GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— I should form a National Association of Conservative Journalists. I am a member of the Society of Professional Journalists. I am an independent conservative Republican political and government news and commentary aggregator. I should write about my critics/opponents who have slandered me the most as not being a legitimate journalist. They ignore/dismiss/belittle/badmouth the fact a) that I have been the GOPUSA Illinois Editor since 2000 and that since January 1, 2005, GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters have included links to almost 492,000 articles, b) that I worked for GAO as an Analyst for almost 18 years, the last 11 years of which at the GS-13 Step 1-10 Levels, currently $115,439-$150,075/year, and c) that what GAO Analysts do is very similar to what journalists do. I would focus on my critics/opponents who destroy those like me a) who they cannot manipulate or dominate, b) who refuse to glorify and praise them, c) who refuse to pander to them, d) who refuse to serve as one of their operatives or dupes, e) who refuse to cover up their wrong doing, and/or f) who refuse to give them money. I would focus on those who have lots religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois. Better yet, I should sue them. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
NBC5
— Democrats say “Donald Trump to visit Chicago for National Association of Black Journalists Convention. Former President Donald Trump will participate in a conversation and question-and-answer session with political journalists on the opening day of the National Association of Black Journalists Annual Convention & Career Fair.” I am a conservative political/government journalist. There are extremely few conservative political/government journalists in Illinois. I believe in full disclosure. Anticipate/expect that those who share my demographics are more likely to read my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters because they share my conservative political/government opinions. In addition to being conservative, I am Republican, White, male, older, non-poor, married, Protestant, German American, and my ancestors have been in America for a long time. Further, I have three master’s degrees (business, accounting, and finance), six professional certifications (accounting, internal auditing, fraud examination, government financial management, financial services auditing, and forensic accounting), and a professional license (accounting). Further, I have been a Republican Precinct Committeeman since 1999 and the GOPUSA Illinois Editor since 2000. Further, I served as the chairman of a conservative political organization (TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois) for 7 years and on the leadership team of another conservative organization (Illinois Center Right Coalition) for 4 years. Further, I worked for the federal government for almost 30 years (18 for GAO, 9 for IRS, and 3 for the Post Office). Further, I was a union member for almost 12 years. Further, I worked my way through college. Further, I have lived in Wheaton since 1978 and in Illinois since 1948.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/donald-trump-to-visit-chicago-wednesday-for-national-association-of-black-journalists-convention/3504900/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: “While NABJ does not endorse political candidates as a journalism organization, we understand the serious work of our members, and welcome the opportunity for them to ask the tough questions that will provide the truthful answers Black Americans want and need to know.” The event won’t be open to the public but will be livestreamed on the NABJ’s YouTube and Facebook pages. Democratic presidential candidate, Vice President Kamala Harris, was invited to participate as well, NABJ stated. As of late Monday, her confirmation was pending.)
— Democrats ever-increasingly crow about their success in promoting abortion.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/illinois-abortion-clinics-brace-for-another-surge-after-iowa-abortion-law-takes-effect/3504565/
ABC7
— Democrats say “Donald Trump to attend Chicago’s National Association of Black Journalists Convention.”
https://abc7chicago.com/post/donald-trump-chicago-former-president-attend-nabj-2024/15119113/
— Democrats say “Chicago could see more Venezuelan migrants with election results.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PL548xzk8oQ
CBS2
— Democrats say “Sangamon County, Illinois sheriff says his department failed Sonya Massey.”
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/questions-remain-sonya-massey-murder-officer-charged/
WGN9
— Democrats say “Former President Trump to attend National Association of Black Journalists annual convention in Chicago on Wednesday.”
https://wgntv.com/news/chicago-news/former-president-trump-to-attend-national-association-of-black-journalists-annual-convention-in-chicago-on-wednesday/
FOX32
— Democrats say “Trump coming to Chicago on Wednesday.”
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/trump-chicago-national-association-black-journalists-convention
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGe8mFr_JDQ
WBEZ
— Democrats say “Donald Trump to attend national Black journalists convention in Chicago on Wednesday.”
https://www.wbez.org/politics/2024/07/29/donald-trump-2024-nabj-black-journalists-conference-chicago-loop-media-news-nation-politics
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrats say “Donald Trump to attend national Black journalists convention in Chicago on Wednesday.”
https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/2024/07/29/nabj-convention-in-chicago-could-set-attendance-record
— Democrats say “As Kamala Harris races to make VP pick, J.B. Pritzker’s complex financial portfolio could take time to vet. Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign is just 8 days old, and she’s squeezing the search for a running mate, which traditionally takes weeks, into days.” https://chicago.suntimes.com/2024-democratic-national-convention/2024/07/29/kamala-harris-president-election-politics-running-mate-campaign-washington-dnc-pritzker-vetting
— Democrats say “Pritzker signs measure to expand abortion coverage, combat Black maternal deaths. The bill-signing in Chicago came hours after Iowa enacted a six-week abortion ban — further enshrining Illinois as a safe haven for those seeking reproductive care services. Neighboring Indiana, Missouri and Kentucky also have abortion bans in place.”
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2024/07/29/pritzker-signing-ceremony-legislation-expansion-abortion-coverage-black-maternal-deaths
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Democrats say “Chicago migrants disheartened over presidential election results in Venezuela; We want our country to be free.” Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly use problems in Venezuela to justify illegal immigration from Venezuela.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/07/29/chicago-migrants-disheartened-over-presidential-election-results-in-venezuela-we-want-our-country-to-be-free/
— I should write about those who stopped me in 2021 from serving as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks, a role that I had since 2005.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/07/30/oak-park-fourth-of-july-parade-a-showcase-of-towns-diversity/
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Democrats ever-increasingly crow about their success in promoting abortion.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/health-care/iowa-abortion-ban-illinois-expects-more-travelers
SOUTHERN
— Democrats say “Local SWAT snipers saw Trump rally gunman nearly 2 hours before assassination attempt, text messages show.”
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2024/07/29/local-swat-snipers-saw-trump-rally-gunman-nearly-2-hours-before-assassination-attempt-text-messages-show/
CHICAGO CRUSADER
— Democrats say “Justice For Sonya Massey: What We Know About Police Killing Of Illinois Black Woman.” Democrat use of “police killing” outrageously hints/implies/argues/shouts that Sean Grayson had approval if not direction to shoot Massey.
https://chicagocrusader.com/justice-for-sonya-massey-what-we-know-about-police-killing-of-illinois-black-woman/
WGLT
— Democrats say “Iowa is the latest state to impose tighter limits on abortion access.” Democrats ever-increasingly shout at women that getting abortions is the most important thing in their lives.
https://www.wglt.org/2024-07-29/iowa-is-the-latest-state-to-impose-tighter-limits-on-abortion-access
DAILY ILLINI
— Democrats use Sean Grayson to promote more hatred against police.
https://dailyillini.com/opinions-stories/2024/07/28/sonya-massey-illinois/
ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY
— To promote DEI is to get rid of those who are White, male, older, Protestant, Italian American, German American, those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time, conservative, Republican, American, etc.
https://news.illinoisstate.edu/2024/07/new-resources-supporting-inclusion-diversity-equity-and-access-now-available-to-all-illinois-residents/
BLOCK CLUB CHICAGO
— Democrats say “Trump Coming To Chicago Wednesday To Speak At National Association Of Black Journalists Convention.”
https://blockclubchicago.org/2024/07/29/trump-to-speak-at-national-association-of-black-journalists-convention-in-chicago-this-week/
CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2024/07/29/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-129/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Awaiting surge, Pritzker says border crossings down past 2 months – Greg Bishop (COMMENT: Because Democrats run everything in America, no one should believe that border crossings are down.)
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_d4ab6626-4df0-11ef-84c7-b364a47394f5.html
WIREPOINTS
— Pritzker polls last among swing-state Democrats as Harris VP choice. – Ted Dabrowski and John Klingner
https://wirepoints.org/gov-pritzker-polls-last-among-swing-state-democrats-as-harris-vp-choice-wirepoints/
— Illinois drives people out with taxes and a lack of opportunity… which makes the tax situation even worse.
https://wirepoints.org/illinois-drives-people-out-with-taxes-and-a-lack-of-opportunity-which-makes-the-tax-situation-even-worse-wirepoints-on-wls-ramblin-ray-show/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Kamala Harris’ employees flee in droves, ex-staff cite toxic workplace. – Susan Ferrechio
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/jul/29/kamala-harris-employees-flee-in-droves-ex-staff-ci/
— IRS allowed tax cheat employees to keep their jobs. Dozens of tax evaders still working at agency. – Stephen Dinan (COMMENT: My Democrat IRS superiors wasted my career and took adverse actions against me. They would not have done that if I had been a Democrat, minority, female, and/or veteran. They disallowed my travel vouchers in 1974, they disallowed my education deductions in 1978, and they never promoted me beyond GS-12. They ignored, dismissed, belittled my earning an MBA from Loyola in 1976, my passing the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, and my earning a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul in 1980. They made things so bad for me that I reluctantly took a $22,996/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer to GAO in 1980.)
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/jul/29/irs-allowed-tax-cheat-employees-to-keep-their-jobs/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Segregationists for Kamala – Zachary Faria
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/3102326/segregationists-for-kamala/
AMERICAN FAMILY NEWS
— After abandoning Biden, media circles wagons around ‘border czar’ Harris. – Steve Jordahl, Billy Davis
https://afn.net/media/2024/07/30/after-abandoning-biden-media-circles-wagons-around-border-czar-harris/
AMERICAN GREATNESS
— Kamala Says Joe Is Fit for Office. – Liz Sheld
https://amgreatness.com/2024/07/30/morning-greatness-kamala-says-joe-is-fit-for-office/
— Elizabeth Warren Calls for Granting Citizenship to Illegal Immigrants
https://amgreatness.com/2024/07/29/elizabeth-warren-calls-for-granting-citizenship-to-illegal-immigrants/
— Gun Control Group Donates $15 Million to Harris as Cofounder is Considered Top VP Pick. – Eric Lendrum
https://amgreatness.com/2024/07/29/gun-control-group-donates-15-million-to-harris-as-cofounder-is-considered-top-vp-pick/
BIZ PAC REVIEW
— Drag queen Olympic torchbearer lashes out at critics: ‘WE AIN’T GOING NOWHERE’ – Sierra Marlee|
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2024/07/29/drag-queen-olympic-torchbearer-lashes-out-at-critics-we-aint-going-nowhere-1475955/
BLAZE
— Kamala Harris will provide ‘pathway to citizenship’ for illegal aliens if elected president: Sen. Elizabeth Warren – Cortney Weil
https://www.theblaze.com/news/kamala-harris-will-provide-pathway-to-citizenship-for-illegal-aliens-if-elected-president-sen-elizabeth-warren
BREITBART
— Establishment Media Attempt to Cover Up How Few Illegal Aliens Biden-Harris Administration Deported from U.S. – JOHN BINDER
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2024/07/29/establishment-media-attempt-to-cover-up-how-few-illegal-aliens-biden-harris-administration-deported-from-u-s/
CENTER FOR IMMIGRATION STUDIES
— The Latest Biden/Harris ‘Lawful Pathways’ Scheme: Declare Latin American Migrants to Be ‘Refugees’ Thousands flying in who would not have qualified as refugees in the past. – Todd Bensman
https://cis.org/Bensman/Latest-BidenHarris-Lawful-Pathways-Scheme-Declare-Latin-American-Migrants-Be-Refugees
COLLEGE FIX
— Black nationalism on rise due to white supremacy, Rice University study says. – BENJAMIN VOGEL
https://www.thecollegefix.com/black-nationalism-on-rise-due-to-white-supremacy-rice-university-study-says/
CONSERVATIVE HQ
— Did Harris Extort Biden To Get The Democrat Nomination?
https://www.conservativehq.com/post/did-harris-extort-biden-to-get-the-democrat-nomination
DAILY CALLER
— Billionaires Bankrolling Kamala Harris’ Tough-On-Crime Campaign Wanted To Defund Police, Install Soros Prosecutors. – ROBERT SCHMAD
https://dailycaller.com/2024/07/28/billionaires-bankrolling-kamala-harris-crime-campaign-wanted-defund-police-install-soros-prosecutors/
DAILY WIRE
— Biden-Harris Admin Proposes Rule Allowing Illegal Immigrants Access To Taxpayer-Funded College Prep Programs. – Spencer Lindquist
https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-harris-admin-proposes-rule-allowing-illegal-immigrants-access-to-taxpayer-funded-college-prep-programs
FERERALIST
— Kamala Harris Is The Most Queer-Promoting Presidential Candidate Ever. – Jordan Boyd
https://thefederalist.com/2024/07/30/kamala-harris-is-the-most-queer-promoting-presidential-candidate-ever/
— Olympic Drag-Themed Parody Of Last Supper Scene Will Drag Down Gay Acceptance. – Tristan Justice
https://thefederalist.com/2024/07/29/olympic-drag-themed-parody-of-last-supper-scene-will-drag-down-gay-acceptance/
FOX NEWS
— Trump to attend National Association of Black Journalists Convention in Chicago. Trump will participate in a Q&A with political journalists in front of an audience of registered convention spectators. – Landon Mion
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-attend-national-association-black-journalists-convention-chicago
(FROM THE ARTICLE: “President Trump accomplished more for Black Americans than any other president in recent history by implementing America First policies on the economy, immigration, energy, law and order, and foreign policy,” the Trump campaign claimed in a press release. “Historic rates of Black voters now support President Trump, and the reason is simple: Black voters know that President Trump is the only presidential candidate who can deliver results on day one because he already has, including landmark unemployment rates for Black Americans, increased median income for Black households, historic permanent funding for HBCUs (Historically Black Colleges and Universities), comprehensive bipartisan criminal justice reform, and nearly $50 billion in funds to revitalize Opportunity Zones,” his campaign continued.)
— Kamala Harris made a career of pretending to be marginalized. Equal opportunity doesn’t matter to Kamala Harris. It’s equal results or something radical called ‘equity’ – Ying Ma
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/kamala-harris-made-career-pretending-marginalized
— ‘Voice of leadership’: Harris has repeatedly praised her pastor who blamed America for 9/11. ‘He has been on this journey with me every step of the way,’ Harris said about Rev Amos Brown. – Cameron Cawthorne, Andrew Mark Miller
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/voice-leadership-harris-has-repeatedly-praised-her-pastor-who-blamed-america-9-11
— Elizabeth Warren’s call for mass citizenship for migrants frustrates social media users: ‘Anti-American’ Vice President Kamala Harris has come under fire for her role as ‘border czar’ – Lindsay Kornick
https://www.foxnews.com/media/elizabeth-warrens-call-mass-citizenship-migrants-frustrates-social-media-users-anti-american
— Missouri AG filing lawsuit against Biden administration for allegedly flying illegal immigrants to state. According to Bailey’s lawsuit, the government has not provided records on illegal immigrant transportation into Missouri. – Stepheny Price
https://www.foxnews.com/us/missouri-ag-filing-lawsuit-against-biden-administration-allegedly-flying-illegal-immigrants-state
— Biden-era deportations down sharply from Trump era despite media and activist narrative. Just 4.4% of border encounters during Biden admin resulted in ICE deportation. – Adam Shaw
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-era-deportations-down-sharply-from-trump-era-despite-media-activist-narrative-analysis
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Democrats say “Donald Trump to attend Black journalists’ convention in Chicago.”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/donald-trump-to-attend-black-journalists-convention-in-chicago/ar-BB1qR9d2
ABC NEWS
— Democrats say “Donald Trump to attend Black journalists’ convention in Chicago.”
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/donald-trump-attend-black-journalists-convention-chicago-112389204
NBC NEWS
— Anticipate/expect ever-increasing focus on those who hired Sean Grayson.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/deputy-killed-sonya-massey-drew-concerns-aggression-integrity-issues-p-rcna163833
WASHINGTON POST
— Democrats say “The senseless police killing of Sonya Massey is a call to action. Harris should lead on the intolerable pattern of Black women being fatally shot by police.” Democrat use of “police killing” outrageously hints/implies/argues/shouts that Sean Grayson had approval if not direction to shoot Massey.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/07/29/harris-police-sonya-massey/
— William Calley, Army officer and face of My Lai Massacre, is dead at 80. He was the only person convicted in connection with the atrocity, in which American troops killed hundreds of unarmed South Vietnamese men, women and children. (COMMENT: I should write a book about my critics/opponents who used my avoiding the Vietnam War draft the most. I would focus on my Democrat Post Office, Firestone Store, IRS, and GAO superiors who were veterans.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2024/07/29/william-calley-dead-my-lai-massacre/
USA TODAY
— Democrats say “Trump’s 3,500 lawsuits unprecedented for a presidential nominee.” My critics/opponents despise/hate those who file lawsuits. They glorify, praise, and pander to defendants. I should write a book about the lawsuits that I filed. I would focus on the defendants, the charges, the outcomes, their attorneys, and the retaliatory actions that they continue to take against me.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2016/06/01/donald-trump-lawsuits-legal-battles/84995854/
— Democrats and RINOs ever-increasingly use DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2024/07/30/dei-opponents-undo-america-progress/74456214007/
MSN
— Democrats and RINOs crow that “Most Latinos Support Citizenship Path for Undocumented.” Ever-increasingly, the percent of Hispanics in America ever-increasingly increases. Sooner or later, America will become a Hispanic nation, if not become part of Mexico. Democrats and RINOs have no problem with that.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/most-latinos-support-citizenship-path-for-undocumented-but-backing-for-border-wall-grows/ar-BB1lmbWq
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— FRONT PAGE: America’s New Political War Pits Young Men Against Young Women. A majority of men under 30 support former President Trump and Republican control of Congress, a sharp reversal from the 2020 race; young women strongly favor Democrats. – Aaron Zitner and Andrew Restuccia
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/men-women-vote-republican-democrat-election-7f5f726c
— More People Are Driving on Cannabis. Law Enforcement Is Racing to Learn Who Is High. Oral-fluid tests and training are helping officers track down potential impairment. – Julie Wernau
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/more-people-are-driving-on-cannabis-law-enforcement-is-racing-to-learn-who-is-high-a5b3a496
— Kamala Harris’s Chicago Moment. Hard-left protesters denounce ‘Genocide Joe.’ They revile the vice president too. – William McGurn
https://www.wsj.com/articles/kamala-harriss-chicago-moment-cc08b22c
— Destigmatizing Drug Abuse Is a Dopey Idea. – Naomi Schaefer Riley
https://www.wsj.com/articles/destigmatizing-drug-abuse-is-a-dopey-idea-da4cf979
— Kamala Harris’s Gift to Hamas. She relieves pressure on the terror group to agree to release Israeli hostages. – Amit Segal
https://www.wsj.com/articles/kamala-harris-gift-to-hamas-lowers-terrorist-incentive-for-hostage-release-0937e464
FORTUNE
— Democrats and RINOs ever-increasingly use DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://fortune.com/2024/07/30/dei-debate-rages-research-business-benefits/
RASMUSSEN REPORTS
— Majority Say Women Should Have to Register for Draft (COMMENT: During 1970 and 1971, my job search was harmed big time because potential employers saw me as being draft bait. I was 1-A and they did not believe that my financial hardship draft deferment application would be approved. Consequently, I accepted the only job offer that I got. It was for a job that did not really require a college degree.)
https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/biden_administration/majority_say_women_should_have_to_register_for_draft
INSIDE HIGHER EDUCATION
— Democrats crow that “Black Sororities, Fraternities ‘Organizing Like Never Before’ The organizations are mobilizing to get voters to the polls as their student and alumni members embrace Alpha Kappa Alpha member Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign.” They following discouraged fraternities at UIC 1966-1968 and NIU 1969-1970 from inviting me to join: a) my parents never attended college; b) my father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma, c) my mother never attended high school, d) my parents were not wealthy; I had to work my way through college, e) I had not demonstrated any leadership potential; I had washed dishes 1964-1966; cleaned golf shoes, chipped slag, and pumped gasoline in 1966; and delivered mail 1966-1969, f) the Post Office had disallowed my sick leave requests in 1968 and 1969 and forced me to resign in 1969, g) I lived with my parents in Crete while I took classes at UIC 1966-1969, weekends during my first semester at NIU in 1969, and the summer of 1969, h) my GPA was not that great, i) I only just barely made it into the upper 20% of my high school class, j) my ACT score was only 24, k) I have always been conservative, l) I was baptized, raised, and confirmed as a Missouri Synod Lutheran, m) I am 100% German American, n) my ancestors have been in America only since 1844, and o) I was not a drinker, I was not a team player, I could not run because of I had a bone disease, my eyesight could not be corrected to 20/20, and I had partial red/green color blindness.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/government/politics-elections/2024/07/30/black-sorority-fraternity-members-mobilize-harris
PEW RESEARCH CENTER
— More Americans want the journalists they get news from to share their politics than any other personal trait – Emily Tomasik (COMMENT: Anticipate/expect that those who share my demographics are more likely to read my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters because they share my political and government opinions. I am conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-poor, married, Protestant, German American, and my ancestors have been in America for a long time. Further, I have three master’s degrees (business, accounting, and finance), six professional certifications (accounting, internal auditing, fraud examination, government financial management, financial services auditing, and forensic accounting), and a professional license (accounting). Further, I have been a Republican Precinct Committeeman since 1999 and the GOPUSA Illinois Editor since 2000. Further, I served as the chairman of a conservative political organization (TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois) for 7 years and on the leadership team of another conservative organization (Illinois Center Right Coalition) for 4 years. Further, I worked for the federal government for almost 30 years (18 for GAO, 9 for IRS, and 3 for the Post Office). Further, I was a union member for almost 12 years. Further, I worked my way through college. Further, I have lived in Wheaton since 1978 and in Illinois since 1948.)
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/05/16/more-americans-want-the-journalists-they-get-news-from-to-share-their-politics-than-any-other-personal-trait/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Most Americans say it is not important that the news they get comes from journalists who share their political views, age, gender or other traits. But people are more likely to say it is important for journalists to share their politics than any other characteristic we asked about. And certain demographic groups place more value than others on the personal traits of their journalists. A 2023 Pew Research Center survey asked Americans how important it is for the journalists they get news from to have six personal characteristics that are similar to their own. About four-in-ten Americans say it is at least somewhat important that they get news from journalists who share their political views (39%). That is nearly double the share who say the same about getting news from journalists who share their religious views (22%) or who talk or sound like them (20%). Smaller shares say they want to get news from journalists who are similar to them in age (15%), share their race or ethnicity (14%), or share their gender (10%). On several of these questions, opinions vary based on respondents’ political views, age and other personal traits. Political views Similar shares of Republicans and Democrats say it is at least somewhat important for the news they get to come from journalists who share their political views. Four-in-ten Republicans and GOP-leaning independents say this, compared with 41% of Democrats and Democratic leaners. When combining party and ideology, people who place themselves at either end of the political spectrum are more likely than those toward the center to say journalists’ politics are important. Roughly half each of conservative Republicans (47%) and liberal Democrats (50%) say it is important that the news they get comes from journalists who share their politics. Smaller shares of liberal and moderate Republicans (29%) and conservative and moderate Democrats (33%) hold this view. Age A bar chart showing that younger people more likely to want news from journalists of a similar age. Younger adults are more likely than older Americans to say they want news from journalists who are around the same age as them. Among U.S. adults ages 18 to 29, 23% say this is at least somewhat important, compared with one-in-ten of those ages 65 and older. Younger adults are also more likely than older adults to say it’s important that the journalists they get news from are the same gender as them; still, large majorities say this is not important. Some 16% of those ages 18 to 29 say it is at least somewhat important for journalists to share their gender, versus 6% of those 65 and older. Race or ethnicity Black Americans are more likely than other racial or ethnic groups to say it is important they get news from journalists who share several of their characteristics – particularly their race or ethnicity. About four-in-ten Black Americans (41%) say it is at least somewhat important that the news they get comes from journalists who share their race or ethnicity. A quarter of Hispanic Americans, 20% of Asian Americans and just 5% of White Americans say the same. For more information on how Black Americans answered these questions, read our report on Black Americans and news. Religion A bar chart showing that White evangelicals, Black Protestants are most likely to want news from journalists with shared religious views. Overall, Americans who identify with a religion are more likely than those who are religiously unaffiliated to find it at least somewhat important to get news from journalists who share their religious views (26% vs. 15%). Among Christians, Protestants are more likely than Catholics to say it is important for journalists to share their religious views (30% vs. 21%). But there are also differences among Protestants and among Catholics: White evangelical Protestants (37%) and Black Protestants (33%) are about twice as likely as White nonevangelical Protestants (16%) to say this. About three-in-ten Hispanic Catholics say this (28%), compared with 17% of White Catholics. Among Jewish Americans, just 10% say it’s at least somewhat important to get news from journalists who share their religious views.)
Tag: gun
July 27, 2024
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrats say “Immigration advocates in Chicago disappointed and angry over lack of reforms, plan DNC protests. Some plan to join with other activists who are planning demonstrations at the Democratic National Convention, saying they are tired of broken promises.”
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2024/07/26/immigration-dnc-democratic-national-convention-immigrants-protests-biden-harris-asylum-daca-undocumented
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2024/07/26/donald-trump-old-guy-left-presidential-race-joe-biden-kamala-har
DAILY HERALD
— Democrats crow that “Democratic congressional candidates’ financial advantage this cycle is overwhelming.” Who will the leaders of the Illinois Republican Party (IRP), your Republican county party organization, and your Republican township/ward party organization blame for losses that Republican candidates will suffer on November 5, 2024? I should write a book about those IRP, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Milton Township Republican Organization leaders who have blamed me and have blamed my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters the most for losses suffered by Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct since 2000.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20240726/us-congress-politics/democratic-congressional-candidates-financial-advantage-this-cycle-is-overwhelming/
ABC7
— Democrats say “Vance responds to childless cat ladies backlash, claims Democrats are anti-family.”
https://abc7chicago.com/post/jd-vance-childless-cat-ladies-comment/15100925/
FOX32
— Democrats say “U-Haul reveals where Chicago’s newcomers are moving from.” Pritzker is having great success attracted voters to Illinois who have demographics that vote for Democrats. Those demographics are poor, lack education, lack job skills, have health problems, minority, female, younger, unmarried, LGBTQ, non-Protestant, non-German American, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, and/or are in America illegally. The aforesaid want class warfare, socialism, reparations, massive assistance from government and charities, LGBTQ, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, booze, gambling, pot, and other vices, diminishment/abolition of Second Amendment rights, and/or Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/u-haul-reveals-where-chicagos-newcomers-moving-from
WGN RADIO
— Democrats say “Our children are going to college” but ask “do they know why?” Why did you go to college? My father never earned more than $50,000/year in today’s dollars. He often decried his not having a college degree. He almost always worked second jobs to pay the family’s bills. He was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma. My mother never attended high school. I had to work my way through college.
https://wgnradio.com/jobs/career-vision/our-children-are-going-to-college-but-do-they-know-why/
SOUTHERN
— Democrats say “Harris to take over for Biden after support from Pelosi, Obama.” What about the 25th Amendment?
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2024/07/26/kamala-harris-to-take-over-for-biden-after-support-from-pelosi-obama/
— Democrats say “A woman who took an abortion pill was charged with murder. She is now suing prosecutors.”
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2024/07/26/a-woman-who-took-an-abortion-pill-was-charged-with-murder-she-is-now-suing-prosecutors/
CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE
— Political parties exist to help elect candidates who can/will defend/advance their platform. The Republican Party platform is conservative. Far too many leaders of far too many Republican organizations in Illinois reject far too many planks in the Republican Party platform.
https://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/editorials/editorial-new-illinois-gop-boss-faces-tough-job-rebuilding-broken-party/article_ab6bc060-4a00-11ef-b236-f73e4ab73b9a.html
FOX ILLINOIS
— Democrats say “Donald Trump was the special guest at Turning Point Action’s “Believers’ Summit” in West Palm Beach on Friday.”
https://foxillinois.com/news/beyond-the-podium/former-president-trump-speaks-at-conservative-summit-in-florida-turning-point-action-attempted-assassination-republican-election-jd-vance
— Democrats say “Non-citizen protesters convicted of crimes would be deported under GOP bill.”
https://foxillinois.com/news/nation-world/gallery/non-citizen-protesters-convicted-of-crimes-would-be-deported-under-gop-bill-tom-cotton-republican-protests-immigration-illegal-immigrant-no-visas-for-violent-criminals-act
WGLT
— Democrats ever-increasingly call non-Democrats racists and sexists.
https://www.wglt.org/2024-07-26/kamala-harris-faces-racism-and-sexism-as-she-moves-closer-to-presidential-nomination
CAPITOL FAX
— Democrats say “Afternoon roundup.”
https://capitolfax.com/2024/07/26/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-128/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
SANGAMON SUN
— Supreme Court declines immediate review of Illinois’ assault weapon ban.
https://sangamonsun.com/stories/662099625-supreme-court-declines-immediate-review-of-illinois-assault-weapon-ban
ILLINOIS REVIEW
— Root Causes and the Abortion Issue – JOHN F. DI LEO
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2024/07/opinion-root-causes-and-the-abortion-issue.html
WIREPOINTS
— Illinois has lost people 23 years in a row. That’s a loss of $3.6 billion in tax revenue in 2022 alone.
https://wirepoints.org/illinois-has-lost-people-23-years-in-a-row-thats-a-loss-of-3-6-billion-in-tax-revenue-in-2022-alone-wirepoints-on-with-jeff-daly-of-wzus-decatur-radio/
ILLINOIS REPUBLICAN PARTY
— Illinois Democrats Deny Harris’s Border Failures (COMMENT: Democrat leaders bring illegals into America because illegals vote for Democrats. RINO leaders bring illegals into America because RINO leaders want cheap labor.)
https://illinois.gop/illinois-democrats-deny-harris-border-failures/
(THE PRESS RELEASE: CHICAGO — Yesterday, Illinois Democrats denied reality voting against condemning Vice President Kamala Harris’s handling of the migrant crisis that has overwhelmed cities like Chicago and others across the nation. Every Democrat (except one who lacked the courage to vote on the position) voted down the resolution, which passed the House of Representatives yesterday. Illinois Republican Party Chair Kathy Salvi released the following statement: “Democrats in this state have told us to believe our lying eyes so many times, they’ve started to do it themselves. From denying unquestionable outmigration numbers to gaslighting families with tax hikes they call tax cuts, the lies have become so extreme that Democrats in this state actually believe Vice President Harris’s handling of the border was not an unmitigated disaster. Under the Biden/Harris administration, border interactions have skyrocketed, reaching an all time peak of 250,000 just this past December. Democrats who voted to applaud Vice President Harris’s border policy should know that her failures are your failures this November.“)
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Johnson calls out Harris for illegal voting ‘catastrophe’ during border visit. – Emily Hallas
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/house/3101255/johnson-calls-out-harris-illegal-voting-catastrophe-border-visit/
— Not just ‘border czar,’ let’s discuss Harris’s role in Afghanistan. – Zachary Faria
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/3101227/not-just-border-czar-harris-role-afghanistan/
WASHINGTON FREE BEACON
— Joe Biden’s Senior Moment of the Week
https://freebeacon.com/biden-administration/watch-joe-bidens-senior-moment-of-the-week-rest-in-peace-edition/
AMERICAN FAMILY NEWS
— GOP keeps Kamala from wiggling out of ‘border czar’ label. – Chris Woodward, Chad Groening
https://afn.net/national-security/2024/07/26/gop-keeps-kamala-from-wiggling-out-of-border-czar-label/
BREITBART
— Biden-Harris Administration Issues Proposed Rule to Get Illegals into College Prep Programs – JOHN BINDER (COMMENT: I took college preparatory courses in high school even though no one thought I was “college material.” Neither of my parents had attended college. My father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma. My mother never attended high school. Everyone was shocked that I got an ACT score of 24, that I graduated in the upper 20% of my high school class, and that UIC accepted me.)
