November 14, 2022

ABC7
— COMMENT: Democrats say “Chicago shootings: 27 shot, 6 fatally in weekend gun violence across city.”
https://abc7chicago.com/weekend-shootings-in-chicago-shooting-violence-news/12451878/

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— COMMENT: Democrats say “All is calm after midterm storm warnings.”
https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/aurora-beacon-news/opinion/ct-abn-crosby-midterm-calm-st-1113-20221113-ipebkiigmvhtzijtk6r3bqeiby-story.html
— COMMENT: Ever-increasingly, Democrats blame Republicans for antisemitism.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/opinion/commentary/ct-opinion-antisemitism-holocaust-synagogue-attacks-maga-20221114-gfng7z7gvvacziggpylwzkjjra-story.html
— COMMENT: Democrats say “Democrats’ meddling in primary races notched wins” but ask “Was it dirty politics?”
https://www.chicagotribune.com/opinion/commentary/ct-column-midterms-illinois-democrats-meddling-washington-20221114-q6j3im7jfzgtvhr26qrxwehzfe-story.html

DAILY HERALD
— COMMENT: Democrats say “DuPage County schools see strong growth after COVID-19 learning loss.”
https://www.dailyherald.com/entlife/20221113/good-news-sunday-dupage-county-schools-see-strong-growth-after-covid-19-learning-loss

SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— COMMENT: Political parties exist to help elect candidates who can/will defend/advance their party’s platform. The Republican Party platform is conservative. Ever-increasingly, Republican candidates, elected officials, and party leaders in Illinois fail/refuse to defend/advance the Republican Party platform, especially its individual responsibility, traditional marriage/family, right to life, immigration, illegal drugs, Second Amendment, and equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving) planks.
https://www.sj-r.com/story/news/politics/state/2022/11/13/election-success-illinois-democrats-general-assembly-state-offices/69633390007/

SHAW LOCAL
— COMMENT: Democrats say “Almost half of McHenry County Board could be new after election. Candidates on both sides of the aisle expressed mixed feelings about results.”
https://www.shawlocal.com/news/election/2022/11/13/nearly-half-of-mchenry-county-board-could-be-new-after-tuesdays-election/

NPR ILLINOIS
— COMMENT: Democrats blame “Trump’s politics” for Republican losses.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2022-11-13/midterm-results-show-trumps-politics-dont-hold-up-in-purple-states
— COMMENT: Ever-increasingly, Democrats demonize, denigrate, and condemn those who oppose CRT.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2022-11-13/the-culture-wars-are-pushing-some-teachers-to-leave-the-classroom
— COMMENT: Democrats and RINOs say “Some believe it’s time for the GOP to rethink its message ahead of 2024.”
https://www.nprillinois.org/2022-11-14/some-believe-its-time-for-the-gop-to-rethink-its-message-ahead-of-2024

DEPAULIA
— COMMENT: Expect that Illinois Democrats and Illinois RINOs will use November 8, 2022 Illinois election results to do even more to get rid of conservatives once and for all, and especially conservatives who are White, male, older, non-poor, non-veteran, Christian, Protestant, Italian American, German American, and/or those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.
https://depauliaonline.com/60998/opinions/opinion-we-voted-now-its-our-turn-to-take-office/
— COMMENT: Democrats crow about their success in getting young voters to vote for candidates who promote a) dependency on government and charity, b) LGBTQ, c) abortion, d) mass/illegal immigration, e) booze, gambling, pot, and other vices. f) abolition of the First and Second Amendments, g) patronage, h) political affiliation discrimination, i) reverse discrimination, j) age discrimination, k) religious discrimination, l) national origin discrimination, and m) even worse things.
https://depauliaonline.com/61029/focus/youth-turnout-soars-voters-under-30-make-an-impact-in-the-2022-midterm-elections/

POLITICO ILLINOIS
— COMMENT: Democrats say: “Illinois House Republicans appear set to endorse Rep. Tony McCombie as the new caucus chair. They are scheduled to vote Tuesday, according to a memo signed by McCombie and 22 other House Republicans. McCombie would become the first woman to hold the top leadership post in the House in either party.”
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2022/11/14/cannibalizing-the-mayors-race-00066709

ILLINOIZE
— Sen. John Curran (R-Downers Grove) Set to Depose McConchie as Senate GOP Leader – Patrick Pfingsten
https://www.theillinoize.com/articles/curran-set-depose-mcconchie-senate

CAPITOL FAX

— Morning breifing

https://capitolfax.com/2022/11/14/morning-briefing-8/

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Deep blue wave? Leftist fringe makes claim for more clout as House Democrats weigh midterm fallout – Mica Soellner (COMMENT: New progressive U.S. Representatives elected include Jonathan Jackson and Delia Ramirez of Illinois.)
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2022/nov/13/deep-blue-wave-leftist-fringe-makes-claim-more-clo/
— Senate Republicans pin blame on Trump and McConnell for red wave fizzle – Susan Ferrechio and Ramsey Touchberry
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2022/nov/13/senate-republicans-pin-blame-donald-trump-and-mitc/
— OUTSTANDING: Some states resist the growing grip of marijuana – Editorial
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2022/nov/13/editorial-some-states-resist-growing-grip-of-marij/
— COMMENT: Anti-Trumps say “It’s time for the GOP to say it: Donald Trump is hurting us, not helping us.”
https://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2022/nov/13/its-time-for-gop-to-say-it-donald-trump-is-hurting/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Energy prices continue to drive inflation in Illinois – Kevin Bessler
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/energy-prices-continue-to-drive-inflation-in-illinois

