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  • 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, […]

  • Thomas Frank Predicted This

    Occidental Dissent - Apr 1st 2021 4:12pm EDT

    Interesting. Years ago, I bought and read Thomas Frank’s book What’s The Matter With Kansas? when it came out in the 2000s when George W. Bush was president. I agreed with Frank’s critique of mainstream conservatism. Just read what I wrote about the Trump presidency for four years. It is basically the same idea. I […]

  • Jimmy Dore: Bernie’s Defense Of Biden’s Stimulus Shocks Progressives

    Occidental Dissent - Apr 1st 2021 3:03pm EDT

    Any “progressive” Dem who tweets about $15 min wage or Medicare for All but doesn’t force a vote on it is just as much an enemy of the working class as Nancy Pelosi, Joe Manchin and the Republicans are. Time to tear this two-party system down to the ground. Forever. — Prof Zenkus (@anthonyzenkus) April […]

  • Poll: Americans Support Raising Taxes On The Wealthy and Corporations To Fund Infrastructure Spending

    Occidental Dissent - Apr 1st 2021 1:59pm EDT

    I’m shocked to learn this. Independents are strongly opposed to Joe Biden’s immigration policies, but support him on how he is handling COVID, the American Rescue Plan and on raising taxes on the wealthy and corporations to build infrastructure. It is almost like Trump would have been reelected if 1.) he hadn’t made a fool […]

  • Time For A Labor Party?

    Occidental Dissent - Apr 1st 2021 12:27pm EDT

    Today’s Tories only talk about class to divert attention away from addressing racism, not because they want to address the grotesque economic inequalities that define work, housing, health, education and political power. — Owen Jones ? (@OwenJones84) April 1, 2021 Happy #TransDayOfVisibility. Solidarity with our trans siblings as they continue to suffer widespread discrimination and […]

  • CNN: “Biological Sex” At Birth Is A Misleading Way Of Describing The Human Body

    Occidental Dissent - Apr 1st 2021 11:10am EDT

    Speaking of a Big Lie … We wouldn’t want to “misgender” anyone. After discovering hard evidence that the White race is a social construct which has no biological basis, progressive activists have recently discovered at least 20,000 new genders over the past decade. CNN: “Though the two executive orders signed by Noem do not explicitly mention […]

  • NY Mag: Lil Nas X, Cardi B, and the Anti-Pop Conservative Outrage Machine

    Occidental Dissent - Apr 1st 2021 9:43am EDT

    As many of our readers probably remember, I was dialed out of politics in 2020. I was focused on aesthetics, culture and history. Specifically, I wanted to trace the root causes of America’s cultural degeneration to their source. How did my generation come to live in a culture of omnipresent filth? New York Magazine: “Pop […]

  • Baltimore Decriminalizes Drugs, Prostitution and Urinating and Defecating In Public

    Occidental Dissent - Mar 31st 2021 6:22pm EDT

    Wakanda wasn’t built in a day. CNN: “(CNN) – Baltimore City State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby says the city will no longer prosecute for prostitution, drug possession and other low-level offenses. Mosby made the announcement on Friday following her office’s one-year experiment in not prosecuting minor offenses to decrease the spread of Covid-19 behind bars. … […]

  • Shithole: Baltimore Decriminalizes Drugs, Prostitution and Urinating and Defecating In Public

    Occidental Dissent - Mar 31st 2021 6:22pm EDT

    Wakanda wasn’t built in a day. CNN: “(CNN) – Baltimore City State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby says the city will no longer prosecute for prostitution, drug possession and other low-level offenses. Mosby made the announcement on Friday following her office’s one-year experiment in not prosecuting minor offenses to decrease the spread of Covid-19 behind bars. … […]

  • Rising: The Matt Gaetz Gossip

    Occidental Dissent - Mar 31st 2021 4:59pm EDT

    I’ve never had any interest in Matt Gaetz. I think this episode is highlighting a big cultural disconnect though. Even if the allegation is true that Matt Gaetz dated a 17-year-old woman, the idea that this is a scandal, but the celebration of homosexuality, gender fluidity and transgenderism is not scandalous and that people in […]

  • Paul Krugman: Why Can’t Republicans Be Populists?

    Occidental Dissent - Mar 31st 2021 3:12pm EDT

    Paul Krugman is right. The GOP is held back by its antiquated economic policy agenda. New York Times: “President Biden’s American Rescue Plan is incredibly popular, even among Republican voters. We don’t have details yet on the next big Democratic initiative, but we can expect it to poll well, because we know that it will […]