Looks as though Tropical Soulvangelical was wrong in that last base share where he predicted -trump- would face a mistrial. He forgot (both TSV and -trump-) that there were 34 counts to the indictment, so -trump- might have gotten 15 to 25 counts or so. TSV didn't think he'd get all 34, so unlike Michael Cohen who says he wasn't surprised, TSV -was- surprised, because he's used to people like Cosby and Johnny Depp getting a get-out-of-free-jail-card. He's also seen a judiciary go out of its way to make sure -trump's- never brought to trial in the documents case. So that being said, TSV joins in in saying that it's a good moment for the country, because of the concept of National Principle, helping teach our children about right and wrong. He sees it as self-serving of those political allies who -claim- to be for law and order and tough on crime to then turn around and say, well not when it's one of -us-, only when it's one of -them-. To that end, TSV's hoping for a similar verdict in the Menendez trial. But he really didn't think the situation with Robert DeNiro was helpful, so he gets to call him -Bob- DeNiro. He agrees a little bit with (possibly future con) Don Jr where Bob DeNiro is concerned, in questioning whether this is the same actor who in his role as Al Capone in The Untouchables said, "anybody messa with me, I messa with them." Apparently he's not a tough guy, but only plays one in the movies. TSV does share the same sentiment about the Hollywood Elite, and how their commentaries are not necessarily the same as the people's commentaries, because TSV is tropically conservative. As such, TSV thinks Bob DeNiro was only there on his own, and not necessarily "sent" by Biden, because that would not be a smart move. TSV doesn't know whether Judge Merchan instructed the jury to not pay attention to Bob DeNiro in their deliberations, so maybe that's an appeal point for -trump-. TSV agrees that this isn't necessarily going to move the needle in the elections, and that that's entirely appropriate. A court trial and an election are two separate things, using entirely different standards. You had a jury decide on a verdict based on overwhelming evidence in a trial. But where an election is concerned, TSV believes that swing voters will only vote for whomever saves them $2 on a jug of milk in an inflationary economy ("Biden's Fault"), even if that person's a criminal convict. TSV will probably find more stuff to unpack in coming days, if he remembers to talk about it.

Tropical Soulvangelical's hoping you're enjoying your Memorial Day Weekend, honoring the brave men and women who died, because he's 90 percent sure that -trump's- heading for a mistrial because of something he calls -trumpitis-. He sees it as a form of Stockholm Syndrome or something else that makes people sympathetic for someone -precisely because- they're guilty of pretty much every crime in the book. He sees it happening to both Andrew Cuomo and Nikki Haley, along with others. Can -trumpitis- cause New York State to trend red even if anti-trump candidates succeed in the state for all other offices? He wonders because of that rally -trump- had in the Bronx that probably shouldn't have had a turnout of any kind, never mind thousands. He's not sure where all those thousands could have come from if they were never going to show up to support him at his trial. It's possible that -trumpitis- may force -trump- to win the same way National Neverbidenism may force Biden to lose, and here's why TSV wonders if that's so. He doesn't believe that Biden's current problems matter because to him the whole country wants to hate his guts over -something-. Even if Biden didn't have to contend with Israel or inflation or "being old," he could be 50 and to have successfully solved inflation and have the war in Gaza come to a satisfactory end last November, and 80 percent of the populace would still arbitrarily say, we don't care, Biden Is Bad. This is how TSV thinks he has to see it because he doesn't see anyone trying to explain -anything-, period. But he doesn't think that -trumpism- will last, so he doesn't think we'll have an unbridled dictatorship, and that's because if you add a silent 'e' to fad, you get -fade-. That's what he thinks is going to happen, because he doesn't see people worshipping -trump- indefinitely. He thinks they will get tired of it and move onto something else, whatever that might be. After all, Bushism didn't last in the 2000s but that's because TSV saw the larger culture exchanging it for progressive extremism, and that's what he thinks is going to happen here. He sees the larger culture swapping -trump- for AOC, so it's always something. So again he calls for the populace to step away from extremism once and for all and embrace the concept of National Principle. It might take some Nuremburg Trials, though, and trying extremely aged one-time prison guards to bear the brunt of what would by then be a terrible past.

