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  • Washington Post: The Pentagon Wants To Take a Harder Line on “Domestic Extremism.” How Far Can It Go?

    Occidental Dissent - May 5th 2021 2:58pm EDT

    How do you oppose “fascism” and “authoritarianism”? You start by demonizing an entire racial group and fomenting racial hatred against them You build a razor wire fence around the U.S. Capitol and order the military to occupy Washington, DC You construct a police state that coordinates with private actors to trample on the Constitution You […]

  • Thomas Edsall: Why Trump Still Has Millions of Americans In His Grip

    Occidental Dissent - May 5th 2021 12:30pm EDT

    The latest Thomas Edsall column reads like an “oh shit” moment. These people are already nursing a long list of grievances against Eastern PMCs which ultimately stretch back into the mists of American history and the development of rival regional cultures. In order to get rid of Donald Trump and claw our way back to […]

  • Chris Hayes: Tennessee GOP Wants To Ban Lessons On Systematic Racism

    Occidental Dissent - May 5th 2021 1:56am EDT

    What is systematic racism? It can’t be the three-fifths compromise or the fugitive slave clause of the Constitution or the Dred Scott decision. This is all null and void in the 21st century. It can’t be slavery which hasn’t existed as an institution in the United States since 1865. No one alive today has ever […]

  • Tucker Carlson Mocks “Woke” CIA Ad

    Occidental Dissent - May 4th 2021 10:58pm EDT

    Ridiculing these people is working. Everyone hates this shit. They just need to be put at ease and emboldened to push back. Note: This video has been playing on loop on FOX News like every ten minutes or so.

  • Rising: Ben Burgis’ New Book Cancelling Comedians

    Occidental Dissent - May 4th 2021 8:43pm EDT

    Should we critique destructive tendencies on our own side?

  • Liberal Larry: Impeach Ron DeSantis Before It Is Too Late!

    Occidental Dissent - May 4th 2021 3:51pm EDT

    The moderate position on COVID was always as follows: COVID is a real virus COVID is a moderately lethal, highly infectious virus that mainly kills fat people and sick and old people COVID is a serious problem and is one of the worst pandemics in American history COVID isn’t a serious problem for children or […]

  • Don Lemon: Europeans Did Not Found This Country

    Occidental Dissent - May 4th 2021 3:29pm EDT

    Don Lemon loses his mind after Rick Santorum defended himself on CNN. “Europeans did not found this country,” Lemon screamed, denying the facts of history. “It was here, the Native Americans had this country before the Europeans came.” pic.twitter.com/jXJxwfmx96 — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) May 4, 2021 We’ve been at war with Don Lemon for several […]

  • Merrick Garland Testifies Before Congress

    Occidental Dissent - May 4th 2021 2:23pm EDT

    Who are the “domestic terrorists”? It certainly isn’t the people who are embracing the idea of leading a violent insurgency against the police in the Pacific Northwest. It is not the people who are laying siege to federal courthouses or who set ICE buildings on fire or who cause over a billion dollars in property […]

  • Poll: Most Americans Are Critical of Government’s Handling of Situation at U.S.-Mexico Border

    Occidental Dissent - May 4th 2021 1:39pm EDT

    George W. Bush doesn’t think immigration restriction is a winning issue. Pew Research Center: “The government receives negative ratings for how it has handled the situation at the border. About two-thirds of U.S. adults (68%) say that the government is doing a very (33%) or somewhat (35%) bad job of dealing with the increased number […]

  • George W. Bush: If The GOP Stands For “White Anglo-Saxon Protestantism,” It Is Not Going To Win Anything

    Occidental Dissent - May 4th 2021 12:46pm EDT

    I see things very differently. In my view, the polls show that nativism and immigration restriction are one of the major attractions of the GOP. The same is true of issues like abortion and defending gun rights. In contrast, free trade and globalization, political correctness, tax cuts for millionaires, sucking up to corporations and the […]

  • Michael Tracey: Media Activists Do Not Care About Historic Nationwide Surge In Homicides

    Occidental Dissent - May 4th 2021 11:38am EDT

    I’m not really concerned about crime. I don’t live in one of these big cities controlled by Democrats where they are implementing “progressive policing” and violent crime is soaring back to levels unseen since the “superpredators” of the 1990s. Michael Tracey: CNN: “(CNN) – Major American cities saw a 33% increase in homicides last year […]

  • Glenn Greenwald: The Corporate Media Are “Stenographers for the State”

    Occidental Dissent - May 4th 2021 10:10am EDT

    CONFIRMED! BOMBSHELL! Glenn Greenwald has been dunking on these people lately and destroying whatever residual credibility that they had left with the public. Glenn Greenwald: “One of the primary plagues of corporate journalism, which I have documented more times than I can count, just reared its ugly head again to deceive millions of people with fake news. When one […]

  • NY Daily News: Biden Should’ve Gone After Beef

    Occidental Dissent - May 4th 2021 9:20am EDT

    Progressives should be honest and own their position. Clearly, their goal is to reduce meat consumption among the poor, the working class and middle class by having the government intervene in the economy to make meat more expensive to fight climate change. They’re just afraid to publicly champion the issue because it is politically toxic. […]

  • Rising: Corporate Media Ratings Crash During Joe Biden’s First 100 Days

    Occidental Dissent - May 3rd 2021 8:19pm EDT

    JUST IN – Ratings are in: 11.6 million people watched Biden’s speech last night. 48 million people watched Trump’s first State Of The Union address. Trump’s lowest was at 37 million. — Disclose.tv ? (@disclosetv) April 29, 2021 They are getting so desperate that they are reviving the Russia Hoax.

