Category: Populists, Page 134
Newsweek: Joe Biden Is Giving Israel Smaller Smart Bombs
Occidental Dissent - May 24th 2021 7:29pm EDTThis is being touted in the media as a foreign policy victory for Joe Biden. Newsweek: “The Biden administration’s $753 million smart bomb package for Israel includes a little-known weapon—one quarter the size of Israel’s current main smart bomb—that Pentagon sources think could calm critics of Israel’s bombing. The State Department notification, sent to Congress on May 5, […]
Greta Thunberg Now Wants To Change How Food Is Produced
Occidental Dissent - May 24th 2021 2:24pm EDT“The climate- ecological- and health crisis are all interlinked. But we no longer see the links between them.I would like to connect the dots. Because let’s face it – if we don’t change, we are f*cked.”#ForNature @MercyForAnimals @TomMustill pic.twitter.com/ieJ45qGGv5 — Greta Thunberg (@GretaThunberg) May 23, 2021 How dare you eat that steak, peasant. You have […]
Rising: How Democrats Lost Rural America
Occidental Dissent - May 24th 2021 1:37pm EDTThe culture war issues in rural America used to be guns, abortion and secularism. Now, it is guns, abortion and secularism, but also cultural degeneration, anti-whiteness, political correctness or wokeness, immigration, crime, hatred of “journalists,” hatred of Antifa and Black Lives Matter, anti-Americanism, censorship, civil liberties, “trans,” historic monuments, etc. Meat eating is just the […]
MSNBC: Liz Cheney Is a Fringe Figure In the GOP
Occidental Dissent - May 24th 2021 12:03pm EDTI disagree with Joe Scarborough. It is true that there are three parties in America. There is the Republican Party which has been completely Trumpified, the multiracial working class Democratic base and the neoliberal centrist establishment party which controls the Democratic Party. The political establishment is consolidating inside the Democratic Party which is the home […]
Joe Biden Grants Temporary Protected Status To 100,000 Haitian Immigrants
Occidental Dissent - May 24th 2021 11:17am EDTThere is nothing more permanent in American politics than a temporary amnesty for refugees from Third World countries. Trump tried and failed to end several of them. BuzzFeed News: “The Obama administration previously provided temporary protected status for Haitians who had been in the country continuously since 2010, after an earthquake hit near the capital […]
Josh Hawley: Democrat Rhetoric On Israel Is Contributing To Anti-Semitic Violence
Occidental Dissent - May 24th 2021 10:53am EDT
New York Post: Fauci Is “Not Convinced” COVID Developed Naturally
Occidental Dissent - May 24th 2021 10:12am EDTNow he tells us … New York Post: “Dr. Anthony Fauci, a top adviser to President Biden on the coronavirus pandemic, said he’s “not convinced” the deadly virus developed naturally and has called for further investigations into where it emerged. Fauci was asked during a Poynter event, “United Facts of America: A Festival of Fact-Checking,” earlier this […]
The Political Cesspool: Post-Trump Trends
Occidental Dissent - May 23rd 2021 10:27pm EDTLISTEN HERE. I’m feeling strangely optimistic and upbeat in 2021: The Republican electorate has changed since 2006. At the ground level, White working class voters have become a greater share of the Republican base. Meanwhile, affluent, college-educated White suburban professionals have been migrating toward the Democratic Party. White working class voters tend to be socially […]
USA Today: The Fastest Girl In Connecticut Can’t Compete With Trans Women
Occidental Dissent - May 23rd 2021 9:31pm EDTUSA Today: “It’s February 2020. I’m crouched at the starting line of the high school girls’ 55-meter indoor race. This should be one of the best days of my life. I’m running in the state championship, and I’m ranked the fastest high school female in the 55-meter dash in the state. I should be feeling confident. I […]
Oregon Becomes First State To Require Vaccine Passports
Occidental Dissent - May 23rd 2021 8:35pm EDTI would like to apologize to some of our readers. I’m just a country boy from Alabama who lives out in the middle of nowhere. We’ve kind of lolled away the COVID-19 pandemic down here. It seemed to get fairly serious for about three or four weeks here last April at the height of the […]
Vox: The Case for Requiring Gun Licenses
Occidental Dissent - May 23rd 2021 8:04pm EDTHold up. They’ve got another great idea. It turns out that universal background checks and an assault weapons ban aren’t good enough anymore. We need gun licenses now like they have back East in Massachusetts. Vox: “After a shooting in America gets national attention, the debate usually centers around a few gun control measures, particularly […]
Axios: “Defund the Police” Lives On As a Local Movement
Occidental Dissent - May 23rd 2021 5:23pm EDT“Defund the Police” isn’t merely a silly slogan. In the heat of the moment, the idea was swiftly acted on in many big cities last summer like New York City, Murderapolis and Seattle where progressive activists go their way. Axios: “In the absence of support from President Biden and most national Democrats, the “Defund the […]
New York Times: The Rise of the Climatarian
Occidental Dissent - May 23rd 2021 3:51pm EDT
Life Coach Larry: Change Is Good!
