-Now- he remembers! It's -trump- freeing the 1/6 people. We said an hour ago how Tropical Soulvangelical forgot what that "second" thing was he wanted to talk about, but maybe having it as a separate base share here made sense anyway. TSV observes that we knew all along that -trump- was going to free the 1/6 people, ever since Biden pardoned Hunter Biden. Biden knew that if he didn't pardon Hunter, along with the 1/6 Committee members, he wouldn't have a chance in full expectation of -trump- freeing the 1/6 people. Firstly, TSV wants to assure the public that if they're worried that the 1/6 people won't be held to account, don't worry, it's going to happen. A number of the 1/6 people will no doubt cause -other- crimes, not necessarily politically connected, and the prosecutors in those cases will make the case for maximum punishment in the sentencing phase by citing their participation in 1/6, and how committing crimes after 1/6 is an act of bad faith on their having been pardoned, because almost certainly those second crimes will end in conviction. But also as far as TSV's concerned, the legal commentators knew this pardon was coming, so he thinks that them waiting for it and -then- using the Schumerism of This Is Bad in talking about it on TV is kind of disengenuous. TSV's wondering if they really think -trump- cares what they have to say? Of course not, because Lions Don't Lose Sleep Over The Opinions Of Sheep. That, in turn, TSV observes, casts doubt on whether we really are in a dictatorship, partly because -trump- forgot to declare one as per an apparent campaign promise, and also because he's having to weather criticism and legal challenges unimaginable in Luveshenko's Belarus in light of a seventh term there. TSV sees -trump- as losing steam in not hearing -trump- attacking the criticism and legal challenges online. In fact, there was that one reporter who asked -trump- a pointed question to his face about freeing a 1/6 person who attacked a police officer, and -trump's- only response is, I'll look into it. In the past, TSV has seen -trump- saying, you know what you're problem is? You're a wise guy! People like you ought to have what's coming to you! That's what -trump- once said to George Stephanopoulos right to his face, but all we're hearing now is, I'll look into it. TSV's not sure what this changing tendency means or even if it means anything, but one thing he wants someone on Insurgent to talk about, including Lawrence O' Donnell, is the absurdity of the so-called Department Of Efficiency. He wants people to point out, so he himself doesn't have to, that this Department is not a real department. He's seeing it as merely a PR Office whereby Elon Musk announces his utopian visions like executives tend to do whom TSV sees as having too much time on their hands. It's not a Department that was approved by Congress, signed into law by a President, and funded on a regular basis each year. The Department of Defense, and the Department of Homeland Security, by contrast, are -real departments- as per definition. The Department Of Efficiency is no more a department than TSV's own Department Of Rice Pudding. Why doesn't Insurgent talk about it instead of letting Schumer bully them into making the Daily BABVA on things? Speaking of Insurgent, TSV wonders where we're at on Elon Musk buying Insurgent. Or is that another Get Rid Of The Penny type proposal that's likely not going to happen in reality?

