June 22 Morning Edition

ABC7
— Chicago shootings: At least 70 shot, 10 fatally, including 4 children, in violence weekend – Jesse Kirsch
https://abc7chicago.com/at-least-70-shot-10-fatally-including-4-children-in-violent-weekend/6259526/

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Trump-hating Democrats run Illinois and especially Cook County and Chicago. Ever-increasingly, Trump-haters call those who do not hate Trump racists. Ever-increasingly, to call someone a racist in America today is like calling someone a Jew in Germany during the 1930s and 1940s. Those who hate Trump are consumed with hatred and want to get rid of those who do not hate Trump once and for all.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/columns/dahleen-glanton/ct-trump-confederate-monuments-20200622-x3a5gwjawbf27hjzwybzuwivmy-story.html
— Why we voted with our feet – BEVIN MCCARTER (DIERSEN: I should write a book about past and present leaders in Illinois, DuPage County, Milton Township, Wheaton, and Wheaton’s West District who ever-increasingly make it clear that they want to get rid of individuals, organizations, companies, and governments that are Trump supporters, conservative, patriotic, Republican, American, White, male, older, non-poor, gun owners, Protestant, German American, draft avoiders, and those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/opinion/commentary/ct-opinion-commentary-illinois-exodus-move-florida-20200619-3fvysebnpbclvh5o5si3r4754q-story.html

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: How soon, if not already, will organizations, companies, and governments officially get rid of their members, employees, and residents who do not promote BLM and LGBTQ?
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2020/6/22/21297259/businesses-white-people-racial-progress-marquette-park-ceos-c-suite-lead-racism

DAILY HERALD
— New Arlington Heights policy requires cops to intervene in excessive force cases – Christopher Placek
https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20200620/new-arlington-heights-policy-requires-cops-to-intervene-in-excessive-force-cases
— FRONT PAGE: Naperville recreational pot discussions begin tonight with livestreamed workshop – Marie Wilson (DIERSEN: If you want to destroy an individual, organization, company, municipality, township, county, state, or county, you push pot on that individual, organization, company, municipality, township, county, state, or county.)
https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20200622/naperville-recreational-pot-discussions-begin-tonight-with-livestreamed-workshop
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Slavery Existed in Illinois, but Schools Don’t Always Teach That History Schools often teach the Civil War in terms of “free states” and “slave states.” Illinois complicates those definitions. We spoke with a historian and high school teacher about slavery’s legacy in Illinois. – Logan Jaffe (DIERSEN: My ancestors immigrated during the 1840s and 1850s from what is now Germany. They always lived in northeast Illinois, to be exact, in Crete and Grant Park.)
https://www.propublica.org/article/slavery-existed-in-illinois-but-schools-dont-always-teach-that-history

WTTW
— Durbin: Illinois Needs Federal Assistance, Not ‘Pension Bailout’ – Amanda Vinicky
https://news.wttw.com/2020/06/21/durbin-illinois-needs-federal-assistance-not-pension-bailout

ALTON DAILY NEWS
— Illinois Republican Party Looks Ahead to Election – Kevin Bessler (DIERSEN. What do the chairmen of Republican county, township, and ward organizations have to say?)
http://altondailynews.com/news/details.cfm?clientid=17&id=305999#.XvCiuo9_OM8

JACKSONVILLE JOURNAL COURIER
— In virus’ wake, other problems start to emerge Experts raise concerns about long-term societal, health issues – Greg Bishop
https://www.myjournalcourier.com/news/article/In-virus-8217-wake-other-problems-start-to-15356358.php

NPR ILLINOIS
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: How soon, if not already, will organizations, companies, and governments officially banish those who do not promote LGBTQ activity? I should write a book about organizations, companies, and governments in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois that banish those who do not promote LGBTQ activity.
https://www.nprillinois.org/post/tips-creating-equity-transgender-people-your-workplace#stream/0

MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Local Governments May No Longer Be Able to Exclude the Public
http://mchenrycountyblog.com/2020/06/20/local-governments-may-no-longer-be-able-to-exclude-the-public/

WIREPOINTS
— “It’s time to open the economy back up as COVID-19 numbers continue falling. The longer we wait, the more we put people at risk economically.” – Ted on Capitol Connection with Mark Maxwell
https://wirepoints.org/its-time-to-open-the-economy-back-up-as-covid-19-numbers-continue-falling-the-longer-we-wait-the-more-we-put-people-at-risk-economically-ted-on-capitol-connection-with-mark-maxwell/

ILLINOIS FAMILY INSTITUTE
— Self-Identifying Republicans Are Destroying Liberty – Laurie Higgins (DIERSEN: What do you say to politicians who paint themselves as being religious, conservative, and/or Republican to get elected, but after they are elected, they take anti-religious, anti-conservative, and/or anti-Republican actions including promoting dependency on government, dependency on charity, LGBTQ activity, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, booze, gambling, pot, and other vices, abolition of the First and Second Amendments, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, and even worse things? I should write a book about such politicians in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois.)
https://illinoisfamily.org/religious/self-identifying-republicans-are-destroying-liberty/

FEDERALIST
— The Supreme Court’s Open Door For Illegal Immigration Negates Americans’ Right To Vote Regardless of whether one agrees with DACA’s aims, an executive order should not be the vehicle for resolving a hotly debated political issue. Elections should. – Adam Mill (DIERSEN: What percent of the voters in your precinct, municipal district, municipality, township, and county side with foreign countries and their citizens against America and against its citizens, that is, what percent vote for Democrats?)
https://thefederalist.com/2020/06/22/the-supreme-courts-open-door-for-illegal-immigration-negates-americans-right-to-vote/

BREITBART
— George Washington Statue in Baltimore Defaced with Red Paint The Baltimore Sun reports that the memorial in Druid Hill Park in northwest Baltimore also had the words “Destroy Racists” and the initials for the Black Lives Matter movement written on the base. (DIERSEN: This is a hate crime.)
https://www.breitbart.com/news/the-latest-archbishop-criticizes-toppling-of-park-statue/

TOWNHALL
— Be Careful Who You Call a White Supremacist – Michael Brown (DIERSEN: Ever-increasingly, Trump-haters call those who do not hate Trump White supremacists. Ever-increasingly, to call someone a White supremacist in America today is like calling someone a Jew in Germany during the 1930s and 1940s. Those who hate Trump want to get rid of those who do not hate Trump once and for all.)
https://townhall.com/columnists/michaelbrown/2020/06/22/be-careful-who-you-call-a-white-supremacist-n2571043

NEWSMAX
— Stephen Moore: US Will Press China for COVID Reparations – Eric Mack
https://www.newsmax.com/politics/reparations-covid-19-pandemic/2020/06/21/id/973306/

EPOCH TIMES
— Trump Denounces Wave of Statue Toppling – BOWEN XIAO
https://www.theepochtimes.com/trump-denounces-wave-of-statue-toppling_3396648.html

POLITICO
— The Woman Who Helped Save Joe Biden In 1993, Carol Moseley Braun, the first black woman in the Senate, joined Biden’s Judiciary Committee. It solved an image problem for Biden. The results were groundbreaking. – MICHAEL KRUSE
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/06/19/the-first-time-joe-biden-chose-a-black-woman-to-make-history-328426
— Despite dreamy polls, Dems can’t shake their 2016 nightmare Democrats are having a hard time accepting some good political news. – BURGESS EVERETT and MARIANNE LEVINE
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/22/democrats-dreamy-polls-2016-nightmare-329663

REUTERS
— TikTok users, K-pop fans say they helped sabotage Trump rally with false registrations – Elizabeth Culliford (DIERSEN: Of course, Trump-haters side with “TikTok users, K-pop fans.”)
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-trump-tiktok/tiktok-users-say-they-helped-sabotage-trump-rally-with-false-registrations-idUSKBN23S0L6?il=0

