The Heir is outraged by the NYCLU's criticisms regarding New York state's decision to make pot use a fine-able offense, which the Heir otherwise sees as proper.  But this apparently was not good enough for the NYCLU who was the first civil liberties group the Heir's seen in his life to advocate for a for-profit corporate status that the progressive movement has been trying to get under control in most other sectors.  I the Mentor was amazed and astounded when the Heir pointed out that present-day legal pot laws effectively make it all but impossible for a plaintiff to mount a disorderly person's complaint against a defendant who blows pot smoke in their face in public.  The pot laws also don't adequately protect against peer pressure, so as far as the laws are concerned, if a teenager is being pressured by peers to smoke pot, that teen really has no choice but to do so.  A legal pot proposal in Bachelor Blue State failed to get enough votes among lawmakers for the leaders to want to hold such a vote, and the Heir is wondering whether those lawmakers had got to thinking that if we legalized pot in the state, then maybe we should also legalize sex work?  Obviously in our still puritanical society in 2019 the lawmakers weren't willing to go there, so the pot proposal was defeated on a technicality.

"Let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater if we truly *need* legal pot."

Just half an hour ago as I the Mentor am writing this, the Heir unmoored Tom Steyer from his activist emails and his National Principle channel.  The Heir's now seeing some Ed Snowdenisms in Steyer's impeachment efforts which he's pretty sure are only going to increase over time, long after Trump leaves office, to the point where there will be another Ed Snowden, who will in turn elect yet another Donald Trump.  As far as the Heir's concerned, this Need To Impeach effectively amounts to a Need To Attack Donkeys.  He's seen this around this time in 2006, which then led to his declaring a none-of-the-above political skepticism in December of that year.  And even 13 years after that point in time, he still takes a considerably different view of democracy's role in society from the rest of populace.  He's cynical about the clause of social agitation, because it's also an excuse for society to pressure people against their sense of principle, mostly just for sport, particularly when there's a main figurehead at the top of that social agitation, e.g., Ed Snowden, who outright disrespects an ordinary citizen's citizenship rights.  The Heir's not suggesting that the Donkeys For The People shouldn't move faster on impeachment proceedings, or not figure out how to better use the I word in the press.  But that last bit is just semantics for the Heir, and the way in which he sees the concept of National Principle as applying to the impeachment debate makes it all too important to discuss semantics or this will-they-or-won't-they hand-wringing on the Insurgent News Network with the Donkeys.  So here's what he's got to say about this one undemocratic function in the democratic process:

"My decisions as a citizen are between me and my God, and me and the people who understand, and are not open to negotiation with Tom Steyer, AOC, and **certainly** not Ed Snowden."

The Heir Does Not Favor Legalizing Pot.  Shocking, right?  Well the Heir's such an old fart now (albeit still an Heir), and over the course of the 2010s he's seen the consequences of an Anything Goes society promoted by Ed Snowden.  So they've put off voting on the measure in the state capitol for now, but the Heir doesn't want there to be such a pro-pot bandwagon, where youth will fall in the cracks with peer pressure, and believing having a joint on their person is their Get Out Of Free Jail Card for any offense they want to commit, solely because they feel like it.  The Heir also believes the Donkeys For The People had their Blue Wave after all *mainly because* they weren't reluctant to criticize Trump.  So Schumer had it wrong that the Donkeys had to somehow ignore the elephant in the living room in the last election.  The Heir also takes those media outlets to task that on Accountability Day June 6 of last year only did anniversaries of RFK's death and D-Day, but not Ed Snowden's 5th.  It was left up to him to do so.  He also blames Big Tech's placation of Ed Snowden as the reason why no-one still knows why that guy shot all those people in Las Vegas three years ago.  Big Tech would have refused to cooperate with authorities in gaining access to the guy's devices and smartphone accordingly.  On audio (click Play All): https://www.mixcloud.com/audiobachelor2/playlists/the-happy-bachelor-1/

The Heir wrote it down and he read it.  Here's what he said on his National Principle channel:

Among other things, #Buzzfeed might be worried about showing up in the #MuellerInvestigation report as a #BigTech #SocialMedia co (wrt #Kremlin fake ads). #Buzzfeed trying to get SCO to leak is inappropriate. #ProtectMueller #MuellerBuzzfeedSmackdown

— Affordability_and_NationalPrinciple (@HelpSustain) January 20, 2019

He's starting to get concerned in case an Ed Snowden influence may be reemerging to subvert principle once more accordingly.  Stay tuned.

