May 22 Morning Edition

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Remap flap: Democrats release new state legislative maps they call ‘fair’ — but GOP dub straight from ‘Mike Madigan playbook’ The maps released Friday are just for Illinois House and Senate districts – not the state’s Congressional or state Supreme Court districts. The maps also chart a path for a heated partisan battle, one likely to include lawsuits as legislators work to pass a map. – Rachel Hinton and Andrew Sullender
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2021/5/21/22448411/remap-redistricting-state-legislative-maps-democrats-republican-census-diversity-transparency
— North Side Democrat accuses downstate Republican of making remarks intended to ‘dehumanize’ LGBTQ community. Responding to questions about his remarks during debate over a sex education bill, Republican state Sen. Darren Bailey said that Democrats such as state Sen. Mike Simmons “like to call you names and spread lies.” – Andrew Sullender
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2021/5/21/22448407/darren-bailey-mike-simmons-downstate-republican-lgbtq-community-sex-education-culture-wars
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: The mainstream news media is run by Democrats. If Black journalists are discriminated against, Democrats are discriminating against them.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2021/5/21/22448174/mayor-lori-lightfoot-newsroom-diversity-interviews-chicago-media-city-hall-press-john-fountain

DAILY HERALD
— Illinois Democrats release proposed new state legislative districts – Steve Zalusky
https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20210521/illinois-democrats-release-proposed-new-state-legislative-districts

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Dems drop a new map of Senate and House districts—just in time for the weekend. Though Republicans instantly howled at the details—not to mention the timing—the Democrats gave every indication of enacting the map as soon as next week. – GREG HINZ
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/greg-hinz-politics/dems-drop-new-map-senate-and-house-districts-just-time-weekend

WBEZ
— Illinois Democrats Release New Legislative Maps Marking The Start Of A Partisan Showdown – Dave McKinney, Tony Arnold
https://www.wbez.org/stories/illinois-democrats-release-new-legislative-maps-marking-the-start-of-a-partisan-showdown/2ef311d0-ceb4-4ae0-b94a-a2997ad86186

BLOOMINGTON PANTAGRAPH
— Illinois lawmakers release proposed legislative maps
https://www.pantagraph.com/news/state-and-regional/illinois-lawmakers-release-proposed-legislative-maps/article_d834653c-aa19-587a-802d-5f1fb9ff0347.html

SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— The ‘left’ attempts to silence conservatives, Candace Owens tells Springfield GOP audience – Dean Olsen
https://www.sj-r.com/story/news/local/2021/05/21/candace-owens-liberals-sabotaging-education-blurring-gender-lines/5181637001/
— Comprehensive sex education bill passes Illinois Senate, will be considered by House – Dean Olsen (DIERSEN: Ever-increasingly, Democrats promote LGBTQ.)
https://www.sj-r.com/story/news/2021/05/21/lawmakers-debate-appropriateness-statewide-sex-education-standards/5204468001/
— Democrats propose new maps for Illinois House, Senate as GOP blasts data, lack of details – Dean Olsen
https://www.sj-r.com/story/news/2021/05/22/illinois-redistricting-maps-released-democrats-criticized/5200143001/

NPR ILLINOIS
— Democrats’ Late Friday Maps Drop Brings Decennial Redistricting Fight To Fever Pitch – HANNAH MEISEL
https://www.nprillinois.org/post/democrats-late-friday-maps-drop-brings-decennial-redistricting-fight-fever-pitch#stream/0

WDLT
— Proposed Legislative Maps Could Boost Democrats’ Chances In McLean County – Ryan Denham
https://www.wglt.org/local-news/2021-05-21/proposed-legislative-maps-could-boost-democrats-chances-in-mclean-county

NEWS CHANNEL 20
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Pot pushers diversity and inclusion to push pot.
https://newschannel20.com/news/local/illinoisans-push-for-more-equitable-cannabis-industry

