The Heir/Tropical Soulvangelical/TSV recommends -against- big tech methods of payment such as tap-to-pay if even if it's -solely because- there was that one "former intel officer" TSV heard about on audio Bloomberg 8.45am who recommended in favor of it because of these "skimming" reports. It sounds to TSV as a clear form of guerilla advertising and a fake PSA to boot, since big tech's been down in the equity markets and they've had to lay off people. What TSV recommends instead if you really want to keep safe, use the chip on your chip card, cover the keypad while you're typing in your PIN, use your common sense, or just outright use cash. TSV has done any or all of these things and he's never had trouble. Using one of these tech fad methods of payment he deems as taking privilege of fear, uncertainty and doubt for big tech to try to force cash payments into obsolesence, and hence is the -worst- thing you can do. What's going to happen when tap-to-pay causes a Russian Hacker to get your PIN and your credit card number because the pridefulness of big tech makes it so they don't focus so much on security? This TSV asks also because it's the logical fallacy of if-not-one-then-the-other. If someone could -ever- get hacked using something else other than tap-to-pay, does anyone deserve to believe that tap-to-pay is your way -not- to get hacked? That's TSV's point, and he had hoped that Bloomberg at least would go to a differing point of view on the subject for the sake of equal time. After the media's illusion as the Fourth Estate broke over the Biden Documents issue, it got broken again over the big tech payment method issue. Luckily TSV didn't hear this report on 1010-wins or cbs-880, so they might have kept this rumor report below the fold for lack of actual substantiation.

The Heir/Tropical Soulvangelical/TSV believes he already figured out why Southwest Airlines had cancelled and grounded at least 60% of its flights, leaving people stranded, as opposed to other airlines that have roughly a 4% grounded rate. He believes its because Southwest fired/laid-off/encouraged its older and more experienced, and hence more competent, staff to quit, and replace that staff with inexperienced college graduates, and possible cronies. The staff TSV believes Southwest Airlines fired TSV believes were part of flight coordination. We're not talking about pilots or crew. We're talking about people in offices around the country whose job it is to make sure a given plane goes to a given airport where it's needed, outside of actual air traffic controllers. The older workers TSV believes had it down to a science, but because they're -old- TSV believes Southwest got worried about health insurance costs for these workers, and it's pretty ageist. So he thinks it's college graduates now, along with cronies and family members of vice presidents, etc. So he's seeing age discrimination, cronyism and nepotism, and of course he believes these things are going on because of Trump. Trump made it acceptable to do illegal and unacceptable things, so why wouldn't Southwest follow suit? Why didn't the -other- airlines do so? Because TSV believes they used good old fashioned common sense management, even Jet Blue, hardly the most popular carrier out there. But TSV is a bit of a train fan, so he's encouraging people to "next time take the train." People who wanted to fly cross-country back home on Southwest Airlines in a manner of 6-8 hours ended up spending up to 6-8 days sleeping on floors of airports. A cross-country train like the Silver Liner or Cross Deseret TSV believes it's called would hardly take 3-4 days. So you want to sleep in airports for 8 days because you still want to get home in 8 hours? How Type-A is that? So it'll probably be March or April of next year before we start doing public hearings as to what happened in late 2022, long after people totally forgot. And TSV is not very impressed with the Corporate Response of Southwest's executive. It reminded him of Boeing's executive's Corporate Response to the crashes of the 737 Max airplane. He doesn't see sincere contriteness or willingness to take responsibility, something we need to encourage our children to know how to do.

