So even though the Heir completely undid Trump's "exoneration," he still proceeds with silent rage and restlessness, and dissatisfaction with the system.  And why?  Well, where does he begin?  One thing is with the Harvey Weinstein trial whose defense attorneys are predicting an acquittal from the court steps.  This the Heir sees as a call to arms on this particular front for justice for the people, because if Weinstein does get acquitted, the Heir thinks Letitia James needs to appoint a commission or a task force to find out what went wrong, particularly if even more women come out after the acquittal to state that Weinstein assaulted them too.  The current survivors should seriously consider legal action against the court system that would also help bring irregularities to light.  Also how the trial was covered in the media, which further denigrates any reputation the media has left as the so-called "fourth estate."  The Heir angrily paces around the Swank Lounge when his tablet shows the Weinstein trial designated as "entertainment" news or solely as local news.  It's accusations against Weinstein that effectively launched the MeToo movement, so that deserves more serious national coverage.  The Heir has general plans in mind post-acquittal, because there's a growing need for justice for the people rather than just for jerkasses like Trump or Weinstein.

This is the week's anniversary of Trump claiming he's exonerated and "acquitted forever", and in response to Nancy Pelosi tearing up his State of the union address, he tore up his own articles of impeachment.  The Heir in response to that response wants to tear up Trump's "exoneration."  It'll be a piece of paper with the phrase Trump Exoneration at the top, and with a word salad of his exoneration press conference, his tweets and rally bites from when Ukrainegate got started through to his rally in NH.  And then the Heir will tear it with Tear Up Trump.  The Heir in his own fantasy press conference before he does the tear up to thunderous applause would proclaim that it was not a real acquittal because it was not a real trial, because you didn't hear witnesses or evidence.  Instead, he proclaims as a hung jury, better known as the Trump Hung Jury.


Here's yet another way in which we're none-of-the-above skeptics here in the Bachelor.  We will not go along with the progressive movement's efforts to turn the election into a Political Armageddon in which they'll want to claim that if the election fails then somehow we can never hold Trump to account even after he leaves office.  Their apparent contention would be that the election results would somehow make both criminal and civil trials impossible, despite the fact that those legal eagles the Heir sees on the Insurgent Network would dismiss that out of hand, and should do so.  That's why we in the Bachelor are separating our participation from our pursuit of justice.  There's a good chance that a Donkey For The People nominee will defeat Trump, which will have the effect of moving up potential trial dates after he leaves office, but we don't think that's any reason why the Resistance should put all their justice eggs in one basket, solely because the progressives seem for them to want to do so.  The Heir was there in 2004 when that was the progressive strategy, and look how that turned out.

"I proclaim that it was not a real acquittal, because it was not a real trial, because you did not have witnesses or evidence approved for review.  So instead it's a Trump Hung Jury.  And with that, I will now tear up the Trump Exoneration."

Pfffffffffffffffffffffffft 🌀

The Heir's done further thinking on how to continue to pursue justice against Trump, along with his superiors among big tech and Ed Snowden.  He's wondering whether it's time to revisit the presumption of innocence till proven guilty.  For 98% of the population it's still the right and valid approach.  It's those 2% who will exploit the concept, so that you don't have justice, but instead injustice.  That's why you have the Court Of Public Opinion, which if you went by the book with things like presumption of innocence and protection against double jeopardy, the Court Of Public Opinion would be considered a form of mob rule.  If this is a concern about democracy the progressives have, the Heir would appreciate it if they specifically said so.  But if you have a 2%-er play the system in such a way to get a get out of free jail card, and there are no options left in the system proper to pursue justice with, how can you possibly *not* go to the Court Of Public Opinion at that point?  Maybe that's what elections are about, but let's say the elections don't work as the progressives fear.  The Heir's wondering why you *shouldn't* take a guilty before proven innocent approach with a 2%-er who's gotten his get out of jail free card.  Maybe there's something in the Federalist Papers about it, but the Heir has yet to get his copy of the Papers back from Marco's grandmother.  Now Paul Manafort's in jail, Roger Stone the Heir thinks is awaiting sentencing, and Jeffrey Epstein is dead, so there aren't any immediate test cases in which the Heir can apply his don't-spare-the-rod-don't-spoil-the-child approach with.  Not even Trump yet until the election.  After that the Heir intends to have a plan B up his sleeve no matter what the progressives say or think or do about it.  He's feeling better already, but maybe this is the reason why the progressives went bat poop in 2006.  They may have felt they had no choice after 2004.

"Stay tuned."