So here's some more -trump- stuff Tropical Soulvangelical wants to expound on, though right now as of me the Happy Bachelor writing this, he mostly remembers the bit about the Inspectors General and not that second thing he wanted to talk about. So of course, generally speaking, it's a -bad- thing to have fired the IGs, but for some reason TSV's observed that only Lawrence O'Donnell and just about no-one else has pointed out that the firing was done illegally, and hence the IGs seem to TSV to have legal grounds to file proper lawsuits. The law calls for a firing of an IG to take place at least 30 days after announcement of such, which in turn has to contain actual substantive reasons for the firing. Both TSV and LOD failed to see either occur. But TSV has observed the fired IGs using BABVA on TV in response instead of filing a lawsuit, because he hasn't heard whether they filed lawsuits. Of course filing a lawsuit does kind of behoove the plaintiff to watch what they say in public just in case it can be held against them, and it's certainly possible that BABVA can be used against them, he's thinking. But even worse for the IGs TSV has observed is that the firings put the IGs themselves under an uncomfortable microscope. He's thinking that they could be taken to task for not adequately reined in -trump- during -trump's- first term, particularly those first two years before Congress switched party control, and hence the spotlight was mostly then taken off the IGs until recently. The reason why I the Bachelor believe this to be the case is solely because TSV doesn't remember the IGs weighing in on matters after 2018 when Congress was doing so, or at least there wasn't coverage. But the most serious unanswered question of all is, why didn't the IGs protest the undemocratically ousting of Biden in 7/24 by his own party? The expected answer is, not my jurisdiction, which TSV finds unfathomable because the IGs are just as American as -he- is, so how can they not have an opinion about it and not talk about it? Do they really think that condemning the overthrow of Biden is necessarily a serious overstep of their job descriptions? TSV's starting to have the same questions regarding Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger and TLP. Looking back, he's heard roaring silence from them regarding what happened to Biden in 7/24, and he also finds that inexplicable. Sure the undemocracy of -trump- is terrible, but so is the undemocracy of Schumer and Schiff in overthrowing Biden. You can't condemn one form of undemocracy, TSV thinks, and let another just slide like the way they seemed to have. Also, even though he sees AOC as being the one who will challenge Schumer in 2028 for the Senate, he still sees AOC as having the progressive stains of Ed Snowden and accusations of antisemitism during the crisis in Gaza. There being a ceaseful that has apparently held, or at least TSV hasn't heard otherwise on audio, hasn't made those kinds of unanswered questions go away. But while we're talking about audio, TSV -vaguely- remembers the BBC talk about the IG situation on Saturday morning, because the firings took place Friday evening. But he doesn't remember anyone else talking about it till -Monday- evening, so he's wondering why most outlets sat on it for a full 3 days, an entire weekend. Maybe they were mostly finding out who's going to be in the Superbowl. Maybe the Superbowl matchup was more important for pretty much everybody than the IG issue. But, dang, what was that second thing TSV wanted to talk about where he saw more holes than swiss cheese in people using BABVA in talking about it? Help him out here, people.

So here comes Inauguration Day 2. Looks as though Tropical Soulvangelical is going to be referring to -trump's- entire second term as One Big Inauguration, particularly if it turns out, as TSV suspects, there's very little -trump's- necessarily going to get done. TSV's already made the case as to why the Gulf Of Mexico will still be called the Gulf Of Mexico, but he wants to add to that. -If- the mapmakers are made to rename the Gulf Of Mexico, TSV believes that the phrase Gulf Of Mexico is going to become the name of the next hot indie band. TSV further contends that if -trump- still wants to be a dictator, he'll try to get Pam Bondi to criminally challenge said band in an attempt to erase the phrase Gulf Of Mexico from everybody's mental consciousness. Not even Bashar Al-Assad was ever able to do that to his people, nor Putin to his, so that ain't gonna happen here, TSV's hedging. But he wants to follow up on this two-sexes thing. He heard strains coming from FM Newsradio about how many of -trump's- executive orders will end being challenged in court, and hence not being executed immediately, to the apparent contradiction of the fatalists who seem to believe that -trump's- orders can't be questioned just because -trump- wants to be a dictator. The two-sex order is apparently being challenged accordingly on the basis of protection for trans people and non binary people, but what's more important for TSV is how the two-sex order is what -trump- intends to be a you-must-think-what-I-tell-you-to order which of course is the kind of thing that ought to laughed at. Same with the Gulf Of Mexico. -trump- -could- rename Denali back to Mt. McKinley because TSV's (mis)understanding of the naming of sites specifically within the U.S., particularly within the purview of the park service, is that the park service under the auspices of the Interior, now overseen by whom TSV understands is an anti-environmental ex-oil magnate, can make the name change easily enough. But it's still reverse- cancel culture against those living around the mountain that still will refer to it as Denali and will produce official signs to the same effect. Is -trump- going to get Pam Bondi to go after those people as well? All this is not even 1% of what TSV's seeing for the One Big Inauguration, so don't blame us. We voted Pro-Biden, and we are the 36%.

