Indications are to the Heir that the progressives essentially want to act as if Trump never existed once Joe Biden is inaugurated, and the Heir is having none of it.  All it does is confirm to the Heir that for all intents and purposes, the progressives don't care about justice.  I the Mentor will this time around spare you the Heir's rantings about the progressives' connections to Ed Snowden, and how they seem to want to release all offenders no matter how serious the crimes are they committed.  No, instead the Heir wants to remind everyone to heed and follow the Trump Trial once that takes place.  It'll be today's version of the Nuremberg Trials, because the Heir wants to prosecute Bill Barr, and those other trials that Manofort/Flynn/Stone are going to face.  The Heir is going to read the Riot Act to anyone who prefers the Cannibal Son Trial to the Trump Trial.  After all, the Cannibal Son is not suspected of or indicted on financial fraud charges, tax fraud, band fraud, insurance fraud, money laundering.  As the Heir heard Glenn Kirshner say, "Justice Is Coming."

We in the Bachelor offer our congratulations to Joe Biden for winning the election.  It wasn't this landslide as hyped, but we'll take it.  Best of luck to you and your upcoming presidency.

Happy Bachelor Election Night 2020

On the congressional level, the Heir sees the election as a case of Progressive Hubris.  He gets the impression that they sent AOC all over the country even after the Bernie Failure in Michigan back on May or so.  AOC really has no clout outside of her own district, and the Donkeys For The People lost 5 seats when they should have gotten 20 or so.  The Heir is also going to pull the rug out from under Jaime Harrison for that ageist remark he made on Colbert about Lindsey Graham as being "a relic of the Old South."  From that page titled "South Carolina Voter Registration Demographics," the Heir estimates the median age of registered voters to be 58 or so, so you have to watch what you say around the older folk there, since they're largely the ones doing the voting.  That too is a progressive sin, to not just appeal just to younger voters, but to make youth itself a political issue in such a way that the 50+ people feel snubbed and disincluded.  Looks like they've showed the progressives in South Carolina at least.  So that's what the Heir believes the largely progressive intellectual class associated with coastal universities need to put in their pipe and smoke.  As for the Trump-Biden contest while votes are still being counted as of this writing, the Heir doesn't believe it should be as close as it is, mail-in ballots notwithstanding.  He thinks the election should have been over at 9:30pm Election Night with just 12% of all votes counted if what both progressives and conventional wisdom types said was true, that the coronavirus should have killed Trump politically.  Instead, the only credible theory the Heir can come up with is that people are just as likely to vote for a ham sandwich, and do absolutely no measure of merits on a given candidate, that they think nothing of walking into a booth blindfolded and hitting voting machine switches at random.  Those who wish to conserve did it with Trump, and the progressives did it with AOC (and did we also mention Ed Snowden as well???).  But unlike the Westernized observers, the Heir is already looking to the 2022 elections, the year of Soylent Green.  For one thing, he's pretty sure the Russians will get tired of trying to hack us by 2022, but he's also sure that the Elephantine Elitists are likely to pick up 5 seats in the Senate that year, because he's sure the Donkeys For The People will have far more seats to defend than the Elitists will.

Bachelor Election Night 2020

Earlier this evening, the Heir had tea and muffins with Marco's Grandmother, after food shopping for her at Bland Barns.  He expressed his concerns that I the Mentor relayed here on this shares base that people like Paul Manafort, Roger Stone and Michael Flynn are heading for not only a pardon, but a complete vindication of a get-out-of-free-jail-card.  Marco's Grandmother reminded him that the charges we hear being made against Manafort Stone & Flynn are not necessarily the only ones, and that additional charges may be pending.  Granted, we're not going to readily hear about those charges for two reasons.  Firstly, the prosecutors don't want to tip off the suspects with what they're working on.  Secondly, Pat Fitzgerald mentioned 15 years ago that the way our system of justice works, if someone's suspected of a crime, the prosecutors don't hold that information up for the public to look at.  They either charge them with a crime, or they don't.  That said, the Heir still wants there to be actual substantive reassurance that MSF won't automatically come off the hook in the case of a pardon, and until he actually hears some, he's going to assume the opposite.  That's probably partly because that the Insurgent Network, for its occasional emphasis on legal eagle geek type analysis, also portrays MSF as absolutely walking in the case of a pardon or some other technicality.  So if that technicality happens, and additional unrelated charges get announced shortly thereafter, the Insurgent Network has to explain to Law And Justice types like the Heir as to why they got it wrong.  Also, the Heir still sees society as personally corrupt because of how the 2010s happened, with the forced obsolescence of Big Tech, and Ed Snowden, and the recruiter spin of "the power of positive thinking."

The Heir: "Hey Mentor.  When we complete The Great Walkup to the counter, let's ask the Chef that if we do nail MSF on those upcoming charges, why did things like forced obsolescence and personal corruption ever happen to begin with?"