"I'm getting concerned in case an Ed Snowden influence may be reemerging to subvert principle once more."

The Bachelor Stance Against The Swing Voter Narrative With The Supreme Court. So now that the election's come and gone, there isn't as much discussion about the Supreme Court as there was in September 2018.  And that's with this thing with Brett Kavanaugh replacing a "swing vote" on the Supreme Court, which is a narrative the Heir rejects entirely.  The Heir also doesn't think that Hope Hicks was necessarily a counselor-in-chief to Donald Trump, because there were a number of things he ended up saying and doing that Hope Hicks apparently didn't prevent.  So between the Supreme Court and the threats against Bob Mueller, even in spite of the election results, the Heir believes that only Papua New Guinea's cultural sense of tropical simplicity is ultimately going to save us in the West.  The Heir's increasingly seeing accountability and law-and-order as increasing issues.  He also differs from the vanilla progressives in believing that Ronny Jackson got thrown under the bus.  And the naval disasters that took place in May 2017 the Heir believes is due to big tech pushing forced obsolescence to the point of mental atrophy.  He believes that every navigator needs to receive basic training in the use of the sextant, among other simple and reliable tools of navigation.  On audio:

The Bachelor Continues Pushing For Simplicity And Principle In The Continuing Age Of Big Tech And Ed Snowden.  So again sorry people for the delay.  We're going to do everything we can to pick up the pace of our putting out new episodes.  So in this one, we pick up where we left off in standing fast to the value of simplicity and the importance of principle in a still-decidedly confused and unprincipled age, here in 2018.  Because of a book Donna Brazile put out months ago, the Heir believes the political vanillas cherry pick when to fact-check something or not to fact-check it.  The Heir still believes Papua New Guinea has the potential of being the out-of-left-field hero in the new cold war between the U.S. and Russia, by being a none-of-the-above country.  The third way out of the exclusive two that exist.  The Heir believes that with Me Too and successful males in show business, everybody's doing it.  All males in show business, he believes, have sexually harassed a female colleague at one time or another.  They just haven't gotten caught yet.  The Heir remembers one such male, Minnesotan Humorist, for his rational contributions to an otherwise irrational world.  Marco comes in with our food from Barbecue Spice Kitchen and worries about how A Certain Friend Of His may run afoul of ICE and be forcibly deported.  The Heir believes that Big Tech and Ed Snowden both play a far bigger role in RussiaGate than both Donald Trump and Russia combined.  He looks at Big Tech trying to use Red Herrings and Avoiding The Issue techniques such as Disruptions and Artificial Intelligence to distract from the fact that most tech just doesn't work properly.  Look at Heathrow 2016.  With Ed Snowden, the Heir found an article link on thehill.com where Ed Snowden apparently assisted in promoting the Deep State conspiracy theory.  On audio (Play All): https://www.mixcloud.com/audiobachelor2/playlists/the-happy-bachelor-1/

Don't worry, people.  We're still around.  We're working on getting a new episode up, but the Heir's running into file problems on his bachelor computer station (I the Mentor keep hearing him go "Say what," "Say what" a dozen times already).  But the Heir made an important stance on his Twitter channel regarding Ed Snowden, as below.  You should read through the entire tweet thread, back from the beginning.

#NationalPrinciple #Justice #RuleOfLaw #NoOneIsAboveTheLaw (and certainly not Ed #SnowdenAtFive). https://t.co/yLRZljnEXJ

— Affordability_and_NationalPrinciple (@HelpSustain) June 8, 2018

Here's some more stuff, National Principle, about Chris Wylie as compared to Ed Snowden:

He's unlikely to say #IAlreadyWon in a self-congratulatory fashion in several months time. #Justice #Accountability #Principle #NationalPrinciple https://t.co/QORH5IOzIc

— Affordability_and_NationalPrinciple (@HelpSustain) March 20, 2018

Toward the end of the interview, he humbly admits not having an easy answer to one given question. All you Ed #SnowdenAtFive ever got from selected press were softballs. You never had to struggle accordingly. #Justice #Accountability #Principle #NationalPrinciple https://t.co/QORH5IOzIc

— Affordability_and_NationalPrinciple (@HelpSustain) March 20, 2018

I don't see him appropriating a personality cult like you Ed #SnowdenAtFive did. #Justice #Accountability #Principle #NationalPrinciple #IAlreadyWon https://t.co/QORH5IOzIc

— Affordability_and_NationalPrinciple (@HelpSustain) March 20, 2018

The Heir's keeping on with his Ed Snowden counter-movement with the following tweets he made on his Accountability Affordability channel:

Hey Ed #SnowdenAtFive, here's what a real whistleblower looks like. He's almost the total opposite of you (#IAlreadyWon #Justice #Accountability #Principle #NationalPrinciple): https://t.co/UI3bejqGcu

— Affordability_and_NationalPrinciple (@HelpSustain) March 20, 2018

Ed #SnowdenAtFive 's followers apparently have no idea what a "right signal" is. #IAlreadyWon #Principle #NationalPrinciple https://t.co/Eu6NN3AtO4

— Affordability_and_NationalPrinciple (@HelpSustain) March 20, 2018

So how does the Heir feel about Bland Barns' Commemoration Day he works at?  Here's the thing.  He felt there was too much crazy ritualism going on there today, too much of an effort to keep up appearances.  Sure he understands that there's a business side to that, but life's too short.  Stay down to earth.  That's what the catering customers would have wanted, along with their food orders.  So he's looking forward to tomorrow, with a better shift, when he's pretty sure the Commemoration spirit is over.  Lets get back to normal, because the days after the Commemoration he thinks matter far more.  Now he doesn't feel this necessarily rises to the importance of mention on audio, so he's getting me the Mentor to write it here.

The Bachelor Contemplates A Political Cult Awareness Week.  That's what we're doing for the fifth anniversary of Ed Snowden this year.  This will be about somewhere between May 20 and June 6, and plenty of time before and after.  Among other things, we differentiate ourselves from the progressives and as political skeptics in that we observe that the progressives have never gone back on their support for Ed Snowden in the past five years.  We see Ed Snowden as even more of a threat to the American way than Donald Trump, because we see the former as promoting the kind of corrupted thinking the latter finds a handy place in.  It's this corrupted thinking that threatens the rule of law in this country at this time.  This is how Heir believes Ed Snowden was primarily the one that caused Trump to become President.  Worse than that, the Heir believes that the progressives think of Trump as a handy way of not dealing with Ed Snowden.  So, the Heir will think twice before giving the progressives any money to do things with.  The Heir also now believes the "sex revolution" was a marketing campaign during the Seventies aimed at young people to make money off selling beer and cars and deodorant to them.  The Heir has also started covering NBC Port Moresby more actively, to keep tabs on that one small country in the pacific region we believe whose indigenous cultural background holds certain wisdom for the otherwise Type A and overmodern West.  On Audio (click or tap Play All): https://www.mixcloud.com/audiobachelor2/playlists/the-happy-bachelor-1/

The Importance Of Vital Information Through Audio In The Era Of Fake News.  So, people, you've likely been hearing the phrase "fake news" left and right these days.  But we provide some insight as to how to tell between fake news and reliable information, and lo and behold, it has to do with using the following Vitality Standards on analog radio: Relevance, Accuracy and Substance.  We remind people that audio should be more preferred to visual (whether that's TV or social media), because audio helps filter out clickbait links and distracting sensationalized imagery.  We're also looking into classic murder mysteries (e.g., Agatha Christie) as boot dressing the classiness pillar, since the TV adaptations feature classy architecture, furniture and decor.  The Heir also believes we are a classist society and is very disappointed in the progressive movement's failure to sincerely champion the working class.  And whatever happens to Funny Named Care, the Heir is determined to uphold the importance of affordability, for himself and for others.  The Heir also doesn't understand why an actor in Shakespeare In The Park has to cause "political" problems for the play program, just because he just happened to look like Donald Trump.  On Audio (Play All): https://www.mixcloud.com/audiobachelor2/playlists/the-happy-bachelor-1/

The Heir is disappointed that he's found very little online that commends the rogue employee for taking down Donald Trump's Twitter account for 11 minutes.  He was hoping to find something to the effect of, one person had the courage to do something that Twitter is too much of a wuss to do.  It's obvious to the Heir that Donald Trump violates Twitter's terms of use in every tweet he's ever made.  No response from Twitter.  But if someone replies just overly civilly saying to Donald Trump, "I don't agree with you," Twitter would immediately suspend that user's account to the point that the user has to go to their Rep in Congress to get their account unsuspended.  This the Heir is pretty much sure is the case.  But still, nothing that commends the rogue employee, not even members of the progressive movement or the so-called "resistance."  The Heir's wondering whether they're really trying hard enough.

The Heir: "So here's the only thing I can find: https://www.irishnews.com/magazine/daily/2017/11/03/news/here-s-how-the-world-reacted-to-the-deactivation-of-donald-trump-s-twitter-account-1178967/"