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  • Joe’s Infrastructure Plan

    Occidental Dissent - Mar 31st 2021 7:13pm EDT

    Now watching. Note: I’ve had a lot of fun today. I will look under the hood at this thing later tonight.

  • Baltimore Decriminalizes Drugs, Prostitution and Urinating and Defecating In Public

    Occidental Dissent - Mar 31st 2021 6:22pm EDT

    Wakanda wasn’t built in a day. CNN: “(CNN) – Baltimore City State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby says the city will no longer prosecute for prostitution, drug possession and other low-level offenses. Mosby made the announcement on Friday following her office’s one-year experiment in not prosecuting minor offenses to decrease the spread of Covid-19 behind bars. … […]

  • Shithole: Baltimore Decriminalizes Drugs, Prostitution and Urinating and Defecating In Public

    Occidental Dissent - Mar 31st 2021 6:22pm EDT

    Wakanda wasn’t built in a day. CNN: “(CNN) – Baltimore City State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby says the city will no longer prosecute for prostitution, drug possession and other low-level offenses. Mosby made the announcement on Friday following her office’s one-year experiment in not prosecuting minor offenses to decrease the spread of Covid-19 behind bars. … […]

  • Rising: The Matt Gaetz Gossip

    Occidental Dissent - Mar 31st 2021 4:59pm EDT

    I’ve never had any interest in Matt Gaetz. I think this episode is highlighting a big cultural disconnect though. Even if the allegation is true that Matt Gaetz dated a 17-year-old woman, the idea that this is a scandal, but the celebration of homosexuality, gender fluidity and transgenderism is not scandalous and that people in […]

  • 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 […]

  • Poll: Joe Has Some Major Vulnerablities

    Occidental Dissent - Mar 31st 2021 2:35pm EDT

    The polls are all saying pretty much the same thing now. In the case of gun policy, Joe’s disapproval is because nothing is happening. In the case of immigration, it is because of what is happening. Detroit News: Note: In the latest Gallup poll, it caught my eye that federal spending and budget deficit had […]

  • Axios: Changes To Capital Gains Taxes Omitted From Biden’s Infrastructure Plan

    Occidental Dissent - Mar 31st 2021 1:03pm EDT

    BOOM! This is the realignment in action. Axios: “The carried interest loophole is beginning to look immortal. Driving the news: President Biden today will unveil a $2 trillion infrastructure plan that the White House hopes to pay for via changes to the corporate tax code. But it will not include any changes to individual income […]

  • Matt Gaetz Is Under Investigation For Allegedly Having Sex With a 17-Year-Old Girl

    Occidental Dissent - Mar 31st 2021 11:28am EDT

    He is 38-years-old. I guess the news here is that Matt Gaetz isn’t gay. I thought he was gay after it came out that he had an adopted 19-year-old Cuban son. Men have always been attracted to fertile young women and that will never change. In light of everything, it is kind of funny how […]

  • House GOP Memo: Cementing GOP As The Working Class Party

    Occidental Dissent - Mar 31st 2021 10:45am EDT

    Well, I must say this is an interesting development. Axios: “On a flight Tuesday from Indianapolis to Fort Wayne, Ind., two leaders in the House Republican conference discussed a memo that argues that their party’s future demands they “embrace our new coalition” because “President Trump’s gift didn’t come with a receipt.” Why it matters: The document, titled “Cementing […]

  • U.S. Navy: Black Lives Matter Is Permitted, But “Politically Partisan Issues” Are Not

    Occidental Dissent - Mar 30th 2021 7:14pm EDT

    Why are people so upset about this? Doesn’t everyone agree with the white privilege and systematic racism conspiracy theories being imposed from the top down by Corporate America and necessity of fighting “far right extremism”? Why would anyone consider Black Lives Matter an extremist organization? Has anyone affiliated with that movement ever done anything like […]

  • Secular Talk: Republicans Lose It Over Lil Nas X Satan Shoes

    Occidental Dissent - Mar 30th 2021 6:15pm EDT

    With the preliminary data from the 2020 CCES in hand, I am going to publish a series of three posts this week laying out my “official” version of how the faithful voted in 2020. Today, it’s Christians. I am going to highlight some of the big findings here. ?(1/5) https://t.co/NaWLjyTCSX — Ryan Burge ? (@ryanburge) […]

  • 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.

