Category: Progressives, Page 22
Rich Lowry: A Second Trump Administration Would Be Bonkers
Occidental Dissent - Mar 21st 2023 8:41am EDTI’m currently leaning toward Trump. If the choice is between Joe Biden or Ron DeSantis or Donald Trump’s Revenge Tour, then a Trump victory is likely to produce maximum chaos and polarization. He drove me mad during his first term due to my expectations, but he ultimately did deliver on widening our national divisions. National […]
Politico: Trump Predicts Imminent Arrest, Calls For Protests
Occidental Dissent - Mar 18th 2023 10:27am EDTIt looks like the 2024 Republican primary might already be over. Politico: “Former President Donald Trump on Saturday called on his supporters to protest and “take our nation back” as he girds for an expected effort by the Manhattan district attorney to bring an unprecedented criminal charge over his handling of a hush money payment […]
Secular Talk: “Trans-Denier”: Newsmax Host Says Trans People Don’t Exist
Occidental Dissent - Mar 17th 2023 11:54am EDTAre you a “trans denier”? Sure, Christian Zionism is cringe, but Kyle Kulinski is on another level these days.
Poll Watch: Jews and Evangelicals
Occidental Dissent - Mar 16th 2023 7:10pm EDTJews having a favorable of -40 for Evangelical Christians while Evangelical Christians are +39 towards Jews will never stop being funny. Where these people live and given their SES, they probably have little direct experience and only know Jews as comic book heroes on Fox News. pic.twitter.com/34KYh0idDQ — Richard Hanania (@RichardHanania) March 16, 2023 Nobody […]
Secular Talk: “Sinful”: Biden Rips Anti-Trans Bill
Occidental Dissent - Mar 16th 2023 4:57pm EDTRight-wing commentator Steve Deace declares that drag queens are grooming children and that “pedo-groomers should be executed, by the way. After a fair trial, of course.” pic.twitter.com/Qm0StNOGbT — Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) March 15, 2023 Right-wing broadcaster Steve Deace says the Democratic Party is “a demonic construct, a satanically-influenced entity, and a death cult” and […]
Axios: The GOP’s Stunning Realignment on Foreign Policy
Occidental Dissent - Mar 15th 2023 10:19am EDTThis is good news. At least in rhetoric, Trump and Ron DeSantis are feeling the chilling effect of political gravity as Republican voters sour on Standing With Ukraine. This is cementing the end of Reaganism. New York Times: “Declaring this week that defending Ukraine against Russia’s invasion was not a vital interest for the United […]
Germans Bishops Defy Pope Francis To Back Homosexuality
Occidental Dissent - Mar 12th 2023 9:07am EDTIn another episode of THE UNIQUE (ONLY) EXPRESSION OF THE LEX ORANDI OF THE ROMAN RITE: Rapping Priest. Fr. Thomas Eschenbacher, a clown-priest of Hammelburg in the Diocese of Würzburg Germany, raps his homily. pic.twitter.com/ezfIYWXMV8 — Malleus Haereticorum Modernistarum (@PRTrad1) March 11, 2023 German Synodal Way, Day 3 ?: Up first: “Dealing with gender diversity” […]
Review: Power, Politics and the Missouri Synod
Occidental Dissent - Mar 9th 2023 12:18pm ESTOnly one major denomination has grown in the last 20 years – the Assemblies of God. They also happen to be one of the most politically conservative religious tradition in the United States. Note just how liberal atheists are – 42% are very liberal. No one else comes close. pic.twitter.com/IIGCdZRsqf — Ryan Burge ? (@ryanburge) […]
Senate Republicans Denounce Tucker Carlson’s 1/6 Coverage
Occidental Dissent - Mar 7th 2023 7:25pm ESTNEW – McConnell says “it was a mistake” for Fox News to depict Jan. 6 “in a way that’s completely at variance with what our chief law enforcement official here at the Capitol thinks.”pic.twitter.com/qRfYkqZ4O7 — Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) March 7, 2023 I see that haven’t missed much. Senate Republicans love to boast about sticking it to […]
Tucker Carlson Exposes 1/6 Hoax
Occidental Dissent - Mar 7th 2023 5:24pm ESTI trust that everyone has seen this by now. This isn’t exactly news except to those who are heavily invested in the official narrative. It has been obvious from the beginning that some people who were at 1/6 were violent while most were just people who had wandered over to the Capitol from the Trump […]
Salon: Stop Mocking Marjorie Taylor Greene
Occidental Dissent - Mar 2nd 2023 11:58am ESTChauncey De Vega understands me. I want to restore the Confederacy to reenslave Black people. Salon: “So what is the world that Marjorie Taylor Greene and other Republicans want to (re)create in the 21st century? The Confederacy. America’s native form of fascism, the Confederacy offered a white supremacist terror and surveillance society where white “Christian” […]
Mitch McConnell Defends Standing With Ukraine
Occidental Dissent - Mar 2nd 2023 11:15am ESTMitch McConnell is back from his recent trip to Europe where he announced at the Munich Security Conference that only his own opinion and the views of House and Senate Republican leadership matter when it comes to our foreign policy and Standing With Ukraine. New York Times: “WASHINGTON — When he made his surprise wartime […]
Matt Walsh: Anti-White Racism Is Real
Occidental Dissent - Mar 1st 2023 9:29pm ESTHow long has it been since the Groyper War? Three years?