So the Heir's going to pull a Flaileef here, and bomb-blast the Donkeys For The People for not doing enough to stop Amy Coney Barrett from going on the Supreme Court.  One of only two things he heard out of Chuck Schumer is that one decades-to-come style talking point.  This is the one where they say Person X going on the Supreme Court would have ramifications for decades to come.  The Heir takes this as disingenuous, because *any* time Person X goes on the Court, it has ramifications for decades to come, though historically the Heir sees that more often than not, "decades" is an exaggeration.  Look at David Souter.  He was only on the Court for two decades, and the Heir isn't going to let the Chuck Schumers of the world get off the hook with saying, yeah but two decades is still decades.  That's because they know full well when you hear "decades to come," you tend to think 3, 4, 5 decades or something, to the point where you'd have an 80 year old Amy Coney Barrett still going strong in, what, I guess that would be 2050 or something?  But what if Justice Barrett also decides to leave relatively early?  That would blot out all conformist analysis.  And here's the other thing Schumer said the Heir wants to go after him for.  It was something to the effect of, you may think this will blow over, but the American people will remember.  The Heir doesn't think the Elephantine Elitists think things will blow over, since if the conventional wisdom is correct, the Elitists put Justice Barrett up there for the purpose of apparently weaponizing the Supreme Court as a kind of third house of Congress, and supposedly for "decades to come."  So that's why the Heir is asking state governments that are trying to make advances in affordable health care and affordability at large and improving people's live to get ready to defy a given decision by the Supreme Court that is perceived to be a purely political move to interfere with those advances.  The Heir also wants the remaining "liberal" Justices in their dissent in such a politicized decision to write that dissent to be actionable by the state governments, as if the dissent were the decision itself.  It's kind of a shame that it may come to that, because it means that the Supreme Court will cease to be the respected institution it is today, as opposed to a bureaucratic obstacle to be done away with like the way people seem to see the Electoral College as being.  That's why we in the Bachelor want to emphasize things like jurisprudence and respect for precedent over weaponized politicization.

"Poh Lit Tiss So Sigh Zay Shun."

We in the Bachelor encourage Cy Vance to appeal his case against Paul Manofort to the New York State Supreme Court, after being rejected at the appellate level on supposedly double jeopardy grounds.  Here's one question Mr. Vance can make before the courts: is it really double jeopardy to try Manofort again if Trump pardons Manofort at the federal level?  Here's why we think it isn't.  The appellate court made their rejection based *only* what they see on paper in the present, and didn't try to explore the case in the event of a pardon.  What they'd say for their side is that a pardon is supposedly hypothetical, while at the same time acknowledging how Trump is going to be pardoning hardened criminals.  That's the appellate court struggling with cognitive dissonance, and approaching the case from as narrow a view possible, also not accounting for the millions of dollars wrongly charged to the taxpayer as yet unrecouped.  We also see the appellate court as failing to make the case that Manofort facing the optics of double jeopardy is an unfair precedent for example for a poor young man from the inner city seeking justice, since the latter does not have anywhere near the legal resources as Manofort does.  Cy Vance has to make sure the courts don't deal him with O.J. type rulings, because that would certainly damage the country.  And it's doubtful to us that the courts would ever regret making such a ruling.  So if Manofort, and Roger Stone and Michael Flynn ever achieve their lifelong dream of a get-out-of-jail-free-card, we in the Bachelor request that BLM petitions Manofort/Stone/Flynn to have a sit-down with the families of George Floyd and Brianna Taylor so those guys can appreciate how the rest of the country can only struggle for the justice they so easily achieve.  It's just not going to be over if the court cases are over, since there will still be law-and-justice anger in the country long after the Trump era.

This Bachelor shares base is powered by Blogger, a subsidiary/subdivision of Google.  So with that one disclaimer out of the way, we observe that among other things, the lawsuit against Google was a long time coming.  Big Tech had always believed it somehow had an entitled ownership of human culture, and that everyone had to do what Big Tech told them to do.  We've observed that everyone actually did believe they owed Big Tech, and the Heir still believes that people still do believe they owe Big Tech, including the progressives, the powering of whose online funding and organizing the progressives see as almost totally depending on the dominance of Big Tech.  This lawsuit means that that dominance is coming to an end, but Big Tech is going to fight back against the rest of humanity.  They might end up driving down the capacity of their data centers so that human activity ends up slowing down and running into a crisis as a result.  Because here's the thing, and this is why we need the concept of Prepper Maker.  We as a society can throw all we can at Big Tech, but all Big Tech needs to do is whip out that one agreement that every single human being signed with their blood in the "disruptions" 2010s, and remind everyone that they agreed with Big Tech that they somehow *need* Big Tech.  It's kind of like the Matrix or Skynet that way.  Prepper Maker and the DIY Insurgency on a public commons level like with our own networks and processors would be our declaration as a species that we *do not* need Big Tech.  We don't need Big Tech to run society for us.  Big Tech needs *us* to run their businesses with.  That's why the Heir's working feverishly in the coming of tropical soul on his DIY music player, and once it's running properly, he will physically hold it up against Big Tech's physical holding up of that agreement of that Faustian deal that humanity was forced to make with them.

