#john hoynes

[thebartlets]

unhinged West Wing + text posts (pt 15/?)

[conglomerated-flock-of-birds]

I did this to procrastinate on my homework so happy birthday to you guys, fuck you to my math teacher

[bartletslesbians]

Hoynes lording if over Toby's head how much he knows that Toby doesn't is a general cocky arrogant thing of course. But it does sometimes make me think of the context regarding Hoynes that Full Disclosure provides. And this bragging that there's these private awful things to do with people Toby loves?? That Hoynes assumes he doesn't know?

[space-stalagmite]

Leo Mcgarry: Mr. President I'm an alchoholic

John Hoynes: Mr President I'm also an alchoholic

Bartlet: is there anyone in this adminiatration who isn't an alchoholic?

[sp3mily]

it dawned upon me that while I've posted my edits on twitter, I haven't posted them on here...

[thec0ub]

Thinking about Two Cathedrels again. (When aren’t I?) Up until the answer, the staff was operating under the assumption that Hoynes was going to be the candidate. They must have told him. Its not like they would announce on tv that Hoynes was the candidate without telling him.

Which means Hoynes was in another room, maybe even near the podium, getting ready to announce his campaign. And he saw the president on TV say he is running again.

Between this and being told about the MS at the convention when he had just lost,He must really hate Jed.

[randomthingsthatilike1]

I think a lot about how so much of hoynes and jed's relationship was influenced by the fact that Leo kept hoynes' confidence about being an alcoholic for all those years.

except--hoynes didn't realize until Leo told him that jed's gotta know

and you can just see that hoynes looks gobsmacked--because all those times jed has offered John a drink, he probably thought wow, this guy is such a sonnofa bitch, he knows I'm sober and it's been years of working with him as his vice president and he is STILL trying to get me to drink

but all this time. jed was just trying to be polite. Leo kept his confidence and God how it would have influenced a lot of antagonism John would have felt for jed bc yeah that would have been fair to hate the guy.

but jed didn't know

bc Leo never said anything. this was his president and his best friend and he never said anything. you can tell that if it was John, he would have said something esp with how surprised he was

Leo McGarry is a better man than John hoynes and I do wonder after he died how many times does John hoynes think the same thing

[onekisstotakewithme]

i could write essays about how the way the Bartlet admin treats John Hoynes as an actively malicious force whose motives are always sinister is actually to their own detriment-