One thing the Heir/Tropical Soulvangelical-TSV forgot to get me the Mentor/Happy Bachelor to post on our shares base earlier when we were talking about Kyrsten Sinema, and Sam Bankman-Fried, and the criminal evidence warehouse fire, is about his suspicion about this whole "triple threat," flu/Covid/RSV. He's not saying that these aren't real, in fact quite the contrary. But on audio he's heard about the shortage of cold/cough remedies on shelves at least in New York state (and possibly elsewhere, though audio has yet to confirm that). It's enough of a shortage that Chuck Schumer has pressed for the FDA to get companies to address maybe replenishing supplies accordingly. But TSV has an idea of how this happened, and it all has to do with him listening to Business Newsradio first thing in the morning at 12:30 UTC, and that's his present source in tracking predatory and aggressive marketers coming after him and piously simplistic others once inflation and recessionary fears blow over. Here's a practice sheet of that, because a couple months ago the above audio segment talked about how Pfizer saw an increase in its stock in the equity markets, and the same with Moderna over a couple weeks ago, and the takeaway was that both companies gained from their being in the Covid vaccine/treatment market. RSV he heard started being talked about roughly a month ago, and in the backdrop was biz radio 12.30utc mentioning Glaxo Smith Kline. About that time, TSV heard GSK commercials at his catering counter job regarding RSV, and he believes GSK felt like they missed the Covid boat and they certainly vowed not to do the same with RSV. He notes that the commercials -do not- advertise any particular product, but they do say "brought to you by GSK." And then on audio with a chrono order of news reports newsradio he heard reports to the effect of "hospitals are filling up with RSV cases," but they don't substantiate as to -what- percentage of hospitals (weekly average or so) report -what- percentage of their capacity (weekly average or so) is being taken up. He suspected that a marketing segment on behalf of not just GSK leaned on this particular newsradio station to make this report, regardless of lack of real substantiation. At the same time, audio he heard of health officials, and no names for some reason for the most part, so again no substantiation, warning about the "triple threat." Rochelle Walensky made an appearance at some sort of meeting in Philadelphia, reported by Philly public radio, warning of either RSV alone or of the "triple threat." TSV -truly hopes- these officials don't have any invested interest in the companies, because of course this would point to a conflict of interest. To what degree have we the public, he wonders, vetted the officials' resumes with respect to which companies they have in their investment portfolios? So in this way, coupled with likely visual doomscrolling of the average populace that TSV himself has wisely not exposed himself to, he believes people panicked and took medicines off the shelves. Cynically he doesn't believe companies like Pfizer or Moderna or GSK mind there being this supply crisis, because when the FDA complies with Chuck Schumer and says to the companies, "please replenish supply," of course TSV believes they'll say "sure no problem." With both the coverage of the "triple threat" and the need for supply of medicines, the companies stand to gain. TSV is very curious as to how biz radio 12.30utc talks about how equity stocks fare for the health companies in coming days, because if those go up even still, they are effectively to the early 20s as tech companies were to the mid- 10s: the hysterical mood of the populace being both controlled and gained from by a given for-profit sector. So the way in which this is a practice sheet for TSV is about aggressive marketing that he has to protect himself against, and while he was just looking over the Wikipedia entry for Pfizer, he saw multiple sections with the phrase "aggressive marketing" in the title, and that stunned him to the point where he wonders whether his suspicions as above are merely coincidence. Probably not. So here's what TSV wants to say to people. Definitely be careful with viruses such as the flu and Covid and RSV. He recommends people get vaccinated with the flu and Covid, even if such vaccines do come from the the companies he's kind of cynical about. Where RSV goes, keep an ear out, he recommends, about -actual substantive information-, e.g., confirmed stats and data and number crunching, to see how big of a threat it is at any one time. We did that with Covid during the pre-vaccine pandemic, but now that we've gone -post-vaccine-, TSV observes we've almost totally sloughed off to the point where he's not hearing it on audio like he's supposed to, because he shouldn't have to plow through a dozen pages on an unreliably functioning Internet to get the answers. Once there comes an RSV vaccine, TSV recommends to rely on confirmed and substantiated info to decide to do the vaccine, instead of on fear, uncertainty and doubt.