ILLINOIS NEWS TODAY
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Democrats use Diversity and Inclusion to get rid of Republicans.
https://illinoisnewstoday.com/government-of-the-suburbs-of-chicago-working-on-diversity-and-inclusion-illinois-news/209076/

FOX NEWS
— Left ignores wave of anti-Semitic hate crimes. ‘Democrats have made America far more dangerous for Jews,’ says Ingraham
(DIERSEN: Democrats run America. The Democrat Party platform promotes poverty and crime and makes America far more dangerous for those who are law enforcement officers, Trump supporters, conservative, patriotic, Republican, American, White, male, older, heterosexual, married, non-poor, gun owners, Christian, Protestant, Italian American, German American, and/or those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.)
https://www.foxnews.com/media/ingraham-violence-against-jewish-americans-erupts-across-the-country
— The media wants you to do stuff that’s good for them and bad for you. The media pushed the stimulus, so now they’re mum on inflation. – Greg Gutfeld
(DIERSEN: Pot pushers want you to do stuff that’s good for them and bad for you.)
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/greg-gutfeld-the-media-wants-you-to-do-stuff-thats-good-for-them-and-bad-for-you


— CNN columnist claims conservative power in academia helped keep 1619 Project founder off UNC faculty The 1619 Project claims America’s founding was grounded in racism and slavery, rather than individual liberty and self-governance – Charles Creitz
(DIERSEN: Needless-to-say, to claim that conservatives have any power in academia, or in anything else, is patently absurd and insulting. Ever-increasingly, conservative-haters crow about their success in getting rid of conservative once and for all, and especially conservatives who are law enforcement officers, Trump supporters, patriotic, Republican, American, White, male, older, heterosexual, married, non-poor, gun owners, Christian, Protestant, Italian American, German American, and/or those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time. Ever-increasingly, conservative-haters a) crow about their success in getting rid of conservatives in Illinois, in DuPage County, in DuPage County’s 4th District, in Milton Township, in Wheaton, in Wheaton’s West District, and in my precinct and b) crow about their success in promoting dependency on government, dependency on charity, LGBTQ, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, booze, gambling, pot, and other vices, abolition of the First and Second Amendments, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination.)
https://www.foxnews.com/media/cnn-columnist-blames-conservatives-academia-1619-project-unc
— Nikole Hannah-Jones offered $180K to teach journalism amid challenges to 1619 Project accuracy – Louis Casiano
https://news.yahoo.com/nikole-hannah-jones-offered-180k-201729983.html

AMERICAN THINKER
— Illegal immigration: A masterstroke in race-baiting – Franklin D. Raddish
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/05/illegal_immigration_a_masterstroke_in_racebaiting.html

AMERICAN GREATNESS
— Are Texas Republicans Racist for Opposing Racist Constructs? We need children who recognize the ugliness of racism without being branded as racists simply because a bunch of aggrieved followers of Marxist critical race theory say they are. – Robert Pratt
https://amgreatness.com/2021/05/21/are-texas-republicans-racist-for-opposing-racist-constructs/

BREITBART
— Sen. Tom Cotton: Critical Race Theory in the Military Is ‘Destructive to Morale and Unit Cohesion’ – ROBERT KRAYCHIK
(DIERSEN: GAO is a lot like the military. My Democrat GAO superiors hinted/implied/argued/shouted that their Democrat employees who were minority, female, younger, and/or veteran wanted them to get rid of their employees who were Republican, and especially those who were White, male, older, and/or non-veteran.)
https://www.breitbart.com/radio/2021/05/21/exclusive-sen-tom-cotton-critical-race-theory-military-destructive-morale-unit-cohesion/

