The Heir/Tropical Soulvangelical/TSV believes he already figured out why Southwest Airlines had cancelled and grounded at least 60% of its flights, leaving people stranded, as opposed to other airlines that have roughly a 4% grounded rate. He believes its because Southwest fired/laid-off/encouraged its older and more experienced, and hence more competent, staff to quit, and replace that staff with inexperienced college graduates, and possible cronies. The staff TSV believes Southwest Airlines fired TSV believes were part of flight coordination. We're not talking about pilots or crew. We're talking about people in offices around the country whose job it is to make sure a given plane goes to a given airport where it's needed, outside of actual air traffic controllers. The older workers TSV believes had it down to a science, but because they're -old- TSV believes Southwest got worried about health insurance costs for these workers, and it's pretty ageist. So he thinks it's college graduates now, along with cronies and family members of vice presidents, etc. So he's seeing age discrimination, cronyism and nepotism, and of course he believes these things are going on because of Trump. Trump made it acceptable to do illegal and unacceptable things, so why wouldn't Southwest follow suit? Why didn't the -other- airlines do so? Because TSV believes they used good old fashioned common sense management, even Jet Blue, hardly the most popular carrier out there. But TSV is a bit of a train fan, so he's encouraging people to "next time take the train." People who wanted to fly cross-country back home on Southwest Airlines in a manner of 6-8 hours ended up spending up to 6-8 days sleeping on floors of airports. A cross-country train like the Silver Liner or Cross Deseret TSV believes it's called would hardly take 3-4 days. So you want to sleep in airports for 8 days because you still want to get home in 8 hours? How Type-A is that? So it'll probably be March or April of next year before we start doing public hearings as to what happened in late 2022, long after people totally forgot. And TSV is not very impressed with the Corporate Response of Southwest's executive. It reminded him of Boeing's executive's Corporate Response to the crashes of the 737 Max airplane. He doesn't see sincere contriteness or willingness to take responsibility, something we need to encourage our children to know how to do.

One thing the Heir/Tropical Soulvangelical-TSV forgot to get me the Mentor/Happy Bachelor to post on our shares base earlier when we were talking about Kyrsten Sinema, and Sam Bankman-Fried, and the criminal evidence warehouse fire, is about his suspicion about this whole "triple threat," flu/Covid/RSV. He's not saying that these aren't real, in fact quite the contrary. But on audio he's heard about the shortage of cold/cough remedies on shelves at least in New York state (and possibly elsewhere, though audio has yet to confirm that). It's enough of a shortage that Chuck Schumer has pressed for the FDA to get companies to address maybe replenishing supplies accordingly. But TSV has an idea of how this happened, and it all has to do with him listening to Business Newsradio first thing in the morning at 12:30 UTC, and that's his present source in tracking predatory and aggressive marketers coming after him and piously simplistic others once inflation and recessionary fears blow over. Here's a practice sheet of that, because a couple months ago the above audio segment talked about how Pfizer saw an increase in its stock in the equity markets, and the same with Moderna over a couple weeks ago, and the takeaway was that both companies gained from their being in the Covid vaccine/treatment market. RSV he heard started being talked about roughly a month ago, and in the backdrop was biz radio 12.30utc mentioning Glaxo Smith Kline. About that time, TSV heard GSK commercials at his catering counter job regarding RSV, and he believes GSK felt like they missed the Covid boat and they certainly vowed not to do the same with RSV. He notes that the commercials -do not- advertise any particular product, but they do say "brought to you by GSK." And then on audio with a chrono order of news reports newsradio he heard reports to the effect of "hospitals are filling up with RSV cases," but they don't substantiate as to -what- percentage of hospitals (weekly average or so) report -what- percentage of their capacity (weekly average or so) is being taken up. He suspected that a marketing segment on behalf of not just GSK leaned on this particular newsradio station to make this report, regardless of lack of real substantiation. At the same time, audio he heard of health officials, and no names for some reason for the most part, so again no substantiation, warning about the "triple threat." Rochelle Walensky made an appearance at some sort of meeting in Philadelphia, reported by Philly public radio, warning of either RSV alone or of the "triple threat." TSV -truly hopes- these officials don't have any invested interest in the companies, because of course this would point to a conflict of interest. To what degree have we the public, he wonders, vetted the officials' resumes with respect to which companies they have in their investment portfolios? So in this way, coupled with likely visual doomscrolling of the average populace that TSV himself has wisely not exposed himself to, he believes people panicked and took medicines off the shelves. Cynically he doesn't believe companies like Pfizer or Moderna or GSK mind there being this supply crisis, because when the FDA complies with Chuck Schumer and says to the companies, "please replenish supply," of course TSV believes they'll say "sure no problem." With both the coverage of the "triple threat" and the need for supply of medicines, the companies stand to gain. TSV is very curious as to how biz radio 12.30utc talks about how equity stocks fare for the health companies in coming days, because if those go up even still, they are effectively to the early 20s as tech companies were to the mid- 10s: the hysterical mood of the populace being both controlled and gained from by a given for-profit sector. So the way in which this is a practice sheet for TSV is about aggressive marketing that he has to protect himself against, and while he was just looking over the Wikipedia entry for Pfizer, he saw multiple sections with the phrase "aggressive marketing" in the title, and that stunned him to the point where he wonders whether his suspicions as above are merely coincidence. Probably not. So here's what TSV wants to say to people. Definitely be careful with viruses such as the flu and Covid and RSV. He recommends people get vaccinated with the flu and Covid, even if such vaccines do come from the the companies he's kind of cynical about. Where RSV goes, keep an ear out, he recommends, about -actual substantive information-, e.g., confirmed stats and data and number crunching, to see how big of a threat it is at any one time. We did that with Covid during the pre-vaccine pandemic, but now that we've gone -post-vaccine-, TSV observes we've almost totally sloughed off to the point where he's not hearing it on audio like he's supposed to, because he shouldn't have to plow through a dozen pages on an unreliably functioning Internet to get the answers. Once there comes an RSV vaccine, TSV recommends to rely on confirmed and substantiated info to decide to do the vaccine, instead of on fear, uncertainty and doubt.

