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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"Come on, people.  Really?"