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  • 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 […]

  • New York Times: Fear Of White People Losing Out Permeate Capitol Rioters Towns

    Occidental Dissent - Apr 7th 2021 12:34pm EDT

    This is a bullshit study. New York Times: “When the political scientist Robert Pape began studying the issues that motivated the 380 or so people arrested in connection with the attack against the Capitol on Jan. 6, he expected to find that the rioters were driven to violence by the lingering effects of the 2008 […]

  • Poll: Americans Are Done Caring About COVID-19

    Occidental Dissent - Apr 7th 2021 11:54am EDT

    COVID is over, folks. I predicted this would happen. This was the issue that got Joe Biden elected president. It was also fading the day that he was sworn in as president. The Trump administration had already developed the vaccine through Operation Warp Speed. If it had not been for COVID, Trump would have likely […]

  • 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 […]

  • Tucker Carlson Interviews Gov. Asa Hutchinson

    Occidental Dissent - Apr 6th 2021 9:17pm EDT

    Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you … True Conservatism. We can’t stop children in Arkansas from getting permanent gender reassignment surgery based on fashionable nonsense which has been spread on websites like Tumblr over the last decade. This would be a bridge too far and a violation of our “limited government” principles. A few […]

  • The Atlantic: Woke Capital Doesn’t Exist

    Occidental Dissent - Apr 6th 2021 6:38pm EDT

    Don’t believe your lying eyes. You are imagining that woke progressive activists have hijacked Corporate America and have been using HR departments to enforce a cultural and political orthodoxy and the concentrated economic power of these corporations as a weapon to force their unpopular cultural views on recalcitrant state governments. There is actually no bullying […]

  • Liberal Larry: Thank You MLB For Doing The Right Thing!

    Occidental Dissent - Apr 6th 2021 5:20pm EDT

    It is a beautiful day. Corporate America is on the side of progress now. The Republicans have spent decades bringing home the bacon for wealthy suburban professionals and corporate lobbyists. Even Donald Trump’s greatest accomplishment was the corporate tax cut. Now, their taxes are so low that Corporate America and upper class voters can focus […]

  • Rising: Will Progressives Or Corporate Democrats Prevail On The Corporate Tax Rate?

    Occidental Dissent - Apr 6th 2021 4:07pm EDT

    Will Joe Manchin and the Corporate Democrats hold the line for private equity on raising the corporate tax rate in the infrastructure bill? Will Republicans break with their abject servility to private equity and Corporate America and get credit with working class voters by sticking it to woke capitalism?

  • MLB All-Star Game To Be Played In Denver After Leaving Atlanta

    Occidental Dissent - Apr 6th 2021 3:22pm EDT

    This whole episode is based on hysterical knee jerk woke capitalism bullshit. How on earth is Georgia’s election integrity law “Jim Crow on steroids” or “Jim Eagle” compared to Colorado or Delaware? Does Joe realize how retarded he sounds saying things like that? He also said after the Atlanta shooting that were all “complicit” in […]

  • The Oregonian: Portland Police Are Leaving In Droves

    Occidental Dissent - Apr 6th 2021 11:22am EDT

    It is not just Portland. This is playing out in other big cities across the country like Washington, DC where progressive politicians and the media have glorified criminals, embraced anarchists and demonized the police. Who wants to become the next Darren Wilson or Derek Chauvin? Who wants to spend another long hot summer being assaulted […]

  • Jacobin: Joe Manchin Wants To Keep the Corporate Tax Rate As Low As Possible

    Occidental Dissent - Apr 6th 2021 10:36am EDT

    Somehow, I just knew that David Sirota would have something to say about this, especially after what happened with the $15 minimum wage. Jacobin: “Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin on Monday began raising objections to President Biden’s legislation to fund infrastructure investments by raising the corporate tax rate to 28 percent. Derailing the tax hike would be […]

  • The Daily Poster: Joe Manchin Wants To Keep the Corporate Tax Rate As Low As Possible

    Occidental Dissent - Apr 6th 2021 10:36am EDT

    Somehow, I just knew that David Sirota would have something to say about this, especially after what happened with the $15 minimum wage. The Daily Poster: “Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin on Monday began raising objections to President Biden’s legislation to fund infrastructure investments by raising the corporate tax rate to 28 percent. Derailing the tax hike […]

  • Chris Hayes: Republican Cancel Culture

    Occidental Dissent - Apr 6th 2021 9:18am EDT

    Georgia’s new election law: Support 42%Oppose 36%@MorningConsult, 2,200 Adults, 4/2-4https://t.co/soQaBGIZTm pic.twitter.com/HlNyplZ02r — Political Polls (@Politics_Polls) April 5, 2021 Corporations are people too! America’s CEOs are facing a mean backlash for enabling woke supremacy! Will someone please shed a tear for Corporate America? In a surprising turn of events, Donald Trump and the Republican Party are […]

