JohnMB @thejohnmb.bsky.social · 2hThe most easily manipulated POTUS in history. And we had one whose VP was Dick Cheney. 031
JohnMB @thejohnmb.bsky.social · 7hThem: "Let's just fire the copyeditors. What could possibly go wrong?" Me: 000
JohnMB @thejohnmb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026He doesn't want to get himself excommunicated from the cult, lest he lose all those sweet potential think-tank positions, lecture-circuit gigs, etc. 020
JohnMB @thejohnmb.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Terrifying... www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...theatlantic.comIs There Anything Kash Patel Won’t Do for Trump Before the Midterms?“The president wants indictments. He wants people in handcuffs.” 011
JohnMB @thejohnmb.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Like handing a chimp a flamethrower. Zero understanding of the technology, with unlimited capacity for carnage. 050
JohnMB @thejohnmb.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Hillsborough County (Fla.) already has garbage-truck cameras, but officials claim it's only to address the (presumably pressing) issue of lost trash cans. 010
JohnMB @thejohnmb.bsky.social · 30/09/2026He looks like a cheap dummy corpse that fell off a roof in an '80s B-comedy. 050
JohnMB @thejohnmb.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Name-calling: the last refuge of the intellectually bereft 110
JohnMB @thejohnmb.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Also, a fully D-controlled Congress, with no Manchin/Sinemas. A tall order, but I remain hopeful. 130
JohnMB @thejohnmb.bsky.social · 10/09/2026One of the (admittedly innumerable) priorities for the next Congress should be putting some actual legal teeth in both the Hatch Act and the emoluments clause. They're currently paper tigers. 030
JohnMB @thejohnmb.bsky.social · 01/09/2026But a depressingly high number of them do, according to the research. 100
JohnMB @thejohnmb.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Unlikely. He's still delivering the racial-grievance sugar highs that lured most of them in the first place. 100
JohnMB @thejohnmb.bsky.social · 28/08/2026It will never not be shocking to me that we have, at both the state and federal levels, a legal system in which members of the ruling party are effectively free to commit at-will crimes without fear of repercussions. 031
JohnMB @thejohnmb.bsky.social · 27/08/2026I live among his "base," and I promise you most of them would march directly into a wheat thresher if he told them to. 120
JohnMB @thejohnmb.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Worse, there is a sizable contingent of Americans who will be cheering. 020
JohnMB @thejohnmb.bsky.social · 19/08/2026It gives me no pleasure to point out that a third of the country are irredeemably horrid people. 120
JohnMB @thejohnmb.bsky.social · 03/08/2026I'm convinced that "middle-aged guys working through their childhood trauma" are responsible for 80-90 percent of the world's societal ills. 080
Reposted by JohnMBMark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Exactly 3 months from today is the most important midterm election in our lifetime. Our opportunity to hold him accountable. Register to vote here: Iwillvote.com The stakes have never been higher. Show the world the majority of Americans are good, decent, honest people. #VoteBlue🗳️ #RejectMAGA 👎 776237458790
JohnMB @thejohnmb.bsky.social · 02/08/2026What's the over/under on "drinks thrown at rival fans by David Tepper" this year? 010
JohnMB @thejohnmb.bsky.social · 01/08/2026"Buck naked" is the older--and, for my money, preferable--term. 010
JohnMB @thejohnmb.bsky.social · 31/07/2026People substitute it for the long-established phrase "set foot," as in "I wouldn't set foot in that place." "All of the sudden" is a new, and horrifying, one to me. 020
JohnMB @thejohnmb.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Every incorrect phrase that has become normalized through repetition (e.g., "step foot," "butt naked," "nip it in the butt"). Bonus ultra-obscure gripe: movie camera cars whose steering wheels are cranked over at dramatic angles while the cars themselves are traveling in a straight line. 360
JohnMB @thejohnmb.bsky.social · 27/07/2026It's what happens when someone decides what the film is about before actually seeing the film. 020
JohnMB @thejohnmb.bsky.social · 24/07/2026I originally read that as "a Church of Satan" and thought, "He really *is* building a big tent." 020
JohnMB @thejohnmb.bsky.social · 20/07/2026On the upside, letting him focus on gaudy grotesqueries is arguably preferable to having him "govern." 010
JohnMB @thejohnmb.bsky.social · 18/07/2026My man looks like he's auditioning for the role of Mr. Burns in Leni Riefenstahl's live-action remake of "The Simpsons Movie." 020
JohnMB @thejohnmb.bsky.social · 10/07/2026"Nuclear facility next door to Gaza" is not a phrase I ever expected to read. 010
JohnMB @thejohnmb.bsky.social · 10/07/2026As ever, this administration's dearest wish is to destroy everything that decent people cherish. 140
Reposted by JohnMBRonan Farrow @ronanfarrow.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Private equity is buying America's hospitals and nursing homes. The playbook: pile on debt, sell the building, cut staff. The result, one landmark study found: patient deaths up about 11%. #news #information #privateequity 14133171853
JohnMB @thejohnmb.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Does Beshear get to pick McConnell's replacement? If so, definitely the former. 200
JohnMB @thejohnmb.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Also, applying inductive reasoning to conclude that Maine is like the rest of the US does not bespeak a serious mind. 030
JohnMB @thejohnmb.bsky.social · 07/06/2026"Firing all the copy editors was a bad idea," Exhibit 4,692. 030
JohnMB @thejohnmb.bsky.social · 07/06/2026He looks like something you'd find in the dumpster behind a Bojangles. 040
JohnMB @thejohnmb.bsky.social · 07/06/2026One of the foundational tenets of MAGA and its offshoots is that there is great value in disfiguring and destroying the things that decent people cherish. 020
JohnMB @thejohnmb.bsky.social · 07/06/2026I see an Edward Gorey influence, which is never a bad thing. 100
JohnMB @thejohnmb.bsky.social · 28/05/2026I expect nonstop investigations when you retake Congress. Nonstop. 030
JohnMB @thejohnmb.bsky.social · 26/05/2026I'm convinced the Ivys are running a DEI program exclusively for mediocre White dudes. 1131
JohnMB @thejohnmb.bsky.social · 17/05/2026Over anyone the GOP nominates? You'd better believe it. 000
