistan and get home to her family pic.twitter.com/p7GdlcJC3M — Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) August 22, 2021 Here’s the second half of my interview with @ClarissaWard – talking about what her week in Kabul was like, why she decided to […]

  • Joe Biden Dives In Polls

    Occidental Dissent - Aug 22nd 2021 11:25am EDT

    This was going to happen anyway. We’ve been saying it for months. It was happening before the withdrawal from Afghanistan. It also happened to Obama and Trump at this point in their presidencies. There are lots of issues that are dragging down Joe Biden – crime, inflation, illegal immigration, gas prices, censorship and especially COVID […]

  • The Atlantic: Liberal Democracy Is Worth a Fight

    Occidental Dissent - Aug 21st 2021 5:08pm EDT

    Kids, this is what it was like. pic.twitter.com/BlWrjCe8LL — mattgallagher0 (@MattGallagher0) August 20, 2021 I am really struggling to think of a time when I despaired more for the country and had so much contempt not just for both parties, but the bases of both parties. — Jonah Goldberg (@JonahDispatch) August 19, 2021 Yes. The […]

  • Joe Biden: America Has No National Interest In Afghanistan

    Occidental Dissent - Aug 21st 2021 4:40pm EDT

    YES. Exactly. It is their country, not our country. Who cares if the Afghans want sharia law instead of liberal democracy? Who cares if Afghanistan becomes an Islamic emirate? Who cares about women’s rights in Afghanistan?

  • National Review: Yes, Bring the Afghans Who Helped Us

    Occidental Dissent - Aug 21st 2021 12:43pm EDT

    Some things never change: We are burdened by a class of pudgy, sheltered, bespectacled, bow-tied fools who start wars in distant countries based on foolish expectations. The war plays out like anyone with a sense of the history and culture and Afghanistan could have predicted and who were shouted down when we plunged in during […]

  • Poll: Republicans Now Oppose Withdrawing From Afghanistan

    Occidental Dissent - Aug 20th 2021 12:18pm EDT

    49% of voters back the withdrawal of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, down 20 points since April. https://t.co/YwZFA493k3 *Poll conducted Aug 13-16, 2021 pic.twitter.com/9nDoRKGm16 — Morning Consult (@MorningConsult) August 17, 2021 I’m ridin’ with Biden pic.twitter.com/pwfUo1HMPV — Raiden (@SeekerRaiden) August 18, 2021 lmfao! pic.twitter.com/pDfDRGo7Xk — VGrillerManV (@V_GrillerMan_V) August 19, 2021 I can’t stop watching this. pic.twitter.com/o3tbjJqo25 […]

  • Breaking Points: The Real Tragedy Was The Corrupt Afghanistan War Itself

    Occidental Dissent - Aug 20th 2021 11:54am EDT

    The War on Terror did not build lasting peaceful nations in the Middle East. It built Northern Virginia. Effectively, Afghanistan cost the GOP any chance of ever winning Virginia ever again. How’s that feel, neocons? pic.twitter.com/SSkTmakESu — Being Libertarian (@beinlibertarian) August 19, 2021 The only time I’ve seen the media try and portray Biden in […]

  • The Federalist: After Afghanistan, No More Moral Blackmail From Failed Global Interventionists

    Occidental Dissent - Aug 20th 2021 10:34am EDT

    I don’t blame Joe Biden for the Afghanistan withdrawal. Donald Trump negotiated the peace deal with the Taliban. The Taliban upheld their end of the agreement and refused to fire on American forces in Afghanistan. The Afghan puppet government and its fake army ultimately refused to fight to preserve its own existence without American support. […]

  • Capitol Bomber Surrenders Without Blowing Himself Up

    Occidental Dissent - Aug 20th 2021 9:32am EDT

    pic.twitter.com/y3Hzhl4xjt — Escalated Entropy ? (@EscalatedEntro1) August 20, 2021 Breaking: VIDEO The suspect, Ray Roseberry, has been live streaming the bomb threat at the Library of Congress on Facebook. He is demanding to talk to Joe Biden on the phone. pic.twitter.com/A0iZ4XDZjM — Chris Weidner ???? (@CWNewser) August 19, 2021 Library of Congress bomb suspect says […]

  • Politico: “This Is Actually Happening”

    Occidental Dissent - Aug 20th 2021 8:58am EDT

    This channel is now completely insufferable. Self-important UK conservatives pompously screaming that *withdrawal* from a war is the biggest foreign policy “disaster” ever. Worse than escalating and prolonging the failed war for 20 years. Worse than Iraq, Vietnam. Just a joke pic.twitter.com/kAPHn3rbgx — Michael Tracey (@mtracey) August 20, 2021 It has been a super busy […]

  • The War to End All MindWars – Jay Dyer on Quite Frankly

    Jay Dyer - Aug 19th 2021 4:00pm EDT

     “We have a returning guest in the form of Jay Dyer (JaysAnalysis.com) coming back to the show to talk about some stuff that is right in his wheelhouse: De-Coded Hollywood, Cultural and Psychological Warfare, and Geo-Political quagmires in the Middle East. In the second half we revisit some relevant show notes from February 2020 […]

  • RT: Biden’s Afghanistan Withdrawal a Distraction From Increasing US Imperialism

    Occidental Dissent - Aug 19th 2021 9:27am EDT

    I’ve been wondering the same thing. Are we withdrawing from Afghanistan to go in somewhere else?

  • Secrets of the Renaissance: The Russian Connection & Symbolic Analysis – Fr Vladimir Kaydanov

    Jay Dyer - Aug 18th 2021 8:53pm EDT

     Fr. Vladimir Kaydanov joins me to cover the little known history that connects Byzantium, the Renaissance and Russia in a fascinating providential tale that needs to be told. Fr Vladimir’s focus is geometric analysis of Renaissance works, as well as the historical connection to fascinating planned cities like St. Petersburg, Russia. Fr Vladimir weaves […]

  • General Milley: Military Intelligence Didn’t Predict Afghanistan’s Rapid Fall

    Occidental Dissent - Aug 18th 2021 4:50pm EDT

    I think he is probably telling the truth. Everyone knew that we had armed a fake military which was controlled by a fake puppet government and that it would collapse. They were genuinely surprised that it would only take two weeks to collapse. We squandered something like $100 billion dollars on the Afghan military to […]

  • Jimmy Dore: Ron Paul Predicted Afghanistan Debacle Ten Years Ago

    Occidental Dissent - Aug 18th 2021 4:14pm EDT

    Ron Paul was right about this. Pat Buchanan was also right about this.

  • The GOP Wants To Stay In Afghanistan Forever

    Occidental Dissent - Aug 17th 2021 11:15am EDT

    Just as a dog returns to its own vomit, the Republican leadership wants to stay in Afghanistan forever and continue sucking up to the Pentagon. It is the same way with Corporate America too. The GOP leadership is incapable of conceiving of a policy agenda which isn’t sold to corporate donors.

  • Taliban: Asked For Orderly Withdrawal, US Did Opposite

    Occidental Dissent - Aug 17th 2021 10:12am EDT

    We struck a deal with the Taliban to have a peaceful and orderly withdrawal from Afghanistan in February 2020 … 18 months ago. We were supposed to be out by May 1st.