  • Jimmy Dore: Rigged System: How Richest Corporations Paid ZERO In Taxes

    Occidental Dissent - Apr 5th 2021 6:14pm EDT

    I was hoping that we could at least get the corporate tax rate up to the 28% – halfway back up to what it was when Trump slashed it – in Joe Biden’s infrastructure bill. Sadly, it looks like this is too heavy of a lift though for Joe Biden’s coalition. Wall Street Journal: “WASHINGTON—President […]

  • Rising: How Trump Fleeced His Own Supporters Out Of Hundreds Of Millions

    Occidental Dissent - Apr 5th 2021 5:25pm EDT

    I tried to warn you. I told you to stay away from the Grift Right. In the 2020 election, I would get like a dozen texts a day from the Trump campaign asking for money. It became a running joke on this website. The texts didn’t stop coming until after the Stop the Steal rally […]

  • Corporate Democrats Oppose Raising The Corporate Tax Rate

    Occidental Dissent - Apr 5th 2021 4:33pm EDT

    I can’t stop laughing. Axios: “Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) forewarned in a radio interview Monday that he will not support a hike in the corporate tax rate from 21% to 28% as proposed in President Biden’s infrastructure bill, adding that there are “six or seven other Democrats that feel very strongly about this.” Jimmy Dore […]

  • Poll: Immigration Dents Joe Biden’s Popularity

    Occidental Dissent - Apr 5th 2021 4:09pm EDT

    Every poll is saying that Joe is underwater on immigration. AP: “The gap between Biden’s overall approval rating and his handling of immigration crosses party lines. Seventy-four percent of Democrats and 10% of Republicans approve of Biden’s handling of immigration, compared with 96% of Democrats and 22% of Republicans who approve overall. The difference also […]

  • 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 […]

  • Washington Monthly: America’s Next Insurgency

    Occidental Dissent - Apr 5th 2021 8:45am EDT

    We’re now over two months into the Biden administration. In anticipation of a widely expected “insurgency” which never materialized, the Democrats built a razor wire fence around the U.S. Capitol and mobilized the National Guard to occupy Washington, DC. The QAnon invasion which was predicted to happen on March 4th never came to pass. Instead, […]

  • Elderly Asian Woman Stabbed To Death While Walking Her Dogs In California

    Occidental Dissent - Apr 4th 2021 10:31pm EDT

    The “white supremacists” have struck again. New York Post: “An Asian woman was fatally stabbed while walking her dogs in California in what cops are calling a random attack. Ke Chieh Meng, 64, was out with her two small pups in Riverside around 7:30 a.m. Saturday when she was stabbed and left on the ground […]

  • Harry Enten: Why Republicans Can Claim To Be The Party Of The White Working Class

    Occidental Dissent - Apr 4th 2021 9:01pm EDT

    Unfortunately, they aren’t acting like it. Conservatism, Inc. and the Republican policy agenda hasn’t caught up yet with the reality of who Republican voters are these days. The GOP establishment wing of suburban moderates has been reduced to a disaffected rump. PMCs are no longer equally split between the two parties. CNN: “(CNN) – Iowa […]

  • New York Times: Biden Steps Up Federal Efforts to Combat Domestic Extremism

    Occidental Dissent - Apr 4th 2021 5:55pm EDT

    You’ve probably noticed the change in tone around here since January toward the Biden administration This is the single most important reason why that has happened. New York Times: “WASHINGTON — The Biden administration is stepping up efforts to combat domestic extremism, increasing funding to prevent attacks, weighing strategies historically used against foreign terrorist groups […]

  • Brookings Institution: White Supremacists Are Broke, Divided and Marginalized

    Occidental Dissent - Apr 4th 2021 5:00pm EDT

    Wait, what? How can these two things possibly be true? Brookings: “Public support for white supremacy is still low, and support for violence is lower still. … Racism, anti-Semitism, anti-immigrant sentiment, and other white supremacist beliefs remain strong, though thankfully they are less mainstream than they were decades ago. … In contrast, the open expression […]

  • Rising: How Trump Fleeced Supporters For Millions On Election Fraud

    Occidental Dissent - Apr 4th 2021 4:28pm EDT

    I’m not the biggest fan of Donald Trump. I got so much grief for this stance in the Trump years. I smelled a rat even before he was sworn in as president when he started making big moves like appointing Gary Cohn as his chief economic adviser. Throughout the whole Trump era, I was extremely […]

  • State of Der Movement

    Occidental Dissent - Apr 4th 2021 11:58am EDT

    Editor’s Note: This is a work in progress. I’m borrowing the phrase “Der Movement” from Ted Sallis. I’ve found that I am more productive and in better spirits the less that I think about and the less that I engage with all the various factions which comprise Der Movement. Let’s run through a short list […]