This month 7/25 marks the first year anniversary of 7/24, which a year later and perhaps forever Tropical Soulvangelical will remember as -the other- 1/6, where the central party betrayed Biden and his citizen supporters, and started off on a tangent that ultimately gave us another term of -trump-. TSV is blessed with being able to follow other supporters, like Chris D. Jackson, but only on a very fragmented basis. Sure there are the hashtags #Team46 and #TeamJoe but other than that TSV doesn't yet see a citizen supporter supported set of hash tags to try to unite Citizen Team 46. He's really not sure how hash tags catch on, because -anybody- can do a hash tag. Just go on your social platform of choice and do hash tag # and whatever phrase you want to hash tag with. But in any case, a year later, TSV is just as distrustful of the central party as he was a year ago, and is still at war with Schumer, David Axelrod, George Clooney, Jake Tapper and the Dirty Thirty. TSV resolves to keep on with primarying out as many of the personally corrupt as he can, and doesn't buy for a second any of their distractionary measures, including exploiting the very terrible -trump-. TSV keeps killing texts off his flip and ignoring manipulative emails. He just fired Insurgent in earnest though keeping track of Rachel Maddow and Lawrence O'Donnell, but he's certainly not going to miss the rest. So in addition to pro-Joe citizen hash tags, he wishes there was a pro-Joe video channel he subscribe into as the -real- Insurgent. For the time being, he'll have to keep looking.

Tropical Soulvangelical has observed that Biden's appearances both in Galveston Texas and in Minnesota took place without the likes of George Clooney or David Axelrod or anyone in the central party trying to take away from that. TSV hopes Biden's Donkeyish enemies have learned their lesson for the time being, seeing how Jake Tapper seemed to have been apparently refused appearance on most late night type shows in trying to promote his anti-Biden book. The book's been out for what appears to be nearly two months, and TSV's relieved that Colbert and Kimmel didn't have Tapper on. Sure both comics TSV expects will do "old" jokes, but they also want to make sure they stand for the value of truth, so Tapper's book appears a bridge too far for them. With respect to Galveston, that was this year's Juneteenth observance which comes a year after media coverage of Biden frozen in place at a Juneteenth event at the White House. In Galveston, he was anything -but- frozen, though Tapper was almost certainly frozen in place in the proverbial sense when Biden warned against those to wish to erase history, and TSV takes it that he wasn't just talking about -trump-. TSV sees it as perfectly justified for Biden to push back against not just personal attacks against -him- but political attacks against his silent plurality of supporters including TSV for standing for things like a stalwart stance in political life. To that end, TSV believes that shortly after Zohran Mamdani won the New York City Donkey primary, there was a phone call between Mamdani and Biden in which TSV believes Biden encouraged Mamdani to keep in touch with Brad Lander, the stalwart in the New York race, and to not let anyone try to get Mamdani down over his socialist leanings. It's one thing, TSV thinks, for a socialist to tell Mamdani that, but that it makes more of a difference for a non-socialist to tell him that. TSV joins the 55% in opposing the Big Ugly Bill and warns against the -trumpists- against even considering a rally type event marking a signature into law, and hopes that the late show comics will continue to make fun of the creaky tanks that will make an appearance at that rally as well as last year's garbage truck.

Here's where it's at with Tropical Soulvangelical and the primary victory of Zohran Mamdani. TSV's glad that Cuomo lost, and that the city folk demonstrated that values matter, and that you can't just get in just on name recognition alone, which is what TSV thinks Cuomo thought he could do. TSV also wants to remind people that as of his watching the Mamdani/Brad Lander interview on Colbert, Mamdani and Lander 'co-endorsed' each other in the race, and this TSV wants to send as admonishment to the so-called Young Socialists Of America. TSV doesn't want the young socialists to overlook Lander and how he helped Mamdani out on this one. Another thing is that from that same interview, TSV gathers that Mamdani genuinely wants to represent and reach out to all New Yorkers, regardless of whether they identify as 'socialist' or not. But once that happens, TSV would find it hard to believe that the young socialists would -not- then turn on Mamdani as another 'centrist' or some element of the central party, just because his reaching out to all New Yorkers they'll interpret as not doing the group's bidding. TSV remembers that one American founder that warned against interested groups, even though TSV sees such groups as almighty more powerful than unassociated individuals like himself -ever- could be, but that in our fervor to 'save' democracy, nobody will ever heed that warning. TSV also sees the young socialists as believing that anyone who votes for Mamdani either in the primary or the general election automatically identifies as a young socialist of sorts, and that no voter should be surprised when they then get a mailing claiming that 'we now see you as one of us.' TSV truly doesn't quite see any meaningful difference between this particular group and the Mangioniists who want to exonerate Mangioni for having killed a health insurance executive, so he doesn't want the young socialists to try to 'leverage' Mamdani. TSV is keeping watch here.

