The Patriot Post® · Monday Short Cuts

Insight: “The obvious effect of frivolous divorce will be frivolous marriage. If people can be separated for no reason they will feel it all the easier to be united for no reason.” —G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936)

Upright: “I just can’t get on board with a couple of things that I have read about Black Lives Matter. How they lean toward Marxism and they’ve said some negative things about the nuclear family. I just can’t get on board with that. I can’t kneel before anything besides God.” — San Francisco Giants relief pitcher Sam Coonrod

For the record: “We’ve had 138 homicides in St. Louis, 138 already this year. Thirty cases have been filed. So that means there’s over 100 cases of people out there, victims, family members of homicides, that are waiting for some sort of justice, and yet we’re charging law-abiding citizens.” —Governor Mike Parson (R-MO) on St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner’s charges against Mark and Patricia McCloskey

Grand delusions: “Four more years of Trump’s climate policies and nuclear policies might simply doom the human species, literally. … Four more years of Trump might well take us to irreversible tipping points.” —Noam Chomsky

Non compos mentis: “If you’re a woman who’s been a victim of a sexual assault, and the assailant ran away, wouldn’t you rather talk to somebody who is trained in helping you deal with what you’re dealing with, as opposed to somebody whose main training is that they know how to use a firearm?‘ —Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison

The BIG Lie: "That’s a myth that’s being spread only in Washington, DC.” —Rep. Jerry Nadler dismissing antifa mayhem in Portland

Braying jenny: “The point is this president — I have a new name for him: Mr. Make Matters Worse. He has made matters worse from the start.” —House Speaker Nancy Pelosi

Non sequitur: “We are being inundated with guns from states that have virtually no gun control, no background checks, no ban on assault weapons – that is hurting cities like Chicago.” —Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot (“If the problem is surrounding states having 'no gun control,’ then why aren’t those states more violent than Chicago?” —Bongino Report)

And last… “If [athletes] can’t respect our national anthem, get the hell out of the country. That’s the way I feel. … You don’t protest against the flag, and you don’t protest against this country [that’s] given you the opportunities to make a living playing a sport that you never thought would happen. So, I don’t want to hear all the crap.” —Hall of Fame football coach Mike Ditka