Brutkey

Brian Jopek
@BrianJopek@mastodon.world

Ronny Jackson, poster boy for the MAGA cult and tRump bootlicker extraordinaire.

Brian Jopek
@BrianJopek@mastodon.world

Cartoon by Dave Granlund.

Brian Jopek
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Describing the shift as a troubling indicator for the health of the nation’s system of governance, watchdog group Freedom House published a report Wednesday downgrading the United States from a democracy to whatever political system lobsters have. - the Onion
https://theonion.com/watchdog-group-downgrades-u-s-from-democracy-to-whatever-political-system-lobsters-have/?fbclid=IwQ0xDSwMAnHpleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHuT-FaXOd2MyeW700RVsAGf-S7WL7Gx0didqE3fUC1INwBP-N5LjfU0Er4LL_aem_fdCzblZkIMfF3mO44NlKrg

Brian Jopek
@BrianJopek@mastodon.world

When this is over, we need to seriously implement Nuremberg style trials.

And I'm not talking just the obvious fascism, but the lunacy that just ended research into mRNA protocols that could have CURED ALZHEIMERS. Along with a number of cancers and many, many infectious diseases. This is more than criminal, it's crime against all of humanity. It's crime against the future.

You have no idea how much I despise what this political party and their miserable ideology have become. - Jim Wright

Brian Jopek
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Cartoon by Mike Ramirez.

“I find it grotesquely ironic that the party that claims to adore the Founders and the nation's Founding Principles would have been summarily dismissed as traitors and assholes by the nation's actual founders.” - Mindy Fischer

Brian Jopek
@BrianJopek@mastodon.world

One of my personal favorite lighthouses. If you’ve ever been there, you probably have some sort of idea why: the Milky Way over the Cana Island Lighthouse, Baileys Harbor, Wisconsin, 27 July, 2025. Photo by Mike Majewski.
#LighthousesOfMastodon
#GreatLakes
#LakeMichigan
#DoorCounty
#NorthernWayOfLife

Brian Jopek
@BrianJopek@mastodon.world

Ike wasn’t a perfect POTUS; none of them are, of course, and definitely not tRump at all. But Ike, who would definitely be considered a RINO these days in “MAGA world,” wasn’t wrong here.

“Down the long lane of the history yet to be written America knows that this world of ours, ever growing smaller, must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect."
-- President Dwight Eisenhower, Farewell Address, January 1961

Brian Jopek
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The intro

Mistakes: a few
Triumphs: my three kids, two boys and a girl (oldest son, Ryan, KIA in Iraq in 2006. He was 20).
Married: Twice
Divorced: Twice
Grandkids: Six
Current job: Newspaper guy
21 years in the Army Guard, retiring in 2011. Deployed twice, to Iraq in 2004 and GTMO in 2008.
10 years of commercial radio experience in the 80s and 90s at three radio stations
Worked at two Deere dealerships over eight years, acquiring a shit ton of toy tractors!

Brian Jopek
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This is Walter, named for Walter Payton of the Chicago Bears. It’s a 1966 Chevy half ton pickup truck purchased for $360 by my oldest son Ryan in 2000 when we lived in Kansas. He was 14, had his learner’s permit and had money he earned delivering newspapers and mowing lawns. I had to teach him the fine art of shifting a “three on the tree.” After Ryan was KIA in Iraq, Walter was restored to how Ryan planned to have it done. I take it to car shows when possible because my boy would if he could.