Firstly, Tropical Soulvangelical wants to condemn the political violence taking place in Minneapolis along with the mistreatment of a U.S. Senator a day or two before that. But he thinks this is unaccountability attempting to cloud his comments on both No Kings' Day and -trump's- military parade. So for the most part, as TSV was scanning the Wikipedia article on No Kings' Day, he saw that for the most part the protests were free of co-option or gate-crashing by the politicians (though he saw that Bernie did go to a protest in Stowe, VT, TSV didn't, -yet-, see evidence that Bernie took privilege in insisting on making an impromptu speech, a la Hands Off). But as per -trump's- parade, TSV saw the westernized visual media making nail-biting comments which TSV saw as playing into the hands of -trump- because TSV believes that's -exactly- what -trump- wants. TSV will not buy any excuses on the part of the westernized media that they're only doing their free press work, and TSV would not be surprised if this kind of inexplicable coverage was promulgated by the Central Donkeys as part of their continuing War On Biden in an attempt to spin a fatalistic and hopeless narrative. TSV still believes that both the Central Donkeys and the westernized media -wanted- -trump- to win the election last year in order to, among other things, premeditate a military parade to create a narrative over. If Kamala won or if the Central Donkeys ceased and desisted as per the true wishes of the public and allowed Biden to get a second term (contradicting what TSV now believes were central party distorted polls), TSV's pretty sure that they wouldn't have insisted on tanks being in the streets. But since this was the 250th anniversary of the U.S. Army, they would have obviously wanted to make sure that there was an official observation of some sort, perhaps a smaller parade or an event elsewhere in the Washington area, an air show from a base close to Washington, like maybe Annapolis in Maryland. In any case, TSV wouldn't have bought the apparent intellectualist insistence that Biden or Harris would never have tolerated -any- observation of the anniversary, just that they would not have requested tanks in the streets. Also in contrary to the intellectualist/westernized media/Central Donkey narrative, TSV believes that the public would have given some measure of support to an Army anniversary of some sort in the case of a Kamala or second Biden presidency, but that they would have healthfully made sure such an observation would have a proper place in the culture. So TSV figures you can argue that -trump's- parade kind of took -away- from the importance of the military forces rather than reinforced such importance. In the same way Kimmel and his announcer observed that the Marines stationed in L.A. were looking kind of bored and possibly not disagreeing with the demonstrations protesting crackdowns on immigration (and it's likely that there are Marine members that are immigrants themselves), TSV figures that the tank riders would also look like they're going through the motions thinking to themselves, do we -really- have to do this? Nothing in the fatalist media about how it was pouring rain for most of the day or what TSV's coworker pointed out was Marco Rubio letting out a big yawn while observing the parade, and a very certain downplaying of the fact that the parade was poorly attended by the public. And one last thing TSV wants to point out, most importantly. Today was Father's Day, which TSV also sees as God's Day, and TSV believes that the best way to observe the day after the parade is to help God out the best way we can, including holding ourselves to the concept of principle and some manner of God-given intelligence which TSV saw happening in about half the places he looked the day before.