NEW YORK POST
— Team Biden’s extending the COVID emergency again — to expand the welfare state – Dr. Joel Zinberg
https://nypost.com/2022/11/13/team-bidens-extending-the-covid-emergency-again-to-expand-the-welfare-state/
— Gettysburg College postpones event for people tired of ‘White men’ – Houston Keene, Joe Silverstein
https://nypost.com/2022/11/14/gettysburg-college-postpones-event-for-people-tired-of-white-cis-men/

AMERICAN THINKER
— Leftists carefully market sex books to make them seem wholesome for kids – Andrea Widburg
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/11/leftists_carefully_market_sex_books_to_make_them_seem_wholesome_for_kids.html
— Who’s Running this Ship of Fools? – Dennis Lund
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/11/whos_running_this_ship_of_fools.html

BIZ PAC REVIEW
— Sharpton, MSNBC ready to move on from Trump, turn their venom at DeSantis – Chris Donaldson
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2022/11/13/sharpton-msnbc-ready-to-move-on-from-trump-turn-their-venom-at-desantis-1308761/

BREITBART
— Reward Offered After Noose Found at Obama Center in Chicago – SIMON KENT (COMMENT: Ever-increasingly, Democrats use reports of hate crimes to promote hatred against Republicans, and especially against Republicans who are White, male, older, non-poor, non-veteran, Christian, Protestant, Italian American, German American, and/or those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.)
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/11/13/reward-offered-after-noose-found-at-obama-center-in-chicago/

DAILY SIGNAL
— DeSantis-Endorsed School Board Member Is Training Parents to Run for Office – Rob Bluey (COMMENT: What candidates should have to run for office: relevant work experience, relevant education, relevant professional certifications/licenses, career success, financial security, available time, no skeletons in their closets, etc.)
https://www.dailysignal.com/2022/11/14/desantis-endorsed-school-board-member-is-training-parents-to-run-for-office/

EPOCH TIMES
— McConnell ‘Blew the Midterms,’ Says Trump of GOP Election Losses – Frank Fang
https://www.theepochtimes.com/mcconnell-blew-the-midterms-says-trump-of-gop-election-losses_4861522.html

FOX NEWS
— COMMENT: Ever-increasingly, Democrat teachers push CRT.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/professors-publish-playbook-teachers-address-parents-concerned-crt

REAL CLEAR POLITICS
— Chicago Violent Crime Out of Control With Lightfoot in Full Panic – John Kass
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/2022/11/13/chicago_violent_crime_out_of_control_with_lightfoot_in_full_panic_584700.html

TOWNHALL
— What Do Youngkin, DeSantis, Newly Elected Governors and School Boards Have In Common? – Sheri Few
https://townhall.com/columnists/sherifew/2022/11/13/what-do-youngkin-desantis-newly-elected-governors-and-school-boards-have-in-common-n2615887

THE HILL
— COMMENT: Democrats say “Trump blames McConnell for GOP election losses: ‘He blew the midterms’”
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/3733512-trump-blames-mcconnell-for-gop-election-losses-he-blew-the-midterms/
— COMMENT: Democrats say “The GOP may have reached the political limit of abortion extremism.”
https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/3731229-the-gop-may-have-reached-the-political-limit-of-abortion-extremism/
— COMMENT: Democrats use Republican Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan to promote hatred against Trump.
https://thehill.com/homenews/sunday-talk-shows/3733744-hogan-calls-trumps-attack-on-youngkin-racist-and-asian-hate/
— COMMENT: Democrats say “Trump, GOP prefer settling scores to actually scoring.”
https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/3734097-trump-gop-prefer-settling-scores-to-actually-scoring/

ABC NEWS
— COMMENT: To be woke is to be a) anti-White, b) anti-male, c) anti-older people, d) anti-heterosexuals, e) anti-those in traditional marriages, f) anti-those who are not poor, g) anti-gun owners, h) anti-Christians, i) anti-Protestants, j) anti-Italians and anti-German Americans, k) anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time, l) anti-conservatives, m) anti-patriotic people, n) anti-Republicans, and/or o) anti-American and anti-Americans.)
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/woke-conservatives/story?id=93051138

NBC NEWS
— COMMENT: Democrats say “Republicans still can’t quit Trump — even after last week’s election results.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/first-read/republicans-remain-hesitant-shut-door-trump-losses-rcna57025

CNN
— COMMENT: Democrats use Republican Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan to blame Trump for Republican losses.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/13/politics/larry-hogan-trump-republicans-midterms-cnntv/index.html