So a lot to unpack with the "acquittal" and the progressives' apparent belief that this is the "end" of democracy.  Firstly, the Heir doesn't believe there was a real acquittal, because there wasn't a real trial to begin with.  He's not sure what the exact vanilla type-A bureaucratic term is, but it wasn't a trial if you didn't have witnesses or evidence.  He's one of the 75% who said you needed witnesses and evidence.  Secondly, this whole democracy thing, and how democracy is being "threatened."  The progressives apparently don't want to see it, but the Heir sees very nature of democracy as *being* threatened.  Here's what the Heir points out: When you had Camelot with JFK and stuff, why didn't the progressives denounce Camelot as a threat to democracy?  What?  Just because it was their guy?  Because Camelot is a form of royalization of the Presidency, and the Founders would have had a coronary if they knew there was going to be Camelot.  You had Benjamin Franklin as saying we have a democracy if we can keep it.  No-one ever has said "if we can keep it" after Benjamin Franklin died except to quote the guy.  And then there's eternal vigilance, which is an inherent acknowledgment that democracy is *always* threatened, no matter if it's Trump or Funny Named Skinny Kid or Impulsive, or the Heir's current beneficiary of support, Elizabeth Warren.  If we had a Warren Administration, the Heir still sees democracy as being threatened, no matter how much Warren is able to bring big tech to its knees and get them to eat their one-thing-should-replace-another forced obsolescence marketing talk.  And what else?  Oh yeah, and the Heir thinks Trump's reprise of "total exoneration" and "acquitted forever" is BS and Trump knows it's BS.  The Heir wants the activists to start using the hash tag #ImpeachedForeverAcquittedNever.  Come on, activists, get with the program!

"Remember what David McCollough said about the Jeffersons and the Madisons: that they never gave up.  Never did *they* say, oh it's the end of democracy.  No matter how they fell on their faces, they never gave up.  That's the lesson we got to keep taking out of history."

The Heir is wondering whether the app failure in Iowa is a result of that app's marketers convincing a naive election commission about forced obsolescence, that one thing has to replace another.  The marketers may have come in with a big bin that the commission had to dump all their clipboards and calculators into as a condition of taking ownership of the app, i.e., old fashioned tools they may have previously used to tally up election results.  That's what they did in Finland when those marketers came in with a big bin for analog radios as a selling point that digital radios had to replace analog ones, resulting in what the Heir sees as a now informationally blind country.  Now that self driving cars have revealed themselves a miserable failure in high accident rates, that and Iowa the Heir sees as a reason to abandon forced obsolescence as a life's philosophy for the human race.

"At the risk of sounding like an old fart: BTT, back to tradition."

The Heir opposes the Insurgent New Network's fatalistic hyperbole regarding votes on witnesses in the impeachment trial.  He will not forget how they dropped the ball on that network accordingly, the same way he now still holds it against them regarding their put down of Jerry Nadler regarding the Hope Hicks hearings.  They have no hope of living either down.  They cannot tell themselves that they just need to wait two weeks in news cycles and then act like nothing ever happened.  Even worse is how they still insist on having that hack Jason Johnson on half their panels.  They have no stalwart sense of law and justice as long as that guy's on their panels *and* they continue their fatalism.  Because you don't hear them getting behind the idea that if it's not a fair trial it's no trial at all, and therefore Trump was never acquitted because he was never really tried in the first place.  You also don't hear them acknowledging that Trump's impeachment status is a permanent stain on his legacy.  You also don't hear them try to find any hope in a trial on Trump after he leaves office.  No, they will today dismiss *all three of those notions,* and the Heir will forever remember they did so the next time they take the hopeless and cynical path.  Shame on them.

"Just as the Mentor said above: shame on them."

So with the coronavirus, it's plainly obvious to the Heir that the media is just blowing the outbreak out of proportion, and certainly on visual.  Thank goodness he's gotten with audio with the information, and specifically on analog radio.  That medium is not out of the woods yet, though.  But anyway, this is something that the media did with the Ebola outbreak, and H1N1, and SARS.  He doesn't believe that the central government in Beijing sees the media kerfuffle in the West as entirely unwelcome.  It helps give them cover in and distraction from their oppressing dissenters in the guise of quarantine.  I mean, c'mon!  Does anybody *really* believe that that building they're under the gun in building is an actual hospital like they've been telling the rest of the world, as opposed to another labor camp?  The Heir also feels like diBlasio is just an idiot at this point in his participation in that disease hysteria, along with the same with that Iran Armageddon campaign two weeks ago.  Now that he's off the campaign trail, his political IQ is likely to continue to tank.

"To paraphrase my frenemy Flaileef, 'Wake Up Sheeple!'  I only like it when *I* get to say that."

The Heir believes Iran is being two-faced.  For days they've denied that it was one of their missiles that brought down that Ukrainian plane.  They were getting high and mighty in the face of u.s. and Canadian officials, bellicosely demanding, "where is your proof???"  And then they recanted.  But it's too late now.  The Heir is going to remember this sin of theirs, possibly for years to come, the same way the Tsarnaev brothers killed and maimed dozens of people for our once having been in Iraq.