Stormy Daniels appears to Tropical Soulvanglical as thinking that the court's about to issue a full acquittal of -trump-. This is just after the cross examination of Michael Cohen, and how supposedly there are enough nicks and cuts on Cohen's character for the jury to embody reasonable doubt. TSV's pretty sure the very day after Stormy Daniels took the stand, she had her agent contact the naturalization office to assure Ms. Daniels' passport is up to date in her threat to leave the country. TSV also doesn't think it's going to matter if the prosecution reminds the jury in closing arguments about how the documents prove their case if the jury's like, well, this Mike Cohen guy, well, I don't know if I can convict regardless of what -any- documents say. This gets to the social criticism that 99 percent is made to be a failing grade for the prosecution, but there's a larger point TSV observes for the post-trial era. You can argue about The Court Of Public Opinion, but TSV points us to The Court Of Reasonable Certainty, which he insists is a constitutional citizenship right. This is the court that steps in when actual "official" courts inevitably fail, and TSV doesn't see how this court -is not- going to fail. The CRC steps in to make sure that pending court cases still in effect 12 hours after the -trump- trial ends regarding whether poor teenagers with no economic opportunities should go to jail for shoplifting or drug dealing are affected by the aftermath of the -trump- trial. Also as part of The CRC is TSV not ruling out reps in Congress or a state assembly or a city council as taking official objection to the upcoming -trump- acquittal on substantive grounds. Up to now, TSV's giving the courts leeway to try to do their part to truly assure justice, but he's not in any way bound by those courts' decisions. He embues his citizenship right to actively respond to the courts' failures, whether it's an acquittal of a clearly guilty defendant, or a decision by a given judge to "defer" another case against said defendant, or the increasing unlikelihood -trump- could ever be tried for anything else, or the condemnation of poor teenagers with no opportunity, or the overturning of established precedents the people have consistently favored, like reproductive choice for example. He doesn't think much of what "legal scholars" have to say about anything, because their findings don't factor constitutionally as much as how the people respond, particularly if they object to the upcoming acquittal. There's more that TSV would like to think about with respect to The CRC and the citizenship right and duty to actively respond to a failing court system, but here's the thing. He doesn't think that the election, as non-binding in the larger scheme as history as he thinks it is, is going to be solely result from voter self-interest as per Ben Franklin. He's seeing perhaps an additional 5-7% ready to vote against -trump- (besides those already planning to do so) -mainly- because of the upcoming acquittal. He's wondering if 2/3 of the 5-7% are Nikki Haley voters and/or Conservative Democrats also objecting to the non-peaceful protest on college campuses, but these he sees are not people saying, well all I care about is whether I get to save $2 on a jug of milk like conventional wisdom seems to think that's all that swing voters care about. He sees a Moral Outrage Mandate forming that may very well overcome both the swing voters and the -trump- voters in response to the courts. If they get Biden to win and -trump- to lose, it won't matter if -trump- gets acquitted. He will have morally lost that court case anyway.

Tropical Soulvanglical's kind of keeping additional content regarding the Doomsday Election trope in the back of his mind before he has either a witty rejoinder or a slam-dunk case to make in response. Generally speaking, he sees what should be his political allies and with the Insurgent Network as using the logical fallacies of argument-by-repitition and emotional appeal. So in the meantime he gets back to the hot button issue of campus protests, particularly with respect to graduations and commencements. He doesn't want college grads who just happen to graduate this year to have to look back when they're 40, 50 or 60 and think, oh -my- commencement got interrupted by a bunch of protestors back in the day, and yet every other commencement since then's been hunky-dory for everyone else, and that's just not fair. So TSV's thinking that both schools and possibly life event photographers implement a commencement do-over at least a year from now or after the protests play themselves out. TSV thinks every graduate has a right to really take in that moment and be able to toss off their tassel hats into the air because that becomes a memory to look back on. Any graduate that's deprived of that very often feels like when they're in their first job that they're still in college because they didn't have that rite of passage. TSV back in the day never desired the commencement moment because he was focused on getting his own place. He felt like that was more of a rite of passage for him personally, but to each his own. He hears on newsradio how many college grads were kind of deprived of a proper high school commencement because of Covid19. They should be able to make up for lost time in a way that graduates going forward can never understand, and TSV anticipates the latter being kind of cushy and sheltered and not worth sympathizing for.