DAILY SIGNAL
— Democrat Left’s Critical Race Theory Preaches Black Failure – Deroy Murdock
(DIERSEN: My Democrat superiors in the federal government always hinted/implied/argued/shouted that Republicans caused all the problems that minorities, females, younger people, veterans, LGBTQers, Democrats, Libertarians, Greens, Independents, RINOs, moderates, liberals, those who have less money than others, those who have health problems, non-married people, non-Christians, non-Protestants, non-Italian Americans, non-German Americans, recent immigrants, criminals, boozers, gamblers, stoners, etc. have had, are having, and will have.)
https://www.dailysignal.com/2021/05/21/democrat-lefts-critical-race-theory-preaches-black-failure/

NEWS BUSTERS
— Leftist Racial Agitation Damages and Divides America – David Limbaugh
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/david-limbaugh/2021/05/21/leftist-racial-agitation-damages-and-divides-america

TOWNHALL
— Biden Wants 1619 Project Force-fed to US Schoolchildren, Author of Work Hails Stalinist Cuba’s ‘Education’ – Humberto Fontova
(DIERSEN: To send children to Democrat-run schools is to make them hate individuals, hate organizations, hate companies, hate governments, and hate countries that are law enforcement, Trump supporters, conservative, patriotic, Republican, American, White, male, older, heterosexual, married, non-poor, gun owners, Christian, Protestant, Italian American, German American, and/or those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.)
https://townhall.com/columnists/humbertofontova/2021/05/22/biden-wants-1619-project-forcefed-to-us-schoolchildren-author-of-work-hails-stalinist-cubas-education-n2589823

NEWSMAX
— Political Parties Going in Distinctly Different Directions – Nick Koutsobinas
(DIERSEN: I should write a book about RINO elected officials and party leaders in Illinois a) who reject the most planks in the Republican Party platform, most commonly, the traditional marriage/family, right to life, immigration, illegal drugs, Second Amendment, and/or equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving) planks and b) who focus on destroying those who support the aforesaid planks.)
https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/gop-democrats-michaelcloud/2021/05/21/id/1022322/

(FROM THE ARTICLE: Miller voiced her frustrations that some members of Congress are not representing the Republican Party as they should. “[One of the reasons] I ran is that I’ve been irritated with Republicans who claim to stand for conservative values, the Constitution, and the platform, but yet they, when they have the opportunities, they don’t.”)

LEGAL INSURRECTION
— White House Cuts ‘Infrastructure’ Bill to ‘Only’ $1.7 Trillion – Mary Chastain
https://legalinsurrection.com/2021/05/white-house-cuts-infrastructure-bill-to-only-1-7-trillion/

EPOCH TIMES
— OUTSTANDING: Trump’s 1776 Commission to Reassemble, Tackle Critical Race Theory in History Education – GQ PAN
https://www.theepochtimes.com/trumps-1776-commission-to-reassmble-tackle-critical-race-theory-in-history-education_3825673.html
— Former AG Bill Barr Calls Inner City US Public Schools Systemically Racist – MASOOMA HAQ
https://www.theepochtimes.com/former-ag-bill-barr-calls-inner-city-us-public-schools-systemically-racist_3825834.html
— Oregon First State to Require Vaccination Proof for Maskless Entry Into Businesses, Workplaces, and Churches – SAMUEL ALLEGRI
https://www.theepochtimes.com/mkt_morningbrief/oregon-first-state-to-require-vaccination-proof-for-maskless-entry-into-businesses-workplaces-and-churches_3825230.html
— Rep. Jody Hice: Jan. 6 Commission Will Turn Into ‘Witch Hunt’ Against Trump Supporters
https://www.theepochtimes.com/rep-jody-hice-jan-6-commission-will-turn-into-witch-hunt-against-trump-supporters_3826106.html

THE HILL
— Society of Professional Journalists on Friday called on the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill to rethink its decision not to give tenure to New York Times Magazine journalist and The 1619 Project lead author Nikole Hannah-Jones – THOMAS MOORE
(DIERSEN: What position does the Society of Professional Journalists have on the many adverse actions that the following have taken against me since 2000 a) to stop me from sending out GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters and b) to stop everyone from reading those newsletters: Illinois Republican Party, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, Milton Township Republican Organization, Illinois, DuPage County, Milton Township, Wheaton, Wheaton Chamber of Commerce, TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois, Illinois Center Right Coalition, American Association of Political Consultants Midwest Chapter, Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct, their major donors, their political consultants, their fundraisers, their campaign managers, their campaign staff members, their campaign volunteers, etc.?)
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/554849-journalist-group-asks-unc-to-grant-tenure-to-nikole-hannah-jones