A little something closer to home for Tropical Soulvangelical. Apparently, someone installed a spy cam in one of the restrooms near where TSV works at Bland Barns, and they turned themselves in after the camera was found. TSV wants to talk about this one as delicately as possible, since child abuse is one of the worst things about living in our world. But these days in post-pandemic America, TSV's more sensitive to how certain topics and content are inherently offensive, and to that end this spy cam incident strikes him as endemic to a larger culture that doesn't make right-and-wrong a priority, nor does it emphasize the importance of long term committed relationships. TSV can't help thinking that you wouldn't have this sort of thing happen if people didn't feel compelled to attack children just to alleviate loneliness. It was just over a week ago that -trump- pardoned a reality TV couple, though what TSV heard at first was that they're a reality TV couple, and didn't readily hear what they went to jail for till afterwards. There was footage on Kimmel where the couple were making inappropriate comments about each other's clothing to the point where any underage child happening across it while a parent was in the room would end up asking, what did they mean by that, with respect to any kind of slang they heard, and the parent would be understandably flustered trying to decide to explain to the child what the participants said, why they said it, and why such content was readily accessible on TV. TSV had requested that we tone down the 'glamour shots' elsewhere on this shares base, so that we're not caught saying one thing and doing another while TSV's trying to get the message out about the importance of living relatively monastically in a morally conscious manner in a world just knee deep in sin. He perceives that only a small percentage, perhaps 1-5%, will try their darndest to follow and stay on the righteous path to the point where the number 144877 increases in importance. According to Scripture, that's the number of people already lost in rapture in the early 2000s, and that was over 20 years ago, but TSV's hoping that maybe we can add on to the 144877 before the world ends, though no one will know the exact day or time. Finally, he's also hoping that now that jaywalking has been legalized in New York City, the same percentage of folk living there will become part of an anti-jaywalking messaging troupe letting people know how jaywalking is actually -even more wrong- now that it's been legalized, and to refuse to jaywalk or give into peer pressure on Jaywalking Danger Awareness Day, though TSV hasn't seen a specific date as to when that's going to be this year.

Here's some food for thought Tropical Soulvangelical has for people if we truly think we're fighting the good fight. It's about that often paraphrased passage by Joseph Neimoller, but here's how TSV reframes it. A couple of playground bullies are carrying a nerd to a garbage can. On his way to the garbage can, the nerd says out loud, "First they came for this one group and I didn't speak out. Then they came for another group and I didn't speak out." As the bullies are tipping the nerd into the garbage can, the nerd says, "And then they came for me..." Then the bullies walk away from the garbage can with the nerd's feet sticking out of the top and you hear his voice resonate from within the can saying, "...and there was no one left to speak for me." As the bullies still keep walking away, one bully says to the other, "I think he doth protest too much." So TSV's point is that if you really hold the values of faith and principle near and dear, you've got to find a way of doing much better than that. He doesn't remember either Gandhi or MLK paraphrasing Neimoller at opportune moments. That's because he's observed that they found a way of fighting back, and accordingly did away with wasting time with the Neimoller references.

Tropical Soulvangelical contacted Joe Biden via his activist social media to send him wishes for a good recovery. Now that TSV figures that's out of the way, he wants to make clear that even though Biden's been diagnosed with cancer, TSV -will not- let up on the Bidenhaters. In fact, he's pretty sure that the haters' stance was, "why didn't Biden tell us this earlier!? He -lied- to us!!!" TSV's impression that -trump- and -some trumpists- at least were relatively more gracious, but not so much the mob racket that the Donkey central party's become. He just happened past a Kamala Harris mail, and it's just inexplicable to him that not only has she -not- yet established a PAC to help get worthy candidates into office, he's seen continued capitulation to the hatefully two-faced Donkey Committee. He also happened past an email from the Congress Committee supposedly saying, "We're done, TSV." His response is that sure you're -definitely- done if the central party keeps on attacking Biden even after getting a cancer diagnosis, obstensibly showing lack of the real kind of empathy that Biden has shown -your- members when -they- were faced with a difficult health diagnosis. So, no, TSV is -not- falling into the empathy trap that the central office is laying out for Biden supporters like TSV, Ms. Mensch and Mr. Jackson among others. TSV's aware of the political trope of the well-wishing political cease fire, but he's not buying it. The Bidenhaters will want Biden's supporters to "show mercy" to -them- while the haters take full advantage and go after both Biden -and his supporters- in the latter's silence. TSV only heard announcement of Biden's diagnosis early this morning so TSV's thinking that the announcement had just come out while we were doing our last base share, but that we hadn't heard it yet. But -should- we take back anything we said in that base share just for the sake of appearing more "appropriate?" With the above, TSV has decided -no-, absolutely not. So TSV's pause to wish Biden well he's made as brief as possible, before he gets back to the task of helping the country reclaim its soul through the values of faith, principle and righteousness, regardless of whether there's a D or an E (elephant) after any given figure's name.

