Diogenes of Snarkadia

Trump: "What a great honor to get those Purple Hearts. I guess in a certain way it wasn't that easy for me either, when you think of it."

Uniparty daddy. Bofe parties same

whichever Democratic politician you’re currently describing as a vile bigot would not have done anything like this

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From this month's edition of The Onion.

Sweeping tariff regime would usher in new age of abundance? Hasn’t happened

Manufacturing jobs will come back “very quickly?” Manufacturing activity has seen some of the largest contractions in years in the last few months

Yikes

It makes me deeply angry as a D.C. resident that this fundamentally unserious person with no knowledge of local D.C. issues is now the person in charge of prosecuting most serious crimes committed in the District.

The next part of the plan to steal the midterms and/or the 2028 election - an attempt to do a mid-decade census to take seats and electoral votes away from blue states. I knew this was coming.

Help!, the album, is the soundtrack to this nonsense plus a bunch of songs that they had knocking about. Songs like Yesterday which went on to become the most covered song of all time. It’s the album that’s often ignored but in my opinion it’s the one you can’t do without, their most charming work. It’s the one with their first song over 3 minutes and what a song (Ticket to Ride), it’s the one where George Harrison introduces his talents as a songwriter with his first contributions since 1963 (I Need You and You Like Me Too Much) and it’s the one where McCartney invents early Belle and Sebastian (I’ve Just Seen a Face). You can say what you like about McCartney, and many people do, but he never contributes the worst song on any Beatles album. Trust me on this, go through all the albums and the worst song is never a McCartney one.

Something I wrote in the album club days about Help! - which turned 60 today

Fact check:

mRNA vaccines for respiratory viruses are meant to prevent severe illness (bad Pneumonia).

This means beefing up our immunity in the *lower* respiratory tract, eg the lungs.

Kennedy talks about the *upper* respiratory tract and vaccine efficacy in nonsensical gibberish.

He didn't really acquiesce to the conservative position, which is that politicians should ban trans women from women's sports, which happened (e.g. Trump forcing U. Penn to retroactively declare Lia Thomas to not be the winner of her races.) PB said those affected should make the rules

RFK wants to lean into “whole cell” vaccine technology, which has existed for decades, comes with increased risk of side effects and can take years to develop.

mRNA vaccine technology comes with far decreased risk of side effects and can take mere months to develop.

Make it make sense!

Coming soon: “All I Wanted To Do Is Watch Children Cry As I Handcuffed Their Mothers And Threw Them Into Unmarked Vans To Be Sent To Torture Camps. Now Hollywood Won’t HIre Me For More Straight-To-Streaming B-Movies. This Is My Story.”

Spreading a fake story about a federal elected official was a career-ending sort of thing for journalists once but since Chris Cuomo works for Nexstar they'll probably give him a raise if he promises to do it again

A graph of the timeline for Trump’s 2nd term tariffs

Good morning. It is now 12:01 AM, which means tariffs have increased on $1.6T in US imports from more than 90 countries. Those increases go from as small as 5% for goods from the EU & Japan to as high as 31% on Syrian goods, driving the overall tariff rate up more than 2%.

Where did Pete say out loud he's against transgender people existing? That would be bad

Israeli FinMin Bezalel Smotrich smiling alongside a graffito reading "Death to the Arabs." He posed with Samaria Regional Council Chairman Yossi Dagan, who appears just as pleased. Don't come at me: it's an official picture released by Netanyahu's murderously racist crony

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*deep, heavy sigh*

Badenoch: Fritzl robbed me of belief in God The Daily Telegraph7 Aug 2025By Genevieve Holl-allen POLITICAL REPORTER KEMI BADENOCH has revealed that the case of Josef Fritzl made her reject God. The Tory leader said that the behaviour of Fritzl, who kept his daughter captive for 24 years, “killed” her belief in God. Mrs Badenoch said that after reading the story of Fritzl’s daughter and how she kept praying to be saved, “it was like someone blew out a candle” on her faith. In an interview with the BBC, she said that she still had “cultural Christianity” but was not a believer. The Conservative Party leader grew up in a Christian household, having had a grandfather who was a reverend. She told the BBC: “I believed that there was a God, and I would have defined myself as a Christian apologist, always arguing with people about why there was a God. And in 2008, this story about Josef Fritzl and his daughter, who was locked in a cellar for 24 years... That killed it”. Fritzl, from Austria, imprisoned his daughter Elisabeth in his cellar in 1984, where he repeatedly raped her and had seven children with her. He was jailed in 2009. Mrs Badenoch said that she read the account of Elisabeth, Fritzel’s daughter, and said: “I thought, I was praying for all sorts of stupid things and I was getting my prayers answered. “I was praying to have good grades. My hair should grow longer, and I would pray for the bus to come on time so I wouldn’t miss something. It’s like, why were those prayers answered and not this woman’s prayers? And it just, it was like someone blew out a candle.” The Tory leader added: “I rejected God, not Christianity. So I would still define myself as a cultural Christian.” #TransAgendaClips

"Kemi Badenoch has revealed that the case of Josef Fritzl made her reject God." [Telegraph front page]

I think everybody would agree that not having enough electricity for homes is a small price to pay in order to fill the place with data centers that employ nobody

B of A: “.. An average vehicle has 1k-3k semiconductor components.”

Industry estimates suggest a 100% tariff rate on chips and semis could “increase vehicle production costs by $4,800-$10,000.”

$TSLA, $F, $RIVN “most impacted”

a man in a suit and tie is standing in front of a wall with framed pictures on it ALT: a man in a suit and tie is standing in front of a wall with framed pictures on it

Took a Lyft to an early medical appointment.

Driver: What do you do?
Me: I’m a public health professor.
Driver: So do you get summers off?
Me: No, it’s when I catch up on research and writing.
Driving: Well that’s gotta be easier now with ChatGPT. You can just do that.

Is this what people think?

Yes, you did the "So you hate waffles" tweet but aren't smart enough to know it. Buh bye

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The CEO of INTEL is highly CONFLICTED and must resign, immediately. There is no other solution to this problem. Thank you for your attention to this problem!

Uhhh what the hell is going on here

And for the record the anti-trans bigots scare the shit out of me and I think they're a threat to everybody. I just don't want to respond to this crisis with "Everyone who isn't with us is against us."

That didn't work against terrorists and won't work against the anti-trans kooks

You're doing the "so you hate waffles" tweet but don't know it.

You do a good job arguing against real bigots, maybe, so when you're losing an argument you attribute to people bigoted positions that they oppose. When you're a hammer everything must be a nail.

So you're not arguing with Pete's position, you're invoking "It's a slippery slope" because you can only argue well against very bad positions that he currently opposes.

*Who* has already defined clear guidelines to consider a trans person in what setting? It's going to vary from sport to sport.
Rules like how long someone is on HRT before competing in women's sports could be different for boxing darts or fencing. PB supports local control not top down imposition

The anti-trans bigots are kooks and have brain worms. We have to be clear on their, shall we say, mental issues. But we shouldn't respond to their moral panic with an opposite moral panic.

As George Bush would say "If you're not with us, you're against us." It worked so well against terrorists, it should work against bigots.

Here we're invoking that against PB for saying the rules for playing sportsball should be made by the people affected by the rules, not unaffected politicians