Category: Populists, Page 158

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  • Marjorie Taylor Greene Calls For Immigration Moratorium

    Occidental Dissent - Mar 12th 2021 10:49am EST

    My current estimate is that about a third of Republican voters are White Nationalists or have become indistinguishable from them. I’ve known White Nationalists for a very, very long time. National Pulse: “Rep. Marjorie Taylor-Greene is set to release a bill calling for a full moratorium on migration into the U.S. and several other America […]

  • Poll: Americans Agree Their Own Party Is Too Extreme

    Occidental Dissent - Mar 12th 2021 8:10am EST

    There is some good news hidden in the latest Pew poll Pew Research Center: Pew has Joe at 54% approval which is further proof that the honeymoon period is fading and that nothing much has really changed. We can also see that support for Joe among Whites is strongly related to education with post-grads and […]

  • Poll: Americans Agree The Two Parties Are Too Extreme

    Occidental Dissent - Mar 12th 2021 8:10am EST

    There is some good news hidden in the latest Pew poll Pew Research Center: Pew has Joe at 54% approval which is further proof that the honeymoon period is fading and that nothing much has really changed. We can also see that support for Joe among Whites is strongly related to education with post-grads and […]

  • President Biden Addresses The Nation

    Occidental Dissent - Mar 11th 2021 8:40pm EST

    I thought it was a great speech. Why couldn’t Donald Trump do that? There was nothing unreasonable in the speech. Joe asked people to wear masks as a courtesy and said he was making good on his promise to get the vaccine out to elderly people who are the most at risk. He took credit […]

  • Senate Republicans Rally Behind Repealing The Estate Tax

    Occidental Dissent - Mar 11th 2021 3:59pm EST

    What is the top priority of Senate Republicans? What is their plan to take back the majority in Congress in 2022? If you guessed “creating a new tax break for Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates” while engaging in empty performance art over the cancellation of Dr. Seuss, you won the prize. They’re not […]

  • President Biden Signs The American Rescue Plan

    Occidental Dissent - Mar 11th 2021 3:18pm EST

    This is Joe’s moment. It is the culmination of 50 years in public life. This is the highwater mark and the peak of his political life when he does this one thing for us and signs a bill that pretty much everyone supports. Sure, it is probably all down hill from here after we receive […]

  • Poll: Joe Biden Isn’t As Popular As Some Polls Are Suggesting

    Occidental Dissent - Mar 11th 2021 2:23pm EST

    PBS/Marist Poll has Joe at a 49% approval rating. PBS: “About half of Americans — 49 percent — said they approve of how Biden has served as president so far, less than two months into his presidency, according to the latest poll. But as was the case with his predecessor, whose last year in office […]

  • Stockton Study Shows Universal Basic Income Can Be Life Changing

    Occidental Dissent - Mar 11th 2021 1:32pm EST

    Do you remember all the shit I got for supporting UBI in 2019? Bernie Sanders didn’t support it. Donald Trump didn’t support it. Joe Biden didn’t support it. Most people didn’t support it at the time. “White supremacists” supported it though. After COVID hit and checks started going out, it proved to be immensely popular […]

  • Poll: Joe Biden’s COVID Relief Bill Is Very Popular

    Occidental Dissent - Mar 11th 2021 10:49am EST

    I’m feeling bullish. Joe is doing this one thing for us as president and on balance it is great. This will put tremendous pressure on the Republicans to become more populist to remain competitive. 77% of Independents support the COVID relief package. 46% of Republicans support the COVID relief package. In other words, our social […]

  • Gov. Greg Abbott: Gab Has No Place In Texas

    Occidental Dissent - Mar 10th 2021 11:29pm EST

    Anti-Semitic platforms do not represent Texas values. Proud to support @PhilKingTX & @GoldmanCraig’s bill to fight anti-Semitism in our communities. #txlege pic.twitter.com/ZVri3z0Wis — Gov. Greg Abbott (@GovAbbott) March 11, 2021 I would love to see what Texas voters think. Do they care as much about anti-Semitism as Greg Abbott? I’m guessing they don’t because I […]

  • Sen. Tim Scott: Woke Supremacy Is As Bad As White Supremacy

    Occidental Dissent - Mar 10th 2021 9:10pm EST

    I’ve been using the term for a while now. Yahoo News: “The South Carolina Senator is falling in line with his Republican counterparts by taking aim at “cancel culture.” Republican Senator Tim Scott told Fox News host Trey Gowdy that “woke supremacy is as bad as white supremacy. We need to take that seriously.” Scott was replying to comments […]

  • The Establishment Plot To Destroy Bernie Sanders

    Occidental Dissent - Mar 10th 2021 7:20pm EST

    Interesting. The “Solid Liberals” or Democratic Independent Liberal Elites (DILEs) or Professional Bourgeoisie or Democratic establishment preferred to lose to the “fascist” Trump in the 2020 election rather than lose to Bernie Sanders. Trump voters succeeded in toppling the True Cons or the Republican establishment voters. They are now in the process of consolidating power […]

  • Jimmy Dore Responds To The Daily Beast Hit Piece

    Occidental Dissent - Mar 10th 2021 5:32pm EST

    Alexander Reid Ross is an “anarchist” and “anti-fascist” who works for some Soros and Koch funded astroturf operation called the “National Contagion Research Institute.” Note: Obviously, I largely agree with people like Jimmy Dore, Michael Tracey and Tulsi on economics and foreign policy because I have always been a populist voter. Hence, the “far right” […]