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/07/26/biden-harris-issues-proposed-rule-to-get-illegals-into-college-prep-programs/
— Kamala Harris Claims ‘an Undocumented Immigrant Is Not a Criminal’ – NEIL MUNRO2
https://www.breitbart.com/2024-election/2024/07/26/kamala-harris-claims-undocumented-immigrant-not-criminal/
CATHOLIC NEWS AGENCY
— Catholics, others respond to mockery of Last Supper at Paris Olympics
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/258428/catholics-others-respond-to-mockery-of-last-supper-at-paris-olympics
DAILY SIGNAL
— Kamala Harris Tried to Scare Conservatives Into Silence – Tyler O’Neil
https://www.dailysignal.com/2024/07/22/5-things-know-kamala-harris-record/
FOX NEWS
— Trump knocks Harris as a ‘bum,’ scorns her handling of southern border: ‘A failed vice president’ The Harris campaign criticized Trump’s speech as ‘bitter’ and ‘bizarre’ – Landon Mion
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-knocks-harris-bum-scorns-her-handling-southern-border-a-failed-vice-president
— Obama and Pelosi are the bosses in today’s Democrat Party. They make their decisions in backrooms and pull the strings. – Rod Blagojevich
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6359284453112
— Chicago alderman sounds alarm on migrant surge ahead of DNC: ‘We can’t handle any more’ Chicago is bracing for as many as 25,000 migrant arrivals for the Democratic National Convention. – Elizabeth Heckman
https://www.foxnews.com/media/chicago-alderman-sounds-alarm-migrant-surge-ahead-dnc-cant-handle-more
— Olympics opening ceremony sparks outrage with drag queens parodying Last Supper: ‘Gone completely woke’ ‘This was extremely disrespectful to Christians,’ Elon Musk wrote. – Alexander Hall
https://www.foxnews.com/media/olympics-opening-ceremony-sparks-outrage-drag-queens-parodying-last-supper-gone-completely-woke
— How Vice President Kamala Harris got started in politics. – William La Jeunesse
https://www.yahoo.com/news/vice-president-kamala-harris-got-165231260.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Vice President Kamala Harris got her start in politics at age 29, when she was just out of law school, at the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office, where she met a 60-year-old kingmaker: California Assembly Speaker Willie Brown — arguably then the state’s most powerful politician. Brown, while estranged from his wife, remained married. However, socially, he and Harris were seen everywhere and never denied being close. Brown appointed Harris to several well-paid state commissions: the state Insurance Commission, the state Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board and later, the California Medical Assistance Commission. Harris came from a learned household. She was born in Oakland, California, to an Indian-born mother and a Jamaican-born father. Both were professors — one at Berkeley, the other at Stanford. Harris’ parents divorced when she was 7. Following her parents’ split, she moved to Illinois, then to Quebec, Canada, alongside her sister and mother. After high school, Harris attended Howard University, where she joined the debate team and claimed to demonstrate “almost every weekend.” Later, she attended Hastings College of Law, where, like many of her classmates, she failed her first attempt at the California bar exam, but she passed the second time. In 1998, Harris took a job at the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office, but was later demoted after opposing a measure to try juveniles as adults for felony crimes. After quitting, Harris took a job in the city attorney’s office, and with Brown’s help, raised $600,000 to defeat her former boss to become San Francisco DA. The city’s campaign ethics board fined Harris $30,000 – the highest fine ever levied at the time – for violating campaign finance limits. “I made a very conscious and deliberate decision to become a prosecutor,” she said during a 2003 debate. “I think San Francisco wants a progressive district attorney who is also effective.” As San Francisco DA, she became a controversial figure for opposing the death penalty — even for cop killers — and pursued three-strikes convictions only when they involved violent felonies. After a man murdered officer Isaac Espinoza and Harris refused to pursue the death penalty, Harris received a rare rebuke from Sen. Dianne Feinstein. “I think this district attorney made a very big mistake. As a matter of fact, if I had known she had said that in her campaign, I never would have supported her,” Feinsein said at the time. As district attorney, Harris prosecuted marijuana crimes but rarely sought prison time. In 2010, she became the first woman to serve as California’s attorney general, where she opposed the state’s ban on affirmative action and asked the state Supreme Court to “reaffirm its decision that public colleges and universities may consider race as one factor in admissions decisions.” The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled affirmative action unconstitutional. As AG, she prioritized environmental crimes, obtaining millions in fines from oil companies for failing to monitor underground storage leaks. In 2016, she ran for U.S. senator and won by outmaneuvering Rep. Loretta Sanchez for the union and Latino vote. Harris also had the support of then-President Obama, who called her brilliant, dedicated and tough, adding, “She also happens to be, by far, the best-looking attorney general in the country.” Harris’ appeal is partly demographic, but her law enforcement background also made her an appealing running mate in the wake of the Black Lives Matter protests and rising crime in some cities. In 2019, Harris dismissed criticism of her record as a prosecutor for jailing marijuana offenders and even joked about her own previous cannabis use. “Have you ever smoked?” she was asked on the “Breakfast Club” radio show in 2019. “I have, and I inhaled. I did it, I did it, and it was a long time ago,” she admitted. As district attorney, however, she pushed for higher bail for gun crimes and sought minimum 90-day sentences for possession of concealed or loaded weapons. Later, as a presidential candidate, Harris said she would pursue universal background checks and a ban on assault-style rifles. “I will give the United States Congress 100 days to get their act together and have the courage to pass reasonable gun safety laws and if they fail to do it, then I will take executive action,” she said during a CNN town hall in December 2019. CNN anchor Jake Tapper also suggested to Harris that her “Medicare-for-all” proposal might eliminate private health insurance. Harris’ defense was, “The idea is, everyone gets access to medical care, and you don’t have to go through the process of going through an insurance company, having them giving you approval, going through the paperwork … let’s eliminate that. Let’s move on.” Her signature tax proposal cost an estimated $3 billion. It would have provided a $3,000 tax credit for individuals and $6,000 for married couples. She also proposed lowering pay disparities by requiring large companies to pay men and women in similar jobs equally. Another proposal aimed at raising teacher pay by $13,500. In a 2020 campaign video she explained her economic approach, saying, “It’s about giving people the resources and the support they need so that everyone can be on equal footing and then compete on equal footing. Equitable treatment means we all end up at the same place.” As a candidate for president in 2020, Harris dropped out before the Iowa caucuses. As a candidate, some viewed her policies as too far left, where she seemed to favor big government to solve income and gender inequality.)
HERITAGE FOUNDATION
— Weaponizing Empathy – Emma Waters (COMMENT: My critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes glorify and praise themselves as being extremely empathetic. They reject the personal responsibility plank in the Republican Party platform.)
https://www.heritage.org/border-security/commentary/weaponizing-empathy
NATIONAL REVIEW
— Drag Queens Parody the Last Supper During Olympics Opening Ceremonies – HALEY STRACK
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/drag-queens-parody-the-last-supper-during-olympics-opening-ceremonies/
NEWS BUSTERS & MRC TV
— PBS Previews Olympics, Ties Opposition To Transgenderism With Nazism. – Alex Christy
https://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/alex-christy/2024/07/26/pbs-previews-olympics-ties-opposition-transgenderism-nazism
https://www.mrctv.org/videos/pbs-previews-olympics-ties-opposition-transgenderism-nazism
NEWSMAX
— Harris Wants Illegals to Vote. – Speaker Johnson
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/mike-johnson-harris-illegals/2024/07/26/id/1174152/
TOWNHALL
— Speaker Mike Johnson Puts Kamala Harris’ Border Failures on Full Display. – Sarah Arnold
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/saraharnold/2024/07/26/speaker-mike-johnson-visits-the-southern-border-highlighting-kamala-harris-border-failures-n2642590
— Kamala Harris: A San Francisco Radical – Jenny Beth Martin
https://townhall.com/columnists/jennybethmartin/2024/07/27/kamala-harris-a-san-francisco-radical-n2642572
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— To get her votes from minorities and from females, Harris-promoters stress that she is minority and female.
https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/4792729-kamala-harris-dei-backlash/
ABC NEWS
— Democrats say “Volunteers and donations surge into Democratic campaigns with Harris atop the ticket.”
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/volunteers-donations-surge-democratic-campaigns-harris-atop-ticket-112309825
CBS NEWS
— To get her votes from minorities and from females, Harris-promoters stress that she is minority and female.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/republicans-attack-kamala-harris-dei-hire/
NEWSWEEK
— Democrats say “J.B. Pritzker Least Popular VP Candidate in Key Swing States.”
https://www.newsweek.com/jb-pritzker-least-popular-candidate-key-swing-state-poll-1930123
— Democrats say “Trump Warns of Vote Rigging.”
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-warns-vote-rigging-asks-christians-vote-just-this-time-1931018
MSN
— Democrats say that Jake Wallis Simons says that Obama’s scheming has spectacularly backfired and that few believe that Harris has the vision, character, and strength that this critical moment demands.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/obama-s-scheming-has-spectacularly-backfired/ar-BB1qGqh2
— Democrats say “Chicago bracing for Texas to bus 25,000 migrants to city ahead of Democratic National Convention.”
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/chicago-bracing-for-texas-to-bus-25-000-migrants-to-city-ahead-of-democratic-national-convention/ar-BB1qHBB4
MSNBC
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly use Sean Grayson and Sonya Massey against Trump.
https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/reidout-blog/sonya-massey-police-accountability-trump-harris-rcna163741
NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrats say “The Unnerving Changeability of JD Vance.” My critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes constantly remake themselves to curry favor with and to pander to whoever has the most clout.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/26/opinion/jd-vance-changeability.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: In “Hillbilly Elegy,” the 2016 memoir that made JD Vance a celebrity, he described constantly remaking his childhood self to fit the rotating cast of father figures his unsound mother brought into their lives.)
— Democrats say “How Some States Are Making It Harder to Register Voters.” Anticipate/expect that many millions of illegals will use their false identifications to register to vote and to vote for Democrats, especially in battleground/swing states.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/26/us/voter-registration-drive-restrictions.html
— Democrats say “Trump, Honing Attacks on Harris, Casts Her as a Far-Left Threat.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/26/us/politics/trump-harris-turning-point-action.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Democrats ever-increasingly call Republicans racists and sexists.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/07/26/kamala-harris-trump-racism-history/
— Democrats decry that “Biden administration declines to defend affirmative action programs. Two federal programs created to benefit minority businesses have adopted new race-neutral rules instead of fighting adverse court rulings.” Politicians want votes from minorities, females, younger people, veterans, non-Protestants, non-German Americans, and/or those whose ancestors have not been in America for a long time. Since 1998, my critics/opponents have stressed how my Republican U.S. Senators and my Republican U.S. Representatives treated Diersen v. GAO ( https://gopillinois.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DiersenGAOFifthAmendedComplaint.pdf ). They have always stressed that constructively, my Republican U.S. Senators and my Republican U.S. Representatives have always rejected the equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving) plank in the Republican Party platform, that is, they have always promoted Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, they have always promoted patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, religious discrimination, and/or national origin discrimination.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/07/26/affirmative-action-sba-mbda-biden-court/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Democrats say “Harris Erases Trump’s Lead. Two candidates are effectively tied after Biden’s exit shakes up race.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/harris-erases-trumps-lead-wsj-poll-finds-e286144d
— Democrats say “J.D. Vance’s Basket of Deplorables. Trump’s running mate is on the defensive over his views about the childless.” My critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes have always demonized me, denigrated me, and condemned me for being childless.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/j-d-vances-basket-of-deplorables-cf86985f
— Democrats say “Democrats Bet America Is Ready to Elect a Black Woman President. Gender and race move to the center of the campaign with Kamala Harris expected to lead the party’s ticket.” To get votes from minorities and from females, Democrat and RINO candidates ever-increasingly shout at minorities and at females that Whites and men cause all the problems that minorities and females have.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/democrats-bet-america-is-ready-to-elect-a-black-woman-president-627cd579?mod=politics_lead_story
FORBES
— To get her votes from minorities and from females, Harris-promoters stress that she is minority and female.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/susanharmeling/2024/07/26/what-might-it-mean-when-critics-call-someone-a-dei-hire/
— Democrats and RINOs ever-increasingly use DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbeshumanresourcescouncil/2024/07/26/18-ways-leaders-can-effectively-put-deib-into-practice/
KTVQ & KPAX
— Democrats say illegals who are married to U.S. citizens and have lived in the country for at least 10 years can apply for legal residency.
https://www.ktvq.com/politics/america-votes/changes-in-federal-laws-will-allow-daca-recipients-to-apply-for-permanent-residency
https://www.kpax.com/politics/america-votes/changes-in-federal-laws-will-allow-daca-recipients-to-apply-for-permanent-residency
NEWS NATION
— Democrats say “Chicago expects 25,000 migrants during DNC. It has capacity for 15,000.”
https://www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/immigration/chicago-expects-25000-migrants-dnc-capacity-15000/
JD SUPRA
— Democrats say former Congressman Peter Roskam, who leads BakerHostetler’s Federal Policy team, provides listeners with a front-row seat to the most important policy debates in Congress. He discuss Biden’s ending his campaign, the Republican National Convention, and the selection of Senator J.D. Vance as Trump’s vice presidential running mate and how all that will impact this fall’s elections for the White House and Congress.
https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/podcast-the-cloakroom-with-peter-roskam-1132696/
RASMUSSEN REPORTS
— 52% Agree Biden Should Resign Presidency
https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/biden_administration/52_agree_biden_should_resign_presidency
July 25, 2024
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Illinois Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Pritzker for Vice President.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/07/24/in-cnn-interview-gov-j-b-pritzker-indicates-hes-under-consideration-for-vp-slot/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Democrats use National Republican Congressional Committee chairman Richard Hudson, R-N.C. to call Republicans racists and sexists.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-harris-attacks-johnson-hudson-76f8e90d24004e49449087787ac031a5
— Political parties exist to help elect candidates who can/will defend/advance their platform. The Democrat Party platform is liberal and Illinois Democrat candidates, elected officials, and party leaders furiously promote their party’s platform. The Republican Party platform is conservative, but far too many Illinois Republican candidates, elected officials, and party leaders fail/refuse to promote their party’s platform. Consequently Illinois Republican candidates lose elections. According to Illinois Democrats, Illinois Republican candidates can win if they officially become Democrat Lite candidates, that is, if they officially become RINO candidates, that is, if they officially dump the personal responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, immigration, illegal drugs, Second Amendment, and equal opportunity planks in the Republican Party platform, that is, if they official join the Democrats in promoting dependency on government and charity, LGBTQ, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, booze, gambling, pot, and other vices, diminishment of Second Amendment rights, and race and gender based preference giving. To what extent do the Republican candidates on the November 5, 2024 ballot in your precinct promote the aforesaid planks in the Republican Party platform?
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/07/24/column-gop-chairs-dream-of-making-illinois-red-again-ignores-political-realities/
— Democrats say “In fiery speech to Congress, Netanyahu vows ‘total victory’ in Gaza and denounces U.S. protesters.” Democrat leaders ever-increasingly bring more Israel-haters into America.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/07/24/netanyahu-2/
— Democrats say “The Democratic Party’s backward induction problem in the presidential race.”
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/07/24/opinion-democrats-presidential-nomination-kamala-harris/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrats say “Kamala Harris campaign considering J.B. Pritzker for vice presidential candidate. Asked on CNN if he would accept the No. 2 slot if it was offered, Pritzker replied, “I love being governor of Illinois. … I’d be reluctant to make a change, but it’d be hard to resist a call and consideration if the nominee called me to ask to be considered for vice president.”
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2024-democratic-national-convention/2024/07/24/kamala-harris-presidential-campaign-jb-pritzker-running-mate-consideration
— Democrats say “Democrats expect Republican leaders to send more buses of migrants to Chicago before the DNC. A fresh influx of asylum-seekers could be used to embarrass local Democratic officials during the convention.” Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration. Their Illegals ever-increasingly demand more/better housing, food, clothing, medical care, education, etc.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2024-democratic-national-convention/2024/07/24/dnc-democrats-convention-migrant-crisis-buses-refugees-asylum-seekers-republicans
— Democrats say “Trump and Republicans are suddenly on their heels, scrambling against Kamala Harris. Trump’s the old guy now. And the selection of JD Vance as Donald Trump’s running mate no longer seems wise.” Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more age discrimination.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2024/07/24/donald-trump-republicans-scramble-coherent-message-against-kamala-harris-se-cupp
— Democrats say “Trump spins false narrative about rising crime.”
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2024/07/24/crime-donald-trump-joe-biden-statistics-jacob-sullum-column
DAILY HERALD
— Democrats say “Thousands fill Washington’s streets to protest Israel’s war in Gaza during Netanyahu visit.” Democrat leaders ever-increasingly bring more Israel-haters into America.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20240724/nation-and-world-politics/thousands-fill-washingtons-streets-to-protest-israels-war-in-gaza-during-netanyahu-visit/
— Democrats say “Drone light show, Ferris wheel will take the DuPage County Fair to new heights.”
https://www.dailyherald.com/20240724/festivals-and-fairs/drone-light-show-ferris-wheel-will-take-the-dupage-county-fair-to-new-heights/
ABC7
— Democrats say “Chicago, state prepare for possible migrant surge set to coincide with 2024 DNC. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott put sanctuary cities on notice at Republican National Convention.”
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-illinois-prepare-possible-migrant-surge-set-coincide/15091171/
— Democrats say “Protesters downtown Chicago after Netanyahu addresses Congress; IL lawmakers boycott speech.” Democrat leaders ever-increasingly bring more Israel-haters into America.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/benjamin-netanyahu-speech-today-chicago-protests-expected-after/15090994/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3jnvSIli_I
NBC5
— Illinois Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Pritzker for Vice President.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/dnc-chicago-2024/jb-pritzker-mum-vp-speculation-kamala-harris-running-mate/3500158/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more race and gender based preference giving.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/aka-sorority-members-in-chicago-energized-to-support-kamala-harris-bid-for-president/3500017/
— Democrats say “Former South Bend Mayor and current Transportation Sec. Pete Buttigieg has emerged as a candidate to potentially serve as a running mate on the Democratic ticket in the 2024 presidential election. According to MSNBC, Buttigieg has been sent vetting materials amid the continuing search for a running mate to run with the party’s nominee, who will likely be Vice President Kamala Harris.”
https://www.nbcchicago.com/dnc-chicago-2024/transportation-sec-pete-buttigieg-linked-to-running-mate-search/3499773/
— Democrats promote West Chicago.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/west-chicago-fortune-50-best-places-to-live-for-families/3499577/
CBS2
— Democrats say “Illinois members of Congress skip Netanyahu’s speech over handling of war in Gaza.” Democrat leaders ever-increasingly bring more Israel-haters into America.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/netanyahu-speech-illinois-reps-reax/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gQ9TXh5z14
— Democrats say “Trump donated to Kamala Harris’ campaign when she was California attorney general.”
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/trump-donated-kamala-harris-campaign-california-attorney-general/
— Democrats say “Protests in Chicago as Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu speaks in Washington.” Democrat leaders ever-increasingly bring more Israel-haters into America.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/protests-chicago-israeli-prime-minister-netanyahu-washington/
WGN9
— Democrats say “Cook County to staff additional, temporary court facility during Democrat convention.” Democrat leaders ever-increasingly bring more Israel-haters into America.
https://wgntv.com/news/democratic-national-convention-chicago-2024/cook-county-temporary-facility-dnc-2024/
— Democrats say “One arrested after anti-Netanyahu protest weaves through Chicago’s Loop Wednesday.” Democrat leaders ever-increasingly bring more Israel-haters into America.
https://wgntv.com/news/chicago-news/0724-netanyahu-protest-chicago-loop-rally-march/
https://www.yahoo.com/news/anti-netanyahu-protest-weave-chicago-201019597.html
FOX32
— Democrats say “More migrants expected in Chicago as DNC draws near. As the city continues to prepare for next month’s historic Democratic National Convention, officials are also bracing for an influx of migrants from the southern border.”
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1490451
— Democrats say “Chicago activists take matters into their own hands, install cameras to combat gun violence.” The Democrat Party platform promotes poverty and crime.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/chicago-activists-install-cameras-combat-gun-violence-englewood
BLOOMINGTON PANTAGRAPH
— Democrats say “Central Illinois political parties energized by Harris, united under Trump.” Is your Republican county party united under Trump? Is your Republican township/ward organization united under Trump?
https://pantagraph.com/news/local/government-politics/elections/central-illinois-political-parties-energized-by-harris-united-under-trump/article_7de2aeb6-490f-11ef-958b-17359eda8c75.html
— Democrats say “Illinois lawmaker calls for strengthening protection for homeschooled children.” I should write about my critics/opponents who promote homeschooling. My parents sent me to Trinity Lutheran Grade School in Crete 1953-1961 and then to Hope Lutheran Grade School in Park Forest 1961-1962 to stay with the Missouri Synod.
https://pantagraph.com/news/state-regional/government-politics/illinois-lawmaker-calls-for-strengthening-protection-for-homeschooled-children/article_2cb289f0-4935-11ef-af16-f7c1688aac59.html
SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— Democrats say “Sheriff’s office knew about Sean Grayson’s DUIs” and ask “Were there any other red flags?”
https://www.sj-r.com/story/news/crime/2024/07/25/sonya-massey-case-everything-we-know-about-former-deputy-sean-grayson/74509626007/
SOUTHERN
— Democrats ever-increasingly attack those who oppose race and gender based preference giving, that is, Democrats ever-increasingly attack those who oppose reverse discrimination.
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2024/07/24/kamala-harris-faces-racial-dei-attacks-amid-campaign-for-the-2024-presidency/
NPR ILLINOIS
— Democrats say “Elon Musk is backing Donald Trump” and ask “Could that hurt Tesla?” Since 2015, to harm me, my critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes ever-increasingly demonize me, denigrate me, and condemn me as being a Trump backer. They stress that I share the following demographics with Trump: conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-poor, non-veteran, married, Protestant, German American, and our ancestors have been in America for a long time. What demographics do you share with Trump?
https://www.nprillinois.org/2024-07-24/elon-musk-is-backing-donald-trump-could-that-hurt-tesla
— Democrats say “Trump tries out attack lines on Kamala Harris as her campaign heats up.”
https://www.nprillinois.org/2024-07-24/trump-tries-out-attack-lines-on-kamala-harris-as-her-campaign-heats-up
FOX ILLINOIS
— Democrats say “Trump campaign trying to block Harris’s access to Biden campaign funds.”
https://foxillinois.com/news/nation-world/trump-campaign-trying-to-block-harriss-access-to-biden-campaign-funds-donald-kamala-joe-president-election-november-2024-money-financing-finance-millions-dollars-democrats-dem-elect-fec-federal-elections-commission
— Democrats say Trump says “Wray should resign from FBI for ‘lying to Congress’ about Biden’s competency.”
https://foxillinois.com/news/beyond-the-podium/wray-should-resign-from-fbi-for-lying-to-congress-about-bidens-competency-trump-says-federal-bureau-of-investigation-president-joe-biden-cognitive-health-guns-firearms-shootings-rally-shot-in-ear-blood-assassination-attempt-politics-2024-election
WGEM
— Democrats and RINOs promote illegal immigration. Republicans oppose illegal immigration, not legal immigration.
https://www.wgem.com/video/2024/07/24/mexican-americans-feeling-isolated-by-hard-line-republican-ads-targeting-immigration/
WIFR
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote Kinzinger.
https://www.wifr.com/2024/07/25/eye-politics-one-on-one-with-adam-kinzinger/
POLITICO ILLINOIS
— Pritzker ever-increasingly demonizes, denigrates, and condemns Trump and Vance.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2024/07/25/is-pritzker-on-the-short-list-00171099
CAPITOL FAX
— Democrats say “Morning briefing.”
https://capitolfax.com/2024/07/25/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-333/
— Democrats say “Afternoon report.”
https://capitolfax.com/2024/07/24/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-126/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
ILLINOIS REPUBLICAN PARTY
— What They Are Saying about ILGOP Chair Kathy Salvi
https://illinois.gop/category/news/
(FROM THE PRESS RELEASE: Last week, the Illinois Republican Party saw President Trump and the Republican National Committee outline the priorities of the Republican Party and the path to victories up and down the ballot in November. New Chair Member elect, Kathy Salvi, also spoke to reporters about the future of the Illinois Republican Party. Here’s what they are saying:)
WILLIAM J. KELLY
— Reporter William J. Kelly’s PLAYBOOK
https://myemail-api.constantcontact.com/Reporter-s-Playbook—Kamala-Harris–A-Tough-Sell-for-Democrats—Del-Mar-Whiplash.html
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Gun rights group: Chicago’s expanded lawsuit against Glock misguided. – Greg Bishop
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_3c287406-49e6-11ef-85fe-a3c43ca72317.html
WIREPOINTS
— Illinois’ out-migration losses: Measuring the destructive impact on the state’s tax base. – Ted Dabrowski and John Klingner
https://wirepoints.org/illinois-out-migration-losses-measuring-the-destructive-impact-on-the-states-tax-base-wirepoints/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— GOP blasts Kamala Harris for skipping Netanyahu’s speech to Congress. – Dave Boyer (COMMENT: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly bring more Israel-haters into America.)
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/jul/24/gop-blasts-kamala-harris-for-skipping-benjamin-net/
— No more Mr. Nice Guy: Trump brands Kamala Harris a far-left ‘lunatic’ – Seth McLaughlin
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/jul/24/no-more-mr-nice-guy-donald-trump-brand-kamala-harr/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Chicago bracing for Greg Abbott to send up to 25,000 migrants to city ahead of DNC. – Annabella Rosciglione
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/immigration/3097741/chicago-bracing-for-25000-migrants-before-dnc/
— Yes, Kamala is a DEI hire. Shouldn’t the Left be happy about that? – Mike Gonzalez
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/equality-not-elitism/3097876/yes-kamala-a-dei-hire-shouldnt-left-be-happy-about-that/
— Kamala Harris to address major teachers union as it pushes transgender theory in schools. – Breccan F. Thies
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/3097799/kamala-harris-address-teachers-union-pushes-transgender-theory-in-schools/
NEW YORK POST
— Kamala Harris skips Netanyahu speech to lecture college kids on her ‘vision,’ insists ‘full-on assault’ on rights. – Steven Nelson (COMMENT: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly bring more Israel-haters into America.)
https://nypost.com/2024/07/24/us-news/kamala-harris-skips-netanyahu-speech-to-lecture-college-kids-on-her-vision/
— Obama doesn’t believe Kamala Harris can beat Trump, which is why he hasn’t endorsed her. – Isabel Vincent and Jon Levine
https://nypost.com/2024/07/24/us-news/obama-doesnt-believe-kamala-harris-can-beat-trump-sources/
— Media suddenly changes its tune on calling Kamala Harris the ‘border czar’ — despite giving her the title. – Jennie Taer
https://nypost.com/2024/07/24/us-news/media-change-tune-on-calling-kamala-harris-border-czar-despite-giving-her-the-title/
— Anti-Israel rioters burn US flag, attempt to breach Capitol Police line as Netanyahu addresses Congress. – Ryan King and Alex Oliveira (COMMENT: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly bring more Israel-haters into America.)
https://nypost.com/2024/07/24/us-news/anti-israel-protesters-rip-down-burn-american-flag-in-dc-after-netanyahu-speech/
— Netanyahu shows up the ‘useful idiots’ in stirring defense of Israel — and the West. – John Podhoretz (COMMENT: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly bring more Israel-haters into America.)
https://nypost.com/2024/07/24/opinion/netanyahu-shows-up-the-useful-idiots-in-stirring-defense-of-israel-and-the-west/
BLAZE
— Trump fills the void left by spineless Christian leaders. – STEVE DEACE
https://www.theblaze.com/columns/opinion/trump-fills-the-void-left-by-spineless-christian-leaders
— Massachusetts offers illegal aliens free flights out of state as it tightens shelter stay limits. – CANDACE HATHAWAY
https://www.theblaze.com/news/massachusetts-offers-illegal-aliens-free-flights-out-of-state-as-it-tightens-shelter-stay-limits
BREITBART
— Sanctuary City Chicago Expects 25,000 Migrants to Arrive Ahead of Democratic National Convention. – JOHN BINDER
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/07/24/sanctuary-city-chicago-expects-25000-migrants-arrive-ahead-democratic-national-convention/
— Kamala Harris a ‘Dues-Paying Member’ of San Francisco Church with Radical Pro-Reparations Pastor. – HANNAH KNUDSEN
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/07/24/kamala-harris-a-dues-paying-member-at-church-where-radical-pastor-stands-as-forceful-voice-for-reparations/
CONSERVATIVE HQ
— If You Think Biden Was Bad Get A Load Of Kamala. – George Rasley
https://www.conservativehq.com/post/if-you-think-biden-was-bad-get-a-load-of-kamala
DAILY CALLER
— Biden Faces The Nation Four Days After Dropping Out Via Twitter. – REAGAN REESE
https://dailycaller.com/2024/07/24/joe-biden-public-appearence-nation-twitter/
— ‘We Do Not Have Room’: Sanctuary State To Offer Plane Tickets For Migrants To Leave. – JASON HOPKINS
https://dailycaller.com/2024/07/24/room-sanctuary-state-offer-plane-tickets-migrants-leave/
— Dems Strolling Into Chicago For Convention Could End Up Getting A Taste Of The Border Crisis. – JASON HOPKINS
https://dailycaller.com/2024/07/24/texas-to-dump-migrants-into-chicago-for-dnc/
— Kamala Harris Backed Reparations For Black Americans The Last Time She Ran For President. – NICK POPE
https://dailycaller.com/2024/07/24/kamala-harris-slavery-reparations-president-election/
DAILY SIGNAL
— Feds Were Instructed to Clear Scene of Illegal Immigrants During Harris’ Border Trip. – Jason Hopkins
https://www.dailysignal.com/2024/07/24/feds-were-reportedly-instructed-to-clear-scene-of-illegal-immigrants-during-harris-border-trip/
DAILY WIRE
— The Media Desperately Tries To Turn Mediocre Kamala Into A Star. – Matt Walsh (COMMENT: The Democrat news media in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois ever-increasingly glorifies and praises those “Republican” candidates, elected officials, and party leaders who have taken the most/biggest adverse actions against me.)
https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-media-desperately-tries-to-turn-mediocre-kamala-into-a-star
— Netanyahu Blasts Woke Pro-Hamas Protesters: ‘Gays For Gaza’ Are Like ‘Chickens For KFC’
https://www.dailywire.com/news/netanyahu-blasts-woke-pro-hamas-protesters-gays-for-gaza-are-like-chickens-for-kfc
FEDERALIST
— Dems Use New Election Law To Bully A New York Town That Won’t Accept Illegal Aliens. – BRIANNA LYMAN (COMMENT: Sooner or later, if not already, Democrat and RINO leaders will force your county, your township, and your municipality to provide their illegals with housing, food, clothing, medical care, education, etc.)
https://thefederalist.com/2024/07/24/dems-use-new-election-law-to-bully-a-new-york-town-that-wont-accept-illegal-aliens/
— Kamala Harris Owns The Biden Administration’s Record Of Undermining Election Integrity. – BRIANNA LYMAN
https://thefederalist.com/2024/07/24/kamala-harris-owns-the-biden-administrations-record-of-undermining-election-integrity/
FEDERATION FOR AMERICAN IMMIGRATION REFORM
— Kamala Harris Never Consulted with Border Patrol Chiefs Despite Record Illegal Immigration. – Joey Chester
https://www.fairus.org/blog/2024/07/24/kamala-harris-never-consulted-border-patrol-chiefs-despite-record-illegal
NATIONAL REVIEW
— It’s Not Enough for Colleges to Stop Requiring DEI Statements- GEORGE LEEF (COMMENT: Democrats and RINOs use DEI to get rid of Republicans.)