"Once I get that DIY player done, that will be Prepper Maker proof that we as a human species don't need Big Tech in order to survive.  And maybe then we'll see the dawning of a new era."

The Heir doesn't see the Donkeys For The People as having any kind of strategy where Amy Coney Barrett is concerned.  Again he blames the influence of Ed Snowden, and this whole Stand For Something business, which dictates among other things against any use of strategy in anything whatsoever.  The Ed Snowdens portray any show of pragmatic strategy as a form of weakness, because somehow it's supposed to mean you're an unassertive person of some sort.  Obviously it makes no sense.  But having said that, the Heir does not buy Chuck Schumer's assertion that Amy Coney Barrett means the end of Funny Named Care.  It just sounds too much of a specious argument for the Heir.  It's no wonder people are worried about the future.  They hear all sorts of doom and gloom, and big tech gets people to believe that the future can only be like the present, and not an opposite as per its wont.  So the Heir recommends that people get a grip on this one and try not to make overgeneralizations.  But he's mad about the fact that instead of him being able to get local headlines in the 9am briefing, they went to special coverage of the hearings starting with "analysis."  The Heir doesn't want no analysis, he wants his basic local headlines.  The Heir tells those people what they can do with their so-called analysis, because if anything important happened in Bachelor Blue State, like with the coronavirus and additional executive orders, he's totally in the dark about it.  Excuse me citizen, the now brutalizer-reputation-disgraced cops will tell him tomorrow morning, but haven't you heard about this one lane change here because of the coronavirus???

"No, officer, because they were covering the judicial hearings instead.  I didn't hear *any* special orders coming out of the Governor's office."

One form of systemic racism the Heir doesn't see our addressing now that we have the opportunity is the concept of professionalism.  It's a concept the Heir sees as an excuse to disinclude "undesirables" from a workplace in which they'd be effectively far more qualified and far more likely to excel in than the people who currently work there.  Sure, you need to go to school for things like law, medicine, nursing and accounting, but other than that, those job ads that say you need 10 years of experience in 20 different systems the Heir believes should not be posted in the first place.  If you need a career change, the Heir recommends that you should find a reasonable entry level type position whose only requirement is sincere interest in the job.  Let's get rid of these unnecessarily high barriers to entry who then have the gall to claim they're an equal opportunity employer.  If those people the Heir sees brutalized died for anything, it's getting rid of professionalism.

The Heir sees that one member of Antifa those cops shot to death weeks ago, and wonders if the cops in that case also should be brought to justice like in the other brutality cases.  If the progressives haven't made that demand, that there the Heir sees as general evidence that Antifa is neither "anarchist" or "far left."  The Heir sees Ed Snowden and Anonymous as being those things, not Antifa.

Even though we in the Bachelor are high on law and justice type issues, we do wish Trump and his family a speedy recovery.  That said, we've observed that a number of officials got the coronavirus while attending that public briefing with Amy Coney Barrett.  The Heir asks whether Ms. Barrett was tested herself and whether she's negative or positive.  She too was physically close to the people who went down, and who weren't wearing a mask.  So the Heir thinks it's possible that if Ms. Barrett tests positive, she may end up withdrawing her name from consideration while she's on the mend.  Only possible though.  Something the Heir has made available for the analysts to think about.  Stay tuned.

OK, people, look very closely at this one.  The Heir got me the Mentor to take a picture before he wrapped up his completed ballot, and put it in an official Bachelor Blue State Ballot Box.  This is just in case no one thought he was serious about being against legal pot.  All this time Flaileef kept telling the Heir that the Heir's opinions don't matter, every single time Flaileef started a political argument with the Heir over the Heir's supposed political weakness for not supporting Ed Snowden or Julian Assange or the Anonymous hacking group.  Every single time Flaileef and the Ed Snowden progressives came after the Heir just for being an ordinary Joe with what I as the Mentor kind of see as a healthful skepticism on mainstream politics at large, the Heir stood for principle (i.e., National Principle as per this share tag).  They then berated him for his supposed ignorance, and how the facts are on *their* side, not *his*, and that only if he considered those their-side facts, he would automatically change his opinions on things and join their groups without question.  He said no, pointing out to them that factuality doesn't always figure as much as values and principle does, and that's when they keep yelling at him saying, "Your Opinions Don't Matter!!"  This they did to him since 2006, actually since we started the Bachelor series, and this below is the result of their efforts.  They turned the Heir officially against them for their skepticism.  The Heir figures that this is a preview of a coming of tropical soul for our Bachelor culture, though right now we don't know all the specifics of how it's going to go.  All we can say is that going forward, it's going to get far harder for all the Flaileefs and the Ed Snowdens in the world.

