Martin the Arrogant
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Politics junkie. Craft beer & bourbon enthusiast. Dedicated #Orioles fan. It's pronounced BAKE-ner.
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Eclectic blogger at www.rantsfromearth.com
Also: @martinthearrogant on IG.
Eclectic blogger at www.rantsfromearth.com
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The degree of cruelty of this administration is mind boggling.
You can't rehabilitate people who are that evil.
You can't rehabilitate people who are that evil.
The United States government used armed thugs to kidnap a 5-year-old child off an American street, separate him from his dad, traffic him to another state, and sling him into a scary & unsafe concentration camp.
"This is not who we are!!!"
Yes, unfortunately, it now is.
"This is not who we are!!!"
Yes, unfortunately, it now is.
Here’s the report from KARE. The boy is five-year-old Liam Ramos.
January 22, 2026 at 5:05 PM
The degree of cruelty of this administration is mind boggling.
You can't rehabilitate people who are that evil.
You can't rehabilitate people who are that evil.
Once upon a time, we could count on a variety of factual news sources.
Now, we have more sources but less facts.
Big nets like CNN & CBS are unreliable and unwatchable.
Sadly, the best places for honesty & integrity are the independent outlets but they will never have the necessary resources.
Now, we have more sources but less facts.
Big nets like CNN & CBS are unreliable and unwatchable.
Sadly, the best places for honesty & integrity are the independent outlets but they will never have the necessary resources.
The thing is, some people can make mistakes, get things wrong, be careless, etc. But that’s not what Jennings did here. Jennings knowingly, purposefully and intentionally lied to utterly distort what was said, which CNN pays him to do every day. CNN is the enabler of this.
January 16, 2026 at 6:03 PM
Once upon a time, we could count on a variety of factual news sources.
Now, we have more sources but less facts.
Big nets like CNN & CBS are unreliable and unwatchable.
Sadly, the best places for honesty & integrity are the independent outlets but they will never have the necessary resources.
Now, we have more sources but less facts.
Big nets like CNN & CBS are unreliable and unwatchable.
Sadly, the best places for honesty & integrity are the independent outlets but they will never have the necessary resources.
I often laughed at Dilbert.
I often sneered at Adams.
I don't wish suffering with cancer on anyone.
However, I also can't feel the urge to mourn.
I often sneered at Adams.
I don't wish suffering with cancer on anyone.
However, I also can't feel the urge to mourn.
Adams announced in May that he was dying of metastatic prostate cancer. Thousands of newspapers carried his strip satirizing office culture from the '90s until a controversy in 2023. n.pr/49SOnVG
Scott Adams, the controversial cartoonist behind 'Dilbert,' dies at 68
Adams announced in May that he was dying of metastatic prostate cancer. Thousands of newspapers carried his strip satirizing office culture from the '90s until a controversy in 2023.
n.pr
January 13, 2026 at 5:25 PM
I often laughed at Dilbert.
I often sneered at Adams.
I don't wish suffering with cancer on anyone.
However, I also can't feel the urge to mourn.
I often sneered at Adams.
I don't wish suffering with cancer on anyone.
However, I also can't feel the urge to mourn.
Journalists, your headline must be: "Armed man in a mask, posing as a federal agent without visible identification, assassinated a woman on a public street by shooting her multiple times in the face."
Absolutely horrific details about an ICE shooting in Minneapolis.
A witness says a woman was trying to drive away from an ICE operation and the ICE agent "reached across the hood of the car and shot her in the face like three, four times."
Bovino was there.
www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
A witness says a woman was trying to drive away from an ICE operation and the ICE agent "reached across the hood of the car and shot her in the face like three, four times."
Bovino was there.
www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
January 7, 2026 at 5:54 PM
Journalists, your headline must be: "Armed man in a mask, posing as a federal agent without visible identification, assassinated a woman on a public street by shooting her multiple times in the face."
Is it too much to ask that the federal government of what is supposed to be the greatest nation on the planet have a maturity level above that of a fifth grader?
