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  • Thomas Frank: Liberals Want To Blame Rightwing Misinformation For Our Problems

    Occidental Dissent - Mar 20th 2021 11:50am EDT

    Thomas Frank is one of the good ones. I hope the brats don’t comb through his entire life history and get him for something they find offensive that he said like thirty years ago. They are known to do that. The Guardian: “One day in March 2015, I sat in a theater in New York […]

  • Neoliberal Joe Is Flying Illegal Aliens To Canadian Border States

    Occidental Dissent - Mar 20th 2021 11:16am EDT

    This is a self inflicted disaster. It will also be the first of many disasters that are the brainchild of the woke progressive activist wing of the Democratic Party. The typical working class voter hasn’t picked up on the “racial equity” talk yet. AP: “WASHINGTON (AP) — Somehow, they didn’t see it coming. Within weeks […]

  • Chris Hedges: The Continuing Rise of Oligarchy and Christian Fascism

    Occidental Dissent - Mar 20th 2021 10:30am EDT

    Chris Hedges sounds like me on economics and foreign policy. We couldn’t be more different though on race, culture and identity. I’m a social conservative and traditionalist. In other words, I define my sense of identity in terms of relationships like race, ethnicity, culture, place, family, religion and so forth, as White Southerners have always […]

  • Poll: Americans Dislike Professional Athletes Who Kneel During The National Anthem

    Occidental Dissent - Mar 20th 2021 9:32am EDT

    Can the Republicans stay on message? It turns out that woke supremacy is extremely polarizing. It unifies Republican voters and is a winning issue outside of the Republican base too. They have every incentive to lean into the Wokelash. Axios: Note: Immigration is another issue that unifies and motivates Republican voters and resonates strongly with […]

  • Bill Maher: Equality of Outcomes Is Ridiculous

    Occidental Dissent - Mar 20th 2021 2:03am EDT

    The current Democrat narrative is that the GOP is focusing on irrelevant culture war issues like political correctness now. For all our sakes, we should hope that they win this battle. FOX News: “Real Time” host Bill Maher went on a tirade against the growing “tsunami” of cancel culture. “I swear to God, I don’t want to […]

  • Tucker Carlson: China Laughs At America’s Baizou

    Occidental Dissent - Mar 19th 2021 8:15pm EDT

    This was one of Tucker’s best monologues. He even quoted the Global Times.

  • J.D. Vance For Ohio Senate?

    Occidental Dissent - Mar 19th 2021 5:32pm EDT

    I’m familiar with J.D. Vance. J.D. Vance is the Hillbilly Elegy guy. J.D. Vance is or was more of a mainstream conservative. J.D. Vance has ties to Yoram Hazony’s “National Conservatism” clique. For all of these reasons, I am suspicious of J.D. Vance although it appears that the alternative in the upcoming Ohio Senate race […]

  • Don Lemon’s Free Advice: It Is About HATE

    Occidental Dissent - Mar 19th 2021 3:48pm EDT

    “You really only need to hear congressman Chip Roy to understand how big the problem of race is in this country.” CNN’s @DonLemon discusses the outrage over Rep. Chip Roy’s comments made during a House Judiciary hearing on Asian American discrimination. https://t.co/Ee84qFZ5ik pic.twitter.com/MVVlM6GIEF — CNN Tonight (@CNNTonight) March 19, 2021 Well, I disagree. I think […]

  • The Week: Beware The Lonely, Angry Men

    Occidental Dissent - Mar 19th 2021 3:19pm EDT

    Damon Linker’s has a new take on the Atlanta shooting that focuses on the real issue it has revealed instead of the contrived “white supremacy” narrative. The Week: “We have so many mass shootings in this country, and so much gun violence in general, that those who come to a sweeping conclusion on the basis […]

  • Tech Billionaire Boom

    Occidental Dissent - Mar 19th 2021 2:20pm EDT

    America’s tech oligarchs are in the business of making vast fortunes by destroying jobs, surveilling their customers, vacuuming away wealth and policing thought here in the Heartland. If the status quo changed from mainstream conservatism, it would be a damn shame. Note: I credit the Yang campaign for raising awareness of how badly these people […]

  • China: The U.S. Is Too Weak To Boss Us Around Now

    Occidental Dissent - Mar 19th 2021 1:21pm EDT

    CCP delegation came to US soil and told the US government to their face they are weak Total disaster for unprepared Blinken pic.twitter.com/TRPaVJOEsk — Jack Posobiec (@JackPosobiec) March 19, 2021 JUST IN ? CHINA-US meeting — Chinese diplomat’s body language and tone looks pretty harsh against Biden’s team in Alaska meeting — WATCH: pic.twitter.com/49ZcfbMewx — […]

  • Niskanen Center: The Next Battle For American Democracy Is Around The Corner

    Occidental Dissent - Mar 19th 2021 1:11pm EDT

    We want to fight these people. If the GOP would get out of our way and let us fight them, it would be a win-win for both of us. Unfortunately, Conservatism, Inc. is hopelessly antiquated and out of touch and more so now than ever because the internal demographics of the Republican Party have shifted […]

  • National Review: Working-Class Reds

    Occidental Dissent - Mar 19th 2021 1:02am EDT

    Who are the Trumpists? National Review: “In the course of a few weeks early in the Biden administration, Republicans have been making a rapid shift in their agenda, message, and perhaps philosophy. Senator Mitt Romney (R., Utah) proposed an ambitious plan to send checks from the federal government to parents. With Senator Tom Cotton (R., […]