The Heir offscreen, voiceover: "The Ed Snowdens have no-one but themselves to blame for losing people like this."

So with the Ed Snowden faction the Heir believes is hijacking the cause of social justice, he observes them as falling silent on the arrest of that one suspect in the derailment incident in New York.  The Ed Snowdens seemed to have acknowledged that they can't protest the treatment of the derailment suspect, since cameras on visual catching the perp walk showed no evidence that the suspect was brutalized or mistreated in any way, shape or form.  The Heir figures that the Ed Snowdens can't make the case for abolishing the police (on an apparently permanent basis, contrary to the Camden Project), since you need the cops to arrest this person in the first place.  What happens to the suspect after that legally, e.g., hearings, indictment, a court case, the Heir sees a separate at this point in time.  He could certainly make objections in the future if he believes the suspect is going to get Roger Stone Style Leniency solely because of what the Heir sees as our overly lenient society.  That's why there was that one rude couple we encountered back in August near the beach conformant with Sonya's and Leeanna's preferred dress code who placed their belongings on top of a drinking fountain the Heir was going to use.  They never even cared to notice that someone wanted to use the fountain, and left their items there for at least 10 minutes.  The Heir believes that if our society adhered more to principle, the rude couple wouldn't have done that.  So he sees the cops as having a role in shaping the moral development of society at large.  Their being unpopular now because of excessive force the Heir sees as no excuse for anyone to act like they can do anything they want.

We see the passing of RBG as a bummer, and acknowledge the accomplishments Justice Ginsburg made in her lifetime.  That said, the very minute the Heir's coworkers on the catering counter at Bland Barns showed him the headline on their smartphones, the Heir knew right away what kind of political bleep storm was going to result.  So this contentiousness over the Supreme Court in an election year comes as no surprise to the Heir.  Part of that is how around this time the Heir has observed the progressives as writing off the entire future of America just because the Supreme Court is somehow more "conservative" and isn't always going to rule the way the progressives want.  But as an example, the Heir points to the court opinion that effectively overturned job discrimination against gays.  He points to the analysis that it's not as if Neal Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh became "pro-gay" all of a sudden, as much as the conservatism of the court is at least partially about *conserving* precedent.  The analysis went into detail on how that's the case, so if someone like Amy Coney Barrett gets on there or someone else, what the Heir sees as important is that you don't get a hack on there that'll totally ignore precedent or throw jurisprudence into the junk heap and try to legislate from the bench.  That has to go for all Justices, regardless of politics.  That said, the Heir wonders just what *really* keeps the Supreme Court from becoming a third house of Congress, because he doesn't recall anything in the letter of the Constitution that says that the Court *has* to exercise jurisprudence, and *cannot* legislate from the bench, and *has* to respect precedent at least in those cases where the petitioners failed to provide sufficient reason for the Court to overturn precedent with respect to a given type of case.

It's been at least three weeks, but the Heir has only just gotten a chance now to agree with that one FOP that Pat Lynch shouldn't have made a political endorsement.  Their concern, also shared by the Heir, is that it makes the cops a partisan force, and makes it harder for them to do their jobs.  This at a time when the Heir sees BLM's side in the excessive force debate being hijacked by the Ed Snowden types.  He imagines having to have a debate with one of those and making negotiations of some sort, but the problem with "debates" is that when one person comes out as the "winner," the other person is counted as the "loser" as in a zero-sum game.  And then the "loser" has to completely endorse everything the "winner" says, and not stand for one's own sense of conviction.  The substantive specifics of the debate get lost and are long forgotten.  Look at when Ed Snowden himself said, "I already won."  The Heir sees videos of these self appointed spokespeople amidst some of the protests, and he sees them acting like just because there's been excessive force, they as spokespeople can never be wrong.  They try to tell the Heir that just because the Heir himself didn't have to deal with excessive force, that somehow that means the Heir never had to deal with *anything*, period.  The Heir wants to remind those spokespeople of how forced obsolescence caused him to lose a job five years ago when the economy was "great," and how he was told he had to utilize the "power of positive thinking."  His loss of that job also made him look "wrong" when it came to his disagreements with Ed Snowden.  So, in that sense at least, the grass is greener on the other side.  Also, the bit about being rendered forensically "wrong" can actually be fatal, because the Heir believes that those two deputies in Los Angeles were not necessarily shot out of revenge over excessive force.  He believes they were shot because they were perceived as weak for being in the "wrong" in the debate.  The Heir doesn't recall the officers having a debate with anyone at the time.  They were ambushed in their vehicles when they apparently least expected it.