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/its-not-enough-for-colleges-to-stop-requiring-dei-statements/
POST MILLENNIAL
— Axios claims Kamala Harris was never ‘border czar’—Biden appointed her in March 2021. – Libby Emmons
https://thepostmillennial.com/axios-claims-kamala-harris-was-never-border-czar-biden-appointed-her-in-march-2021#google_vignette
TOWNHALL
— Biden-Harris Open-Borders Policies Are to Blame for Recent Illegal Alien Crimes, and Congress Must Act. – Dan Stein
https://townhall.com/columnists/print/2642484
WASHINGTON STAND
— 30 Million Migrants Flood U.S. Workforce, including 8 Million Illegals. – Sarah Holliday
https://washingtonstand.com/news/30-million-migrants-flood-us-workforce-including-8-million-illegals
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— Democrats crow that “LGBTQ leaders, celebrities line up behind Harris.”
https://thehill.com/homenews/lgbtq/4791191-lgbtq-harris-gay-rights-trans-trump-vance/
— Democrats say “Democratic enthusiasm for Harris tempered by realism.”
https://thehill.com/newsletters/evening-report/4791176-evening-report-democratic-enthusiasm-for-harris-tempered-by-realism/
NEW YORK SUN
— It’s Time for Biden, Having Conceded He Cannot Mount a Re-Election Bid, To Step Down as President. The evidence since his debate with President Trump is clear. – NEWT GINGRICH
https://www.nysun.com/article/biden-having-conceded-he-cannot-mount-a-re-election-bid-must-now-step-down-as-president
— Democrats say “New Right Wing of the Republican Party Proclaims Themselves Champions of the Working Class.” Overwhelmingly, my critics/opponents a) have/had wealthy parents and/or b) look down on the working class. I was a member of the working class 1962-1997.
https://www.nysun.com/article/new-right-wing-of-the-republican-party-proclaims-themselves-champions-of-the-working-class
CNN & USA TODAY & FAST COMPANY & MSNBC & NPR
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly use DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/24/politics/dei-kamala-harris/index.html
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2024/07/23/kamala-harris-dei-pick-trump-republicans-gop/74517055007/
https://www.fastcompany.com/91162241/conservatives-are-blaming-dei-for-everything-a-semi-comprehensive-list
https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/republicans-kamala-harris-dei-hire-race-gender-rcna163484
https://www.npr.org/2024/07/24/1198912958/kamala-harris-donald-trump-racism-sexism-rhetoric-presidential-campaign
REUTERS
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/harris-closes-nomination-with-delegates-secured-campaign-wisconsin-2024-07-23/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Israel’s Netanyahu Addresses U.S. Congress Amid Election Shake-Up. Prime minister defends Israel’s conduct of the war in Gaza and pays tribute to both Biden and Trump in speech to a jammed House chamber. – Lara Seligman, Dov Lieber, and Sabrina Siddiqui (COMMENT: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly bring more Israel-haters into America.)
https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/israels-netanyahu-confronts-altered-political-landscape-in-u-s-65a118a9
— Merit, Excellence and Intelligence: an Anti-DEI Approach Catches On. MEI frames diversity as a side effect of good hiring, not the goal. Evidence suggests it isn’t so simple. – Callum Borchers and Callum Borchers
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/workplace/dei-catches-on-merit-intelligence-excellence-mei-27839a3c
FORBES
— Ten People To Be Thankful For In Your Career. – Caroline Ceniza-Levine (COMMENT: I am most tankful for my IRS manager who promoted me in 1972, 1973, and 1974. My IRS career crashed after my Democrat IRS superiors got rid of him. I am most tankful for my GAO manager who arranged for my transfer from IRS to GAO in 1980 and finally succeeded in getting me assigned to audits of IRS and promoting me in 1986. My GAO career crashed after my Democrat GAO superiors got rid of him.)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/carolinecenizalevine/2019/11/24/ten-people-to-be-thankful-for-in-your-career/
U.S. MERIT SYSTEMS PROTECTION BOARD
— Different Types of Adverse Actions Use Different Rules (COMMENT: The more of the following that federal employees are, the less protected that they are from adverse actions: conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. My Democrat GAO superiors a) forced me to take their early retirement “offer” when I was 49 years old in 1997, b) always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance purposes, c) never promoted me to GS-14 and delayed my promotions to GS-13, GS-12, and GS-11, and d) forced me to take a $22,996/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO in 1980. My Democrat IRS superiors a) never promoted me to GS-13, b) disallowed my education deductions in 1978, and c) disallowed my travel vouchers in 1974. My Democrat Post Office superiors a) forced me to resign in 1969 and disallowed my sick leave requests in 1969 and 1968.)
https://www.mspb.gov/studies/adverse_action_report/5_DifferentTypes.htm
BROOKINGS
— Because minorities vote for Democrats, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly flood America with minorities. Because RINOs want cheap labor, RINO leaders ever-increasingly flood America with minorities.
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/census-shows-americas-post-2020-population-is-driven-by-diversity-especially-among-the-young/
RUSMUSSEN REPORTS
— 62% Concerned About Election Cheating
https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/partner_surveys/62_concerned_about_election_cheating
July 23, 2024
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Democrats say “JD Vance slams Kamala Harris during his solo campaign debut as the GOP vice presidential nominee.”
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/07/22/jd-vance-slams-kamala-harris-during-his-solo-campaign-debut-as-the-gop-vice-presidential-nominee/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: Democrats say “Pritzker at the forefront of Illinois DEMS backing Harris.”
https://www.chicagotribune.com/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrats say “Get ready for Donald Trump vs. Kamala Harris. The vice president is raising millions and racking up support from party leaders for her campaign. Former President Trump’s campaign is preparing to go up against her should Harris formally secure the nomination next month at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.”
https://chicago.suntimes.com/editorials/2024/07/22/donald-trump-vs-kamala-harris-2024-election-democratic-nomination-biden-quits-editorial
DAILY HERALD
— Democrats say “Where suburban House candidates’ finances stand.”
https://www.dailyherald.com/20240721/us-congress-politics/where-suburban-house-candidates-finances-stand/
ABC7
— Democrats say “JD Vance’s wife, Usha, faces racist online backlash from far-right social media posts.” The more planks in the Republican Party platform that you support, the more far-right that Democrats and RINOs call you. Ever-increasingly, if someone does racist, sexist, and/or bigoted things, Democrats and RINOs call them far-right.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/jd-vances-wife-usha-chilukuri-faces-racist-online/15080753/
— Democrats say “Kamala Harris galvanizes elected women of color and voters, who see historic first within reach.” To get more votes from minorities and from females, Democrat and RINO candidates, elected officials, and party leaders ever-increasingly give them more preference. That preference giving has ever-increasingly rendered worthless my bachelor’s degree, my three master’s degrees, my six professional certifications, and my professional license.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/kamala-harris-presidential-run-galvanizes-elected-women-color/15082791/
— Democrats say “Biden has bowed out but GOP attacks continue as he faces big week ahead.”
https://abc7chicago.com/post/joe-biden-has-bowed-2024-election-gop-attacks/15081738/
NBC5
— Democrats say “Biden faces calls for removal under 25th Amendment” and ask “Is it likely he’ll be forced from office?” and say “House Speaker Mike Johnson has called on Biden to resign from office for the remainder of his term.”
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/joe-biden-faces-calls-for-removal-under-25th-amendment-is-it-likely-hell-be-forced-from-office/3497496/
— Democrats say “Hundreds of migrants leave southern Mexico on foot in a new caravan headed for the US border. Some of the members of the group said they hoped to make it to the U.S. border before elections are held in November.” Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/hundreds-of-migrants-leave-southern-mexico-on-foot-in-a-new-caravan-headed-for-the-us-border/3496847/
CBS2
— Democrats ask “Who could Kamala Harris pick as her VP?” and say “Here are 10 potential running mates.” Republican Never Trumpers (RNT) prefer Pritzker over Trump. What does that say about RNTs?
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/kamala-harris-vice-president-candidates/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: J.B. Pritzker, 59, has been the governor of Illinois since 2019. He’s hasn’t shied away from attacking former President Donald Trump and has been a strong voice on issues like gun control and reproductive rights, signing related measures into law in recent years. He does not hail from a battleground state, but as a billionaire member of the family that owns the Hyatt hotel chain, he could help fund the campaign.)
— Democrats promote Harris.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/kamala-harris-president-democrats-opinion-poll-07-22-2024/
— Democrats ask “Who is Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, and is he being considered for the 2024 ticket?”
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/jb-pritzker-2024-democratic-presidential-race-illinois/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Pritzker, 59, was first elected governor in 2018, defeating Republican incumbent Bruce Rauner. Before that, the was a longtime donor to the Democratic party, and a prominent philanthropic donor. With his substantial wealth, progressive stances, and growing national profile since taking office, Pritzker could prove to be an appealing choice for Democrats as Biden’s replacement on the ticket. Pritzker was a major supporter of both of Hillary Clinton’s campaigns for president in 2008 and 2016. He and his wife, MK Pritzker, contributed more than $15 million to the pro-Clinton Priorities USA Action PAC during the 2016 campaign, according to federal campaign finance records.)
— Democrats promote Pat Brady.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6a_1rlFCO8
FOX32
— Democrats promote Pat Brady.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1488964
WGN RADIO
— Democrats say “Republicans ask Biden to resign.”
https://wgnradio.com/news/republicans-ask-biden-to-resign/
WLS AM
— Republicans ask “Is It Possible for the Dems to Change Their Candidate Mid-Election?”
https://www.wlsam.com/2024/07/23/is-it-possible-for-the-dems-to-change-their-candidate-mid-election/
— Republicans ask “Who Has Been Leading Our Nation for the Last Four Years?” Who manipulates/dominates/controls Biden?
https://www.wlsam.com/2024/07/22/who-has-been-leading-our-nation-for-the-last-four-years/
SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— Democrats ask “Pritzker as VP?” and say “Illinois Gov. being considered for Kamala Harris’ running mate.”
https://www.sj-r.com/story/news/politics/elections/state/2024/07/23/pritzker-on-short-list-for-kamala-harris-vp-heres-what-to-know/74499378007/
25 NEWS NOW
— Democrats say “Trump previously donated thousands to Harris’ attorney general campaign.”
https://www.25newsnow.com/2024/07/22/trump-previously-donated-thousands-harris-attorney-general-campaign-records-show/
NPR ILLINOIS
— Democrats say “Harris says, as a former prosecutor, ‘I know Donald Trump’s type’ What type are you? What does Harris think of you and of those who share your demographics? How many demographics do you share with Trump? Both Trump and I are conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-poor, non-veteran, married, Protestant, German American, and our ancestors have been in America for a long time.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2024-07-22/harris-says-as-a-former-prosecutor-i-know-donald-trumps-type
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/hill-politics/lgbtq-community-sounds-alarm-bells-over-vance/
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD & WAND TV
— Democrats say “Conservatives use shooting at Trump rally to attack DEI efforts at Secret Service.” Democrat employers use DEI to reduce hiring, retention, and promotion requirements for Democrats who are minority, female, younger, and/or veteran. As I got older, because I am Republican, White, male, and non-veteran, my Democrat Post Office, IRS, and GAO superiors ever-increasingly used DEI to waste my federal career and to get rid of me. All my Democrat coworkers who they promoted over me a) had less work experience than I had, b) had less education than I had, c) had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or d) had no professional license like the one I had.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/ap-conservatives-use-shooting-at-trump-rally-to-attack-dei-efforts-at-secret-service/
https://www.wandtv.com/news/national/conservatives-use-shooting-at-trump-rally-to-attack-dei-efforts-at-secret-service/article_8313b470-119d-5fde-97b0-e419491ec842.html
HYDE PARK HERALD
— Democrats say “East Hyde Park residents air grievances about neighboring migrant shelters at community meeting.” In what buildings will Democrat leaders dump their illegals in your county, in your township, in your municipality, and in your school district?
https://www.hpherald.com/evening_digest/east-hyde-park-residents-air-grievances-about-neighboring-migrant-shelters-at-community-meeting/article_68da08a8-4864-11ef-b913-1b5ccc5210d7.html
WSIL TV & WTHI TV
— Democrats acknowledge that prenatal marijuana use is linked to serious risks for mother during pregnancy.
https://www.wsiltv.com/news/health/serious-maternal-complications-linked-with-use-of-marijuana-before-and-early-in-pregnancy-study-says/article_21cd5e67-9577-5503-b626-8a4481a83d35.html
https://www.wthitv.com/news/prenatal-marijuana-use-linked-to-serious-risks-for-mother-during-pregnancy-study-finds/article_ac9c970e-27b6-5464-b1e4-1fd44264f7c2.html
CAPITOL FAX
— Democrats say “Morning briefing”
https://capitolfax.com/2024/07/23/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-331/
— Democrats say “Afternoon roundup.”
https://capitolfax.com/2024/07/22/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-124/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
LAKE COUNTY GAZETTE
— Pritzker’s role in the extreme rhetoric surrounding Donald Trump.
https://lakecountygazette.com/stories/661984412-opinion-gov-pritzker-s-role-in-the-extreme-rhetoric-surrounding-donald-trump-wirepoints
PRAIRIE STATE WIRE
— Illinois one of 24 states aligned with ‘hyper-partisan’ voter data group
https://prairiestatewire.com/stories/661984257-illinois-one-of-24-states-aligned-with-hyper-partisan-voter-data-group
WIREPOINTS
— Somebody forgot to tell Mayor Johnson that Chicago Public Schools is junk rated – Ted Dabrowski and John Klingner
https://wirepoints.org/did-somebody-forget-to-tell-mayor-johnson-that-chicago-public-schools-is-junk-rated-wirepoints/
— Democratic State Rep. DeLuca calls for state to shift migrant funding to property tax relief
https://wirepoints.org/democratic-state-rep-deluca-calls-for-state-to-shift-migrant-funding-to-property-tax-relief-wirepoints-quickpoint/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Trump 2024 frightens migrants to start new caravan. – Cheryl K. Chumley
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/jul/23/trump-2024-frightens-migrants-to-start-new-caravan/
— Kremlin takes aim at Kamala Harris’ lack of foreign policy credentials amid global uncertainty. – Ben Wolfgang
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/jul/22/amid-global-uncertainty-kremlin-takes-aim-at-harri/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— A Kamala Harris presidency would be great news for illegal immigrants. – Tom Joyce
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/3094737/kamala-harris-presidency-great-news-for-illegal-immigrants/
— Democratic challenges to Harris are DEI’d on arrival. – Zachary Faria
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/3094312/democratic-challenges-harris-deid-on-arrival/
— Kamala Harris-backed bail fund that freed violent criminals back in spotlight. – Gabe Kaminsky
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/3093548/kamala-harris-backed-bail-fund-freed-violent-criminals-back-in-spotlight/
NEW YORK POST
— Elon Musk says trans child was figuratively ‘killed by the woke mind virus,’ vows to destroy it: ‘My son is dead’ – Lee Brown
https://nypost.com/2024/07/23/us-news/elon-musk-says-trans-child-was-figuratively-killed-by-the-woke-mind-virus-vows-to-destroy-it-my-son-is-dead/
AMAC
— AMAC Supports Bill To Remove DEI From The Federal Lexicon
https://amac.us/amac-in-the-media/amac-supports-bill-to-remove-dei-from-the-federal-lexicon/
AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE
— The Great Immigration Experiment. The mass intake of foreigners has decisively failed. Can we decolonize America? – Theo Wold
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/the-great-immigration-experiment/
AMERICAN THINKER
— Who’s in Charge: Pelosi, Obama, or the Clintons? – Christopher Chantrill
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/07/who_s_in_charge_pelosi_obama_or_the_clintons.html
— America’s crisis of ineptitude. – Patricia McCarthy
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/07/america_s_crisis_of_ineptitude.html
BREITBART
— Pew Research: More than 30 Million Migrants Taking U.S. Jobs, Far Outpacing Growth of Native-Born Americans. – JOHN BINDER (COMMENT: If there had been as many illegals when I was young as there are now, they would have gotten the jobs that I got.)
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/07/22/pew-research-more-than-30-million-migrants-taking-u-s-jobs-far-outpacing-growth-native-born-americans/
— Deep Blue ‘Sanctuary’ Cities Bused Nearly 60,000 Migrants Out of Their Areas. – WARNER TODD HUSTON (COMMENT: Sooner or later, if not already, Democrats will dump their illegals in your county, in your township, in your municipality, and in your school district.)
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2024/07/22/report-deep-blue-sanctuary-cities-bused-60000-migrants-out/
— Mexican Cops Escort Thousands of Migrants as New Caravan Heads North Fearing Trump Will Close Border. – ILDEFONSO ORTIZ, RANDY CLARK and BRANDON DARBY
https://www.breitbart.com/border/2024/07/22/mexican-cops-escort-thousands-of-migrants-new-caravan-headed-north/
— Bernie Sanders Compares ‘War Criminal’ Netanyahu to Hamas Leader, Says ‘Not Welcome’ in Congress. – JOSHUA KLEIN
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/07/22/bernie-sanders-compares-war-criminal-netanyahu-hamas-leader-not-welcome-congress/
DAILY CALLER
— America’s Border Crisis Could Get A Whole Lot Worse Under Kamala Harris. – JASON HOPKINS
https://dailycaller.com/2024/07/22/americas-border-crisis-could-get-a-whole-lot-worse-under-kamala-harris-experts-say/
— Kamala Harris Compared ICE To KKK, Said Agency Should Be Restarted ‘From Scratch’ – JASON HOPKINS
https://dailycaller.com/2024/07/22/kamala-harris-compared-ice-kkk-restarted-scratch/
DAILY SIGNAL
— Kamala Harris Tried to Scare Conservatives Into Silence. – Tyler O’Neil
https://www.dailysignal.com/2024/07/22/5-things-know-kamala-harris-record/
DAILY WIRE
— Elon Musk Says He ‘Vowed To Destroy The Woke Mind Virus’ After He Was ‘Tricked Into’ Allowing His Son To ‘Transition’ “I lost my son … killed by the woke mind virus.” – Zach Jewell
https://www.dailywire.com/news/elon-musk-says-he-vowed-to-destroy-the-woke-mind-virus-after-he-was-tricked-into-allowing-his-son-to-transition
FEDERALIST
— Accomplice Media Suddenly Spin Biden As A Patriot And Kamala As Capable. – M.D. KITTLE
https://thefederalist.com/2024/07/23/accomplice-media-suddenly-spin-biden-as-a-patriot-and-kamala-as-capable/
— Democrats Will Gladly Trash The Economy To Put A DEI Hire On The Federal Reserve Board. – TIM WHITEHEAD
https://thefederalist.com/2024/07/23/democrats-obsession-with-identity-politics-threatens-to-destroy-the-economy/
LAW ENFORCEMENT TODAY
— Instead of ensuring safety of it’s protectees, Secret Service’s primary goal seems to be recruiting from the LGBTQ community. – Noah Webster
https://www.lawenforcementtoday.com/instead-of-ensuring-safety-of-its-protectees-secret-services-primary-goal-is-recruiting-from-the-lgbtq-community
NATIONAL REVIEW
— So Long, Social Conservatives? The Trump-Vance ticket is distancing the party from a core constituency — and no one seems to mind. – KAYLA BARTSCH (COMMENT: The more that Trump dumps conservatives, that is, the more that Trump dumps platform Republicans, that is, the more that Trump dumps Republicans, the more that my critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes will support him.)
https://www.nationalreview.com/2024/07/so-long-social-conservatives/
TOWNHALL
— Harris Is Biden 2.0 or Worse. – Elad Hakim
https://townhall.com/columnists/elad-hakim/2024/07/23/harris-is-biden-20-or-worse-n2642327
— Open Borders and Drug Seizures. – Jamie Parsons
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/jamie-parsons/2024/07/22/open-borders-and-drug-seizes-n2642156
ZERO HEDGE
— Duke Report Ties Individualism To White Supremacy. – TYLER DURDEN (COMMENT: My critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes paint themselves as being team players, that is, as being people who will destroy anyone and anything that their leader tells them to.)
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/duke-report-tying-individualism-white-supremacy-uncovered-amidst-increasing-scrutiny-dei
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
NBC NEWS
— Democrats say “The Democrats who could be Kamala Harris’ running mate.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/kamala-harris-running-mates-democratic-presidential-ticket-rcna162848
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Pritzker, 59, was an active Biden campaign surrogate, traveling to battleground states to stump for him. He founded a nonprofit committee, Think Big America, to advocate for abortion rights and to combat extremism, with a focus on battleground states. Pritzker, a second-term governor who is popular in the state, has been outspoken about protecting women’s reproductive rights and has held up Illinois as a beacon for women seeking access to care. Pritzker has signed a host of progressive initiatives into law, including a ban on assault weapons, ghost guns and switches; an increase in the minimum wage; a measure to enshrine abortion protections into law; and measures to legalize cannabis and expunge records. He has invested in early childhood education, working toward universal preschool in the state. Pritzker has also demonstrated considerable political savvy, having landed the 2024 Democratic National Convention in his state after repeated lobbying. Pritzker is widely considered to be a future presidential contender. As a billionaire who has self-financed his campaigns in the past, he is positioned to effortlessly step into a national campaign and immediately be flush with cash. Pritzker endorsed Harris on Monday.)
NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrats say “Kamala Harris Turns to Selecting a Possible Vice President. The first big decision for Ms. Harris: Who will be her running mate if she is nominated by the Democratic Party to run for president in August.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/22/us/politics/kamala-harris-vp-list.html
— Democrats say “The Secret Service director faced calls from both parties to resign after refusing to answer questions about the attempted assassination of Donald Trump.”
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/07/22/us/secret-service-hearing-trump-cheatle
— Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War on Republicans. Their soldiers include illegals and Blacks.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/22/opinion/trump-immigration-black-voters.html
— FRONT PAGE: Democrats say “Wealthy Women Stockpile Donations for Harris.” If Harris defeats Trump, she will give even more preference to women than Biden would have.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/22/us/politics/kamala-harris-donors-women.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Democrats say “Jared Kushner’s grandparents relied on aid and shelter as refugees, documents show. Kushner was a top official in a Trump administration that sharply restricted immigration and refugee admissions. His grandparents were Holocaust refugees.” My critics/opponents stress that my ancestors on my father’s side homesteaded a 240-acre farm in southeast Crete Township in 1854.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2024/07/22/jared-kushner-grandparents-refugees-aid-shelter/
USA TODAY
— Democrats ask “Now Trump wants Biden?” and say “Republicans threaten to sue to keep Harris off ballot.”
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2024/07/23/kamala-harris-democratic-nomination-president-republicans-unhappy/74500479007/
— Harris is awful. But left’s love of identity politics means Democrats are stuck with her. President Biden’s inner circle had to have known for some time that he was unwell and unfit to serve a second term. As vice president, Harris had to have known it as well. – Nicole Russell
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2024/07/22/kamala-harris-campaign-trump-2024-election/74493163007/
— Democrats ask “When job hunting, how do I identify good company culture?” GAO falsely claims to be nonpartisan. In fact, it is fiercely Democrat. I found that out when I transferred from IRS to GAO when was 31 years old in 1980. Because I was Republican, the Democrats who ran GAO’s Chicago Office wasted my career and got rid of me.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/columnist/2024/07/16/how-to-identify-company-culture/74383900007/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Democrats say “Secret Service Director’s Testimony Sparks Bipartisan Calls for Her Resignation. House lawmakers expressed anger that Kimberly Cheatle wouldn’t offer more details about near assassination of Donald Trump.”
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/kimberly-cheatle-secret-service-house-oversight-committee-13a7aaf8
— Biden Gets the Chicago Treatment. Barack Obama, an old-fashioned ward boss, orchestrates the president’s removal. – Rod R. Blagojevich
https://www.wsj.com/articles/barack-obama-and-the-chicago-way-biden-withrawal-ward-boss-be1a45e1
BUSINESS INSIDER
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly destroy those who do not promote DEI.
https://www.businessinsider.com/attacks-on-kamala-harris-got-deeply-sexist-and-extremely-ugly-2024-7
NEWSWEEK
— Democrats say “Pritzker for VP is a Good Choice for Winning Over Never-Trumpers.” What does that say about Republican Never-Trumpers (RNT)? Who are the biggest RNTs in your county, in your township, and in your municipality? I should write about the biggest RNTs in DuPage County, Milton Township, and Wheaton. I would focus on those who have taken the most/biggest adverse actions against me since 2015.
https://www.newsweek.com/pritzker-vp-good-choice-winning-over-never-trumpers-opinion-1928803
— Democrats say “Migrant Caravan Heads for Border, Hoping to Make It Before Election.”
https://www.newsweek.com/migrant-caravan-mexico-us-border-november-election-trump-1928492
WFIN
— Democrats say “GOP senator demands Cabinet invoke 25th Amendment against Biden after suspending his re-election campaign.”
https://wfin.com/fox-political-news/gop-senator-demands-cabinet-invoke-25th-amendment-against-biden-after-suspending-his-re-election-campaign/
FAST COMPANY
— DEI is race and gender based preference giving. All my coworkers who my Democrat superiors promoted over me were Democrats who were minority, female, younger than me, and/or veteran and who a) had less work experience than I had, b) had less education than I had, c) had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or d) had no professional license like the one I had.)
https://www.fastcompany.com/91160591/what-people-mean-when-they-call-kamala-harris-a-dei-candidate
PEW RESEARCH
— Democrats say “What we know about unauthorized immigrants living in the U.S.” How many illegals are there in your county, township, municipality, and school district?
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/07/22/what-we-know-about-unauthorized-immigrants-living-in-the-us/
ATLANTIC
— Ever-increasingly, anti-conservatives falsely claim to be conservative.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/07/woke-style-american-politics/678995/
July 20, 2024
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Democrats say “US Reps Sean Casten, Chuy Garcia call for President Joe Biden to step aside from race.”
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-area-us-representative-sean-casten-calls-president/15071150/
— Democrats say “Donald Trump’s speech about assassination attempt hits home for Illinois delegates at RNC.”
https://abc7chicago.com/post/donald-trump-rnc-2024-former-presidents-speech-rally/15072393/
— Democrats say “Thousands still without power days after Chicago-area storms.” I need electricity to put GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters together and send them out every morning. I should write about my critics/opponents who have demonized me, denigrated me, and condemned me the most for my buying a whole house natural gas back up electric generator.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/power-outage-today-homewood-helped-surrounding-suburbs-many/15071824/
— Democrats say “Berwyn man charged in 2022 West Lawn road rage shooting death of 3-year-old boy.” My brother suffered serious injuries as a passenger in a car involved in a road rage incident.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/berwyn-man-giovanni-hernandez-charged-murder-mateo-zastro-court/15072376/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUYjlrDENnU
NBC5
— Democrats say “Uncertainty over Biden’s candidacy persists ahead of Democratic National Convention in Chicago.”
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/uncertainty-over-bidens-candidacy-persists-ahead-of-democratic-national-convention-in-chicago/3495884/
— Democrats ask “Who could replace Joe Biden if he drops out of presidential race?”
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/politics/who-could-replace-joe-biden-if-he-drops-out-of-presidential-race/3495592/
— Democrats ask “What happens next if Joe Biden drops out of presidential race?”
https://www.nbcchicago.com/dnc-chicago-2024/what-happens-next-if-joe-biden-drops-out-of-presidential-race/3495741/
— Democrats say “Postal workers demand heightened safety measures after Chicago letter carrier shot and killed.” I delivered mail in Park Forest 1966-1969.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/postal-workers-demand-heightened-safety-measures-after-chicago-letter-carrier-shot-and-killed/3495988/
— Democrat say “Price plummets for Olympia Fields mansion previously home to Chicago celebrities. Listed for almost $3.5 million in January 2024, the asking price is now $1 million lower.” How much would this home be worth if it was in your municipality? I sold my childhood home 1286 Wood Street in Crete ( https://www.coldwellbanker.com/il/crete/1286-wood-street/lid-P00800000G69nqQ4d33ThxIbRs04xDo4lThe0OSV ) for $99,900 in December of 2022. What would it be worth if it was in Wheaton?
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/price-plummets-olympia-fields-mansion-previously-home-chicago-celebrities/3495370/
WGN9
— Democrats say “Chicago man accused of supplying fatal dose of drugs to Naperville man.”
https://wgntv.com/news/chicagocrime/chicago-man-accused-of-supplying-fatal-dose-of-drugs-to-naperville-man/
FOX32
— Democrats say “A Chicago man will remain in custody pending his trial after allegedly supplying illegal narcotics to a Naperville man who overdosed and died in 2023. Prosecutors said the victim arranged to receive illegal narcotics from Christopher Hobson, 38, on Feb. 20, 2023.”
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/chicago-man-supplied-illegal-narcotics-killed-naperville-man
WGN RADIO
— Democrats ask “Is VP Harris a more viable candidate than President Biden?”
https://wgnradio.com/john-williams/is-vp-harris-a-more-viable-candidate-than-president-biden/
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Democrats say “Illinois RNC delegates say Trump’s economic message should sway voters.”
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/07/19/leaving-milwaukee-illinois-rnc-delegates-say-trumps-economic-message-should-sway-voters/
— Democrats say “On-duty mail carrier fatally shot in West Pullman neighborhood, $250K reward announced.” I delivered mail in Park Forest 1966-1969.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/07/19/on-duty-mail-carrier-fatally-shot-in-west-pullman-neighborhood/
— Democrats say “Billionaire Ken Griffin lists Gold Coast condo for $11M.”
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/07/19/billionaire-ken-griffin-lists-gold-coast-condo-for-11m/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— What do you say to those who demonize, denigrate, and condemn minorities who marry Whites?
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2024/07/19/jd-vance-usha-chilukuri-indian-interracial-marriage-racism-trump-white-supremacy-rummana-hussain
— Democrats say “Political violence and rhetoric is all too American.”
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2024/07/19/political-violence-rhetoric-trump-assassination-attempt-gun-violence-history-natalie-moore
— Democrats say “Republican convention biblical banter rings a Paul Harvey bell.”
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2024/07/19/trump-speech-paul-harvey-so-god-made-a-farmer-biblical-banter-republican-convention-super-bowl-ad
— Democrats say “Editor’s note: Important changes to this weekend’s newspapers as printing plant disruption continues. There will be no early Sunday edition, also called the “3-star” or bulldog, this weekend, and the regular Sunday edition will be smaller than usual. We were unable to include news from Friday evening in Saturday’s paper.” To help make my daily GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters more timely and more comprehensive, I spend thousands of dollars every year for home delivery of and internet access for the Chicago Sun-Times, Chicago Tribune, Daily Herald, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Crain’s Chicago Business, Naperville Sun, etc. I am an independent conservative Republican not-for-profit aggregator of political and government news and commentary of interest to Illinois Republicans. I should write about how my direct competitors treat me and treat my newsletters. I would focus on those who reject one or more of the following planks in past and present Republican Party platforms: personal responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, immigration, illegal drugs, Second Amendment, and/or equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving).
https://chicago.suntimes.com/editors-note-weekend-paper
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ask “Remember all the times Trump used incendiary language to taunt Democrats?”
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2024/07/19/donald-trump-incendiary-inflammatory-language-against-democrats-joe-biden-gene-lyons
DAILY HERALD
— Democrats say “Suburban Republicans leave convention energized and hopeful for November.”
https://www.dailyherald.com/20240719/news/suburban-republicans-leave-convention-energized-and-hopeful-for-november/
‘– Democrats say “It’s a different party’: Healing, division and questions about Trump’s coattails among RNC takeways.” The previous Illinois Republican Party used pretexts to remove me from its 2024 State Convention Platform and Resolutions Committee.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20240719/illinois-state-politics/its-a-different-party-healing-division-and-questions-about-trumps-coattails-among-rnc-takeways/
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Democrats ask “Who’s moving in and out of Chicago?” and say “Fed trackers reveal some surprises.” Democrat leaders of Chicago a) attract those who have demographics that vote for Democrats and b) drive out those who have demographics that vote for Republicans.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/economy/chicago-population-shifts-revealed-federal-reserve-report
HERALD & REVIEW
— Democrats say “Illinois GOP Chair Kathy Salvi on future of state party.”
https://herald-review.com/illinois-gop-chair-kathy-salvi-on-future-of-state-party/video_5dd907e8-461f-11ef-80cc-ab8d8a8ef2cc.html
ALTON TELEGRAPH
— Democrats use Trump shooting to diminish Second Amendment rights.
https://www.thetelegraph.com/news/politics/article/political-divisions-stall-proposed-gun-policies-19584194.php
SOUTHERN
— Democrats ask “Are top Republicans shifting in favor of unions?” I was a union member for almost 12 years. My critics/opponents have always hinted/implied/argued/shouted that I was grossly overpaid because of that. My federal salary increased from $18.99/hour to $110,020/year in today’s dollars. In my defense, during that time, a) I earned a bachelor’s degree in management from NIU, b) I earned an MBA from Loyola, c) I passed the CPA examination on my first attempt, and d) I almost completed the requirements for a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul.