So while we're working on getting back on audio again, the Heir/Tropical Soulvangelical had also wanted to point out how Sam Bankman-Fried can get a get-out-of-free-jail-card simply by running for public office and then claiming the charges against him are politically motivated. It appears to the Heir our system currently generally allows for that, even though legally you can't dismiss charges simply by running for public office. Even though the Heir was opposed to Kyrsten Sinema's obstruction of the social changes bill (which was really just a beta of the things we need to -really- recover from Covid19 as a society), he also opposes the Ed Snowden Progressives using her switch of party to bully and harass the majority of the populace for not swearing fealty to them. And onto the burning down of the evidence warehouse in Brooklyn. This the Heir sees as a colossal failure, because it encourages criminals. Despite the officials' contention that the warehouse was only mostly about evidence with respect to cold cases, the Heir believes that's a distractionary claim from how he believes that it's the majority of -current- cases he believes are affected, and how this will enbolden criminals who may now believe they can commit any crimes they feel like because the evidence against them is likely to be housed in a facility that has a high burn risk.

So you may have noticed that we haven't put out base shares regarding the election, and that's because it's connected with our efforts for going back on audio. The Heir and we have actually been doing audio offline, but we're figuring out how to get it online in that pared-down format we've been talking about here on our shares base. If we don't get to it in a timely manner, we intend to at least sum up here what the Heir's been saying about the elections. Stay tuned.

Almost as a followup to our previous base share about our eventual return to audio being a High Frequency Candidate, the Heir's increasingly DX'ing and hunting around the HF bands partly as a source of content along with ''vital basic information'' on the radio first thing in the morning to make discussion about. He also comes across religious stations as well, both on the MF and the HF bands, and had hoped that a divine wrath he'd find amidst the stations he could channel towards our inherently corrupt society, but results were mixed. He's found some black church sermons on HF along with the Lord's Prayer on MF, with some smidgen of wrath and outrage at said corrupt society, but just a smidgen. Unfortunately he's also come across some anti-gay and anti-choice content that seems more akin to the Attack Dog News Network than anything resembling the Lord's Prayer, and he finds that content offensive. Keep in mind that the Heir doesn't consider himself particularly observantly religious, but he's far from agnostic. It seems to him that the more unhinged and offensive content is counterproductive if the main idea is to spread the Word Of God to the people of all great nations (and small, too). People will get so turned off by the offensive content that they might end up using the logical fallacy of If Not One Then The Other, and embrace outright secularism. That's the last thing the Heir thinks this world needs right now, still having its neck under the boot of Ed Snowden, replacement marketing and corporate recruiting pressures such as ''the power of positive thinking.'' But it's also occurred to him that the anti-gay stuff may be increasing since Labor Day with respect to the upcoming midterm elections, which polls on the radio seem to indicate are a foregone conclusion. As such, the Heir generally sees elections as Tyranny Of The Majority, because with the exception of 2018 and 2020, he sees himself among a lesser plurality that the majority votes -against.- The majority doesn't just vote against the candidates the Heir votes -for-. In doing so, they vote against -him-. He's not going to forget that even two weeks after the election is over. He's going to look for a special election candidate to support to get his revenge on the majority (unless the election goes -his- way, but that's not what the polls are saying). He also wants to support school board candidates in Bucks County who will challenge the currently anti-gay and anti-trans school board at present. As far as the Heir's concerned, the election won't be over until there's an election that steps in the direction of the righteous path for society.

