So here's the Heir's take on predictions that China will overtake the US economically by 2030.  Even if it does happen in the way the economists forecast, the Heir doesn't believe it'll last, maybe 2-3 years at the very most, and then he believes the US and China will be roughly tied for first before swapping first place every other year or so.  The Heir references the Atlantic article Why The US Will Outcompete China along with a Pew Research poll showing Unfavorable Views Of China Reach Historic Highs, but he also cautions the westernized type-a economists not to view cultural interactions with the severely limiting assumptions as he sees them doing.  For one thing, those who care about ongoing US independence need to brainstorm those things the US can do that China can't and never will.  For example, free speech and free and fair elections.  This past election the Heir observes as the most secure election that has possibly ever taken place.  This should set aside our reservations about our election process enough for China to be sick with envy that we even have elections at all.  Secondly, free speech demonstrations like the ones with Black Lives Matter.  Even with things like Lafayette Square, you still can't have our kinds of demonstrations in China.  If you tried, BLM's leadership would be captured and tortured and held indefinitely in a labor camp.  That's something China should be ashamed of, and should be dangled in front of them any time they want to play economic hardball, because then we'd make it clear to them we know whom we're dealing with.  This is the reason why the Heir believes China is in the basement on public opinion around the world as per the Pew poll, because public image does ultimately matter if China wants to do business with the free world.  Thirdly, the US stands ready to have its first woman of color head of state.  Maybe there was a 2 year empress in China's history 2000 years ago, but nothing like that in the past 100 years.  And you're never going to see the first Uighur Chinese president or the first Tibetan Chinese President like the way we had the first black President in 2008.  These the Heir points out as reasons why if China has any real hope of competing with the US economically, they also have to compete culturally, and that they can't do without a Chinese perestroika of some sort, which China already ruled out in the 2000s under Hu Jin Tao.  So the Heir proclaims, China take your first place if you really think it'll do you any good, because you should be careful what you wish for.

The Heir believes we as a culture need to be more proactive about the Trump Pardons, and is proposing, among other things, a Pardon Watch Committee.  He doesn't have specifics as to who should be on this committee or a charter, but for every hardened criminal Trump pardons, the Heir wants this Committee to propose alternatives for legally pursuing each criminal, until the very last one is brought to justice.  This he sees as an alternative to the more mild objections or endless analysis of the pardons, because he sees the analysis type responses as a waste of time.  The Heir observes that there are number of legal tools at the Committee's disposal, including pursuing state and local charges, bringing class action suits to the criminals' estates, and organizing protests outside each public appearance the criminals make.  One detail the Heir is 70% sure about is the estate suits, because it means America can pursue the criminals even beyond the grave.  He ensures that death is not the ultimate pardon on any given criminal, and that a response to an out-of-time criminal death be officious in nature.  In short, the Heir wants to make it clear to Stone/Flynn/Manafort that they will find absolutely no peace or comfort in the Trump Pardons.

"...until the very last one is brought to justice."

The Heir wants to respond to something an acquaintance of his said online regarding crime.  That person seemed to imply that just because crime stats have been steadily going down over the past 20-30 years crime itself shouldn't be taken seriously enough.  A person replied to the acquaintance saying that concerns about crime are only signs of emotional insecurity on the part of the concerned, and that it's indicative of a certain group of people.  The Heir has never believed that the progressives really believe in law or justice, and with this one he believes they proved it.  For one thing, it's been observed that any time you see crime stats, it's only *reported* stats.  There's crime that goes on that never gets reported, so the Heir doesn't think the decline in statistics is meaningful for this reason alone.  Also, it's never been unusual for progressives to dismiss the concerns of others that the progressives themselves don't share.  So much for compassion.  It was four years ago that the Heir really laid into one of them regarding the importance of sincerity on the part of public figures.  That person dismissed the value of sincerity as something that the Attack Dog News Network would value, but the Heir said, no it's not about the Attack Dog Network, because *I* value sincerity in public figures.  That person looked real embarrassed when the Heir told him that.  So now just before the New Year after a major election, the Heir's looking at those junk political emails that keep getting sent, and now he has an idea that he'll unsubscribe from most of them.  He sees it as a way of getting out of certain kinds of bad relationships.  He doesn't owe the progressives.  He believes they owe *him* and all Americans, and since they've not conceded accordingly, he wants nothing further to do with them.

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.