Tropical Soulvanglical proclaims the current state of higher education to be at an all time low, now that Rutgers he's seeing as totally compromising both its mission statement and set of rules and regulations in the way they answered their current ransom note. OK, so TSV thinks it's reasonable to have an Arab cultural center and to reach out to Palestinian refugees who may seek enrollment. But that whole bit of Rutgers proclaiming the current conflict with genocidal language is just inexplicable. The word genocide he sees as being so badly twisted by the protestors to the point where the word doesn't have any meaning anymore. Just about every word out of their mouths was the g-word. TSV hopes the RJSU answers back with an insistence that Rutgers -acknowledges- 10/7 as an Attempted Holocaust, because TSV doesn't see how that's not historically accurate. It -was- an attempted Holocaust, and TSV sees Rutgers as owing to both its Jewish student body and concerned gentile students accordingly. TSV's hoping that Rutgers' history professors take Rutgers to task over the historical accuracy of applying the g-word to the current conflict, as terrible as it is. Overall, TSV sees -all schools- as having no business making any deals with radicalist groups that think nothing of breaking into school buildings and taking down the American flag from that school's flagpole. You're only reinforcing bad behavior, and they'll do it again in the fall over something as small as parking privileges in a parking lot that's just 10 feet away from an actual -public- parking lot. Another thing is that TSV doesn't see how Rutgers giving into demands and necessarily passing it by their Board Of Trustees and Concerned Alumni, who he encourages to outright reject the groups' demands, even the reasonable ones. The problem is, the school year is over, and these groups won't meet till September, which is what he believes the protest groups intended all along. As TSV parses through his political junk mail and inexplicably seeing AOC and Greenpeace stuff, he's wondering how serious we necessarily are about any given "threat" to democracy if democracy has never truly existed on college campuses. He's seeing this as a repeat of 2004 whereby he caught activists using the activist infrastructure to meet at a convenience store on non-activist matters while they also tried to tell people that if George Bush got a second term America will be a banana republic. Well as we saw in history, Bush -did- get that second term, but the activists didn't then say, oh now we're in a banana republic so let's give up and throw in the towel. Instead he heard them say, okay people let's keep fighting, which is what TSV was saying all along, but it wasn't "acceptable" because it wasn't political trope compliant. So the next time he hears anyone saying something to the effect of, "If Person X wins, it's all over and no more democracy," he'll take it as a mere political trope rather than as the actual serious concern it should be. By contrast, when AOC runs and wins the Presidency in 2028, TSV proclaims -that- to be the end of democracy as we know it, and yes, we would then -have- to throw in the towel. All other action at that point would be utterly pointless.