As you may very well know, we haven't done audio for nearly four years. However, we anticipate that's going to change, though the format may be more pared down and slightly different. But it'll, among other things, exemplify the tropical conservatism of adhering to principle. Furthermore, we anticipate being what we call a High Frequency Candidate, for the sake of those radio amateurs wanting to do micro- or personal broadcasting, and are in need of content. This is not likely to happen for months yet. But as the Heir keeps making progress on his tropical soul DIY mp3 player, and we get closer to the deliverance and light of tropical soul, it'll be the next logical step once we finally get to tropical soul. The Heir's been DX'ing the shortwave bands along with collecting knowledge about what kinds of transmissions are out there, so he and we look forward to see what we can do with shortwave in some form. We haven't decided whether we want to get a license yet. Keep checking in, people.

The Heir heard on audio yesterday or the day before about how a majority of Florida residents affected by the storm don't have flood insurance. He doesn't think it's about residents wrongly thinking that their homeowner's insurance would cover flood damage. He believes it's a corollary to what he said about people having to put basic needs on their credit card because they spent the money meant for non-discretionaries toward aggressively marketed discretionaries. In both cases, the Heir believes the people were confused by the "power of positive thinking," and that if you've got the "power of positive thinking," that somehow means you don't need flood insurance if you live in Florida, regardless of whether or not a hurricane is on its way. As the Heir finds out more and more about how ordinary people were being lied to by tech- and other marketers, it's obvious now to the Heir that on a culture-wide basis, you reap what you sow. Granted, he wants the people to recover properly no matter what mistakes they made in the past, but once they've recovered, almost certainly they'll make the same mistakes again in the future because the Heir believes the marketers will return. Florida residents will -not- buy flood insurance in the future in meaningful numbers, and people will -continue- to put basic needs on their credit card when the new marketing campaigns heat up again.

Generally speaking, when it comes to Ed Snowden these days, the Heir isn't so inclined to come after the guy himself as much as his progressive apologists. But now that Ed Snowden's been granted citizenship in a country adversarial to the U.S., and because the progressives claim to be against said country in its assault against Ukraine, the Heir sees this as an opportunity for the progressives to throw Ed Snowden under the bus once and for all. He demands nothing short of that, and he won't accept the progressives saying something to the effect of we want the Ed Snowden from 2013, not the Ed Snowden from 2022. The Heir says you should forsake both. If you don't, the Heir will be reminded that he himself is not progressive at all, but what he calls Tropically Conservative. We should probably also bring back that banner of solidarity now that Putin claims to now own eastern Ukraine. We should have the banner say that eastern Ukraine and Crimea are -Ukrainian-, period. We, too, see the 'referendum' as a sham, but it's not a true referendum. It's just soldiers forcing people to sign what they don't mean under duress, so the Heir's wondering if Zelensky's weak in not invalidating said 'referendum' as the rightful President of Ukraine. The Heir's hoping for more, because this is just a mental trick that everyone's falling for, including those who see the campaign as a sham. The Heir thinks we should call it what it is, a mental military campaign. Undo Putin's hypnosis.