  • Poll: “Extremism” Is A Wash

    Occidental Dissent - Mar 18th 2021 10:51pm EDT

    My takeaways: The public is equally concerned about rightwing and leftwing extremism Conservative and Moderate Democrats do not like leftwing extremism Liberal Democrats with post-graduate degrees who are the CNN and MSNBC audience are more informed about QAnon than most Republican voters As we have seen previously, the public has a more negative view of […]

  • House Passes Amnesties For DREAMers and Farmworkers

    Occidental Dissent - Mar 18th 2021 8:21pm EDT

    Why are you so focused on the culture war? The Democrats are focused on economic populism now. That’s why House Democrats have passed HR 1, the Equality Act, the Violence Against Women Act, gun control legislation and now two amnesties. In addition, Joe has signed executive orders on woke, trans, climate change and open borders […]

  • The Hill: The Democrats Bid To Reclaim Economic Populism

    Occidental Dissent - Mar 18th 2021 7:31pm EDT

    These two things are mutually exclusive. Populism and wokeness are mortal enemies. They are irreconcilable. The Hill: “With the passage of President Biden’s coronavirus relief bill, Democrats are setting out to reclaim their populist birthright. And, they hope, reverse their losses among white working-class voters. The new law is being called “transformational” for a reason. It […]

  • Woke Supremacy Reigns Supreme At Teen Vogue

    Occidental Dissent - Mar 18th 2021 6:44pm EDT

    The staff of Teen Vogue successfully blocked an extremely well qualified Black woman from becoming its next editor in chief over tweets from when she was a teen that she apologized for years ago. https://t.co/0tpA4wuQro — Ryan Grim (@ryangrim) March 18, 2021 You’re laughing. The brats have cost a young woman of color her job. […]

  • Why Conservatism, Inc. Failed

    Occidental Dissent - Mar 18th 2021 5:00pm EDT

    I now understand why Conservatism, Inc. failed. It failed because it selected far too many people like “political strategist” Tim Miller here. Conservatism, Inc. is drawn from people who are disproportionately White college-educated, upper middle class urbanites and suburbanites from Blue States who are professionals with modernist and cosmopolitan values. These people are also too […]

  • Nick Fuentes Is a Zoomer Paleocon

    Occidental Dissent - Mar 18th 2021 3:14pm EDT

    The Trump Revolution was not exclusively or even primarily about “economic populism,” it was about native American revanchism. Many who now claim the mantle of the Trump legacy focus solely on economics and ignore or condemn the identity/culture aspect entirely. — Nicholas J. Fuentes (@NickJFuentes) March 18, 2021 Remember that Donald Trump only grew more […]

  • The COVID Class War Heats Up

    Occidental Dissent - Mar 18th 2021 12:51pm EDT

    Michael Lind is always a delight to read. He is from Texas. He is an economic progressive. He also reflexively writes from a historical perspective like I do. This is a great take on what is going on with contemporary progressivism, the lockdowns which devastated the economy and the realignment of the two parties. Tablet […]

  • Poll: American Democracy Only Caters To The Rich and Powerful

    Occidental Dissent - Mar 17th 2021 5:32pm EDT

    The division in this country is inflamed and exaggerated by the media. American Survey Center: “The surge in partisan polarization in America has made it a rarity that Democrats and Republicans could ever find common ground on an issue. However, data from the new January 2021 American Perspectives Survey (APS) reveals one important area where […]

  • Joe’s Border Crisis

    Occidental Dissent - Mar 17th 2021 1:15pm EDT

    The Biden administration came in guns blazing and delivered on their promise to merge immigration policy with wokeness, open borders, multiple amnesties and leftwing slogans like “Abolish ICE.” Reuters: “The poll findings, based on surveys conducted before and after Donald Trump’s presidency, show that Republicans are becoming more unified around the former president’s hardline views […]

  • Poll: Stimulus Checks Are The Most Popular Part Of The COVID Relief Bill

    Occidental Dissent - Mar 17th 2021 11:35am EDT

    ICYMI: Watch @samstein break down the @politico/@MorningConsult poll results on @Morning_Joe. https://t.co/tatofbev0I pic.twitter.com/IWDV6cyaTh — POLITICO Press (@POLITICOPress) March 17, 2021 Democratic and Republican Voters Agree: Direct Payments Are Most Popular Part of $1.9 Trillion Stimulus Package https://t.co/WOqNfc4hea via @byclairew pic.twitter.com/6hJYCmopdU — Morning Consult (@MorningConsult) March 17, 2021 According to political strategist Karl Rove, Republican and […]

  • Democrats Can’t Duck The Culture War

    Occidental Dissent - Mar 17th 2021 9:36am EDT

    Thomas Edsall thinks that Joe Biden and the Democrats can somehow duck the culture war now after intentionally dialing it up a thousand notches over the past four years. New York Times: “The Biden administration appears to have adopted a two-pronged strategy to reduce the corrosive impact of hot-button social, cultural and racial issues: first […]

  • Tucker Carlson Goes To El Salvador

    Occidental Dissent - Mar 16th 2021 9:06pm EDT

    Donald Trump is no longer president. Trump voters, however, still control the Republican Party. 64% of Trump voters now say their racial identity is “very, extremely or somewhat” important to their sense of identity while only 17% of Trump voters say it is not important at all. 90% of Republican voters are opposed to Joe […]