POLITICO
— Conservatives lash out at the military over ‘woke’ policies. For the most part, conservative critics have primarily aimed their fire at Defense Department leadership. But that’s not always the case. – LARA SELIGMAN and CONNOR O’BRIEN
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/05/21/conservative-critics-military-policies-490197

NBC NEWS
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: The more hatred that you promote against Trump, the more that hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters promote you.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/republican-rep-gonzalez-who-voted-impeach-trump-warns-gop-recipe-n1268188

ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Chicago mayor: Reporters of color get 2-year mark interviews
(DIERSEN: I should write a book about RINO activists, RINO candidates, RINO elected officials, RINO party leaders, RINO major donors, RINO political consultants, RINO fundraisers, RINO campaign managers, RINO etc. in Illinois, in DuPage County, in Milton Township, and in Wheaton who do everything that they can to curry favor with Rich Miller and with the rest of the Democrat news media in Illinois by doing everything that they can a) to stop me from sending out GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters and b) stop everyone from reading those newsletters.)
https://www.kxii.com/2021/05/21/chicago-mayor-reporters-of-color-get-2-year-mark-interviews/

NEW YORK TIMES
— For Colleges, Vaccine Mandates Often Depend on Which Party Is in Power. Hoping for a return to normal, more than 400 colleges and universities are requiring students to be vaccinated for Covid-19. Almost all are in states that voted for President Biden. – Rukmini Callimachi
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/22/us/coronavirus-college-vaccine-mandates.html
— ‘The Underground Railroad’ Is Not a History Lesson. It’s a Mirror. – Scott Woods
(DIERSEN: My nasty vicious critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes who viciously demonize, denigrate, and condemn my hometown of Crete and the German Americans and Missouri Synod Lutherans who lived there will never tell you that “Crete had three stations on the Underground Railroad beginning in the early 1840s.” SEE: https://local.townsquarepublications.com/illinois/crete/history.html My ancestors on my father’s side were German Lutherans who have lived in Crete since 1854. My brother continues to live there in a home that my grandfather had built in 1926 on land that his grandfather bought in 1864.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/19/opinion/underground-railroad-amazon-slavery.html

WASHINGTON POST
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters say “Trump is sliding toward online irrelevance. His new blog isn’t helping. The former president’s aides said his new online presence would ‘redefine the game.’ But his heavily promoted blog is seeing few visitors.” My critics/opponents glorify and praise those who paint themselves as being religious, conservative, and/or Republican and who not only do not read GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters, but who destroy those who read the newsletters.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/05/21/trump-online-traffic-plunge/
— GOP challenger to Cheney says he impregnated 14-year-old when he was 18: ‘It’s like the Romeo and Juliet story’ – Timothy Bella
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/05/21/romeo-juliet-anthony-bouchard-wyoming/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The state senator tweeted that he was speaking out about the past relationship because “investigators have been hounding my family for weeks and now the liberal fake news is coming out with a hit piece about my teenage years.” He pointed to “dirty politics” in his Facebook video, but did not explicitly name Cheney or any politicians. Bouchard claimed that the efforts of an unnamed British media reporter and a “political opposition research company” were why he wanted to disclose the news. Cheney campaign spokesman Jeremy Adler declined to comment on Bouchard’s past relationship. He denied that the congresswoman’s campaign played any role in pushing the story. “Absolutely not,” he said to The Washington Post. Messages left for the Wyoming Republican Party and the state Senate were not immediately returned Friday.)
— Online disinformation has changed. Now the DNC is updating its response unit. – Cat Zakrzewski
(DIERSEN: According to my critics/opponents, all information is disinformation except for the information that they put out, share, or bless. I should write a book about my critics/opponents. I would focus on what they have done since 2000 to stop me from sending out GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters and to stop everyone from reading those newsletters.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/05/21/technology-202-online-disinformation-has-changed-now-dnc-is-updating-its-response-unit/

