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  • Stacey Abrams Pressured The MLB To Move The All-Star Game Out Of Georgia

    Occidental Dissent - Apr 8th 2021 3:18pm EDT

    I knew that the “Jim Eagle” and “Jim Crow on steroids” and “new Jim Crow laws” rhetoric sounded vaguely familiar. This is the same woman who once burned the Georgia State Flag, who ran for governor on destroying the Confederate memorial on Stone Mountain and who made news last month by saying that Republicans are […]

  • The Atlantic: The Sexual Identity That Emerged on TikTok

    Occidental Dissent - Apr 7th 2021 6:22pm EDT

    As I have pointed out on more than a few occasions lately, there are at least 20,000 different genders and even more pronoun combinations now. Virtually all of these new genders were discovered over the last decade. You’re also a transphobic bigot for dismissing them as a ridiculous fad. The Atlantic: “Back in February, Kyle […]

  • Poll: Woke Capitalism Is Deeply Unpopular

    Occidental Dissent - Apr 7th 2021 5:30pm EDT

    We love our polls. We have the upper hand on a lot of key issues now. Daily Wire: “According to the poll results, MLB’s political activism is alienating fans. 64% of Americans — including a majority of MLB fans, Delta Air Line customers, and Coca-Cola consumers — told the researchers they are less likely to […]

  • Andrew Ross Sorkin: Is Big Business the Democrats’ New Best Friend?

    Occidental Dissent - Apr 7th 2021 10:21am EDT

    Andrew Ross Sorkin has a new article in the New York Times in which he basically explains that Joe Biden’s Democratic Party is evolving into the Whig Party or the old Republican Party. New York Times: “It might seem even more strange to see Democrats teaming up with big business. But Democrats, especially the more […]

  • New York Times: Inside Corporate America’s Frantic Response to the Georgia Voting Law

    Occidental Dissent - Apr 5th 2021 9:42am EDT

    I’m enjoying this dynamic. Progressive activists who are 8% of the American population are forcing multinational corporations to take polarizing stands on controversial social issues. They can’t do this without alienating populist and conservative voters and creating a backlash that pushes people in our direction. New York Times: “On March 11, Delta Air Lines dedicated […]

  • Donald Trump: Boycott Woke Corporations Too

    Occidental Dissent - Apr 3rd 2021 8:43pm EDT

    You heard the man. We’re drinking water now to own the libs. Note: Actually, it is better for you anyway.

  • PBS Newshour: Crackdown On Online Hate Speech Pushes “Extremists” To Other Platforms

    Occidental Dissent - Apr 3rd 2021 7:22pm EDT

    What is “hate” and “extremist speech”? It is anything that falls outside of the viewpoint of progressive activists who are around 8% of the population. This includes everyone from Donald Trump down to millions of his followers as well as people whose views wouldn’t pass muster in the New York Times newsroom. Those people have […]

  • Donald Trump: Boycott Major League Baseball

    Occidental Dissent - Apr 3rd 2021 11:48am EDT

    I’m just laughing at this. It has gotten to the point where baseball is polarizing. FOX News: “Former President Donald Trump fired a high, hard fastball at Major League Baseball on Friday night, urging fans to boycott the “national pastime” over its decision to pull this year’s All-Star Game from the Atlanta area. Trump asserted that MLB’s leadership was […]

  • George Floyd’s Banana Dance

    Occidental Dissent - Apr 2nd 2021 9:58am EDT

    I’m shocked. Are you saying there is more to the George Floyd story than the simple narrative that was pushed by the media to inflame racial tensions ahead of the 2020 election?

  • Joe Biden “Strongly Supports” Moving MLB All-Star Game Out Of Atlanta Due To New Georgia Election Law

    Occidental Dissent - Apr 1st 2021 7:20pm EDT

    Welcome to the sixth or seventh party system. CBS News: “President Biden says he’d “strongly support” moving the Major League Baseball All-Star game out of Atlanta as a rebuke to strict new voting restrictions in the state. The president said on ESPN Wednesday night that the curbs are “just not right.” “This is Jim Crow on steroids, […]

  • Poll: Americans Support Raising Taxes On The Wealthy and Corporations To Fund Infrastructure Spending

    Occidental Dissent - Apr 1st 2021 1:59pm EDT

    I’m shocked to learn this. Independents are strongly opposed to Joe Biden’s immigration policies, but support him on how he is handling COVID, the American Rescue Plan and on raising taxes on the wealthy and corporations to build infrastructure. It is almost like Trump would have been reelected if 1.) he hadn’t made a fool […]

  • Paul Krugman: Why Can’t Republicans Be Populists?

    Occidental Dissent - Mar 31st 2021 3:12pm EDT

    Paul Krugman is right. The GOP is held back by its antiquated economic policy agenda. New York Times: “President Biden’s American Rescue Plan is incredibly popular, even among Republican voters. We don’t have details yet on the next big Democratic initiative, but we can expect it to poll well, because we know that it will […]

  • Joe Biden Issues First Ever Presidential Proclamation For “Trans Day Of Visibility”

    Occidental Dissent - Mar 31st 2021 2:50pm EDT

    We wouldn’t want to marginalize our trans girls like Rachel Levine. Axios: “President Biden issued a statement to formally celebrate Wednesday as Transgender Day of Visibility (TDOV), an international day first marked in 2009 as a way to commemorate trans lives and accomplishments. Why it matters: Biden is the first sitting U.S. president to issue a […]

  • Jimmy Dore: Buttigieg’s Idea To Screw Workers for Driving To Work

    Occidental Dissent - Mar 30th 2021 4:56pm EDT

    Jimmy Dore is my favorite leftwinger.