The Heir heard on audio, on more than one installment of that business news minute, that people are racking up credit card debt just to pay for the basics. He's not going to say "sucks to be you, man" in an apathetic sort of way, but he does caution how this is the end result of the replacement marketing of the 2010s. He sees people actually -believing- that "one thing shall replace another" and that "it's the power of positive thinking" in about 2014 and 2015 respectively. The Heir refused to go along with either, clearly seeing both the mental and the financial risk, and the larger culture retaliated against him as a result in a new world order type fashion by causing the company he once worked at at the time to go out of business and for him to get laid off. He's now enjoying -reasonable- success at the Bland Barns Catering Counter, but he hasn't forgotten the past. It appears to him that instead of taking the opportunity of a then "great economy" to save and invest, people instead ended up spending their money on constant smartphone and giant TV upgrades, possibly as an effort to keep up with the Joneses. The Heir tunes into Business Radio 7:30am to get the daily changing backdrop each day he can to help him look over the horizon, and he's pretty sure that once inflationary and recessionary pressures go away, predatory marketers on behalf of a variety of high-end retail types will be back in full force telling people they're behind the times if they don't buy discretionary products and services, because it's the power of positive thinking. It's going to happen again, and the Heir's more concerned about that than today's inflation and recession combined. He wants to ask people what they want the most: keeping up with the Joneses, or making ends meet? He hopes people will choose common sense in the future.

The Heir believes he -personally- dodged a bullet when Judge Dearie came back and said, well I'm presuming the documents to still be classified because I'm not informed otherwise that they were ever -de-classified. Again, we're talking about the epidemic in personal corruption, and it was just random chance that this particular judge was conscientious about something the Heir thinks was missing thus far in the conversation in the INN, and that's how the judge knew he needed to have -clearance- to see classified documents, which means in order for him to see them, he either a) needed said clearance, or b) the documents needed to be declassified. But the Heir's wondering what's really stopping Trump from saying, well I want a -different- documents master since Judge Dearie came out as a loose cannon for me. Someone, the Heir believes Trump will say, who doesn't -care- whether they have clearance or not for the documents, clearance shmearance! How about -you- Aileen Cannon (??), Trump the Heir believes will ask. That's pretty much Trump's ace in the hole, because the Heir doesn't see Aileen Cannon as caring about whether one has clearance to classified documents, -or- recusing herself from a moral quandary. The Heir wonders what the 11th Circuit Court Of Appeals would say when Merrick Garland appeals the case there once Judge Cannon is appointed the next documents master, though the Heir heard Glenn Kirshner being concerned about whether that special master might be Giuliani, or John Eastman, etc. The Heir expects some commentators on the INN to insist that Merrick Garland is such a dang genius for somehow "foreseeing" that the special master would go, well maybe I shouldn't be doing this. Again the Heir believes that happened by chance, and that thus far it's Trump Team 2 (or more), Merrick Garland 0. Only until and unless the Heir's led to believe otherwise would he believe otherwise.

The Heir's made his campaign donations, and only plans to do so again next month. As such, he's disabled the proliferation of texts coming in asking for money, but he's concerned about the fact that they've been texting him 5-10 times a day, predicting the end of democracy if he doesn't regularly donate an amount he actually can't afford to donate. He's already been there in 2004 when they told him that if Impulsive gets a second term, we won't recognize our country after Impulsive's term ends. Of course they conveniently ignored their own prediction, because by the time Impulsive's term came to an end, everyone was excited about Funny Named Skinny Kid. So the Heir's wondering, -if- the Donkeys For The People lose the races they wanted to win this time around, what chance is there that someone's going to text him the Wednesday after giving him a guilt trip about not having donated enough, and trying to blame -him- for the "end" of democracy? Months ago we did a base share here about the importance of keeping perspective regarding the perception of democracy, and we believe our general messaging still stands now even though we're not suggesting that democracy is "safe" in any way shape or form. But here's another thing the Heir believes is going to happen. -If- the Donkeys For The People -do- win the races they want to win, some wise guy will go on INN and point that a Donkey victory by itself will not guarantee the safety of democracy. Well of course it won't, because the Heir sees the "end of democracy" talking point as a corrollary to the false belief that "it's only a democracy if my candidate wins," and it wouldn't surprise him in the least if the Elephantine Elitists plagiarize these talking point memos. Remember people: it ain't necessarily so. In the meantime the Heir hopes to get very limited texts going forward, and he might end up disabling those as well.

