[U: TN GOP… Dons Its White Hoods.] The Lines About Tennessee, And Alabama… Belong — With Mississippi, And Supplications To The Gun Lobby.

April 6, 2023April 7, 2023 ~ condor ~ Leave a comment

I’ve waited until Good Friday morning to add this update, though it was known last night. Forget for a moment that no one in the history of Tennessee’s statehood has ever been expelled (for speech) from the legislature there. Ask yourself: there were three Democrats who spoke against gun violence (and for sensible gun control measures a la “well-regulated” below) after three kids not yet a decade old were gunned down with an AR-15 inside their school. Yet only two were voted expelled by the GOP.

The GOP apparently doesn’t care — or in fact wants intentionally to send a (white hooded) message: only the two young Black men who spoke have been expelled. The older whyte woman is still a sitting member of their body this morning. It likely won’t matter much, as the young men will be voted back in by their constituents, shortly — but this impotent show of whyte rage — in favor of the gun lobbyists, by the GOP in Tennessee… harkens back to the end of Reconstruction there. The GOP may now take great pride in carrying on the work of Nathan Bedford Forrest here in the 21^st Century. “Tennessee… goddamn.” End update.

Please listen — all you GOP legislators of Tennessee. Your fellow three Democratic members have an unequivocal first amendment right (which comes prior in time, and right, to the second amendment for a reason), especially on the chamber floor — where for two centuries an absolute right to speak has prevailed.

No one has ever been expelled for speech in Tennessee (not even during abolitionist speeches of 170 years past)… but this time, it seems the speech cuts into / threatens the GOP’s gun lobby payment-streams. Listen to Ms. Simone.

Updated, after 8 pm EDT on 04.06.2023: And do consider this: only the two Black men were actually expelled by the GOP. The whyte woman, Rep. Johnson, was NOT. The whyte men of the GOP decided to spare her (and her alone) a recall election. That is the latter-day KKK, on the hoof. But to be sure, both of these young men will be re-elected to their seats — and then, the GOP cannot remove them, under some arcane Tennessee House rule related to “double jeopardy”. Ain’t that a kick in the head?! And the special elections will cost ALL Tennessee taxpayers over $240,000 per election — so around a half million dollars of wasted money, charged to all Tennessee taxpayers!? Hilarious!

She is 100% right:

Just… damn.

नमस्ते

Et Tu, “Bitsy Spicy Che” Stauffer?! Hilarious!

April 6, 2023April 6, 2023 ~ condor ~ 1 Comment

Elizabeth believes (echoing Victor Davis Hanson) something she calls “the revolution” has come.

It is all very… charming, as what has come is… not the revolution she (and he) imagine, at least. Not by a long shot.

What has come (except for the aberration of Tangerine’s four pock-marked years) is the death of Reagan-Bush-GOP world orders and views. Death of whyte savior-isms. Death of trickle down theories. Death of demonizing the poor. Death of long prison terms for non-violent offenses — and selective prosecutions of people of color. Death to the practice of ignoring our multi-national treaties, as to how we will treat asylum seekers who arrive unbidden — on our doorstep.

And yes, death to the idea that any man controls any adult woman’s family planning choices.

That revolution… if she wants to phrase it as “the Obama revolution“… has indeed come to pass. [Her days of sneering whyte-grrl- / faux-“superiority”… are at an end.]

And that clock cannot be turned back. The Genie is out of that bottle….

She will either learn to cope in the new world, here — or… as we suggested yesterday… she might pick up sticks and move to the far right enclaves of… Germany.

It is up to her. But there is no “large and silent middle” that sides with her xenophobia any longer.
Not in the numbers she (and he) would need to see Tangerine, or DeSantis elected in 2024, or beyond.

Nope. Nikki Haley may-well-be the only possibly electable GOP candidate for 2024 — in a general election. But Stauffer regards her as a traitor too. Hilarious.

Good luck storming the castle, there Bitsy.

Nope. Steve Hayward… Is Utterly Clueless — About Chicago.

April 6, 2023April 6, 2023 ~ condor ~ Leave a comment

I’ll not waste much (any?) time on his “thoughts” — really just a race baiting set of maps, by ward… color coded to… race and income.