NBC NEWS
— After Trump rally falls flat, TikTok teens take a victory lap for fake reservation campaign TikTok teens, young adults and K-pop fans celebrated after Trump’s Tulsa rally had lower than expected turnout. – Kalhan Rosenblatt (DIERSEN: Of course, Trump-haters side with “TikTok teens, young adults and K-pop fans.”)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/after-trump-rally-falls-flat-tiktok-teens-take-victory-lap-n1231675

NEW YORK TIMES
— What’s Facebook’s Deal With Donald Trump? Mark Zuckerberg has forged an uneasy alliance with the Trump administration. He may have gotten too close. – Ben Smith
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/21/business/media/facebook-donald-trump-mark-zuckerberg.html
— HARDCOPY ARTICLE TITLE: Managing the Emotional Turmoil of a Job Loss – Holly Epstein Ojalvo (DIERSEN: I should write a book about my losing my a) Post Office job in 1969, b) Firestone Stores job in 1971, GAO job in 1997, American Association of Political Consultants Midwest Chapter board membership in 2004, Milton Township Republican Organization webmaster job in 2004 and 2010, Illinois Center Right Coalition Steering Committee membership in 2007, Wheaton Chamber of Commerce Government Affairs Committee membership in 2011, and TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairmanship in 2012. I would focus on those who orchestrated those losses.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/21/smarter-living/coronavirus-laid-off-career-advice.html
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: A Trump-hater promotes hatred against Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/21/us/politics/trump-rally-supporters.html
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Trump-haters promote LGBTQ activity.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/21/us/politics/biden-gay-rights-lgbt.html
— FRONT PAGE: The Lapses That Let a Saudi Extremist Shoot Up a U.S. Navy Base The gunman who killed three in Florida was not directed by Al Qaeda, nor inspired solely by online ideology. He was a new kind of terrorist, harder to spot: an extremely enterprising freelancer. – Michael LaForgia and Eric Schmitt
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/21/us/politics/saudi-gunman-vetting.html
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG COLOR PICTURE: Roosevelt Statue to Be Removed From Museum of Natural History The equestrian memorial to Theodore Roosevelt has long prompted objections as a symbol of colonialism and racism. – Robin Pogrebin
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/21/arts/design/roosevelt-statue-to-be-removed-from-museum-of-natural-history.html

WASHINGTON POST
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Trump-haters ask “Who caused the violence at protests?” and say “It wasn’t antifa.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/06/22/who-caused-violence-protests-its-not-antifa/
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Trump-haters want “Young Asians and Latinos” make their parents anti-Trump, anti-conservative, anti-patriotic, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-rich people, anti-gun owners, anti-Protestant, anti-German Americans, anti-draft avoiders, and anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/young-asians-and-latinos-push-their-parents-to-acknowledge-racism-amid-protests/2020/06/21/97daa5f2-b193-11ea-856d-5054296735e5_story.html
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Trump-haters promote hatred against Trump.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/06/21/trumps-problem-tulsa-wasnt-just-empty-seats-it-was-empty-rhetoric/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2020/06/21/trumps-rally-looked-like-his-vision-america-limited-pitiless/
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Trump pushes back against the hatred promoted by Trump-haters. Trump-haters promote hatred against those individuals, organizations, companies, governments, and countries that are Trump supporters, conservative, patriotic, Republican, American, White, male, older, non-poor, gun owners, Protestant, German American, draft avoiders, and those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/with-kung-flu-thugs-and-our-heritage-trump-leans-on-racial-grievance-as-he-reaches-for-a-campaign-reset/2020/06/21/945d7a1e-b3df-11ea-a510-55bf26485c93_story.html
— Trump’s new rules against asylum seekers are dire. They must be challenged. – Nickole Miller (DIERSEN: To get citizens of foreign countries who have serious financial problems, serious health problems, and serious other problems and those who are minority, female, and/or younger to seek asylum in America, Democrats and RINOs promise to give them tremendous preference over citizens of America. Democrats want asylum seeks because they vote for Democrats. RINOs want asylum seekers because RINOs want cheap labor. RINOs would never stoop to take the jobs that I did. I did yard work and delivered newspapers 1962-1964; washed dishes 1964-1966; cleaned golf shoes, chipped slag, and pumped gasoline in 1966; delivered mail 1966-1969; worked on an automobile assembly line and as a security guard in 1970; sold tires, automotive services, and major appliances 1970-1971; pumped gasoline 1971-1972; collected delinquent taxes 1971-1980; and audited federal agencies 1980-1997.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/06/19/we-cannot-let-trump-administration-turn-this-countrys-back-asylum-seekers/