I the Mentor just started writing this right now, and one good thing Blogger did right now was to make that fix where we couldn't see a 10 word preview for our listed posts.  We put in a request for it months ago, so looks like they just got it done.  As long as it makes it on there, that's what matters.  I suppose they were working on more critical stuff (possibly including Stats and Earnings), so an at-a-glance posts preview might have been relatively cosmetic.  But enough of all the compliments and the warm fuzzies.  Time to get to the real negative stuff.  And that's the Heir seeing the Elephantine convention as off to a bad start.  The only real takeaway the Heir's getting is that the Elephantines are complaining about "socialism," but they complained about proverbial socialism for decades.  They once called Social Security a form of socialism, so the Heir doesn't seem them as having any good ideas.  Maybe the Donkeys are better in that department, even though the Heir thinks *their* convention sucked as well, see below.  But definitely do expect Ed Snowden himself to make an appearance at the Elephantine convention, particularly if Trump is going to pardon him after the election, and also given the personal corruption of our present day society.  Maybe the third to last guest on the last day of the convention.  Just conventions in general, the Heir doesn't entirely know who gets to make speeches and who doesn't.  Usually what happens with multi-day events of any kind, the Heir's led to believe that, oh Person X is going to speak at the event.  So day 1 goes by, no Person X, so okay it's just day 1.  Day 2 goes by, and still no Person X, and that's when you start getting worried.  Then day 3 goes by, again no Person X, and that's when you start making complaints about, "Well what about Person X????"  And then they say, don't worry, we haven't forgotten about them.  Then it's day 4, and you're on the edge of your seat wondering will they or won't they?  Speaker 1 comes and goes, speaker 2 comes and goes, and you're not even going out to the bathroom because you might miss soemthing.  And then in mid-afternoon, not even evening, that's when the organizers come out and say, well that's everybody, thank you all for coming.  And then you're infuriated, bolting off to the doors in a fit.  And of course you can't get through because everyone's trying to leave all at once.  You do make it to the bathroom on your way out, and you find yourself putting graffiti in one of the stalls saying, "What about Person X???  They would have said this and they would have said that, and the other speakers mostly wasted our time."  And then you finally get home and look at Person X's Youtube channel, and they have a two minute video they just put out two hours ago, and in it they say, well I wasn't at the event, and here's what I would have said if I were, which is a summup of everything I said in my other videos.  That's the big reason not to put stock into multi-day events, because all they do is set you up just to knock you down, in a 2010's gaslighting style.  If they had wings and ribs along with red beans and rice and/or have a drum circle or a classic rock jam, you wouldn't have come away empty-handed.

"I just hope we can get this election over and done with.  It's the worst election ever.  But we still have to deal with the debates, and the upcoming October Surprise.  Maybe that'll be the Trump Taxes actually being released to the public, and showing he did collude with Russia, and showing financial fraud and money laundering and sexual assault (yes your tax forms actually do show you that).  All the stuff we already know about."

The Heir's just brimming with ideas where GPNX is concerned.  So he woke me up the Mentor just now and I was like, dang Heir it's 1:30 in the dang morning, I ought to lose my Fonzie cool and get mad at you, so what is it now.  He managed not to accidentally wake up Leeanna in the same bed, who's incidentally a deep sleeper, different than her Burmese heritage I guess.  So the Heir comes back and says he's got some aesthetic ideas for both the name and the logo.  I guess that's easy enough stuff to figure out while there's that big hurdle of license free amateur status that he needs for the repeaters at least.  So he's now thinking that a better name for GPNX is PBNX, better known as Public Basic Networks.  He feels that's more descriptive than General Public Networks, because it would use a General Packet Radio Service, which commercial providers would consider the equivalent of 2G.  This is a reminder that it's only for the basics, not for real time streaming a blockbuster movie in IMAX format.  He's also had ideas of how to redesignate the buckets of cellular, but I thought we already talked about that below.  But the Heir also has an idea for the logo for PBNX.  It's made up of an upturned bell shape with cell bars filling in the spaces on either side of the bell.  I told the Heir that he had better research whether both the logo and the name have already been used, otherwise he would almost certainly get sued by someone.  And being a food clerk for the Bland Barns Catering Counter, he just can't afford it.  He's not filthy rich, and he's not desperately poor.  So he's not going to have his own personal legal team, and he's not going to have someone go pro Bono with him.  The Heir is effectively in that terrible and awful doughnut hole.  That's why he's considering the concept of PBNX in the first place, so that he doesn't have to play business politics with our current commercial provider.  It's getting worse than haggling over the price of a car, except that Big Tech Salespeople won't hesitate to use gaslighting and guilt trips and logical fallacies in their arguments, as well as fake outrage and yelling and screaming and pounding on tables.  Because that's where it's all going right now.  Looks like the Heir will have to wait till later in the week to get with repurposing the cellular buckets for PBNX.  Let's go to dang bed already, and no tossing or turning Heir with whatever other ideas you come up with.  Really, about *anything*, including butterscotch pancakes.