Tropical Soulvangelical wants to give his own update on where he's at on fighting the Bidenhaters. When that Jake Tapper book came out, he said to himself he knows what he needs to say on his activist social media and whom to say it to in terms of "I urge you to do X." Even though he kind of knows of people here and there also opposed to the Bidenhaters, he was pretty sure there's nothing organized going. And then he just happened to stumble on Louise Mensch's feed where she was more or less saying the same things in pushback to the Tapper book that TSV was about to. Another ally she cited was Chris D. Jackson whom TSV believes might be a sitting member of Congress. He was really faith restored when he saw all that, and it does get to the value of the truth and how that value brings people out as part of their duty to God, even if they consider themselves heathen. So TSV went after David Axelrod and Jake Tapper and Jake Tapper's coauthor. One small difference TSV has from Ms. Mensch and Mr. Jackson is that TSV takes the Bidenhating just as seriously as -trump's- attacks on the country. TSV doesn't see it as a mere silly indulgence on the part of the central Donkeys' party. That's because as far as TSV's concerned, the attacks on Biden and the attacks on the country are, in fact, one and the same. They are the same conflict, so while lines are redelineating in ways TSV hasn't seen the end of yet, he's seen Pete Buttigieg getting promoted as a "possible candidate" in 2028. The guy seems likeable enough, but TSV doesn't know where Mr. Buttigieg stands on the War On Biden, but he suspects that the central party wants to give Mr. Buttigieg an offer he can't refuse if he hopes to get support from said central party. It would not surprise TSV in the least if one of those "I'd like you to do me a favor though" favors is either supporting the War On Biden or looking the other way. This, despite the fact that TSV sees there coming a point where it'll be impossible to ignore and all players for '28 will -have- to pick sides. One possible player that -nobody's- been talking about TSV observes is just going to sound ludicrous. But that player TSV's thinking about might be Taylor Swift. He'll verify that she was born in the country, and surely by the time '28 rolls around she'll be over 35. She certainly has an interesting can-do resume which TSV sees as just flying circles around the putzcakes TSV sees as dipping their toes in the water like Bernie or Pritzker or Slotkin or the Connecticut Attorney General. After all, everyone thought -trump- was ludicrous when he "came down the escalator," but in the case of Taylor Swift, TSV thinks she will "go up the escalator" if she intends to announce in '27 or so. She probably doesn't need the backing of the Bidenhating central party, and as an outsider she may very well in fact tell the Bidenhaters to go jump in the lake with their War On Biden. This TSV thinks may actually surprisingly turn out more people to make a difference other than just the cushy suburbanite types that TSV thinks the central party has convinced that Biden is somehow the bogeyman. Keep it tuned, because TSV thinks it may very well get really interesting sooner than you might think.