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2024/07/19/are-top-republicans-shifting-in-favor-of-unions-probably-not-experts-say/
WGLT
— Democrats say “Trump has promised deportations on an unprecedented scale.” Illegals drive wages down. They harm younger Americans the most a) whose parents are not wealthy, b) who have less education and/or c) who have fewer or no job skills. Because my parents were not wealthy, I had to work my way through college. If there had been as many illegals when I was young as there are now, illegals would have gotten the jobs that I got, and if not that, the wages that I earned would have been less. I did yard work 1962-1964, I delivered newspapers 1962-1966, I washed dishes 1964-1966, I cleaned golf shoes and chipped slag in 1966, I pumped gasoline in 1966 and 1971-1972, and I delivered mail 1966-1969.
https://www.wglt.org/2024-07-19/trump-has-promised-deportations-on-an-unprecedented-scale
— Democrats ever-increasingly crow about their success in pushing pot in Bloomington-Normal.
https://www.wglt.org/local-news/2024-07-19/a-6th-marijuana-dispensary-opens-in-bloomington-normal
WAND TV
— Democrats say “What Usha Vance’s rise to prominence means to other South Asian and Hindu Americans.” All my superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates in the federal government saw all the adverse actions that my Democrat superiors took against me. All the members of the following organizations saw all the adverse actions that the leaders of those organizations took against me: a) Illinois Republican Party, b) DuPage County Republican Central Committee, c) Milton Township Republican Organization, d) Illinois, e) DuPage County, f) Milton Township, g) Wheaton, h) Wheaton Park District, i) Wheaton Chamber of Commerce, j) TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois, k) Illinois Center Right Coalition, l) American Association of Political Consultants Midwest Chapter, m) etc.
https://www.wandtv.com/news/national/what-usha-vances-rise-to-prominence-means-to-other-south-asian-and-hindu-americans/article_12fcdeb9-41d8-52c4-9051-19e392b41f9d.html
ADVANTAGE NEWS
— Democrats say “Miller critical of media in Trump coverage.”
https://www.advantagenews.com/news/local/miller-critical-of-media-in-trump-coverage/article_7e0b9446-4542-11ef-a462-ab24908fc471.html
MILWAUKEE INDEPENDENT
— Democrats ever-increasingly run America and make it clear that they are going to use government to get rid of Republicans once and for all starting with Republicans who are conservative, White, male, older, non-poor, married, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. Consequently, the aforesaid are buying more and more and more firearms and ammunition for their self-defense.
http://www.milwaukeeindependent.com/heather-richardson/normalizing-hate-how-republicans-have-increasingly-advocated-violence-as-a-way-to-gain-power/
CHICAGO BUSINESS JOUNAL
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly analogize illegals with Blacks who fled slavery.
https://www.bizjournals.com/chicago/news/2024/07/19/neighborspace-land-grant-underground-railroad.html
BLOCK CLUB CHICAGO
— Democrats ever-increasingly encourage Blacks to be stoners and LGBTQers.
https://blockclubchicago.org/2024/07/19/sway-lgbtq-owned-dispensary-aims-to-open-in-south-shore/
ORLAND PARK PATCH
— Democrats say Orland Park Violated the Open Meetings Act when its Mayor Keith Pekau and its Board of Trustees cleared the board room during a contentious meeting in February.
https://patch.com/illinois/orlandpark/chief-clear-room-orland-violated-open-meetings-act-ag-says
CAPITOL FAX
— Democrats say “Afternoon roundup.”
https://capitolfax.com/2024/07/19/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-123/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
ILLINOIS REPUBLICAN PARTY
— PRESS RELEASE: Illinois Democrats in Disarray on Biden CHICAGO — After a week of unity in Milwaukee, Republicans in Illinois and across the country are ready to win in November. Democrats on the other hand don’t even know who will be at the top of the ticket yet. Joe Biden’s poll numbers keep getting worse and big name Democrats are calling it quits on the President. Sean Casten joined a growing chorus of Democrats calling for Biden to step down this morning, a chorus that includes Reps. Chuy Garcia, Mike Quigley, and Eric Sorenson. But former Biden/Pritzker staffer Nikki Budzinski and Senator Dick Durbin are #RidinWithBiden. And Governor Pritzker? He’s supporting the “Democratic nominee” who is “apparently” Joe Biden. Sounds like a full throated endorsement to us. With less than a month to go until Democrats descend on Chicago, their party here in Illinois and across the country is in complete and utter disarray. 31 days to go.
https://illinois.gop/category/news/
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Illinois Attorney General defends gun ban with reference to attempted assassination of former president. – Jim Talamonti (COMMENT: Democrats ever-increasingly blame guns for gun violence instead of blaming those who use guns illegally.)
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_e055d80a-45e2-11ef-9999-9f8803279cfc.html
— Chicago mayor defends shutdown of homeless site. – Jim Talamonti
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_14348086-45f7-11ef-b216-17002c4b042f.html
ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— 10 THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT CHICAGO CRIME TODAY – Paul Vallas
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/vallas-10-things-you-should-know-about-chicago-crime-today/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Trump’s RNC spreads emotional, big-tent MAGA message — a show lauded even by Democrats. – Stephen Dinan (COMMENT: Political parties exist to help elect candidates who can and will defend and advance their platform. The Republican Party platform is conservative. Unlike the Democrat Party, the Republican Party’s big-tent policy lets people hold leadership positions who reject many if not most if not virtually all the planks in its platform. Most commonly, they reject its personal responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, immigration, illegal drugs, Second Amendment, and/or equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving) planks. Leaders of the following who reject the aforesaid planks use the Republican Party’s big-tent policy to get rid of Precinct Committeemen like me who support the aforesaid planks: Illinois Republican Party, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Milton Township Republican Organization. I should write a book about the aforesaid. I would focus on the aforesaid leaders, the planks that they reject, and the adverse actions that they took against me because I support those planks.)
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/jul/18/donald-trumps-rnc-spreads-emotional-big-tent-maga-/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Thirteen Democrats ask Biden to stand aside as dam begins to break. – Rachel Schilke
Who could replace Joe Biden if he drops out of presidential race?
WASHINGTON FREE BEACON
— Joe Biden’s Senior Moment of the Week (Vol. 103)
https://freebeacon.com/biden-administration/watch-joe-bidens-senior-moment-of-the-week-vol-103/
NEW YORK POST
— Lara Trump says she has full confidence in Secret Service — but says director Kimberly Cheatle must answer for ‘mistakes’ – Jon Levine
https://nypost.com/2024/07/20/us-news/lara-trump-says-has-full-confidence-in-secret-service/
AMERICAN THINKER
— University DEI plan says individualism, timeliness, part of white supremacy culture. – Eric Utter (COMMENT: According to my critics/opponents, I owe all my accomplishments in life to my benefitting tremendously from discrimination against those who are minority, female, younger, poor, veteran, LGBTQ, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time. I should write a book about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those whose parents have/had lots of money.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/07/university_dei_plan_says_individualism_timeliness_part_of_white_supremacy_culture.html
BIZ PAC REVIEW
— Microsoft selectively scraps its DEI department. Don’t be fooled. – Vivek Saxena
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2024/07/19/microsoft-selectively-scraps-its-dei-department-dont-be-fooled-1473633/
— Illegal alien known for urging others to squat in US homes linked to Venezuela military intel. – Tom Tillison (COMMENT: How many vacant homes and apartments are there in your county, township, and municipality?)
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2024/07/19/illegal-alien-known-for-urging-others-to-squat-in-us-homes-linked-to-venezuela-military-intel-report-1473724/
BREITBART
— ‘Gang of Eight’ Advocates (Senators Michael Bennet, Dick Durbin, Jeff Flake, Lindsey Graham, John McCain, Bob Menendez, Marco Rubio, and Chuck Schumer) Sought Amnesty for 35 Million Illegals. – NEIL MUNRO
https://www.breitbart.com/2024-election/2024/07/19/gang-of-eight-advocates-sought-amnesty-for-35-million-in-2013/
CENTER SQUARE
— New bill would change federal hiring practices on past cannabis use. – Brett Rowland (COMMENT: I have never used pot and I never will. Pot is a disqualifier. The Democrats who ran GAO in 1980, IRS in 1971, and the Post Office in 1966 hired me because they could not find a qualified Democrat, minority, female, younger person, or veteran who would take the job. Many of my critics/opponents act like they have used pot, are using pot, and/or want to use pot. They despise/hate me because I led the successful effort to stop the sale of pot in Wheaton.)
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_86460062-45f9-11ef-9fff-cb56c00c9e3b.html
DAILY CALLER
— Third Senate Democrat Calls For Biden Exit. – ROBERT MCGREEVY
https://dailycaller.com/2024/07/19/senate-dem-martin-heinrich-biden-campaign/
DAILY WIRE
— The Appalling Display Of Christian White Nationalism At The RNC. – Andrew Klavan
https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-appalling-display-of-christian-white-nationalism-at-the-rnc
FEDERALIST
— Donald Trump Enters Fall Election With The Big Tent Republicans Failed To Build For Decades. – TRISTAN JUSTICE (COMMENT: Political parties exist to help elect candidates who can and will defend and advance their platform. The Republican Party platform is conservative. Unlike the Democrat Party, the Republican Party’s big tent policy lets people hold leadership positions who reject many if not most if not virtually all the planks in its platform. Most commonly, they reject its personal responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, immigration, illegal drugs, Second Amendment, and/or equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving) planks. Leaders of the following who reject the aforesaid planks use the Republican Party’s big tent policy to get rid of Precinct Committeemen like me who support the aforesaid planks: Illinois Republican Party, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Milton Township Republican Organization. I should write a book about the aforesaid. I would focus on the aforesaid leaders, the planks that they reject, and the adverse actions that they took against me because I support those planks.)
https://thefederalist.com/2024/07/19/donald-trump-enters-fall-election-with-the-big-tent-republicans-failed-to-build-for-decades/
FEDERATION FOR AMERICAN IMMIGRATION REFORM
— How Biden’s Border Crisis is Destroying Heartland America: A Look at Springfield, Ohio. – Joey Chester (COMMENT: Under the Democrats and under the RINOs: Springfield, Ohio today, your municipality tomorrow.)
https://www.fairus.org/blog/2024/07/19/how-bidens-border-crisis-destroying-heartland-america-look-springfield-ohio
https://www.immigrationreform.com/2024/07/19/how-bidens-border-crisis-is-destroying-heartland-america-a-look-at-springfield-ohio/
FOX NEWS
— Number of Americans wanting reduced immigration skyrockets, most since 2001. – Adam Shaw
https://www.yahoo.com/news/number-americans-wanting-reduced-immigration-194008334.html
HERITAGE FOUNDATION
— DEI Is Distracting Our Military From Its Primary Task. – Jim Fein (COMMENT: The primary task that my Democrat superiors in the federal government had was hiring, retaining. and promoting Democrats, and especially Democrats who were minority, female, younger, and/or veteran.)
https://www.heritage.org/defense/commentary/dei-distracting-our-military-its-primary-task
MRC TV
— Democrats Don’t Care if Biden’s Too Demented to Control ICBMs. – Ted Cruz
https://mrctv.org/blog/craig-bannister/ted-cruz-democrats-dont-care-if-bidens-too-demented-control-icbms
NEWS BUSTERS
— NPR Bashes RNC: ‘Violent Rhetoric and Attacks on Undocumented Immigrants’ – Clay Waters
https://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/clay-waters/2024/07/19/npr-bashes-rnc-violent-rhetoric-and-attacks-undocumented-immigrants
NUMBERS USA
— Trump while referring to illegal immigrants: They are taking the jobs from our Black population and our Hispanic population…
https://x.com/theatlantavoice/status/1814138971586261215
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Democrats ask “Too old to work?” and say “Some Americans on the job late in life bristle at calls for Biden to step aside.” What is Trump’s position on age discrimination? When I was 25 years old in 1974, my Democrat IRS superiors used up-or-out to write me off as being too old to be promoted to GS-!3. My Democrat GAO superiors forced me to take their early retirement “offer” in 1997 and gave my job and my preferred corner office to my Black subordinate.
https://apnews.com/article/biden-older-elderly-voters-a6bcbdaf35c78a8aac04e8ad078456f2
— Firefighter killed at Trump rally honored with bagpipes and gun salute at funeral. (COMMENT: At my request, Wheaton used $1,000 a year of the money that I raised from Republicans for bagpipers in its Independence Day parades. My critics/opponents do not like bagpipers if not despise/hate bagpipers. They complain that they do not march fast enough.)
https://apnews.com/video/pennsylvania-corey-comperatore-funerals-and-memorial-services-donald-trump-national-eb06523d3956446688e4c08e55a8bedf
— Democrats say “Republicans say they will trust the election results as long as Trump wins. With many Trump supporters confident he will win in November, there was less talk of stolen elections at the Republican National Convention.” Anticipate/expect that many millions of illegals will use their false identifications to register to vote and to vote for Biden and for the rest of the Democrats on the ballot.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/07/19/trump-election-results/
ABC NEWS
— Democrats ever-increasingly a) run America and b) destroy you if you do not promote LGBTQ.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/rnc-calls-unity-ring-hollow-lgbtq-community/story?id=112096917
NBC NEWS
— Democrats say “How Trump used the Republican convention to shift the party his way. Abortion and gun rights got little attention. Speakers included a union president, an OnlyFans model and disaffected Black and Latino Democrats angry about crime and immigration.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-used-republican-convention-shift-party-way-rcna162739
NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrats say “Biden Plans to Resume Campaigning as More Democrats Urge Him to Quit.”
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/07/19/us/biden-election-news
— Democrats say “Bus by Bus, Texas’ Governor Changed Migration Across the U.S. In two years, Texas has bused more than 119,000 people to Democrat-led cities, shifting both migration patterns and the debate over immigration. The list of cities keeps expanding.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/20/us/abbott-texas-migrant-buses.html
— Democrats say “From Honor Student to the Gunman Who Tried to Kill Donald Trump.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/19/us/gunman-thomas-crooks-trump-shooting.html
— Democrats say “How to Rein In Rising Auto Insurance Rates.” To save on auto insurance, I have stopped driving five of my seven cars and my SUV and I have suspended insurance coverage on them except comprehensive.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/19/your-money/car-insurance-rates-inflation.html
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/19/opinion/donald-trump-speech.html
— Pro-Lifers Helped Bring Trump to Power. Why Has He Abandoned Us? – Patrick T. Brown
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/19/opinion/trump-abortion-pro-life.html
— Democrats say “Since the shooting at his rally, Mr. Trump has appeared more concerned about his legacy and how he may be remembered by his grandchildren.” I should write a book my critics/opponents and what I believe they will say about me when I die. I would focus on those who now say that I bring all my problems on myself, that is, that I cause all my own problems. I would focus on my critics/opponents who have taken the most/biggest adverse actions against me.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/19/us/politics/trump-rnc-speech-analysis.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Democrats ever-increasingly a) run America and b) destroy you if you do not promote dependency on government and charity, LGBTQ, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, booze, gambling, pot, and other vices, diminishment/abolishment of Second Amendment rights, and/or Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/07/20/republican-convention-far-right-immigration-transgender/
USA TODAY
— Democrats ask “Can Elon Musk buy Trump the White House?” and say “Americans are about to find out.”
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2024/07/19/elon-musk-trump-super-pac-donation-election/74440973007/
MSNBC
— Democrat leaders flood America with illegals because illegals vote for Democrats. RINOs flood America with illegals because RINOs want cheap labor.
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-rnc-disturbing-anti-immigration-rhetoric-rcna162637
— Democrats ever-increasingly a) run America and b) destroy you if you do not promote LGBTQ.
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/donald-trump-mtg-rnc-sent-message-trans-people-year-rcna162422
INDIANA CAPITAL CHRONICLE
— All the females who my GAO superiors promoted over me had less work experience than I had, had less education than I had, had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or had no professional license like the CPA license that I had. My Democrat GAO superiors stressed to all my many female superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates that I opposed gender based preference giving. They hinted/implied/argued/shouted at them that I caused all their problems.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/dei-bullying-assumes-people-didn-110012913.html
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Democrats say “Twelve More Democrats Join Chorus Calling on Biden to Exit Race. One day after Republican convention, Democrats intensify calls for president to step aside while Vice President Harris had a contentious call with donors.”
https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/six-more-democrats-join-chorus-calling-on-biden-to-exit-95daf381
— Democrats say “The White-Collar Hiring Rut Is Here. That’s Bad News for Young College Grads.” When you graduated for college, what frustrated your job search? For me, it was a) my being viewed as being draft bait, b) tremendous pressure on employers to hire minorities and females, c) my GPA not being that great, d) my not having demonstrated leadership potential, and e) my having been a postal employee for almost 3 years and then forced to resign.
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/white-collar-college-educated-workers-jobs-c594c29a
— California’s Minimum Wage Backfire. The $20 fast-food mandate is harming workers and business. – Editorial (COMMENT: Have you ever worked for the minimum wage? I washed dishes for the minimum wage 1964-1966.)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/california-minimum-wage-unemployment-fast-food-restaurants-gavin-newsom-fa91c381
FORBES
— Those who have/had wealthy parents say “OK Boomers, About That Working-Through-College Thing.” My critics/opponents have always ignored/dismissed/belittled/badmouthed my working my way through college. I should write a book about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those who have/had wealthy parents. I would focus on those who crow that they got scholarships. My GPA suffered because instead of studying, I washed dishes 1964-1966 and I delivered mail 1966-1969.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/patrickwwatson/2019/12/09/ok-boomers-about-that-working-through-college-thing/
— Democrats say “12 Ways To Champion DEI With Pay Transparency In The Workplace.” Federal salaries have always been extremely transparent. All my GAO superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates a) knew that my Democrat GAO superiors forced me to suffer a $22,996/year pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO and b) knew that they would not have done that if I had been a Democrat, minority, female, younger, and/or veteran.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbeshumanresourcescouncil/2024/07/19/12-ways-to-champion-dei-with-pay-transparency-in-the-workplace/
BLOOMBERG
— Democrats ask “Do Women Belong in the Secret Service?” and say “Former Agents Speak Out.” All during the almost 30 years that I worked for the federal government (Post Office 1966-1969, IRS 1971-1980, and GAO 1980-1997), there was tremendous increasing Democrat pressure on my superiors to hire, retain, and promote women. I should write a book about that. If I had been a woman, GAO would have promoted me into its Senior Executive Service long before I was 40 in 1988 a) because I earned master’s degrees in business in 1976 and in accounting in 1980, b) because I passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, c) because I passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981, and d) because I became a licensed CPA in 1981.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2024-07-18/why-are-women-in-the-secret-service
BUSINESS INSIDER
— Democrats say “Millionaires list health, family, and financial security as their top priorities — in that order.” What are your top priorities in life? My top priorities include putting GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters together and sending them out every morning. Because I have ever-increasingly spent so much time and money doing that since 2000, a) my health has suffered big time and b) my net worth is tens if not hundreds of thousands of dollars less.
https://www.businessinsider.com/millionaires-share-their-top-priorities-2015-5
FED SMITH
— Democrats say “OPM Directs Agencies to Advance Pay Equity for Federal Employees. OPM is directing agencies to conduct independent pay gap analyses to advance pay equity throughout the federal workforce.” While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, my Democrat superiors always paid my coworkers who were Democrat, minority, female, veteran, and/or younger more than they paid me. They all had less work experience than I had, less education than I had, no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or no professional license like the one I had.
https://www.fedsmith.com/2024/07/19/opm-directs-agencies-to-advance-pay-equity-for-federal-employees/
BUSINESS STANDARD
— Trump vows to end illegal immigration; supports expatriation
https://www.business-standard.com/world-news/us-elections-trump-vows-to-end-illegal-immigration-supports-expatriation-124071901478_1.html
ECONOMIC TIMES
— Biden administration treats illegal immigrants better than our own citizens. – Mike Pompeo
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/world-news/biden-admin-treats-illegal-immigrants-better-than-our-own-citizens-mike-pompeo/videoshow/111862146.cms
TIMES OF INDIA & MSN
— Republicans oppose illegal immigration, not legal immigration.
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/why-is-usha-vance-being-accused-of-hypocrisy-after-her-rnc-speech/articleshow/111875648.cms
https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/world/why-is-usha-vance-being-accused-of-hypocrisy-after-her-rnc-speech/ar-BB1qj98j
INDEPENDENT
— Democrats ever-increasingly a) run America and b) destroy you if you do not promote LGBTQ.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/republican-transgender-healthcare-tax-funding-b2582465.html
July 18, 2024
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Democrats say “JD Vance’s first Republican convention will be his national introduction as Trump’s running mate.” I have attended as a delegate all the Illinois Republican Party State Conventions since 2000.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/07/17/jd-vances-first-republican-convention-will-be-his-national-introduction-as-trumps-running-mate/
— Democrats say “Northwestern police cite four people involved in pro-Palestinian encampment.”
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/07/17/northwestern-police-cites-four-people-involved-in-pro-palestinian-encampment-officials/
— Democrats say “Lawsuit accuses state police of neglect, enabling alleged Highland Park shooter to obtain gun.”
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/07/17/lawsuit-accuses-state-police-of-neglect-enabling-alleged-highland-park-shooter-to-obtain-gun/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrats say “Chicago’s top watchdog pushed to add ex-Police Supt. David Brown to city’s do-not-hire list.” Constructively, my Democrat Post Office, IRS, and GAO superiors put me on do not hire lists. I should write a book about those listings and the tremendous harm they caused me. Constructively, those listings rendered virtually worthless a) my bachelor’s degree and three master’s degrees, b) my six professional certifications, and c) my professional license.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/police-reform/2024/07/17/chicago-top-watchdog-ex-police-supt-david-brown-do-not-hire-list
ABC7
— Democrats say “RNC Day 4: Donald Trump to give RNC keynote, says he’ll stress unity.”
https://abc7chicago.com/live-updates/rnc-day-4-donald-trump-to-give-keynote-says-hell-stress-unity/15067553/?cmp=emc-wls-news-headlines-7/18/2024
— Democrats say “Trump rally shooter searched on phone for dates of Democratic National Convention in Chicago.”
https://abc7chicago.com/post/trump-assassination-attempt-thomas-matthew-crooks-searched-dnc-chicago/15066011/
NBC5
— Democrats say “What to expect on Day 4 of the RNC, including speakers, timing and more. The final day of the convention will see speeches by former President Trump, Tucker Carlson and more.”
https://www.nbcchicago.com/2024-rnc-republican-national-convention-milwaukee/what-to-expect-day-4-rnc-milwaukee-speaker-schedule-trump-remarks/3493650/
— Democrats say “Trump set to speak at end of convention.”
https://www.nbcchicago.com/2024-rnc-republican-national-convention-milwaukee/how-long-is-the-rnc-trump-set-to-speak-at-end-of-convention/3493333/
— Democrats say “John Deere to abandon ‘social or cultural awareness’ events and inclusion efforts. John Deere also said it would audit all training materials “to ensure the absence of socially-motivated messages”
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/john-deere-to-abandon-social-or-cultural-awareness-events-and-inclusion-efforts/3493205/
CBS2
— Democrats say “George Washington statue staying outside Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson’s office.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8D14rjOShy8
WGN9
— Democrats say “Illinois GOP’s turn toward Trump keeps moderates at home.” Anti-conservative Republican candidates, elected officials, and party leaders in Illinois have always worked against conservatives, that is, they have always worked against the base of the Illinois Republican Party.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/illinois-gop-s-turn-toward-trump-keeps-moderates-at-home/ar-BB1q77bx?ocid=BingNewsVerp
SOUTHERN
— Democrats say “Illinois Republicans urged to look beyond traditional base.” Anti-conservative Republican candidates, elected officials, and party leaders in Illinois have always worked against conservatives, that is, they have always worked against the base of the Illinois Republican Party.
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2024/07/17/illinois-republicans-urged-to-look-beyond-traditional-base-as-national-party-courts-unions/
BLOOMINGTON PANTAGRAPH & WGIL
— Democrats say “Under new leadership, Illinois GOP urged to ‘build bridges’ within party.” Anti-conservative Republican candidates, elected officials, and party leaders in Illinois have always worked against conservatives, that is, they have always worked against the base of the Illinois Republican Party.
https://pantagraph.com/news/local/government-politics/elections/under-new-chair-kathy-salvi-illinois-republicans-urged-to-build-bridges-within-party/article_9c3fbbda-4471-11ef-b882-871abdf8344a.html
https://www.wgil.com/2024/07/17/llinois-republicans-decry-bidens-border-policies-chicago-crime/
SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote Pritzker.
https://www.sj-r.com/
EVANSTON NOW
— Anti-conservative leaders in Illinois ever-increasingly crow about their success in defeating Republican candidates. I should write a book about the biggest anti-conservative leaders of the Illinois Republican Party, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Milton Township Republican Organization since 2000. I would focus on the aforesaid who have taken the most/biggest adverse actions against me.
https://evanstonnow.com/girl-you-got-this/
NPR ILLINOIS
— Democrats say “On party infighting, Illinois’ new GOP chair says start calling those people out.” I should write a book about those leaders of the Illinois Republican Party (IRP), DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Milton Township Republican Organization who have worked the hardest to get rid of me since 2000. I would focus on those who a) removed me from the IRP State Convention Platform and Resolutions Committee this year and b) ended my service as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks in 2021.
https://www.nprillinois.org/government-politics/2024-07-17/on-party-infighting-illinois-new-gop-chair-says-start-calling-those-people-out
WREX
— Democrats say “JD Vance said in 2022 he would like abortion to be illegal nationally.” Why are there so many unwanted pregnancies?
https://www.wrex.com/news/jd-vance-said-in-2022-he-would-like-abortion-to-be-illegal-nationally/article_a575ced1-53ae-5223-b13d-57546058999b.html
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly hint/imply/argue/shout at women that sooner or later, men will rape them and impregnate them. What percentage of pregnancies are caused by rape? Why are there so many unwanted pregnancies?
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/hill-politics/biden-campaign-releases-ad-narrated-by-rape-victim-to-hit-trump-vance-on-abortion/
ELMHURST PATCH
— Democrats say “Elmhurst State Rep Hopefuls Draw Campaign Cash.”
https://patch.com/illinois/elmhurst/elmhurst-state-rep-hopefuls-draw-campaign-cash
POLITICO ILLINOIS
— Anti-conservative Illinois Republican leaders, that is, anti-platform Illinois Republican leaders, boycotted the Republican conventions in Collinsville and Milwaukee. They most commonly reject the personal responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, immigration, illegal drugs, Second Amendment, and/or equal opportunity planks in the Republican Party platform. They are far closer to Democrats, to Libertarians, to Greens, and to Independents than they are to Republicans. They have used pretexts to take many big adverse actions against me because I am conservative, that is, because I am a platform Republican.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2024/07/18/the-ethos-of-the-illinois-gop-00169341
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Missing were Illinois Republican stalwarts like former Gov. Jim Edgar, former Illinois House Speaker Jim Durkin, former Sen. Mark Kirk and others. . .Notable names are already popping up as possible GOP governor candidates in 2026: Outgoing Republican National Committeeman Richard Porter, Congressman Darin LaHood, former state Sen. Darren Bailey, who lost to JB Pritzker in 2022, and Aaron Del Mar, who ran unsuccessfully for lieutenant governor that year. . .Donald Trump’s campaign says it won’t commit to a VP debate because “we don’t know who the Democrat nominee for vice president is going to be.” The campaign namedrops Gavin Newsom, JB Pritzker and Gretchen Whitmer. Pritzker’s camp called the Trump debate statement “a weird way to say ‘I’m scared of Kamala Harris.’” . . . Republican Congresswoman Mary Miller has called on the director of the Secret Service to resign after a briefing addressing the assassination attempt on Donald Trump. “I am gravely concerned that so many important questions remain unanswered, especially as reports suggest law enforcement and Secret Service were aware that this man posed a threat at multiple points during the day,” Miller said in a statement.)
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2024/07/18/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-328/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WIREPOINTS
— Quite a moment in the GOP convention: ‘Shut up, Gaetz… you don’t have to be an a**hole.’
https://wirepoints.org/best-moment-gop-convention-so-far-shut-up-gaetz-you-dont-have-to-be-an-ahole/
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Black leaders ditching Illinois Democrats, stand with GOP state’s attorney candidate. – Greg Bishop (COMMENT: Because I worked for the federal government in Park Forest, Harvey, Joliet, and Chicago for almost 30 years, I have worked for Blacks, worked with Blacks, and supervised Blacks far more than any of my critics/opponents.)
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_a9dfe00c-4463-11ef-91d2-4bd96266a09d.html
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— J.D. Vance emphasizes working-class roots in acceptance speech. – Susan Ferrechio (COMMENT: All my critics/opponents have parents who have/had way more money than my parents had. I had to work my way through college.)
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/jul/17/jd-vance-emphasizes-working-class-roots-acceptance/
— GOP senators confront Secret Service director at RNC, demanding she resign or answer their questions. – Lindsey McPherson
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/jul/17/gop-senators-confront-secret-service-director-rnc-/
NEW YORK POST
— JD Vance’s RNC speech shows Trump’s Republican Party stands for the ‘forgotten men and women’ – A.G. Gancarski (COMMENT: How successful were your ancestors? My father was less successful than his father. My grandfather was less successful than his father. My great grandfather was less successful than his father. I reversed that trend by earning a) a bachelor’s degree and three master’s degrees, b) six professional certifications, and c) a professional license.)
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/jd-vance-s-rnc-speech-shows-trump-s-republican-party-stands-for-the-forgotten-men-and-women/ar-BB1qbLky
(FROM THE ARTICLE: JD Vance, who wears his “Kentucky coal country” roots on his sleeve, introduced himself to Americans nearly a decade ago with his unforgettable memoir “Hillbilly Elegy,” a chronicle of economically driven dislocation, the awful alternation of plateaus and downward mobility and redemption.)
AMAC
— Why They Hate Voter ID. – Robert B. Charles
https://amac.us/newsline/society/why-they-hate-voter-id/
AMERICAN THINKER
— A Politicized Military, Run by a Frail President. – John Cauthen
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/07/a_politicized_military_run_by_a_frail_president.html
— DEI and the Secret Service. – Rajan Laad (COMMENT: While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years (GAO-18, IRS-9, Post Office-3), their top priority was hiring, retaining, and promoting Democrats who were minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time. Because I am none of the aforesaid, they wasted my career and got rid of me.)
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/07/dei_and_the_secret_service.html
CENTER SQUARE
— Arizona border residents give picture of immigration crisis at RNC. – Cole Lauterbach
https://www.kten.com/news/arizona-border-residents-give-picture-of-immigration-crisis-at-rnc/article_bd9e3f4a-d82d-5ef7-9787-9bdf01aa13b2.html
DAILY SIGNAL
— DEI Stands for ‘Division, Exclusion, and Indoctrination,’ DeSantis Says. – Fred Lucas
https://www.dailysignal.com/2024/07/17/desantis-dei-stands-division-exclusion-indoctrination/
DAILY WIRE
— DeSantis Says America Cannot Afford A ‘Weekend At Bernie’s’ President. “Let’s send Joe Biden back to his basement.” – Mairead Elordi
https://www.dailywire.com/news/desantis-says-america-cannot-afford-a-weekend-at-bernies-president
EPOCH TIMES
— Federal Prosecutors Begin Dropping Jan. 6 Obstruction Charges After Supreme Court Ruling. Supreme Court justices ruled that charges brought under the obstruction law must meet certain criteria. – Zachary Stieber (COMMENT: One could argue that January 6 was like the Boston Tea Party. The Boston Tea Party was an American political and mercantile protest on December 16, 1773, by the Sons of Liberty in Boston in colonial Massachusetts.)