Hey Heir.  No butterscotch pancakes for *you*.  At least until you get some shut-eye.

It's only between conventions, but the Heir can't wait until both are over before talking about how terrible this last one was.  He's going to need to follow up after the Elephantine to talk about how bad that one was as well.  It hasn't happened yet, and it's already a "was."  But the Heir goes after the Donkeys-FTP for their everything-depends-on-one-thing fatalism.  This is what they did in 2004.  Trump is on the ropes in the swing state polls, and right-track-wrong-track polls, so he's clearly going to lose.  But the Heir sees the Donkey/progressive fatalism as disingenuous, because you hear Type-A Western observers talk about how "genius" it was for Biden to pick Kamala Harris as his running mate. But the Heir thinks it's the opposite, absolutely terrible, because Harris gets high points of approval from Big Tech.  The Heir believes you have to assume that anyone who gets that kind of high pointage from Big Tech is just bad for our cultural health.  Big Tech seems pretty sure that a Biden/Harris presidency will never hold them to account for anything, let alone the personal corruption of forced obsolescence.  Biden has yet to hold his phone up in public and go, "I have no idea how this thing works," but he's going to reinforce the Old Person And Tech Stereotype.  It was the personal corruption of the 2010s stemming from Big Tech and Ed Snowden, and progressive participation in both, that allowed Trump to rise to power to begin with.  So the Heir's thinking, so we need to go with them again!?  To begin that cycle again!?  And endanger old school standardized cultural technology such as terrestrial analog radio and feed based podcasts!?  Also from the Heir's point of view, Biden has signaled that his Justice Department will never go after an ex-President Trump for anything, which even at this early juncture has killed Biden's presidency.  The Heir really doesn't give a rat's ass about all those very verbally chiseled "inspiring" speeches, because he's already fast-forwarded to the day after Biden's first 100 days.  So unlike the progressives, the politically skeptical Heir sees very little political hope for the future.  Of course when the Elephantine comes around, the Heir expects to hear that convention get with hate, misinformation and conspiracy theories.  At least they're saying outright they have no intention to do any real governance whatsoever.  In the meantime, seven years after Ed Snowden, the Heir's still waiting our personally corrupt culture to reform on its own, and he may very well have to take the bull by the horns himself, possibly alone in a sea of 7 billion people.

"This election is already over before it even got started, and all of us are the losers."

So here's more stuff the Heir has on GPNX, particularly with the repeaters.  So talked about below, even though the GPNX lifestyle doesn't necessarily require a purchase of a repeater along with a hub, it's highly encouraged.  But what the Heir wants to add is that in keeping with the GPNX spec of low power (or rather, resource conservation), the repeater needs to have an emergency power capability.  It would be either plugged into regular household power or a solar unit (you can even try wind we guess, but the Heir doesn't think wind power is far along enough for there to be small enough turbines for your backyard or a deck for an apartment or a condo).  The repeater can power externally, but it would always be constantly charging.  That way, when the power goes out (and because of the outage caused by Isaiah, it's a matter of when, not if), the repeater would still run off its recharged batteries.  So that way, GPNX would still be up for its users.  The hubs themselves would be constantly charged as well, but resource conservation ensures continuous uptime.

"More to come on GPNX."