  • Bari Weiss: The Miseducation of America’s Elites

    Occidental Dissent - Mar 10th 2021 4:08pm EST

    Everyone hates these people. The polls don’t reflect the true level of brewing resentment because college educated White professionals lie about their true beliefs. No one has been driven further underground, feels more marginalized and more deeply resents the yoke of political correctness or wokeness than those who operate inside these institutions which are now […]

  • House Passes The PRO Act

    Occidental Dissent - Mar 10th 2021 2:48pm EST

    What do you think? This isn’t going anywhere because the “party of the working class” will unanimously oppose it like the $15 minimum wage or the $1,400 stimulus checks in the Senate. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce opposes the bill and elected Republicans out of instinct or habit or both seem to defer to the […]

  • David Shor on Why “Latinx” Men Shifted Right

    Occidental Dissent - Mar 10th 2021 1:16pm EST

    Almost NOTHING upsets me as much as watching 6 NON Hispanic/Latino people talking about a #LatinoVote autopsy on national TV! ANNOUNCEMENT I’ll be releasing OUR @NuestroPAC autopsy in a couple weeks. written, researched, presented by Latinos @Morning_Joe @MSNBC #datawontsaveus pic.twitter.com/NYZf6Pg6aW — Chuck Rocha (@ChuckRocha) March 10, 2021 As a Latino non-college educated, single father with […]

  • David Shor on Why “Latinx” Voters Shifted Right

    Occidental Dissent - Mar 10th 2021 1:16pm EST

    Almost NOTHING upsets me as much as watching 6 NON Hispanic/Latino people talking about a #LatinoVote autopsy on national TV! ANNOUNCEMENT I’ll be releasing OUR @NuestroPAC autopsy in a couple weeks. written, researched, presented by Latinos @Morning_Joe @MSNBC #datawontsaveus pic.twitter.com/NYZf6Pg6aW — Chuck Rocha (@ChuckRocha) March 10, 2021 As a Latino non-college educated, single father with […]

  • Poll: Joe Biden Gets Mixed Reviews

    Occidental Dissent - Mar 10th 2021 10:47am EST

    If Donald Trump’s campaign had listened to the wignats, he would still be president of the United States. He lost the 2020 election for the reasons we said he lost. CNN: “In the new poll, 61% support the $1.9 trillion economic relief bill proposed by Biden and expected to pass in the House Wednesday, and […]

  • Democrats Are Anxious About 2022 and 2024

    Occidental Dissent - Mar 10th 2021 10:07am EST

    Between 2016 and 2020, Democrats saw a 43% decline in their support from conservative Hispanics. Trump also narrowed the gap among moderate and liberal Hispanics. https://t.co/WAHpweEKs4 — Ryan James Girdusky (@RyanGirdusky) March 10, 2021 The Democrats are worried. The status quo has been extreme polarization and gridlock. White libs have been the dominant force in […]

  • Poll: No One Likes Mitch McConnell

    Occidental Dissent - Mar 9th 2021 11:45pm EST

    There isn’t much difference between Democrats and Republicans on Mitch McConnell. He is viewed favorably by 28% of Republicans and 19% of Democrats. Yahoo: “The 79-year-old Senate Republican leader, long known as the “Grim Reaper” for killing off numerous Democratic initiatives, ranked dead last among fellow Republicans in an Ipsos poll conducted for Reuters. All […]

  • Luke O’Brien Has Been Laid Off By Huff Post

    Occidental Dissent - Mar 9th 2021 7:26pm EST

    HuffPost employees, after a year of working through a pandemic that isn’t over, were invited to a meeting today with the password “spring is here,” where they were told 47 of them would be laid off. They would only know if they still had a job if they didn’t receive an email by 1 — […]

  • What We Have Gained By Losing

    Occidental Dissent - Feb 25th 2021 8:10am EST

    Editor’s Note: This is a work in progress. I’m struck by these trends. I’ve had to reevaluate my opinions in light of movement that I am seeing in the polls which is wholly positive and indicates a “rise in far-right domestic extremism.” Specifically, I am talking about the resorting of the electorate and the changing […]

  • Neoliberal Joe’s Slow Start

    Occidental Dissent - Feb 24th 2021 10:34pm EST

    I like the FDR comparison. FDR collaborated with white supremacy. FDR was elected president four times while Joe had to be carried through the Democratic primaries by Jim Clyburn. FDR had the support of the Solid South. Joe has a 50/50 Senate ruled by Joe Manchin. FDR realigned the electorate in a way that strengthened […]

  • House Holds Hearing On Media Disinformation

    Occidental Dissent - Feb 24th 2021 7:33pm EST

    Why shouldn’t social media be censored? Why shouldn’t a political litmus test be imposed on the military? Why shouldn’t the federal government launch a domestic “War on Terror”? Why shouldn’t FOX News, OANN and Newsmax be deplatformed by cable companies? Note: BTW, Blumpf was the “fascist.”

  • President Biden Signs Executive Order To Bolster U.S. Supply Chains

    Occidental Dissent - Feb 24th 2021 7:14pm EST

    Joe occasionally does things like this. He has done several things that I agree with which I have noted out of intellectual honesty. It is drowned out though by all the bad ideas and messaging. It is difficult to get past being accused of “domestic extremism” and oppressing minorities through systematic racism.