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/federal-prosecutors-start-dropping-jan-6-obstruction-charges-after-supreme-court-ruling-5688322
FOX BUSINESS
— These people are not asylum seekers: Arizona rancher Arizona ranchers Jim and Sue Chilton share how the hidden cameras on their ranch have caught thousands of drug traffickers crossing into the United States during the Republican National Convention.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/video/6358376455112
FOX NEWS
— Secret Service equity director says DEI agenda is a ‘mission imperative,’ the ‘ultimate goal’ DEI director Loucious Hires said when every Secret Service agent makes DEI a ‘mission imperative’ the agency will have ‘achieved our ultimate goal’ – Hannah Grossman (COMMENT: While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years (GAO-18, IRS-9, Post Office-3), their top priority was hiring, retaining, and promoting Democrats who were minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time. Because I am none of the aforesaid, they wasted my career and got rid of me.)
https://www.foxnews.com/media/secret-service-equity-director-says-dei-agenda-mission-imperative-ultimate-goal
LEGAL INSURECTION
— RNC Honors the 13 Marines Killed During Afghanistan Withdrawal and Their Families. – Mary Chastain
https://legalinsurrection.com/2024/07/rnc-honors-the-13-marines-killed-during-afghanistan-withdrawal-and-their-families/
MRC TV
— Denver City Council Speaks Out About Skyrocketing Migrant Crime – and the Price Tag For It. – BEATRIZ MADAN
https://www.mrctv.org/blog/beatriz-madan/denver-city-council-speaks-out-about-skyrocketing-migrant-crime-and-price-tag-it
WESTERN JOURNAL
— DEI Destroyed the Secret Service Leading Up to Trump Shooting. A Politicized Military, Run by a Frail President. – John Cauthen
https://www.westernjournal.com/docs-expose-dei-destroyed-secret-service-leading-trump-shooting/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
NBC NEWS
— Democrats say “Vance pounds on ‘illegal aliens’ while also referencing his South Asian in-laws.” My critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes stress that all my ancestors immigrated during the 1840s and 1850s. In my defense, I stress that they all immigrated legally.
https://www.nbcnews.com/now/video/vance-pounds-on-illegal-aliens-while-also-referencing-his-south-asian-in-laws-215131205809
— Democrats say “Kimberly Guilfoyle warns America is growing ‘closer to World War III.” Under Biden, America’s enemies are emboldened to destroy America.
https://www.nbcnews.com/now/video/kimberly-guilfoyle-warns-america-is-growing-closer-to-world-war-iii-215120453593
— Democrats say “Secret Service says it’s appalled by DEI rhetoric against female agents after Trump rally shooting. Saturday’s shooting is the latest instance of right-leaning social media accounts trying to link diversity, equity and inclusion programs to deeply troubling news events.” (COMMENT: All my many female coworkers who my Democrat superiors in the federal government promoted over me a) had less work experience than I had, b) had less education than I had, c) had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or d) had no professional license like the one I had.)
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/secret-service-condemns-backlash-against-women-agents-rcna161928
CNN
— Democrats say “Pelosi privately told Biden polls show he cannot win and will take down the House; Biden responded with defensiveness.”
https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/17/politics/nancy-pelosi-biden-conversation/index.html
— Democrats say “Right-wing media figures blame women in Secret Service and ‘DEI’ for security failure in Trump shooting.” (COMMENT: All my many female coworkers who my Democrat superiors in the federal government promoted over me a) had less work experience than I had, b) had less education than I had, c) had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or d) had no professional license like the one I had.)
https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/17/media/secret-service-agents-women-trump-shooting/index.html
MSN
— Democrats say “Ron DeSantis accuses Libs of TikTok of ‘lying’ for clicks.”
https://www.msn.com/en-za/news/world/ron-desantis-accuses-libs-of-tiktok-of-lying-for-clicks/ar-BB1jWV6r
— The following want employers to have mandatory DEI hiring policies: liberals, moderates, Democrats, Libertarians, Greens, Independents, RINOs, minorities, females, younger people, LGBTQers, non-Protestants, non-German Americans, those whose ancestors have not been in America for a long time, those who have less work experience than others, those who have less education than others, those who have few or no professional certifications or licenses, etc. The Democrats who ran GAO in 1980, IRS in 1971, and the Post Office in 1966 hired me because they could not find a qualified Democrat, minority, female, younger person, or veteran who would take the job.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/do-you-think-companies-have-mandatory-diversity-hiring-policies/ar-AA1hHr6w
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/world/starting-up-in-the-us-a-entrepreneur-s-path-to-the-green-card/ar-BB1q46qe
— Democrats say “Chinese Lose Confidence in Meritocracy as Path to Greater Wealth.” To promote Affirmative Action and DEI is to destroy meritocracy. If I had been a Democrat, minority, and/or female, the federal government would have promoted me into its Senior Executive Service long before I was 40 years old.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/chinese-lose-confidence-in-meritocracy-as-path-to-greater-wealth/ar-BB1pMCz5
— Democrats say “Trump Issues Dangerous Call to Arms During RNC.” Democrats have declared a Second Civil War on Republicans. Illegals are soldiers in the Democrat Army.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-issues-dangerous-call-to-arms-during-rnc/ar-BB1qanoX
MSNBC
— Democrats say “Vance addresses Trump assassination attempt.”
https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/watch/vance-addresses-trump-assassination-attempt-215128645809
— Democrats say “JD Vance criticizes Biden over Iraq war during RNC speech.”
https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/watch/jd-vance-criticizes-biden-over-for-iraq-war-215131205837
— Democrats say former ICE director says “You better start packing now” and sends message to those immigrating illegally.
https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/watch/thomas-homan-criticizes-biden-over-border-security-215114309799
— Democrats say “A heartbreaking story at the RNC peddles a horribly misguided narrative. How a story of personal loss is being used to promote a dangerous and false narrative about the state of crime under the Biden administration.” The Democrat Party platform promotes poverty and crime.
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/rnc-speeches-push-dangerous-trump-narrative-biden-border-policy-rcna162374
NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrats say “Trump Shooting Live Updates: Lawmakers Assail Decision to Let Rally Go Ahead. The Secret Service’s call to let the former president take the stage even as law enforcement searched for a potentially dangerous person has drawn a furious response.’
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/07/18/us/trump-rally-shooting-news
— Democrats say “Biden Called ‘More Receptive’ to Hearing Pleas to Step Aside.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/17/us/politics/dnc-biden-nomination.html
— Democrats say “While Republicans Put on a Show of Unity, Democrats Wrestle With Their Own Rift. The discontent with President Biden has not faded and tempers are fraying as he insists on staying in the race over the objections of some fellow Democrats who worry that he cannot win.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/17/us/politics/biden-democrats-rift.html
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in flooding America with their illegals.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/17/us/trump-immigration-republicans-explained.html
— Democrats say “The Myth of Migrant Crime.” To come into a country illegally and/or to stay in a country illegally is to shout gross disrespect of the rule of law and of that country.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/18/briefing/the-myth-of-migrant-crime.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Democrats say “Biden’s political crisis deepens as Schiff calls for him to drop out. The president tested positive for the coronavirus on Wednesday, just hours after Schiff, a top Democrat, became the 23rd member of Congress from the party to call for Biden’s exit from the race.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/2024/07/17/adam-schiff-biden-drop-out/
BUSINESS INSIDER
— Democrats say “Average American Debt in 2024: Household Debt Statistics.” Overwhelmingly, while I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, my Democrat superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates had way more debt than I did. I focused on a) avoiding debt, b) paying my debt off, and c) saving for my retirement.)
https://www.businessinsider.com/personal-finance/credit-score/average-american-debt
POLITICO
— Democrats ever-increasingly blame gun crimes on guns instead of blaming those who use guns illegally.
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/07/17/trump-shooting-rnc-gun-control-00169179
— Democrats say “Secret Service struggles to quash congressional fury over Trump assassination attempt. Director Kimberly Cheatle acknowledged “gaffes” and a “failure” on the day of the rally.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/07/17/secret-service-congress-trump-shooting-00169187
PBS
— Democrats say “Fact-checking right-wing claims about election security and noncitizens voting.” Anticipate/expect that Democrat leaders will have many millions of their many millions of illegals use their false identifications to register to vote and to vote for Biden and for the rest of the Democrat candidates.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/fact-checking-right-wing-claims-about-election-security-and-noncitizens-voting
HUFFINGTON POST
— Democrats say “Republicans Lay Groundwork To Deny 2024 Election Results At GOP Convention.” Anticipate/expect that Democrat leaders will have many millions of their many millions of illegals use their false identifications to register to vote and to vote for Biden and for the rest of the Democrat candidates.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/republicans-lay-groundwork-to-deny-2024-election-results-at-gop-convention/ar-BB1qbsYA
July 17, 2024
Democrats ever-increasingly run the mainstream news media (MNM). Democrats ever-increasingly use the MNM to defeat Trump and to elect Biden. When the MSN criticizes Democrats, it is to help them win. When the MNM criticizes Republicans, it is to make them lose.
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Democrats say “RNC updates: Day 3 to focus on national security, foreign policy.”
https://abc7chicago.com/live-updates/rnc-day-3-led-by-the-newly-nominated-donald-trump-jd-vance-wednesday-focuses-on-national-security-and-foreign-policy/15064209/?cmp=emc-wls-news-headlines-7/17/2024
— Democrats say “Trump feted by former rivals Haley, DeSantis. Trump, with a bandage on his ear, made an appearance again Tuesday evening.”
https://abc7chicago.com/live-updates/rnc-2024-day-2-live-updates-nikki-haley-and-ron-desantis-to-speak-on-tuesday-donald-trump-makes-appearance-night-1/15062421/entry/15062834/
— Democrats say “After bashing Trump in primary, Haley and DeSantis to preach unity at Republican National Convention.”
https://abc7chicago.com/post/ron-desantis-nikki-haley-tonight-trump-republicans-2024-rnc-milwaukee/15063255/
— Democrats say “Haley, DeSantis give strong endorsements. Trump’s former rival Nikki Haley officially endorsed him in her speech.”
https://abc7chicago.com/live-updates/rnc-2024-day-2-live-updates-ron-desantis-digs-biden-with-weekend-at-bernies-comment-in-republican-national-convention-speech/15062421/
— Democrats say “Gov. Pritzker, Sen. Durbin critique former President Trump VP pick, J.D. Vance.”
https://abc7chicago.com/post/gov-jb-pritzker-sen-dick-durbin-critique-former/15063434/
— Democrats say “LGBTQ+ advocacy groups laud a new California law barring school districts from requiring that parents be notified of their child’s gender identification change.” Democrats ever-increasingly encourage children to be sexually active LGBTQers.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/california-gender-identity-law-elicits-praise-lgbtq-advocates/15063100/
NBC5
— Democrats say “Trump made a big entrance at the RNC, but he has yet to speak. Here’s when he’s expected to deliver his speech.”
https://www.nbcchicago.com/2024-rnc-republican-national-convention-milwaukee/trump-made-a-big-entrance-at-the-rnc-but-he-has-yet-to-speak-heres-when-hes-expected-to-deliver-his-speech/3491866/
— Democrats say “DeSantis, Haley offer emphatic endorsements of Trump.”
https://www.nbcchicago.com/2024-rnc-republican-national-convention-milwaukee/rinc-live-updates-milwaukee-desantis-haley-indiana-jim-banks/3491978/
— Democrats say “DeSantis says Democrats are in ruins.”
https://www.nbcchicago.com/2024-rnc-republican-national-convention-milwaukee/florida-governor-ron-desantis-says-democrats-are-in-ruins/3492248/
— Democrats use Durkin to destroy the Republican Party.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/2024-rnc-republican-national-convention-milwaukee/former-minority-leader-jim-durkin-on-trumps-messaging-vance-nomination/3490582/
— Democrats say “Black Republicans celebrate party’s diversity at 2024 RNC in Milwaukee. GOP leaders from the Chicago area said Democrats haven’t kept promises to voters.”
https://www.nbcchicago.com/2024-rnc-republican-national-convention-milwaukee/black-republicans-celebrate-partys-diversity-2024-rnc-milwaukee/3491912/
CBS2
— Democrats use Pat Brady to blast Vance.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/fmr-illinois-gop-head-gives-215900113.html
https://www.yahoo.com/news/gop-nominates-trump-vance-republican-214900080.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9xCjoJxhPE
— Democrats say “What Trump’s choice of JD Vance as his VP running mate means for the Senate.”
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jd-vance-vp-trump-senate/
— Democrats blast Vance.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/republican-vp-pick-jd-vance-record/
— Democrats say “Chicago Pastor Corey Brooks delivers prayer at Republican National Convention.”
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/chicago-pastor-corey-brooks-delivers-prayer-at-republican-national-convention/
WGN9
— Democrats use Jim Durkin to blast Republicans.
https://wgntv.com/news/republican-national-convention-milwaukee/illinois-gop-maga-moderate-republicans/
— Democrats say “Trump is feted by his former rivals in a show of Republican unity after rally shooting.”
https://wgntv.com/news/republican-national-convention-milwaukee/ap-republican-convention-to-focus-on-immigration-a-day-after-a-bandaged-trump-makes-triumphant-entrance/
— Democrats say “Chicago crime a likely focus in RNC’s ‘Make America Safe Again’ theme.”
https://wgntv.com/news/republican-national-convention-milwaukee/chicago-crime-a-likely-focus-in-rncs-make-america-safe-again-theme/
FOX32
— Democrats say “Pastor Corey Brooks shouts out hometown of Chicago at RNC.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJ6u6wg7sOc
WTTW
— Democrats say “Aurora Mayor Richard Irvin Hosts Black Republicans From Around US, Downplays Past Trump Criticism and Future Runs For Office.”
https://news.wttw.com/2024/07/16/aurora-mayor-richard-irvin-hosts-black-republicans-around-us-downplays-past-trump
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Democrats say “US Rep. Mary Miller at RNC says media has demonized Trump.”
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/07/16/us-rep-mary-miller-who-at-rnc-says-media-has-demonized-trump-symbolizes-rightward-shift-of-illinois-gop/
— Democrats say “Donald Trump is feted by his former rivals in a show of Republican unity after rally shooting.’
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/07/16/republican-convention-2/
— Democrats say “A Teamsters pitch at the Republican National Convention suggests big trouble for Democrats.’
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/07/16/editorial-a-teamsters-pitch-at-the-republican-national-convention-suggests-big-trouble-for-democrats/
— Democrats say “Johnson plan to remove George Washington statue from outside his City Hall office now up in the air.”
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/07/16/johnson-to-remove-george-washington-statue-from-outside-his-city-hall-office/
— Democrats say “Latecomer GOP state legislative candidates have raised little cash.”
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/07/16/latecomer-gop-state-legislative-candidates-have-raised-little-cash-records-show/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrats say “Former primary rivals Haley, DeSantis make case for second Trump presidency.”
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/rnc-2024/2024/07/16/republican-national-convention-milwaukee-donald-trump-nikki-haley-ron-desantis
— Democrats ask “Will the assassination attempt change Trump?”
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2024/07/16/republican-national-convention-milwaukee-assassination-attempt-trump-rodney-davis
— Democrats say “Mayor Johnson nixes plan to remove George Washington statue outside his City Hall office. The since-rescinded decision to remove the statue had nothing to do with the former president’s ownership of slaves, Mayor Brandon Johnson’s communications director said.”
https://chicago.suntimes.com/city-hall/2024/07/16/george-washington-statute-removal-city-hall-mayor-brandon-johnson-monuments
— Democrats say “Ahead of DNC, Brandon Johnson puts homeless on the street to make room for tent city occupants. Residents of a Magnificent Mile shelter are evicted to make room for occupants of a tent encampment that’s being cleared ahead of the Democratic National Convention.”
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2024-democratic-national-convention/2024/07/16/dnc-2024-homeless-democratic-national-convention-mayor-brandon-johnson-tent-city-shelter
DAILY HERALD
— Democrats say “Republicans lean into Trump’s border message during a convention night focused on immigration.”
https://www.dailyherald.com/20240716/news/republicans-lean-into-trumps-border-message-during-a-convention-night-focused-on-immigration/
— Democrats say “New Illinois GOP Chair Kathy Salvi greets delegates at RNC.”
https://www.dailyherald.com/20240716/illinois-state-politics/a-great-successor-new-illinois-gop-chair-kathy-salvi-greets-delegates-at-rnc/
— Democrats say “Bob Fioretti, Charlie Kirk and cops from Illinois all in town.”
https://www.dailyherald.com/20240716/news/rnc-notebook-day-two-bob-fioretti-charlie-kirk-and-cops-from-illinois-all-in-town/
— Democrats say “Pritzker, Durbin rip into VP nominee Vance.”
https://www.dailyherald.com/20240716/nation-and-world-politics/very-extremist-views-pritzker-durbin-rip-into-vp-nominee-vance/
CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://www.news-gazette.com/news/nation-world/fact-focus-a-look-at-ominous-claims-around-illegal-immigration-made-at-the-republican-convention/article_0fff31ad-255d-5705-ac81-1fa1b4b5416d.html
OAK PARK
— Democrats say “Local GOP rally for Donald Trump at RNC.”
https://www.oakpark.com/2024/07/16/local-gop-rally-for-donald-trump-at-rnc/
NPR ILLINOIS
— Democrats say “Women headline a night at the RNC that framed Trump as compassionate, not combative.”
https://www.nprillinois.org/2024-07-17/women-headline-a-night-at-the-rnc-that-framed-trump-as-compassionate-not-combative
— Honoring my enslaved ancestors (COMMENT: In defense of my ancestors, they always lived in northeast Illinois, they never were in a position to discriminate against anyone, and they never did discriminate against anyone.)
https://www.npr.org/2024/07/17/1197958205/honoring-ancestors-part-two-07-17-2024
WILL
— Democrats ask “What do Illinois’ former GOP leaders think of the party now?”
https://will.illinois.edu/21stshow/story/what-do-illinois-former-gop-leaders-think-of-the-party-now
POLITICO ILLINOIS
— Mary Miller and the media bashers. – SHIA KAPOS (COMMENT: Democrats ever-increasingly run the mainstream news media (MNM). Democrats ever-increasingly use the MNM to defeat Trump and to elect Biden. When the MSN criticizes Democrats, it is to help them win. When the MNM criticizes Republicans, it is to make them lose. I should write a book about my critics/opponents who have pandered the most to the MNM in Illinois. I would focus on those who have taken the most/biggest adverse actions against me to curry favor with the MNM in Illinois. I would focus on past and present a) leaders of the Illinois Republican Party, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Milton Township Republican Organization, b) Republican leaders of Illinois, DuPage County, Milton Township, and Wheaton, c) Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct, d) conservative leaders and activists, and e) religious leaders and activists. I would focus the aforesaid a) who removed me from the Illinois Republican Party Platform and Resolutions Committee and b) who ended my service as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks in 2021.)
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2024/07/17/mary-miller-and-the-media-bashers-00168949
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Right out of the gate, the Tribune’s Jeremy Gorner asked why Miller is “reluctant” to talk to the media. Her answer: “I’m happy to talk to people. But we would like fair coverage from the media. The media has demonized President Trump. Name-calling. That’s what my little kids did. Name calling,” Miller said. From the Tribune: “Miller didn’t address the fact that Trump has made name calling a hallmark of his political career, from his successful 2016 run for the White House, through his term as president, and in his presidential bids in 2020 and this year,” report Jeremy and Rick Pearson. Trump’s name calling: He has referred to President Joe Biden as “Crooked Joe,” his 2016 Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton as “Lyin’ Hillary,” and Haley as “Birdbrain” and DeSantis as “Ron DeSanctimonious” and “Meatball Ron.” The media bashing continued at Fiserv Forum in the evening. Kari Lake, the U.S. Senate candidate — and former TV news anchor — started her speech welcoming the crowd. “We love you all. Actually, actually, wait a minute. I don’t mean that. I don’t welcome everybody in this room. The guys up in the fake news,” she said, referring to the media rows. “Frankly, you guys up there in the fake news have worn out your welcome.” Others took swipes, too, including Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who was a Trump press secretary in the White House. The take-away: Republicans feel emboldened as Trump heads into the campaign season with Republicans feeling united and polling in his favor. . .Sparks flew, when Congressman Matt Gaetz poked at former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy on the floor of the convention, and Illinois Republican National Committeeman Richard Porter told him to “shut up,” via X. Nikki Haley tried to bring unity to the RNC. Some people booed. . .If you’re in Milwaukee, come by for the talks, and if you’re not, check it out online. Today’s guests: Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson, Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders and Dr. Ben Carson.)
CAPITOL FAX
— Democrats say “Morning briefing”
https://capitolfax.com/2024/07/17/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-327/
— Democrats say “Afternoon roundup”
https://capitolfax.com/2024/07/16/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-120/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WIREPOINTS
— Pritzker’s role in the extreme rhetoric surrounding Donald Trump. – Ted Dabrowski and John Klingner
https://wirepoints.org/gov-pritzkers-role-in-the-extreme-rhetoric-surrounding-donald-trump-wirepoints/
PRAIRIE STATE WIRE
— Kathy Salvi: It is an honor to be recognized by my fellow Illinois Republicans as the next Chair of the Illinois Republican Party’
https://prairiestatewire.com/stories/661868316-kathy-salvi-it-is-an-honor-to-be-recognized-by-my-fellow-illinois-republicans-as-the-next-chair-of-the-illinois-republican-party
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Pritzker blasts Trump’s VP selection. – Kevin Bessler
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_2d5056e4-439f-11ef-a0ca-e720196cccef.html
— Haley, DeSantis hammer Biden on national security policy. – Dan McCaleb
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_c9d2909c-43a2-11ef-ad3d-3bd110a9af41.html
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Trump’s primary rivals praise him in prime-time convention speeches. – Susan Ferrechio
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/jul/16/ron-desantis-and-nikki-haley-trumps-primary-rivals/
— Three police snipers were inside the building used by would-be Trump assassin. – Matt Delaney
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/jul/16/three-police-snipers-were-inside-building-used-by-/
— Chinese press sees Trump assassination attempt as a failure of democracy. ‘Violent actions’ raising doubt among allies about U.S. reliability, article says. – Bill Gertz
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/jul/15/chinese-press-sees-trump-assassination-attempt-as-/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Chicago mayor plans removal of George Washington statue in City Hall – Elaine Mallon
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/state/3085809/chicago-mayor-plans-removal-george-washington-statue-city-hall/
— Security has to separate Gaetz and McCarthy during live interview verbal fight. – Brady Knox
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/house/3086280/security-separate-gaetz-mccarthy-live-interview-verbal-fight/
— Senate GOP candidates attack ‘border czar’ Harris at Trump convention. – David Sivak
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/presidential/3086338/senate-gop-candidates-border-czar-harris-trump-convention/
— Heartbroken families of crime victims blame Biden and plead for Americans to vote Trump. – Anna Giaritelli
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/presidential/3086260/heartbroken-families-crime-victims-blame-biden-rnc/
— The end of affirmative action, one year later. – GianCarlo Canaparo
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/equality-not-elitism/3085633/the-end-of-affirmative-action-one-year-later/
WASHINGTON FREE BEACON
— Trump Campaign Sees ‘Nearly 20 Paths’ to Victory As Biden Flounders. Biden has just ‘one, maybe two,’ Chris LaCivita says. – Joseph Simonson
https://freebeacon.com/elections/trump-campaign-sees-nearly-20-paths-to-victory-as-biden-flounders/
— Tom Cotton Slams Biden for ‘Chaos’ at Border, ‘Third World Invasion’ The Arkansas senator’s RNC remarks focused exclusively on immigration. – Joseph Simonson
https://freebeacon.com/elections/tom-cotton-slams-biden-for-chaos-at-border-third-world-invasion/
NEW YORK POST
— Biden and Harris ‘stand with criminals,’ retired Vegas cop tells RNC crowd. – Mark A. Kellner
https://nypost.com/2024/07/16/us-news/biden-and-harris-stand-with-criminals-retired-vegas-cop-tells-rnc-crowd/
AMERICAN THINKER
— The Secret Service Story is Starting to Stink. – Stu Tarlowe
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/07/the_secret_service_story_is_starting_to_stink.html
— Concerned Parents Face the Tyranny of Cancel Culture. – Janet Levy
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/07/concerned_parents_face_the_tyranny_of_cancel_culture.html
BREITBART
— Democrats Try to Smear J.D. Vance as Antisemitic, Anti-Israel – JOEL B. POLLAK (COMMENT: Because I am Protestant and 100% German American, my critics/opponents have always smeared me as being antisemitic. I my defense, I have always stressed that my grandfather on my father’s side fought the Germans in WWI, that my uncles on my mother’s side fought the Germans in WWII, and that my father would have fought the Germans in WWII if he had not been 4-F. Further, many, if not most, if not virtually all of my non-Jewish male GAO superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates were antisemitic and anti-female. Because of that, in 1989, when my Democrat GAO superiors permanently banned from their group that audited IRS, I was able to get assigned to my second choice, the group that audited federal financial institution regulators, because that group was led by a Jewish woman who my coworkers did not want to work because she was a Jewish woman.)
https://www.breitbart.com/faith/2024/07/17/fact-check-democrats-try-to-smear-j-d-vance-as-antisemitic-anti-israel/
CONSERVATIVE HQ
— Who Is JD Vance, Our Next Vice President – Matthew Holloway and George Rasley
https://www.conservativehq.com/post/who-is-jd-vance-our-next-vice-president
DAILY CALLER
— Secret Service’s Explanations For Security Failures Ahead Of Trump Assassination Attempt Aren’t Adding Up. – KATELYNN RICHARDSON
https://dailycaller.com/2024/07/16/secret-services-explanations-for-security-failures-ahead-of-trump-assassination-attempt-arent-adding-up/
FOX NEWS
— Secret Service director responds to criticism of Trump rally perimeter plan. Secret Service continues to face questions as FBI investigates Trump shooter Thomas Matthew Crooks
https://www.foxnews.com/live-news/trump-rally-shooting-fbi-investigation-attempted-assassination-july-17
— Trump Jr. wants ‘veto power over the RINOs,’ praises Vance to keep MAGA movement going ‘for generations’ Donald Trump Jr. spoke exclusively with Fox News Digital on the sidelines of the RNC Convention. – Brooke Singman
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-jr-wants-veto-power-over-rinos-praises-vance-keep-maga-movement-going-for-generations
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly hint/imply/argue/shout that Trump brings it on himself, that is, that he creates his own problems. Hate-filled Diersen-hating Diersen-haters ever-increasingly hint/imply/argue/shout that I bring it on myself, that is, that I create my own problems. I should write about the biggest hate-filled Diersen-hating Diersen-haters in Wheaton, in Milton Township, in DuPage County, and in Illinois. Of course, I would focus on those who have taken the most/biggest adverse actions against me.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/joy-reid-suggests-trump-couldnt-avoid-consequences-his-own-rhetoric-after-assassination-attempt
PJ MEDIA
— DeSantis Torches the Left in RNC Speech. – CHRIS QUEEN
https://pjmedia.com/chris-queen/2024/07/16/desantis-torches-the-left-in-rnc-speech-n4930764
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
MSN
— Democrats say “MTG attacks transgender people and ‘illegal aliens’ during RNC speech.” Democrats and RINOs ever-increasingly attack those who do not promote LGBTQ and illegal immigration.
https://www.msn.com/en-za/news/other/mtg-rips-into-transgender-people-and-illegal-aliens-during-rnc-speech/ar-BB1q5dLq?item=flightsprg-tipsubsc-v1a?season//
NBC NEWS
— Democrats say “Republicans contrast legal and ‘illegal’ immigrants on second night of convention. Various speakers talked up how their families came to the U.S. while vowing harsh punishments for those who cross the border illegally.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/republicans-contrast-legal-vs-illegal-immigrants-rnc-rcna162247
NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrats say Montez Sweat is a late bloomer. How old were you when you bloomed? I did not a) earn an MBA until I was 27, b) pass the CPA examination until I was 30, c) earn a master’s degree in accounting until I was 31, d) pass the Certified Internal Auditor examination and become a licensed CPA until I was 32. e) become a Certified Fraud Examiner until I was 41, f) become a Certified Government Financial Manager until I was 45. g) become a Certified Financial Services Auditor until I was 47, and h) become a Forensic Accountant and earn a master’s degree in financial markets and trading until I was 48. My Democrat IRS and GAO superiors used my lateness in doing the aforesaid to waste my career and to get rid of me.
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5638824/2024/07/17/montez-sweat-chicago-bears/
— Democrats say an app was unveiled by Customs and Border Protection in January 2023 that lets migrants schedule appointments. The app, known as CBP One, allows certain migrants in Mexico to set up a time and come to a port of entry to enter the country.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/07/17/us/rnc-fact-check#joe-biden-created-an-app-to-let-illegals-schedule-their-arrival
WASHINGTON POST
— Democrats say “Haley embraces Trump, says ‘unified’ GOP ‘essential’ to ‘saving’ country. ‘For the sake of our nation, we have to go with Donald Trump,’ the 2024 GOP primary candidate told convention delegates.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/07/16/rnc-convention/
— Anticipate/expect that many millions of illegals will use their false identifications to register to vote and to vote for Biden and for the rest of the Democrat candidates.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/07/16/ted-cruz-rnc-speech-immigration-voting/
USA TODAY
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly use DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2024/07/17/dei-workplace-trump-vance-impact/74432633007/
— Democrats say that the Republican Party says “Arm yourself accordingly.”
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/07/17/arm-yourself-gop-firm-against-gun-control-after-trump-shooting/74432303007/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Democrats say “Border Crisis a Running Theme for RNC Speakers.”
https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/trump-biden-election-2024-rnc/card/border-crisis-a-running-theme-for-speakers-R8XIlsqNsPIrwQUekcdY?mod=mhp
— Democrats say “J.D. Vance and the Indian-American Dream. This immigrant group has prospered without quotas or grievances.”
https://www.wsj.com/articles/j-d-vance-and-the-indian-american-dream-2024-election-usha-81ddedd0
HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly use DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://hbr.org/2024/07/research-4-ways-employees-respond-to-dei-initiatives
BHARAT EXPRESS NEWS
— Who is Usha Vance, the immigrant daughter married to Trump’s vice presidential pick, JD Vance?
https://thebharatexpressnews.com/who-is-usha-vance-the-immigrant-daughter-married-to-trumps-vice-presidential-pick-jd-vance/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Many Republicans see Usha Vance, the Indian-American wife of vice presidential candidate JD Vance, as a symbol of generational change and growing diversity within the party. Usha, 38, is a corporate lawyer who was previously a registered Democrat, the daughter of Indian immigrants and a practicing Hindu. Danny Willis, 25, chairman of Delaware Young Republicans, said: “With this ticket, with the show of diversity in what would be the second gentleman and second lady of the United States, I am extremely proud to be a Hispanic man and a Republican.” Usha has a very different story to tell than the last Republican second lady, Karen Pence, a white grandmother and devout Christian from Indiana who was an elementary school teacher and watercolorist. She is the daughter of Krish and Lakshmi Chilukuri, who are originally from the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh and later settled in California. Krish is an engineer and a university professor; Lakshmi is a biologist and college provost. They are part of a tight-knit community of Indian-American academics in the suburbs of San Diego. Usha said in a recent interview with Fox News: “I grew up in a religious family, my parents are Hindu, and I think that was one of the things that made them such good parents, that made them really, really good people.” Even as a child, Usha seemed a stranger to self-doubt. In a 2022 New York Times profile, Vikram Rao, a family friend who works in Silicon Valley, was quoted as saying, “By age 5 or 6, she had taken on a leadership role. She decided what board games we would play and what the rules would be. She was never mean or unkind, but she was the boss.” The same Times article noted that between 2007 and 2010, Usha “posted 65 ‘read’ books to her Goodreads account, including novels by Zadie Smith, Jonathan Safran Foer and Vladimir Nabokov, and nonfiction by Nina Burleigh and Nicholas Kristof. Her account was inactive for six years afterward.” Usha met J.D. Vance at Yale Law School, where they co-organized a discussion group on “social decline in white America”—a theme he would later return to in his bestselling book Hillbilly Elegy. The book chronicles his upbringing in a poor family in Appalachia and the beginnings of his relationship with Usha, played in a 2020 Netflix film adaptation by Slumdog Millionaire star Freida Pinto. The couple didn’t seem like an obvious match, but in Hillbilly Elegy, J.D. praises Usha as a “Yale spirit guide” who helped him navigate campus life. “She instinctively understood the questions I didn’t even know to ask, and she always encouraged me to seek opportunities I didn’t know existed,” he wrote. Usha once told NBC News, “We were friends and I liked that he was so diligent. He would show up at 9 a.m. meetings that I scheduled for us to work on the brief together.” Among the two fellow Yale Law students was businessman Vivek Ramaswamy, who unsuccessfully ran for Republican president this year. Usha was an editor of the Yale Law Journal and editor-in-chief of the Yale Journal of Law & Technology. She also took courses in which she provided free legal advice on issues surrounding the Supreme Court and media freedom. She also holds a master’s degree in philosophy from the University of Cambridge. Her thesis focused on “the methods used to protect printing rights in seventeenth-century England,” according to her biography on the university’s website. JD and Usha married in 2014 in an interfaith ceremony in Kentucky. That same year, she served as a clerk on the influential DC circuit court for Brett Kavanaugh, whom Donald Trump would nominate and confirm to the US Supreme Court in 2018. Usha also served as a law clerk to Supreme Court Justice John Roberts during the 2017-2018 term, during which time Roberts wrote a 5-4 ruling upholding Trump’s travel ban on several Muslim-majority countries. At the 200-lawyer law firm Munger, Tolles & Olson, Vance, a partner, focused on civil litigation and appeals. The firm, which calls itself “radically progressive,” has counted Berkshire Hathaway, Bank of America and PG&E among its clients. Usha’s own clients have included a division of the Walt Disney Company and the Regents of the University of California. Public records show that Usha was a registered Democrat and voted in that party’s primary in 2014. However, she also voted in the 2022 Republican primary, when her husband was running for the Ohio Senate. Last month, the couple were interviewed by Fox News at their home in Cincinnati, Ohio, about the possibility of JD becoming Donald Trump’s running mate. Usha said: “I don’t know if anyone is ever ready for that kind of scrutiny. I think the first campaign he started, we were shocked. It was so different from anything we had ever done before. But it was an adventure. “And so I guess the way I say it is, I’m not eager to change anything about our lives right now. But I really, you know, believe in JD, and I really love him. And so we’ll just see what happens with our lives.” On Monday, as JD entered the Republican National Convention Hall and members of the Ohio delegation chanted his name, Usha was by his side. She has proven to be an anchor in such moments. “Usha definitely brings me back down to earth a little bit, and when I get maybe a little too cocky or a little too proud, I remind myself that she’s accomplished way more than I have,” JD told the Megyn Kelly Show podcast in 2020. “I’m one of those guys who really benefits from having kind of a powerful female voice on his left shoulder saying, ‘Don’t do that, do that’ — it’s just important.” Usha said in a statement late Monday that she was resigning from the firm to support her family — they have two sons, Ewan, 6, Vivek, 4, and a daughter, Mirabel, 2. A spokesman for Munger said Usha was an “excellent lawyer and colleague.” Republicans at the convention praised the Vances, but some were reluctant to speak out about what they see as identity politics. Virginia Zemel, 66, of Downers Grove, Illinois, said, “You don’t look at the color of the person’s skin and ethnicity. It’s the character of the person and what they stand for.” “America began as a melting pot and we are including everyone. The leadership of President Trump, First Lady Melania Trump and his wonderful family, and now JD Vance as Vice President and his wife and family will be a message to bring back the strength of our country.” However, some political analysts believe Usha’s arrival less than four months before Election Day could be an asset to the otherwise all-white Republican candidacy. John Zogby, a pollster and author, said: “The second lady candidates are barely in the mix. But Indian-Americans are becoming increasingly influential in the United States. They are strongly Democratic – or at least they have been – in their voting record, so if there is an opportunity to tweak that and get even a small percentage, that could be vital, especially in those swing states that everyone is talking about.” He added: “It looks good, she’s a smart lady and anything that can convince a few voters can have a huge impact in an election like this.”)
