Martin the Arrogant
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Martin the Arrogant
@mmbakner.bsky.social
Politics junkie. Craft beer & bourbon enthusiast. Dedicated #Orioles fan. It's pronounced BAKE-ner.
Also: @martinthearrogant on IG.
Eclectic blogger at www.rantsfromearth.com
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
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?
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
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
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October 18, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Just one of so many things that the next, mature POTUS will have to reverse.
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
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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
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.
TRUMP SAYS HE IS CONSIDERING TAXPAYER REBATES OF $1,000 TO $2,000 USING TARIFF MONEY
October 3, 2025 at 4:54 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".
October 2, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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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.
September 18, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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The meme aftermath of Charlie Kirk’s death (1/2)
September 15, 2025 at 7:59 PM
So KILLmeade is going to lose his job, right? Fox is cutting all ties, right?

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
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Trump at a 9/11 commemoration
September 11, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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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.
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.
September 10, 2025 at 3:55 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
September 9, 2025 at 2:19 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.
Fascinating new results on Gen Z from the
@nbcnews.com Decision Desk poll -- views on family and marriage

www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...
September 8, 2025 at 3:01 PM
We are all Marshall Manning.
September 8, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Why? We must stand up to the bullies, not bow down before them.
September 2, 2025 at 11:02 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.
July 28, 2025 at 11:59 PM
What perfect album came out when you were sixteen?
July 27, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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I debated 20 far-far-far-right conservatives (racists? fascists?) on Jubilee's 'Surrounded.'

Here are some of the highlights of them unable to answer my basic questions or rebut the simplest of points. Not sure whether to laugh or cry.

Here's the full 'debate': www.youtube.com/watch?v=2S-W...
July 20, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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July 12, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Christ, how many words ending in -ist does the Lunatic Right have in its "Scare Old White People" arsenal?
Noem: "They aren't just liberals anymore. If you look at the Democrat Party, they're a party of communists and marxists and socialists."
July 12, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Yes, and the cruelty is exactly what his cult wants.
This is Donald Trump's America.
July 12, 2025 at 7:32 PM