The Patriot Post® · Tuesday Short Cuts

Insight: “There is no subjugation so perfect as that which keeps the appearance of freedom for in that way one captures volition itself.” —Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778)

Brace yourselves: “I’m now 85. My senior colleague, Justice John Paul Stevens, he stepped down when he was 90, so think I have about at least five more years.” —Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Not satire: “Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wants 5 more years on the Supreme Court, and people are offering their organs to keep her healthy.” —Business Insider

Braying Jackass: “I’m concerned about this country, period. I think all of us should be. This is the worst moment I’ve lived in in my lifetime.” —Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti

Non Compos Mentis: “I might be the only one in our little chapter that is a Christian, and it all just fits so perfectly together for me — things that I’ve always thought anyway along with my values morally and religiously. Possibly my mother would want to debate me on this, but if anyone was ever a socialist it was Jesus.” —Democratic Socialists of America’s Kelley Rose (No, he wasn’t.)

Village Idiots: “There are some things we can’t stop. Like the disgruntled kid who takes his dad’s shotgun and walks into a high school. But we could have stopped the guy in Vegas. I blame the lobbyists. And the biggest in the gun world is the NRA.” —country music singer-songwriter Eric Church, who, despite claiming he’s “a Second Amendment guy,” says “nobody should have that many guns and that much ammunition and we don’t know about it”

And last… “‘Illegal straws’? Show some compassion. It’s 2018. They’re called undocumented drinking structures.” —Allie Beth Stuckey