Category: Populists, Page 162
The Bellows: Technopopulism and the Online Class War
Occidental Dissent - Feb 8th 2021 4:42pm ESTThe front page article on TAC last night was a plea from Rick Santorum for conservatives not use state power to crackdown on Big Tech. The Bellows: “The events of recent months contain many lessons for popular political movements in the future. In the age of COVID-19, much of American politics has migrated from “real […]
The Week: The Realignment That Wasn’t
Occidental Dissent - Feb 8th 2021 1:45pm ESTI’ve concluded there was a realignment. The 2016 election fundamentally changed the Republican Party. The composition of the Republican base looks different now. The Trump voters came into the Republican Party in 2016 and knocked other people out of the party and the process continued in the 2020 election. The establishment wing of the party […]
Chris Hayes: The Republican Party Is Radicalizing Against Democracy
Occidental Dissent - Feb 8th 2021 11:45am ESTTried to order my thoughts on where things stand politically right now. My basic takeaway: the entire ideological basis of post Reagan conservatism has crumbled. It’s left the GOP with no real coherent program other than retaining power at all costs. https://t.co/INIHV8X87t— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) February 8, 2021 I enjoyed this article. It helped me […]
Smash Big Tech
Occidental Dissent - Feb 8th 2021 1:16am ESTIf you are still under the delusion that you can bargain with Big Tech or that the free market will fix this problem, I don’t know what to say to you. Your autistic ideology has been discredited. TAC: “I want to put an end to cancel culture like every other freedom-loving American, but I certainly […]
Democrats Considering Lowering Eligibility Of $1,400 Checks
Occidental Dissent - Feb 7th 2021 9:50pm ESTUnbelievable. There are some Dems who want to lower the income eligibility for direct payments from $75,000 to $50,000 for individuals, and $150,000 to $100,000 for couples. In other words, working class people who got checks from Trump would not get them from Biden. Brilliant!— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) February 7, 2021 It is absurd that […]
Two NY Times Reporters Resign
Occidental Dissent - Feb 7th 2021 7:35pm EST
White Populism Is The Future Of The GOP
Occidental Dissent - Feb 7th 2021 4:07pm EST
Jesse Ventura Calls For Huey Long’s Wealth Cap
Occidental Dissent - Feb 7th 2021 11:53am ESTJesse Ventura’s epic rant against billionaires:“There shouldn’t be ONE billionaire… The older I get, the more flaws I see in capitalism, and the more good things I see in socialism.”–@GovJVentura pic.twitter.com/Sdst8uUJH2— The Vanguard (@vanguard_pod) January 31, 2021 Huey Long best clips 4/13 pic.twitter.com/4c3JpylAdv— Queenfish Sadie Long (@MrsHueyLong) January 19, 2021 Huey Long best clips 5/13 […]
Sen. Ben Sasse: Message To Nebraska GOP State Central Committee
Occidental Dissent - Feb 7th 2021 10:54am ESTDonald Trump isn’t the president anymore. What effect is that having on his voters though? Are they becoming more radical with him gone? In my view, Trump was always a soothing influence on them. They literally “trusted the plan” and went to sleep for four years. It is obviously the Democrats and the media who […]
The YouGov Survey Is Wild
Occidental Dissent - Feb 6th 2021 2:12pm ESTEditor’s Note: This is a YouGov survey of Trump voters from January. Republicans who didn’t vote for Trump are not included in the poll. You got to take a look at this. If not “White Nationalism” which I would define as racial separatism and advocation of an ethnostate, then something like “White Populism” is very […]
Huey Long: Evangeline Speech
Occidental Dissent - Feb 6th 2021 11:45am ESTWhy are we reviving interest in Huey Long? Donald Trump was the first demagogue to be elected president. American history is full of colorful demagogues though especially in the South. Trump basically maintained the status quo and made his supporters feel patriotic while feeding them a diet of empty performance art and conspiracies to keep […]
PMC Hysteria
Occidental Dissent - Feb 5th 2021 8:40pm ESTSo many targets. Now that Donald Trump is gone, what is there to fight about? Personally, I didn’t think he was doing a good job, but he is no longer the president. Joe is the president. PBS: “As Republicans adjust to their diminished stature in Washington, they have been consumed by infighting over the party’s […]
Donald Trump’s Own Pollster Reveals Why He Lost
Occidental Dissent - Feb 5th 2021 6:14pm ESTI feel like a load has been dropped. In my view, Donald Trump was simply the material that was available that a rising tide of populism latched onto in the 2016 election. It wasn’t the man himself who brought all of those people into the GOP. It was the message that he ran on which […]