Catholic Church In Ireland Allows Muslim Prayers
Occidental Dissent - Mar 1st 2023 9:26am ESTThe Catholic Church in Ireland has opened its doors for Muslim prayers and will even blast the azan on loudspeakers. You don’t even see this happening in churches in Muslim-majority countries. pic.twitter.com/y9zgc1tdAq — Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) February 28, 2023 H/T Rod Dreher These people may present themselves as Orthodox, Catholic, Lutheran, Baptist, Methodist, Presbyterian, […]
LCMS, Race and American History
Occidental Dissent - Feb 27th 2023 1:20pm ESTI’m already starting to make some progress on my research questions. The following excerpt comes from Kathryn Galchutt’s book The Career of Andrew Schulze: Lutherans and Race in the Civil Rights Era, 1924-1968 “In the early 1920s, while Schulze was still a seminary student and assistant at Holy Trinity in Springfield, John Behnken already made […]
Antifa Praise LCMS President Matthew Harrison For Bold Stance Against “Racism”
Occidental Dissent - Feb 27th 2023 9:31am ESTThank your for your courage!
Vladimir Putin Addresses Nation After a Year of War
Occidental Dissent - Feb 26th 2023 2:59pm ESTWe are now entering Year Two of this.
LCMS Is Swirling Down The Woke Drain
Occidental Dissent - Feb 25th 2023 11:49am ESTIf you think that **Matt Harrison** is a woke social justice warrior, you should maybe take a deep breath, quit sniffing glue, stop doing cocaine, etc. https://t.co/0pLdktWPp8 — Miles Smith IV (@IVMiles) February 24, 2023 It’s total idiocy. These loons are convinced that people like Harrison and myself are working with Antifa. It’s unhinged conspiracy […]
“Unchristian Teachings”: The History of “Alt-Right” Beliefs In Lutheranism
Occidental Dissent - Feb 24th 2023 10:58am ESTI realize this is a pointless exercise. Wokeism is a plague of our own times. It is a fad that is running its course. This is a contemporary leftwing social movement that has infected nearly every institution in our society due to the tireless crusading of progressive activists. The rot can be found in all […]
Woke LCMS President Works With Antifa To Dox and Excommunicate His Own Members For “Racism”
Occidental Dissent - Feb 23rd 2023 10:29am ESTThis is unbelievable. Does the average LCMS member know that their president is working with Antifa and “social justice” activists to dox and purge Lutheran congregations of members who are accused of “racism” and “white supremacy”? Religion News: “(RNS) — The president of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod has called for the excommunication of unrepentant white […]
Thomas Edsall: The Forces Tearing Us Apart Are Not What They Seem
Occidental Dissent - Feb 22nd 2023 9:38am ESTWe have heard a lot about education polarization. Over the last decade, White working class voters have generally become more Republican while White college educated suburban voters have become more Democratic, which explains why Virginia and Colorado have become Blue States while Ohio and Iowa have become Red States. New York Times: “As recently as […]
Joe Biden Delivers Address On Ukraine War
Occidental Dissent - Feb 21st 2023 1:37pm ESTHe can’t go fast enough. NBC News:
Morning Joe Calls On Red States To Secede
Occidental Dissent - Feb 21st 2023 10:09am ESTIf the Union were dissolved, nearly every negative piece of federal legislation and Supreme Court precedent that has been imposed on us would unwind overnight.
Marjorie Taylor Greene Calls For a National Divorce
Occidental Dissent - Feb 21st 2023 10:03am ESTWe need a national divorce. We need to separate by red states and blue states and shrink the federal government. Everyone I talk to says this. From the sick and disgusting woke culture issues shoved down our throats to the Democrat’s traitorous America Last policies, we are… https://t.co/Azn8YF1UUy — Marjorie Taylor Greene ?? (@mtgreenee) February […]
David French: America Can’t Go “Wobbly” On Ukraine
Occidental Dissent - Feb 20th 2023 12:52pm ESTThis is good news. By chiming in on the importance of Standing With Ukraine, David French will only ensure that support for it will continue to plummet on the Right simply by being associated with him. New York Times: “As we approach the first anniversary of Russia’s brutal and unprovoked invasion of Ukraine, two ominous […]