The Heir was considering writing to his Congresswoman and requesting his own personal box of Top Secret documents, citing the Aileen Cannon ruling as precedent. But he's put that off to see whether we as a country have the good sense to make sure that this "Special Master" has both proper clearance and need-to-know with the documents. He doubts this is going to happen, because he believes that whoever gets chosen is likely going to be some kind of political celebrity who doesn't have clearance -or- need-to-know for -anything-, let alone the displayed menu at the ice cream massage parlor. He was seeing whether there was any scintillating wisdom as a witty rejoinder to the Aileen Cannon ruling in the Insurgent News Network, and thus far he's come back empty handed. All he found was a video with a title saying that Aileen Cannon doesn't care about the rule of law, which the Heir scores as a bit Captain Obvious. But once they appoint completely the wrong person to "review" the documents, and most certainly send copies to the Kremlin and Beijing, and Tehran and Pyongyang, that's when the Heir wants to make his move in the most unlooked for and scintillating way possible. That's because absolutely nobody's doing that. Nobody. Except the Heir. That clues you into how Tropical Soul is the way, because all the other "ways" inevitably lead to dead ends.

One of these fine days we're going to get back on audio. But in the meantime, I the Mentor have observed that it's recently unusual for us to be fixated on one topic in the shares base. But as if the documents case against Trump weren't so irreparably damaged enough, now the judge in the case appears likely to grant a "master" to review the classified documents that have been seized. The Heir sees it as highly unlikely that such a "master" would have clearance or even a need-to-know with the documents. The Heir's 90% sure it'll just be some ordinary Joe coming off the streets just happening to walk by the courthouse when the judge makes the decision. "Psst, hey buddy, wanna be the 'master' of classified documents you have no clearance to see whatsoever?" In the meantime, the Heir's heard about that one lady who got into a petty argument with another lady, and got in her car to try to mow down the other lady, and ended up killing an old man in the process, and he's having a hard time believing that the weaponized car case is completely disconnected from the documents case. He's observed how today's post-Ed Snowden generation truly believes that morality doesn't matter as reinforced by the now-OJ nature of the documents case, so it's not surprising that some lady thinks she can resolve an argument with another lady by attempted (and actual) vehicular homicide, and not even think for a second as to the moral implications. He thinks it may have been over a handsome stranger at the clubs both ladies had a thing for. The Heir's wondering whether the documents case should really be all that much covered to the exclusion, for example, of reports on audio regarding the status/risk of monkeypox or polio in Bachelor Blue State, now he's 90% sure Trump will get off scot-free from the documents case, whereas someone like you or I would end up doing 50 years hard labor. Truly, what else is there left to cover in the documents case that's still of true national relevance?

The other day the Heir objected to making the affidavit public. But now that it's done, his response is, "Now You've Done It." He believes the case against Trump is now irreparably damaged, and though the conventional thinking is that he's going to get indicted, that's probably as far as it's going to go where the secret documents case is concerned. The public already knows too much, and even the "unredacted" portions the Heir believes to be overly sensitive to national security. The slogan argument of "inquiring minds want to know" the Heir doesn't see as an adequate enough reason for this security breach, and he believes the judge acted more out of public pressure than a true balance between confidentiality and freedom of the press. The search at Maralago is now so much public knowledge that the only jury who will be fair and impartial is one the Heir believes will inevitably clear Trump of any and all wrongdoing, and he (either the Heir -or- Trump) will go out on the court steps claiming he's "exonerated," almost like how the Heir sees Michael Jackson of being posthumously "exonerated" of -ever- attacking the boys, and that's another thing. Even now, the Heir still perceives the morally outraged outside of Neverland with their pitchforks and their torches, and he doesn't think Michael Jackson was ever held accountable. But back to the secret documents case, the Insurgent News Network believes that the case got started when the National Archives found out they were missing the traditional letter in the drawer Obama left for Trump, and that's when they found out there were boxes of classified documents at Maralago, and they needed to call in the DOJ. No-one's saying whether Trump left a letter for Biden, but the Heir thinks that if he did, the letter likely contained only two words, and they're not Happy Birthday.

