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johnhoward66

@johnhoward66.bsky.social

musician, teacher podcast: https://wastoids.com/tag/the-spindle/ band: https://nicebreeze.bandcamp.com/

created November 13, 2024

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Profile picture johnhoward66 (@johnhoward66.bsky.social) reply parent

Petrified? I mean, cmon

13/9/2025, 8:01:04 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture johnhoward66 (@johnhoward66.bsky.social) reply parent

Man, you seem not know right from wrong. Not ideal in a "journalist".

13/9/2025, 4:16:26 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture johnhoward66 (@johnhoward66.bsky.social) reply parent

But that's what you are doing.

13/9/2025, 4:14:11 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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He was literally making a racist comment about "gang violence" WHEN HE WAS SHOT BY ANOTHER RIGHT WINGER. Is this civility or...?

13/9/2025, 4:10:08 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture johnhoward66 (@johnhoward66.bsky.social) reply parent

Well, they suck.

13/9/2025, 4:04:27 PM | 21 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture johnhoward66 (@johnhoward66.bsky.social) reply parent

Lol. This guy IS this meme

A book with a rabbit on the cover is titled oh christ its this asshole again
13/9/2025, 2:26:22 PM | 15 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture johnhoward66 (@johnhoward66.bsky.social)

All of these people, the GOP, the media, savage right wing bigots, etc are fighting for our mad king's attention and we are forced to watch and told we better applaud OR ELSE!!!

13/9/2025, 2:24:01 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture johnhoward66 (@johnhoward66.bsky.social) reply parent

Are they infants?

13/9/2025, 2:19:49 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture johnhoward66 (@johnhoward66.bsky.social) reply parent

Lol, just about to order!! Gimme those points!! They're transferable, right? A currency?

13/9/2025, 12:59:19 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture johnhoward66 (@johnhoward66.bsky.social) reply parent

Man, you guys are disgraceful.

12/9/2025, 11:29:27 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture johnhoward66 (@johnhoward66.bsky.social) reply parent

WHITE gun culture

12/9/2025, 8:39:50 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture johnhoward66 (@johnhoward66.bsky.social) reply parent

I mean, that was the point of the leak, right?

12/9/2025, 4:41:59 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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News orgs bulling Biden relentlessly, but celebrating Charlie Kirk tells you about their values.

12/9/2025, 4:39:29 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I mean, this is straight up bigotry. Disgraceful.

12/9/2025, 4:33:47 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture johnhoward66 (@johnhoward66.bsky.social) reply parent

and yet he supports Trump? gimme a break. this is foolishness.

12/9/2025, 3:13:41 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture johnhoward66 (@johnhoward66.bsky.social) reply parent

you can NOT talk about him, right? stop giving it oxygen.

12/9/2025, 3:10:41 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture johnhoward66 (@johnhoward66.bsky.social) reply parent

the whole Charlie Kirk thing is an up is down sitch.

12/9/2025, 3:10:08 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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OMG...this x1000

12/9/2025, 3:05:54 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture johnhoward66 (@johnhoward66.bsky.social) reply parent

lol. "and Powell"? why drag him into this? Its ALL Trump.

12/9/2025, 2:40:34 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture johnhoward66 (@johnhoward66.bsky.social) reply parent

so, plainly a right winger. otherwise they'd be saying.

12/9/2025, 2:38:29 PM | 66 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture johnhoward66 (@johnhoward66.bsky.social) reply parent

lol. they really want to make "anti-fascist" a bad thing.

12/9/2025, 2:36:15 PM | 11 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture johnhoward66 (@johnhoward66.bsky.social) reply parent

Horst Wessel was practicing politics the right way.

12/9/2025, 2:35:28 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture johnhoward66 (@johnhoward66.bsky.social) reply parent

really feels like we are through the looking glass that so many of our elites on both sides thought this guy was respected and important.

12/9/2025, 2:34:19 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture johnhoward66 (@johnhoward66.bsky.social) reply parent

its because so much of our media structure is white and they literally never saw the damage he did. its invisible to them. they have to actively lie and not play anything he said to do sanitize him. they are knowingly avoiding the truth. there is no good reason for that.

12/9/2025, 1:14:13 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture johnhoward66 (@johnhoward66.bsky.social) reply parent

"trump says" is your entire beat.

12/9/2025, 1:09:21 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Colin Kaepernick couldn't take a knee, but we stop the whole game for a blatant racist.

12/9/2025, 1:05:43 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture johnhoward66 (@johnhoward66.bsky.social) reply parent

Cuz its all on the right wing and they can't blame "leftists", so it must be bots.

12/9/2025, 11:48:44 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture johnhoward66 (@johnhoward66.bsky.social) reply parent

I mean, duh! Funny how he can say it but the MSM can't.

11/9/2025, 11:33:44 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture johnhoward66 (@johnhoward66.bsky.social) reply parent

To repeat this uncritically after whats gone on in the last few months is journalistic malpractice.