NEW YORK POST
— The Democrats’ civil war is bad for the United States – Miranda Devine (DIERSEN: In the Democrat Party, liberals want to get rid of moderates. In the Republican Party, liberals and moderates want to get rid of conservatives. I should write a book about leaders of the Illinois Republican Party, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Milton Township Republican Organization who have focused on getting rid of conservatives, and especially conservatives who are Trump supporters, patriotic, White, male, older, non-poor, gun owners, Protestant, German American, draft avoiders, and those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.)
https://nypost.com/2020/06/21/the-democrats-civil-war-is-bad-for-the-united-states-devine/

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: A Trump-hater says “Trump seethes over Tulsa rally flop as aides point fingers over humiliating low turnout.”
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/ny-trump-tulsa-rally-20200621-4vunpvnotzfkdngu54kc3tzjqm-story.html

USA TODAY
— Theodore Roosevelt statue to be removed from Natural History museum, Trump calls move ‘ridiculous’ – AP
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/06/22/theodore-roosevelt-statue-removed-museum-natural-history/3234153001/
— Want to honor Pride Month? 5 ways you can be an ally to the Black LGBTQ+ community – David Oliver (DIERSEN: How soon, if not already, will organizations, companies, and governments officially get rid of their members, employees, and residents who do not promote BLM and LGBTQ?)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/2020/06/17/pride-month-how-to-be-an-ally-black-lgbtq-community/3193000001/
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: LGBTQ promoters promote LGBTQ promoters.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2020/06/17/transgender-woman-violence-discrimination-daily-risks-column/3201398001/
— Older Americans face another pandemic risk: Most can’t work remotely despite COVID-19 – Aimee Picchi
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/personalfinance/2020/06/19/coronavirus-reopening-older-workers-cant-telecommute-raising-risks/3210953001/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: DIERSEN HEADLINE: Trump-haters say Trump used “offensive, ‘racist’ remarks at Tulsa rally.”
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/06/21/democrats-critics-slam-trump-racist-remarks-tulsa-rally/3231914001/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: DIERSEN HEADLINE: Trump-haters say “Coronavirus surges aren’t linked to George Floyd, policing, Black Lives Matter protests.”
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/investigations/2020/06/19/so-far-george-floyd-protests-not-behind-surges-coronavirus/3226033001/

BOSTON HERALD
— Elizabeth Warren holds fast to VP ambitions while Joe Biden urged to pick woman of color – LISA KASHINSKY (DIERSEN: My superiors in the federal government were always urged by Democrat politicians to promote their Democrat employees who were minority, female, and/or younger. My superiors in the Republican Party are always urged by their superiors to promote their Precinct Committeemen who were minority, female, and/or younger.)