How… utterly predictable, Steve. It is the limit of your faux-“powers” of perception. I get it: that’s all you can see.

Me?

I choose to see my city as at right (from 2019-20 a legacy graphic on “welcoming ordinances”).

She is still the city of big shoulders. Still flawed, but struggling to do better — for all.

Not like you Powerline 1950s patrician-, increasingly isolated-, increasingly-embittered… old whyte pop-pops.

Not at all like that.

Cheers.

Scott Johnson: Fully… Senile. [On Top Of Finding Shadowy “Conspiracies” At Cadwalader, Two Days Ago.]

April 6, 2023April 6, 2023 ~ condor ~ Leave a comment

So, this morning Mr. Johnson would tell the world that someone who holds no federal office, and has been a local prosecutor, elected by the people of his city, for many years… is being controlled by a federal office holder, in a vast, shadowy conspiracy…

Where the sole objective… is to… enforce the law as it is written? Okay. [Do see the John Edwards prosecution.] The decline of all the codgers over at Powerline is now in full-on, stark relief.

Just before that piece of unadulterated lunacy, Scott took a tome of about 13 chapters (plus an Appendix!? Yikes!), and used it as a clunking metaphor for some complaint he has about Hunter Biden. Any critique that needs a piece of classic literature, and 14 chapters to explain… is probably just a delusional fever dream, Scott. Do try the decaf.

[To be clear… he probably is NOT senile. Which means… he is simply a paid shill — a lying propagandist tool for the Mercers / Sacklers / Wynns / Murdochs of the world.]

How so? He shows that he understands what is really going on — in the piece where he admits the results from Tuesday night in Chicago and Wisconsin… reflect that the greatest gift the GOP gave Democratic chances in over a half-century… was letting Clarence Thomas effectively gut Roe v. Wade, in Dobbs. Those are now enduring scars on GOP chances with “the middle of America“.

That, and the fact that, as a brand now, the GOP stands largely for xenophobia and various forms of intolerant hatred… and tax cuts for billionaires (only).

Cheers, buddie!

It’s Often Hard To Tell What Portion Of The “Bio-Bucks” Actually Eventually Get Funded, In Cash — At R&D Shops… But Still Impressive.

April 5, 2023April 5, 2023 ~ condor ~ Leave a comment

This very new company — it just formed a proper board of directors two months ago — Proxygen, in Austria, has already racked up some world class collaborators, and joint target funders.

So today we read that it added US Merck to the roster (of course, in the EU, our Merck is called MSD). It already had a deal with German Merck (no relation) for what may be up to around $554 million in bio-bucks, from last fall. It also has a deal with Boehringer Ingelheim (from 2020 — funding terms wholly undisclosed — withheld).

Yep. That is pretty heady company, already. Here’s Fierce with the latest:

…Proxygen’s molecular glue ambitions are continuing to take shape as the Austrian biotech sticks together a third licensing deal in less than three years….

The company has signed a licensing agreement with Merck & Co. worth more than $2.55 billion in biobucks, according to an announcement Wednesday. How much the biotech is receiving upfront, or how many targets it is offering the U.S. Big Pharma, remains undisclosed….

Proxygen has been able to stay under the radar in part because the biotech hasn’t taken any venture capital money, relying solely on grants and upfront payments received from the trio of deals.

With a handful of external projects and ongoing internal development, Proxygen would appear to have its work cut out, though Boidol didn’t exclude the potential for another deal within the next year and half. He acknowledged that the team has “a lot of things that we’re executing at the moment….”

Proxygen’s potential [lies in its ability] to churn out molecular glue degraders, druglike compounds that stick problematic proteins with ubiquitin ligase, destroying the protein….

Now you know — this has the potential to make many diseases (previously considered “undruggable”) amenable to a new class of drugs, called molecular glue degraders. Instead of merely inhibiting a harmful protein’s function, molecular glue degraders eliminate the protein completely. They do this by reprogramming the natural protein recycling machinery present in every cell.

Onward grinning — after a wonder-filled day with my baby-girl… smile. Six years on, exactly.