POLITICO
— Democrats say “How Donald Trump learned to love J.D. Vance.”
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/07/16/donald-trump-jd-vance-relationship-00168422
PEW RESEARCH
— Democrats ever-increasingly run the mainstream news media (MNM). Democrats ever-increasingly use the MNM to defeat Trump and to elect Biden. When the MSN criticizes Democrats, it is to help them win. When the MNM criticizes Republicans, it is to make them lose. I should write a book about my critics/opponents who have pandered the most to the MNM in Illinois. I would focus on those who have taken the most/biggest adverse actions against me to curry favor with the MNM in Illinois. I would focus on past and present a) leaders of the Illinois Republican Party, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Milton Township Republican Organization, b) Republican leaders of Illinois, DuPage County, Milton Township, and Wheaton, c) Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct, d) conservative leaders and activists, and e) religious leaders and activists. I would focus on the aforesaid a) who removed me from the Illinois Republican Party Platform and Resolutions Committee and b) who ended my service as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks in 2021.
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2021/05/07/broad-agreement-in-u-s-even-among-partisans-on-which-news-outlets-are-part-of-the-mainstream-media/
July 16, 2024
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Democrats say “RNC 2024: Day 2 will focus on immigration; Nikki Haley to speak. Chants of ‘we love Trump’ could be heard as he entered the RNC on night 1.”
https://abc7chicago.com/live-updates/rnc-2024-day-2-donald-trump-makes-appearance-on-night-1-immigration-and-crime-will-be-focus-tuesday/15062421/
— Democrats say “Protesters rally at GOP convention for abortion and immigrant rights, end to war in Gaza.”
https://abc7chicago.com/post/republican-convention-2024-protestors-begin-gather-outside-fiserv/15060959/
— Democrats say Trump says about Vance “You can help me win” and “How Trump landed on JD Vance as his VP pick.”
https://abc7chicago.com/post/why-did-trump-pick-jd-vance/15062411/
— Democrats say “Suspect purchased 50 rounds of ammunition on day of shooting.”
https://abc7chicago.com/live-updates/donald-trump-rally-shooting-secret-service-director-says-police-were-inside-building-shooter-was-positioned-on/15057158/
NBC5
— Democrats say “What to watch as the Republican National Convention enters its second day in Milwaukee. On Tuesday, the overview shifts to immigration and crime, according to Trump’s campaign and the Republican National Committee.”
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/what-to-watch-as-the-republican-national-convention-enters-its-second-day-in-milwaukee/3491097/
— Democrats ask “What do Illinois Republicans think of Trump running mate JD Vance?” and say “Some expressed surprise at the choice, but delegates agreed they will support the ticket.”
https://www.nbcchicago.com/2024-rnc-republican-national-convention-milwaukee/what-do-illinois-republicans-think-of-trump-running-mate-jd-vance/3490973/
— Democrats say “Tuesday at the RNC to feature focus on immigration, crime. The theme of the second day will be “Make America Safe Again,” according to convention officials.” (COMMENT: The younger that you are, the less education that you have, and the fewer job skills that you have, the more that illegal immigration harms you. I had to work my way through college. If there had been as many illegals in America back then as there are now, they would have gotten the jobs I got doing yard work, delivering newspapers, washing dishes, cleaning golf shoes, chipping slag, pumping gasoline, and delivering mail. And if not that, the wages that I was paid would have been less because illegals drive wages down.)
https://www.nbcchicago.com/2024-rnc-republican-national-convention-milwaukee/rnc-tuesday-nikki-haley-speak-trump-platform-immigration/3491040/
— Democrats say Sen. Tim Scott says “America ‘isn’t a racist country” and Scott “blasts Chicago leadership over violence.” (COMMENT: Ever since the Civil War, Democrat leaders have ever-increasingly shouted at Blacks that Republicans cause all the problems that Blacks have and that Republicans are racists who should be gotten rid of once and for all.)
https://www.nbcchicago.com/2024-rnc-republican-national-convention-milwaukee/tim-scott-america-isnt-racist-blasts-chicago-over-gun-violence/3490744/
CBS2
— Democrats say “Love fest for JD Vance among Illinois delegates at Republican National Convention.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yy_Vgll7bjE
WTTW
— Democrats say “From Immigration to Public Safety, What a Trump Victory Could Mean for Chicago.”
https://news.wttw.com/2024/07/16/immigration-public-safety-what-trump-victory-could-mean-chicago
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrats say “Suburban native, far-right conservative talk show host Charlie Kirk speaks at RNC. The 30-year-old Wheeling High School grad founded Turning Point USA, a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting conservative values on high school and college campuses.” (COMMENT: The more planks in the Republican Party platform that you promote, the more that Democrats and RINOs call you far-right.)
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/rnc-2024/2024/07/15/charlie-kirk-rnc-republican-convention-speech
— Democrats say “Donald Trump’s VP pick, Sen. J.D. Vance, is the reason Chicago has no top federal prosecutor. Former President Trump wasn’t going to repeat his Mike Pence mistake. He needed someone he could count on to follow orders.”
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2024/07/15/donald-trump-running-mate-selection-jd-vance-april-perry-us-attorney-chicago
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Democrats say “Photos: The Republican National Convention in Milwaukee.”
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/07/15/photos-the-republican-national-convention-in-milwaukee/
— Brandon Johnson’s desperate loan gambit to keep the Chicago Teachers Union happy. – Editorial
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/07/16/editorial-cps-brandon-johnson-ctu-budget/
DAILY HERALD
— Democrats say “What to watch as the Republican National Convention enters its second day in Milwaukee.”
https://www.dailyherald.com/20240716/nation-and-world-politics/what-to-watch-as-the-republican-national-convention-enters-its-second-day-in-milwaukee/
— Democrats say “JD Vance is a relative political unknown. He’s been asked to help Donald Trump avenge his 2020 loss.”
https://www.dailyherald.com/20240716/nation-and-world-politics/jd-vance-is-a-relative-political-unknown-hes-been-asked-to-help-donald-trump-avenge-his-2020-loss/
— Democrats say “Fact-checking Day 1 of the 2024 Republican National Convention.” (COMMENT: During the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO, I often worked as a fact checker, and especially during my last 11 years as a GS-13 Step 1-10 Analyst, currently $115,439-$150,075/year.)
https://www.dailyherald.com/20240716/nation-and-world-politics/fact-checking-day-1-of-the-2024-republican-national-convention/
CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE & WAND TV
— Democrats say “Protesters rally peacefully at GOP convention for abortion and immigrant rights, end to war in Gaza.”
https://www.news-gazette.com/news/nation-world/protesters-rally-at-gop-convention-for-abortion-and-immigrant-rights-end-to-war-in-gaza/article_9af8c43c-8ec9-56e7-a667-340701db9788.html
https://www.wandtv.com/news/national/protesters-rally-peacefully-at-gop-convention-for-abortion-and-immigrant-rights-end-to-war-in/article_a613b591-d449-5065-b63a-7b042ff8cde9.html
SOUTHERN
— Democrats say “What to know about Secret Service director Kimberly Cheatle.” (COMMENT: While I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO’s Chicago office 1980-1997, they assigned me to work for, work with, and/or supervise all the many females they hired. Females were my superiors during my last 8 years at GAO and a female was my immediate supervisor during my last 4 years. Those females led GAO’s successful effort to force me to take their early retirement “offer” in 1997 when I was 49 years old. Further, during my last 8 years, they assigned me to supervise all their female employees who they wanted to get rid because they had serious performance problems. All the females who they promoted over me had less work experience than I had, had less education than I had, had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or had no professional license like the CPA license that I had. My Democrat GAO superiors stressed to all my many female superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates that I opposed gender based preference giving. They hinted/implied/argued/shouted at them that I caused all their problems.)
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2024/07/15/what-to-know-about-secret-service-director-kimberly-cheatle/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: In a 2022 interview with the trade publication Security Magazine, Cheatle reflected on being a woman in the Secret Service. “That achievement in a male-dominated industry was not lost on me,” Cheatle said. “I kept a photo on my desk of the first five women sworn into the service, and I used that to remind me that these women created opportunities for me and I can help others grow and lead as well.” Cheatle graduated from Eastern Illinois University in 1992 with a bachelor’s degree in sociology, according to the News-Gazette, and she first applied for a job as a Secret Service agent before leaving school.)
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Democrats acknowledge that “Signs of trouble at Trump rally were evident in minutes before gunman opened fire.”
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/ap-signs-of-trouble-at-trump-rally-were-evident-in-minutes-before-gunman-opened-fire/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Signs of trouble were evident in the minutes before shots rang out at Donald Trump’s rally in Pennsylvania: Police had a report of a suspicious man pacing near the magnetometers and were apparently exchanging photos of the suspect. Witnesses pointed and shouted at an armed man on a nearby roof. When a police officer climbed up to the roof to investigate, the gunman turned and pointed his rifle at him. But the officer did not — or could not — fire a single shot. A sniper cut down 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks within seconds of him firing an AR-style rifle toward the former president, but it was too late. Now investigators are trying to painstakingly piece together how an armed man with no military background managed to reach high ground and get the jump on teams of Secret Service agents. Stan Kephart, a former police chief who worked event security for two former presidents, said the shooting followed an “an absolute and abysmal failure” on the part of the Secret Service to protect Trump. The agency is ultimately responsible for the candidate’s safety, he added. “You don’t get to blame other people. They are under your control,” said Kephart, now a consulting expert on law enforcement event security.)
— Democrats say “27% in new survey say Vance ‘best’ or ‘good’ pick for Trump.”
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/27-in-new-survey-say-vance-best-or-good-pick-for-trump/
OUR QUAD CITIES
— LaHood on what Trump VP pick Vance brings to the table. – Eric Olsen (COMMENT: For the last job that you were hired for, what did you bring to the table? GAO audits IRS. When GAO hired me in 1980 when I was 31 years old, a) I had worked for IRS for almost 9 years, the last 5 1/2 years of which at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $97,079-$110,020/year, b) I had passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, c) I had almost completed the requirements for a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul, and d) I had earned an MBA from Loyola in 1976. But my Democrat GAO superiors ignored, dismissed, and belittled the aforesaid. They forced me to take a $22,996 (21%) pay cut to transfer from IRS to GAO, a downgrade from GS-12 Step 5 to GS-9 Step 10. They delayed my promotions to GS-11, GS-12, and GS-13 and never promoted me to GS-14. They kept me off audits of IRS until 1986.)
https://www.ourquadcities.com/news/national-news/lahood-on-what-trump-vp-pick-vance-brings-to-the-table/
WGLT
— Democrats and RINOs demonize, denigrate, and condemn the AR-15.
https://www.wglt.org/2024-07-15/why-the-weapon-of-choice-matters-in-the-trump-assassination-attempt
AXIOS
— Democrats say “Illinois GOP leaders (Mary Miller, Kathy Salvi, Tony McCombie, Aaron Del Mar, The Uihleins) to watch in 2024.’
https://www.axios.com/local/chicago/2024/07/16/illinois-gop-leaders-to-watch-2024
POLITICO ILLINOIS
— Democrats say “J.D. Vance’s Illinois connection.”
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2024/07/16/jd-vances-illinois-connection-00168596
(FROM THE ARTICLE: You can say he has one connection to Illinois. He’s been blamed for holding up the confirmation of April Perry as Chicago’s top federal prosecutor. Sens. Dick Durbin and Tammy Duckworth recently accused Vance of wanting to “grind the Department of Justice to a halt” over the confirmation. About his VP slot: Neither senator commented on Vance being named Donald Trump’s running mate. Durbin will join Gov. JB Pritzker at an unrelated event today, so we’ll wait for the Illinois press corps to pounce. . .Former Illinois Congressman Adam Kinzinger headlined “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” and called out Vance for criticizing U.S. support of Ukraine in the war against Russia. “They are celebrating that choice in Milwaukee and in Moscow,” he said.)
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2024/07/16/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-326/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WIREPOINTS
— March 11, 2016 in Chicago: The Day Violence Against Trump Campaign Was Legitimized. – Mark Glennon
https://wirepoints.org/march-11-2016-in-chicago-the-day-violence-against-trump-campaign-was-legitimized-wirepoints/
CAPITOL NEWS ILLINOIS
— At national convention, Illinois’ beleaguered GOP portrays calm amid internal storm.- PETER HANCOCK & HANNAH MEISEL (COMMENT: Illinois Republicans like me who are conservative, that is, who are platform Republicans, want direct election of Illinois Republican Party (IRP) State Central Committee (SCC) members. Because I promote direct election of IRP SCC members, IRP SCC members who oppose direct election used pretexts to remove me from the 2024 IRP State Convention Platform and Resolutions Committee. In 2021, they ended my service as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks. In 2015, they gerrymandered my DuPage County Milton Township Precinct in Wheaton.)
https://capitolnewsillinois.com/news/at-national-convention-illinois-beleaguered-gop-portrays-calm-amid-internal-storm
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Trump surprises convention with bandaged cameo. – Seth McLaughlin and Susan Ferrechio
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/jul/15/donald-trump-surprises-republican-national-convent/
— Biden rejects responsibility for overheated rhetoric: ‘I’m not engaged in that’ – Stephen Dinan
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/jul/15/joe-biden-rejects-responsibility-overheated-rhetor/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Rep. Kat Cammack (R-FL) unloads on Secret Service failures: ‘It’s the DEI bulls***’ – Timothy P. Carney (COMMENT: While I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO’s Chicago office 1980-1997, they assigned me to work for, work with, and/or supervise all the many females they hired. Females were my superiors during my last 8 years at GAO and a female was my immediate supervisor during my last 4 years. Those females led GAO’s successful effort to force me to take their early retirement “offer” in 1997 when I was 49 years old. Further, during my last 8 years, they assigned me to supervise all their female employees who they wanted to get rid because they had serious performance problems. All the females who they promoted over me had less work experience than I had, had less education than I had, had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or had no professional license like the CPA license that I had. My Democrat GAO superiors stressed to all my many female superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates that I opposed gender based preference giving. They hinted/implied/argued/shouted at them that I caused all their problems.)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/3082918/congresswoman-unloads-secret-service-failures-dei/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: “I think what we’re seeing is what happens when you are more focused on checking boxes, then you are actually getting the most qualified people in the room,” she said. “There is a lot of work and discussions that needs to be had about who are we hiring to protect presidential candidates,” the congresswoman said. “Donald Trump is six-foot-two. I’m five-foot-three. You wouldn’t want me protecting him. I cannot physically take a bullet for him at that height. And so when you have people who are just not physically capable of doing so, we have to have that conversation.” She summarized the DEI approach as “we need so many of X, Y, and Z,” saying this approach “has really put us all collectively in danger and it’s a real shame.”)
NEW YORK POST
— Secret Service Director Kim Cheatle landed job after push by Jill Biden’s office. – Steven Nelson
https://nypost.com/2024/07/15/us-news/secret-service-director-kim-cheatle-landed-job-after-push-by-jill-bidens-office-sources/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Four sources close to President Biden’s family, including people who interacted with Cheatle during the Obama-Biden administration, said she was well liked by the future first lady and her most senior aides, including top adviser Anthony Bernal. “Cheatle served on Dr. Biden’s second lady detail and Anthony pushed for her,” a Democratic insider told The Post. “Anthony has no national security or law enforcement experience. He should have no influence over the selection of the USSS director.” “I heard at the time she was being considered for director that Anthony had pushed her forward as an option,” another well-placed source told The Post. Bernal, 51, is widely regarded as rivaling even White House chief of staff Jeff Zients in terms of influence over administration decisions. He has faced allegations of bullying and sexual harassment from colleagues who have likened his sway to that of Russian mystic Grigori Rasputin over the Romanov court. “Anthony is obsessed with being DEI-compliant,” a third source told The Post, using the acronym for diversity, equity and inclusion — the human resources practice of attempting to ensure diversity in the workforce.)
— Biden admin flying migrants from overwhelmed California to Texas after Gov. Abbott’s crackdown deterred crossings — at $80K per flight. – Jennie Taer
https://nypost.com/2024/07/15/us-news/biden-admin-flying-migrants-from-overwhelmed-california-to-texas-after-gov-abbotts-crackdown-deterred-crossings/
— Everything to know about RNC 2024: When it’s on, how to watch, plus speaker schedule – Caitlin Doornbos and Ryan King
https://nypost.com/2024/07/15/us-news/rnc-guide-2024-when-its-on-how-to-watch-speaker-schedule-2/
AMERICAN THINKER
— Walking Over The Graves of Our Heroes. – Allan J. Feifer
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/07/walking_over_the_graves_of_our_heroes.html
BREITBART
— Joe Biden’s Parole Pipeline Welcomes Nearly 1.2 Million Migrants to U.S. – JOHN BINDER
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/07/15/joe-bidens-parole-pipeline-welcomes-nearly-1-2million-migrants-us/
— Trump VP Pick J.D. Vance Hailed as ‘One of the Best’ Senators on Immigration. – JOHN BINDER
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2024/07/15/trump-vp-pick-j-d-vance-hailed-as-one-of-the-best-senators-on-immigration/
EPOCH TIMES
— 39 Things to Know About JD Vance, Trump’s Running Mate. The freshman senator and best-selling author from Ohio is the first millennial on a major party ticket. Here’s a rundown of his background and stances. – Joseph Lord, Jackson Richman
https://www.theepochtimes.com/article/39-things-to-know-about-jd-vance-trumps-running-mate-5687131
(FROM THE ARTICLE: 2. He’s a Catholic. Mr. Vance was raised Protestant, but later converted to Catholicism, officially becoming Catholic in August 2019.
3. He’s Married to Usha Chilukuri Vance. Mr. Vance is married to Usha Chilukuri Vance, who he met at Yale Law School. They married in 2014.
Ms. Vance currently works as a corporate litigator. She has clerked for Supreme Court Chief Justice John. Roberts and then-appellate Judge Brett Kavanaugh. She would be the first Hindu spouse of a vice president. . .9. He Experienced the Decline of the Rust Belt. In both his memoir and the movie adaptation, Mr. Vance explains his experience of the decline of the Rust Belt, and the impacts it had on those living there. Speaking about his native Middletown, Mr. Vance wrote in Hillbilly Elegy, “There is a lack of agency here— a feeling that you have little control over your life and a willingness to blame everyone but yourself. ”He’s made clear that this experience has continued to shape his political life and decisions. . .11. His Parents Divorced When He was a Toddler. Mr. Vance’s parents, Donald Bowman and Bev Vance, divorced when he was very young, leaving Mr. Vance to be raised by his mother. In “Hillbilly Elegy,” Mr. Bowman is described as having been largely absent from Mr. Vance’s life, though the two reconnected later in life. Mr. Vance says both of his parents struggled to maintain stability in their employment, both largely worked a series of odd jobs over the years. . .15. His Grandparents Were Democrats. Like many in the Rust Belt of the late 20th century, Mr. Vance’s grandparents were pro-union Democrats. Mr. Vance describes their attitude toward politics in “Hillbilly Elegy,” writing, “All politicians might be crooks, but if there were any exceptions, they were undoubtedly members of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal coalition. Mr. Vance said the exception was 1984, when his grandfather voted for President Ronald Reagan. . .16. He’s a Marine Corps. Iraq Combat vet. Mr. Vance served in Iraq as a Marine combat correspondent during the mid-2000s. . .19. He Was an Editor of the Yale Law Journal
While studying law, Mr. Vance served on the editorial staff of the Yale Law Journal. . .22. He’s Sponsored Programs to Combat Drug Addiction. In 2016, Mr. Vance left California and returned to Ohio, where he helped launch an effort to combat opioid abuse in the state. Called “Our Ohio Renewal,” the project was short-lived, and the online domain for the website is no longer accessible. . .36. He’s Critical of the Iraq War. Though he served in the Iraq War, Mr. Vance has since been critical of the conflict, saying he made a “mistake” in initially supporting it. “I served my country honorably, and I saw when I went to Iraq that I had been lied to, that the promises of the foreign policy establishment of this country were a complete joke,” he said on the Senate floor in April. . .37. Critical of Ukraine Aid. Mr. Vance has been critical of continued U.S. support for the war in Ukraine. Since taking office, he’s voted against every Ukraine aid package that’s come to the floor. He’s called for Europe to bear the brunt of financing the war. Mr. Vance wrote in an April op-ed for The New York Times that the current trajectory of the war is unsustainable for either the U.S. or Ukraine. He said that the notion that Ukraine will reclaim all its land lost to Russia is “fantastical.”. . . 39. He Says US Focus Should Be on China. Mr. Vance has also taken a tough stance on China, encouraging the United States to focus its efforts there. Between war in Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan, Mr. Vance said, America has “to pick and choose” where it invests its resources. “We should be focused on our own problems, and that’s mostly China,” Mr. Vance said in April. “My argument is the Chinese are focused on real power. They’re not focused on how tough people talk on TV or how strong our alleged resolve is. They’re focused on how strong we actually are, and to be strong enough to push back against the Chinese, we’ve got to focus there, and right now, we’re stretched too thin.”)
FOX NEWS
— US Secret Service director plans to ‘stay on’ as calls grow for her resignation. Cheatle called the attempted assassination on Trump ‘unacceptable,’ adding the ‘buck stops with her’ – Greg Wehner
https://www.foxnews.com/us/us-secret-service-director-plans-stay-on-calls-grow-her-resignation
TOWNHALL
— The Republican Party Platform is Good. – Mark Lewis
https://townhall.com/columnists/marklewis/2024/07/16/the-republican-party-platform-is-good-n2641988
— DEI Is Transitioning to Die – Alan Joseph Bauer
https://townhall.com/columnists/alanjosephbauer/2024/07/16/dei-is-transitioning-to-die-n2641940
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CNN
— Democrats say “Fact-checking night 1 of the Republican National Convention.” (COMMENT: During the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO, I often worked as a fact checker, and especially during my last 11 years as a GS-13 Step 1-10 Analyst, currently $115,439-$150,075/year.)
https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/15/politics/fact-check-night-one-republican-national-convention/index.html
— Democrats say “Rally security failure has Secret Service at odds with its local law enforcement allies.”
https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/16/politics/secret-service-trump-rally-blame/index.html
YAHOO
— Democrats acknowledge that Vance says “He Changed My Mind” and that “Vance Responds To Sean Hannity About Calling Donald Trump “America’s Hitler” And Other Insults.”
https://au.news.yahoo.com/changed-mind-j-d-vance-015817265.html
MSN
— Vance opposes Democrat efforts to replace voters who have demographics that vote for Republicans with voters who have demographics that vote for Republicans.
https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/world/when-democrats-accused-jd-vance-of-endorsing-racist-great-replacement-theory/ar-BB1q2h5z
— Jim Jordan Issues Warning to Parents on ‘Illegal Aliens’ Hiding in Schools. – Kaitlin Lewis
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/jim-jordan-issues-warning-to-parents-on-illegal-aliens-hiding-in-schools/ar-BB1kYnhP
ABC NEWS
— Democrats say “The rise of JD Vance: From ‘never-Trump guy’ to VP pick. Vance could reach new heights, possibly serving as Trump’s vice president.” (COMMENT: How much money did your parents have? While my parents had more money than Vance’s parents had, I had to work my way through college. I did yard work, delivered newspapers, washed dishes, cleaned golf shoes, chipped slag, pumped gasoline, and delivered mail. My critics/opponents have/had wealthy parents.)
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/rise-jd-vance-trump-guy-potential-vp-pick/story?id=111310334
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Vance’s rise began when he released his memoir “Hillbilly Elegy,” where he reflects on his upbringing and growing up in a low-income family involved in violence and addiction in Middletown, Ohio — part of America’s Rust Belt.)
NBC NEWS
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/anti-lgbtq-rhetoric-plays-prominent-role-first-night-rnc-rcna162028
CBS NEWS
— Democrats say “2024 RNC Day 1 fact check of the Republican National Convention.” (COMMENT: During the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO, I often worked as a fact checker, and especially during my last 11 years as a GS-13 Step 1-10 Analyst, currently $115,439-$150,075/year.)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/2024-rnc-day-1-fact-check-republican-national-convention/
NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrats say “Fact-Checking Day 1 of the Republican National Convention.” (COMMENT: During the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO, I often worked as a fact checker, and especially during my last 11 years as a GS-13 Step 1-10 Analyst, currently $115,439-$150,075/year.)
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/07/15/us/rnc-fact-check
— Democrats say “Trump Rally Gunman ‘Didn’t Want Attention’ in School, Classmates Said. Fellow students described the gunman, Thomas Crooks, as intelligent but solitary, someone who tried to avoid teasing by his classmates.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/15/us/trump-rally-shooting-crooks.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Democrats say “J.D. Vance’s ‘Hillbilly Elegy,’ a plea to the White working class.” (COMMENT: How much money did your parents have? While my parents had more money than Vance’s parents had, I had to work my way through college. I did yard work, delivered newspapers, washed dishes, cleaned golf shoes, chipped slag, pumped gasoline, and delivered mail. My critics/opponents have/had wealthy parents.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2024/07/15/hillbilly-elegy-jd-vance-review/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Vance grew up in what his memoir describes as “an Ohio steel town that has been hemorrhaging jobs and hope for as long as I can remember.” His mother struggled with addiction; he was raised by his grandparents, neither of whom graduated from high school. . .Though he has overcome his demons, Vance is sympathetic to those left behind. As he describes their plight, “From low social mobility to poverty to divorce and drug addiction, my home is a hub of misery.” And in contrast to other groups that also experience widespread poverty, “working class whites are the most pessimistic group in America.”)
— Democrats say “J.D. Vance adds veteran appeal to Trump’s populist campaign. As a former Marine Corps grunt, the VP pick speaks to the military and lower working class.” (COMMENT: Because my parents lacked money, during my freshman and sophomore years in high school, my plan was to enlist and use the G.I. Bill to get a college degree. But early in my junior year in 1964, I realized that I could earn a college degree much sooner a) if I got accepted by UIC, b) if I commuted to/from classes at UIC and my parents’ home in Crete, and c) if could earn enough money with part-time jobs. The part-time job that I got working for the Park Forest Post Office enabled me to do that, and not only that, but to buy a new 1968 Oldsmobile 442 in 1967, to buy a new 1969 Dodge Charger SE in 1968, to transfer to NIU in 1969, and to graduate debt-free from NIU in 1970 owning that Charger.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/07/15/vance-trump-veterans-appeal/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: I interviewed Vance back in August 2016, when “Hillbilly Elegy” was published. “I think in a lot of ways, and for a lot of kids, frankly, the military is that ticket out,” he told me. “It shows you a different world. It gives you a set of skills that I simply didn’t have when I joined the Marines. … From there, I went to Ohio State, and then I went to Yale Law School,” he continued. “But it really provided a number of opportunities that again, I wouldn’t have had if I hadn’t had the Marine Corps.” The skills he acquired as a Marine took him to Big Law, then Big Tech, and on to Big Politics and the Ohio Senate contest of 2022.
— Democrats say “Thousands of RNC protesters denounce Trump, GOP agenda in Milwaukee. Anti-Trump protesters at the Republican National Convention decried political violence of all kinds while condemning threats to democracy and the GOP agenda.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/07/15/republican-national-convention-protests-trump/
— Democrats say “Jan. 6 marchers at Republican convention complicate efforts to avoid subject.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/2024/07/16/trump-republicans-convention-jan-6/
USA TODAY
— Democrats say : “RNC 2024: Which Republicans have stayed away from Milwaukee.” Which Republican leaders in your county, township, and municipality boycotted the 2024 Illinois Republican Party State Convention in Collinsville?
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/07/16/rnc-2024-who-is-staying-away-from-milwaukee/74415168007/
— Democrats say “Tuesday’s RNC theme puts focus on law enforcement.”
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/07/16/tuesday-rnc-theme-what-make-america-safe-again-means/74421209007/
U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT
— Democrats say “Trump’s Running Mate: Lawyer and Author-Turned-MAGA Senator J.D. Vance. The former lawyer and author who rose to prominence for a gut-wrenching memoir of addiction in America has quickly become a powerful voice for Trump in Congress.” (COMMENT: How much money did your parents have? While my parents had more money than Vance’s parents had, I had to work my way through college. I did yard work, delivered newspapers, washed dishes, cleaned golf shoes, chipped slag, pumped gasoline, and delivered mail. My critics/opponents have/had wealthy parents.)
https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2024-07-15/trumps-running-mate-lawyer-and-author-turned-maga-senator-j-d-vance
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Once a corporate lawyer who attended Yale Law School, Vance rose to national prominence as the author of “Hillbilly Elegy,” a poignant and gut-wrenching memoir that showcased poverty, isolation and lack of opportunity that haunted his family and others in rural Kentucky.)