Occidental Dissent - May 23rd 2021 3:24pm EDTLarry is a fashionista at heart. He has built his entire sense of identity, values and belief system on novelty seeking and feeling stimulated by adopting the latest fashionable trends.
Bug Appétit: Eating Cicadas Is Good For You and the Environment
Occidental Dissent - May 23rd 2021 3:01pm EDTThey are really excited about this. Insects are the progressive caviar of the future. While eating chicken instead of beef “basically amounts to trading one moral catastrophe for another,” eating bugs is the key to sustainable food production because their carbon footprint is significantly less environmentally damaging.
Politico: The Red Meat Issue Biden Won’t Touch
Occidental Dissent - May 23rd 2021 1:50pm EDTJoe Biden isn’t going there. You have his word as a Biden that he will not cave to the progressive activists who are itching to tackle America’s meat obsession. He isn’t going to ban red meat in order to reduce carbon emissions to achieve his own climate goals by 2030. It is fake news. It […]
Vox: A No-Beef Diet Is Great – But Only If You Don’t Replace It With Chicken
Occidental Dissent - May 23rd 2021 12:58am EDTProgressives have a problem with meat-eating. Don’t let them tell you otherwise. They write about getting rid of meat eating and replacing meat with alternative protein sources like lab grown meat or insects or preferably vegetarian diets all the time. They also want to get rid of fossil fuels and nuclear power and gas guzzling […]
Chris Hedges: Progressives Except for Palestine
Occidental Dissent - May 22nd 2021 10:50pm EDTI don’t just critique the Biden administration on this website. I spend about half of my time here spotlighting people on the Left who I agree with on some issues. Scheer Post: “Nearly all the words and phrases used by the Democrats, Republicans and the talking heads on the media to describe the unrest inside […]
Bill Mitchell Is Getting Roasted On Gab
Occidental Dissent - May 22nd 2021 9:39pm EDT
After The Virtue Signal: White People Have Cooled Toward Black Lives Matter
Occidental Dissent - May 22nd 2021 7:34pm EDT
Five Oregon Counties Vote To Consider Joining Idaho
Occidental Dissent - May 22nd 2021 5:59pm EDTOregon Live: “Five eastern Oregon counties voted Tuesday in favor of considering becoming part of Idaho. Baker, Grant, Lake, Malheur and Sherman counties join Union and Jefferson, which voted last year to require county officials to study or promote joining Idaho. Grant voted 1,471 to 895 for county officials “to meet and discuss relocating Idaho […]
Jimmy Dore: Stunner: Biden Retracts Every Campaign Promise
Occidental Dissent - May 22nd 2021 5:30pm EDTIt would be nice to have an alternative to neoliberal centrism.
Henry Olsen: The Latest Republican Budget Is a Revival of Paul Ryan-ism
Occidental Dissent - May 22nd 2021 4:53pm EDTPublic opinion has shifted. The Republican electorate has dramatically changed. Republican politicians and Conservatism, Inc. have not changed. Washington Post: “There has been a lot of talk recently about the Republican Party searching for a post-Trump ideological future. The annual alternative budget released Wednesday by the 152-member House Republican Study Committee shows how difficult it […]
FOX News Is Spreading ADL Propaganda
Occidental Dissent - May 22nd 2021 4:19pm EDTFOX News wants you to know that Jews are the real victims. The Israelis are the victims of the Palestinians who Jewish settlers are driving out of their homes and turning into refugees whom they are imprisoning in Gaza. The Jews here are also the victims of bad publicity and a few scuffles. The same […]
Poll: American Jews Have Widely Differing Views On Israel
Occidental Dissent - May 22nd 2021 3:10pm EDTIt will probably come as a surprise to some people here that American Jews are hardly a monolith. This is true of all groups though. 2/3rs to 3/4ths of American Jews are Democrats. Pew Research Center:
