Category: Populists, Page 154
Jen Psaki: The Border Remains Closed
Occidental Dissent - Mar 28th 2021 3:33pm EDTThe Biden administration is definitely taking a different approach to immigration than the Obama or Trump administrations. This is more like the Angela Merkel approach. Note: I don’t anticipate comprehensive immigration reform is going anywhere in the current session of Congress.
Dallas Morning News: America Needs A Strong, Compassionate Conservative Voice
Occidental Dissent - Mar 28th 2021 12:49pm EDTKenneth Hersh is the chief executive of the George W. Bush Presidential Center Dallas Morning News: “Freedom. Opportunity. Accountability. Compassion. It is time for the right side of the aisle to focus on timeless principles. As mortals, it is critical to understand our role is as mere custodians of these ideals. Men and women have […]
Poll: Biden Gets High Marks On COVID-19, Lags On Guns and Immigration
Occidental Dissent - Mar 28th 2021 10:52am EDTMedia: “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.” […]
Jacobin: How The Democrats Became The Party of the Suburbs
Occidental Dissent - Mar 27th 2021 8:57pm EDTI’m curious about this too. Why is Joe Biden being compared to FDR? The Democratic Party of 2021 has become what used to be the Republican Party. NY Mag: “One source of leftwing pessimism about Biden’s prospects for mounting a “transformational” presidency is the objective political and economic weakness of the American working class. When […]
Poll: The Art of the Comeback
Occidental Dissent - Mar 27th 2021 7:57pm EDTIt looks to me like the “Trump will fade” take that Julius Krein and others subscribed to isn’t holding up two months into the Biden era.
Poll: Record High Worry In U.S. About Hunger, Race Relations
Occidental Dissent - Mar 27th 2021 3:13pm EDTRepublicans lost control of the Senate because of that $600 stimulus check. They also lost control of the House because of Ryancare and the Trump tax cuts. Gallup: “WASHINGTON, D.C. — One year after the coronavirus pandemic upended Americans’ lives and caused an economic crisis, worry about hunger and homelessness in the country eclipses concerns […]
Bill Maher: Private Schools: Education or Indoctrination?
Occidental Dissent - Mar 27th 2021 10:11am EDTThere was another good discussion last night on Real Time with Bill Maher about the elite private schools which have been transformed into brat factories. They are pumping out the brats who are taking over America’s elite institutions. Eventually, we all know that they are going to deepen the polarization and create so much division […]
Tucker Carlson: The Military Brass Has Gone Woke
Occidental Dissent - Mar 27th 2021 9:22am EDTWhy are these generals never fired for insubordination? Why are we spending hundreds of billions of dollars on the military? It seems like progressives are more interested in using the military against us than in fighting and winning wars against any foreign adversary. Note: As with corporate tax cuts for Amazon or more guest workers […]
Jen Psaki: China Is Weaponizing Private Companies To Stifle Free Expression
Occidental Dissent - Mar 27th 2021 12:06am EDTRevealing answer by WH Press Secretary on the Censorship of President Trump by Twitter & Big Tech WH Press Secretary Psaki: “We’ve spoken to and [Biden has] spoken to the need for social media platforms to continue to take steps to reduce hate speech.” pic.twitter.com/jabB6hGl0R — The Columbia Bugle ?? (@ColumbiaBugle) February 1, 2021 Wait […]
Jen Psaki: The Filibuster Is Systematically Racist When Republicans Use It
Occidental Dissent - Mar 26th 2021 6:22pm EDTBiden’s Press Secretary Jen Psaki highlights when Democrats used filibuster “last year” when saying it’s “abused”https://t.co/UcVtMWUuAw pic.twitter.com/g2eP4q0MQ2 — RNC Research (@RNCResearch) March 26, 2021 Why are people so cowed by transparent bullshit? Yahoo News: “Many of the Senate Democrats who are now calling for changes to the legislative filibuster expressed different views on the 60-vote […]
Human Traffickers Taunt Republican Senators and Border Patrol
Occidental Dissent - Mar 26th 2021 3:17pm EDTThis is a real crisis. We need them to show up and be serious for once. Even if this is a bit dramatic even for Ted, I would rather him be drawing attention to the issue than ignoring it. It could be a lot worse. They could be working with the Democrats to pass a […]
Oakland Is Experimenting With Woke Basic Income
Occidental Dissent - Mar 26th 2021 1:05pm EDTI’m a strong supporter of Universal Basic Income. Universal Basic Income and Universal Maximum Income were our ideas. They were part of Sen. Huey Long’s “Share Our Wealth” platform during the Great Depression. It was also populists, not progressives, who came up with ideas like Social Security, free college tuition, the income tax and regulating […]
AP: In a Nation Founded on Whiteness, How to Really Discuss It?
Occidental Dissent - Mar 26th 2021 12:01pm EDTThe 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 EDTI 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?” […]
Tucker Carlson: The Left Isn’t Funny Anymore
Occidental Dissent - Mar 26th 2021 8:32am EDTPC Principal has taken over the comedy industry. He has also taken over the military, “journalism,” social media, etc.
Secular Talk: YouTube Is Obliterating Independent Media’s Reach
Occidental Dissent - Mar 25th 2021 7:41pm EDTIt is the Populist Left’s turn now to be censored. The political and corporate establishment wants to shut these guys down. They’ve pretty much finished off the Populist Right on YouTube. You’re not allowed to say things on the internet that contradict the narrative. We can’t have independent content creators amassing a larger audience that […]
Joe Biden’s Establishment Foreign Policy
Occidental Dissent - Mar 25th 2021 5:51pm EDTThe Syria Strike was the moment that I stopped supporting Trump. I never supported him again after he attacked Syria in April 2017. While it is true that Trump didn’t start any new wars (the bar was set pretty low on that front), he also more or less continued with business as usual with the […]
Big Tech CEOs Testify On Capitol Hill
Occidental Dissent - Mar 25th 2021 3:02pm EDTThe only thing that I am interested in hearing is what steps Republicans are taking to destroy Facebook, Amazon, Twitter and Google after they allowed progressive activists to rig their platforms and silence their populist opposition. Anything short of that is a complete waste of time.
Poll: Republicans Believe They Experience More Discrimination Than Blacks These Days
Occidental Dissent - Mar 25th 2021 12:11pm EDTI don’t see how anyone could believe otherwise. Newsweek: “Republicans feel conservatives face more discrimination than Black people do in America, according to a recent poll. In a The Economist/YouGov poll, respondents were presented with several groups and asked: “How much discrimination do the following people face in America today?” Conservatives was one of those and […]
Jay Leno Apologizes For Decades of Jokes
Occidental Dissent - Mar 25th 2021 9:00am EDTDo you know what caused the Atlanta shooting? It was decades of old jokes that Jay Leno made about Asians. Variety: “Late-night host and comedian Jay Leno has issued an apology for a series of jokes told over his career targeting Asian communities. The apology comes after a nearly 15-year campaign from the activist group Media Action […]
Jay Leno Apologizes For Decades of Jokes About The AAPI Community
Occidental Dissent - Mar 25th 2021 9:00am EDTDo you know what caused the Atlanta shooting? It was decades of old jokes that Jay Leno made about Asians. Variety: “Late-night host and comedian Jay Leno has issued an apology for a series of jokes told over his career targeting Asian communities. The apology comes after a nearly 15-year campaign from the activist group Media Action […]
Tucker Carlson Calls Out Sen. Tammy Duckworth’s Anti-White Racism
Occidental Dissent - Mar 24th 2021 8:54pm EDTTucker Carlson is delicately trying to uncuck the Republican Party. It took him a while to get to the point in his monologue tonight. He tossed the pitch to Matt Walsh who used the phrase “anti-white racism.” It is too bad the show doesn’t have a super chat feature because the audience wouldn’t have been […]
Rising: Sen. Tammy Duckworth Refuses To Vote To Confirm Any White Nominees
Occidental Dissent - Mar 24th 2021 6:58pm EDTI wouldn’t vote to confirm any of these people either because I disagree with their politics. This is pretty racist though, right? Note: This is what Sen. Tim Scott meant when he said the Democratic Party is being devoured by “woke supremacy” in his recent op-ed in The Washington Post.
Poll: Republican Support For Gun Control Plummets After Atlanta and Boulder
Occidental Dissent - Mar 24th 2021 5:14pm EDTI’m shocked. USA Today: “In the poll, taken in the wake of two mass shootings in the span of a week, 65% overall say gun laws should be stricter – a sizable majority but one that has fallen by 7 percentage points from a USA TODAY/Ipsos Poll taken in August 2019. The 54% support among Republicans two […]
The Argument: Is It Time To Cancel Cancel Culture?
Occidental Dissent - Mar 24th 2021 2:43pm EDTI listened to the show. As I said in a recent article, political correctness or wokeness and the phenomena of cancel culture is a challenging issue because the two sides don’t share a common morality or culture.