Category: Populists, Page 142
U.S. Navy’s First “All Gay” Helicopter Crew Takes Flight
Occidental Dissent - May 3rd 2021 6:37pm EDTHistory was made on Friday with the first ever all gay @USNavy helicopter crew. pic.twitter.com/3o1dYRn7Dw — Travis Akers (@travisakers) May 1, 2021 does art imitate life, or does life imitate art pic.twitter.com/wqzSEqNycL — Holding Biden Accountable (@WaitingOnBiden) May 1, 2021 This will show all of those homophobes.
Newsweek: Violent Antifa Turn to New Tactic, Embrace Violent Insurgency
Occidental Dissent - May 3rd 2021 5:55pm EDTThere actually is an “insurrection” or “insurgency” being carried out by “domestic violent extremists” that is going on in Joe Biden’s America. It is just not one that Merrick Garland’s Department of Social Justice has any intention of noticing or doing anything about because it is being carried out by a bunch of spoiled brats […]
Warren Buffett: We’re Seeing “Very Substantial Inflation”
Occidental Dissent - May 3rd 2021 5:01pm EDTIt is not just me then. I’ve noticed the increase in prices and it is not just gasoline. I spent over $20 at McDonald’s on the road at just one stop last week on two combos and a Happy Meal for my son. CNBC: “Warren Buffett is seeing inflation among Berkshire Hathaway’s collection of businesses as the […]
Jacobin: Wokeness Is Hurting Democrats
Occidental Dissent - May 3rd 2021 3:15pm EDTWokeness narrows the appeal of everything it touches. It subtracts working class voters from the Democratic coalition and adds them to the Republican coalition. Along with immigration, wokeness has become such an intensely polarizing issue that it has become the issue that is driving the realignment of the two parties.
The Grayzone: Neocon Now! Leftwing Media Is Shamelessly Promoting Propaganda It Once Opposed
Occidental Dissent - May 3rd 2021 2:56pm EDTThe neocons are on MSNBC all the time now. Charlie Sykes and Max Boot were both on again this morning. Max Boot is worried that the Republican Party is becoming “increasingly authoritarian” because warmongers like himself and Jennifer Rubin and George W. Bush are unwelcome there. George W. Bush is one of the good guys […]
Wokelash: Anti-Woke Candidates Win Landslide In Texas Suburban School Board Election
Occidental Dissent - May 3rd 2021 2:13pm EDTOpponents of anti-racism education win big in a bitterly divided election in Southlake, Texas. Conservative candidates who opposed a school diversity plan won every local race, taking about 70% of the vote in the wealthy Dallas-Fort Worth suburb. https://t.co/m7rtlYh3X0 — NBC News (@NBCNews) May 3, 2021 BTW, I predicted this. Back in 2019, I anticipated […]
Wokelash: Anti-Woke Candidates Win In Landslide In Texas Suburban School Board Election
Occidental Dissent - May 3rd 2021 2:13pm EDTOpponents of anti-racism education win big in a bitterly divided election in Southlake, Texas. Conservative candidates who opposed a school diversity plan won every local race, taking about 70% of the vote in the wealthy Dallas-Fort Worth suburb. https://t.co/m7rtlYh3X0 — NBC News (@NBCNews) May 3, 2021 From @decunningham2: While Joe Biden carried the Tarrant portion […]
CNN: Biden Team May Partner With Private Firms To Surveil Suspected “Domestic Terrorists” Online
Occidental Dissent - May 3rd 2021 1:06pm EDTHow many times were we told that Donald Trump was a “fascist”? What did Donald Trump ever do compared to these people? The corporate media spent years spreading misinformation based on dubious intelligence about Trump in the Russia hoax. The Democratic Congress impeached him twice. Black Lives Matter and Antifa rioted for years and torched […]
TAC: This Has Just Been The Beginning
Occidental Dissent - May 3rd 2021 11:48am EDTThe so-called “far right” has its own version of wokeness. We have long talked in terms of people being “redpilled” and contrasted them with “normies” who are asleep. In the “far right” version, the colorblind conservative and libertarian normies are hopelessly deracinated, degenerate and atomized individualists who are asleep in a world that is lorded […]
National Review: The Inequality of “Equity”
Occidental Dissent - May 3rd 2021 9:13am EDTChristopher Caldwell has an excellent new article up on the rise of “equity” at National Review. National Review: “In mid April, three of the new generation of black women mayors of big cities met (virtually) at a roundtable sponsored by MIT’s Sloan School of Management. Lori Lightfoot of Chicago, London Breed of San Francisco, Kim […]
Thomas Frank: Bill Clinton Destroyed The Democratic Party
Occidental Dissent - May 2nd 2021 8:42pm EDTThomas Frank, James Carville and Bill Maher are all correct about wokeness. Lately, I have started to distinguish between “progressive liberalism” or New Deal liberalism, which has traditionally been the governing ideology of the Democratic Party since the FDR presidency and “woke progressivism,” which I see supplanting it in the Joe Biden presidency. Powered by […]
The Deep State Is Hiring
Occidental Dissent - May 2nd 2021 7:51pm EDTDon’t know how anyone can sleep at night with this terrifying threat roaming the streets https://t.co/IzAVU0vVdV — Michael Tracey (@mtracey) May 2, 2021 Actual quotes from this new CIA recruitment ad: “I am a woman of color” “I am a cisgender millennial” “I have been diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorder” “I am intersectional” I think […]