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Democrats say “Trump Bets on a MAGA Successor in J.D. Vance. His choice of the 39-year-old Senator reinforces his base, rather than appealing to a broader coalition.”
https://www.wsj.com/articles/jd-vance-donald-trump-vice-president-2024-election-e37cf310
— Democrats say “J.D. Vance Offers Trump a Fresh Face With a MAGA Profile. Ohio senator has appeal in ‘Blue Wall’ states but might not expand support among suburban women and swing voters.”
https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/j-d-vance-offers-trump-a-fresh-face-with-a-maga-profile-034d3083
— Democrats ask “Who Is in Donald Trump’s Inner Circle?” and say “These Are His Closest Advisers.”
https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/trump-advisors-inner-circle-presidential-campaign-0e056dee
— Democrats say “Elon Musk Has Said He Is Committing Around $45 Million a Month to a New Pro-Trump Super PAC.”
https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/elon-musk-has-said-he-is-committing-around-45-million-a-month-to-a-new-pro-trump-super-pac-dda53823
— “The Trump Shooting Changed Everything. The nation narrowly averted tragedy Saturday. Is it enough to ease our political polarization?” – James Piereson
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-trump-shooting-changed-everything-80f11bd8?mod=opinion_lead_pos5
GOVERNMENT EXECUTIVE
— Democrats acknowledge that “Sen. J.D. Vance, R-Ohio, has been at the center of GOP efforts in Congress to “dismantle” diversity, equity and inclusion programs at federal agencies, and has suggested that if Trump wins re-election, he should fire “every mid-level bureaucrat” in government.” Soon, if not already, all federal employees will be conservative-hating Republican-hating Democrats who are minority, female, younger, unmarried, LGBTQ, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time.
https://www.govexec.com/management/2024/07/heres-now-trumps-new-vice-presidential-pick-stacks-federal-workforce-issues/398056/
NEW YORK MAGAZINE
— Democrats say “J.D. Vance on His MAGA Conversion. Trump’s man in Ohio once called him “America’s Hitler,” but there’s an explanation.”
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2024/07/j-d-vance-explains-his-conversion-to-trump-and-maga.html
INSIDE HIGHER EDUCTAION
— Democrat teachers ever-increasingly promote the Democrat Party platform.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty-issues/academic-freedom/2024/07/16/bridging-campus-divide-dangerous-ideas-ai
July 15, 2024
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
WGN9
— Trump in Milwaukee after assassination attempt, Illinois delegates make short trip north for RNC
https://wgntv.com/news/republican-national-convention-milwaukee/trump-prepares-for-rnc/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: A number of Illinois Republicans have made the short trek north to Milwaukee, an unlikely host for the RNC considering it’s a deeply Democratic city. However, Wisconsin is a key swing state in the upcoming election after Biden defeated Trump there in 2020 by less than a percentage point. “We were once inch away from not having a presidential nominee,” Aaron Del Mar of the Illinois Republican State Central Committee said in the wake of the assassination attempt on Trump. “So, yes, certainly that is going to have an impact on who the VP pick is.” Other Illinois delegates say Republicans will use this week to underscore what they think one-party Democratic leadership has meant for Illinois. “The idea that immigrants should be getting more services than people of Chicago, it’s nuts,” Republican National Committeeman Richard Porter said. “It’s just wrong. “So I think it’s time for people to step back and see who it is that’s going to be delivering the kind of ideas and the kind of services that actually help the people of Illinois.” Illinois delegates will be set up near the back of the convention floor this week, next to Arkansas and just behind Texas. Swing states like Florida, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin are positioned much closer to the front.)
ABC7
— RNC 2024, recast by Trump assassination attempt, kicks off Monday. The RNC will maintain its original programming despite the Trump rally shooting.
https://abc7chicago.com/live-updates/rnc-2024-event-kicks-off-in-milwaukee-following-donald-trump-assassination-attempt/15060290/
— Portrait of suspected gunman emerges after Trump assassination attempt. A recovered firearm was legally purchased by the suspect’s father, sources said.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/donald-trump-assassination-attempt-suspect-had-registered-republican/15058563/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Officials feared that the assassination attempt would inspire others. The assassination attempt against President Donald Trump “will likely be amplified in extremist messaging and heavily exploited by malicious actors as well as adversarial nation-states in mis/dis/mal-information aimed at fomenting division,” according to an NYPD intelligence product obtained by ABC News. “In the immediate hours after the shooting took place, multiple users on numerous online messaging platforms responded to the incident with support for the attack, overt calls for civil war, hostile rhetoric against FPOTUS Trump, threats against elected officials, and generalized calls for retaliatory violence,” according to the bulletin which was dated July 14, 2024. . . (Crooks) was working as a dietary aide at the Bethel Park Skilled Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, according to administrator Marcie Grimm. Thomas Matthew Crooks “performed his job without concern” and passed a background check, according to Grimm. “We are shocked and saddened to learn of his involvement as Thomas Matthew Crooks performed his job without concern and his background check was clean,” Grimm said in a statement. “We are fully cooperating with law enforcement officials at this time.” The firearm recovered at the scene was legally purchased by the suspect’s father, an urgent trace conducted by ATF found, according to multiple law enforcement sources. A source who has been briefed said the gun was an AR-15 style rifle that was purchased in 2013. . .Crooks had no known history of mental illness, per the FBI. His family is cooperating with investigators. “We’re looking into his background, his day-to-day activities, any writings, and social media posts that might help us identify what led to this shooting. And we have not seen anything threatening,” Rojek added. . .So far, investigators have not uncovered any ties to extremist organizations or individuals, though they continue to scour information from the suspect’s phone and other digital devices, according to the sources. Increasingly, the shooting was looking like a lone wolf attack, sources said. . .Myers said that Crooks “tended to be more of an interesting one” and described him as “more socially reserved” and someone who “didn’t have a ton of friends.” But he said he never heard Crooks discuss politics or, specifically, Donald Trump. . .Myers and another student said that Crooks tried to join the high school’s rifle team but was rejected and asked not to return after a “preseason” session. “He didn’t just not make the team, he was asked not to come back because how bad of a shot he was, it was considered like, dangerous,” said Myers. Another member of the team, who asked not to be named, told ABC News that there was a view that Crooks “wasn’t really fit for the rifle team.” “He also shot terrible,” the team member added. . .Crooks, however, did belong to a local shooting club, counsel for the club confirms to ABC News, Clairton Sportsmen’s Club. . .The classmate added that Crooks was interested in building computers and never discussed politics. . .It was too early in the investigation to say whether the suspect had been acting alone, Bivens said. Investigators were determining if anyone else had been involved, he said.)
— Donald Trump supporters hold rally in Chicago day after assassination attempt. – Michelle Gallardo
https://abc7chicago.com/post/donald-trump-shooting-supporters-hold-rally-chicagos-west/15059186/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The rally hosted by Trump supporters in the Austin neighborhood was briefly interrupted after a verbal altercation with those who did not welcome their presence led to a person pulling a weapon. Police, who were monitoring the rally nearby, responded immediately and the situation was diffused. . .The rally was a small one, bringing together around 20 Trump supporters.)
— No changes made to RNC security plan after Trump assassination attempt, Secret Service says. Chicago Police Department monitoring situation in preparation for DNC.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/donald-trump-rally-shooting-authorities-reexamining-2024-rnc/15058117/
— Chicago shootings: At least 36 shot, 6 fatally, in weekend gun violence across city
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-shootings-weekend-least-25-shot-4-fatally/15058670/
NBC5
— Trump attack a ‘failure’ for Secret Service: retired agent who survived Reagan assassination attempt. While in the Secret Service, Tim McCarthy suffered a gunshot wound to the chest during an assassination attempt against former President Ronald Reagan in the 1980s. – Bennett Haeberle
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/trump-attack-a-failure-for-secret-service-retired-agent-who-survived-reagan-assassination-attempt-says/3489204/
— Biden orders security review of RNC plans after Trump assassination attempt. The president also ordered a review of security at the rally Saturday where former President Trump was injured in an assassination attempt. – James Neveau
https://www.nbcchicago.com/2024-rnc-republican-national-convention-milwaukee/biden-security-review-rnc-milwaukee-plans-trump-assassination-attempt/3489143/
— Secret Service ‘confident’ in security plans for Republican National Convention in Milwaukee
https://www.nbcchicago.com/2024-rnc-republican-national-convention-milwaukee/secret-service-confident-in-security-plans-for-republican-national-convention-in-milwaukee/3489236/
— Here’s who is expected to speak at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee
https://www.nbcchicago.com/2024-rnc-republican-national-convention-milwaukee/heres-who-is-expected-to-speak-at-the-republican-national-convention-in-milwaukee/3489177/
CBS2
— The 2024 Republican National Convention set to begin on heels of assassination attempt. Here’s what to know. – Caitlin Yilek
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/2024-republican-national-convention-what-to-know/
— Ex-classmate of Trump rally shooter describes him as “normal boy,” rejected from high school rifle team. – Madeleine May
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/trump-rally-shooter-classmate-normal-boy-rejected-from-high-school-rifle-team/
— Trump rally shooter’s motive still unclear as Biden urges calm.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/live-updates/trump-shooting-statement-joe-biden-updates/
— Secret Service to review security at Chicago DNC after Trump assassination attempt. -Dave Savini
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/secret-service-review-security-chicago-dnc-trump-assassination-attempt/
FOX32
— Chicago police heighten security for DNC after Trump rally shooting. – Nate Rodgers and Cody King
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/chicago-police-heighten-security-for-dnc-after-trump-rally-shooting
WTTW
— The RNC’s First Day Will Still Focus on the Economy. Here’s What to Know About Trump’s Plans. – AP
https://news.wttw.com/2024/07/15/rnc-s-first-day-will-still-focus-economy-here-s-what-know-about-trump-s-plans
— From the Uihleins to Prominent Business Owners, Who Are Illinois’ Biggest Republican Donors? – Nick Blumberg (COMMENT: What do major Republican donors think of you?)
https://news.wttw.com/2024/07/15/uihleins-prominent-business-owners-who-are-illinois-biggest-republican-donors
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Trump’s Top Donors: With a combined $10 million donation to the Make America Great Again Super PAC, billionaires Richard and Elizabeth Uihlein are the second-biggest backers of Trump’s reelection bid — though their contribution has been dwarfed by the $75 million kicked in by banking heir Timothy Mellon. The Uihleins, Lake Forest residents and owners of the shipping products company Uline, are longtime conservative political donors. Uline, which was once headquartered in Illinois, moved in 2010 to Wisconsin — also home to Schlitz Brewing, to which Richard Uihlein is an heir. The Uihleins have long been active in Illinois politics. They supported former Gov. Bruce Rauner in his successful 2014 election bid. In 2018, they backed his unsuccessful challenger in the Republican gubernatorial primary, then-state Rep. Jeanne Ives. They’ve also supported U.S. Rep. Mary Miller (R-Springfield), who drew widespread condemnation for approvingly quoting Adolf Hitler in a 2021 speech; failed Illinois gubernatorial and congressional candidate Darren Bailey; and U.S. Rep. Darin LaHood (R-Peoria). Other donations have gone to two firebrands in the U.S. House: U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colorado) and U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Florida). Elizabeth Uihlein also made a $3,300 gift to former Vice President Mike Pence’s presidential campaign in 2023. Since 1998, the Uihleins and their company have made donations totaling nearly $92 million to Illinois-based candidates or committees, according to state election records. The Uihleins have also been active donors to a variety of PACs during the current election cycle. Including their contribution to the Trump campaign, they’ve made more than $61 million in donations to candidates and committees across the country last year and this year, according to federal election records. They’ve been most generous to two Downers Grove-based Super PACs affiliated with the conservative activist organization Restoration of America: Restoration PAC and Fair Courts America. Restoration of America’s founder, Doug Truax, was an unsuccessful candidate in the 2014 Illinois Republican primary for U.S. Senate, losing to Jim Oberweis. In total, the Uihleins have given the two PACs nearly $20 million in 2023 and 2024. They’re also longtime backers of the Club For Growth PAC, which has raked in nearly $16 million from the Uihleins this cycle. And while they’re now Trump mega-donors, they also contributed $3 million to Never Back Down, a super PAC supporting the failed presidential campaign of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. . .The Uihleins aren’t the only Illinoisans actively backing conservative political committees during this election cycle. Billionaire Ken Griffin — who famously railed against crime in Chicago and announced he’d move his hedge fund, Citadel, to Miami in 2022 — is still listed as an Illinois resident in some of the contributions that appear in federal election records. During the current campaign cycle, he’s pumped nearly $60 million into campaigns and committees across the country. He has given $10 million apiece to Maryland’s Future, which is supporting former Republican Gov. Larry Hogan’s bid for the U.S. Senate, and Keystone Renewal PAC, which is backing Republican David McCormick’s bid to unseat U.S. Sen. Bob Casey, a Democrat from Pennsylvania. Griffin has also donated $6 million to the American Patriots PAC, a group that backs military veteran candidates that spent heavily in a successful bid to oust U.S. Rep. Bob Good (R-Virginia), who voted to unseat former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy. While Griffin hasn’t been an active donor in Illinois campaigns recently, he did give $6,600 to the successful Nebraska Senate bid of Pete Ricketts, a Republican, who is part of the family that owns the Chicago Cubs. Craig Duchossois, whose billionaire family previously owned the Arlington Park horse racing track, has given more than $9 million to an array of candidates and committees this cycle. According to federal records, Duchossois gave $3 million to the Congressional Leadership Fund, which backs GOP House candidates; $2 million to the Senate Leadership Fund, which supports Republican Senate candidates; and $1 million to the PAC associated with the Koch Brothers-founded group Americans for Prosperity. He also gave $13,200 to Ricketts’ campaign and an associated fund. . .Federal records show that during the current election cycle, the RNC has taken in $826,000 from Elizabeth Uihlein; $413,000 from Duchossois; and $250,000 from Gerson. . .Just 50 Illinoisans have given Trump $3,300 or more, the maximum amount under federal law per each election (primary and general). Compare that to 572 such contributions to Biden. The average contribution to Trump was $39, whereas Biden donations averaged $221. And the overall totals reflect the disparity in Illinois’ political leaning as well. Trump has taken in $3.7 million from Illinoisans, according to the most recent data available, while Biden has taken in $5.8 million.)
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— The Secret Service is investigating how a gunman who shot and injured Trump was able to get so close. – AP
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/07/14/the-secret-service-is-investigating-how-a-gunman-who-shot-and-injured-trump-was-able-to-get-so-close/
— Former fire chief who died at Trump rally used his body to shield family from gunfire. – AP
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/07/14/former-fire-chief-who-died-at-trump-rally-used-his-body-to-shield-family-from-gunfire-2/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: Illinois GOP leaders at RNC say Trump shooting will unite the party for November. – JEREMY GORNER and RICK PEARSON
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/07/14/rnc-trump-shooting-illinois/
— Chicago’s Jewish community is bearing the brunt of religious intolerance. – Yinam Cohen (COMMENT: Democrats run Chicago.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/07/15/opinion-anstisemitism-hate-crimes-chicago/
— To reduce gun violence, America must change the culture that glamorizes violence. – Tio Hardiman
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/07/15/opinion-america-glamorizes-gun-violence/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Trump expected to take RNC stage Monday night. – Lynn Sweet
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/rnc-2024/2024/07/15/rnc-milwaukee-trump-convention-opening-night
— Illinois Republicans ready to ‘rock this’ RNC as Trump assassination attempt unites GOP. Donald Trump’s defiant response to the shooting has provided “a shot of adrenaline in our arm” for his already fervent followers, Illinois delegate Aaron Del Mar said as the GOP gets ready to kick off the Republican National Convention on Monday. – Mitchell Armentrout
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/rnc-2024/2024/07/14/illinois-republicans-trump-assassination-attempt-gop-national-convention-milwaukee
— With the attempt on his life, Trump’s convention will be ‘epic,’ says Reince Priebus. The image of a bloodied Trump pumping his fist at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania Saturday and mouthing the word “fight” will become one of the iconic photos defining these charged political times. – Lynn Sweet
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2024/07/14/republican-national-convention-milwaukee-donald-trump-assassination-attempt
— After Trump assassination attempt, Dems pause counter-messaging at RNC, including Pritzker appearance. Democrats had planned daily press conferences to highlight “the grave danger that Donald Trump and MAGA Republicans pose to our democracy, our rights and our livelihoods.” But with images of the shooting still fresh in the voters’ minds, they’re opting to let President Biden lead their response. – Tina Sfondeles
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/rnc-2024/2024/07/14/trump-assassination-attempt-democrats-counter-messaging-pause-republican-national-convention-pritzker
— Mental health disorders are remarkably pervasive in the general public. Nearly 20% of the US population is estimated to have a mental illness.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/other-views/2024/07/12/gun-access-rage-hate-fuel-killings-violence-crime-diana-fishbein-alex-rohrer-madeline-jupina
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/other-views/2024/07/15/rallying-cry-defend-rights-transgender-people-youth-conservative-states-republicans-heather-steans
DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH MCCARTY PHOTO: Former suburban police chief wounded protecting Reagan Tim McCarthy expects ‘deep dive’ into security failures. – Steve Zalusky
https://www.dailyherald.com/20240714/news/former-suburban-police-chief-wounded-protecting-reagan-expects-deep-dive-into-security-failures/
— What we know about the 20-year-old suspect in the apparent assassination attempt of Donald Trump. – AP
https://www.dailyherald.com/20240714/nation-and-world/what-we-know-about-the-20-year-old-suspect-in-the-apparent-assassination-attempt-of-donald-trump/
— Judge dismisses classified documents indictment against Trump. – Devlin Barrett, Perry Stein
https://www.dailyherald.com/20240715/crime/judge-dismisses-classified-documents-indictment-against-trump/
CRAINS CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Airlines look to navigate political turbulence around their diversity commitments. – Judith Crown (COMMENT: To meet Affirmative Action and DEI requirements, all my coworkers who my Democrat superiors in the federal government promoted over me were Democrats a) who had less work experience than I had, b) who had less education than I had, c) who had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, d) who had no professional license like the one I had, and/or e) who were minority, female, and/or younger than me.)
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/equity/airlines-dei-efforts-navigate-polarized-political-landscape
NORTHERN PUBLIC RADIO
— Jim Marter of Oswego, a delegate and the Republican candidate for Illinois’ 14th Congressional District, said on matters of foreign policy, there’s a clear consensus within the party since the old guard is no longer dominant. The old guard, he said, refers to “the old Republicans where a lot of them wanted to go into this, that, and the other war.” He said that contrasts with the current Republican stance. “I think for the most part,” he said, “Republicans are at this point, let’s say, ‘hey, if it doesn’t directly affect our national security, we don’t want to be involved.’” Marter opposes U.S involvement in the Ukraine War but does support U.S. funding to Israel in its war in Gaza. This aligns with Trump’s stance. Israel has received more U.S. aid than any other country since World War II, according to Reuters. – Maria Gardner Lara
https://www.northernpublicradio.org/wnij-news/2024-07-15/republican-national-convention-illinois-delegate-says-it-will-showcase-partys-isolationist-foreign-policy-view
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— ‘Died a hero’: Man killed at Trump rally used body to shield family from gunfire. – AP
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/man-killed-at-trump-rally-was-former-fire-chief-who-died-a-hero-pa-governor-says/
NPR ILLINOIS
— After saying she wouldn’t be there, Nikki Haley will now speak at Republican convention. – Sarah McCammon
https://www.nprillinois.org/2024-07-14/after-saying-she-wouldnt-be-there-nikki-haley-will-now-speak-at-republican-convention
— Women don’t have equal access to college in prison. – Jenny Abamu (COMMENT: What gave you access to college? For me it was my taking college preparatory classes in high school, getting an ACT score of 24, and graduating in the upper 20% of my class.)
https://www.nprillinois.org/2024-07-15/women-dont-have-equal-access-to-college-in-prison-heres-why
WGLT
— How the shooting at Trump’s rally breached security at the event. – Ayesha Rascoe
https://www.wglt.org/2024-07-14/how-the-shooting-at-trumps-rally-breached-security-at-the-event
CITIES 92.9
— Different views of how Biden, Trump impact Illinois’ down-ballot races. – Greg Bishop
https://www.cities929.com/2024/07/15/different-views-of-how-biden-trump-impact-illinois-down-ballot-races/
ST. LOUIS PUBLIC RADIO
— Hawley calls for congressional investigation into Trump assassination attempt security failures. – Jason Rosenbaum
https://www.stlpr.org/government-politics-issues/2024-07-14/senator-josh-hawley-missouri-congressional-investigation-trump-assassination-attempt-failures-fbi-secret-service
POLITICO ILLINOIS
— Illinois GOP ready for Trump’s convention – SHIA KAPOS
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2024/07/15/illinois-gop-ready-for-trumps-convention-00168227
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2024/07/15/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-325/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
JOHN KASS
— As Republican Convention Begins Democrats Come Bearing Gifts.
https://johnkassnews.com/as-republican-convention-begins-democrats-come-bearing-gifts/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
RNC
— 2024 MASTER EVENT CALENDAR
https://www.scribd.com/document/750623190/RNC-Master-Calendar#fullscreen&from_embed
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Trump: I’m rewriting RNC speech after near-death experience. – Tom Howell Jr.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/jul/15/donald-trump-im-rewriting-rnc-speech-after-near-de/
— Secret Service at center of ‘failure’ to prevent assassination attempt. – Stephen Dinan and Kerry Picket
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/jul/14/secret-service-at-center-of-failure-to-prevent-ass/
— Words of vilification from Trump’s opponents echo after close attempt at assassination. – Susan Ferrechio (COMMENT: If you are a Republican, the more demographics that you share with Trump, especially his religion and national origin, the more that hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters vilify you.)
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/jul/14/donald-trump-shooting-follows-ramped-vilification-/
— Trump shooter had no clear politics, wore a Demolition Ranch T-shirt, had bomb-making material. Thomas Matthew Crooks lived south of Pittsburgh, was bullied in high school. – Dave Boyer and Tom Howell Jr.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/jul/14/donald-trump-shooter-thomas-matthew-crooks-had-no-/
— Secret Service director, DEI hiring under scrutiny in wake of Trump security lapses. – Matt Delaney (COMMENT: To meet Affirmative Action and DEI requirements, all my coworkers who my Democrat superiors in the federal government promoted over me were Democrats a) who had less work experience than I had, b) who had less education than I had, c) who had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, d) who had no professional license like the one I had, and/or e) who were minority, female, and/or younger than me.)
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/jul/14/secret-service-director-dei-hiring-under-scrutiny-/
— Democrat media’s ‘Hitlerization’ of Trump no match for divine providence. – Charles Hurt (COMMENT: If you are a Republican, the more demographics that you share with Trump, especially his religion and national origin, the more that hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters Hitlerize you.)
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/jul/14/fearless-men-history/
— A Trump-Vance ticket is a Biden-Harris victory. Trump needs a running mate with conviction and experience that voters can trust. – Jeffrey Scott Shapiro
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/jul/13/trump-vance-ticket-is-biden-harris-victory/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Failure to intercept Trump shooter either ‘malice or incompetence’: Betsy DeVos’s brother. – Kaelan Deese
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/presidential/3082009/trump-shooter-intercept-malice-incompetence-betsy-devos-brother/
— Wisconsin Gov. Evers asking for guns to be banned near RNC convention after Trump shooting. – Conrad Hoyt
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/3082055/evers-asking-guns-banned-near-rnc-convention-trump-shooting/
— Trump assassination attempt follows a Charlottesville every weekend & January 6th on steroids. – Tiana Lowe Doescher
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/3082167/trump-assassination-attempt-follows-a-charlottesville-every-weekend-january-6th-on-steroids/
— Is Trump Hitler or not? – Ian Haworth (COMMENT: If you are a Republican, the more demographics that you share with Trump, especially his religion and national origin, the more that hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters Hitlerize you.)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/3081484/is-trump-hitler-or-not/
— Will Democrats now stop calling Trump a threat to democracy? – Conn Carroll
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/3081574/will-democrats-now-stop-calling-trump-a-threat-to-democracy/
NEW YORK POST
— Trump lands in Milwaukee for RNC on day after assassination attempt. – Victor Nava
https://nypost.com/2024/07/14/us-news/trump-lands-in-milwaukee-for-rnc-after-assassination-attempt/
— Secret Service blames local police, says it was tasked with securing properties surrounding Trump’s Pa. rally. – Alex Oliveira and Victoria Churchill
https://nypost.com/2024/07/14/us-news/secret-service-blames-local-police-says-it-was-tasked-with-securing-properties-surrounding-trumps-pa-rally/
— Disgraced ex- Illinois Gov. Blagojevich now a ‘Trump-o-crat’ with praise for his ‘his new Republican Party’ – Carl Campanile (COMMENT: My critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes have always hinted/implied/argued/shouted that I am disgraced. They stress the adverse actions that they, their operatives, and their dupes have taken against me. I should write about them.)
https://nypost.com/2024/07/14/us-news/disgraced-ex-illinois-gov-blagojevich-now-a-trump-o-crat-with-praise-for-his-his-new-republican-party/
— Secret Service chief Kimberly Cheatle facing mounting calls to resign after ‘total security breakdown’ at Trump rally. – Dana Kennedy
https://nypost.com/2024/07/14/us-news/secret-service-chief-kimberly-cheatle-facing-mounting-calls-to-resign-after-total-security-breakdown-at-trump-rally/
— Fury at Secret Service after Trump shooter opens fire from obvious perch & video shows agents fumbling to get ex-prez to safety. Ryan King and Joe Marino
https://nypost.com/2024/07/14/us-news/secret-service-under-pressure-in-wake-of-assassination-attempt-on-trump/
WASHINGTON FREE BEACON
— The Immaculate Conception of Thomas Crooks. – Editorial
https://freebeacon.com/democrats/the-immaculate-conception-of-thomas-crooks/
AMERICAN GRATNESS
— The Biden Titanic. Removing Biden is wise and needed for the country’s sake, but it will not solve the growing public anger at the left. – Victor Davis Hanson
https://amgreatness.com/2024/07/15/the-biden-titanic/
AMERICAN THINKER
— They look just like the Keystone Kops: The DEI Secret Service in inaction. – Ned Barnett (COMMENT: To meet Affirmative Action and DEI requirements, all my coworkers who my Democrat superiors in the federal government promoted over me were Democrats a) who had less work experience than I had, b) who had less education than I had, c) who had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, d) who had no professional license like the one I had, and/or e) who were minority, female, and/or younger than me.)
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/07/they_look_just_like_the_keystone_kops_the_dei_secret_service_in_inaction.html
BEAUFORD COUNTY NOW
— Was the attempt on Trump’s life an isolated event or the start of something Big? – Editorial
https://www.beaufortcountynow.com/post/81077/was-the-attempt-on-trumps-life-an-isolated-event-or-the-start-of-something-big.html
BIZ PAC REVIEW
— Trump’s resilience, momentum dire threat to Deep State – Jeff Willis
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2024/07/15/trumps-resilience-momentum-dire-threat-to-deep-state-1472367/
BLAZE
— Why are Dems FREAKING OUT over Efforts to STOP Illegals from Voting?!? (COMMENT: In your county, in your township, in your municipality, and in your precinct, how many illegals are going to vote for Biden and for the rest of the rest of the Democrats on the ballot?)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFiH28k_jTQ
COLLEGE FIX
— 15 times academia demonized Trump before assassination attempt. – JENNIFER KABBANY (COMMENT: I should write about my critics/opponents who have demonized me, denigrated me, and condemned me the most. I would focus on past and present a) leaders of the Illinois Republican Party, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Milton Township Republican Organization, b) Republican leaders of Illinois, DuPage County, Milton Township, and Wheaton, c) Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct, d) conservative leaders and activists, and e) religious leaders and activists.)
https://www.thecollegefix.com/15-times-academia-demonized-trump-before-assassination-attempt/
CREATORS SYNDICATE
— Did You See the New RNC Platform? Trump is a Genius. Democrats are Screwed. I Dare Democrats to Argue with Any of Our Platform. I Double Dare You. – Wayne Allyn Root
https://www.creators.com/read/wayne-allyn-root
DAILY SIGNAL
— Secret Service Director Put Focus on diversity. – Jarrett Stepman (COMMENT: To meet federal diversity commitments, all my coworkers who my Democrat superiors in the federal government promoted over me were Democrats a) who had less work experience than I had, b) who had less education than I had, c) who had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, d) who had no professional license like the one I had, and/or e) who were minority, female, and/or younger than me.)
https://www.dailysignal.com/2024/07/14/secret-service-director-put-focus-on-diversity/
DAILY WIRE
— Biden DEI Push In Secret Service Led To Unqualified Agents, One Of Whom Threw Tampons At Her Boss In Unhinged Rage. – Luke Rosiak (COMMENT: To meet Affirmative Action and DEI requirements, all my coworkers who my Democrat superiors in the federal government promoted over me were Democrats a) who had less work experience than I had, b) who had less education than I had, c) who had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, d) who had no professional license like the one I had, and/or e) who were minority, female, and/or younger than me.)
https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-dei-push-in-secret-service-led-to-unqualified-agents-one-of-whom-threw-tampons-at-her-boss-in-unhinged-rage
FOX NEWS
— Without a border, immigrant crime can hit everywhere. Honest analysts admit that illegal immigrants commit more crime than citizens. – Thomas Homan (COMMENT: To illegally come into a country illegally and/or to illegally stay illegally in a country illegally is to demonstrate a) gross disrespect for the rule of law and b) gross disrespect for that country. Beyond overwhelmingly, illegals demand massive government assistance.)
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/without-border-immigrant-crime-can-hit-everywhere
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more dependency on government in Evanston.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/chicago-suburb-expand-eligibility-guaranteed-income-program-we-all-need-help
GOPUSA
— A Platform For Trump’s GOP Heads To Milwaukee
https://www.gopusa.com/a-platform-for-trumps-gop-heads-to-milwaukee/
— What Will Happen At The Republican Convention, And What To Watch For
https://www.gopusa.com/what-will-happen-at-the-republican-convention-and-what-to-watch-for/
NATIONAL REVIEW
— GOP platform has lost its way. – Kathryn Jean Lopez
https://www.pressrepublican.com/opinion/gop-platform-has-lost-its-way/article_2f8f9bca-4194-11ef-87fd-77a74dd03b36.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Pro-life people believe abortion to be the human rights issue of our lifetime, one with eternal stakes. With the Republican Party’s changes to its platform regarding abortion, it’s hard to believe the GOP is in the cause for the long haul — never mind the eternal. The platform no longer calls for an end to abortion, opting instead for the leave-it-to-the-states position. This platform and likely presidential nominee Donald Trump have abandoned any even nominal claim to the moral high ground. Lauren Onak, vice-presidential candidate for the American Solidarity Party, is a pro-life convert who recently talked with me not just about saving babies but also helping people with immigration status and housing. If you are going to have an abortion because you don’t have anywhere to live, some pro-life people want to offer help. That’s the work of civil society— sometimes making use of government resources. If abortion is about human rights, ignoring women and children who need help is unacceptable. It doesn’t have to be this way. Henry Hyde, the late congressman, said something that remains true today: “The public virtue of hospitality has been grievously violated by abortion liberty,” he said. “And so, we must do better and we must do differently,” he said. “We must reclaim the heritage of public hospitality. We must become again become again a people capable of welcoming new life, weak life, dependent life, into our midst — and cherishing it,” Hyde went on. Onak is running with presidential candidate Peter Sonski. While they are not seriously expecting to have to move to D.C. come January, they have the right idea in wanting to offer an opportunity for Americans who feel politically homeless to vote in keeping with their values. Their platform is largely based on Catholic Social Teaching, even while they aim to be ecumenical. The Republican Party of 2024 does not reflect this thinking. Catholic convert Ohio Republican Sen. J.D. Vance has declared his support for abortion pills, which cruelly leave women and girls alone to see the demise of the remains of their unborn children. I listened to him speak about the vulnerability of teen girls to the pro-abortion message at an Ohio March for Life in October 2023. But that was then. Republicans now believe they have no responsibility beyond their home states. And maybe not even entirely there — Vance, in a “Meet the Press” interview, cited an erroneous interpretation of a recent Supreme Court decision. He and Trump have both said it approved of abortion pills, when it was a mere ruling on standing that did no such thing. Hyde’s above quotes came before Roe v. Wade was overturned, but his words are relevant to Republicans who might want to seriously consider their abortion positions on something based on more than what Donald Trump wants and the prospects of the next election. The American Solidarity Party is a winning ticket this year, only inasmuch as it captures something of the pro-life vision — loving and welcome — that is all too often lost today. At least someone is giving it a try.)
POST MILLENNIAL
— Biden Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle vowed to make DEI a priority of agency. – Katie Daviscourt (COMMENT: To meet Affirmative Action and DEI requirements, all my coworkers who my Democrat superiors in the federal government promoted over me were Democrats a) who had less work experience than I had, b) who had less education than I had, c) who had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, d) who had no professional license like the one I had, and/or e) who were minority, female, and/or younger than me.)