MSNBC
— COMMENT: Democrats say “Republicans appear lost, leaderless as Democrats hold the Senate.”
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/republicans-appear-lost-leaderless-democrats-hold-senate-rcna57018
— COMMENT: Democrats say “The GOP’s most radical secretary of state candidates fell short.”
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/gops-radical-secretary-state-candidates-fell-short-rcna57028

YAHOO
— COMMENT: Democrats promote patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination. GAO works for Congress. I am a conservative White male Republican. Progressive Democrat Delia Ramirez will be my U.S. Representative. If she had been my U.S. Representee during the 1980s and 1990s, she would have stopped the Democrats who ran GAO’s Chicago office from letting me transfer from IRS to GAO in 1980 when I was 31 years old, and if she had failed to do that, a) she would have forced me to take an even bigger pay cut to transfer, b) she would have delayed my promotions even longer, c) she would have stopped GAO from assigning me to any audits of IRS, and d) she would have forced my Democrat GAO superiors to force me to take their early retirement “offer” even sooner than they did.
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/personal-rep-elect-delia-ramirez-205844624.html
— COMMENT: Democrats say New Hampshire municipalities must pay for housing the homeless. What has your county, your township, and your municipality done to attract the homeless? I should write a book about the many things that DuPage County, Milton Township, and Wheaton have done since 1978 to attract the homeless.)
https://news.yahoo.com/towns-must-pay-homeless-taken-235600406.html

NEWSWEEK
— COMMENT: Democrats say “Marjorie Taylor Greene Bemoans ‘Slowly Stolen Election’ After GOP Failure.”
https://www.newsweek.com/marjorie-taylor-greene-bemoans-slowly-stolen-election-gop-failure-1759259

NEW YORK TIMES
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: COMMENT: Democrats say “An Emboldened Biden Now Faces a Tough Choice About His Own Future.” How much more will the emboldened Biden do to get rid of Republicans once and for all?
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/13/us/politics/biden-2024-election.html
— COMMENT: Democrats say “Electric Vehicles Start to Enter the Car-Buying Mainstream.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/13/business/electric-vehicles-buyers-mainstream.html
— COMMENT: Democrats say “Let’s Seize This Moment.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/12/opinion/elizabeth-warren-democrat-senate-midterm.html
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: COMMENT: Democrats say “Democrats’ Senate Victory Hands Biden a Critical Guardrail Against the G.O.P.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/13/us/politics/senate-democrats-republicans.html
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: COMMENT: Ever-increasingly, Democrats encourage children to be LGBTQers.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/14/health/puberty-blockers-transgender.html

— COMMENT: Democrats say “Extreme Candidates and Positions Came Back to Bite in Midterms.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/14/us/politics/gop-far-right-election-voters.html

WASHINGTON POST
— COMMENT: Democrats crow that “Republican rivals start considering a post-Trump future.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/11/13/trump-republicans-rivals-2024/
— COMMENT: Democrat crow that “Trump blame continues for midterm losses as ex-president readies to announce bid.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/11/13/elections-2022-democrats-republicans-analysis/
— COMMENT: Democrats say “GOP extremism” caused GOP loses. I should write a book about those who have demonized me, denigrated me, and condemned me the most as being an extremist. I would focus on past and present a) Republican candidates and elected officials and their political consultants, major donors, fundraisers, pollsters, campaign managers, staff members, and volunteers; b) Republican party leaders; c) Republican activists, d) Republican conservative leaders; and e) Republican religious leaders.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/11/13/elections-2022-senate-house-control/

USA TODAY
— COMMENT: Democrats say “Republicans won by losing the right races this week. And America is better because of it.”
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2022/11/11/lack-republican-wave-midterms-good-gop-america/8322563001/
— COMMENT: Democrats say “Far-right candidates struggled in midterm election. Who’s to blame? Experts say Trump, GOP.”
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2022/11/12/far-right-midterms-trump/8295708001/

POLITICO
— COMMENT: Democrats say that Pence says that Trump “endangered me and my family” and that Trump’s words and actions are “reckless.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/11/13/pence-trump-endangered-me-and-my-family-00066676

NEW YORKER
— COMMENT: Democrats say “The Republicans’ Post-Midterm Reckoning with Donald Trump.”
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/11/21/the-republicans-post-midterm-reckoning-with-donald-trump

AXIOS
— COMMENT: Ever-increasingly, Democrats use the Pope to promote illegal immigration.
https://www.axios.com/2022/11/13/pope-francis-poor-homeless-people

CAMBRIDGE DICTIONARY
— Curry favor (COMMENT: What do you say to Republican candidates, elected officials, party leaders, etc. who curry favor with those who are the following by giving them preference: a) minorities, b) females, c) younger people, d) LGBTQers, e) veterans, f) non-Christians, g) non-Protestants, h) non-German Americans, i) those whose ancestors have not been in America for a long time, j) moderates, k) liberals, l) citizens of foreign countries, m) drinkers, n) gamblers, o) stoners, p) etc.?)
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/curry-favor

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.