Where are the four horsemen?
In what truly portends as a sign that the end is nigh, reports are coming out that Greg Abbott is seriously considering a run for the presidency. I’m not kidding about this. I really wish I were.
In some respects, I guess a presidential run from the governor’s chair is just inevitable. Obviously, George W. Bush successfully made the jump. He at least won the job. How successful he was I guess depends on the eye of the beholder. Rick Perry tried a couple of times and failed miserably. There was an issue with counting that I recall that may have had an impact.
What both of them had in common is that they could at least point to signs of success. Sure, we know Bush wasn’t the brightest bulb in the batch and Perry is not much beyond the great hair, but they were savvy enough to stay out of the way and let Texans do their own thing. At least that is how many people will remember it.
As usual, when you pair down the flim flam and really look at things you would see a different picture, but most people are not accustomed to moving beyond the flim flam. They didn’t have a horribly mismanaged virus or a once in a century energy grid crisis. Most people would hide away in a broom closet after the last 14 months, but not Abbott. He is proudly considering bringing his clown show to Washington.
If it weren’t so real it would be comical. In order to appeal to the base, you have to be more flamboyant in your stupidity than the next guy or gal. If Jewish lasers only keep you in the news for a solid week you need to find something else to do.
Maybe throw out an old racist phrase while coming up with a new way to suppress the vote. Maybe count ballots with companies that don’t have a clue and hire people that would make my parents look like spring chickens. Maybe pass another bathroom bill or ban transgender kids from the lunchroom. Maybe remove background checks before a 9 year old can carry a bazooka into his STAAR test. Yup, the apocalypse is coming and it ain’t a pretty sight.
The idea that voting and driving cars re far more dangerous than firearms is very odd.
1“Yup, the apocalypse is coming and it ain’t a pretty sight.”
Since last March, it sure does feel like we’re in the opening scenes of a movie about the end of the world, going about our business as best we can, with no clue what’s about to hit us.
2Maybe he’s saying that as a graceful way to exit the Governors Mansion, knowing how badly he’s screwed up and that he will be primaried. He says he has $38mil but it would take a ton more for a Presidential run – he could leave now and with help from a competent lawyer, use that money on a long vacation far away from Texas!
3OT ~ Never give up … Never let go!
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Headline: This scientist’s decades of mRNA research led to both COVID-19 vaccines
By Dana Kennedy
December 5, 2020 | 4:33pm | Updated
Dr. Katalin Kariko
Edit:Scientists say they couldn’t have won the global vaccine race without her.
Messenger ribonucleic acid, first discovered in 1961 at Caltech, has been called the “software of life.” Unlike other vaccines, which involve injecting dead viral remnants into the body, a vaccine using mRNA sends a set of instructions into cells that teaches – and triggers – them to fight off disease. It’s described as a clean vaccine — and the implications for preventing the spread of Covid and other diseases from cancer and strokes to malaria and multiple sclerosis is apparently off the charts.
4The refugee from Communist -run Hungary
The pioneering Dr. Katalin Kariko — who fled Communist-run Hungary at 30 for the US in 1985 with $1,200 hidden inside her 2-year-old daughter’s teddy bear — isn’t as powerful or rich as Moderna’s Stéphane Bancel or BioNTech’s Ugur Sahin. Nor has she ever been celebrated.
Kariko’s obsessive 40 years of research into synthetic messenger RNA was long thought to be a boring dead-end. She said she was chronically overlooked, scorned, fired, demoted, repeatedly refused government and corporate grants, and threatened with deportation — among other indignities. ~ full article:
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https://nypost.com/2020/12/05/this-scientists-decades-of-mrna-research-led-to-covid-vaccines/
One small nitpick, Nick: “He at least won the job”. Nope, Bush Jr. lost the popular vote and only got the job because the Supreme Court effectively appointed him, mostly by forbidding Florida from a thorough counting of that state’s vote.
Which is sorta amusing now, with the Republicans having a hissy fit about counting votes a third or fourth or however many times it takes to make it look like T**** won in 2020.
Megasoid: don’t you know that it was T**** himself who created the vaccine, working day and night in his secret lab in the basement of the White House? And note how “Katalin Kariko” doesn’t sound like a white guy’s name. [Oh god, now I’ve started something that might get picked up by the Newsmax and ONAN networks as reality. Sorry]
5Touche’ Surly. You are quite right about the 2000 election. Carry on…
6I am not well-informed in this field but as I understand it, Kariko’s discovery was not useful (economically at last) until a couple of yogurt scientists unlocked CRISPR gene slicing in Denmark.
7The Surly Professor @ 5 ~ Rasputin, fixed it, although voters are still waiting for the gunshot, stabbing, poisoning etc., etc,
Perhaps a sharpened spoon in the laundry room in NY’s Sing Sing Mansion on the Hudson
8Greg Abbott…well, after DJT, it’s unwise to say someone couldn’t possibly be elected, but Greggy lacks the…um…force and probably the connections of DJT.
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