The Heir disagrees with the judge saying that the affidavit must be made public in some fashion, because the Heir believes that doing so is unprecedented and endangers national security. But he also believes both the judge and the judge's staff were intimidated both by the Trumpists and the apparently Trumpist-sympathetic press. The Heir doesn't want hear anything more about the so-called "Fourth Estate," because does that mean We The People are merely the "Fifth Estate?" The Heir wonders why a corporate conglomerate "press" has more rights than the people, and frankly the Heir doesn't care if he is very likely to be in the vast minority of any given poll that asks whether the affidavit should be effectively -breached- that answers No to said poll. This the Heir sees as yet another black eye on the press, particularly six months after they pushed an interview of an "expert" that suggested that Russia wasn't going to attack Ukraine about a week or two before Russia did so. What's next? That the same press wants to remove all the black bars in the affidavit, and reveal who's W1, W2, CW, V? The Heir's not sure whether Merrick Garland, whom the Insurgent News Network suggests has defeated Trump at every turn, ever anticipated the judge's preliminary decision, so the Heir's not sure Merrick Garland is all that bullet-proof. But the Heir wants to see a -separate- search with respect to a -separate- case unrelated to Trump or even politics at large, with a -separate- affidavit and search warrant, and see whether that -separate- judge bows to pressure to breach the affidavit in -that- search. If not, the Heir asks what's the real difference between the two investigations if they're conducted by the book the same way respecting the same level of confidentiality?

The Heir is so kind and tender-hearted that he wouldn't even hurt a lantern-fly, a pest that threatens crops in Bachelor Blue State. He's leery of New York's official stance that people squash said bugs on sight, partly because it might lead to an anti-bug stance in general, and that he wonders whether citizen-bug-squashing is really making a dent in the lantern-fly population. The directors of agriculture will have to come up with a more effective strategy, like maybe training goats to eat lantern flies, or breeding lantern-fly-eating-specific praying mantises. But while the Heir's kind to the bugs, he's -not- kind to Kevin McCarthy for threatening to obstruct justice in an official governmental manner if the Elephantines win back the House, in making intimidating remarks with respect to Merrick Garland. He disagrees with Lawrence O'Donnell's apparent stance that McCarthy should be ignored, and apparently so does Glenn Kirshner, whom the Heir's noticed as citing the US law code on his channels against the offense of Accessory After The Fact. We shouldn't politicize the process of justice just because an ally to the politicians had his home searched, because look at it this way: Giuliani. The Heir's seen Colbert making fun of Giuliani's drinking habit, and while the Heir simultaneouly laughs at it and questions its tasteful value, it reminds him that sooner or later Giuliani's going to get pulled over for a DUI, and obstensibly get arrested. Once that happens, The Kevin McCarthy's and the Elephantine politicians will threaten the city of New York with subpoenas to testify before a committee if they win back the House regarding the "illegality" of Giuliani being arrested for a DUI just because they probably also see Giuliani as an ally. Such subpoenas into fake "illegality" the Heir believes themselves also to be illegal, and he's getting ready to make a citizen's arrest of Kevin McCarthy, giving him the full perp walk and everything in front of the cameras, so be warned Kevin McCarthy: be sure to clear your schedule and your office desks for when the Heir himself arrives with a No Knock Warrant.

The Heir believes the progressives are obsessively focused on the Secret Service deleted texts. He kind of heard about the issue in passing on audio, and while he does agree we need to get to the bottom of why the texts were deleted, he's never thought about it that much. So he goes on visual with Colbert to see a progressive cable show host as well as a member of Congress talking about the issue, but only starting in the middle rather than the beginning of their explanation. The Heir had to go to Wikipedia to get actually collated info about the deleted texts (albeit in a six-line paragraph as of this writing and not a separate article), and he eventually also went to Glenn Kirshner's youtube channel. To the credit of both, the Heir had an explanation as to what the issue is about, but no explanation for why the progressives seem to want to make conspiracy theories about it and not call for the January 6th Committee to call actual Secret Service agents to testify. If it has to do with classified info, obviously it'll be closed testimony, but the Heir's pretty sure that Bennie Thompson and Liz Cheney will tell the public about what they learned (i.e., non-classified). The Heir sees the progressive conspiracy theory as being to the effect of Trump "made" the Secret Service delete the texts because he's so scary and invincible and almighty-powerful, despite losing reelection with the biggest number of votes for the winner in all of American history. The progressives will always go to the trope of the invincible adversary against whom all are defenseless. That's why the Heir believes the cable host misportrayed the possibility of agents texting goodbye to the their loved ones as apparent "evidence" of said invincibility. Somehow opening the door of a car to make sure there aren't any bombs that'll go off in your face pales against a mob that includes some shirtless guy in Valkyrie Horns. Also fueling the possibility of conspiracy theories is the notion that the texts are just outright gone forever, even though the Heir's sure the NSA has copies, and may quietly and/or classfiedly share them with the Committee upon request. Very convenient the Heir thinks for the progressives to want to pretend that if no explanation is given as to why the texts were deleted, then it must be Trump who magically "made" the Secret Service delete those texts. It's kind of how astronomers criticize how people think about UFO's. Their criticism is people believing that if the flying object is -unidentified- then it "must" be aliens. Of course the other wrinkle here is that -if- agents testify to the committee that Trump "made" the Secret Service delete the emails, the Heir's sure the progressives will resort to "see we told you so," which once made is a profoundly repugnant and faithless and disrespectful response to there being more information about something people want to know more about. All these are further reasons the Heir does not consider himself progressive, because he want to -conserve- knowledge and common sense where the texts at least are concerned.

