Wednesday, March 11, 2020

Let's face it: the Heir is pretty much a Nevertrumper, specifically though from the point of view of law and justice, just not necessarily politically.  But he also has a disliking to AOC, and the self-righteous arrogance of the progressive movement he sees her as representing.  That arrogance showed itself in full force in Michigan when AOC stumped for Bernie in that state.  Bernie went onto to handily losing that state, so he should never have thought that AOC had any real appeal or power-base outside of her district or AOC-favorable elements in the media.  It's the price one pays for staying in the race after helping to boot out those candidates of principle and conviction, because all voters in all contests that will take place after Super Tuesday the Heir sees as effectively disenfranchised.  They simply don't have all the choices they're entitled to, so it doesn't surprise the Heir that there were reports of long lines at some polling places on Super Tuesday comparable to long lines in the general election in 2004 and the Heir thinks 1968.  So the Heir's sure that if Biden is the likely nominee he will certainly beat Trump, but Biden will absolutely *not* restore decency and honor to the Oval Office when inaugurated, and this is for a couple reasons.  Firstly, the Heir's sure Biden will use the Time Past argument as to why he would *never* ask or support his DOJ in bringing charges against Trump (or Barr) as per Bob Mueller's sworn testimony that Trump could be charged after leaving office.  Sure "could" doesn't necessarily mean "should," but the Heir doesn't believe Biden should fall into the trap of believing that Trump being defeated is punishment enough for the guy.  Because if you or I were under suspicion of financial crimes or sexual assault, you or I can't expect a penalty upon conviction to be that you or I are not President.  No, it's going to be more severe than that, so the Heir sees a Biden (or a Bernie) Presidency as Trump's get-out-of-free-jail card.  Biden will also *never* agree to oversee the fully unredacted release of the Mueller report, complete with all judge-approved releases of grand jury testimony for all cases that would have completed by that time.  No, instead the Heir expects Biden (or Bernie) to just say, oh that's just all in the past so it's a waste of time.  So Biden or Bernie talking about a so-called restoration of decency and honor to the office has the insincerity of Gerald Ford saying our national nightmare is now over before he pardoned Nixon.  Biden and Bernie as President never pursuing justice on Trump is effectively their pardoning Trump for probably everything bad he's ever done.  The Heir believes this would not happen if Elizabeth Warren weren't forced out of the race, because Warren would certainly charge Trump and release the Mueller Report in full within her first 100 days as President.  So the Heir announces he's getting *closer* to quitting the Donkeys For The People altogether and embracing Independence, though he also wants to see how bad the Primary ballot would be in Bachelor Blue State first.  He's not quitting just yet.

The Heir takes to task those western observers who've praised China's supposed efforts to contain the coronavirus, because why are we having to contend with coronavirus right here and now otherwise?  The way the Heir sees it, China made a series of mistakes that effectively amount to a failure of containment.  The Heir remembers a test he took in biology class in high school his flunking which contributed to his being unable to attend an educational class trip to Washington DC at the time that all the "cool kids" were able to go on.  He totally forgot about it until the coronavirus, so now he's embittered all over again for something that took place decades ago, because let's face it: the past is never truly past.  But anyway, the test had a reasoning section in it regarding the European response to the Black Plague, and asked whether a given measure increased or decreased chances of spreading the plague via a factor of concentration.  Those measures include forcing all sick people to live under one roof, and preventing people from going out into the countryside.  The Heir got both of those questions wrong, because forcing all sick people together increases concentration of the plague, and their having gone out into the countryside would have decreased concentration.  But China committed both of those sins with the coronavirus.  They forced all sick people together in quarantine, and they prevented people from leaving that one city and getting out into the countryside.  But the Heir's sure western observers lavished praise on China just so they can avoid a geopolitical backlash or retribution.  Wimps.  The Heir also questions the wisdom of those colleges that have quit classes for the rest of the semester, particularly if there were no reports of cases of the coronavirus cases on their campuses, and if no-one's tested positive.  It seems those colleges arbitrarily quit classes based solely on news reports.  He kind of understands those few colleges (thus far) that might have had a case or two, but he sees that as the exception to the rule.  So he thinks those students at colleges that quit classes over an overabundance of caution should seriously consider transferring to a college without cases that has *not* quit their classes.  The Heir believes those overcautious colleges will end up as ghost towns long after the coronavirus is over.

"There's going to be something seriously wrong if we're not going to have baseball or basketball because of this virus.  They'll probably cancel entire seasons even after the coronavirus is over.  The End Of Sports."

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