Corporate Media Retracts Reports About Rudy Giuliani’s FBI Warning
Occidental Dissent - May 2nd 2021 7:35pm EDTBOMBSHELL! The corporate media breathlessly shared misinformation about Rudy Giuliani and yet another fake Russia story and will suffer zero consequences on Big Tech social platforms for doing so. CNN: “New York (CNN Business) – The Washington Post, The New York Times, and NBC News on Saturday issued significant corrections, retracting earlier reporting that said Rudy […]
Mitt Romney Loudly Booed and Called a Traitor at Utah GOP Convention
Occidental Dissent - May 2nd 2021 7:05pm EDTEditor’s Note: After a long day on the road, we finally made it home from New Orleans. OD will be back to our normal schedule next week. In light of what happened during the 2016 election, I was under the impression that Mitt Romney was like a rock star out in Utah and that the […]
Axios: Taliban Threatens To Resume Attacks On American Troops
Occidental Dissent - May 1st 2021 6:15pm EDTJoe Biden has been hailed by the corporate media for withdrawing Americans troops from Afghanistan when all he has really done is break the peace deal that the Trump administration had negotiated with the Taliban. Axios: “The Taliban threatened to launch attacks on U.S. and NATO troops on Saturday as the May 1 deadline for […]
City Journal: What’s “Normal” In America
Occidental Dissent - May 1st 2021 2:59pm EDTCity Journal: “A few days ago, 216 employees of Simon and Schuster, along with several thousand people from outside the trade publishing house, sent a petition to top executives of the company demanding that they stop publishing anyone who had anything to do with the Trump administration. Their rationale for making such a demand was […]
Rudy Giuliani Ensnared In Revived Russia Hoax
Occidental Dissent - May 1st 2021 10:22am EDTI suspected this was bullshit. We’ve got to trust the corporate media and our intelligence agencies, right? They would never lie to us and spread misinformation about Russia. Note: Apparently, this is what the corporate media is doing to revive their ratings.
Tucker Carlson: The GOP Disconnect
Occidental Dissent - May 1st 2021 9:02am EDTTucker Carlson addressed the elephant in the room on his show last night. Why don’t Republican politicians represent Republican voters? If you look at just the polls or what kind of stories repeatedly get traction online, you will find that ordinary people who vote for the Republican Party believe most of the same things that […]
Jimmy Dore: George W. Bush Complains About “Misinformation”
Occidental Dissent - Apr 30th 2021 3:32pm EDTIs this some kind of shit test by the corporate media to see how far removed from reality that they can push their narrative?
Department of Social Justice Had a Backup Plan To Arrest Derek Chauvin
Occidental Dissent - Apr 30th 2021 3:13pm EDTHow do you like the social justice system? The only thing that matters now is what woke progressive elites and their lynch mobs think. Even if a jury of your peers decides you are innocent, you are guilty and should be arrested on the spot anyway. There is a sacred narrative at stake here. The […]
Rising: New York Times Declares War On Twitch Streamers
Occidental Dissent - Apr 30th 2021 12:46pm EDTHere you go. It is the same “intersectional” problem. In this case, it is busybody “journalists” who work for the corporate media acting like commissars and demanding censorship to force their woke ideology down the throats of other people. New York Times:
Tucker Carlson: Joe Biden’s Despotism
Occidental Dissent - Apr 30th 2021 12:25am EDTProsecutors expect at least 100 more arrests for U.S. Capitol riot https://t.co/mgFaKNi9C0 pic.twitter.com/xil7W3wx4z — Reuters Politics (@ReutersPolitics) April 23, 2021 I think we understand each other. There is no possibility of coexistence under woke progressivism. As Joe Biden himself said in his Joint Address, it is a struggle between light and darkness. Everything is “white […]
Bloomberg: Domestic Terrorism Law Being Weighed By Social Justice Department
Occidental Dissent - Apr 29th 2021 6:09pm EDTThe question that I have been wrestling with is this: how hard should I come out against Joe Biden and the Democratic majority in Congress in the 2022 midterms? Bloomberg: “The Justice Department is “actively considering” whether to seek a new law that would let prosecutors bring specific charges for plotting and carrying out acts […]
Vogue: Is Having A Baby In 2021 Pure Environmental Vandalism?
Occidental Dissent - Apr 29th 2021 5:08pm EDTWhy are the reactionaries focusing on the degenerate professional class these days? Vogue: “Is having a child an act of environmental vandalism or an investment in the future? Is it possible to live an ecologically responsible life while adding yet another person to our overstretched planet? Can I get away with it if I just […]
Rising: Is The Biden Administration All Downhill From Here?
Occidental Dissent - Apr 29th 2021 4:24pm EDTIn my opinion, it hinges on the economy. If the economy turns out to be as great as some people are banking on, it could definitely help Joe Biden and the Democrats. This is far from a sure thing though. The economy seemed to be roaring and lifting Trump until last March. We don’t know […]