Here's more stuff the Heir has to say about the concept of GPNX.  I the Mentor put up a post here when the Heir initially started talking about it, so that should be below this post if you filter posts based on the Prepper Maker label/tag.  But the Heir has a list of attributes that at least at this time he sees as descriptive of GPNX: non-commercial, community-based, low power, global reach.  He geeks out on some details, like each GPNX converter hub acting at least as a passive repeater, with the encouraged purchase of an active repeater along with either rabbit ears or a dish or the ordinary Joe connecting the repeater to his drainpipe system.  So if this is how it can work, the more repeater'ing the Heir sees going on, the stronger signal you yourself would have, and the stronger signal your GPNX peers would have.  He sees the initial signals as starting out at a handful of cellular type towers that directly connect to the Internet via a T1 type connection.  Those signals would repeat as per that community base along with volunteer type efforts by your library or your emergency services or basic utility companies, or your local/divisional infrastructure like traffic lights at major intersections.  In terms of protocols, the Heir is looking at those that the major cell companies have discontinued for commercial use, but which the Heir sees as still useful for non-commercial use, like the stuff that's equated with 2G.  2G may sound like something that would be as slow as a dog, but the Heir asks us not to forget that there are three cellular buckets: talk, text, and data.  The Heir sees the data bit as the relevant one, and wants to repurpose the first two as data as well, specifically Internet data.  Maybe this will make things go somewhat faster, who knows, if you just might get broader bandwidth.  But the Heir wants to see if something equivalent or similar to GPNX already exists, and what the technical caveats are, and potential legal or economic or political issues, including those possibly mounted by the more commercial cellular companies if they think the Heir's cutting in on their business just by floating GPNX as an idea.  But he also sees a series of puzzle pieces all waiting to be put together by the right dedicated people.

Heir: "If I didn't mention it before, this kind of thing would benefit those with economic hardships, the survivalists, people in emergency situations, and those in remote locations."

So amidst all the excitement the Heir was hearing on audio with the latest on Ed Snowden and the Russian Vaccine, he wants to start getting the word out about an idea he calls GPNX.  This stands for General Public Networks, and he intends it as a non-commercial form of cellular-based Internet for the people.  It's kind of late now, so he isn't going to impart details, but he sees GPNX as the Linux or the NPR of cellular-based Internet.

"Stay tuned."

The Heir heard on audio this morning that Trump says he considering pardoning Ed Snowden.  If he ends up doing so, that should be the moment that the progressives should dump Ed Snowden once and for all.  There's no reason why the progressives should pretend that Ed Snowden somehow never existed or is just a mere footnote in history.  In the Heir's eyes at least, Snowden would then be an equivalent to Roger Stone or Paul Manofort.  Ed Snowden would then be an official Trump associate.  The Heir believes such a pardon is inevitable, and is already planning on making Ed Snowden's life as miserable as possible, by pushing for a civil suit on behalf on those Intel families who've lost a member in the field because of Ed Snowden stealing operation information that by now the Heir is sure has been sold to bidders in China and Russia and North Korea, and possibly anti-American countries in South America.  He's also pushing for state charges on behalf of those states Ed Snowden's actions had an impact in, and that's pretty much all of them, even Idaho.  And then there needs to be anti-Snowden demonstrators at those venues Ed Snowden would be doing lectures in.

The Russians absolutely *do not* have a vaccine against the coronavirus.  This is the Bachelor position, not just the Heir's.  The reason we at the Bachelor have determined that is because Putin made two separate announcements.  The media is aware of only the second one where Putin claimed to have inoculated his daughter.  The first one was where he proclaimed this supposed vaccine a Sputnik, suggesting that Russia somehow beat America to the punch.  The media even gave into that one credulously, claiming there's a "vaccine race" of some sort.  Until they prove that one scientifically with a full peer review replication, there is no such race.  The Heir doesn't believe that even India has a vaccine.  Let's face it: America will be the first to have a real vaccine, because then it will have been fully approved.  The great Russian placebo will then be put out, and Russia will eventually overtake America for the highest infection rate.  If America has 5 million now, Russia will have 6 million.  And since germ experts don't believe that having and surviving the coronavirus once in any inoculates you the second time around, China will also reach 6 million in a reinfection.  We in America will have put this 5 million boondoggle in the past, and China and Russia will be a permanent collective coronavirus hotspot for the rest of their respective histories.  Maybe the protesters in East Russia will welcome interference in their elections so that Putin will lose, and be forced into hiding.

The Heir effectively *condemns* the life of the media executive he keeps calling Gordon Sumner, but I the Mentor keep reminding him that's the name of the rock star Sting.  He doesn't care, because he doesn't particularly sympathize with the dead executive.  He heard a brief bio of the guy on audio first thing this morning, and when he heard how he took his father's drive in theaters, and turned them into multiplex powerhouses, he was sarcastically clapping from his club chair.  This is a guy who's never struggled to make ends meet, was already born into economic advantage and has no idea what ordinary Americans go through.  Sounds like he didn't particularly care while he had a company to make a hostile takeover of.  So, no, this is where the Heir draws the line on sympathy for the deceased.  Looking at people like Trump and Jeffrey Epstein and Harvey Weinstein, it wouldn't surprise the Heir if this guy eventually posthumously comes out as a Me Too Male predator.  It's okay by the Heir if there's a war on billionaires to the point where in their case the presumption of innocence should not apply.  This is one area where he and AOC might agree.  But in any case, he holds the bio he heard as absolute proof that there's no such thing as a Self Made Man.

