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.

The Heir wants to boycott Wauwei (as soon as he learns to dang spell it) the first chance he gets, because he believes that its executive that managed to escape back to China from North America is still guilty as sin for whatever it was she did.  He doesn't remember offhand what she was accused of, but he's pretty sure she's guilty.  Sure that goes against the presumption of innocence, but since China successfully strong armed Canada into giving her back in a "hostage" exchange since China unjustly captured and imprisoned two innocent Canadian citizens, he doesn't believe that he's bound by that presumption where common sense is concerned.  So this yet another mark the Heir makes against China, and he places a mark against Canada for caving into China and not standing for principle.  It's perfectly fine by him if the Canadian citizens who were returned end up  helping make the case against China's self-styled legitimacy, and also publicly share their opinions as to the amount of guilt the Wauwei executive bears for she's accused of.  The Heir thinks they should hold their own once China tries to respond with an up-is-down contention against them in response.  This is also why the Heir believes that Janet Yellen in turn should hold her own when meeting with China's finance minister when the minister asks that China get a get-out-of-jail-free card for everything they've ever done, including the unjust detention of tourists for the sake of a political vendetta, just so they can use their economic power to strong arm the rest of the world to what China wants them to do.  The Heir says...

..."no way, no how."

The Heir morally opposes today's Space Tourism flight as he did the last one.  He really doesn't care that "Captain Kirk" was on this particular flight, since he sees the space billionaires as cynical enough to try to use celebrity endorsement to try to sell their ghastly industry.  Despite their propagandistic control of at least the audio media, they saw how there was at least a "silent majority" type opposition to the industry at large.  Captain Kirk's flight the Heir sees as no less destructive to the environment as the Bezos flight.  He estimates that every single launch uses the equivalent of 1000 passenger car tanks of fuel (at least) just to get the ships off into space.  He dreads to think what they use to get the ships back down to Earth again.  This flight takes place just mere hours after the UN recommends industrialized countries to spend more of their GPA to battle climate change, but the media the Heir doesn't see as wanting to make a connection between the two stories.  Maybe once there's a Frances Haugen in one of the media's offices who will whistleblow the media's unholy alliance with the space billionaires, the Heir's hoping.   Good thing the Heir uses audio for his information and therefore he's spared any of the distracting and distorting visuals he's sure everyone else is exposed to, so he can immediately sense there's something wrong.  So the next time there's a space tourist flight, the Heir will be there once again to remind people how that flight, too, will put the final nail in the coffin of our efforts as a collective humanity to get climate change under control.

We're taking no prisoners, and specifically the Heir isn't.  Just days after a jury returned a felony conviction of R Kelly, the Heir heard on audio this morning that the British Metro Police announced they will not pursue any charges or investigations into Prince Andrew as per his assault of a Jeffrey Epstein survivor.  As a result, the Heir's calling for a worldwide discussion of the necessity of a British Monarchy, since he sees the Queen as having the power to dissolve the Metro Police *at will* and for any reason whatsoever.  In that sense, the Heir doesn't see the Metro Police as truly objective if they believe they can lose their jobs if they end up charging Prince Andrew with a crime.  The Heir doesn't remember there ever being a time when either the Metro Police or Scotland Yard had ever taken a member of Royalty into custody without official retaliation.  Incidentally, the Heir was checking in last night into the latest on Cosby's third month of newfound freedom.  If Cosby does start a new show, the Heir wants to join an organized boycott rally of some sort accordingly.  The Heir understands that Andrea Constand had undergone personal healing therapy over the past few years or so, but he's concerned that any time a survivor goes public about undergoing therapy, potential assailants may end up rationalizing their crimes on the basis of, oh well what does it matter if the person is just going to undergo therapy anyway?  The Heir states that an integral part of any therapy of ensuring official justice so that young men and boys don't believe that they can have their way with any partner or acquaintance if they think they'll always get out of jail on a technicality.  The Heir's main aim in justice is about avoiding sending the wrong message.

