Notices by Brian Jopek (brianjopek@mastodon.world), page 5

This is not a bandage a doctor would apply, it is a bandage someone backstage at a community theater in Little Rock would apply. - Mrs. Betty Bowers, America’s Best Christian

tRumpanzees are like “Hey, J.D. Vance is a veteran!” like that makes a person immune from being an asshole. And I say that AS a veteran. I was in the military for 21 1/2 years. There’s definitely assholes there.

“PolitiFact has fact-checked Sen. J.D. Vance, R-Ohio, 10 times since 2018. Of his claims we have checked, 70% have landed on our rating scale’s bottom half: Mostly False, False or Pants on Fire!

Read all of our Vance fact-checks here: https://www.politifact.com/personalities/jd-vance/“ - PolitiFact

“What’s with you guys? C’mon, man.” - Joe Biden to Lester Holt.

@rdgit I don’t believe they aren’t fighting for democracy but trying to throw a wrench into everything this close to what is more than likely gonna be THE presidential election of all presidential elections is not a good idea, either. As I’ve contended all along, Biden was never my first choice and all this … hand wringing and panicking about Biden’s age and cognitive abilities so many Dems are doing now is just not good. Not at this stage. All that said, whatever the case, I’m voting blue.

What he said.
#VoteBlueGoddammit

As people hem and haw about Joe Biden, there’s a huge threat to EVERYONE and EVERYTHING looming in the wings.
#VoteBlueGoddammit
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/project-2025-is-trumps-brainchild?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Never forget: this was an official act.
#Auschwitz
#FinalSolution

Still as relevant as ever nearly 55 years later.
#WhatMeWorry

“It Must’ve Been Something They Hate Dept.
The MAD Primer of Bigots, Extremists and Other Loose Ends: Chapter One - The Super Patriot

Written by: Frank Jacobs and Stan Hart
Artist: Jack Davis

MAD #129 Sept. 1969” - MAD Magazine

#DeepTboughts

There was a war fought in the 1770s to get away from a king. Another was fought in the 1940s to get away from a Nazi dictator. And yet, today, there are fucking tRumpanzees proudly displaying the “Don’t Tread on Me” flag and even flags with Nazi swastikas. It’s like they’ve forgotten or, in many cases, never really understood to begin with, what it all was about.
#FuckMAGA

It’ll be a hoot, I’m sure!
#LouisianaDumbassery

Got news for ya, MAGAt. Something along the lines of a ‘72 Chevy Cheyenne 1/2 ton is soooooo much more pickup truck than that thing. And that’s definitely without the stupid ass “hetero” shit and the .50 cal. Only a fucking poser who never served day one in the U.S. military wants a God damn machine gun on their truck.
#Wannabe

If it sounds like a prayer, that’s because it is. I’m not a really religious kinda guy but I do like this, another example of what I would have in school classrooms instead of the 10 Commandments.
#DeepThoughts

“Keep my anger from becoming meanness.
Keep my sorrow from collapsing into self-pity.
Keep my heart soft enough to keep breaking.
Keep my anger turned towards justice, not cruelty.
Remind me that all of this, every bit of it, is for love.
Keep me fiercely kind.” - Laura Jean Truman

Oh, BoBo. You naughty girl.
#BeetleJuiceBeetleJuiceBeetleJuice

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children. - Khalil Gibran from “Mirrors Of The Soul”
#DeepThoughts

Well, you’d think so.
#WTFLouisiana

Meanwhile, near Bridgton, Maine. Photo by Dakoda Gerrish.
#Wildlife
#NorthernWayOfLife
#Maine

“Late one morning, I visited the fox den in my front yard and found a peacefully napping baby fox on a sunlit mossy rock. I was in awe, and fortunately, there was a gap in the trees that allowed me to capture this once-in-a-lifetime shot - my best one yet!” - photographer Dakoda Gerrish

You tell ‘em, Frank.
#FreedomOfReligion
#FreedomFromReligion

“The main problem in any democracy is that crowd-pleasers are generally brainless swine who can go out on a stage & whup their supporters into an orgiastic frenzy—then go back to the office & sell every one of the poor bastards down the tube for a nickel apiece.”― Hunter S. Thompson, "Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72"
#DeepThoughts

Cartoon by Gary Markstein. It’s running this week on the op-ed page of the Tuesday edition of the newspaper I work for.
#GreedFlation