We at the Bachelor condemn the violence at the Capitol a couple days ago, even though the Heir wasn't entirely sure it was over until about this morning.  But he wants to add a couple points to let all of you know that this isn't your boilerplate condemnation.  He also criticizes the progressives' apparent stance leading up to the riots of "our criticism of Trump was only and cynically political all this time so now that he's leaving office let's pretend he never existed."  The Heir's pretty sure that if the progressives really cared about law and justice, they wouldn't have turned a blind eye to what one in hindsight might see as discernible signs that something bad was going to happen in the form of Trump Pardonees like Michael Flynn, and George Papadopoulos, and the Heir's thinking also Roger Stone making speeches at rallies preceding the riots, one of which was the one that Trump made the apparent incitement to violence.  Seeing how at least five people died, including a Capitol police officer, the Heir's wondering whether those Pardonees could be implicated in involuntary manslaughter type charges, as well as aiding and abetting incitement to violence, thereby undoing their pardons with new charges.  If so, the Heir doesn't think the prosecutors should hold back on the Pardonees' criminal records in an opening statement in a trial, even on things they were pardoned from.  It's important that in this way at least the law not recognize the pardons.  The Heir believes the pardons were corrupt simply because Trump made them, period, because the crimes that were pardoned are a bad example for the children.  It's not even about a specific theoretical reason why Trump made the pardons, so the Heir thinks the analysts need not look too deeply into that.  So you heard that one right, that the Heir is getting with the Rachel Lovejoy defense, What About The Children.  Interestingly, the Heir observes that's the reason Betsy DeVos gave for her resignation, that she sees the riots themselves as a bad example for impressionable children, the Heir not being a Betsy DeVos fan by any means, seeing how Marco's Grandmother wants DeVos on charges for the past four years.  So besides getting me the Mentor to post the above, the Heir's thinking about what kind of actionable response he wants to write to his congresswoman with.

"Okay, Mentor, gimme some good ideas on this one.  Oh I meant to say please on that one, and to have reworded my request entirely so I'm not looking like such a spoiled brat, so that Trump isn't being a bad influence here.  Remember that thing at the Boy Scouts jamboree four years ago?  What was he *thinking*!?"