So after going back and forth with Smug Gloater regarding the events of the past 48 hours or so, the Heir got me the Mentor to write this share outlining the Heir's concerns that Donald Trump may try to use the NYC truck attack as a distraction from the Mueller investigation.  Of course Mueller and his team will continue regardless of other current events, but the Heir was pretty sure Trump was going to blame Mueller himself for the attack.  The Heir thought that Trump will say something to the effect of, if I didn't have Mueller dog me and my Cabinet all this time, we would have picked up this terror suspect months ago.  Thankfully Trump hasn't said that...  ...yet.

It looks as though Big Tech is trying to barge on in on the rescue efforts amidst the wildfires in California, by deploying drones meant to help map the disaster area.  The Heir sees two things wrong with this.  Firstly, there's no evidence that the drones will actually help find people in need of rescue or save their properties.  Also, it's all too likely that the drones being so proprietary and off-the-shelf will lose telemetry with all the smoke and intense heat, and will either fail to record or send back data properly, or they'll just drop into the smoldering flames.

"Let a reliable DIY person get a drone in there with the specific wildfire situation in mind.  Never mind Silicon Valley with its failures."

This is our tribute to Hugh Hefner, whose efforts had (obvious) influence on the Bachelor.  Wish Hefner were around long enough to see us go the way of Hedonistic Meditation, which is how we sustained our culture economically in the age of Forced Obsolescence and spendthrift.

We in the Bachelor condemn not only the tragedy that occurred in Charlottesville, but the fact that many of the white supremacists were actually happy that someone died.  The Heir found this out the other day on audio (his basic AM/FM/WX radio set), but for some reason he has yet to find any online petition to this exact effect that he can sign.  So he (and we) is/are going to say so here on our shares base.  These aren't simply people expressing an unpopular point of view.  They're outright sociopaths with no regard for human life, the bastards.  This kind of hate has no place in America (or really, anywhere else for that matter).

Heir: "It's terrible."

The Bachelor Helped Defend Funny Named Care.  This is what they're debating in Washington this week (late July 2017), and the Heir isn't confident that Funny Named Care is going to make it.  That said, he looks upon this episode as a snapshot of he and us in the Bachelor helping to defend Funny Named Care, now that he's on it.  We start out by talking about Donald Trump, and how the Heir was creeped out over how Donald Trump believes he had the biggest turnout of any Inauguration in the history of the country.  The Heir also continues to condemn Russian politics in light of their interference with the election.  The Heir and Sonya made up for the times she didn't want to talk to him when he didn't feel up to going places when he was having worse economic problems.  Let's see, what else...  Hospital ads on the radio advertising medical solutions in search of problems.  The bandwagoning rhetoric of summer radio ads.  The Heir's following of that rock'n'roll talk show that pointed out, among other things, that the Rolling Stones *did not* hire members of Hells Angels as security guards in Altima.  On Audio (Play All): https://www.mixcloud.com/audiobachelor2/playlists/the-happy-bachelor-1/

The Heir condemns, in no uncertain terms, Colbert's contention that Trump is the disease rather than a symptom.  This condemnation the Heir heralds above what he sees as the progressive descent back into Ed Snowdenism.  Here's how he sees it.  It was the progressives looking the other way when it became clear Ed Snowden only wanted a personality cult and was not a true whistleblower.  This fostered an ends-justifies-the-means mentality among most progressives which he sees as a form of personal corruption.  This means that Ed Snowden is the de facto leader of the progressive movement.  And since then the Heir's never stopped seeing the progressive movement as ultimately personally corrupt.  Sure he put aside his reservations when Trump won, but in the past week Colbert essentially helped the progressives compartmentalize Ed Snowden back into the past so that they rule out ever doing a fearless moral inventory politically.  This arrogance and personal corruption the Heir sees as the ultimate reason why Trump won, and *this* is the disease, he says, of which *Trump* is a symptom.  The Heir also sees the progressives perpetuating their failures in the future, which might explain why they're predicting Trump victories left and right in the foreseeable future (referring to Democracy Now and Bill Maher as examples, 7/6/17).  They just don't want to take responsibility for the past, which the Heir believes they could certainly do, since it's not too late.  But until they do, the Heir reasserts the none-of-the-above **political skepticism** in the Bachelor that has been there since 12/2/06, nearly 11 years.  And in doing so, the Heir breaks ties to any perception of any kind of alliance with any progressive group whatsoever, outside of essential economics.  The Heir will still continue to keep Funny Named Care alive, even if that means 50 State Single Payer depending on what happens next week, and he will help an affordability movement emerge in the next several months as a result.  The Heir loves his Country, the good ole US of A, saying this just days after its 231st birthday.  The Heir will continue to tune into Colbert and Oliver, etc., from time to time, but he no longer feels they can provide therapy for him with Trump.  This the Heir has to do himself, so now he gets to say the below:

"No, Colbert, you're wrong.  Trump is the *symptom* and not the *disease*."