11/9/2025, 8:30:45 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture johnhoward66 (@johnhoward66.bsky.social) reply parent

all of the people he talked garbage about and wished death on and now we are all supposed to listen to him be lionized? he was literally saying racist crap AS HE WAS SHOT. its not journalism, its PR for the right wing.

11/9/2025, 4:48:01 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture johnhoward66 (@johnhoward66.bsky.social) reply parent

he isn't a singular figure. he is one of dozens of white men who make money off of being racist. he was literally doing it for an adoring audience when he is shot. does being a journalist mean refusing to tell the truth now? Seems like it.

11/9/2025, 4:41:02 PM | 12 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture johnhoward66 (@johnhoward66.bsky.social) reply parent

the way you just repeat this stuff with no context, no comment. Do you have a brain?

11/9/2025, 4:23:39 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture johnhoward66 (@johnhoward66.bsky.social) reply parent

white men are wilding right now. is it their culture that causes them to be so violent?

11/9/2025, 4:21:21 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture johnhoward66 (@johnhoward66.bsky.social)

i mean...

11/9/2025, 4:01:40 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture johnhoward66 (@johnhoward66.bsky.social) reply parent

Kirk was the worst of us, rolled up into one human and now, after he has said racist, violent things, platformed people who murdered anyone to the left of him and was shot AS HE WAS SAYING SOMETHING RACIST and now we are supposed to pretend he was a decent human? Our society is sick.

11/9/2025, 1:59:51 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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@ezraklein.bsky.social read up on Horst Wessel challenge.

11/9/2025, 1:26:48 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture johnhoward66 (@johnhoward66.bsky.social) reply parent

He's got his Reichstag fire. Congrats, I guess.

11/9/2025, 1:20:26 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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11/9/2025, 1:18:38 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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10/9/2025, 11:39:31 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I mean, if you hire clowns, you're gonna get a circus.

10/9/2025, 11:38:01 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture johnhoward66 (@johnhoward66.bsky.social) reply parent

Psychotic to only care about Charlie Kirk and literally no one else.

10/9/2025, 11:34:28 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture johnhoward66 (@johnhoward66.bsky.social) reply parent

Satan literally reached up out of Hell and said "that's enough outta you, bub."

10/9/2025, 10:48:40 PM | 14 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I would rather that Charlie Kirk had lived long enough to figure out how to be a decent human.

10/9/2025, 8:57:22 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture johnhoward66 (@johnhoward66.bsky.social) reply parent

welp.

10/9/2025, 6:49:19 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture johnhoward66 (@johnhoward66.bsky.social) reply parent

Why me? is the white man's cry and it travels across the globe.

10/9/2025, 1:08:33 PM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture johnhoward66 (@johnhoward66.bsky.social) reply parent

You could mention this is illegal. Not like you care.

9/9/2025, 11:57:23 AM | 5 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture johnhoward66 (@johnhoward66.bsky.social) reply parent

You are sad clowns.

8/9/2025, 10:50:51 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture johnhoward66 (@johnhoward66.bsky.social) reply parent

shamelessness is a superpower

8/9/2025, 5:06:34 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture johnhoward66 (@johnhoward66.bsky.social) reply parent

none of this logic applies to Trump ever

8/9/2025, 4:54:51 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture johnhoward66 (@johnhoward66.bsky.social) reply parent

don't give him any ideas

8/9/2025, 4:43:20 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Ethnic cleansing is now legal.

8/9/2025, 4:40:37 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture johnhoward66 (@johnhoward66.bsky.social) reply parent

Lol. I dunno Ezra, what are YOU gonna do about it? Whats the Times gonna do about it? Flap yer hands and blame other people?

7/9/2025, 1:24:19 PM | 12 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture johnhoward66 (@johnhoward66.bsky.social) reply parent

Every time I feel bad about the US I see how feckless and dumb the UK elite are and feel a little less alone.

6/9/2025, 5:38:03 PM | 0 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture johnhoward66 (@johnhoward66.bsky.social) reply parent

Yes, fer sure, people briefly hating on a dude no one has ever heard of is how we got here.

6/9/2025, 2:38:54 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I'm sorry, did you say Kafka biopic? 😍😍😍

6/9/2025, 1:51:02 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture johnhoward66 (@johnhoward66.bsky.social) reply parent

its literally impossible for him to care about other humans.

5/9/2025, 2:53:29 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture johnhoward66 (@johnhoward66.bsky.social) reply parent

Describing the latina as lively is something.

5/9/2025, 2:50:01 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture johnhoward66 (@johnhoward66.bsky.social) reply parent

yup. red states have been dying to put troops in blue states since Little Rock.

5/9/2025, 2:04:06 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Now we learn of this? Not during the election?

5/9/2025, 12:02:33 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture johnhoward66 (@johnhoward66.bsky.social) reply parent

Los Tigres Del Norte as well. Tough stuff.