Can you guess what -trump- -didn't- say in his inaugural address? Do you know what four words you didn't hear? Tropical Soulvanglical was reading the cliff notes on Wikipedia, and never did they say that he ever said, "I'm a dictator now." TSV believes Schumer placed pressure on Kamala Harris to try to tell people that -trump- swore to become a dictator on Day One. It looks as though MLK day was Day One for -trump- despite it being a holiday, so he already broke his campaign promise of declaring dictatorship. Supposedly that's why roughly 50.3 percent of the electorate voted for him, maybe they -did- want a dictatorship, but the fact that he didn't declare dictatorship in so many words on Day One TSV thinks maybe that should have angered the -trump- hatters who came out in full force for the express purpose of hearing -trump- saying, "I'm a dictator now." In any case, TSV tells the fatalists, put -that- in your pipe and smoke it! In response and even -before- Day One took place, the fatalists tried to say, well, he -has- declared dictatorship but not in so many words, but that's really stretching it, and TSV sees it as moving the goal posts on the definition of declaration of dictatorship. But things like declaring there are only two sexes or let's rename the Gulf Of Mexico the Gulf Of America TSV finds really absurd for a number of reasons. For one thing you can't declare in an executive order that two plus two equals five just because -I- said so. Also, renaming a body of water isn't something you can just use an executive order on, because you need to go to whoever it is who's charged with what to name something. He seems to think that just because Google was there at the Inauguruation that Sergey Brin will somehow lean on the engineers at Google Maps to rename the Gulf Of Mexico because -trump- told him to. Google doesn't get to rename geographic features on the map. TSV's sure that OpenStreetMaps will likely forever and forever refer to that body of water as the Gulf Of Mexico no matter what -trump- says, though it might prompt an edit war on OSM, which TSV believes the Gulf Of Mexico will win. But he still doesn't think absurd orders like these by themselves amount to a dictatorship no matter what the fatalists say. What -does- amount to a dictatorship is TSV's observance of how Schumer and Schiff overrode the will of primary voters to pressure Biden out of the race in July24, and how we can never get that democracy back until Schumer and Schiff are driven out of office as political price to pay, and the schumerdonkeys are made to repent for what they did and allowing Schumer's home office to pressure them into something they should never have done. This TSV still intends to make happen via the primaries of 2026, and primarying out as many schumerdonkeys as possible in the House at least. It's with future elections that TSV will himself restore our democracy.

Tropical Soulvanglical got around to seeing the interview between Joe Biden and Lawrence O'Donnell, and his takeaways go beyond the fatalists' emphasis on Biden's concerns about big tech. Among other things, one thing TSV heard Biden say was Biden saying he regretted being heavier on the policy and lighter on the politics. But the implication TSV hears in that is that at age 82, Biden may be feeling like life's too short to be as concerned about earthly politics as about doing those things we're all supposed to be doing for one another, hence the policies bit. Sure, maybe if there was a little more emphasis on the politics for Biden, you won't have centrist Donkeys betraying their own democratic values to push Biden out of the race. Very honestly, TSV in regarding the interview will not forget July24 or the importance of there being a political price for the centrist Donkeys to place cynicism over faith. Biden, on the other hand, TSV sees as about faith and principle, and this gets to TSV's other takeaway. He believes that all those who -still- "hate" Biden just because they hate Biden, not the hardcore trumpists who will hate Biden anyway, but the young anarchists who seem to believe there's nothing to believe in should tune in without pride or prejudice to the interview, because TSV thinks they may understand why Biden had to do what he did, and maybe get more mature appreciation. Values such as faith and principle as per the two men TSV saw on his open-source lounge laptop screen he thinks are more the exception to the rule in terms of how many people TSV sees -really- holding and following in 2025. TSV is even more concerned about that than a tech oligarchy or the centrist Donkeys not being held accountable, including also -trump- being held accountable, because it's lack of faith and principle he sees as leading to things such as oligarchy and cynicism and personal corruption. Unfortunately TSV isn't sure that it's not too late for Gens Y and Z to really understand what that means, so he's looking to Gen Alpha, and if necessary, Gens Beta and Gamma, to really exemplify those values as we march forward.