"If there was such a thing as a self-made man, we'd all be there."

 The Heir totally understands people getting mad at the utilities for not restoring their power properly, but he's observed that's partly because their access to the Internet also goes down with the power.  This strikes the Heir as a hallmark of a Type A Westernized society that's overly dependent on increasingly undependable things, and for which there's is no alternative.  You only have one choice, and if that choice goes wrong, well, sucks to be you, man.  That's the message the Heir's seeing coming from society in the aftermath of Isiasis, or whatever that storm's name is.  What is it, Isiaiaaisiaiaiasisisis?  It would also be nice for the weather service to not resort to storm names whose spelling is totally screwed up and doesn't follow standard English.  What's wrong with Joe, Jim or John?  So anyway, the Heir believes there should have been an affordable emergency provision for the commoners, rather than just for the Jeffrey Epstein Rich Person with tethering included on his $10,000 phone.  The Heir recently, even before the storm came about, thought about how online connections could be made more simple and more transparent.  People are advised to keep an emergency radio, which the Heir does, but no-one is advised on keeping an emergency Internet.  The Heir has pay-as-you-go on his phone, but he's receiving conflicting information as to whether that providor supports tethering or not.  He sees one person claiming that the providor *doesn't* support tethering, and then he finds an FAQ on the providor's site talking about how to enable tethering on a phone that supports it.  They need to say so themselves: either they support it or they don't.  But in any case, with the emergency radio, the Heir fantasizes the radio coming with Internet tethering support with the help of a dongle or a usb adapter that communicates with the nearest tower, and is automatically available with the phone you get from a pay-as-you-go company.  Or if they have to charge extra, like $15, maybe that extra is worth the purchase.  And if they feel they need to set aside a separate but reasonably priced charge category for x number of hours or minutes you accessed the service via their tethering dongle you'd place into your emergency radio, like on the side or on the back.  And then the Heir believes that all you need to do is just turn on your radio, and the dongle flashes 3 times and then goes consistently green to indicate readiness.  And then the dongle creates a wifi spot, and the dongle blinks when you use that wifi spot kind of like how your cable modem/router does.  The Heir just doesn't see why that needs to be complicated.  What are they afraid of?  That somehow online tethering via emergency radio will somehow *replace* mainstream broadband coming from a telco or a cable company?  The Heir doesn't believe it has to, because broadband on a flat fee would still be a better bargain than to use radio tethering full time.  The Heir thinks back to the crystal radio villagers in Papua New Guinea (somewhere in the rural provinces, between a small town and an actual indigenous village), and many of the rural peoples have radios, so that's the kind of radio that can support online tethering in some form.  The Heir has a billion ideas about a more mindful/simplistic/survivalistic approach, and what he got me the Mentor to write about above is just him thinking aloud.  He's not totally signed off on emergency radio online cellular tethering.  There may be a better way to do it.  Right now in our overly modern Westernized society, it's either a trillion mbps of broadband or just dead air.  That appears to be what Isiahahahsieieis revealed.

                                        