So while we're working on getting back on audio again, the Heir/Tropical Soulvangelical had also wanted to point out how Sam Bankman-Fried can get a get-out-of-free-jail-card simply by running for public office and then claiming the charges against him are politically motivated. It appears to the Heir our system currently generally allows for that, even though legally you can't dismiss charges simply by running for public office. Even though the Heir was opposed to Kyrsten Sinema's obstruction of the social changes bill (which was really just a beta of the things we need to -really- recover from Covid19 as a society), he also opposes the Ed Snowden Progressives using her switch of party to bully and harass the majority of the populace for not swearing fealty to them. And onto the burning down of the evidence warehouse in Brooklyn. This the Heir sees as a colossal failure, because it encourages criminals. Despite the officials' contention that the warehouse was only mostly about evidence with respect to cold cases, the Heir believes that's a distractionary claim from how he believes that it's the majority of -current- cases he believes are affected, and how this will enbolden criminals who may now believe they can commit any crimes they feel like because the evidence against them is likely to be housed in a facility that has a high burn risk.

So you may have noticed that we haven't put out base shares regarding the election, and that's because it's connected with our efforts for going back on audio. The Heir and we have actually been doing audio offline, but we're figuring out how to get it online in that pared-down format we've been talking about here on our shares base. If we don't get to it in a timely manner, we intend to at least sum up here what the Heir's been saying about the elections. Stay tuned.

Almost as a followup to our previous base share about our eventual return to audio being a High Frequency Candidate, the Heir's increasingly DX'ing and hunting around the HF bands partly as a source of content along with ''vital basic information'' on the radio first thing in the morning to make discussion about. He also comes across religious stations as well, both on the MF and the HF bands, and had hoped that a divine wrath he'd find amidst the stations he could channel towards our inherently corrupt society, but results were mixed. He's found some black church sermons on HF along with the Lord's Prayer on MF, with some smidgen of wrath and outrage at said corrupt society, but just a smidgen. Unfortunately he's also come across some anti-gay and anti-choice content that seems more akin to the Attack Dog News Network than anything resembling the Lord's Prayer, and he finds that content offensive. Keep in mind that the Heir doesn't consider himself particularly observantly religious, but he's far from agnostic. It seems to him that the more unhinged and offensive content is counterproductive if the main idea is to spread the Word Of God to the people of all great nations (and small, too). People will get so turned off by the offensive content that they might end up using the logical fallacy of If Not One Then The Other, and embrace outright secularism. That's the last thing the Heir thinks this world needs right now, still having its neck under the boot of Ed Snowden, replacement marketing and corporate recruiting pressures such as ''the power of positive thinking.'' But it's also occurred to him that the anti-gay stuff may be increasing since Labor Day with respect to the upcoming midterm elections, which polls on the radio seem to indicate are a foregone conclusion. As such, the Heir generally sees elections as Tyranny Of The Majority, because with the exception of 2018 and 2020, he sees himself among a lesser plurality that the majority votes -against.- The majority doesn't just vote against the candidates the Heir votes -for-. In doing so, they vote against -him-. He's not going to forget that even two weeks after the election is over. He's going to look for a special election candidate to support to get his revenge on the majority (unless the election goes -his- way, but that's not what the polls are saying). He also wants to support school board candidates in Bucks County who will challenge the currently anti-gay and anti-trans school board at present. As far as the Heir's concerned, the election won't be over until there's an election that steps in the direction of the righteous path for society.

As you may very well know, we haven't done audio for nearly four years. However, we anticipate that's going to change, though the format may be more pared down and slightly different. But it'll, among other things, exemplify the tropical conservatism of adhering to principle. Furthermore, we anticipate being what we call a High Frequency Candidate, for the sake of those radio amateurs wanting to do micro- or personal broadcasting, and are in need of content. This is not likely to happen for months yet. But as the Heir keeps making progress on his tropical soul DIY mp3 player, and we get closer to the deliverance and light of tropical soul, it'll be the next logical step once we finally get to tropical soul. The Heir's been DX'ing the shortwave bands along with collecting knowledge about what kinds of transmissions are out there, so he and we look forward to see what we can do with shortwave in some form. We haven't decided whether we want to get a license yet. Keep checking in, people.