  • Poll: 64% of Americans See Cancel Culture As A Threat To Freedom

    Occidental Dissent - Mar 29th 2021 6:06pm EDT

    Hmm. Maybe the Republicans should go ALL IN and hammer the Democrats on this issue? I don’t think there is another culture war issue which has this much traction and potency. The Hill: “A majority of Americans say they view “cancel culture” as a threat to their freedom, according to a new Harvard CAPS-Harris Poll survey […]

  • Poll: Biden Gets High Marks On COVID-19, Lags On Guns and Immigration

    Occidental Dissent - Mar 28th 2021 10:52am EDT

    Media: “You’re a far-right extremist”! Me: “No, I am a White moderate and an Independent swing voter. My political views are much closer to the Center than yours. I’m looking at our politics from the middle and you are a leftwing extremist. Your views on any number of subjects are far outside the actual mainstream.” […]

  • AP: In a Nation Founded on Whiteness, How to Really Discuss It?

    Occidental Dissent - Mar 26th 2021 12:01pm EDT

    The media has no interest in a “conversation about race.” Presumably, a conversation is a discussion between two sides. They’re not interested in that. They’re only interested in demonizing you, scolding you, lecturing you and talking down to you because of your race. U.S. News: “John Bost seems precisely the kind of person that his […]

  • Podcast: A Top GOP Pollster On Trump 2024, QAnon and What Republicans Really Want

    Occidental Dissent - Mar 26th 2021 9:21am EDT

    I covered that poll earlier this month when it was released. New York Times: “In the aftermath of the Capitol attack, the polling firm Echelon Insights decided to ask voters a simple question: Do they think the goal of politics is more about “enacting good public policy” or “ensuring the country’s survival as we know it?” […]

  • Is There Still A Center?

    Occidental Dissent - Mar 24th 2021 11:30am EDT

    I reject the term “far right.” Obviously, I consider myself a centrist, a moderate, an economic populist, a nationalist, a social conservative and an advocate of restraint and non-intervention in foreign policy. I’m an Independent voter. This is the perspective that I have always written from on this blog. New York Times: “Does Joe Biden’s […]

  • Rising: Why Democrats and Republicans Hate Each Other And Why It Will Get Much Worse

    Occidental Dissent - Mar 22nd 2021 3:55pm EDT

    I enjoyed this segment. I’m like the polar opposite of our woke progressive overlords. I suppose that you could say that I am a college-educated knowledge worker too, but unlike those people I prefer to work remotely and carry on the culture war from rural Alabama where my family has lived since the 1830s. You […]

  • Stephen Colbert: Trump’s Racist Rhetoric Led Directly To Hate Crimes Against The AAPI Community

    Occidental Dissent - Mar 21st 2021 9:59am EDT

    I normally don’t watch any of this content. I don’t watch things like the Grammys, Emmys, Golden Globes or Academy Awards. I don’t watch any of the late night comedy shows. There are people in this country who watch Trevor Noah, Stephen Colbert, John Oliver and SNL though and who actually think their content is […]

  • The COVID Class War Heats Up

    Occidental Dissent - Mar 18th 2021 12:51pm EDT

    Michael Lind is always a delight to read. He is from Texas. He is an economic progressive. He also reflexively writes from a historical perspective like I do. This is a great take on what is going on with contemporary progressivism, the lockdowns which devastated the economy and the realignment of the two parties. Tablet […]

  • Poll: American Democracy Only Caters To The Rich and Powerful

    Occidental Dissent - Mar 17th 2021 5:32pm EDT

    The division in this country is inflamed and exaggerated by the media. American Survey Center: “The surge in partisan polarization in America has made it a rarity that Democrats and Republicans could ever find common ground on an issue. However, data from the new January 2021 American Perspectives Survey (APS) reveals one important area where […]

  • Democrats Can’t Duck The Culture War

    Occidental Dissent - Mar 17th 2021 9:36am EDT

    Thomas Edsall thinks that Joe Biden and the Democrats can somehow duck the culture war now after intentionally dialing it up a thousand notches over the past four years. New York Times: “The Biden administration appears to have adopted a two-pronged strategy to reduce the corrosive impact of hot-button social, cultural and racial issues: first […]

  • Jacobin: Is America Too Racist For Social Democracy?

    Occidental Dissent - Mar 14th 2021 9:17pm EDT

    Editor’s Note: He is a paid shill like all the rest of them. In case you missed Brooklyn Dad’s Bernie Bro meltdown. pic.twitter.com/TpeWG5hGzp — Watchdog (@demswatchdog) March 14, 2021 President Biden is ready to kick that azzzzzz. — BrooklynDad_Defiant! (@mmpadellan) August 21, 2020 I wish Bernie would just cut the crap and drop out already. […]