So about whether we should get rid of the filibuster, the Heir's response is a shrug and saying, well sure why not?  His thinking is that if we believe that the filibuster would be used to block the voting rights acts in Washington at a time when Georgia and other states are making it harder to vote, it only makes sense to him to not have something around to stop you from doing the right thing.  But he disagrees with the notion that the filibuster is somehow *evil* and a vestige from the past.  He thinks that's very much played up so that the Ed Snowdens will have a fake argument at their disposal to go after the "centrist" and "don't stand for anything" Donkeys For The People, and not just politicians, but also everyday people.  Flaileef is going around right now to those socially distanced and mask requiring frozen yogurt shops berating the customers there for not declaring war on the filibuster.  This clues the Heir into why he believes the Donkeys haven't gotten rid of the filibuster, and it's not necessarily because they might need it when they're in the minority again.  No, what he believes is that if they get rid of the filibuster, it'll just reinforce the notion for the Ed Snowdens that the Donkeys are just a pushover bunch, and it'll encourage the Snowdens to berate them and the constituents they represent into doing even more stuff nobody's sure they want to do.  The Donkeys the Heir sees as wanting to listen more to their constituents than to the Ed Snowdens, which he sees as perfectly appropriate if the debate at large is about protecting democracy.  After all, we don't live in a *Snowdenocracy* or a *Flaileefocracy*.  It continues to strike the Heir at how undemocratic the democratic process really is.  Didn't they think about that in Ancient Greece back in the day?

The Heir believes it's time for a likely final assembly on his player.  Everything else appears to be done.  We did a share on his player last month, and we thought it was going to be days rather than weeks, but the Heir made sure to take his time to make sure everything was right.  Keep in mind that this is a beta version of the player.  He wants to get back to it at the right time post-beta, but we're also hoping that once this beta is actually running on a regular basis, we'll be able to make some sort of bookend statement of conclusion to the great era of personal corruption in the culture that's happened nearly the past decade.  So here's that player pending that assembly:

Right now the Heir can't be any prouder to be American than he is right now, and in addition to our gradually getting over Trump and condemning selected instances of personal corruption in the culture, as well as getting back at China and big tech, he's proud that we now have vaccine rollout really rolling out.  More and more people in the U.S. are getting vaccinated over time, so that's yet another thing other countries can't laugh at us about.  The Heir wants to tastefully *not* laugh at the EU for how they're struggling apparently with a third wave of the coronavirus, not helped by member countries rejecting the AstraZeneca vaccine over blood clot concerns.  The Heir's aware that lives hang in the balance, so that's why he wants to have a measured response, but let's face it.  We're talking about countries with cobblestone streets and cultural moratoriums on skyscrapers that are not only known for universal health care, but good smarts and sophistication when it comes to taking care of their citizens.  Despite that, the US is generally ahead of the EU on vaccinations and the US is on track for a decline in the virus as opposed to a third wave in the EU.  So for a number reasons all those who were laughing at the US just months ago, the Heir turns to them and says, "don't hear ya laughin' now."

The Heir is seeing a breakdown in democracy in New York state as 50% of residents there polling as *not* wanting Cuomo to resign.  The Heir wants to ask that same 50%, do they believe the women?  If so, why don't you want Cuomo to resign?  It stands to reason, doesn't it?  That if they believe the women when they say Cuomo harassed them, that Cuomo really has no choice but to resign?  It almost seems to the Heir that this is Mass Stockholm Syndrome, and that Cuomo has bullied the state as well, so the 50% really needs to grow a couple and let that guy drop like a lead pipe already.  The Heir takes it that it's about 45% in the same poll that *do* want Cuomo to resign, and the Heir sees it as an instance of the *minority* being in the right, and the *majority* being in the wrong.  He's hoping that the minority will eventually cure the majority of their apparent pig-headedness already.

The Heir thinks Andrew Cuomo should just resign already.  The Heir doesn't see why we need an "investigation," because is it really going to tell us anything we didn't already know?  Just the fact Cuomo even called for an investigation already means the investigation is not truly independent.  The Heir's hoping that Tish James is wise to that fact, because the Heir sees it as both a fig leaf making it look as if Cuomo somehow cares about accountability, and the means by which he gets to evade that accountability.  Cuomo is clearly hoping the investigation lasts at least one news cycle, so that the negative coverage will just blow over.  It's a form of personal corruption, the same kind we in the Bachelor have been seeing in society at large since Ed Snowden 2013.  Because in the past people have seen how this kind of thing gets played out.  An accuser comes forward against a subject, the subject issues a categorical denial, another accuser comes forward, the subject says OK yeah I did it but it wasn't really serious, and then it just devolves from there.  It wouldn't surprise the Heir if at least three other women come forward in the meantime, and he strongly encourages them to do so.  He wants to remind people about how Cuomo joked about how people should read his book if in a 21-day quarantine during the Ebola Crisis of 2014.  Just do a web search on the terms "read a book or read my book cuomo" and scroll down until you get to search results reading "Cuomo Jokes That People Under Ebola Quarantine Can Pass Time Reading His Book."  That just shows you the mentality that underlies accusations of both sexual harassment and mismanaging info about nursing home deaths.  The Heir has noticed that the media already forgot about that second one, but along with his "read my book" joke it's just part and parcel of the whole Cuomo thing.