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— FRONT PAGE: George Floyd and Derek Chauvin: The Lives of the Victim and His Killer Their paths until that moment reveal many of the issues involving race and policing that remain to be addressed – Jennifer Levitz, Erin Ailworth and Tawnell D. Hobbs
https://www.wsj.com/articles/george-floyd-and-derek-chauvin-the-lives-of-the-victim-and-his-killer-11592761495
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: How soon, if not already, will the municipality that you live in officially get rid of its residents who do not promote BLM and LGBTQ? How soon, if not already, will the organizations that you are a member of officially get rid of their members who do not promote BLM and LGBTQ? That is, how soon, if not already, will Trump-hating municipalities and organizations officially get rid of those who do not hate Trump?
https://www.wsj.com/articles/black-lives-matter-protests-spread-quickly-to-white-rural-areas-11592818201
— Madison Avenue’s Latest Diversity Promises Hinge on Accountability The ad industry has long promised to improve diversity, with little to show – Sahil Patel (DIERSEN: How soon, if not already, will all people in ads have to be at least one of the following: anti-Trump, anti-conservative, anti-patriotic, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-rich people, anti-gun owners, anti-Protestant, anti-German Americans, anti-draft avoiders, and/or anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time?)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/madison-avenues-latest-diversity-promises-hinge-on-accountability-11592744400
— A War of Meaningless Words Terms like ‘flatten the curve’ and ‘defund the police’ often mask shifting purposes. – Andy Kessler
https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-war-of-meaningless-words-11592757588

FORBES
— Trump Resorts To Invective At Tulsa Rally – Stephanie Sarkis (DIERSEN: I should write a book about my critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes who have used invectives against me in meetings and at events since 2000. I would focus on past and present leaders of the Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, Illinois Republican Party, Wheaton, Wheaton Chamber of Commerce, Milton Township, DuPage County, Illinois, TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois, Illinois Center Right Coalition, etc.)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/stephaniesarkis/2020/06/22/trump-resorts-to-invective-at-tulsa-rally/#dc5bd6df6eb9

BUSINESS INSIDER
— Trump’s campaign claims that about 12,000 people attended his Tulsa rally. The Tulsa Fire Department says there were only about 6,200. – Rosie Perper
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-campaign-claims-12000-people-attended-tulsa-rally-2020-6

GUARDIAN
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Ever-increasingly, Trump-haters promote crime.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jun/22/digitally-savvy-and-passionate-k-pop-fans-trump-activism-should-come-as-no-surprise

Author: David Diersen

The opinions that I express in GOPUSA ILLINOIS emails are based on experience that I have gained doing many things since 1948. I base my opinions on what I learned a) working for the federal government for almost 30 years -- Post Office 1966-1969, IRS 1971-1980, and GAO 1980-1997, serving on the Executive Committee of the Association of Government Accountants Chicago Chapter 1983-1996, and being a union member while I worked for the Post Office and IRS; b) earning an MBA from Loyola in 1976, a masters degree in accounting from DePaul in 1980, and a masters degree in financial markets and trading from IIT in 1997; c) passing the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979 and passing the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981; c) serving as a Republican Precinct Committeeman since 1999, the GOPUSA Illinois Editor since 2000, the TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois Chairman 2005-2012, a member of the 2008 Illinois Republican Party (IRP) Platform and Resolutions Committee, a Wheaton Chamber of Commerce Government Affairs Committee member 2003-2011, the Milton Township Republican Central Committee webmaster 2008-2010 and 2000-2004, an Illinois Center Right Coalition Steering Committee member 2003-2007, and an American Association of Political Consultants Midwest Chapter board member 2001-2004; d) attending the 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012, and 2016 IRP State Conventions as a delegate; e) being the subject of a nasty 4-page article in the February 1978 issue of Money Magazine; f) pursing litigation including Diersen v. GAO and Diersen v. Chicago Car Exchange; g) being married since 1978; h) living in Crete 1948-1972, in University Park 1972-1976, in Chicago 1976-1978, and in DuPage County, Milton Township, and Wheaton since 1978; and i) being baptized, raised, and confirmed as a Missouri Synod Lutheran.