Biden did his farewell address which Tropical Soulvanglical saw as significantly covered on Insurgent, including a 48 minute interview with Lawrence O'Donnell which TSV wants to see more of in detail. Biden talked about the dangers of an emerging oligarchy, but TSV has observed that the oligarchy had already existed between 10 and 20 years in tech with full blessing from the 2000s progressive movement many of whom TSV saw going to the -trumpists-. The -real- oligarchy TSV thinks the country should be vigilant of is, of course, the oligarchy of the -trump lite- Schumercrats in having overthrown Biden as a sitting President and against the will of primary voters. Never Forget July24. TSV sees the -trumpists- as in fact a little easier to deal with than the Schumercrats, because the -trumpists- are more visible and out there than ever before. TSV figures it's only a matter of time before the Schumercrats will reach the same stage, and it wouldn't surprise him that a number of -them- would radicalize in the same way he sees Big Tech and Ed Snowden on the -trumpist- side. So for every -trumpism- that takes place and gets solved this coming Monday and after, TSV seeks to pair each one with a Schumerism for full perspective accordingly. He saw Insurgent go craven over oh no -trump- says he'll start doing X on day one and oh no that must mean starting Monday (!) despite the fact that Monday is also a national holiday so TSV expects a lot of the militants to want to take that day off to sleep in and watch Netflix all day. TSV wants to make a donation to a charity before he talks about the fires in LA, because he saw how Elon Musk politically and mean spiritedly attacked the fires in LA in such a way that TSV's convinced that the world's richest man did not even donate even one penny to any charity trying to help people there. But TSV will say this. That bit on Kimmel where someone gets caught doing an AI fake of the Hollywood sign itself going on fire TSV takes to mean that that steals the thunder beforehand of a cynical visual news person wanting to be the first one to take a picture of that for real, and who has gained likely unwarranted permission to go into dangerous areas accordingly in the opposite direction of the evacuations. He does peruse Insurgent's video titles at least, and 90 percent of them he finds logical holes in enough for it not to be worth his while, those kinds of yeah-but moments. He will always love his country, but he still makes the point of being critically thinking about what others claim outside of those basic headlines he hears each morning on newsradio, and knows when it's just someone's opinion, and a craven or conventional or outright absurd one at that. TSV wants to go after the word "woke" next when he gets a chance, because he saw that with the fires of LA.

It's 1/7, the day after the anniversary of 1/6. As such, Tropical Soulvangelical wants to remind people that 1/6 didn't end on 1/6. It ended in July 24, so now that it's 1/7, TSV sees it appropriate enough to correct the record on things. He saw Insurgent's headlines talking about how the elephantines have a selective amnesia regarding 1/6. Sure that's true, but TSV sees the flip side of donkeys having a selective amnesia regarding July 24, and how we've pretty much ensured a dictatorship by -somebody- by undemocratically defying the will of primary voters in pressuring Biden to exit the race in that time. For some reason, TSV sees conventional culture as having an irretrievably odd definition of democracy, in that they seem to believe that primary elections don't count as elections. Essentially democracy is -only- something that you do every four years in November with respect to choosing a President, and apparently not inherent in any other elections, such as school board elections TSV's expecting to come up for his state and town about May or so, or for that matter housing board elections like the one TSV saw posted in the billboard at the Bachelor Boulevard North bus stop. Remember people saying things last year like, if the wrong person wins, there will be no more elections? Apparently, they seem to believe that housing board and school board elections don't count as elections, and yet TSV's expecting both this year, so TSV asks, how can you say you're a democracy in the first place if you're trying to "renegotiate" the very definition of democracy? There's any number of countries that don't have elections of any kind, so TSV figures what they wouldn't do to even have housing board elections, and here we are in the free world taking housing board elections for granted. So TSV admonishes the donkeys, particularly the schumerdonkeys that took the side of Schumer and Schiff and hence have no gumption about overthrowing Biden, and reminds them not to limit discussions about democracy to their own selective spin as they once again use 1/6 as a sociological football. 1/7, and TSV hasn't heard a peep out of them regarding the subject of democracy, only otherwise legitimate complaints about congestive pricing.