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Bold Move, Stauffer! Quoting German (Near) Neo-Nazis… To Oppose Rule Of Law, In The USA?! Cool.

April 5, 2023April 5, 2023 ~ condor ~ 1 Comment

Well — this is simply… self refuting.

I’ll let my graphic do most of the work, but Betsy seems to think she will convince US hard-right frothers, by quoting with approval… some German (MP Petr Bystron) — only a hair’s width removed from those clowns that “false-flagged” / burned the Reichstag, in 1934, there.

Gutsy, to be sure — but… idiotic. This would also make clear that she cannot find serious support for her rancid views, even inside her own US party. Hilarious. [Enjoy living on “the island of misfit toys”, there hun.]

Hey Betsy!

Here’s an idea: why don’t you move to Germany, and join them? While you’re at it, take your three codgers, too. Make it a whole Powerline (illegal aliens’ surge!) into old… Germany.

I know — you won’t. Because you would lose significant freedoms — ones you irresponsibly employ here, stateside. Ones my grandad and his buddies… died to hand to you, you Karen.

See, there are still laws on the books in Germany that criminalize your sort of lying speech (in your case, about 01.06.21 — but glorifying Nazis, too).

Cheers, chucklehead.

You Can Tell By The Tone Of His Tonight, Hinderaker Knows The GOP Lost The WI Sup. Ct.

April 4, 2023April 4, 2023 ~ condor ~ 1 Comment

The 10 pm Hinderaker rant is ostensibly about San Francisco.

But the real anger in his wails is clearly because the more progressive candidate remaining in the run-off… in Chicago won the Mayor’s race… and because we just flipped the Wisconsin Supreme Court.

That will have immediate effects — abortion will remain safe and legal there.

So — yeh, John… I love the city by the bay too. Spent a lot of time there doing tech deals in the late 1990s…

And it is very much the city same as it was in the ’90s, as when I saw it, not three weeks ago. Well, yes — a lil’ tarnished by COVID vacancies… but it will be fine.

It will rise again — not the dark Thunderdome/Bartertown you portray it as.

Go take your sundowners. You’re overdue. And under-medicated.

[U] Hinderaker… Slept Through (Or Never Took) Crim. Law…

April 4, 2023April 4, 2023 ~ condor ~ Leave a comment

True to form, John doesn’t understand the purpose of Mr. Bragg’s Statement of Facts.

It sets up the coming superseding indictment.

And John (as ever) is a clueless fool for whistling past this graveyard, tonight.

Or worse — he does know… and he’s just lying to assuage Tangerine’s preposterously outsized and delusional self-important fantasies. [Especially so, in John’s “update” — late night tonight — praising Tangerine’s whiny cry baby speech at Mar-a-Lago. This is purely unctious pandering, to a bloated, embittered sad old orange man. One who could still wipe John’s 501(c)(3) off the map — and his blog with it… if he put out the word, that Powerline is/was disloyal. Hilarious.]

Either way — John will (again) look every bit the fool — about a year from now.

Cheers, buddie!

About As I Guessed: Hinderaker’s REAL Crowd Size Was ~50 People, Today…

April 4, 2023 ~ condor ~ Leave a comment

So… as we’ve said at least three times, Hinderaker has become incapable of accepting that the world has left his ideas… in the last century, with him.

He and his 1950s sensibilities / patrician ideas are increasingly being relegated to the nation’s nursing homes… and even… cemeteries.

This is exhibit A — at right. If you look closely, and don’t count press, or members of his own think tank (required to be there, for their jobs)… the audience skews to an age demographic well over 60, overwhelmingly whyte… and likely 2 to 1 male to female.

Oh. And then the crowd that stayed for more than one speaker looks to have been under 30 people… based on watching the whole video, on FB.

Hilarious.

John’s dead enders’ crew of dead enders… are soon to be… dead, actually.

Damn. Good luck with all that Johnnie.

I’ll close with my enduring memory / image of this day being… an arrested, booked and arraigned NY 34 count felony indictee — Hinderaker’s formerly “serious” preznit. First. Ever!