  • CNN: Joe Biden Raises Refugee Cap To 62,500 After Blowback From Progressive Activists

    Occidental Dissent - May 3rd 2021 7:15pm EDT

    They’re just brimming these days with great ideas. It is hard to say which is their best idea. There are so many good ones to choose from. Is it Defund the Police or Abolish the Police? Is it Abolish ICE? Is it toppling statues of George Washington? Is it censoring the internet? Is it the […]

  • U.S. Navy’s First “All Gay” Helicopter Crew Takes Flight

    Occidental Dissent - May 3rd 2021 6:37pm EDT

    History was made on Friday with the first ever all gay @USNavy helicopter crew. pic.twitter.com/3o1dYRn7Dw — Travis Akers (@travisakers) May 1, 2021 does art imitate life, or does life imitate art pic.twitter.com/wqzSEqNycL — Holding Biden Accountable (@WaitingOnBiden) May 1, 2021 This will show all of those homophobes.

  • Newsweek: Violent Antifa Turn to New Tactic, Embrace Violent Insurgency

    Occidental Dissent - May 3rd 2021 5:55pm EDT

    There actually is an “insurrection” or “insurgency” being carried out by “domestic violent extremists” that is going on in Joe Biden’s America. It is just not one that Merrick Garland’s Department of Social Justice has any intention of noticing or doing anything about because it is being carried out by a bunch of spoiled brats […]

  • Warren Buffett: We’re Seeing “Very Substantial Inflation”

    Occidental Dissent - May 3rd 2021 5:01pm EDT

    It is not just me then. I’ve noticed the increase in prices and it is not just gasoline. I spent over $20 at McDonald’s on the road at just one stop last week on two combos and a Happy Meal for my son. CNBC: “Warren Buffett is seeing inflation among Berkshire Hathaway’s collection of businesses as the […]

  • Jacobin: Wokeness Is Hurting Democrats

    Occidental Dissent - May 3rd 2021 3:15pm EDT

    Wokeness narrows the appeal of everything it touches. It subtracts working class voters from the Democratic coalition and adds them to the Republican coalition. Along with immigration, wokeness has become such an intensely polarizing issue that it has become the issue that is driving the realignment of the two parties.

  • The Grayzone: Neocon Now! Leftwing Media Is Shamelessly Promoting Propaganda It Once Opposed

    Occidental Dissent - May 3rd 2021 2:56pm EDT

    The neocons are on MSNBC all the time now. Charlie Sykes and Max Boot were both on again this morning. Max Boot is worried that the Republican Party is becoming “increasingly authoritarian” because warmongers like himself and Jennifer Rubin and George W. Bush are unwelcome there. George W. Bush is one of the good guys […]

  • CNN: Biden Team May Partner With Private Firms To Surveil Suspected “Domestic Terrorists” Online

    Occidental Dissent - May 3rd 2021 1:06pm EDT

    How many times were we told that Donald Trump was a “fascist”? What did Donald Trump ever do compared to these people? The corporate media spent years spreading misinformation based on dubious intelligence about Trump in the Russia hoax. The Democratic Congress impeached him twice. Black Lives Matter and Antifa rioted for years and torched […]

  • TAC: This Has Just Been The Beginning

    Occidental Dissent - May 3rd 2021 11:48am EDT

    The so-called “far right” has its own version of wokeness. We have long talked in terms of people being “redpilled” and contrasted them with “normies” who are asleep. In the “far right” version, the colorblind conservative and libertarian normies are hopelessly deracinated, degenerate and atomized individualists who are asleep in a world that is lorded […]

  • National Review: The Inequality of “Equity”

    Occidental Dissent - May 3rd 2021 9:13am EDT

    Christopher Caldwell has an excellent new article up on the rise of “equity” at National Review. National Review: “In mid April, three of the new generation of black women mayors of big cities met (virtually) at a roundtable sponsored by MIT’s Sloan School of Management. Lori Lightfoot of Chicago, London Breed of San Francisco, Kim […]

  • Thomas Frank: Bill Clinton Destroyed The Democratic Party

    Occidental Dissent - May 2nd 2021 8:42pm EDT

    Thomas Frank, James Carville and Bill Maher are all correct about wokeness. Lately, I have started to distinguish between “progressive liberalism” or New Deal liberalism, which has traditionally been the governing ideology of the Democratic Party since the FDR presidency and “woke progressivism,” which I see supplanting it in the Joe Biden presidency. Powered by […]

  • The Deep State Is Hiring

    Occidental Dissent - May 2nd 2021 7:51pm EDT

    Don’t know how anyone can sleep at night with this terrifying threat roaming the streets https://t.co/IzAVU0vVdV — Michael Tracey (@mtracey) May 2, 2021 Actual quotes from this new CIA recruitment ad: “I am a woman of color” “I am a cisgender millennial” “I have been diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorder” “I am intersectional” I think […]