Pete Serzant ⚓️

Hear me on @am1050wlip-M-F 6-9A CT, Cubs, Packers, Blackhawks, Coffee, & Politics. RTs are not endorsements, duh.

[G. K. Chesterton @GKCdaily]

I think I owed my success (as the millionaires say) to having listened respectfully and rather bashfully to the very best advice, given by all the best journalists who had achieved the best sort of success in journalism; and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

[506 Sports @506sports]

the Amazon broadcast of Packers-Bears will be simulcast on:

Green Bay: NBC 26
Milwaukee: FOX 6
Chicago: FOX 32

[American Solidarity Party 🧡 @AmSolidarity]

This explicitly means the removal of immigrant or immigrant-descended populations, not merely deporting illegal aliens or cutting immigration levels.

It’s a fantasy, but it’s revealing that this is what the DHS thinks it should do with its social media megaphone.

[Edward Feser @FeserEdward]

At this point, most of the “derangement” where Trump is concerned is to be found in those still minimizing or even defending despicable behavior of this kind.

[Hans Fiene 🦬 @HansFiene]

If someone spends years calling you a uniquely terrible person and then is murdered, consider responding in a way that doesn’t sort of confirm his accusations.

[American Solidarity Party 🧡 @AmSolidarity]

It is good that a lot of folks on the right have had the good moral sense to recognize when Trump says things that are unworthy of any human being, never mind the office of President.

On the other hand, it’s not as if anything surprising happened here. Not even a little bit.

[Mike Reiss @MikeReissWriter]

I think WICKED would have been better as one movie.
Or even better as no movies.

[Hans Fiene 🦬 @HansFiene]

I’ve never seen a pastor become a better theologian by getting consumed with politics.

[Dr Jordan B. Cooper @DrJordanBCooper]

I don't have a problem with people pushing back against Enlightenment liberalism. There are, I think, good reasons for doing so in several areas. What I do have a problem with, however, is attempts to selectively critique liberalism, or selectively use older sources, to defend some particular prejudice you have in the current cultural political climate, without clear methodological consistency.

If you want to try to justify slavery or some other social hierarchical ordering by citing the Enlightenment privileging of "equality" (a term which must be defined because there are all sorts of different kinds of equality), then you must also get rid of all of the other political developments that arise from such a notion of equality. This would include gun rights and individual liberty over things like getting a vaccination or wearing a face mask when the government tells you to.

The point is that the same people who constantly claim that they are just rejecting Enlightenment secularism to justify their racial animosity or whatever it might be also rely so heavily on the presuppositions of liberalism that they do not even recognize them. As I have pointed out several times, Luther preaches explicitly to his congregation that they are to submit to their authorities on every single earthly matter. According to Luther, the government can tell you what to do with your bodily life, and the magistrate owns your property. No one adopts this view today (ok, maybe some Marxists do, but in a different context).

Of course, people who do this don't actually want to implement Luther's entire political and social theory (and even where they claim to, they don't). They just want to adopt whatever elements of it that they think are politically expedient for their own purposes.

Complain about political liberalism all you want, but every Western person lives within it and, to some extent, adopts its ideas. A fish can deny the existence of the water it's swimming in, but it doesn't make the reality any less true.

If you *really* just believe that slavery is fine and just because "slavery is in the Bible," then you must also be ok acknowledging that the government has the right to declare your own children to become slaves, right?

Because spiritual equality is not the same as civic equality, the government could justly make your children slaves to spend the rest of their lives to some other family. The left hand realm has the ability to do this, right? It would only be the Enlightenment presuppositions of civic equality that could *possibly* make a parent object to such a scenario, right? Slavery isn't, as you say, inherently wrong, right?

I have a hard time believing that those who preached sermons against government overreach for telling people to wear cloth over their face would be willing to surrender the individual freedom of their children for the sake of social order. (And since people will bring it up, I am not defending the mandates of the COVID era. I am merely using this as an example of ideological inconsistency.)

It couldn't *possibly* be the case that there's something else going on here, and that it's just the enslavement of *Africans* that is being defended.

[American Solidarity Party 🧡 @AmSolidarity]

It’s an important point that welfare programs like SNAP effectively subsidize low-paying jobs in the private sector.

It’s true that long-term dependence on government is not ideal. If you agree, we welcome your support for making a family wage a keystone goal for our economy!

[American Solidarity Party 🧡 @AmSolidarity]

Morning thoughts from our good friend GKC.

Small is beautiful.

[The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee]

Pharaoh's Heart Hardened Even Further After Moses Busts Out Guitar And Sings, 'Pharaoh, Pharaoh, Woah Baby, Let My People Go' https://t.co/ipnTL39bGW

[G. K. Chesterton @GKCdaily]

The Conservative believes in any minority that is rich and the Progressive in any minority that is mad.

[Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn @AI_Solzhenitsyn]

“We have placed too much hope in political and social reforms, only to find out that we were being deprived of our most precious possession: our spiritual life.“

[G. K. Chesterton @GKCdaily]

In practice a Conservative commonly means a man who cannot remember anything before yesterday, and a Progressive means a man who cannot imagine anything beyond tomorrow.

[G. K. Chesterton @GKCdaily]

The word 'Conservative' is as bad (or almost as bad) as the word 'Progressive'. And it is bad for the same reason. It is bad because it introduces a test other than the test of right and wrong; of what we want or what we do not want.

[G. K. Chesterton @GKCdaily]

As a matter of fact, the Conservative has exactly the same error as the Progressive. It consists in the fact that each of them allows truth to be determined by time. That is, he judges a thing by whether it is of yesterday or today or tomorrow, and not by what it is in eternity.

[On This Day in Simpsons History 🇺🇦 @dailysimpsons]

32 years ago today, Homer ate 64 slices of American cheese in one sitting. “Rosebud” first aired October 21, 1993.

[Simpsons Daily Glavins 🏴‍☠️🇺🇲 @simpsons_DG]

Ohh, English side ruined! Must use French instructions!

"Le grille"? What the hell is that!?