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.

Something the Heir's been wanting to point out for some time now is how right after 2/24 the progressives had just turned on a dime and decided they're anti-Putin after they were essentially for him by championing the libelous radicalists that the Kremlin gave comfort and protection to. The Heir doesn't readily remember the same loss of life with respect to the invasion of Crimea, and that might also help explain for the Heir why the progressives looked the other way. But when people started dying, the progressives immediately threw Putin under the bus. To their credit, the progressives wouldn't stand for people dying, but it also meant that their implicit support for Putin was untenable. So the Heir doesn't see their solidarity with Ukraine as all that sincere. They just know what side their bread's buttered on. Whereas as us inside Tropical Soul, we knew -very well- what was going to happen, and even in the 48 to 72 hours leading up to 2/24, not a peep out of the progressives about the then-eminent invasion. They wanted to continue their anti-Biden rhethoric, and their silence portraying Biden and intel as overly paranoid about an eminent invasion also dovetailed with Ed Snowden's libelous attacks on not even specific intel groups, but the intel process itself as somehow an inherent invasion of privacy rights. Once the Kremlin invaded, it was progressives with egg on their collective faces, and then they had no choice but to say, oh, no, Putin's a killer! So once the war is over, the Heir's sure the progressives will continue to live down their responsibilities to the public.
The Heir wants to reiterate his general support for Eric Adams's campaign against social immorality, even after the Heir criticized the Mayor for Scanner-gate and Mandate-gate. Mandate-gate the Heir acknowledges as the Mayor not being able to do much about as long as there are impending lawsuits, and word from the Mayor one way or the other could affect the city's legal team's strategies with respect to the lawsuits. So if you don't hear the Heir saying, well why doesn't Eric Adams talk about it weeks after it was in the news? That's the reason why. The Heir doesn't think camp dispersals will necessarily address the homeless problem, and that's why the Heir wants there to be housing reform at large. But he doesn't think all that much of at least half of the protestors against the dispersals.