Official U.S. Government account refers to its citizens as "imbecilic morons".
November 15, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Is it too much to ask that the federal government of what is supposed to be the greatest nation on the planet have a maturity level above that of a fifth grader?
I hope someone is keeping a running tally of each time Trump makes a pronouncement about a check/rebate/dividend that is coming soon to Americans.
It would be a very handy reference tool to toss in the faces of MAGA cultists who believe everything he says.
Journalists, anyone willing to share?
It would be a very handy reference tool to toss in the faces of MAGA cultists who believe everything he says.
Journalists, anyone willing to share?
Every time Trump floats some "refund check" idea I see local news hits about "how it could work." Saw same thing with the "DOGE dividend" idea that never added up. Wonder if anyone sees them, doesn't get a check (bc it was a fake idea), gets angry www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSmJ...
How long would it take to to pay for Trump's $2,000 dividends?
YouTube video by KATVchannel7
www.youtube.com
November 12, 2025 at 2:30 PM
I hope someone is keeping a running tally of each time Trump makes a pronouncement about a check/rebate/dividend that is coming soon to Americans.
It would be a very handy reference tool to toss in the faces of MAGA cultists who believe everything he says.
Journalists, anyone willing to share?
It would be a very handy reference tool to toss in the faces of MAGA cultists who believe everything he says.
Journalists, anyone willing to share?
November 11, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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Openly Nazi propaganda and aesthetic from the U.S. Department of Labor’s official Facebook page.
October 25, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Openly Nazi propaganda and aesthetic from the U.S. Department of Labor’s official Facebook page.
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Just one of so many things that the next, mature POTUS will have to reverse.
If we survive that long.
If we survive that long.
Hegseth: "I'm also proud that today we're signing a letter of acceptance to build a Qatari Emeri air force facility at the Mountain Home Airbase in Idaho."
October 10, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Just one of so many things that the next, mature POTUS will have to reverse.
If we survive that long.
If we survive that long.
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It really would help all of us if Trump clips came with an automatic Jennifer Coolidge voice filter.
October 5, 2025 at 9:05 PM
It really would help all of us if Trump clips came with an automatic Jennifer Coolidge voice filter.
Companies who receive imports pay the tariffs - I know, I've seen the receipts - and then pass the cost down to consumers at retail.
That's the undeniable truth.
That's the undeniable truth.
TRUMP SAYS HE IS CONSIDERING TAXPAYER REBATES OF $1,000 TO $2,000 USING TARIFF MONEY
October 3, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Companies who receive imports pay the tariffs - I know, I've seen the receipts - and then pass the cost down to consumers at retail.
That's the undeniable truth.
That's the undeniable truth.
To my MAGA friends:
There is no such thing as "Democrat Agencies" within our federal government.
The White House and Congress are controlled by Republicans, which would mean that...if such branding is even remotely accurate (narrator: it isn't)... ALL agencies would be "Republican Agencies".
There is no such thing as "Democrat Agencies" within our federal government.
The White House and Congress are controlled by Republicans, which would mean that...if such branding is even remotely accurate (narrator: it isn't)... ALL agencies would be "Republican Agencies".
October 2, 2025 at 4:51 PM
To my MAGA friends:
There is no such thing as "Democrat Agencies" within our federal government.
The White House and Congress are controlled by Republicans, which would mean that...if such branding is even remotely accurate (narrator: it isn't)... ALL agencies would be "Republican Agencies".
There is no such thing as "Democrat Agencies" within our federal government.
The White House and Congress are controlled by Republicans, which would mean that...if such branding is even remotely accurate (narrator: it isn't)... ALL agencies would be "Republican Agencies".
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IT'S OFFICIAL: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York State, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and New York City have formed the Northeast Public Health Collaborative.
The collaborative will issue their own vaccine recommendations and coordinate public health efforts.
The collaborative will issue their own vaccine recommendations and coordinate public health efforts.