OK, people, let's talk about the Supreme Court. Again. Last time, Tropical Soulvanglical called for its abolition, and not only does he call for it again, he also wishes his difference-maker brethren on the Insurgent Network join him accordingly. But instead, he saw them trying to tell people, well because the Supreme Court wants to grant -trump- limited immunity in the January 6 case, pragmatism is bust and you -have- to support our all-or-nothing hysteria for 2024 which we also did for 2004 and 1964. Again, that's the hysteria that says, if the "right person" doesn't win, it's all over and you might as well throw in the towel. TSV taking a pragmatic approach has come back and said, no that's anti-pragmatic to say things like that. And then there's the Supreme Court hearing, and then the Network wants to tell TSV that the hearing by itself somehow means pragmatism is no longer an option, and therefore the only option that's left is the hysteria. No, TSV replies, your saying that just means you're just pro-hysteria at all costs and as such, how does TSV know that you're also not anti-pragmatic by extension? And he doesn't want to hear them go, oh we're not saying we're -necessarily- anti-pragmatic, because then he'll go, well you said it yourself that if A is not an option and if that means B is the only option, how are you -not- anti-pragmatic out of being pro-hysteria? Of course if TSV is faced up with that blonde haired me-too-male that for some reason was able to shoehorn his way on Morning Show to have argued in favor of a pro-hysteria ideology, he'll let MTM go into his word salad fit, a la Matt Gaetz, wait till he's done and say, the details are mostly unimportant, MTM, and they don't invalidate pragmatic thinking. TSV isn't going to let himself get pulled down to MTM's confused frame of mind, because he saw what happened 20 years ago when MTM had at it with Zell Miller, who then said he regretted that having a duel was illegal. TSV can deal with just desserts like MTM far better, so it's just not a good look for Morning Show to have that guy on, and subsequently Morning Show himself wasn't on that day, and TSV really would have wanted to get Show's take on it rather than MTM. In any case, no matter how completely bad and abolishable TSV proclaims the Supreme Court to be, the pragmatic method -itself- is the argument against hysterical thinking, because hysterics TSV has figured out is a good sales argument. It's not a good logic argument, but when has logic ever sold more shaving cream than hysterics do? It's about abandoning reason in favor of giving into the temptation of one's primary urges of the emotion of fear. TSV is conservative, and what he conserves is the pro-pragmatism resistance against fear, because once you give into fear, -that's- when you should throw in the towel. TSV fully expects this coming week on Morning Show not to talk about the Supreme Court again, because all that would do is for cool heads to prevail, and a big problem with the Network TSV finds is there being too many open narratives to close the loop on. He'd like Morning Show The Man to go, oh come MTM get a grip already, but because MSTM wasn't there that day, he may forget that anything ever happened.

Tropical Soulvanglical's finding a lot to unpack with respect to what's plain to him as the Israel Haters' takeover of higher education at this time. He beseeches the listener to dispense with all the talk about allowing for free speech, because he doesn't see this as central to the issue at hand. Firstly, it's about what he hears on audio as authorities saying that the protest groups were infiltrated with sinister antisemitic elements, but TSV observes the protest groups as not dismissing those elements. Again, TSV brings up the example of the more peaceful BLM protestors dismissing elements that were infiltrating them at the time and saying, "this is not us." Never at any time did TSV hear the current protest groups saying such a thing, which to him is progressives looking the other way from a clear instance of immorality the same way they looked away 10 years ago when Putin took over and occupied Crimea. That was a year before TSV was made to lose a job because of progressive comfort with both big tech and Ed Snowden, both of which are only now getting their due of criticism. Secondly, he leans on the colleges not to divest from Israel as part of the Haters' demands, because then (like Hamas) they'll move the goal posts and say, oh now that we got you to do that, also do this. TSV doesn't see the Haters' demands as ever ending. He'll see them as effectively dismantling all the occupied colleges' rules and regulations and security departments to the point where he sees students partying all night, sleeping all day and not tending to their studies, because why -shouldn't- he believe this to be the result? Since he lost his job nine years ago, he's been implicitly and justifiably distrustful of the ever encroaching progressive movement. Though he found another job and has -reasonably- recovered economically, he's not going back to that time. He wants people to know who it really is the colleges are dealing with at this time, and also for the colleges to refer the matter to the relevant student councils. We're only talking about 100 protestors for every 10,000 students, so that's only 1% getting their say in, and most of them TSV suspects as not even being from the colleges they're occupying. Thirdly, TSV suspects foreign active measures at least in the darker half of the protests, and he's thinking Iran. After all, TSV remembers about Putin's active measures in 2016, so this strikes him as more or less the same thing. But here's the thing. -If- the colleges end up having to compromise all that they were ever about, they can wait till the protestors fold their tents and go home, and then quietly revest and roll back the rules and security departments when the protestors aren't there anymore to notice it. TSV recommends the colleges wait two weeks after the protestors leave, because again that's a news cycle worth of info, and by then we'll be deep into the Trump Trials.