The Heir's just about had it with card chip readers. Over 50% of the time he puts his card into the chip slot at the shops, it gets rejected with an Input Canceled error. The system wants to blame his card, and by extension, -him- for the failure, instead of the system taking responsibility for largely defective card chip readers. His card is only 2-3 years old, hardly enough for the chip to just fail in his card, so he's not going to bother getting a reissue, since he's 90% sure that the reissue will fail as well. He ends up having to use the strip anyway, even with all the largely unsubstantiated rumors of it somehow not being safe. The fact is, he's had some kind of card for 35-40 years and he's -never- had a personal instance where he got ripped off because he was using the stripe. He's always looked at his balance, and it was always correct. He thinks it's the spendthrifties that were the biggest victim 20 years ago, and he doesn't think it was the strip but rather the fact that Target at the time insisted on using touchscreens for people to type their PINs into, making it impossible to cover up what you're typing while also making sure your PIN was correct. They eventually replaced these with actual number pads. So say what you will about how "great" card chips are and how "terrible" card strips are, the Heir's going to go with what works, the least resistance, because the supposed greatness of card chips is yet another unchallenged claim in which the end user who always gets blamed for a bad chip doesn't get their equal time. Like big tech trying to tell people that one thing shall replace another, it's just a marketing campaign, and not the actual truth of things.

So here's the Heir's take on that ''assault'' on Giuliani in a Bland Barns style supermarket, now that the Heir himself has gigged for Bland Barns for a number of years. He saw the video, and it just seemed to him that the guy just tapped Giuliani on the back. He thought it was rude and uncalled for, but certainly not criminal by any means. Of course Giuliani has the right to sue the guy in court, but the Heir thinks Giuliani exaggerated by claiming whiplash and extensive injury of sorts. He thinks Giuliani was being a crybaby, and he begs to differ with visual that claims that the incident was related to abortion. Instead, the Heir believes that it was related to Giuliani's general criminality going back to assisting the bribing of Ukraine. The guy was probably unhappy that Giuliani is still a free man when even in the age of legal pot the Heir believes there are still people serving decades for having been caught with pot when they were 15. Again it's about the children, and for Giuliani to serve as a terrible role model the Heir sees as -the- cardinal sin. The Heir laughs at the possibility that when all of today's criminals go to Hell when they die they will try to claim double jeopardy, since they were already tried in life and got a get out of free jail card. The Big Guy Upstairs the Heir's sure will laugh in their face, albeit compassionately.

The Heir now believes it's time to abolish the Supreme Court, and it's not just because they "occasionally" put out a ruling he "personally" disagrees with. He has no idea what would take its place, but he's sure that you don't have to resort to an amendment process to make it happen. It's just that with the thing with abortion and guns that he doesn't see the Supreme Court as any more than an unelected third branch of Congress. As far as he's concerned, jurisprudence is dead, and it may have been dead for some number of months and years. In that time, the Heir's not heard of any simple but substantive argument to the contrary, that jurisprudence is ever used in a meaningful way. In fact, the Heir's 85% sure that this set of measures to prevent gun violence that was just signed into law will only get overturned in the Supreme Court a year from now. We've gotten to the point where anybody is opposed to any law for any reason can always go to the Supreme Court to get that law overturned. So the Supreme Court he doesn't see as much different than the House Of Lords in the UK, or the Council Of Elders in Iran. If we're so concerned about Democracy supposedly being on "life support," those same voices claiming such have fallen silent where the Supreme Court is concerned. The Heir doesn't think that codifying those things the Court strikes down or adding Justices is the answer. He sees that as just nibbling around the edges and not getting to the real heart of the problem. So this past Friday afternoon was the beginning of the end of the Supreme Court with respect to an emerging coalition of citizens and scholars now favoring an outright abolition or at least a severe overhaul just to restore a sense of checks and balances, and it's only a matter of time before elected and appointed officials start climbing onboard as well.