The Heir finally got around to watching the Mary Trump videos, but he still doesn't believe that based on Ms. Trump's plugs, the book is necessarily going to tell anyone anything they didn't already know.  We already have tell-all books about Donald Trump, going back to the first Michael Wolff back in 2017 or so, through to John Bolton, including James Clapper, Andrew McCabe and James Comey.  The one thing the Heir takes issue with in Ms. Trump's plugs is the promulgation that the country isn't good to holding people accountable.  That's not to say that the Heir disagrees, but that he seems to be the only citizen anywhere in the country who has an explanation as to why that is.  And that's because our culture doesn't believe in accountability to being with.  The Heir beseeches us to look at the 2010s with big tech and Ed Snowden, and forced obsolescence and personal corruption, and those things still continue to this very day.  So Mary Trump can only speak to her uncle in the context of her family, not in the context of society at large.  So with her and a number of people on visual, the Heir recommends that we take what they say with a grain of salt.  Because when you have both Mary Trump, and unfortunately Steve Schmidt making a doomsday conditional that the American Experiment could be over, no-one should believe that's inevitably the case because some people said that. The Heir remembers that in The Last Meaningful Election Ever in 2004 that people said the same thing.  That if Bush got reelected, the country was done for.  As it turns out it wasn't, because in Bush's second term it was the people who took matters into their own hands, rather than solely rely on the institutions they feel failed them.  The Heir thinks it's interesting how on the one hand we contend that democracy relies on institutions when criticizing dictatorships around the world, yet we knee-cap our own when we don't get the exact result we want.  The Heir also thinks it's biased and cynical for people as influenced by the progressive movement to overlook the fact that Bush failed to get a third term, and the Heir absolutely *does not* think that's only because of term limits.  The election of Obama was a referendum on Bush, but the progressives had this arbitrary deadline that said that such a referendum should have taken place in 2004, and that it was totally meaningless in 2008, and and a result the progressives retaliated against Obama by tearing down Obamacare, getting with Ed Snowden, forming the Anonymous hacking group, and playing down the Sony Hack as a real threat from North Korea.  Those are the sins the Heir remembers to bring up, and that's not even counting Lieberman-Lamont as depriving the Donkeys For The People a real chance in the Senate in 2006.  The Heir perceives that the progressives will want to downplay their own sins as the Heir somehow wallowing in the past.  But the Heir isn't "wallowing in the past."  Instead, the Heir is reflecting on history.

"Once Trump loses, we have to put an end to progressive gaslighting once and for all, and put in place a culture of National Principle to assure accountability on all citizens, whether well-connected or not.  That way no-one can cut you off on the road, and *not* get a traffic ticket in the mail that week as a result.  Let's think about 200% enforcement."

The Heir wants answers and he wants them now.  And as far as the Heir's concerned, *everyone* has to demand these answers as well, even if the Heir has to mount a Flaileef style guilt trip on the populace to get those answers.  And the specific answers the Heir's looking for is why there's now this big crime wave in New York City right now.  He wants these answers to be substantive and enjoy a scientific consensus.  That's because the NYPD and the PBA are insisting it's because the city disbanded the anti-crime unit that's been associated with excessive force in the past.  In the interest of social justice, the Heir is trying to be as impartial as is humanly possible, and not just automatically side with the PBA's theories on this one.  Right now as I the Mentor am writing this, Bill Diblasio is having a press conference at least on visual, but the Heir notes that the video title on the live stream makes no mention as to whether Diblasio intends to address the why's on the crime rate.  All the Heir has been seeing from him in the past couple weeks is him running around waving his hands in the air going, well *I* don't know why it's been happening.  He's also hearing a roaring silence from the media in their failures to get answers for us, effectively capitulating to Diblasio's stance of Well *I* Don't Know.  I guess this amounts to something called a wellidontknowism.  So the Heir's not inclined to go through a two hour press conference with a fine tooth comb, sifting through Diblasio saying, well last week's garbage has been adequately picked up, and this week's garbage is currently on track.  Last week's water usage is 7%, and this week it's gone up to 10%.  Yeah but Mr Mayor, the Heir asks, what about an explanation as to why the crime rates are up!?  And then the mayor will go, just be patient, I'm getting to that.  And then it'll be like having to watch an entire episode of the world's worst TV show just to get to the movie preview of the year, unsurprisingly stuck on the end.  Well guess what.  The killers the Heir sees as plotting their next move to shoot more innocent children while Diblasio blathers on in conference about corner curb maintenance and polishing.  So until the Heir finds out anything, stay tuned.

"Okay, so now he's up to the right way to make red and green lights more visible in the traffic lights, and he got past faster than expected with the ins and outs of proper signage ordinances.  Okay, wake me up if you think I missed anything."