A couple of things Tropical Soulvangelical forgot to mention with respect to the protests at Columbia University. Firstly, he did hear a couple days ago that there's a -counter- protest there as well, emphasizing the need for the return of the hostages, and this is another effort that TSV recommends supporting. But here's something he's just figured out regarding how the progressives tend to think. Whenever they mount an extreme protest campaign about something, they go out of their way to make their message as reasonable sounding as possible or at least somewhat ambivalent, not meant to stir up strong feelings one way or another. A ceasefire by itself isn't necessarily controversial. But what TSV observes this does is by default paint any counterprotest as automatically being -against- or the -opposite- of the canon protestors' messaging and hence -un- reasonable. The counterprotest at Columbia TSV observes as not opposing a ceasefire as much as bringing the hostages home. Of course TSV notices the protest groups as bearing sheer contempt for the hostages, and at the risk of repeating himself, generally -trumpist-. So it's supporting the counterprotest and again, reiterating that Columbia retain its Israel investments and not to divest. He also encourages another counterprotest for Columbia students essentially protesting the uncivil nature of the protests by taking Columbia up on its online/virtual learning offer, even if they don't have to deal with the protestors. Just do what they can to not step foot on campus and hence dignify the protests. Stay tuned as TSV monitors further developments as he may have further proclamations.

Here's what Tropical Soulvangelical wants to tell Columbia University, and he may very end up doing so at some point, possibly in an email. In two words, Don't Divest!! This is in response to the Anti-Israel protestors demanding that Columbia divest from Israel, because TSV sees the worst thing to do with respect to this protest group is to do what they say. He wants people to know that if you do that, they'll just come back with more demands, and then more and more demands, and before you know it you only live to do their bidding. He asks that people show more backbone in dealing with these types, because, again, you will know a tree by the fruit it bears. As a side-note to the whole protest issue, TSV heard about that one guy who burned himself to death as a part of his own demonstration. At first, he thought it was part of the regular protests. Turns out it wasn't, but this is an illustration of where TSV sees all the protests going, and not just with respect to Gaza and Israel, but other causes as well. He doesn't see any end to what the protest groups will end up doing, and he sees it amounting to an insurrection of sorts. If you don't know by now that it's these groups that are themselves undemocratic, TSV's not sure when you will. So he's not mad at the groups anymore, but he's thinking that once we as the grownups in the living room get through the current protest situation, the protests themselves in retrospect will not have aged well.

-trump- is WRONG and Tropical Soulvangelical doesn't care how many proud boys or oathkeepers or dangerous people with zip ties or AR-15s -trump- sends TSV's way for having said that. The thing TSV proclaims -trump- is wrong about (this time) is this "focus on the real crime" narrative. Both what -trump- did in business and what that disgruntled customer did in attacking the bodega worker -are both illegal-. TSV proclaims that it's partly because of -trump-'s crimes that that customer attacked that worker. When people hear things such as I Can Shoot Someone On Fifth Avenue And Get Away With It, people like the disgruntled customer will follow through accordingly. This is one of countless examples of personal corruption TSV started noticing nearly ten years ago, and such a culture caused him to lose a previous job around that time. TSV rebuts -trump- in that if you want people to focus on "real crimes," don't commit any of your own. You're being tried for a reason, and your presence in the courtroom is an acknowledgement of that fact. The rest of us are -not on trial- just because we're not -trumpist- enough.