Tropical Soulvangelical forgot to mention that about the same time we did our last base share about the fatalists, he heard on good ole newsradio about the new name for the generation that comes after Gen Z. They're calling it Gen Alpha, and it's TSV's first hope of a generation that will show fearless faith and principle in ways that Gens Y and Z never did. He's hoping that Gen Alpha takes to principle in rebellion against Gens Y's and Z's belief in personal corruption, protesting the stance of their older siblings. Once Gen Alpha does that, TSV looks to them to -outvote- Gens Y and Z in 2026 and then again in 2028 the same way Gens Y and Z outvoted TSV and effectively voted against -him- as a citizen, particularly the Ed Snowden anarchists. He's hoping Alpha will be there to vote -for- him as a citizen because his is only one vote, and he can't just vote for himself while 5 million young people vote against his basic rights as a citizen to demand faith and principle from his fellow citizens. He's going to need help, and he's looking to Gen Alpha at first. If not them, then Gen Beta, and if not Beta then Gen Gamma. He's not sure whose idea it was to go to the Greek alphabet for every generation henceforth, but he likes that idea better than his own which was to add more Z's per every generation, like ZZ or ZZZ, etc. It makes every generation look like a snoozer, which is not what you want, and after a while it becomes ridiculous to keep adding on letters. He sees that there are 24 letters in the Greek alphabet, so that's good for 24 more generations. If our society doesn't shape up morally by the time we get to Omega, then we should -really- throw in the towel, and TSV doesn't particularly care if he's not around by that time. It would be unimaginable to him that after he's gone that you're going to have elderly Gen Y's and Z's who would then -still- believe that Ed Snowden was right about everything and who -still- believe that accountability is only about a "deep state." TSV's thinking there's got to be some new generation down the line that frowns skeptically on the phrase "deep state" to say, come on, "deep state?" You guys are still doing legal pot? Speaking of which, TSV hopes for an entire straightedge generation in Alpha or subsequent. He's hoping that said future generation will come around and support cops/enforcement and Israel's right to exist and defend itself, and see that the problem with Israel is not Israel, but Netanyahu. He's hoping that Alpha will take a more conscientious stance against antisemitism in order to see that over half of ceasefire protests truly are antisemitic at their core, because Cease Fire is code for Cease Israel. TSV figures that should have been apparent after 10/7. He's hoping that Israel will still be around when Alpha comes of age to have an Israel to still defend, so that there's still a Jewish State, and you don't have a significant and substantial portion of the world's population suddenly become second class citizens just because they're made to give up having a country of their own just because that country's government sucks specifically when it comes to Gaza, and that antisemitism would be emboldened on a global scale and never stop just because the antisemites see an entire people as having "lost face." Is Gen Alpha aware of social issues at a mere age 11? TSV thinks not yet which is why a so-called youth power thing has to be about Gen Alpha understanding the issues as above, and not about pitting young people against their elders in an ageist fashion. He doesn't think that Gen Z is necessarily ageist like he gets the impression that Gen Y is for the most part, the so-called millennials, but the concept of youth power as it stands he sees as pushing Z in that direction as time goes on. Hope lies with Alpha, Beta and Gamma, and TSV will wait and make efforts accordingly for as long as it takes, and then it'll be Gens Y and Z that will have to face the consequences of their actions. TSV wants a future generation that's the most like him possible and reflects his values, so that he doesn't have society keep on putting down the generation he happens to be born in, and hence him having to suffer unending disrespect from society at large. He's hoping for a true ally generation. Maybe this is why some families end up having second children when their first borns turn out to be total brats and monsters. They're looking for a second chance like TSV is.

Tropical Soulvangelical hopes everyone's enjoyed the holidays, but for him it's back to the Terrible Times. He wouldn't be surprised if that were a name of an actual newspaper. But he's seeing fatalists trying to convince TSV, almost personally, that -trump- is absolutely going to annex both Canada and Greenland. There are two things TSV's learned when he deals with the fatalists. First is when -trump- says, I'm going to do X, there's an accompanying fatalist that says, When -trump- says he's going to do X, -believe him-, and it doesn't matter what X is or how absurd or remotely unlikely it is. It's believe him no matter what. Another fatalism TSV has had to deal with is in plagiaristic form. It's the fatalists saying, Be Afraid Be Very Afraid, and for some reason it's often after they say, because -trump- wants you to cower, the best antidote to that is, don't cower. Despite the fatalists clearly not really meaning the latter if they do mean the former, the latter by itself is pretty self-evident just from a logical point of view. But TSV vaguely remembers BABVA, his acronym of the above, as being a sell line for a line of children's suspense books, and apparently that's a thing. It reminds him of children's fairy tales from England which are about children getting eaten by some terrible monster, and children are reading that. TSV is thinking, oh, nice. So while he awaits more real emergencies in the new year to make affirmative moves on, he also has to do with 90% of headlines being of the BABVA variety after how he knows the fatalists helped Schumer and Schiff undemocratically overthrow Biden in a coup over last summer, and he will not forget the coup nor the fatalists' role in it. Sure -trump- wants to be a dictator, but TSV points out that the Schumer and Schiff team already -are- one. TSV's question here is, how is it that the prevention of dictatorship is, subsequently, more dictatorship? That's what TSV asks of those who still value fearless faith and principle, as he plans to take at least as much action in the new year against Schumer as against -trump-. Oh and by the way, as we're covering 2024 The Year In Review, does anybody remember the drones and how that was supposedly "Biden's Fault?"