The Heir, too, is outraged over the commutation of Roger Stone.  But unlike the others, he seeks an Incident At Uganda, a last minute declaration that says, not so fast.  He found one article along those lines at a time when all the others have all but given up, prematurely writing justice's death certificate.  You can find this online titled, "Roger Stone’s Ongoing Appeal Still Pits Him Against Justice Department." But even that article when the Heir showed it to me the Mentor doesn't get at *all* the possible ways in which Roger Stone will eventually reap what he sowed.  I suggested to him, well what if he got an overconfident big head about it, and ended up with a traffic ticket for double parking his car or something?  Would that then be the legal straw that breaks the camel's back?  He considered that possibility, but then pointed out his surmise that his girlfriend that we see him with on visual may largely be his chauffeur and/or his courier, because he himself may be now in such poor health that his license may been revoked in the state of Florida, a state he otherwise sees as the emerging personal corruption capital of the world.  By no means does the Heir take any pleasure or schadenfreude in this likelihood, but what he sees that it does mean is that even if you think you can somehow outrun the Long Arm Of Justice (which of course you can't), you can't outrun the karma of your own personal health.  It's no coincidence to the Heir that after Trump falsely claimed victory or exoneration with the Impeachment (because let's not forget the fact that he's still Impeached), that's when the coronavirus made landfall in America.  A justice procedure was immediately followed by an incident related to public health.  There may come a point in time when Roger Stone's girlfriend may privately tell someone that she ended up believing he's as guilty as sin, and that he should have gone to jail after all, and that person she told will go public with that admission.  That would be what the Heir sees as Roger Stone's ultimate worst fate coming up, and he will either in life or in death wish he did go to jail accordingly, and he will burn all his tee shirts claiming he did nothing wrong.  Oh who am I kidding, the Heir believes Roger Stone will end up saying, I did *lots* of things wrong.  There, you see?  He just admitted it.  And he might end up following that up with a sincere Make Amends Tour.  His gaslighting will finally be over, and he will finally know the righteous path.  And no one the Heir sees on visual as ever entertaining that possibility.  Our society's imagination is way too limited for that sort of thing.

The Heir estimates that the "AOC Primary" took place between a week and two weeks ago.  Already the media outlets have brushed past that primary, and never bothered to explore AOC's opponents in more detail.  The Heir believes that at least one of them is a distinctly anti-AOC candidate who appeals to the significant minority of voters who are not on the AOC bandwagon.  The Heir wants to know more about that candidate(s) and their voters.  He gets the impression that those particular voters represent an in-district rebellion that AOC has to reckon with, particularly if they make up anywhere from five people to 10% of the district residents.  These are likely NOTA types who are virulently anti- Bernie Snowden, and they will emerge after Trump loses the election, which the Heir believes there's a good chance of.  The main reason for the rise of AOC is as an anti- Trump voice.  She defeated Joseph Crawley two years ago as an anti-establishment candidate.  Now the Heir sees her *as* the establishment.  Whenever the Bernie Snowden types lose a primary, which seems to happen about 80-90% of the time, they always blame their defeat on the "machine".  But if they win a subsequent time, the Heir sees them as acting as if they're entitled to that victory.  Also the more votes they win by, the more entitled they feel, so they can't spin how there's a "machine" they're up against.  They *are* the machine, and their opponents and the significant minority that voted for them the Heir sees as truly for the people, and not for a political bandwagon.

The Heir's increasing Machiavellianism.  He does not regret standing by principle and the need for social discipline in the populace in the past four or five weeks people have been debating what the role of the cops should be, and in fact he's seen ample evidence that supports the notion that most people can't look after themselves.  For example, he was wondering how almost everyone in Bachelor Blue State could be practicing social distancing and wearing masks and staying at home the past three months, since the same exact people had engaged in personal corruption in the 2010s.  Now he has the answer.  The people didn't practice social distancing solely because they thought it was the right thing to do.  They did so out of compliance with demands from the strong leadership demonstrated during the Coronacrisis.  If that leadership didn't exist, Bachelor Blue State would be totally infested like Florida is now, and Texas and Arizona, and at least a dozen other states.  The governments in those states took an Ed Snowden Anything Goes stance, and the Heir sees most residents in those states celebrate that personally corrupt sentiment coming from those governments.  And now they're seeing those cases spike.  Bachelor Blue State, on the other hand, got back onto the righteous path, and got a return on its investment in the form of decreasing infection and transmission rates.  Bachelor Blue State was able to reopen safely, but the other states reopened *un-* safely.  The Heir really isn't into organized religion or anything, but there's no doubt that the lesson to be learned from comparing Bachelor Blue State's righteous path with the other states' personal corruption is that if you go against the grain, you'll get splinters.  That one guy who complained in April about not getting fertilizer, the Heir's hoping he didn't end up in the ICU as a result.  He wishes the best for those whose opinions he disagrees with.  So the Heir says, dude, forget the fertilizer.  This is your *life* we're talking about.  And now, here comes the Heir's takeaway:

"Death is permanent.  Fertilizer you can get next year."