"I can see myself heckling the Ayatollah 20 years from now for what happened in January of 2020."

Happy New Year from The Bachelor!  However the Heir feels as if the politicians did us a disservice by trying to get us all stressed out about a possible war with Iran.  You have Bill diBlasio publicly making allusions to both Hiroshima and 9/11, and then it turns out Iran just lobbed a few missiles at a couple of US army bases.  The Heir waited until now to make a comment on this point because he wanted confirmation as to whether there were casualties.  He tuned into audio this morning, analog radio, and he didn't hear that there were any.  No promise in the future of course but he never really believed that anything big was really going to happen as a response to the death of General Soleimani.  Both the politicians and the media indicated otherwise at the time, and again this serves to take away from the Media's supposed reputation as a so-called fourth estate.  It was kind of a 1% Doctrine on part of the media: If there's even a 1% chance of a major retaliation, act as if it's a certainty.

"Come on, people.  Really?"

The Heir's been watching octopus videos when he's vegging out.  They said that octopi can get bored, and you have to keep them interested with games and stuff.  But the Heir's not convinced that an octopus would play with a given toy unless there's a crab in it or something.  He doesn't think that an octopus would squeeze through a tube or open up a jar just for the heck of it.  So maybe it's not bored but hungry.  He'd like to see a bimac have access to a jarred crab and a non-jarred crab.  He's pretty sure the octopus would go for the unjarred crab first, and would only go for the jarred crab when he gets hungry again.  The Heir's led to believe it's path of least resistance with the octopus, but he'll update if he's led to believe differently.  And so may the octopus.

Hope you're having a good holiday thus far, people.  We're looking at putting out a new episode sometime in the new year.  It's taking a while because the Heir is also working on his DIY music player, with the Third Pillar.  So in the meantime we're putting out increased posts here on our shares base when we can.  We put one out yesterday regarding legal pot, and today the Heir wants to talk about whether or not Russian hackers put out Facebook posts organizing events not directly politically related but proving socially harmful all the same.  There's this form of reckless joyriding called doing donuts and here's the title of a video the Heir has found on it: "Group blocks I-94 traffic to do donuts, mock Detroit police."  Apparently these donut events were organized on Facebook, and Russian hacking involvement cannot be ruled out, particularly if pages out of the playbook for the Cold war are being borrowed now.  Here's a title to a historical video on the Cold war that details the extent to which there were these kinds of petty moves: "How Did the Cold War Start and End?"  The Heir got done with watching yet another video titled as follows: "US Officials Still Assessing Russia 2016 Hack | Rachel Maddow | MSNBC," and then all he did was just put two and two and two together.  What if there's an attempt at increased social destabilization, by increasing the personal corruption of youth?  Now the Heir is not drawing any conclusions just yet, but he's going to think about this one for a while.

"Call me an old fart here, people.  I don't particularly mind."

Another one on the legal pot front.  So in fact it will be on referendum for next year.  Again the Heir is looking forward to voting against it, and since the Heir expects to get a mail-in ballot, he's considering taking a picture of his no vote on that ballot before he sends it in, and putting it here on our shares base.  And here's another reason the Heir has found to be against legal pot.  The very idea itself is already past its time.  We probably should have legalized pot 20 or 30 years ago when it actually mattered, but now as far as the Heir is concerned it's already too late.  Also it's predicted that the referendum will pass between 57 and 62%, so the Heir believes it's unlikely that there will be an effort to reach out to those who voted against it.  There's many many more things to be said about this issue, so please stay tuned.

Update on the Heir's opposition to legal pot.  The politicians in Bachelor Blue State have decided to designate the issue on referendum on next year's ballot, or are trying to do so.  If it gets on there, the Heir's looking *very forward* to voting against the issue on the ballot.  The Heir heard on audio how this is kind of punt to the voters, and in one respect the Heir agrees.  The politicians have figured out that legal pot is one of those Last Taboo type issues, and they see that as a political rabbit hole, so they look a couple steps ahead in trying to debate the issue.  They're afraid that one of them might end up implying that we should legalize sex work if we're going to legalize pot, because why have one and not the other?  Even in 2019 none of them wants to go on record as even *implying* legalizing sex work, so they punted that whole debate to the voters to get it out of the state house.  Legal pot being a Last Taboo is another way of saying that it's not really about social justice, as important as that is.  The Heir's pretty sure that legalizing pot will end up doing next to nothing with social justice.  People will still go to jail for excessive amounts of time, and there will still be inequality in the system.  And while that's going on, teenagers will blow pot smoke in the faces of adults, because they believe the phrase Legal Pot allows them to do so.  There will also be far less support for recovery resources, and peer pressure among teens to do pot will greatly increase.  Again, the Heir makes clear that this is *the* wrong track to go on.

"If Bachelor Blue State legalizes pot, we will *live* to regret it."