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  • MSNBC: Liz Cheney Is a Fringe Figure In the GOP

    Occidental Dissent - May 24th 2021 12:03pm EDT

    I disagree with Joe Scarborough. It is true that there are three parties in America. There is the Republican Party which has been completely Trumpified, the multiracial working class Democratic base and the neoliberal centrist establishment party which controls the Democratic Party. The political establishment is consolidating inside the Democratic Party which is the home […]

  • Joe Biden Grants Temporary Protected Status To 100,000 Haitian Immigrants

    Occidental Dissent - May 24th 2021 11:17am EDT

    There is nothing more permanent in American politics than a temporary amnesty for refugees from Third World countries. Trump tried and failed to end several of them. BuzzFeed News: “The Obama administration previously provided temporary protected status for Haitians who had been in the country continuously since 2010, after an earthquake hit near the capital […]

  • Josh Hawley: Democrat Rhetoric On Israel Is Contributing To Anti-Semitic Violence

    Occidental Dissent - May 24th 2021 10:53am EDT

    You’ll have to carry me out on a slab before I compromise my defense of the Jewish people, their greatness, their history, their safety, and the state of Israel — Josh Hawley (@HawleyMO) July 20, 2019 I voted in the 2016 election. I sat out the 2018 and 2020 elections. Donald Trump’s obsequious relationship with […]

  • New York Post: Fauci Is “Not Convinced” COVID Developed Naturally

    Occidental Dissent - May 24th 2021 10:12am EDT

    Now he tells us … New York Post: “Dr. Anthony Fauci, a top adviser to President Biden on the coronavirus pandemic, said he’s “not convinced” the deadly virus developed naturally and has called for further investigations into where it emerged. Fauci was asked during a Poynter event, “United Facts of America: A Festival of Fact-Checking,” earlier this […]

  • The Political Cesspool: Post-Trump Trends

    Occidental Dissent - May 23rd 2021 10:27pm EDT

    LISTEN HERE. I’m feeling strangely optimistic and upbeat in 2021: The Republican electorate has changed since 2006. At the ground level, White working class voters have become a greater share of the Republican base. Meanwhile, affluent, college-educated White suburban professionals have been migrating toward the Democratic Party. White working class voters tend to be socially […]

  • USA Today: The Fastest Girl In Connecticut Can’t Compete With Trans Women

    Occidental Dissent - May 23rd 2021 9:31pm EDT

    USA Today: “It’s February 2020. I’m crouched at the starting line of the high school girls’ 55-meter indoor race. This should be one of the best days of my life. I’m running in the state championship, and I’m ranked the fastest high school female in the 55-meter dash in the state. I should be feeling confident. I […]

  • Oregon Becomes First State To Require Vaccine Passports

    Occidental Dissent - May 23rd 2021 8:35pm EDT

    I would like to apologize to some of our readers. I’m just a country boy from Alabama who lives out in the middle of nowhere. We’ve kind of lolled away the COVID-19 pandemic down here. It seemed to get fairly serious for about three or four weeks here last April at the height of the […]

  • Vox: The Case for Requiring Gun Licenses

    Occidental Dissent - May 23rd 2021 8:04pm EDT

    Hold up. They’ve got another great idea. It turns out that universal background checks and an assault weapons ban aren’t good enough anymore. We need gun licenses now like they have back East in Massachusetts. Vox: “After a shooting in America gets national attention, the debate usually centers around a few gun control measures, particularly […]

  • Axios: “Defund the Police” Lives On As a Local Movement

    Occidental Dissent - May 23rd 2021 5:23pm EDT

    “Defund the Police” isn’t merely a silly slogan. In the heat of the moment, the idea was swiftly acted on in many big cities last summer like New York City, Murderapolis and Seattle where progressive activists go their way. Axios: “In the absence of support from President Biden and most national Democrats, the “Defund the […]

  • New York Times: The Rise of the Climatarian

    Occidental Dissent - May 23rd 2021 3:51pm EDT

    Brood X cicadas are in season in the East. They have a low carbon footprint and emission level and should be highly compatible with the climatarian diet when locally sourced. You can find them emerging from your backyard into your kitchen. New York Times: “Torben Lonne, a 34-year-old scuba diver in Copenhagen, never eats without […]

  • Life Coach Larry: Change Is Good!

    Occidental Dissent - May 23rd 2021 3:24pm EDT

    Larry is a fashionista at heart. He has built his entire sense of identity, values and belief system on novelty seeking and feeling stimulated by adopting the latest fashionable trends.

  • Bug Appétit: Eating Cicadas Is Good For You and the Environment

    Occidental Dissent - May 23rd 2021 3:01pm EDT

    They are really excited about this. Insects are the progressive caviar of the future. While eating chicken instead of beef “basically amounts to trading one moral catastrophe for another,” eating bugs is the key to sustainable food production because their carbon footprint is significantly less environmentally damaging.