4/9/2025, 6:49:33 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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look it up, its true

4/9/2025, 2:10:53 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture johnhoward66 (@johnhoward66.bsky.social) reply parent

we got the greatest economy in world history.

4/9/2025, 1:55:53 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture johnhoward66 (@johnhoward66.bsky.social) reply parent

yes. you can change it by NOT participating and being a decent person instead of a lying, cheating asshole

4/9/2025, 1:47:56 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture johnhoward66 (@johnhoward66.bsky.social) reply parent

the right wing cheats (gerrymandering, vote suppression, help from Russia, bomb threats, so on) and the media and everyone blames Dems. its bullying. it shows our society has a sick, winner take all core.

4/9/2025, 1:31:35 PM | 11 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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4/9/2025, 1:15:49 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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they are not "frustrated", they are LAME

4/9/2025, 1:14:23 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture johnhoward66 (@johnhoward66.bsky.social) reply parent

Wow. Glad he gets to pick and choose when he's gonna stand up for the democracy he so clearly hates.

4/9/2025, 12:44:11 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture johnhoward66 (@johnhoward66.bsky.social) reply parent

This is pathetic. This is a bald face lie and you repeat it. He made the current political moment more than anybody. Are our elites all cowards? Politico included!

4/9/2025, 12:26:43 AM | 25 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture johnhoward66 (@johnhoward66.bsky.social) reply parent

C'mon, you just let him say that?

4/9/2025, 12:02:54 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture johnhoward66 (@johnhoward66.bsky.social) reply parent

the word is not "activism", its "bigotry".

3/9/2025, 3:01:38 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Fuck. You.

3/9/2025, 2:33:46 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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is he talking about GOP congresspeople? Cuz they are Nazis.

3/9/2025, 2:32:28 PM | 34 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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the real reason is these white crackers are still salty over federal troops being sent to Little Rock to protect the rights of black people and they have been dying to put troops in the North ever since. Its Jim Crow payback.

3/9/2025, 2:26:46 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture johnhoward66 (@johnhoward66.bsky.social) reply parent

Historians are not that mealy mouthed.

3/9/2025, 1:17:52 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture johnhoward66 (@johnhoward66.bsky.social) reply parent

Pay attention to yer own fucked up country. Stop picking fights in ours.

3/9/2025, 12:00:50 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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a frog sits in a pot of boiling water
2/9/2025, 7:34:46 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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gonna need the national guard to come in bring the crime down first tho, right?

2/9/2025, 7:33:24 PM | 1 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture johnhoward66 (@johnhoward66.bsky.social) reply parent

is this PR? get a real job.

2/9/2025, 7:30:36 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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and every reporter who wrote that article is still on Twitter.

2/9/2025, 7:30:00 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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any reporter gonna ask about Birmingham while Tuberville is sitting right there?

2/9/2025, 7:17:03 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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not having shame is a superpower

2/9/2025, 4:34:56 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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we are in the Golden Age of Stupidity

2/9/2025, 4:33:45 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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justices who don't believe in actual justice. perfect for the Trump era.

2/9/2025, 1:16:53 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture johnhoward66 (@johnhoward66.bsky.social) reply parent

Sure they are. They actually love it.

2/9/2025, 11:49:46 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The Times is just figuring this out?

2/9/2025, 11:28:45 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Hes an idiot who is not up to the moment. Like all of the press, frankly.

2/9/2025, 3:26:15 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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They were all normal people.

1/9/2025, 8:32:58 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture johnhoward66 (@johnhoward66.bsky.social) reply parent

Oh, so Nate Silver is "normal people" now?

1/9/2025, 8:31:48 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Democrats need to internalize that the press is an adversary. Moore should go after her, fight back or not go on at all. They are just getting bullied for being decent humans.

31/8/2025, 3:01:29 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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So very christlike to gloat over troops in the streets.

30/8/2025, 9:08:17 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I wish he was dead.

30/8/2025, 3:13:44 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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She's saying this cuz they've threatened to arrest her and she has no power. The police union loves Trump and works actively with right wingers, so...

29/8/2025, 5:07:58 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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He had that activist/protester in Oregon murdered.

29/8/2025, 1:33:15 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Dude! Trends? this is it. its an authoritarian consolidation of power. Help do something about it!

28/8/2025, 4:36:08 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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its imperative to their jobs that they not understand.

28/8/2025, 4:23:20 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture johnhoward66 (@johnhoward66.bsky.social) reply parent

strength in numbers. there is no reason she can't advocate for those ideas within the party, they are the dem platform FFS.

28/8/2025, 2:02:39 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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obvious op does obvious op things and everyone is surprised, somehow.

28/8/2025, 2:00:56 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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you don't have to put unprecedented and illegal in quotes, ya know. its the truth.

28/8/2025, 1:58:38 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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He has a guilty conscience and he's trying to keep it at bay.

28/8/2025, 11:55:06 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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These goons should never have a moments peace.

28/8/2025, 11:51:31 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view