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  • Jimmy Dore: Why American Journalism Sucks

    Occidental Dissent - Apr 7th 2021 7:45pm EDT

    It is getting worse. Everyone knows the brats are taking over.

  • The Atlantic: The Sexual Identity That Emerged on TikTok

    Occidental Dissent - Apr 7th 2021 6:22pm EDT

    As I have pointed out on more than a few occasions lately, there are at least 20,000 different genders and even more pronoun combinations now. Virtually all of these new genders were discovered over the last decade. You’re also a transphobic bigot for dismissing them as a ridiculous fad. The Atlantic: “Back in February, Kyle […]

  • Jeff Bezos Backs Corporate Tax Hike

    Occidental Dissent - Apr 7th 2021 5:59pm EDT

    This is a good discussion. Amazon isn’t even paying the official 21% corporate tax rate because of all the tax loopholes. Raising the corporate tax rate to 25% which is what the Corporate Democrats want to do isn’t going to change anything. Progressives are happy to spend trillions of dollars to build infrastructure. They are […]

  • Rising: Jeff Bezos Backs Corporate Tax Hike

    Occidental Dissent - Apr 7th 2021 5:59pm EDT

    This is a good discussion. Amazon isn’t even paying the official 21% corporate tax rate because of all the tax loopholes. Raising the corporate tax rate to 25% which is what the Corporate Democrats want to do isn’t going to change anything. Progressives are happy to spend trillions of dollars to build infrastructure. They are […]

  • New York Times: Fear Of White People Losing Out Permeate Capitol Rioters Towns

    Occidental Dissent - Apr 7th 2021 12:34pm EDT

    This is a bullshit study. New York Times: “When the political scientist Robert Pape began studying the issues that motivated the 380 or so people arrested in connection with the attack against the Capitol on Jan. 6, he expected to find that the rioters were driven to violence by the lingering effects of the 2008 […]

  • Poll: Americans Are Done Caring About COVID-19

    Occidental Dissent - Apr 7th 2021 11:54am EDT

    COVID is over, folks. I predicted this would happen. This was the issue that got Joe Biden elected president. It was also fading the day that he was sworn in as president. The Trump administration had already developed the vaccine through Operation Warp Speed. If it had not been for COVID, Trump would have likely […]

  • Andrew Ross Sorkin: Is Big Business the Democrats’ New Best Friend?

    Occidental Dissent - Apr 7th 2021 10:21am EDT

    Andrew Ross Sorkin has a new article in the New York Times in which he basically explains that Joe Biden’s Democratic Party is evolving into the Whig Party or the old Republican Party. New York Times: “It might seem even more strange to see Democrats teaming up with big business. But Democrats, especially the more […]

  • The Atlantic: Woke Capital Doesn’t Exist

    Occidental Dissent - Apr 6th 2021 6:38pm EDT

    Don’t believe your lying eyes. You are imagining that woke progressive activists have hijacked Corporate America and have been using HR departments to enforce a cultural and political orthodoxy and the concentrated economic power of these corporations as a weapon to force their unpopular cultural views on recalcitrant state governments. There is actually no bullying […]

  • Liberal Larry: Thank You MLB For Doing The Right Thing!

    Occidental Dissent - Apr 6th 2021 5:20pm EDT

    It is a beautiful day. Corporate America is on the side of progress now. The Republicans have spent decades bringing home the bacon for wealthy suburban professionals and corporate lobbyists. Even Donald Trump’s greatest accomplishment was the corporate tax cut. Now, their taxes are so low that Corporate America and upper class voters can focus […]

  • Rising: Will Progressives Or Corporate Democrats Prevail On The Corporate Tax Rate?

    Occidental Dissent - Apr 6th 2021 4:07pm EDT

    Will Joe Manchin and the Corporate Democrats hold the line for private equity on raising the corporate tax rate in the infrastructure bill? Will Republicans break with their abject servility to private equity and Corporate America and get credit with working class voters by sticking it to woke capitalism?

  • MLB All-Star Game To Be Played In Denver After Leaving Atlanta

    Occidental Dissent - Apr 6th 2021 3:22pm EDT

    This whole episode is based on hysterical knee jerk woke capitalism bullshit. How on earth is Georgia’s election integrity law “Jim Crow on steroids” or “Jim Eagle” compared to Colorado or Delaware? Does Joe realize how retarded he sounds saying things like that? He also said after the Atlanta shooting that were all “complicit” in […]

  • The Oregonian: Portland Police Are Leaving In Droves

    Occidental Dissent - Apr 6th 2021 11:22am EDT

    It is not just Portland. This is playing out in other big cities across the country like Washington, DC where progressive politicians and the media have glorified criminals, embraced anarchists and demonized the police. Who wants to become the next Darren Wilson or Derek Chauvin? Who wants to spend another long hot summer being assaulted […]

  • New York Times: Transgender Childhood Is Not a “Trend”

    Occidental Dissent - Apr 5th 2021 6:50pm EDT

    I can remember the exact moment when “trans” took off. It was in the wake of the Obergefell decision in the summer of 2015 when Bruce Jenner reintroduced herself to the public as Caitlyn Jenner on the cover of Vanity Fair. I was in Tennessee that day. This was the exact moment when progressives jumped […]

