So now the Heir gets to rip on Bernie Sanders' broadbrush on the Donkeys For The People's presumed unassertiveness and lack of gutsiness.  The Heir reminds us all that this is an old an tired Ed Snowden progressive trope dating back to 2006 whereby the progressives not only berate Donkey politicians for not drinking the Ed Snowden Kool-Aid, but also the constituents and citizens those figures represent.  And once again the Heir reminds people like Bernie Sanders that it's not for him or his followers to berate or harass other citizens based on what those followers think are the citizens' opinions.  The progressives have an appalling track record of not listening to anyone in their comfort zone enough to find out that about 90% (give or take) of their opinions taken individually are actually shared by most people, and this is reflected in poll numbers showing majority support for the new essentials economics measures such as emphasis on child care and true housing reform.  But here's the thing.  The people agree on the substance, but not on the individual talking points and messaging.  That's why the Heir sees that even now in 2021, 15 years after 2006, the Ed Snowdens are still there with their My Way Or The Highway mentality, and they're simply never going to change.  And yet they have the gall to complain about the "divisiveness" of the public.  It may be a bit overstated if the above polls are of any indication.

The Heir is dismayed at that one organizer's decision to disinclude the NYPD from an upcoming pride march, and the Heir agrees with the head of the gay cops fraternal order that in a sense this presents the oppressed becoming the oppressors.  Just merely weeks after a cop paid the ultimate price because of a DUI-driven anti-cop attack, the Heir sees all cops in general being even lowered in personal credibility and hence a lowered ability to maintain the public trust as a result of the decision.  The way the Heir sees it, people in general looking that this decision aren't going to really disagree with that decision.  Instead, he sees people somehow thinking, oh well I guess that means cops really are bad people if they're being disincluded from even one pride event.  It doesn't matter to the Heir that the decision does not disinclude individual cops from participating, but this represents a kind of a Little Bit Pregnant kabuki dance, and not a very sincere gesture.  He isn't going to blame any cops saying they don't feel comfortable taking part in any event that effectively discriminates against their line of work.  The Heir's hoping that pride events taking place in other cities and the suburbs will respond with a stance of Cops Welcome.  He believes that gays and gay friendly folk in the suburbs at least will still continue to support the cops and not believe they have to choose between such support and comfortably taking part in a pride event.

An online acquaintance of the Heir's had the nerve to make a post about how important it is to get "destroyed" solely for the sake of personal growth, and then implies that they (the acquaintance) are currently "destroyed" right now.  But this is someone who's always had a well-paying job in the upper middle class suburbs, so the Heir has to ask, what does this person know about being "destroyed?"  Forgetting your smartphone or being detoured from the road you want to take home doesn't exactly count as "destroyed."  The Heir's been "destroyed" since 2015 when he lost a living wage job and eventually had to go onto the catering counter at Bland Barns.  He's looking for a supplemental economic solution so it isn't just the catering counter, so he's also skeptical about prospective employers complaining about not getting takers for jobs they're offering.  So the Heir's been destroyed since 2015 and he's still "destroyed" since he's also been struggling to get his Tropical Soul audio Player to reach the light of day, so that way he can prove affordability partly through self-sufficiency, and we in the Bachelor can get back to getting these thoughts on audio.  In any case, the Heir wants to put it out there that no-one who tries to argue that you have to take the good with the bad should presume they necessarily know how bad it can get.  He sees it as a very sheltered attitude.

The Heir is keeping close watch on what he calls the DUI Defunder Case, which is how officer Anastasios Sakos died on duty.  CBS Radio reported at the time that the suspect was on her way home from a podcast that apparently lambastes cops when she killed Mr. Sakos with her vehicle.  Since Mr. Sakos was praised by his fellow officers as a cop's cop, and now that we're opening discipline records, we're likely to see that Mr. Sakos' record was nothing short of stellar, and he probably didn't even as much as borrow a paper clip.  But the Heir doesn't see that as mattering to the defund crowd, who doesn't see Anastasios Sakos any differently than they do Derek Chauvin.  So if as the Heir suspects their cop hate is motivated by personal unaccountability, that should really lower their credibility the next time they try to co-opt Black Lives Matter in their demonstrations, and we get to rebuttress the idea of principle in our larger culture.

There was that one poll where Biden got a 55% job approval rating after his address to Congress, with a 40% disapproval rating.  The Heir observed Colbert making a joke about the 40% being made up mostly of QAnon theorists.  But the Heir suspects that a quarter of the 40%, which is 10% overall, are probably the Ed Snowden types who were against Obama for not being good enough.  The Heir sees them as trying to use that Not Good Enough talking point against Biden, and he's not the least surprised.  The problem is, they really don't have a leg to stand on, since Beto O'Rourke had given Biden high marks on doing what's currently possible to help the migrants at the southern border, even though the Heir believes Biden wants to do more.  The Heir sees Ed Snowdens as trying to go after Biden on the social justice front, and even there they don't have good standing as we're working to get the George Floyd Act passed.  But the Heir sees that as being because the Ed Snowdens don't believe that the George Floyd Act is anti-cop enough.  He sees them as sympathizing more with that one DUI driver along that highway in New York who killed a cop in a hit-and-run, than with the cop who died.  The Heir hopes for a speedy trial against the DUI driver accordingly.  Stay tuned for more stuff on the Heir's mind, as we in the Bachelor eventually try to get audio episodes back up and running again.  We absolutely have not given up on that.