“I’m very conscious as I sit in this chair now of making sure that we need to attract diverse candidates,” said Cheatle.
https://time.com/6998539/trump-shooting-republicans-blame-dei-secret-service-women/
TOWNHALL
— Enough Illegal Aliens Are Registered to Vote to Swing the Election In Biden’s Favor. – Sarah Arnold|
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/saraharnold/2024/07/14/investigation-discovers-enough-illegal-aliens-registered-to-vote-to-swing-the-election-in-bidens-favor-n2641588
WESTERN JOURNAL
— Biden’s Secret Service Director’s Profile Says It All – Diversity – Joe Saunders (COMMENT: To meet Affirmative Action and DEI requirements, all my coworkers who my Democrat superiors in the federal government promoted over me were Democrats a) who had less work experience than I had, b) who had less education than I had, c) who had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, d) who had no professional license like the one I had, and/or e) who were minority, female, and/or younger than me.)
https://www.westernjournal.com/screen-shot-bidens-secret-service-directors-profile-says-diversity/
— Bongino Breaks Down Woke Secret Service Failures Point by Point, And It’s Absolutely Chilling. – Lorri Wickenhauser
https://www.westernjournal.com/bongino-breaks-woke-secret-service-failures-point-point-absolutely-chilling/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
MSN
— To meet Affirmative Action and DEI requirements, all my coworkers who my Democrat superiors in the federal government promoted over me were Democrats a) who had less work experience than I had, b) who had less education than I had, c) who had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, d) who had no professional license like the one I had, and/or e) who were minority, female, and/or younger than me.
https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/politics/gop-lawmaker-calls-secret-service-director-a-dei-person-after-trump-shooting/ar-BB1pY6BH
NEW YORK TIMES
— The New York Times unabashedly promotes hatred against Trump and then hypocritically says “The Attack on Donald Trump Is Antithetical to America.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/13/opinion/donald-trump-rally-shooting.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Trump remade the GOP in his image — and its platform in his words. – Derek Hawkins, Clara Ence Morse, Adrián Blanco and Aadit Tambe (COMMENT: Of course, my critics/opponents will stress those planks that Trump a) deleted, b) diminished, or c) failed to strengthen.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/interactive/2024/republican-platform-changes-trump/
— What to know about the head of Secret Service as agency faces scrutiny. The 27th director of the U.S. Secret Service, Kimberly Cheatle, was sworn into office in 2022 and now faces questions about how the agency handled Trump’s rally. – Maria Sacchetti
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/07/14/secret-service-director-kimberly-cheatle/
USA TODAY
— Republicans’ focus on Biden’s age is a trap. Talk about his policy failures instead. The focus on age could easily come back to bite Republicans, hard. Where will voters go if Democrats end up nominating someone other than Joe Biden? – John Tillman
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2024/07/15/biden-age-inflation-border-policy-trump-republican-convention/74371168007/
— Joe Biden has everyone worried. Let’s talk about aging, for real. – Charles Trepany
https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/health-wellness/2024/07/10/joe-biden-trump-debate-aging/74348049007/
— New Republican platform makes one thing clear: We’ve dropped the anti-abortion effort. Republicans have made it clear they will follow Trump anywhere, even if it’s to ignore the anti-abortion movement. – Dace Potas
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2024/07/11/rnc-gop-platform-abortion-republicans-pro-life/74347683007/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Donald Trump’s near assassination presents the biggest crisis for the Secret Service in decades. At the heart of what will be a torrent of investigations: How was a 20-year-old lone shooter able to take up an exposed firing position on an open rooftop not much more than a football field away from the former president? – C. Ryan Barber,, James Fanelli, Jan Wolfe
https://www.wsj.com/politics/trump-rally-shooting-is-the-secret-services-nightmare-1b35a7d6
— America Was an Inch From Catastrophe, and I Was There. I served in the Gulf War and know the sound of gunfire. I didn’t expect it at a rally in Pennsylvania. – David McCormick
https://www.wsj.com/articles/america-was-an-inch-from-catastrophe-and-i-was-there-butler-trump-rally-9e47b971
— The Question Aging Bosses Should Ask Themselves. Leadership and aging were urgent issues for American companies even before President Biden’s halting debate performance. – Callum Borchers (COMMENT: The issue should be health, not age.)
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/the-age-question-looms-over-americas-bosses-31c1706b
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://www.wsj.com/economy/retirement-social-security-benefits-illegal-immigrants-c5a04d74
FORBES
— Democrat and RINO employers ever-increasingly use DEI a) to not hire Republicans and b) to get rid of their Republican employees.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/juliekratz/2024/07/14/how-to-talk-about-dei-work-in-a-polarizing-political-climate/
BLOOMBERG
— Secret Service Trump Rally Response Spurs Bipartisan Queries. – Ellen M Gilmer and Michaela Ross
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-07-14/secret-service-trump-rally-response-spurs-bipartisan-queries
DAILY DOT
— MAGA fumes over women on Trump’s Secret Service detail, say DEI to blame for assassination attempt. The Secret Service director has tried to ramp up female recruitment. – Katherine Huggins (COMMENT: To meet Affirmative Action and DEI requirements, all my coworkers who my Democrat superiors in the federal government promoted over me were Democrats a) who had less work experience than I had, b) who had less education than I had, c) who had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, d) who had no professional license like the one I had, and/or e) who were minority, female, and/or younger than me.)
https://www.dailydot.com/debug/donald-trump-secret-service-women/
TIME & DAILY KOS
— To meet Affirmative Action and DEI requirements, all my coworkers who my Democrat superiors in the federal government promoted over me were Democrats a) who had less work experience than I had, b) who had less education than I had, c) who had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, d) who had no professional license like the one I had, and/or e) who were minority, female, and/or younger than me.
https://time.com/6998539/trump-shooting-republicans-blame-dei-secret-service-women/
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/7/14/2254146/-Republicans-are-wasting-no-time-in-blaming-Democrats-and-Biden
July 14, 2024
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Gunman who shot Trump opened fire from nearby rooftop, killed by agents
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/jul/13/gunman-who-shot-trump-opened-fire-from-nearby-roof/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Authorities have not identified the gunman, but The New York Post identified him as Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, of Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, about 40 miles south of the site of the campaign rally. The gunman had a rifle and opened fire from the roof of a building outside the campaign venue in Butler County, Pennsylvania. Agents returned fire, and photographs later showed law enforcement officers with the man’s body on the roof. At a midnight press conference, law enforcement authorities said the gunman was not carrying ID, and the FBI was still working to verify his identity. FBI agent Kevin Rojek said authorities do not yet have “an identified motive,” nor would he specify the type of gun used. Mr. Rojek also said authorities used “assets” to check “suspicious packages” near the shooter’s body after he was killed. State police said all three shooting victims at the rally were adult males. They did not provide identifications. A Trump supporter said he saw the man with a rifle crawling on top of the roof of a building behind the campaign rally stage. According to the eyewitness, as reported to the BBC, rally-goers outside the event spotted the man “bear crawling” across the roof, carrying a rifle. The witnesses frantically alerted law enforcement and were surprised when Mr. Trump was not immediately ushered from the stage. “We’re pointing at the guy, crawling up the roof,” the witness said. “He had a rifle, you could clearly see he had a rifle. I’m thinking to myself, why is Trump still speaking? Why have they not pulled him off the stage?” The witness said he alerted Secret Service on the roof to the crawling man with the rifle, but Mr. Trump was not removed from the stage. “The next thing you know, five shots rang out,” the witness said, adding he is “100%” certain the shots came from the rifle of the man crawling across the roof. Mr. Trump was struck on the right ear but survived and is reported to be “fine.” One rally attendee was killed and two others were critically injured, the Secret Service said.)
— Trump joins Roosevelt, Bush as former presidents who faced assassination attempts. – Stephen Dinan
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/jul/13/trump-joins-roosevelt-bush-as-former-presidents-wh/
— Rep. Steve Scalise, shooting survivor, targets ‘incendiary rhetoric’ from left after Trump shooting. – Seth McLaughlin
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/jul/13/rep-steve-scalise-shooting-survivor-target-incendi/
— Congressional Democrats running a coup against sitting president and threatening justices. – Michael McKenna
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/jul/13/congressional-democrats-running-coup-against-sitti/
FOX NEWS
— Who was Thomas Matthew Crooks? What we know about Trump’s attempted assassin. Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, was from Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, and graduated from high school in 2022. – Scott McDonald
https://www.foxnews.com/us/who-was-thomas-matthew-crooks-donald-trumps-attempted-assassin
(FROM THE ARTICLE: He was one of nearly two dozen students from the school to earn a $500 “star award” from the National Math and Science Initiative. An online recording of his graduation ceremony shows him walking the stage to minimal applause and briefly posing with a school official, the New York Times reported. A search by Fox News Digital revealed Crooks would have turned 21 years old this September. He had no reported criminal or traffic citations and no reported bankruptcies, liens or foreclosures. Crooks was a registered Republican, according to voting records, but had only participated in the Nov. 8, 2022, state election due to his age.)
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Trump rally shooting blame game and calls for investigation begin. House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., said there would be hearings to determine what happened. – AP (COMMENT: Anticipate/expect that ever-increasingly, hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters will hint/imply/argue/shout that Trump brought it on himself, that is, that Trump causes all his own problems.)
https://chicago.suntimes.com/nation-world/2024/07/14/trump-rally-shooting-blame-game-calls-investigation-begin
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance, who has been identified as a potential vice presidential running mate for Trump, said on X that the violence was “not just some isolated incident. The central premise of the Biden campaign is that President Donald Trump is an authoritarian fascist who must be stopped at all costs. That rhetoric led directly to President Trump’s attempted assassination.”)
— The FBI early Sunday named 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks of Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, as the subject involved in the shooting. – AP
https://chicago.suntimes.com/nation-world/2024/07/13/donald-trump-whisked-off-stage-in-pennsylvania-after-loud-noises-rang-through-the-crowd
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Law enforcement recovered an AR-style rifle at the scene, according to a third person familiar with the matter who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the ongoing investigation. An AP analysis of more than a dozen videos and photos from the scene of the Trump rally, as well as satellite imagery of the site, shows the shooter was able to get astonishingly close to the stage where the former president was speaking. A video posted to social media and geolocated by the AP shows the body of a person wearing gray camouflage lying motionless on the roof of a building at AGR International Inc., a manufacturing plant just north of the Butler Farm Show grounds where Trump’s rally was held. The roof where the person lay was less than 150 meters (164 yards) from where Trump was speaking, a distance from which a decent marksman could reasonably hit a human-sized target. For reference, 150 meters is a distance at which U.S. Army recruits must hit a scaled human-sized silhouette to qualify with the M-16 rifle. The AR-15, like the shooter at the Trump rally had, is the semi-automatic civilian version of the military M-16. Asked at the press conference whether law enforcement did not know the shooter was on the roof until he began firing, Kevin Rojek, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Pittsburgh Field Office, responded that “that is our assessment at this time” “It is surprising” that the gunman was able to open fire on the stage before the Secret Service killed him, he added. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, whose department oversees the Secret Service, said officials were engaged with the Biden and Trump campaigns and “taking every possible measure to ensure their safety and security.”)
— ‘These are scary times.’ Illinois politicians react to Trump assassination attempt. “I think the hate for Trump is out of hand. It’s out of control. We have to settle down,” Illinois GOP National Committeeman Richard Porter said. Former President Barack Obama urged a pivot away from polarization. – Lynn Sweet and Tina Sfondeles
https://chicago.suntimes.com/elections/2024/07/13/illinois-politicians-react-trump-assassination-attempt-butler-pennsylvania-campaign-rally
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Echoing the sentiment that the shooter was likely politically motivated, Jeanne Ives, a former Illinois state representative and gubernatorial candidate, said, “These are scary times. No one knows the motive of the shooter, but this political violence likely stems from someone who felt threatened by the prospect of a Trump presidency, which is ridiculous,” Ives said. “The shooter is obviously deranged. But what does this mean? There’s no doubt people feel powerless against a powerful centralized government,” Ives said. . .“The deepening political divide is dangerous and any political violence is unacceptable,” McCombie said in a statement. “Gunshots cannot silence our collective need for change.)
— Chicago, Illinois politicians react to Trump assassination attempt: ‘Political violence is never acceptable.’ – Ellery Jones
https://chicago.suntimes.com/nation-world/2024/07/13/chicago-illinois-trump-assassination-attempt-pennsylvania-reactions-rnc
(FROM THE ARTICLE: “The Republicans of Illinois are united and stand with President Trump,” Illinois GOP Chairwoman-elect Kathy Salvi said in a statement. “We express our full support for President Trump and his family. We appreciate the prompt response by law enforcement and the Secret Service.” “We are shocked and saddened by the events at the rally in PA. Political violence has no place in our society,” the Illinois Democratic Party posted on X. “We pray for the safety of all attendees and condemn violence in the strongest terms. Thank you to the first responders and Secret Service for their swift response.”)
— Those high-profile people who have promoted the most hatred against trump are under the most pressure to condemn the shooting.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/nation-world/2024/07/13/biden-trump-shooting-attempt-says-everybody-must-condemn-attack
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Law enforcement recover AR-style rifle at scene of Trump rally shooting. – AP (COMMENT: Anticipate/expect that Democrats will ever-increasingly use the shooting to first outlaw all semiautomatic firearms and then to abolish the Second Amendment.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/07/13/law-enforcement-recovered-ar-style-rifle-at-scene-of-trump-rally-shooting-ap-source-says/
DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE WITH PICTURE: ‘This is unacceptable’: Suburban RNC delegates react to shooting at Trump rally. – Katlyn Smith
https://www.dailyherald.com/20240713/article/this-is-unacceptable-suburban-rnc-delegates-react-to-shooting-at-trump-rally/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: “The Republicans of Illinois are united and stand with President Trump,” Kathy Salvi, the chairwoman-elect of the Illinois Republican Party, said in a statement. “We express our full support for President Trump and his family. We appreciate the prompt response by law enforcement and the Secret Service.” . . . Joseph Folisi, another RNC delegate and Trump supporter, said “some people need to ratchet down the rhetoric.”)
FOX32
— Chicago reacts to shooting at Trump campaign rally in Pennsylvania. – Nate Rodgers
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/chicago-reacts-shooting-trump-campaign-rally-pennsylvania
— Trump rally shooting: Experts weigh in on potential impact on RNC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39vnFwIvQJs
WGN9
— What happens if a presidential candidate is killed before an election? – Russell Falcon
https://wgntv.com/news/trending/what-happens-if-a-presidential-candidate-is-killed-before-an-election/
— Chicago, Illinois politicians react following deadly shooting at Pennsylvania Trump rally. – Gabriel Castillo
https://wgntv.com/politics-3/chicago-illinois-politicians-react-following-deadly-shooting-at-pennsylvania-trump-rally/
THE HILL
— Shocking attempt on Trump’s life pitches America into fresh turmoil. – NIALL STANAGE
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4770829-trump-rally-shooting-election/
NBC NEWS
— Pennsylvania voter records listed a Thomas Matthew Crooks with the same address and birth date as a registered Republican, though it was not clear from the records when that was put in place. (COMMENT: Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters stress that the shooter was a registered Republican. Since 1999, my critics/opponents who have taken the most/biggest adverse actions against me have not only been registered Republicans, but a) leaders of the Illinois Republican Party, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Milton Township Republican Organization, b) Republican leaders of Illinois, DuPage County, Milton Township, and Wheaton, c) Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct, d) conservative leaders and activists, and e) religious leaders and activists. I should write a book about my critics/opponents. According to them, no one reads my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters, but nevertheless, my newsletters have caused all the defeats that Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct have suffered since 2000.)
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-rally-shooter-identified-20-080005738.html
YAHOO
— The FBI has named the man who shot Donald Trump as Thomas Matthew Crooks, a 20-year-old registered Republican from Pennsylvania. Crooks was reportedly wearing a t-shirt bearing the emblem of a pro-gun Youtube channel when he was killed on Saturday by a special forces sniper after firing three shots at the former US president. . .Reports said that heavily-armed US security agents have raided Crooks’ home in Bethel Park on the edge of Pittsburgh, roughly an hour’s drive south of Butler, the small and hard-up post-industrial town where he tried to kill Trump. The FBI said that Crooks was not carrying any identification when he made the assassination attempt and had to be identified using DNA samples. . .US security forces said that they had recovered an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle lying by Crook’s body. AR-15 semi-automatic rifles have been used in several mass shootings in the US and have become the focus of the gun debate. Photos also showed a member of the US security forces standing over Crooks’ body. Crooks was wearing beige cargo-style shorts and a grey T-shirt bearing the logo of a pro-gun Youtube channel called Demolition Ranch. A registered Republican Videos and photos on the internet showed Crooks to be a tall, slender, white man who wore glasses and had long sandy-brown hair. Voter-registration data showed that Crooks was a registered Republican voter but on Jan 20, 2021, two weeks after pro-Trump alt-right supporters stormed the White House, Crooks gave $15 to a grassroots Democratic group. Crooks didn’t have a criminal record. A video showed him graduating from a local school in 2022 and winning a prize for math and science.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/thomas-matthew-crooks-donald-trump-101639620.html
REUTERS
— Slain suspect identified as 20-year-old Pennsylvania man who was registered as Republican.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-shooting-raises-questions-about-security-lapses-2024-07-14/
— Trump rally shooting: Focus on Secret Service. – Gram Slattery, Alexandra Ulmer and Joseph Tanfani
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/possible-security-lapses-focus-after-trump-rally-shooting-2024-07-14/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Republican lawmakers said they would launch swift investigations into how a person managed to evade Secret Service agents and climb onto the roof of a building near where former U.S. President Donald Trump was speaking at an election rally and fire multiple shots before being killed. Mike Johnson, speaker of the Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives, said panels in the chamber will call officials from the Secret Service, the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI for hearings soon. The House oversight panel called Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle to testify on July 22. While information about the incident was still sparse, early media reports said the shooter was outside the security perimeter of the rally venue in Butler, Pennsylvania. One person interviewed by the BBC said he had seen the man with gun and tried unsuccessfully to alert police and the Secret Service.
Trump supporters blasted the Secret Service, which is responsible for protecting Trump as a former U.S. president. Billionaire Elon Musk called for the agency’s leadership to resign. “How was a sniper with a full rifle kit allowed to bear crawl onto the closest roof to a presidential nominee,” asked conservative activist Jack Posobiec on social media site X. FBI Special Agent Kevin Rojek, speaking at a press briefing, called the number of shots the attacker was able to fire “surprising.” The Secret Service did not have a representative in that press briefing late on Saturday, which included FBI and state law enforcement officials.
The Secret Service said shortly after the shooting that it has begun an investigation and briefed Democratic President Joe Biden, Trump’s rival in the Nov. 5 election, though the agency did not immediately respond to additional requests for comment regarding its protocols. The Pennsylvania State Police referred questions to the Secret Service. Ben Maser said he was outside the rally perimeter, listening to Trump, when he noticed two officers seemingly looking for someone. Maser, a 41-year old welder, started scanning the area too. “I saw the guy on the roof. I told the officer that he was up there. He went about looking for him,” said Maser. . .Paul Eckloff, a former Secret Service agent who retired in 2020, said agents would have surveyed all the rooftops with a line of sight ahead of time. “This person either concealed themselves until they became a threat, or were not a threat until they revealed their weapons,” said Eckloff.)
WASHINGTON POST
— The shooter was killed. Crooks was a registered Republican, according to the state’s voter status records.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/07/13/2024-election-campaign-updates-biden-trump-rally/
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters run the mainstream news media, and therefore, of course, spin the shooting against Trump and against Trump’s supporters.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/07/14/trump-shooting-conspiracy-theories/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: As more details about the shooter emerged throughout the evening, seemingly identifying a man who was perched on a rooftop outside the Trump rally, Elon Musk, the billionaire owner of X, posted that either the Secret Service suffered from “extreme incompetence” for allowing him to position himself there or “it was deliberate.”)
— How the deadly Trump rally shooting unfolded in Pennsylvania. A timeline of how the suspected assassination attempt on the former president unfolded. – Derek Hawkins
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/07/14/trump-rally-shooting-timeline/
NEWSWEEK
— Who is Thomas Matthew Crooks: What We Know About Trump Shooting Suspect
https://www.newsweek.com/who-thomas-matthew-crooks-donald-trump-shooting-suspect-fbi-pennsylvania-rally-1924890
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters run the mainstream news media, and therefore, of course, spin the shooting against Trump and against Trump’s supporters.
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-shooting-conspiracy-theories-erupt-staged-1924904
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Scalise, Shot in 2017 Attack, Points Finger at Democrats’ Rhetoric – Kristina Peterson
https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/trump-rally-incident/card/scalise-shot-in-2017-attack-points-finger-at-democrats-rhetoric-XLcF6DjRrQYPUpT31Fj2
— Those high-profile people who have promoted the most hatred against trump are under the most pressure to condemn the shooting.
https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/trump-rally-incident/card/biden-on-trump-incident-we-cannot-condone-this–iVJmVUuOxOTD1IjYM07O
https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/trump-rally-incident/card/democrats-criticize-political-violence-IxKUdbUbQYsiBFjpdZHn
https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/trump-rally-incident/card/biden-campaign-to-pull-down-television-ads-yWBcGSbQDl4lfoGSgXOk
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters run the mainstream news media, and therefore, of course, spin the shooting against Trump and against Trump’s supporters.
https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/trump-rally-incident/card/some-republicans-blame-biden-while-trump-says-motive-not-clear-MFyg9iR5zqztfamOxtGf
(FROM THE ARTICLE: While law-enforcement officials haven’t given details on the shooting suspect’s identity or a motive—and former President Donald Trump has said so as well—some Republicans are already making unsubstantiated claims that President Biden is responsible for the incident at the Butler, Pa., rally. “Today is not just some isolated incident. The central premise of the Biden campaign is that President Donald Trump is an authoritarian fascist who must be stopped at all costs,” Sen. J.D. Vance (R., Ohio), who is considered a possible Trump running mate, posted on X. “That rhetoric led directly to President Trump’s attempted assassination.” Vivek Ramaswamy, who competed against Trump in the 2024 Republican primaries, made a similar claim. “First they sued him. Then they prosecuted him. Then they tried to take him off the ballot,” he wrote on X. “Biden’s inevitable ritual condemnation of political violence today (when it comes) will be insufficient and irrelevant. No amount of verbiage today changes the toxic national climate that led to this tragedy.” A handful of Republican lawmakers posted similar comments on social media, insinuating political motivations and blaming Biden, who condemned the incident in a speech from Delaware and said he had reached out to Trump directly. Local law-enforcement officials and the Secret Service said they are investigating the incident but have so far released few details.)
— Who Was Trump Rally Shooting Suspect Thomas Matthew Crooks? – Gareth Vipers (COMMENT: Did he live with his parents? What do his parents have to say?)
https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/trump-rally-incident/card/who-was-thomas-matthew-crooks–lrMt72pIYPaqiqCoDta2
PEOPLE
— What to Know About Thomas Matthew Crooks, Shooter Who Opened Fire at Donald Trump Rally. – Greg Hanlon
https://people.com/what-to-know-trump-shooting-suspect-thomas-matthew-crooks-8677737
(FROM THE ARTICLE: In 2021, Crooks made a $15 donation to ActBlue, a political action committee that supports Democratic politicians. The donation was earmarked for the Progressive Turnout Project, which aims to get out increase voting among Democrats. . .CNN reports that the outlet briefly spoke to Crooks’ father, Matthew Crooks, late on July 13. Matthew Crooks said he was still trying to find out “what the hell is going on,” and declined to talk about his son until he spoke with law enforcement.)
AXIOS & FORBES
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters run the mainstream news media, and therefore, of course, spin the shooting against Trump and against Trump’s supporters.
https://www.axios.com/2024/07/14/trump-assassination-attempt-martyr-rnc
https://www.axios.com/2024/07/14/trump-rally-shooting-republicans-congress
https://www.forbes.com/sites/shaunharper/2024/07/13/will-surviving-gunfire-be-donald-trumps-next-appeal-to-black-voters/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Republican Convention 2024: Speakers include potential VP picks Marco Rubio, JD Vance, Doug Burgum. Donald Trump’s family is expected to attend the RNC, but Ivanka and Melania are not listed to speak.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/rnc-2024-speakers-announced-including-potential-donald-trump-vp/15056697/
CBS2
— Group wins fight to protest within sight and sound of Democratic National Convention, but fight not over – Charlie De Mar
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/group-wins-fight-protest-within-sight-sound-democratic-national-convention/
WGN9
— Chicago removing homeless encampment ahead of Democratic National Convention. – AP
https://wgntv.com/news/chicago-news/chicago-removing-homeless-encampment-ahead-of-democratic-national-convention/
FOX32
— Who will Trump pick as his VP? Betting markets show a clear favorite (JD Vance). – Breck Dumas
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/who-will-trump-pick-his-vp-betting-markets-show-clear-favorite-some-unusual-activity
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— This year’s RNC speakers include VP hopefuls, GOP lawmakers and UFC’s CEO — but not Melania Trump. – AP
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/07/13/this-years-rnc-speakers-include-vp-hopefuls-gop-lawmakers-and-ufcs-ceo-but-not-melania-trump-2/
— Political parties exist to help elect candidates who can and will defend and advance their platform. The Republican Party platform is conservative.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/07/14/opinion-republican-party-platform/
— FRONT PAGE: Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/07/14/migrant-woman-sexually-abused-while-on-the-search-for-housing-highlights-the-vulnerability-for-attacks-experts-say/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Bill Daley slams Johnson’s claim of ‘decades of disinvestment’ by past mayors. When Richard M. Daley became mayor, he “understood more than anybody … that he had to address what was called Beirut-on-the-Lake at the time because of the racial divide,” his brother Bill Daley told the Sun-Times. – Fran Spielman
https://chicago.suntimes.com/fran-spielman-show/2024/07/13/bill-daley-brandon-johnson-richard-m-j-disinvestment-past-mayors-crime-shootings
— Activist groups sue city, alleging denial of march permits during DNC violates free speech. The lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court on Friday and accuses the city of suppressing speech criticizing the government during the high-profile event. – Mary Norkol
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2024-democratic-national-convention/2024/07/13/activist-groups-sue-city-alleging-denial-of-march-permits-during-dnc-violates-free-speech
— Ever-increasingly, since the Civil War, Democrats blame Republicans for all the problems that Blacks have.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2024/07/13/racist-chicago-black-white-segregation-shootings-violent-july-fourth-alden-loury
DAILY HERALD
— Youth fighting, fireworks part of ‘multiple disturbances’ at Fox Valley Mall – Katlyn Smith
https://www.dailyherald.com/20240713/news/police-youth-fighting-fireworks-part-of-multiple-disturbances-at-fox-valley-mall/
SOUTHERN
— DNC announces 2024 party platform draft outlining Biden agenda, contrast with Trump. – Isabella Murray (COMMENT: The Democrat Party platform promotes poverty and crime. It promotes a) dependency on government and charity, b) LGBTQ, c) abortion, d) mass/illegal immigration, e) booze, gambling, pot, and other vices, f) diminishment of Second Amendment rights, and g) Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination.)
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2024/07/13/dnc-announces-2024-party-platform-draft-outlining-biden-agenda-contrast-with-trump/
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Conservative groups are pushing to clean voter rolls. Others see an effort to sow election distrust. – AP (COMMENT: How much deadwood is on the voter rolls in your county, your township, your municipality, and your precinct?)
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/ap-conservative-groups-are-pushing-to-clean-voter-rolls-others-see-an-effort-to-sow-election-distrust/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— South Side GOP Chairman Devin Jones is the 18th Ward Republican Committeeman answers attacks from mayor, governor. – Jim Talamonti
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/chicago-republican-answers-attacks-from-mayor-governor/ar-BB1pV0Lw?ocid=windirect
CAPITOL NEWS ILLINOIS
— National Committeeman Richard Porter looks ahead to GOP convention as party names new state chair. – PETER HANCOCK
https://capitolnewsillinois.com/news/national-committeeman-richard-porter-looks-ahead-to-gop-convention-as-party-names-new-state-chair
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— The French are losing the demographic war to Islam. – Don Feder
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/jul/12/french-are-losing-demographic-war/
BREITBART
— Chicago at Nearly 1,200 Shootings for 2024 Following July 4 Carnage. – AWR HAWKINS
https://www.breitbart.com/crime/2024/07/13/chicago-at-nearly-1200-shootings-for-2024-following-july-4-carnage/
EPOCH TIMES
— What Will Happen at the Republican Convention, and What to Watch For. Beyond the hoopla of the televised sessions, political conventions are a place to conduct party business, network, and showcase the GOP brand. – Lawrence Wilson
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/what-will-happen-at-the-republican-convention-and-what-to-watch-for-5682046
LEGAL INSURRECTION
— Scholarship Excluding Males Who Identify As Males at Rochester Inst. of Technology Challenged By Equal Protection Project. – William A. Jacobson (COMMENT: I did not apply for any scholarships because my ACT score was only 24 and I only just made it into the upper 20% of my high school class in 1966. During my last 2 years in high school, I spent far too much time washing dishes to earn enough money to buy a new car to commute to/from my parents’ home in Crete and classes at UIC instead of studying. But even back then, scholarships were overwhelmingly targeted for those who did not share my demographics.)
https://legalinsurrection.com/2024/07/scholarship-excluding-males-who-identify-as-males-at-rochester-inst-of-technology-challenged-by-equal-protection-project/
PJ MEDIA
— Gallup: Sharp Increase in the Number of Americans Wanting Less Immigration – RICK MORAN (COMMENT: Mass/illegal immigration hurts all Americans, but especially Americans who have less money than others. I had to work my way through college. If there had been as many immigrants when I was young as there are now, they would have gotten the jobs that I got. And if not that, my salaries would have lower because immigrants drive salaries down.)
https://pjmedia.com/rick-moran/2024/07/13/gallup-sharp-increase-in-the-number-of-americans-wanting-less-immigration-n4930649
TOWNHALL
— Elon Musk has made a significant donation to former President Donald Trump’s campaign as he becomes increasingly critical of President Joe Biden. –
Sarah Arnold
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/saraharnold/2024/07/13/elon-musk-donated-to-trump-campaign-n2641818
— House Passes The SAVE Act, Dems Are Determined to Leave it There. – Jamie Parsons |
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/jamie-parsons/2024/07/13/house-passes-the-save-act-dems-are-determined-to-leave-it-there-n2641728
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CNN
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.cnn.com/business/economy/transgender-americans-economy/index.html
AOL
— Wealthy Beginnings: How the Rich Raise Their Babies Differently. – CINDY LAMOTHE (COMMENT: Overwhelmingly, my critics/opponents have/had parents who had far more money than my parents had. Their parents bought them cars and paid for their college expenses. I bought a 1958 Chevrolet Bel Air with money that I had earned doing yard work and delivering newspapers when I was 16 years old in 1964. I bought a new 1966 Pontiac Tempest Sprint with money that I had earned washing dishes in 1966. I paid for my UIC expenses 1966-1968 and for my NIU expenses 1969-1970 with money that I had earned delivering mail. I should write a book about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those whose parents are/were rich.)
https://www.aol.com/wealthy-beginnings-rich-raise-babies-170043599.html
NEW YORK TIMES
— Pritzker Tries to Reassure Fellow Midwestern Democrats Amid Biden Anxiety. Gov. JB Pritzker of Illinois spoke to Democratic gatherings in Indiana and Ohio as party leaders tried to ease panic about President Biden. – Mitch Smith
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/13/us/pritzker-biden-democrats.html
— The Republicans Are Headed to Milwaukee. So Are Protesters. – Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/13/us/rnc-milwaukee-protests.html
USA TODAY
— Democrat and RINO leaders crow about their success in flooding America with illegals.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/07/12/border-immigration-politics-arrive-american-south/74121724007/
POLITICO
— Biden raised his voice over House Dem commander-in-chief concerns: ‘I don’t want to hear that crap’ Rep. Jason Crow, a respected centrist in the Democratic caucus, told Biden that people want a strong leader so they can feel safe on national security. – SARAH FERRIS
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/07/13/biden-raised-his-voice-over-house-dem-commander-in-chief-concerns-i-dont-want-to-hear-that-crap-00167975