September 18, 2025 at 3:50 PM
IT'S OFFICIAL: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York State, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and New York City have formed the Northeast Public Health Collaborative.
The collaborative will issue their own vaccine recommendations and coordinate public health efforts.
The collaborative will issue their own vaccine recommendations and coordinate public health efforts.
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The meme aftermath of Charlie Kirk’s death (1/2)
September 15, 2025 at 7:59 PM
The meme aftermath of Charlie Kirk’s death (1/2)
So KILLmeade is going to lose his job, right? Fox is cutting all ties, right?
Isn't that how this works?
Isn't that how this works?
Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."
September 13, 2025 at 6:13 PM
So KILLmeade is going to lose his job, right? Fox is cutting all ties, right?
Isn't that how this works?
Isn't that how this works?
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Trump at a 9/11 commemoration
September 11, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Trump at a 9/11 commemoration
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The idea that an instructor can and *should* be fired for daring to teach something not explicitly mentioned in course catalog is the pinnacle of the "students as customers" idiocy that's been steadily destroying American universities for decades now.
You're taking a class, not buying a product.
You're taking a class, not buying a product.
A top 50 US university yesterday fired an instructor, a department chair, and a dean because a course made some reference to transgender people without the brief official course description in the catalog saying “trigger warning: gender.”
In conclusion, those intolerant lefty kids, cancel culture.
In conclusion, those intolerant lefty kids, cancel culture.
September 10, 2025 at 3:55 PM
The idea that an instructor can and *should* be fired for daring to teach something not explicitly mentioned in course catalog is the pinnacle of the "students as customers" idiocy that's been steadily destroying American universities for decades now.
You're taking a class, not buying a product.
You're taking a class, not buying a product.
Odd that the local "80s, 90s, and Today" radio station added "I Will Survive" into regular rotation even though the song is from 1978 and they generally don't play Seventies songs.
Could this have anything to do with Gloria Gaynor making Trump-friendly political contributions?
#wbrx
Could this have anything to do with Gloria Gaynor making Trump-friendly political contributions?
#wbrx
September 9, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Odd that the local "80s, 90s, and Today" radio station added "I Will Survive" into regular rotation even though the song is from 1978 and they generally don't play Seventies songs.
Could this have anything to do with Gloria Gaynor making Trump-friendly political contributions?
#wbrx
Could this have anything to do with Gloria Gaynor making Trump-friendly political contributions?
#wbrx
From this we can see that Trump voters want to make babies more than they wish to get married, while Harris voters are clearly in the "First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes us with a baby carriage" group.
Fascinating new results on Gen Z from the
@nbcnews.com Decision Desk poll -- views on family and marriage
www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...
@nbcnews.com Decision Desk poll -- views on family and marriage
www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...
September 8, 2025 at 3:01 PM
From this we can see that Trump voters want to make babies more than they wish to get married, while Harris voters are clearly in the "First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes us with a baby carriage" group.
We are all Marshall Manning.
September 8, 2025 at 12:28 AM
We are all Marshall Manning.
Why? We must stand up to the bullies, not bow down before them.
September 2, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Why? We must stand up to the bullies, not bow down before them.
It's a good day to open an investigation into MLB umpire Brian Walsh.
Is he betting on games?
Is his money on the Blue Jays?
There's gotta be a reason he sees a middle-middle and calls a ball.
Manfred needs to suspend him until a review is complete.
Is he betting on games?
Is his money on the Blue Jays?
There's gotta be a reason he sees a middle-middle and calls a ball.
Manfred needs to suspend him until a review is complete.
July 28, 2025 at 11:59 PM
It's a good day to open an investigation into MLB umpire Brian Walsh.
Is he betting on games?
Is his money on the Blue Jays?
There's gotta be a reason he sees a middle-middle and calls a ball.
Manfred needs to suspend him until a review is complete.
Is he betting on games?
Is his money on the Blue Jays?
There's gotta be a reason he sees a middle-middle and calls a ball.
Manfred needs to suspend him until a review is complete.