Don't try to waste Tropical Soulvangelical's time on that whole drones thing. He's trying to think as little about it as possible, with a considerable degree of unsuccess since we're now making a base share out of it. TSV asks us to think back to Bridge Gate, and how a creation of problems was meant to cause problems for adversaries for a given politician. He thought about it, and now it makes sense to him. When he tuned into that one Mayor who went after Phil Murphy for not being "open" enough, TSV immediately thought two things and they pretty much stuck with him. A, and this is the oldest trick in the book, and that's use of an issue to distract from one's own shortcomings. And now here's B, and TSV figures that can be summed up in that age old proverb: He Who Smelt It Dealt It. Of course that may be very hard to prove, but it would be an embarrassment if those anti-stalwart pro-meaness-and-or-fatalism politicians attack pro-stalwart and anti-fatalism figures over the drones issue, only for there to be mounting evidence that said drones likely originated from those politicians' munipical equipment yards. The drones story never seemed quite right for TSV from the very beginning. For one thing, who in their right minds would stand around in their yards at 3'o'clock in the morning in sub-zero temps in the middle of December just to see, per chance, whether there are any drones flying around, and lo and behold, Seek And Ye Shall Find? For another, TSV doubts the drones issue will dissipate just because it's been overcast and rain, and therefore the drones will either be mostly invisible or not even operate under inclement weather conditions. With all of the above, everything fell into place for TSV, so he thinks it's time for -visual- media at least to quit this Drone Watch, because how dumb do they think we are with our heads still in the clouds, and get back to real issues. Namely, the attacks on the stalwart life's philosophy in favor of the fatalistic fallacy for the country, and how we have to get back to the values of faith and principle.

Elton John's right. We -are- making a mistake where this whole legal pot thing is concerned. Elton John in an interview Tropical Soulvangelical heard about on the radio expressed dismay because he had helped his friends in the music industry on their road to recovery. The specific mistake TSV has seen in the past four years was the concept of If Not One Then The Other. So it wasn't enough to decriminalize pot so as to not disenfrachise people culturally, but make it so legal that the legalization itself served as a de facto marketing promotion for a lifestyle choice that's clearly questionable at best, and to dictate the science towards a pro-drug bias. TSV's hoping that Elton John's candid commentary would help focus on those in recovery and those who righteously choose a straightedge path in life, neither of which TSV sees as being aptly served in our pro-drug policy essentially amounting to a mentality of everyone-has-to-use-recreational-drugs or somehow there's-no-difference-between-recreational-drugs-and-those-few-prescription-drugs-that-have-gone-wrong-in-society. We went straight to legalization with no meaningful debate whatsoever, and this is part of what TSV wants to highlight in months to come as we also discuss, mainly with respect to the problem of Chuck Schumer, how we can blame someone else for undemocracy when in our own side of the aisle we need to get our own democratic house in order and not throw our own under the bus in fundamental disregard of the will of primary voters. This issue will only haunt the Schumers and Schiffs of the world even more in coming weeks and months, and not less.