The Heir heard on audio yesterday or the day before about how a majority of Florida residents affected by the storm don't have flood insurance. He doesn't think it's about residents wrongly thinking that their homeowner's insurance would cover flood damage. He believes it's a corollary to what he said about people having to put basic needs on their credit card because they spent the money meant for non-discretionaries toward aggressively marketed discretionaries. In both cases, the Heir believes the people were confused by the "power of positive thinking," and that if you've got the "power of positive thinking," that somehow means you don't need flood insurance if you live in Florida, regardless of whether or not a hurricane is on its way. As the Heir finds out more and more about how ordinary people were being lied to by tech- and other marketers, it's obvious now to the Heir that on a culture-wide basis, you reap what you sow. Granted, he wants the people to recover properly no matter what mistakes they made in the past, but once they've recovered, almost certainly they'll make the same mistakes again in the future because the Heir believes the marketers will return. Florida residents will -not- buy flood insurance in the future in meaningful numbers, and people will -continue- to put basic needs on their credit card when the new marketing campaigns heat up again.

Generally speaking, when it comes to Ed Snowden these days, the Heir isn't so inclined to come after the guy himself as much as his progressive apologists. But now that Ed Snowden's been granted citizenship in a country adversarial to the U.S., and because the progressives claim to be against said country in its assault against Ukraine, the Heir sees this as an opportunity for the progressives to throw Ed Snowden under the bus once and for all. He demands nothing short of that, and he won't accept the progressives saying something to the effect of we want the Ed Snowden from 2013, not the Ed Snowden from 2022. The Heir says you should forsake both. If you don't, the Heir will be reminded that he himself is not progressive at all, but what he calls Tropically Conservative. We should probably also bring back that banner of solidarity now that Putin claims to now own eastern Ukraine. We should have the banner say that eastern Ukraine and Crimea are -Ukrainian-, period. We, too, see the 'referendum' as a sham, but it's not a true referendum. It's just soldiers forcing people to sign what they don't mean under duress, so the Heir's wondering if Zelensky's weak in not invalidating said 'referendum' as the rightful President of Ukraine. The Heir's hoping for more, because this is just a mental trick that everyone's falling for, including those who see the campaign as a sham. The Heir thinks we should call it what it is, a mental military campaign. Undo Putin's hypnosis.

The Heir heard on audio, on more than one installment of that business news minute, that people are racking up credit card debt just to pay for the basics. He's not going to say "sucks to be you, man" in an apathetic sort of way, but he does caution how this is the end result of the replacement marketing of the 2010s. He sees people actually -believing- that "one thing shall replace another" and that "it's the power of positive thinking" in about 2014 and 2015 respectively. The Heir refused to go along with either, clearly seeing both the mental and the financial risk, and the larger culture retaliated against him as a result in a new world order type fashion by causing the company he once worked at at the time to go out of business and for him to get laid off. He's now enjoying -reasonable- success at the Bland Barns Catering Counter, but he hasn't forgotten the past. It appears to him that instead of taking the opportunity of a then "great economy" to save and invest, people instead ended up spending their money on constant smartphone and giant TV upgrades, possibly as an effort to keep up with the Joneses. The Heir tunes into Business Radio 7:30am to get the daily changing backdrop each day he can to help him look over the horizon, and he's pretty sure that once inflationary and recessionary pressures go away, predatory marketers on behalf of a variety of high-end retail types will be back in full force telling people they're behind the times if they don't buy discretionary products and services, because it's the power of positive thinking. It's going to happen again, and the Heir's more concerned about that than today's inflation and recession combined. He wants to ask people what they want the most: keeping up with the Joneses, or making ends meet? He hopes people will choose common sense in the future.