As Tropical Soulvangelical forecast, the Donkeys' Bidenhaters are coming after Biden just shortly after TSV watched that View installment online, and the mask is starting to drop. So among other things, TSV wants to go after David Axelrod for his weathering character attack which TSV heard on a turned down NPR bulletin (because partly because of NPR being on his watch list, he doesn't trust what NPR says unless it actually makes sense). TSV has many options at his disposal but he's not going to tell me the Happy Bachelor to tell you what they are until he's done them, but it'll be in the foreseeable future. But among other things, TSV recommends against -any- campaign hiring Axelrod's services in any manner whatsoever. But in addition to Axelrod, apparently a book has come out against Biden cowritten by Jake Tapper, and as such, TSV calls for Jake Tapper to be taken off CNN like Chris Cuomo was, and that his cowriter be similarly disciplined through boycott accordingly. That cowriter apparently is associated with Axios, which TSV will add to his outlets' watch list, because they tried to discourage funding sources from getting in touch with Biden's office to get funding set up for a Presidential Library by trying to tell people he's having "difficulty" in getting said sources, and hoping for a self-fulfilling prophecy accordingly. TSV also calls for the boycott of the publisher that wrote said book, or what TSV considers, -libelous claptrap-. NPR for all its faults, TSV observes, did report that Biden's office said that the writers/publishers -did not- furnish the 46th President with a copy so his office can do appropriate fact checks, and here's another prediction TSV wants to make. He thinks the Bidenhaters will claim they did furnish Biden's office with a copy, and say so in a very -trumpist- manner, and this is where he's seeing the mask drop. He's criticized the Bidenhaters as being Trump Lite, and each and every single day they reveal themselves accordingly. He's told people since Wednesday November 6 that the War On Biden still continues regardless of whether or not you hear anything on the Biden front, and the situation with this new book and Axelrod's comments confirm to TSV that this is the case, and he expects more evidence to come out that the wrong is on the Bidenhaters' side and not Biden himself. TSV also predicts there will come a point, time frame undetermined as of yet, when he'll be able to legitimately tell the Bidenhaters, go join the -trumpists- already, and stop wasting our time.

Tropical Soulvangelical tuned in on YouTube to the Biden Installment with The View with great interest. TSV's general takeaway is to continue going after the Donkeys' Bidenhaters via the primaries, but he wants to obtain a transcript so he can parse what Biden said on the installment per chapter and verse for any other important messages. But never at any time did he hear any implications or overt directives that he discontinue the good fight in favor of faith, principle and righteousness. He does express concern with one View member spinning off with her own reflections on the Biden Installment, and he really doesn't want to watch that particular video for a number of reasons. One main reason is that TSV's pretty sure the Bidenhater Media's not done with him. The View member's name TSV associates somewhat loosely with NPR, which is one outlet TSV has seen has never given Biden the time of day, and he's pretty sure they want to go after him even as a private citizen. He's sure they're concerned enough about the Biden Installment to try to themselves install at least one seat on the View accordingly. The other two hater outlets that TSV had listed here on this shares base back in last October or so were NYT and AP. Biden says he's writing a book, and once it's released TSV's sure the hater outlets will dismiss each and every thing Biden writes in it, particularly the reflection on values which TSV has observed the three hater outlets as not cherishing, let alone a modicum of journalistic integrity. So again TSV muses, how can the hater outlets really make a case for freedom of the press amidst the threats to democracy Trump poses when the outlets themselves aren't keeping up their end of the bargain in setting aside their anti-Biden biases -just once???-

By now you've likely heard about how the Trumpists are going after newly emerged Pope Leo XIV because the Pope's taken positions on things like compassion and immigration that the Trumpists don't agree with. Tropical Soulvangelical sees these attacks on the Pope as blasphemous and inherently heathen, and accordingly wishes and hopes that God have mercy on their souls. That being said, TSV expresses his own disappointments with the Pope in that apparently all he -ever- said in his introductory speech was about those topics that are otherwise important and in line with Catholic teachings, but that he left out things that just because almost no-one else but TSV is talking about them people in general think those things aren't important enough. TSV didn't hear the Pope reflect on the values of faith, principle and righteousness. Sure things like faith and righteousness are -implied- by the Pope's position even existing, but TSV was truly listening for the phrase "faith, principle and righteousness," -verbatim.- TSV also reflects on how older generations while he was growing up were trying to cushy-prevent him and his generation from dating properly supposedly because of the issues of teen pregnancy, AIDS and having to be married in your 20s before you were ever given a chance to date properly. Now he sees that almost no-one says that about -any- young people after TSV's generation, and it's time that they did. TSV wants the Pope and others to essentially cush Gens Y and Z with respect to the dangers of both dating sites and questionable offline venues. He wants the Pope and others to address the repleteness of predators and traffickers on those more adventuresome dating sites that are not geared towards helping young people toward long-term committed relationships. He wants the Pope and others to address offline venues' tendencies to flout the law and associate themselves with elements of organized crime to the point where the venues make an implicit deal with the young people coming in to look the other way if they ever see something morally wrong at the venues. Maybe 5-10 years from now this new Pope will eventually do that, but the fact that TSV didn't hear him talk about it now makes those concerns seem low priority.

