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.