OK so generally we don't usually do a base share more than once per day, but the Heir's fears that the Rittenhouse case may have turned the self-defense argument into a blank check of a get-out-of-free-jail-card had just dodged a bullet.  He went into his YouTube and was stunned at a Glenn Kirshner video informing him that the three defendants in the Ahmad Arbury case were found guilty earlier today.  They tried to use the self-defense argument similarly to Rittenhouse, but while Rittenhouse was acquitted, the guys in the Arbury case were convicted.  Though the Heir disapproves of politicizing any court trial whether it's Rittenhouse or Arbury, or eventually Waukensha, he does see the Arbury convictions as having taken 90% of the wind out of the Trumpist balloon that politicized Rittenhouse.  That's not to say that the Trumpists won't keep parading Rittenhouse, but the Arbury case casts doubt the Heir thinks on the Rittenhouse concept of self-defense at least.  He's pretty sure that the smart ones at least (and believe it or not, they're out there) will find some way to spin how the Arbury case doesn't reflect on the Rittenhouse case.  They may find a way of doing that without it looking like a kabuki dance, but the Heir's already decided that the concept of self-defense is getting closer back to its original common sense context within applicable law.  He's relieved that some kind of consciousness still matters in our culture after the inherently immoral 2010s.  He's not going to gloat on the Rittenhousers with the Arbury case, as long as he knows that there's a bigger picture to keep in one's mind...

"...the picture of principle.  Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!"

The Heir doesn't think it's a coincidence that 24 hours after Rittenhouse was acquitted, there was that tragedy in Waukesha WI, just about an hour and over 50 miles away from Kenosha.  The Rittenhouse trial laid down the precedent of any criminal suspect getting a get-out-of-free-jail-card simply by using the self-defense defense.  The Heir sees it as blank check, and he'd be surprised that the suspect in the Waukesha tragedy wouldn't try to tell the jury that he acted in self-defense against the people he hit in the parade, including the little kid.  The Heir wonders whether self-defense can now be used to excuse just about any atrocity, ranging from speeding to money-laundering, and we call for the populace to get back to morality and principle accordingly.

So here's the latest on the Heir's thing with the Rittenhouse trial.  He heard on audio how Rittenhouse granted an interview on the Attack Dog News Network, and this he does not see as any real serious effort to heal the country.  He sees it as more of a guilt trip on people whom he sees as rightly believing that Rittenhouse is still guilty and needs to be held accountable.  He sees it foolish of the Attack Dog to want to use the Rittenhouse trial accordingly, because that allows that to be a subject to be brought up again and again to the ultimate *embarrassment* of the Attack Dog.  Stay tuned as the Heir has more thoughts he'll have more time to share later on, particularly from the point of view of justice and principle.

The Heir shares in the outrage at the Kyle Rittenhouse verdict.  The guy's as guilty as sin.  Though the Heir has defended Biden from both media attacks and Ed Snowden attacks, he disagrees that we must "accept" the verdict.  He actually doesn't, and in fact he believes the court trial should be submitted for independent review of some sort.  He's pretty sure such a review will find egregious flaws and discrepancies severe enough as to warrant an update to court trial guidelines, particularly in the case of accused perpetrators who engage in any mass murder they feel like, and then claim self-defense.  Sure he took the position that he's likely to accept a non-guilty verdict for Ms. Meng in the Huawei case if it ever got to trial before she left the country, but that's barring a court trial analysis comparing for example basic facts in the public domain with those that are admitted in court.  He encourages the families of the victims to sue the city, and he believes that they qualify for a restitution from the state of Wisconsin partly to offset legal fees and funereal expenses, among other expenses, plus a monetary compensation principle by which the families might decide to make donated to hate group awareness groups like SPLC.  The Heir's thinking of getting his reps to join in a resolution condemning the verdict, and donating to the SPLC on personal behalf of the Huber and Rosenbaum families (he *thinks* those are the names), even though he's never met them.  He's looking at this verdict from a pragmatic point of view of next steps, unlike the activists he was seeing on visual whom he doesn't believe are particularly helping matters.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is scheduled to be at the Three Amigos Summit at the White House today.  The Heir believes there needs to be protestors kind of heckling him about the Canada Cave-in to China over the Wauwei executive.  Last month or so, the Heir remembers Canada agreeing to hand the executive back to China in exchange for North American hostages China detained to do the hostage swap with.  That's why when the CIS had a special on cyberhackers, the Heir heard China in the teaser pleading, "Where is the evidence?"  Well the way the Heir sees it, if China allowed a court case to go ahead with respect to charges against the Wauwei executive instead of interfering with a form of international blackmail, they would, *indeed*, see the charges laid out.  Of course the Heir doesn't think that'll matter, since he's sure China will dismiss the evidence out of hand or find some kind of spin.  In a lesser-related issue, the Heir condemns the comments of the French Foreign Minister for calling Biden Trump-Lite over the sub issue.  Even though Biden seems to have patched things up there diplomatically, the Heir *still* holds it against the French Foreign Minister, and demands that the Minister make an unconditional apology accordingly.