  • Jimmy Dore: Rigged System: How Richest Corporations Paid ZERO In Taxes

    Occidental Dissent - Apr 5th 2021 6:14pm EDT

    I was hoping that we could at least get the corporate tax rate up to the 28% – halfway back up to what it was when Trump slashed it – in Joe Biden’s infrastructure bill. Sadly, it looks like this is too heavy of a lift though for Joe Biden’s coalition. Wall Street Journal: “WASHINGTON—President […]

  • Corporate Democrats Oppose Raising The Corporate Tax Rate

    Occidental Dissent - Apr 5th 2021 4:33pm EDT

    I can’t stop laughing. Axios: “Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) forewarned in a radio interview Monday that he will not support a hike in the corporate tax rate from 21% to 28% as proposed in President Biden’s infrastructure bill, adding that there are “six or seven other Democrats that feel very strongly about this.” Jimmy Dore […]

  • New York Times: Inside Corporate America’s Frantic Response to the Georgia Voting Law

    Occidental Dissent - Apr 5th 2021 9:42am EDT

    I’m enjoying this dynamic. Progressive activists who are 8% of the American population are forcing multinational corporations to take polarizing stands on controversial social issues. They can’t do this without alienating populist and conservative voters and creating a backlash that pushes people in our direction. New York Times: “On March 11, Delta Air Lines dedicated […]

  • Brookings Institution: White Supremacists Are Broke, Divided and Marginalized

    Occidental Dissent - Apr 4th 2021 5:00pm EDT

    Wait, what? How can these two things possibly be true? Brookings: “Public support for white supremacy is still low, and support for violence is lower still. … Racism, anti-Semitism, anti-immigrant sentiment, and other white supremacist beliefs remain strong, though thankfully they are less mainstream than they were decades ago. … In contrast, the open expression […]

  • PBS Newshour: Crackdown On Online Hate Speech Pushes “Extremists” To Other Platforms

    Occidental Dissent - Apr 3rd 2021 7:22pm EDT

    What is “hate” and “extremist speech”? It is anything that falls outside of the viewpoint of progressive activists who are around 8% of the population. This includes everyone from Donald Trump down to millions of his followers as well as people whose views wouldn’t pass muster in the New York Times newsroom. Those people have […]

  • Liberal Larry: “Insurrectionist” Attacks The U.S. Capitol

    Occidental Dissent - Apr 3rd 2021 1:07pm EDT

    It was obviously “white supremacy.”

  • Donald Trump: Boycott Major League Baseball

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

    I’m just laughing at this. It has gotten to the point where baseball is polarizing. FOX News: “Former President Donald Trump fired a high, hard fastball at Major League Baseball on Friday night, urging fans to boycott the “national pastime” over its decision to pull this year’s All-Star Game from the Atlanta area. Trump asserted that MLB’s leadership was […]

  • Poll: Americans Are Divided On Joe’s Infrastructure Plan

    Occidental Dissent - Apr 2nd 2021 7:07pm EDT

    What exactly is this thing? Reuters: “Only 45% of Americans said they would support a jobs and infrastructure plan that was “recently released by the Biden administration.” Another 27% said they were opposed and the remaining 28% said they were not sure. The decline in support appears to be mostly a partisan reaction: only about […]

  • Russia Slams Anti-White “Aggression” In United States

    Occidental Dissent - Apr 2nd 2021 12:29pm EDT

    H/T IronicSockAccount It amazes me that this has never occurred to the Democrats. Moscow Times: “Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Thursday warned that anti-white racism might be building in the United States and said that political correctness “taken to the extreme” would have lamentable consequences. In an interview with political scientists broadcast on national […]

  • The Week: Biden Slams The Door Shut On Reaganism

    Occidental Dissent - Apr 2nd 2021 11:30am EDT

    Damon Linker makes some solid points in this article. I think he is a bit biased here though. He is accurately describing the extent to which the Republicans have changed and exaggerating the degree to which the Democrats have changed. The Week: “Since Donald Trump’s shocking primary and general election victories in 2016, arguably the […]

  • Tucker Carlson: Joe Biden Raises Your Taxes While He Dodges His Own

    Occidental Dissent - Apr 1st 2021 9:37pm EDT

    I got to say … I winced. Eric Levitz of all people makes a good point. New York Magazine: “Donald Trump believes that tailoring U.S. tax policy to the preferences of the American people — rather than to those of multinational corporations and their lobbyists — constitutes a “globalist betrayal” of the United States and […]

  • Joe Biden “Strongly Supports” Moving MLB All-Star Game Out Of Atlanta Due To New Georgia Election Law

    Occidental Dissent - Apr 1st 2021 7:20pm EDT

    Welcome to the sixth or seventh party system. CBS News: “President Biden says he’d “strongly support” moving the Major League Baseball All-Star game out of Atlanta as a rebuke to strict new voting restrictions in the state. The president said on ESPN Wednesday night that the curbs are “just not right.” “This is Jim Crow on steroids, […]