Now that Iran's attacked Israel, Tropical Soulvangelical wants to take that coverage to the not-committed type protest groups. He wants to ask them, is it just about a cease fire anymore? Or is it about an overall alliance with Israel, which TSV observes is shared by other countries and not just the U.S. TSV saw that it was the U.S. in conjunction with European countries that helped counter the attack, so he's wondering what exactly is the protest point in that. He's pretty sure they're either going to find one, or try to change the subject from the attack. Either way, TSV sees an Ed Snowden immorality going on which he sees no different from the personal corruption type immorality of a hit-and-run or what TSV just the other day mentions as -trump- trying to tell people I Can Shoot Someone On Fifth Avenue And I Should Be Able To Get Away With It. This is also the kind of immorality that TSV sees as a response to Biden just being President. He does not see it as about anything particular thing Biden's doing wrong, because if it isn't Israel, it'll be another issue. TSV's pretty sure that even if Biden responds affirmatively on any possible issue the protest groups take issue with, it still won't be good enough. So -of course- there's going to be defamations and smoke bombings and handprintings and threats to Jewish students, not to mention election interference, and -of course- it's not limited to this elusive One Percent. TSV still induces it to be closer to up to 50%. The protest groups are just simply Neverbiden types, just like executive offices at most media companies.

Now that OJ Simpson's died, Tropical Soulvanglical wants to remind -trump- of how OJ died. TSV sees OJ as the unaccountable of his time, possibly to whom many of today's moguls of personal corruption look up to for guidance on how to immorally live. TSV sees them as seeing that immoral spirit of I Can Do Anything I Want, I Can Shoot Someone On Fifth Avenue And I Should Get Away With It. When OJ died, his family called for "privacy and respect" according to the audio TSV heard on newsradio. He's thinking, privacy yes, but respect NO!! The newsradio followed up with examples of healthful and accountable non-respect in the case of OJ from those who had every reason to despise him. TSV in his religiosity is acutely aware of the maxim that you have to let someone like that go who has gone, but also that doing so is undermining your own self-respect. In fact, TSV complies what he hears implied as execution by bad health or just simply the inevitability of death. The same religiosity also called for praying for us sinners at the hour of our death, and when it comes to both OJ and -trump-, TSV sees that end of things as the ultimate answer of justice to the immoral society's inability to dispense justice on its own end. So that's why TSV wants -trump- to know that even if he thinks that winning an election will somehow mean that the justice can never hold him accountable because somehow he'll make it that way, sooner or later justice -will- catch up with him, and imprison him within his own body, and ultimately a casket or an urn or the form of ashes. At that point, all the people he wronged can now really take it to him because he will then be defenseless. That's what TSV sees happening to OJ right now. Also where it comes to OJ's health problems in the last few years, TSV also sees one's doctor as the ultimate sentence judge. -trump- can hear -trial- judges say things such as "not guilty" or "I hereby release the defendant because of technicalities" only to hear a -doctor- tell him later on "You have cancer" or "You only have X amount of time to live." TSV acknowledges that no-one can escape the Ultimate Accountability so best to fess up now, say you're wrong, both with -trump- and the Ed Snowden types, and stop this immature beating around the bush at trying to delay -anything.- Nixon at least said at one point, "I was wrong."

Tropical Soulvangelical has made answer to the not-committed voters and their CRG advocates by making a donation to those middle class economics candidates close to Michigan and Minnesota whom TSV has identified as Strong Israel, and informing their campaigns accordingly. In so doing, TSV has started the concept of Strong Biden, or StrongBiden, the spelling being tentative, which he wants to keep going with regardless of how the election turns out. He calls for an end to the Neverbiden Natterings either on the Wednesday after the election or on January 21 of next year, whichever is more appropriate depending on results. This is part of his assurance that the "wrong" person winning won't mean the end of anything. More to the point, TSV has made a stand against the increasing radicalism that was part of the reason why he lost his job 9 years ago. His donations and mails today should stand as reminder that in his conscientious objection of the concept of social amnesia, he will remember for as long as it takes for him to assure the future of the concept of National Principle. This is the main thing he sees in StrongBiden.