The Heir believes he -personally- dodged a bullet when Judge Dearie came back and said, well I'm presuming the documents to still be classified because I'm not informed otherwise that they were ever -de-classified. Again, we're talking about the epidemic in personal corruption, and it was just random chance that this particular judge was conscientious about something the Heir thinks was missing thus far in the conversation in the INN, and that's how the judge knew he needed to have -clearance- to see classified documents, which means in order for him to see them, he either a) needed said clearance, or b) the documents needed to be declassified. But the Heir's wondering what's really stopping Trump from saying, well I want a -different- documents master since Judge Dearie came out as a loose cannon for me. Someone, the Heir believes Trump will say, who doesn't -care- whether they have clearance or not for the documents, clearance shmearance! How about -you- Aileen Cannon (??), Trump the Heir believes will ask. That's pretty much Trump's ace in the hole, because the Heir doesn't see Aileen Cannon as caring about whether one has clearance to classified documents, -or- recusing herself from a moral quandary. The Heir wonders what the 11th Circuit Court Of Appeals would say when Merrick Garland appeals the case there once Judge Cannon is appointed the next documents master, though the Heir heard Glenn Kirshner being concerned about whether that special master might be Giuliani, or John Eastman, etc. The Heir expects some commentators on the INN to insist that Merrick Garland is such a dang genius for somehow "foreseeing" that the special master would go, well maybe I shouldn't be doing this. Again the Heir believes that happened by chance, and that thus far it's Trump Team 2 (or more), Merrick Garland 0. Only until and unless the Heir's led to believe otherwise would he believe otherwise.

The Heir's made his campaign donations, and only plans to do so again next month. As such, he's disabled the proliferation of texts coming in asking for money, but he's concerned about the fact that they've been texting him 5-10 times a day, predicting the end of democracy if he doesn't regularly donate an amount he actually can't afford to donate. He's already been there in 2004 when they told him that if Impulsive gets a second term, we won't recognize our country after Impulsive's term ends. Of course they conveniently ignored their own prediction, because by the time Impulsive's term came to an end, everyone was excited about Funny Named Skinny Kid. So the Heir's wondering, -if- the Donkeys For The People lose the races they wanted to win this time around, what chance is there that someone's going to text him the Wednesday after giving him a guilt trip about not having donated enough, and trying to blame -him- for the "end" of democracy? Months ago we did a base share here about the importance of keeping perspective regarding the perception of democracy, and we believe our general messaging still stands now even though we're not suggesting that democracy is "safe" in any way shape or form. But here's another thing the Heir believes is going to happen. -If- the Donkeys For The People -do- win the races they want to win, some wise guy will go on INN and point that a Donkey victory by itself will not guarantee the safety of democracy. Well of course it won't, because the Heir sees the "end of democracy" talking point as a corrollary to the false belief that "it's only a democracy if my candidate wins," and it wouldn't surprise him in the least if the Elephantine Elitists plagiarize these talking point memos. Remember people: it ain't necessarily so. In the meantime the Heir hopes to get very limited texts going forward, and he might end up disabling those as well.

The Heir was considering writing to his Congresswoman and requesting his own personal box of Top Secret documents, citing the Aileen Cannon ruling as precedent. But he's put that off to see whether we as a country have the good sense to make sure that this "Special Master" has both proper clearance and need-to-know with the documents. He doubts this is going to happen, because he believes that whoever gets chosen is likely going to be some kind of political celebrity who doesn't have clearance -or- need-to-know for -anything-, let alone the displayed menu at the ice cream massage parlor. He was seeing whether there was any scintillating wisdom as a witty rejoinder to the Aileen Cannon ruling in the Insurgent News Network, and thus far he's come back empty handed. All he found was a video with a title saying that Aileen Cannon doesn't care about the rule of law, which the Heir scores as a bit Captain Obvious. But once they appoint completely the wrong person to "review" the documents, and most certainly send copies to the Kremlin and Beijing, and Tehran and Pyongyang, that's when the Heir wants to make his move in the most unlooked for and scintillating way possible. That's because absolutely nobody's doing that. Nobody. Except the Heir. That clues you into how Tropical Soul is the way, because all the other "ways" inevitably lead to dead ends.