"For every criminal that gets off scot-free, at least 100 young people will become personally corrupted.  They don't believe they need to be held to account for *anything* if Person X gets off scot-free.  They are likely now engaging in disorderly person offenses in the UK upon hearing news about Prince Andrew."

The Heir continues our newfound tradition of not taking prisoners as per our Cultural Update by continuing to press for accountability in the California oil spill.  Today's audio tried to downplay the disaster by apparently citing some kind of "report" that claims that not as many birds were affected by the oil spill, or that it's "not clear" what caused the oil spill, or that the pipeline that ruptured somehow may have been breached for up to "a year."  This after the same audio reported the likelihood that a German goods carrier put down anchor on or near the pipeline and then failed to bring the anchor up when it started going again, and that the anchor caught onto and dragged the pipeline for nearly a hundred feet.  That is more substantive to the Heir than a "report" clutching at different possibilities as to why the oil spill is "not so serious," so he's suspicious about this new report and where it came from.  He's sure the progressives will solely blame the oil industry which he sees as such a predictable go-to, and not on industries that are demanding such oil, such as the burgeoning space tourism industry underwritten by Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, and in their interests in seeing such a "report" come to light.  See my (Happy Bachelor's) previous base share on the likelihood that the ruptured pipeline was supplying oil for refinement for space tourism.  He sees Musk and Bezos using campaign and charity contributions as a bribe for progressive silence, to the point where the progressives effectively endorse everything Musk and Bezos want to do, no matter how unprogressive those things are.  In a closely related issue, since the Heir still sees Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook as progressive bastions, since the Heir sees the two as part of the progressives' own activist infrastructure, he doesn't believe Frances Haugen's revelations go far enough.  There's a lot more that her documents should have showed, such as Facebook's participation in forced obsolescence, the effort to get the public to falsely believe that one thing should replace another.  This the Heir goes into detail in the Cultural Update, but suffice it to say that he's actually disappointed until and unless there's an update, amidst other audio about current events that seem to seek to steer away from the revelations of Frances Haugen.

As per announcement that we're not taking prisoners anymore (i.e., the Cultural Update), the Heir wants to connect a disconnection.  He wants to connect between the tragic oil spill in California and the so-called space tourism industry.  It was less than a week ago that on one of the Heir's ethereal space channels on YouTube that the Ed Snowden-lite Elon Musk made an editorial proclamation against A.I., and regardless of whether you agree with him or not, the Heir doesn't believe that Musk's opinions count for anything.  The space channel features compelling space animations and space age music the Heir finds pleasant and entertaining.  The a/v content uses as voiceovers *factual* commentaries by actual *scientists* about things like if and when we can make it to an earth-like planet outside our solar system, or whether we'll achieve warp drive, or whether we can beat Relativity in space travel so that people don't have to travel thousands of years into the future to find the planet Vulcan or something, only to come back to find everyone they knew is dead.  The A.I. video, which the Heir only saw the thumbnail of, and did not dignify the Elon Muskization of society to bother watching, he sees as an *unwelcome* intrusion that he sees contrary to the space channel's mission.  Elon Musk is just a corporate executive.  He's not a scientist, so the Heir wonders what makes *his* opinions better or superior to anyone else's, particularly since Elon Musk also spends time smoking pot on YouTube.  Add that to the fact that you had that oil spill happen, because here's the Heir's take on that.  We're still gathering the facts to present on audio as to what's causing the spill, but the Heir suspects the oil is in a pipeline that's meant for a refinery that *specifically* makes fuel for the NASA launch pads, including Elon Musk's SpaceX program, and the space tourist launches that take place.  The Heir's wondering if another Billionaire Space Launch is due in two weeks, and if it is, the Heir expects an official report on the spill to be intentionally delayed *after* the launch, and for audio coverage of the spill to follow suit, because Elon Musk, and Jeff Bezos, and Richard Branson the Heir suspects as not wanting coverage of an oil spill to be an embarrassment to them the next time they want all other media to cover them going into space.

  The Heir asks the progressives accordingly, while we're both walking down the street, "While we're trying to promote voting rights and fight voting restrictions, what exactly is *democratic* about our being made ignorant of the oil spill just so the billionaires can go back to space again?"