 

So a couple of things on the Law And Justice front with the Heir, as we progress with reforming policing.  The Heir takes note of Andrew Cuomo in New York signing reforms into law for New York.  One of those includes a requirement for a rough total of 500 cities and towns to submit their plans by April of next year to reform their departments if they want to receive state funding.  The Heir's pretty sure there are far more than 500 cities and towns in New York in total, since Bachelor Blue State numbers its towns in the thousands.  So it looks as though this set of reforms in New York does make wise regards for sleepy hamlets along the Erie and Lake Ontario coasts with no more than 20 people or so, but it would be nice if there were more specific information for the the Heir to go on.  Sleepy hamlets of 20 people aren't likely to have more than 2 cops total in *their* department, so a set of reforms that work for bigger towns aren't necessarily going to apply for sleepy hamlets.  But the Heir feels more assured that we're still going to have cops in the foreseeable future, and the Ed Snowden types' plans to get rid of all cops everywhere have failed for the time being.  They had a temporary buoyancy in light of the tragedy in Atlanta, but that's faded now.

The Heir respects and supports New York City's decision to disband its anti-crime division for the sake of more fair and sensitive policing, but he disagrees with the City's assessment that such a division is "outdated."  If crime stats go back up again, the City will have to stand ready to reinstate the division at a moment's notice.  He sees the anti-crime divisions as being put in place during the 90s to deal with the crack epidemic of the 80s, and the bad old days of the 70s.  Most young people today have no living memory of how bad things really were in those days.  The Heir remembers a Western Studies course in college that questionably required its students to make a major foray into a major city, e.g., New York, to visit a museum and do a historical analysis on an artwork of significance to the course.  This was at the height of the crack epidemic, and the Heir remembers a classmate who said he took his car into New York, and came back from the museum to see a bunch of bullet holes in his car.  So the Heir welcomed when anti-crime measures were put in place during the 90s, because battle-hardened drug cartels in the cities weren't going to respond to fair and sensitive policing.  It was partly those measures that aided in urban revival in New York and surrounding cities to the point where people felt more safe to visit those cities, and aid in those cities' economic recoveries.  The Heir concedes that at this *specific* point in time that you may not need such measures, but that doesn't mean you won't need them in the future.

The Heir now gets to talk about the movie Death Wish, and its implications for today.  What the Heir understands about Death Wish comes from a parody by Mad Magazine back in the day.  Charles Bronson plays an ordinary Joe living in a city environment whose wife and daughter are viciously attacked by muggers.  His wife dies and his daughter lies in a vegetative state.  He believes that all this could have been prevented if there was a stronger police presence, but the police were virtually non-existent for a number of reasons, including their being outnumbered and out-equipped by the muggers.  He then takes it on himself to become a vigilante to both try to make his neighborhood safer and kind of exact revenge on the muggers who attacked his family.  Apparently, things get out of hand when he thinks, let's not stop with the muggers.  Let's go after *anyone* I suspect of committing crimes, possibly including scofflaws and jaywalkers.  The Heir believes the 2010s would consider the Bronson character to be proverbially autistic.  But anyway, there's increased worry that this vigilantism poses a greater threat than the muggers, and the Bronson character is brought to justice.  The cops are forced to admit that their failure to stop crime gave rise to this vigilantism, so the Bronson character enters into an agreement that he move out the city and never come back.  The Heir only saw previews of the movie itself, and they were pretty dark and hard to take.  But the Heir feels that the Mad Magazine parody was enough to illustrate the points the movie proper was trying to make.  So here's the Heir to sum it up below.

"For those of you who still want to abolish the cops, heed the movie Death Wish, and be careful what you Wish for."

So here are some further warnings the Heir has for people to be careful what they wish for if they *really* want to defund the cops.  It's *some* major cities that want to do it under pressure from *some* protesters (at least).  But what about your one-traffic-light-town in the Far West with only 500 people, and vastly different needs and culture from Minneapolis?  Do *they* have to give up their cops too (the Heir asks)?  Because the phrase Defund The Cops the Heir takes *not* to mean defund just some of the cops of some of their money.  No, it means defunding *all* cops of *all* their money, over the *entire* country regardless of whether they've had problems with excessive force or not.  Otherwise the Ed Snowden types who support the measure would never use it as a slogan on picket signs.  A more nuanced "defunding" is just not catchy enough.  The Heir also thinks about the 1970s movie Death Wish (he *thinks* it's the Seventies) in a world where the cops are all but absent, you take your life in your hands every time you step out of your house, and it's only vigilantes who are willing to help.  By extension the Heir also thinks about the Green Berets and whether they'll end up making a comeback in the aftermath of what's to come.  The Heir wants to ruminate on each on these in more detail in the next few days or so.

"I'm concerned."