So here's the Heir's promised followup to our Hail To The Chief a week ago.  As was with Obama, the Heir fully expects the progressives to tear Biden apart on anything they can, just because they could.  He doesn't buy, even for one second, that the progressives have somehow miraculously gained some measure of magnanimity because of the country's experience with Trump.  He highly doubts the progressives ever said, oh, I guess it's partly our fault Trump got in there and was as bad as he was.  Maybe if we as a movement didn't get with Big Tech or Ed Snowden, or looked the other way when the culture was steeped in personal corruption during the 2010s, unreparated in the 2020s, maybe we wouldn't have had Trump, but now that we have, now we should probably make some kind of concessions???  No, ain't gonna happen, is the Heir's thinking.  Instead, he fully expects the progressives to use a kind of "born-again" logic that somehow the past doesn't "objectively" exist, and therefore any of their actions in that same past they don't need to be held accountable.  So one way in which the Heir's observing the progressives making good on their upcoming War On Biden is via the social justice issue, in trying to kind of focus-group the talking point of Not Good Enough.  What if Biden's DOJ under either Merrick Garland or Mr. Garland's current acting predecessor implements all of BLM's recommendations they issued last year to answer for and prevent excessive force?  Not Good Enough.  What if Biden indicates he would never legalize pot nationally or Defund The Police?  Well then he's just Trump Lite.  This is probably tentative, and maybe not the final Anti-Biden Progressive talking point that would actually pick up steam, but the Heir's 90% sure there's going to be something.  And once there is, he's not going to be the least bit surprised.

The Heir believes that the coverage regarding these new variants is considerably blown out of proportion.  Because he heard it on audio, he's able to isolate where he thinks the media got it wrong.  If there was accompanying visual, everyone else is going to go, oh my gosh, there's these variants, we're all doomed!  Instead, he believes this to be a case of Mozart Study Syndrome, in which the layperson media glances over a synopsis of initial studies done on the variants, and comes up with an almost completely different takeaway from the study writers' own conclusions, and then put words in the writers' mouths accordingly.  Like with the Mozart Study back in the 90s, the Heir hopes the writers will come back and say, no we never said the variants were "more contagious," we said it could be more easily caught for those who don't have the proper antibodies, as opposed to the coronavirus proper, or something that's similarly nuanced and measured as per actual professionals' wont.  So the Heir thinks the media should honor the memory of Jamal Khashoggi, and not give themselves a black eye for their tendency *not* to level with their readers/listeners when it comes to medical accuracy.

We wish Biden/Harris the best of luck.  We do expect to follow up in coming days about what the Heir at least thinks we should expect for a post-Trump America.  Stay tuned.

We at the Bachelor condemn the violence at the Capitol a couple days ago, even though the Heir wasn't entirely sure it was over until about this morning.  But he wants to add a couple points to let all of you know that this isn't your boilerplate condemnation.  He also criticizes the progressives' apparent stance leading up to the riots of "our criticism of Trump was only and cynically political all this time so now that he's leaving office let's pretend he never existed."  The Heir's pretty sure that if the progressives really cared about law and justice, they wouldn't have turned a blind eye to what one in hindsight might see as discernible signs that something bad was going to happen in the form of Trump Pardonees like Michael Flynn, and George Papadopoulos, and the Heir's thinking also Roger Stone making speeches at rallies preceding the riots, one of which was the one that Trump made the apparent incitement to violence.  Seeing how at least five people died, including a Capitol police officer, the Heir's wondering whether those Pardonees could be implicated in involuntary manslaughter type charges, as well as aiding and abetting incitement to violence, thereby undoing their pardons with new charges.  If so, the Heir doesn't think the prosecutors should hold back on the Pardonees' criminal records in an opening statement in a trial, even on things they were pardoned from.  It's important that in this way at least the law not recognize the pardons.  The Heir believes the pardons were corrupt simply because Trump made them, period, because the crimes that were pardoned are a bad example for the children.  It's not even about a specific theoretical reason why Trump made the pardons, so the Heir thinks the analysts need not look too deeply into that.  So you heard that one right, that the Heir is getting with the Rachel Lovejoy defense, What About The Children.  Interestingly, the Heir observes that's the reason Betsy DeVos gave for her resignation, that she sees the riots themselves as a bad example for impressionable children, the Heir not being a Betsy DeVos fan by any means, seeing how Marco's Grandmother wants DeVos on charges for the past four years.  So besides getting me the Mentor to post the above, the Heir's thinking about what kind of actionable response he wants to write to his congresswoman with.

"Okay, Mentor, gimme some good ideas on this one.  Oh I meant to say please on that one, and to have reworded my request entirely so I'm not looking like such a spoiled brat, so that Trump isn't being a bad influence here.  Remember that thing at the Boy Scouts jamboree four years ago?  What was he *thinking*!?" 

 Happy New year from The Bachelor!