The Heir's gotten ready for me the Mentor/Happy Bachelor (and the Heir is the Tropical Soulvangelical) what he calls our "loungtyp."  It's an open source laptop device he did from scratch that we want to use in place of this off-the-shelf tablet.  This is the test base share that we're doing from the loungtyp.  OK, so it's like, loung-what??  Well, me as the Happy Bachelor takes abode in this "lounge" as you may know, and the other syllable is "typ" which is akin to "type."  So it's primarily a sort of diary-ish writing device with which we want to do these shares going forward.  It's a cultural artifact the same way that music player is that the Heir is in the process of making with a different computer board.  We're not declaring the loungtyp a milestone yet in our recovery from the wars of corruption of the 2010s, but we wanted to use this share as a test accordingly.  We'll soon enough see how well it works doing so.

The Heir excoriates the media for its "Donkeys In Disarray" type coverage, which he takes as a biased editorial disguising itself as reporting analysis.  He sees this as going down in the media hall of shame along with their botched and unprofessional coverage of the withdrawal from Afghanistan, and he will continue to stack up moments of shame on the media's part where he sees fit to demonstrate what passes for a so-called "Fourth Estate" in the modern age.  How can the media, he wonders, possibly make the case for free speech when just about everyone in the media is saying the same thing out of fear of being different and not going on the same page as Donkeys In Disarray?  This is something he thinks they should think about, particularly if the takeaway is something to the effect of the media saying, you know we're wrong, *we* know we're wrong, but we have to do this, because this is the way we've *always* done it.  Actually, no, you *don't* have to do it that way.  You can still stand for free speech principles instead of what the Heir sees as caving into dark and hidden advertisers buying media silence on how such a Disarray type headline is not actively supported by the evidence on the ground.  It's actually contradicted with respect to the first Donkey in Bachelor Blue State to get a second term since 1977.  The only reason why it's "close" is because this sort of thing never happened before.  The Heir also wonders how Donkeys are in Disarray all over the country when a Donkey Senate leader in BBS that no-one else in the country's has ever heard of loses his seat.  He also doesn't think the media should overgeneralize based on Terry McAuliffe whom the Heir doesn't see as really all that popular in Virginia when as chair of the DonkeyNC back in 2004 he allowed the loss of the Last Meaningful Election Ever, and that was nearly 20 years ago.  He sees McAuliffe as part of an increasing old guard as opposed to up-and-comers like Eric Adams for example, or Sheila Oliver in BBS, or Wendy Wu in Boston (he *thinks* that's her first name).  Those are the kinds of leaders the people will be wanting among the Donkeys For The People.  So he's hoping that the media will issue a mass retraction in the next seven days rather than dust this biased "coverage" under the rug with the use of media cycles.

As strange as it might sound, the Heir's not exactly jumping for joy that a ballot provision to defund the police failed in Minneapolis.  The failure did confirm for him that for the most part the electorate did not buy into the radicalism that impressed the Heir as to what DTP was ultimately about.  He read online articles about voters being unsure about the vagueness of what form a post-police public safety situation was supposed to take.  But the Heir's thinking that the voters didn't want radicalism to permanently damage democracy in Minneapolis if they saw that DTP wasn't necessarily about the police but about the concept of radicalism to seize control and defeat reason and sanity any way they can, through any political issue they can.  The Heir has never doubted the Ed Snowden influence in DTP, but he does believe the more troubled precincts in Minneapolis probably need a Camden City -style overhaul to reform the system to make it more fair for the residents.  But that's not how he believed the voters viewed the ballot measure.  He saw the DTP'ers dismiss the election results as a result of voter misinformation, but he believes they just have to say that just to save face.  They really don't want to deal with the embarrassment of public opinion not being on their side.  So the Heir sees them as having preset responses to the results regardless of how the results would turn out, instead of maturely using this present defeat as a stepping stone towards ensuring true reform and balance for all residents in the city.  He's never believed DTP really cared as much for the pragmatics of true reform as much as just using electoral politics to make a political statement.  As per the Heir's dealing with Flaileef over the years, he sees that kind of mentality as patently unhelpful.

The Heir sees just as much hot air produced at the climate summit as produced by global warming itself.  With the exception of possibly Biden, the Heir doesn't see most of the world leaders doing anything meaningful once they've gone home.  He heard Boris Johnson on audio use a lot of hyperbole and fatalism, but he wonders what Johnson is saying or doing now back in London.  He doesn't think the Queen imploring world leaders to do something about global warming by itself will have much effect, particularly since many countries at the summit no doubt don't have or acknowledge royalty themselves.  The Heir disagrees with the premise made at the summit that this is somehow humanity's last chance to do something about global warming.  It's never too late to to do the right thing, though doing so includes the Heir himself doing away with space tourism, since he's still mentally calculating how many passenger car fuel tanks of fuel go into just sending up one rocket, and how much fossil fuel emissions both from the rocket and the production of the fuel itself have added to the average temperature of the planet.  He didn't hear them criticize *that* at the summit.