It's been almost a month since we in the Bachelor posted a share, but it's a good day for justice in the country with the conviction of Derek Chauvin in the death of George Floyd.  We in the Bachelor hope that as we get with measures such as banning chokeholds and revealing discipline records, it'll help the public to trust the cops more so as to also better promote the law abiding by citizens.  The Heir particularly believes that revelations of discipline records would also help statistically, because then it'll give the public a good idea of good cops vs. bad cops.  The anti-cop groups the Heir sees as contending that there's no such thing as a good cop, but now we're more likely to have actual substantive information one way or the other.  Speaking of anti-cop groups, that one measure with demilitarization the Heir hopes also takes winds out of the sails of the defunders, because he sees it as the cops' militarization that's attracted young people to the defunders.  So things like banning chokeholds, discipline records and demilitarization we heard on audio as part of the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, but the bill has stalled in the Senate.  The Heir hopes Chuck Schumer gets to grow a couple and respond to what the Heir expects as Mitch McConnell trying to paint the bill up as weakening the cops on some sort of level.  On the contrary, the Heir sees the cops in general having as their greatest strengths both the trust of the community they serve and a resulting higher sense of moral authority.  When you go brutal by contrast, it's because you are weak, and that's kind of spiritualist balance credo that's been known for centuries.  So we in the Bachelor call for the George Floyd Act to push forward and made into law accordingly.

The Heir certifies that as of 3/26/21, what he now calls Tropical Soul Player (TSP) is ready for testing as an "alpha" unit.  There's stuff he wants to fine-tune the player with, but he has to have the basic build before then, and now he does.  This is his DIY player, which we used to call our Third Pillar Player.  He's already done all the building and debugging.  So now what he needs to do is a kind of "field testing" by playing it in normal usage.  He wants to test it at home before he's ready to test it on the road in his opera lights vehicle.  So stay tuned as per what the next couple weeks or so ahead implies for the Bachelor.

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.

So here's the current pic of that Third Pillar Player the Heir has made available for me the Mentor to post here on our shares base.  The Heir's been working on it for roughly four years as the central element in his Bachelor Recovery from the personally corrupt 2010s.  When we asked him when it's going to be done, he couldn't give an exact ETA, but said to think of it in terms of days, not weeks.  I the Mentor think it's been nearly three years since we've put out an actual episode on audio, because the Heir needed time to get with the Player.  It was priority number one all this time, but we're hoping we can get back to doing actual episodes on audio sooner than later, as opposed to just doing shares on this base.  Also expect us to make a declaration in some form for when the Heir's Bachelor Recovery is over, and the meaning of the Recovery as a response to all the things he thinks went wrong in this culture in the past decade or so.

The Heir has at least one addendum to his Post-Pardon Paul Manafort Strategy, and he's listed that below.  When he placed that addendum clause in his original list the other day, he didn't mean addenda *just* from other people, but he also refers to himself doing so.  He's pretty sure most good and moral people will remain outraged about the Manafort Pardon almost indefinitely, and they may have good substantive and workable ideas to get to the unfinished business of justice.  But that's not why he got me the Mentor to do this entry.  He's been looking back over a month ago at the Capitol Riots, and he believes that the progressives between 2006 and 2013 were strongly considering something similar both to consummate their late 2000s purism, and in doing so emphasize their case that nothing Obama ever did was good enough.  But the Heir sees Ed Snowden as having taken the wind out of their sails when they felt it was just easier to circle the wagons around Ed Snowden, so they apparently shelved this plan until 1/6, when someone else did it for them.  But now the Heir observes they want to act like the White Hat types on this one, and they don't fool him for one second.

"Increase legal resources by 20%!"

Increase targeted enforcement and prosecutorial resources against mid- and high-level business crimes by 20%.

The Heir has gotten wind of the fact that the New York State Supreme Court has turned Cyrus Vance down flat on bringing state charges against Paul Manafort, so now the Heir has vowed to keep justice coming after Manafort.

"Here are suggestions I have for people, listed below."

1. Citizens bringing lawsuits against the State Of New York in response to the latter's court system's letting go of Manafort.
2. Citizens bringing lawsuits against Manafort to pay back the taxes he cheated on, plus interest, arguing against any kind of legal relief afforded him by having been pardoned, since the facts in prior court cases still remain.
3. Encouraging Paul Manafort's estranged daughter to seek full emancipation since she apparently had changed her last name after he took "blood money" from the Kremlin.
4. Encouraging social justice groups to pursue commutation or pardons for excessive felony convictions for misdemeanor offenses *specifically* because Manafort was let go, amounting to inequality.
5. If Paul Manafort were to die before he pays back the taxes he cheated on, civil lawsuits against his estate to pay back those taxes.
6. A historical society posting near Manafort's grave listing what Manafort was all about, contrary to any accolades he may give himself on his tombstone.
7. Anything equally as reasonable and legally feasible as the above the Heir may have missed.