The Heir has added Johnny Depp to his "enemies list." The list doesn't contain Woodward or Bernstein, but it does contain Cosby and Manafort. Until the trial came to an end, the Heir didn't pay close attention to it, so he hasn't formed a personal opinion of Amber Heard herself. But he does believe her when she said Depp abused her. He tuned into the Insurgent News Network regarding the Depp trial, and while he was satisfied with actual analytical attention given to the trial, he was -not- happy by the lack of moral outrage or a call to action. So now he's going to add Edward Scissorhands along with Fat Albert to the proverbial Pretador Bonfire. He doesn't believe people should buy or rent these items if they're outraged by the lack of morality in today's society stemming from well-connected celebrities getting a get-out-of-free-jail-card, or concerned about the wrong messages being sent to our young people as a result.

In light of the tragedies in Texas and Buffalo NY, the Heir thinks it's actually unhelpful to the U.S. for Canada to propose banning handguns in their country. This will have the effect of pro-gun politicians digging their heels in with their opposition even to things like Red Flag Laws and background checks. The Heir predicts their argument would be (however specious) that such laws are proposed by those who want us to be like Canada. While the recent tragedies once made us seriously consider turning our guns in, the Canadian proposal makes us all now too likely to keep said guns and even get new ones. The Heir wants those outlets doing polls finding that up to 90% of U.S. citizens want background checks and Red Flag Laws to also do a poll on how they also feel about Canada's proposal. The Heir predicts the results to be more divided. His last thought on this post is for people to google the following: Robin Williams Stop Or I'll Say Stop Again. Said comic routine would be enough to exemplify the current moment as of this writing.

The Heir -definitely- doesn't conform. This is about that one poll that claimed that 74% of Americans describe themselves as -very anxious- about inflation. Don't get us wrong, because the Heir's no inflation freak. He's just as against it as everyone else. But -unlike- everyone else, he feels mildly annoyed rather than "very anxious." He doesn't look forward to seeing how his index funds are doing what with the beating that the S&P 500's been taking, but he hasn't noticed any severe lowerage in his regular bank accounts. Contrast to seven years ago when the Heir was the one who was "very anxious" in 2015 when everyone else was doing great and he got laid off. He was told, hey get with the program, the economy's doing -great!-. But now he believes that his financial fortunes are the -opposite- of everyone else's. When everyone else does great, he does terribly. When the Heir does great, everyone else does terribly. So maybe the Heir shouldn't necessarily welcome the end of inflation, because that's when things start to suck for him if they get better for everyone else. That would certainly be the case when the hard sell marketers make a comeback on Postinflationary America. The Heir tunes into Bloomberg 7:30am in the morning, and his takeaway is that the hard sell marketers and the moguls of personal corruption they tend to dovetail with are already making plans for what our culture "must" be like once inflation is over. He's not sure what they'll try to sell or what they'll try to say. But he's sure of two things. A. They'll resort to red herring and slogan arguments. B. It'll be a bad thing for the Heir if like in 2015 he's not "getting with the program." But he's not going to be taken down in 2023 onwards like he was in 2015. He's learned, he's got a defensive posture in the increasing ready, and he will make the marketers sorry they ever messed with him.

While the Heir was looking through his YouTube list for animal/pet and travel videos to add to his Watch Later list, he caught sight of the Fat Albert movie under the Free With Ads section. He deleted it from his list, but he wondered whether he should do a Report on it, because it's associated with Cosby, and he thinks Cosby was an executive producer for the movie. He'll probably consider doing so if Fat Albert reappears in his list, because under no circumstances should a video provider take the shackles off a confirmed sex offender's artistic works just because the offender may have gotten a get-out-of-free-jail-card last July. The Heir's not aware of any option to keep an entire slate of content from his lists accordingly, but the Fat Albert movie may be the only item the Heir may end up seeing out of the mostly retired Cosby these days. But we the people should have the right to control what commercial content is thrown our way that bear such a general criminal association. No-one needs Cosby using the Fat Albert movie to try to say in-your-face to those of us still concerned about principle.