Tropical Soulvangelical doesn't believe ICE has a proper certificate of occupancy or a permit to operate a makeshift jail in Newark just a proverbial baseball throw's from where TSV's getting me the Happy Bachelor to write this base share. TSV read his congresswoman's social media feed in which she described being rudely shoved while Newark's mayor was being arrested, and TSV was wondering why there wasn't a cop war where Newark's own cops and the mayor's own security place ICE's own cops under arrest for false imprisonment. That's why TSV gets the impression that the NYC demonstration that took place a couple days after where a young protestor was paraphrasing Joseph Neimoller just simply plays into ICE's side of the debate. ICE's own reps in the media angrily insisted that they -do- have a certificate of occupancy, but TSV asks why don't they just show it already? Better yet, show the mayor and his staff a copy upon request at the makeshift facility so that nothing ever had to come to a possibly avoidable confrontation. ICE's own threats to protestors not to "cross the line" TSV hopes makes it into a court brief challenging ICE's presence in Newark as evidence of inherent illegality, because again they could have presented the proper documentation instead of set of threats that just simply turn the wheel and make additional protests necessary.

Tropical Soulvangelical has observed the so-called Hands Off movement as effectively painting itself into a corner, paling in comparison against 50501. TSV has far more respect for 50501 than for Hands Off, because 50501 was formed by the people. He sees Hands Off as only being formed by the politicians, seeing how Hands Off features speeches by said politicians. He notes that 50501 came first, back in February, and Hands Off was only formed not even a week ago, effectively a bastardization of 50501. Hands Off TSV is sure will undoubtedly pat itself on the back for presumably "saving" all the stuff that 50501 had -already- saved, serving as a move in the narrative of If Not One Then The Other. It'll serve Bernie well for 2028, regardless of TSV already deciding he's not going to vote for him in favor of an in-the-mold-of-Biden alternative. If TSV doesn't get that alternative, it's not a democratic system. Of course, if -Bernie- says it's a democratic system, then somehow we must all concur and not bother having any discussions lest they be misportrayed as "circular firing squads" or even somehow helping -trump-. TSV reminds people that it's -not- having those discussions before 2028 that'll be truly -trumplite-, and he's wondering where the progressives are in countering the Just You Wait And See Narrative that -trump's- trying to put out with the tariffs and which he sees USA Today as promoting. TSV's sure that when people see USA Today's headlines accordingly, they'll get politically hypnotized to be thinking, USA Today said it, I believe it, that settles it. TSV is often fascinated by how the polls show people thinking TSV's way on things, and he wonders why it wasn't that way in 2024 last year, particularly in the context of the War On Biden. He's pretty sure the people will -never- be as pro-Biden and pro-stalwart as TSV. Where circular firing discussions are concerned, TSV doesn't want the people to forget about the value of National Honor, which he's pretty sure will be absolutely and cynically forgotten in 2028 if Bernie wins. Bernie will almost certainly whip up the so-called "youth power" vote, with Gens Y and Z effectively channelling their cynicisms about the country, and again outvoting TSV with respect to there being a need for National Honor borne of the values of faith and principle. By contrast, TSV sees Gen Alpha as being the upcoming true faith/principle/national honor generation in rebellion against their contemptuous older siblings within Y and Z. TSV's Gen X is outnumbered by everyone, so TSV doesn't see our vote as counting in a way that anyone will bother to notice or respect. But it's still TSV's country too, and that's what makes outvoting inherently undemocratic. TSV's wondering why we have to wait till after the 2026 midterms before we have this discussion when he already knows this is the case -now-. How does Hands Off purport to solve -that- problem?