Tropical Soulvangelical kind of wants to supplement Allan Lichtman's findings on the (now past) election, and TSV has determined that it's partially anarchist type youth that both delivered a victory for -trump- -and- propose worshipfulness for Luigi Mangione. It's the same unaccountable mentality in both cases, and all that does for TSV is emphasize the importance of principle (again). At first he had wondered if the killing was possibly a false flag independently made in favor of -trump- to try to argue against Funny Named Care next year, but now that we know now what we didn't know then, TSV's ruling that out. He had wondered why there weren't accomplices, but he's now thinking that the anarchist worshippers are themselves the accomplices, and should be named and shamed accordingly. They are what TSV's stalwart state governor calls "knuckleheads." That's the name that the governor had for those people who defied the Covid lockdown four years ago just for the sake of defiance. TSV went into a fit of moral outrage at the time calling them immoral, narcissistic, unaccountable, etc., but he kind of likes the governor's sneer of "knucklehead" a lot better. It's that kind of "come on dude" kind of healthful contemptuousness to it. In covering Mangione, TSV came across what's essentially a stalwart vs fatalism debate on the Insurgent Network. In this base share, he doesn't particularly want to examine the details, but suffice it to say that there's definitely an Inside Baseball kind of situation at Insurgent when it comes to somehow predicting the eventual impact of -trump-. The debate started as a discussion about -trump- and groceries, and then they went to things like tariffs and cabinet appointments, though the title of the video was mostly only about groceries. But one takeaway for TSV is that nobody can brag to predict the future enough to all be on one page. Of course on and off you're going to hear "see I told you so" being said both by the stalwart side and by the fatalistic side. Fatalism 1, Stalwart 0. Let's stay tuned. TSV is still anti- Schumer/Schiff for what happened to Biden.

For the first time in just over a month, Tropical Soulvanglical knows exactly what he needs to do to get the country to stand for principle awash in its neo- personal corruption type of worship of -trump-, and that's to take on what he calls the schumerdonkeys who betrayed Biden and as such TSV deems as -trump lite-. But here's the thing. He believes that most of his would-be allies are of the progressive caucus/squad variety, and he wants them to know that about 80% of issues he and they are going to have to agree to disagree on. That's because TSV now conserves, having started doing so shortly after the end of the pandemic, and he has a mental list of things of value he believes needs to be conserved, and which we outlined in past base shares. Case in point, TSV opposes the move by the NJ town Haddon Heights to change their dry town status, so he supposes they're kind of a wet town now. He doesn't want anyone wasting his time corruptsplaining the economic "benefits" of allowing restaurants and eateries to have liquor licenses and bring in more people, and more tax revenue. That's because humanity doesn't live by bread alone. There are just some intangibles that cannot be denied, no matter how the politicians try to do so. So he stands with the 33% of the residents there who wanted to keep their town dry. After all, alcohol is still the "devil's juice" like they say pot is the "devil's lettuce." It's just common sense talking, and hence a nod toward straightedge culture and the ability to set healthful boundaries for one's self. If AOC (and others) wants a pro-Biden alliance with TSV, she'll need to understand how he's trying to conserve and not get taken aback at some "shocking" views she sees TSV espousing, somehow believing that we left things such as not-drinking back in the 19th Century or so.

Tropical Soulvangelical sees the -trumpists- as totally stunned and without wherewithall like the way they wanted everyone else who wasn't exactly like them to get like a month ago. No matter how much they try to deny it, TSV can see right through them. The fact is, you can't have it both ways. TSV sneers at all the fake outrage regarding the pardon of Hunter Biden, because he and they full well -trump's- going to pardon the insurrectionists on possibly his first day in office as a form of 'revenge.' Unfortunately it just makes the -trumpists- total hypocrites where pardons go. Besides, if -trump- could pardon Paul Manafort and Roger Stone, why -can't- Biden pardon Hunter Biden? This also helps disprove for TSV this newly found notion that someone like Kamala Harris should not try to run for the Presidency ever again, and instead go for someone like Bill Clinton. The -trumpists- have no proof that a Kamala-similar campaign would inevitably fail in 2028 or after, nor do they have proof that things will be totally the same for four years to the point where 2028 will somehow be exactly like 2024. What TSV sees we saw a month ago was a snapshot and not a trend, so there's no precedent for things being exactly the same for even six months, let alone two years or even four years. Because of how faddish our society is, the frozen social scene is just not a thing. So once 2026 and 2028 come around, and prove to be very different socially from 2024, TSV expects the -trumpists- to respond his reminding them of their frozen social scene theory by saying, 'we never said that!!'