President Biden Lays Out His American Rescue Plan
Occidental Dissent - Feb 5th 2021 3:43pm ESTI’m on board with this. President Biden is giving us our money. Washington Post: “President Biden promised to get more relief to Americans quickly to help people survive financially until the pandemic is under control. A key part of Biden’s proposal is to send another round of cash payments directly to U.S. households. Some economists, […]
AEI: Donald Trump and the Future of the GOP
Occidental Dissent - Feb 5th 2021 1:02pm ESTThis is excellent. I feel vindicated by this survey. Donald Trump won in 2016 by running as a moderate, a populist and a nationalist and away from “True Conservatism.” He won by leaning into the disaffected Center which is the reason why he electrified the Alt-Right. The so-called “far right” was the big block of […]
YouGov Poll: We’re All “Extremists” Now
Occidental Dissent - Feb 5th 2021 10:33am ESTWHITE PILL. For those who are blackpilled by Blumpf losing after blowing a winnable election, pick yourself up off the floor. Get a grip, man. We’ve got good news for once. Yahoo News: “By the numbers: Asked to respond to a statement once considered Republican Party orthodoxy — “Cutting the rate of taxes paid by the […]
Neoliberal Joe Delivers First Major Foreign Policy Speech
Occidental Dissent - Feb 4th 2021 4:35pm ESTDonald Trump didn’t start a war as president. He came close to starting a war with Iran. He was pushing his luck and we will never know how a Trump second term would have turned out. After rejoining the World Health Organization and the Paris Climate Agreement, Joe Biden is off to a mixed start […]
Mitt Romney Proposes $350 Monthly Payments For Children
Occidental Dissent - Feb 4th 2021 1:46pm ESTWhat is happening? Who reprogrammed Mitt Romney? Why does Mitt Romney suddenly want to give us money? Does Mitt know something that we don’t know about the politics of wealth redistribution? Forbes: “If Mitt Romney’s new plan becomes law, you may get up to $350 cash each month for every child that you have. Here’s […]
What Is The Left These Days?
Occidental Dissent - Feb 4th 2021 12:08pm EST
Neoliberal Joe Is Wobbling On $1,400 Stimulus Checks
Occidental Dissent - Feb 3rd 2021 7:01pm ESTSchumer today after leaving the White House: “There’s agreement — universal agreement — we must go big, bold ….”A picture of Franklin Roosevelt was hovering over all of us and we’re very much aware of that. It was alluded to a whole bunch of times.” https://t.co/90lfIeTH3m— Jeff Stein (@JStein_WaPo) February 3, 2021 Today is the […]
Vox: How Congress Learned To Stop Worrying and Start Handing Out Cash
Occidental Dissent - Feb 3rd 2021 2:00pm ESTI hope so. VOX: “The Biden administration and its allies in Congress are pushing for a new round of $1,400 checks to all but the richest Americans. If you’ve been following the ins and outs of Covid-19 relief politics in recent weeks, this isn’t surprising news. But consider what a dramatic transformation of American politics […]
Huey Long: High Finance Speech
Occidental Dissent - Feb 3rd 2021 11:06am ESTI get irritated when Bernie Sanders is compared to Huey Long. Woke Bernie blew his chance to win the 2020 Democratic primary by trying to appeal to Elizabeth Warren wine track voters. He was too scared to run on Universal Basic Income. He never proposed anything nearly as radical as a wealth cap to crush […]
Huey Long: The Redistribution of Wealth
Occidental Dissent - Feb 2nd 2021 12:04pm ESTEditor’s Note: Since progressive liberals have embraced “equity” and have identified the term with critical race theory to demonize the White working class on racial grounds, we would like to offer an alterative populist program to advance “equity.” It is called the “Share Our Wealth” amendment. “Redistribution of Wealth” Speech Delivered by U.S. SENATOR HUEY […]
The Washington Post: Middle Class Liberal Scolds Attack Wall Street Bets
Occidental Dissent - Feb 2nd 2021 11:40am ESTI rest my case. We can’t go after the hedge fund billionaires because someone used the insensitive word “retard.” Such is the current state of middle class, therapeutic, corporate leftwing politics!
NYU Researchers Find “No Evidence” Of Anti-Conservative Bias On Social Media
Occidental Dissent - Feb 1st 2021 5:44pm ESTDonald Trump was a big joke. In spite of governing as a conventional Republican president, Big Tech colluded to wipe Donald Trump and his supporters off the internet because Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 election. They concluded that it was simply dangerous to allow them to communicate, organize and fundraise on the internet. The Verge: […]