So here's the Heir's promised followup to our Hail To The Chief a week ago.  As was with Obama, the Heir fully expects the progressives to tear Biden apart on anything they can, just because they could.  He doesn't buy, even for one second, that the progressives have somehow miraculously gained some measure of magnanimity because of the country's experience with Trump.  He highly doubts the progressives ever said, oh, I guess it's partly our fault Trump got in there and was as bad as he was.  Maybe if we as a movement didn't get with Big Tech or Ed Snowden, or looked the other way when the culture was steeped in personal corruption during the 2010s, unreparated in the 2020s, maybe we wouldn't have had Trump, but now that we have, now we should probably make some kind of concessions???  No, ain't gonna happen, is the Heir's thinking.  Instead, he fully expects the progressives to use a kind of "born-again" logic that somehow the past doesn't "objectively" exist, and therefore any of their actions in that same past they don't need to be held accountable.  So one way in which the Heir's observing the progressives making good on their upcoming War On Biden is via the social justice issue, in trying to kind of focus-group the talking point of Not Good Enough.  What if Biden's DOJ under either Merrick Garland or Mr. Garland's current acting predecessor implements all of BLM's recommendations they issued last year to answer for and prevent excessive force?  Not Good Enough.  What if Biden indicates he would never legalize pot nationally or Defund The Police?  Well then he's just Trump Lite.  This is probably tentative, and maybe not the final Anti-Biden Progressive talking point that would actually pick up steam, but the Heir's 90% sure there's going to be something.  And once there is, he's not going to be the least bit surprised.

The Heir believes that the coverage regarding these new variants is considerably blown out of proportion.  Because he heard it on audio, he's able to isolate where he thinks the media got it wrong.  If there was accompanying visual, everyone else is going to go, oh my gosh, there's these variants, we're all doomed!  Instead, he believes this to be a case of Mozart Study Syndrome, in which the layperson media glances over a synopsis of initial studies done on the variants, and comes up with an almost completely different takeaway from the study writers' own conclusions, and then put words in the writers' mouths accordingly.  Like with the Mozart Study back in the 90s, the Heir hopes the writers will come back and say, no we never said the variants were "more contagious," we said it could be more easily caught for those who don't have the proper antibodies, as opposed to the coronavirus proper, or something that's similarly nuanced and measured as per actual professionals' wont.  So the Heir thinks the media should honor the memory of Jamal Khashoggi, and not give themselves a black eye for their tendency *not* to level with their readers/listeners when it comes to medical accuracy.

We wish Biden/Harris the best of luck.  We do expect to follow up in coming days about what the Heir at least thinks we should expect for a post-Trump America.  Stay tuned.

We at the Bachelor condemn the violence at the Capitol a couple days ago, even though the Heir wasn't entirely sure it was over until about this morning.  But he wants to add a couple points to let all of you know that this isn't your boilerplate condemnation.  He also criticizes the progressives' apparent stance leading up to the riots of "our criticism of Trump was only and cynically political all this time so now that he's leaving office let's pretend he never existed."  The Heir's pretty sure that if the progressives really cared about law and justice, they wouldn't have turned a blind eye to what one in hindsight might see as discernible signs that something bad was going to happen in the form of Trump Pardonees like Michael Flynn, and George Papadopoulos, and the Heir's thinking also Roger Stone making speeches at rallies preceding the riots, one of which was the one that Trump made the apparent incitement to violence.  Seeing how at least five people died, including a Capitol police officer, the Heir's wondering whether those Pardonees could be implicated in involuntary manslaughter type charges, as well as aiding and abetting incitement to violence, thereby undoing their pardons with new charges.  If so, the Heir doesn't think the prosecutors should hold back on the Pardonees' criminal records in an opening statement in a trial, even on things they were pardoned from.  It's important that in this way at least the law not recognize the pardons.  The Heir believes the pardons were corrupt simply because Trump made them, period, because the crimes that were pardoned are a bad example for the children.  It's not even about a specific theoretical reason why Trump made the pardons, so the Heir thinks the analysts need not look too deeply into that.  So you heard that one right, that the Heir is getting with the Rachel Lovejoy defense, What About The Children.  Interestingly, the Heir observes that's the reason Betsy DeVos gave for her resignation, that she sees the riots themselves as a bad example for impressionable children, the Heir not being a Betsy DeVos fan by any means, seeing how Marco's Grandmother wants DeVos on charges for the past four years.  So besides getting me the Mentor to post the above, the Heir's thinking about what kind of actionable response he wants to write to his congresswoman with.

"Okay, Mentor, gimme some good ideas on this one.  Oh I meant to say please on that one, and to have reworded my request entirely so I'm not looking like such a spoiled brat, so that Trump isn't being a bad influence here.  Remember that thing at the Boy Scouts jamboree four years ago?  What was he *thinking*!?" 

 Happy New year from The Bachelor!