The Heir Has His Wings And Ribs On The Beach Back In Mid-July.  We start out with a Termination Notice the Heir places on an economic solution from last year that didn't work out, which he believes is a reflection on them far more than their letting him go was any way a reflection on him.  He faults the "coordinator's coordinator" for being in a position to help that one particular department and doing nothing.  He will continue to add to his Termination Notice over time, so he can make clear what the situation is with that solution.  The Heir in this case at least doesn't believe in not "wallowing" in the past, particularly when there's unfinished business.  He now attends the catering counter at Bland Barns.  Meanwhile, the Heir continues to criticize the Ed Snowden and Roger Replacement types in the world, also because he doesn't believe they understand how much they're skating on thin ice with their reckless ways.  And even though now there's suspicion that Russia interfered with our elections, he doesn't believe we should have cooperated with them on Syria last year, because he believes they'll only take political advantage.  He now wants personal alliances with the Baltic States, Eastern Europe, the island states of the Pacific Rim and individual African states.   Speaking of Russia, the Heir sums up on how the Ed Snowden tech age is coming to an end, by paraphrasing that he walked around the St. Petersburg that is Silicon Valley when he saw it was time for a change.  And Prepper Maker continues with his research into a DIY audio player, and things like RSS Search and "crowdcommend."  On Audio (Play All): https://www.mixcloud.com/audiobachelor2/playlists/the-happy-bachelor-1/

OK, people, the Heir started a Twitter channel a couple days ago to combat the House bill meant to kill Funny Named Care.  He describes this as a tool strictly about taking action on issues that would make him and others think about their account balances.  He's not there to get up to date on Survivor or what he uses the beach bulletin board for.  General stuff we put on audio, and time sensitive stuff we announce here on this announcements base.  So he contacted in something resembling solidarity at least a half dozen politicians he believes are part of what he believes needs to be a Funny Named Care Caucus.  He's also contacted a few media and polling groups and started a couple new hash tags.  So if you want to go there and Follow, the Heir's channel is called Help Sustain Affordability and his handle is @HelpSustain.

"Help Sustain Affordability is about (my) taking action on those issues that make me (and would make other people) think about my (our) account balances."

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The End Of Music.  Happy New Year, people! So the Heir starts off the New Year from back last May to remind people about a plane crash that's now off the front pages, but at the time was Issue #1 because he believes both the media and politicians wanted it to be about terrorism.  Another thing you don't hear about now is the Zika virus.  But the Heir's more concerned about what could be The End Of Music, because of streaming services having to "replace" music downloads, and mainly only provide Top 40 content.  The Heir believes we're lucky that we were able to investigate that nightclub tragedy in Florida last year, because Apple would have opposed it out of the possibility of our needing to decrypt a suspect's smartphone.  He doesn't know why it didn't count as an Isis attack.  He thinks about how such tragedies get extreme coverage on cable news on giant TVs in medical waiting rooms, and how that's just distressing for waiting patients already worried about what the doctor may say.  He's pretty sure that Brexit will only serve to make the EU Parliament even more of a rubber stamp, because the UK won't be there to provide a dissenting view.  He wonders whether Fun Loving Chief in meeting with Loretta Lynch about Seventy First Lady's email situation pulled a "Columbo" in bringing up the issue.  On Audio (Play All): https://www.mixcloud.com/audiobachelor2/playlists/the-happy-bachelor-1/

Don't worry, people.  We haven't given up on episodes on audio, though we believe the next one may have to wait till January.  We'll do everything we can to come out with it sooner.  In any case, we do want to get back to doing episodes every month or two or so.  The Heir's working on making his own audio player, so he hasn't had much time.

The Bachelor maintains a stance of political skepticism.  That said, the Heir supports the cast and staff of Hamilton in their response to the election, and he doesn't think they were being disrespectful at all, just honest about how they felt.  So this is what the Heir will say to Smug Gloater if he says With Us Or Against Us again, like back in 2001 or so.  The Heir doesn't plan to see Hamilton any time soon, and he'd prefer that there not be this unpaid advertising for them.  He doesn't want to see them fall into a egotistical Ed Snowden type stance.  Again, what you see was just about being honest.  It doesn't make you great in any way.  This is also the Heir's feeling about the street protests a couple weeks ago.

"Protest is the highest form of patriotism...  ...until you start going the way of Ed Snowden."

The Heir wants to talk about Trump in an actual episode, but he was shocked like other people Wednesday morning.  He thinks that the so-called secret Trump voter is a red herring, because Seventy First Lady he doesn't think truly captivated enough people for Ohio, Pennsylvania and Florida not to be an issue.  Not like how Funny Named Skinny Kid did.  Right now instead of tending to anti-Trump protests like Flaileef's doing, the Heir's priority is more pragmatic in protecting FunnyNamedCare, since he's on it now #iamobamacare.  It's a long story, which also figures into his struggles against the system, and how to keep the simplicity of hedonistic meditation alive in a type A society still vulnerable to a puritanical backlash.

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