  • Politico: The Red Meat Issue Biden Won’t Touch

    Occidental Dissent - May 23rd 2021 1:50pm EDT

    Joe Biden isn’t going there. You have his word as a Biden that he will not cave to the progressive activists who are itching to tackle America’s meat obsession. He isn’t going to ban red meat in order to reduce carbon emissions to achieve his own climate goals by 2030. It is fake news. It […]

  • Vox: A No-Beef Diet Is Great – But Only If You Don’t Replace It With Chicken

    Occidental Dissent - May 23rd 2021 12:58am EDT

    Progressives have a problem with meat-eating. Don’t let them tell you otherwise. They write about getting rid of meat eating and replacing meat with alternative protein sources like lab grown meat or insects or preferably vegetarian diets all the time. They also want to get rid of fossil fuels and nuclear power and gas guzzling […]

  • Chris Hedges: Progressives Except for Palestine

    Occidental Dissent - May 22nd 2021 10:50pm EDT

    I don’t just critique the Biden administration on this website. I spend about half of my time here spotlighting people on the Left who I agree with on some issues. Scheer Post: “Nearly all the words and phrases used by the Democrats, Republicans and the talking heads on the media to describe the unrest inside […]

  • After The Virtue Signal: White People Have Cooled Toward Black Lives Matter

    Occidental Dissent - May 22nd 2021 7:34pm EDT

    The wind of reaction is blowing at gale force now. I’ve been saying for months now that the George Floyd riots changed White racial attitudes and have boomeranged. Donald Trump was taken out by COVID but the pandemic is over now. Mother Jones: “In an opinion piece published by the New York Times, two political scientists, […]

  • Five Oregon Counties Vote To Consider Joining Idaho

    Occidental Dissent - May 22nd 2021 5:59pm EDT

    Oregon Live: “Five eastern Oregon counties voted Tuesday in favor of considering becoming part of Idaho. Baker, Grant, Lake, Malheur and Sherman counties join Union and Jefferson, which voted last year to require county officials to study or promote joining Idaho. Grant voted 1,471 to 895 for county officials “to meet and discuss relocating Idaho […]

  • Jimmy Dore: Stunner: Biden Retracts Every Campaign Promise

    Occidental Dissent - May 22nd 2021 5:30pm EDT

    It would be nice to have an alternative to neoliberal centrism.

  • Henry Olsen: The Latest Republican Budget Is a Revival of Paul Ryan-ism

    Occidental Dissent - May 22nd 2021 4:53pm EDT

    Public opinion has shifted. The Republican electorate has dramatically changed. Republican politicians and Conservatism, Inc. have not changed. Washington Post: “There has been a lot of talk recently about the Republican Party searching for a post-Trump ideological future. The annual alternative budget released Wednesday by the 152-member House Republican Study Committee shows how difficult it […]

  • FOX News Is Spreading ADL Propaganda

    Occidental Dissent - May 22nd 2021 4:19pm EDT

    FOX News wants you to know that Jews are the real victims. The Israelis are the victims of the Palestinians who Jewish settlers are driving out of their homes and turning into refugees whom they are imprisoning in Gaza. The Jews here are also the victims of bad publicity and a few scuffles. The same […]

  • Poll: American Jews Have Widely Differing Views On Israel

    Occidental Dissent - May 22nd 2021 3:10pm EDT

    It will probably come as a surprise to some people here that American Jews are hardly a monolith. This is true of all groups though. 2/3rs to 3/4ths of American Jews are Democrats. Pew Research Center:

  • Tucker Carlson: Anti-White Training Almost Mandatory On State’s Schools

    Occidental Dissent - May 22nd 2021 12:46pm EDT

    Tucker Carlson discussed the problem last night on his show. By the problem, I mean the issue which we have discussed here at length on this website for the last several months: the affluent, White upper middle class, college educated professionals who tend to live in urban areas or wealthy suburbs who have always been […]

  • MSNBC: Rise of Anti-Semitic Attacks In U.S. Amid Middle East Violence

    Occidental Dissent - May 21st 2021 11:54pm EDT

    Hey look, it is three of our least favorite people in the world – Nosferatu, Nicolle Wallace and Deep State guy – lamenting the rise of anti-Semitic attacks on an MSNBC panel and calling for more censorship because the truth about how Israel treats the Palestinians is spilling out on social media. The vast majority […]

  • The Grayzone: Gaza Assault a Disaster For Israel

    Occidental Dissent - May 21st 2021 11:25pm EDT

    Norman Finkelstein, the author of The Holocaust Industry and Gaza: An Inquest Into Its Martyrdom, has been stunned by the sweeping change in public opinion toward OUR GREATEST ALLY. The Great March of Return in 2018-2019 got almost almost zero coverage in the American media.

  • City Journal: The Child Soldiers of Portland

    Occidental Dissent - May 21st 2021 9:29pm EDT

    City Journal: “There are only a few places on earth where radicals and their children ritualistically burn the American flag and chant “Death to America”: Tehran, Baghdad, Beirut, Kabul, Ramallah—and Portland, Oregon. The City of Portland, a cloud-covered metro on the south bank of the Columbia River, has become known for its political protesters. Anarchists, […]