NEW YORK POST
— Air Force watchdog to examine reassignment of Space Force commander – Samuel Chamberlain
(DIERSEN: In a different world, my Republican U.S. Senators and my Republican U.S. Representatives would have demanded investigations of the adverse actions that the Democrats who ran GAO 1980-1997, IRS 1971-1980, and Post Office 1966-1969 took against me. My Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire in 1997 when I was 49 years old, gave me unfair performance expectations and appraisals, always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance purposes, did not promote me beyond GS-13, got rid of my mentor in 1987, kept me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO, and forced me to take a $20,361 (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO in 1980. My Democrat IRS superiors did not promote me beyond GS-12, disallowed my education deductions in 1978, got rid of my mentor in 1975, and disallowed my partial day per diem claims in 1974. My Democrat Post Office superiors forced me to resign in 1969 and disallowed my sick leave requests in 1969 and 1968.)
https://nypost.com/2021/05/21/air-force-watchdog-to-examine-removal-of-space-force-commander/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Air Force spokeswoman Ann Stefanek confirmed Thursday that the investigation into whether Lt. Col. Matthew Lohmeier’s actions constituted “prohibited partisan political activity” had been elevated “due to the complexity and sensitivity of the issues under consideration, as well as potential for [Air Force]-wide impact.” Lohmeier was relieved of command of the 11th Space Warning Squadron at Buckley Air Force Base in Colorado after he appeared on the “Information Operation” podcast earlier this month to discuss his book “Irresistible Revolution: Marxism’s Goal of Conquest & the Unmaking of the American Military.” “The diversity, inclusion and equity industry and the trainings we are receiving in the military … is rooted in critical race theory, which is rooted in Marxism,” Lohmeier told podcast host L. Todd Wood.)

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Apple and the End of the Car as We Know It. As cars become computers with wheels, Apple is joining other tech companies in eyeing the $5 trillion auto market – Christopher Mims
https://www.wsj.com/articles/apple-and-the-end-of-the-car-as-we-know-it-11621656010

NPR
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Ever-increasingly, Democrats promote LGBTQ.
https://www.npr.org/2021/05/21/999241572/in-the-fight-for-lgbtq-rights-lessons-from-the-1990s-culture-wars
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Ever-increasingly, Democrats crow about their success in getting Asian Americans to hate Republicans.
https://www.nprillinois.org/post/growing-power-aapi-vote-numbers#stream/0

ATLANTIC
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters promote Nikole Hannah-Jones.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/05/free-speech-should-protect-nikole-hannah-jones/618959/

WIKIPEDIA
— Protected Groups
(DIERSEN: From what I see, ever-increasingly, the fewer protected groups that you are a member of, the sooner that you will be gotten rid of. From what I see, members of the following groups are NOT protected: law enforcement officers, Trump supporters, conservative, patriotic, Republican, American, White, male, older, heterosexual, married, non-poor, gun owners, Christian, Protestant, Italian American, German American, and those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time. From what I see, ever-increasingly, members of the aforesaid groups are being gotten rid of.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protected_group

GUARDIAN
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Ever-increasingly, hate filled White-hating White-haters use George Floyd to promote hatred against Whites.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/may/22/george-floyd-murder-change-across-world-blm

FINANCIAL TIMES
— ‘Woke capitalists’ provoke backlash from US conservatives. Some shareholder groups want chiefs to avoid issues such as racial justice and voting rights. – Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson
https://www.ft.com/content/42989bc5-fd8e-4915-a6c0-41a9e22351e7

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.