Thursday, August 24, 2023

The Heir/Tropical Soulvanglical/TSV takes it that Biden's back in Washington, busy getting Biden-bashed by politicians having a primary debate of some sort. This is the point where TSV goes back into what he believes really went wrong with the wildfires in Hawaii nearly a week and a half ago. He criticized and condemned the media's failure to look into what happened to people's smartphones in Hawaii, and why those phones apparently did not issue an emergency alert for people to evacuate immediately. Of course it's "implied" that it's somehow the same failure associated with the sirens that TSV referred to last week, but that's just not good enough. TSV talked about there being an unholy relationship between the media and tech companies, and how reporting on the failure of smartphones would run afoul of that relationship, instead of actually reporting facts to the people. And here's where he gets to talk about how Hawaii's standard of living can be described as upper-middle class, and as such he sees a lot more dependence on smartphones for people living there. So it appears credible enough to him that a given person was sitting on their porch or in their bungalow living room doing Tic-Toc, running multiple videos at once, as per society's information-overload-of-the-self credo, when that person catches sight out of the corner of their eye of a tree branch having caught flame, and then seeing smoke from over the horizon behind that forest they then would go, wow I'd better get out of there. That was one of the lucky ones. Others he sees actually getting consumed in on doing texting with others also apparently not aware of forest fires, and so not even one of them he sees as saying, oh by the way, you -do- know there's a forest fire going on, right? And of course the recipient of that message keeps on texting 20 plus people TSV sees until that person is entirely engulfed in flames. At no time did he hear about either person's phone issuing an alert along with the EAS alert tones. And this is in a tropical setting, the kind of place where TSV most discourages people from relying on their smartphones, because you're already surrounded by paradise. If the media can't research what went wrong, TSV's hoping that maybe some public figures and politicians would try to do so in committee at some point. If the factory setting of most smartphones is for emergency alerts to be set to OFF, TSV thinks that's something the people should know about.

There's a lot to unpack for the Heir/Tropical Soulvanglical/TSV as of this writing. So he takes it that Biden's back in Washington, busy getting Biden-bashed by politicians having a primary debate of some sort. That was the point where TSV goes back into what he believes really went wrong with the wildfires in Hawaii nearly a week and a half ago, but first things first. The same media he wants to go after with respect to Hawaii went full secularist on that pedestrian crash story. That media says they believe that that woman who ran into those pedestrians muttered under her breath that "God made me do it." So yes, -of course- TSV has to believe they'd go there, because of those wacky religious people! Of course if it ever turns out she said no such thing, TSV still thinks that the media will still stand by their "reporting." No, God doesn't want you to run into people, TSV wants to remind people, God wants you to all love one another. Looks like TSV will have to address the situation in Hawaii separately.

Friday, August 18, 2023

The Heir/Tropical Soulvanglical/TSV didn't want to weigh in on the tragic wildfires in Hawaii, but the media's failures leave him no choice. TSV wanted to wait until after the next week and a half or until there's an official visitation to Hawaii to assess the damage, whichever comes first, because he didn't want to seem like he's grandstanding when over a hundred people died as of this writing, because obviously doing so would be in poor taste. But the media took advantage of TSV's inherent decency and conscience, leaving him seeing none of either in the media as of today. So here's what and why TSV has to say about that. It has to do with what he sees as the media using the sirens issue as a distraction and apparent excuse not to investigate whether and why people's smartphones didn't issue an emergency alert. TSV believes no such alert on people's phones was issued, and here's what leads him to believe that. If such an alert was issued, the failure of the sirens to go off would be secondary, and the media wouldn't have gone out of their way to hold a tense press conference with that FEMA official, and TSV also believes the media wouldn't have tried to cast aspersions on the "real" reason why the official resigned after the press conference. What if it -was- a health issue? And even if it wasn't, what right can TSV possibly see as the media having in trying to pull an Ed Snowden to say, "See we told you so"? Whether the media "told you so" TSV sees as abjectly immaterial compared to the media's failures to investigate the smartphones. So why was there this failure? What else could TSV possibly see other than the media feeling the pressure from big tech not to do that investigation in case doing so casts a pall on the use of smartphones as a somehow "reliable" information source at least in the case of an emergency? And what else could TSV possibly see other than big tech leaning on the media to push big tech's one-thing-shall-replace-another narrative? Because what if those people might have still lived if they got the proper issuances from their smartphones? Most of all, why does it have to come down to ordinary joes like TSV to redress -the media- for grievances like the way one would redress -the politicians- for grievances? Is there not a first amendment right on part of the people to hold the media accountable? Otherwise, why does the media pride itself on calling itself the so-called "Fourth Estate," when surely the first amendment does not give them a blank check to do or say what they want as if the people's opinions on their reporting or failure thereof don't matter? So unless the media grows a couple and do actual investigations on people's failed smartphones in Hawaii, TSV proclaims they should expect nothing less than a big shame-fest on their hands.

Monday, August 14, 2023

The Heir/Tropical Soulvangelical/TSV has been saying since perhaps 2017 that Trump has to be held accountable for the sake of the children. And then the politicians asked him, well what about Hunter Biden? Shouldn't we hold him accountable too? And then TSV said, yes, we should hold Hunter Biden accountable. And then the politicians stopped silent in their tracks, because TSV demonstrated his tropical conservatism. They actually appear to TSV to think that all court trials are -solely- about politics, even when you're paying a parking ticket, and hence all you need to do is put out a whataboutism out there to try to get people to recant their desire for justice in the world, and hence renounce their stewardship for the next generation. Because they solely think politically, the politicians were trying to make it as if TSV does as well, and he doesn't. He's not going to pretend he doesn't have biases, but he doesn't live by them like the politicians live by theirs. If they truly think all justice is -only- about politics, here's TSV's whataboutisms for them in turn. What about Rex Heuermann? What about Sam Bankman-Fried? What about the juvenile who's accused of a hate crime homicide in Brooklyn? TSV is cynical enough about the politicians to believe that if any of those defendants donated to their coffers, the politicians will even defend them as well and make excuses accordingly. TSV challenges them to prove otherwise.

Saturday, August 5, 2023

Riddle the Heir/Tropical Soulvangelical/TSV this: which one is not like the others? Trump, Rex Heuermann, Sam Bankman-Fried. Here's a clue TSV is sending your way. Heuermann and Bankman-Fried are not running for public office in an attempt to get out of criminal charges, but TSV's puzzled that they have not yet tried to do so. Factually legally, running for public office is not a get-out-of-free-jail-card, but TSV sees our state of politics as making it possible politically. He can't see how it's not, even though he entertains how Heuermann and Bankman-Fried likely have better lawyers. Now here's another riddle TSV has for you: which one of the above defendants is accused of more crimes than the other two put together?