  • Rising: Why Democrats Lost “Latinx” Support In 2020

    Occidental Dissent - Mar 30th 2021 3:03pm EDT

    According to Chuck Rocha, it was Trump’s message on jobs and the economy (opportunity), COVID relief, anti-socialism (negatively associated with socialism in Latin America) and smart organizing. We’ve seen from David Shor elsewhere that “Latinx” women and men who are conservatives voted for Trump which is a shift to the Right because of crime and […]

  • The 6 Converging Crises Of The Biden Administration

    Occidental Dissent - Mar 30th 2021 12:28pm EDT

    Editor’s Note: This is a work in progress. The Biden administration came into office and framed a volley of executive orders around the theme of “four converging crises” that were facing the country: COVID, the economy, racial justice and climate change. These were the four themes that they wanted to hit to unite their coalition. […]

  • MSNBC: The Problem With Normalizing Stephen Miller

    Occidental Dissent - Mar 30th 2021 11:58am EDT

    Stephen Miller gradually patched up the border with some creative thinking in executive orders, diplomacy with Mexico and Central American nations and in overhauling how the agencies were being run. It was never a permanent legislative solution because Congress wouldn’t cooperate. The Biden administration, however, came in and instantly began tearing it all down and […]

  • Narrative Collapse: Many Capitol Rioters Unlikely To Serve Jail Time

    Occidental Dissent - Mar 30th 2021 11:18am EDT

    Let me get this straight. Are you saying that there wasn’t an “insurrection”? Are you saying that “insurrectionists” aren’t waging a guerilla war? Are you saying that this assault by the Biden DHS on our civil liberties including people who weren’t even there is based on nothing more than overwrought nonsense? Are you saying that […]

  • Poll: Nearly Half of Americans Changed Sports Viewing Habits Because Of Social Justice

    Occidental Dissent - Mar 30th 2021 9:28am EDT

    Do you remember last year when professional sports became woke and politicized? It narrowed the appeal of sports by a lot. We see this in lots of areas. Yahoo News: “In the wake of last summer’s social justice protests, which consumed sports for much of the second half of 2020, nearly half of all Americans […]

  • Poll: Joe Is Getting Wrecked On Immigration

    Occidental Dissent - Mar 30th 2021 9:00am EDT

    I think it is time to throw out the Karl Rove playbook. The “far right” playbook of issues is clearly what is resonating now. I’m growing increasingly convinced that something happened when we entered the post-George Floyd era. Millions of people watched the nationwide brat riots that went on for six months, the redefinition of […]

  • Tucker Carlson: Black Lives Matter Has Sparked A Devastating Crime Wave In Urban America

    Occidental Dissent - Mar 29th 2021 10:13pm EDT

    Can the Republicans win non-White voters? Yes. Why did they make gains with non-White voters in 2020? It turns out that Republicans can with non-White voters, especially “Latinx” and Asian conservatives, without alienating White voters. The secret to doing this is to zero in on the “intersection” of political correctness and violent crime. Note: This […]

  • 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 […]

  • Jacobin: Is Joe Biden Going To Be Our FDR?

    Occidental Dissent - Mar 29th 2021 3:13pm EDT

    I have soft spot for our former political allies. I, too, support most of the things that they talk about. If the Democrats were running solely on, say, student loan debt forgiveness or the PRO Act or organizing Amazon workers here in Alabama or stimulus checks or Universal Health Care or raising the minimum wage, […]

  • TAC: The Right Kind Of Realignment

    Occidental Dissent - Mar 29th 2021 12:25pm EDT

    Jack “The Cucked Avenger” Hunter is back with a brand new essay at The American Conservative on the realignment of the electorate and the future of the Right. TAC: “Such an agenda would be similar to how former Republican congressman and presidential candidate Ron Paul, who inspired a libertarian populist movement during the 2008 and […]

  • Poll: Joe Biden Gets Mixed Reviews On Immigration And The Border

    Occidental Dissent - Mar 29th 2021 10:29am EDT

    There is good news and bad news for Joe Biden in this poll. The good news which is in line with all the polling on the subject is that the public continues to approve of Joe’s handling of COVID and strongly support stimulus checks. Joe’s approval rating has GONE UP in this poll. Republicans continue […]

  • Chicago Times: Activists Want Nick Fuentes Kicked Off The Internet. It Might Be Impossible

    Occidental Dissent - Mar 29th 2021 8:17am EDT

    I’ve shared my thoughts on Nick Fuentes plenty of times. This article in the Chicago Tribune though is a reminder that we don’t have to personally like each other to have the same enemies and interests. We lost sight of that in the Trump era. Chicago Times: “For someone who has been deplatformed as thoroughly […]