Tropical Soulvangelical finds it hard to believe that the Congressional vote to release the Epstein files is necessarily going to matter all that much. He hears them getting excited over it on newsradio, but it appears a foregone conclusion to him that -trump- will rationalize not releasing the files on the basis of national security or there being an ongoing investigation into whether Epstein helped Bill Clinton attack children perhaps. TSV sees this time and time again. Oh there's X-gate involving -trump-! -trump- is going down! The walls are closing in on him! And then something else happens that causes both politicians and the populace to forget such a thing has happened until TSV comes back and says, oh by the way, what about that scandal back in April? -What- scandal back in April? You know, the one where everyone was declaring that -trump- was going down and he's still there six months later. So TSV's wondering that if -trump- being convicted on 34 criminal counts didn't stop him from being reelected, why would the Epstein files necessarily end his Presidency? TSV's aware of a potential Donkey target dismissing -trump's- investigation into Donkeys that attack children as a distraction of sorts, and he doesn't think -trump's- really helping himself by not responding to such a charge by saying something to the effect of, I still think we need to investigate Donkeys that attack children regardless of this other person's comment. Instead -trump- goes and verbally attacks reporters asking him other questions like that one reporter from ABC and that other one he called "piggy." That sort of thing TSV doesn't think, to kind of be a devil's advocate about it, that sort of conduct is conducive to an investigation into Donkeys that attack children and if it turns out they did, how that somehow automatically exonerates -trump- from having done so. -trump's- present day actions TSV sees as politically shooting himself in the foot. That said, TSV sees -trump- still being there till 1/19/29, though TSV does not see -trump- getting an impossible third term. 2024 was a Florida Man Election from the point of view of people voting for -trump- in order for them to avoid having to face their own shortcomings by declaring, I can do anything I want, and I can do it as stupidly as I want like one Florida Man did that TSV heard about on newsradio. This is why TSV keeps up on Florida Man that he's pretty sure the intellectualist media never meaningfully does. This was a guy who tried to hold up a gas station using the finger-in-the-pocket-looking-like-a-gun trick, and the gas station held up a -real- gun in self-defense, scaring the suspect away and for that suspect to be subsequently arrested. Seemingly unrelated though not really, TSV wished Joe Biden a prelated Happy Birthday (today was the 19th, Joe Biden blows out the candles on the 20th). This time TSV left the current politics out of his birthday wishes but starting on the 21st or so, TSV will pick up where he left off in heralding the Spirit Of 46 in preaching that the populace follow the path towards principle, and reject the mentality of I Can Do Anything I Want, I Can Be As Stupid As I Want For No Particular Reason, I Can Try To Stupidly Hold Up A Gas Station With A Finger-in-the-pocket-looking-like-a-gun Trick That No-one Buys For A Second. So that's TSV's own gift to 46 to also make available to the populace. He's doing the populace a favor that way.