Like possibly most other Americans, Tropical Soulvangelical wants to make tribute to Cory Booker's 25 hour filibuster protesting -trump's- policies. That being said, TSV acknowledges that Mr. Booker may have wasted his time, because the Donkeys apparently used Mr. Booker's podium as a handy hiding space for their shortcomings, not the least of which was last year's undemocratic defiance of the will of primary voters with respect to Biden. TSV imagines that when Mr. Booker went into his 10th hour, Schumer was in a panic over a member of his caucus actually doing something to get people's attention. When hour 15 came along, TSV figures that Schumer figured that as long as Mr. Booker continues his speech, attention would be focused on Mr. Booker and not so much on Schumer himself, and also not on Schumer's War On Biden or the funding controversy from just over a week ago. TSV doubts -anyone- remembers that controversy, the least of whom the people who protested outside of Schumer's Home Office. Another hidden item TSV found inside Mr. Booker's podium was a proposal from three years ago to get rid of the filibuster -solely because- it was once used for harm. TSV figures you get don't rid of fire extinguishers just because the Jonas Brothers were once accused of using them as questionable stage props. Maybe not going through with that proposal was a smart thing the Donkeys did, because they would otherwise have nothing to work with. Another thing that TSV found hidden in light of both the Supreme Court election in Wisconsin and the two special elections that took place was the failed prediction on the part of both Hillary Clinton and Michael Cohen that if -trump- won last year, there will be no more elections. Now TSV sees them both with egg on their faces. But the kind of election TSV doesn't want to see in 2028 is one that's based -solely- on self-interest in light of the terrible things -trump- is doing, vis-a-vis If Not The One Then The Other. TSV doesn't want there to be a Bernie or a similarly unqualified figure, because such a figure would cast aside the more stalwart candidates, and fail in overall leadership, and make this country a Scandinavian irrelevance that doesn't stand for anything. TSV doesn't believe it's enough to give the people what they want in being an antitrump technocrat in 2028. You need to be the kind of inspirational type TSV saw in Biden, and that's something TSV doesn't believe that the political elites or the activists would ever understand about him as a voter. Otherwise, TSV doesn't think we'll see the likes of Biden again, and instead the country will have to settle for a series of embarrassing walking mediocrities for what TSV sees as the rest of this country's future. Very sorry, Mr. Booker, but nice try anyway.

As a followup to our base share on SignalGate, Tropical Soulvangelical wants to make a correction. He incorrectly indicated that the reference to Martin O'Malley was in the petition he signed. Instead, it was in a subsequent email he saw regarding the site wanting to make a billboard ad. That's where they talked about Martin O'Malley. But one thing he has been kind of wanting to say for nearly five and a half months now, since Wednesday November 6, was that he's been led to believe that Insurgent and those three outlets he's suspicious of actually -wanted- -trump- to win. He's brought back to that one political cartoon just after George W. Bush won reelection where two regular reporters and an anti-Bush cartoonist high-five each other chanting "Four more years!" The cartoonist had in his hand toward the fourth wall that "chimpy" caricature of Bush we're all familiar with right now, even in the throes of SignalGate. Again since Tuesday, TSV's not seeing any doomsday coverage regarding Social Security or Funny Named Care or the post office. It's all been SignalGate, all week long. But now that we're coming up on the weekend, he's thinking that it'll be half a newscycle into the scandal come Monday, so he's pretty sure they'll go back to their usual nailbiting mostly unconfirmed or unsupported by at least regular reports that show up for TSV both on newsradio and on that 2025 list of events that's pretty much his "newspaper." So why would they want -trump- to win? TSV figures it goes back to those outlets' apparent view with George Carlin about News As Entertainment, which TSV figures must be a concept almost totally alien in smaller and more rural countries where peoples' most main outlet of information is some sort of newsradio. He finds it hard to imagine people in those places getting "glued" to the radio and doomscrolling their radios. Doomscrolling and News As Entertainment TSV takes as western indulgences, or read, western -excess-. TSV wants the people from smaller countries to just frown at us in the sinful west and think, come on guys! But if Harris won, TSV figures she'd be smart and run a smart kind of no-drama-bama type administration which would just be totally dull and ho-hum, because you'd have competent people running the scene who generally know what they're doing. That whole scandalization on Lloyd Austin not telling people he went in for surgery now seems like a forgivable oversight compared to the vagaries of SignalGate. It's those total idiots that provide wall-to-wall political entertainment, and the outlets -are- running a business, so the more eyes are glued to stupid politicians, the more ad revenue the outlets bring in. This is all again part of things TSV tries to remind himself every day that he doesn't think anyone else is really aware of unless they just put down their phones and/or turn the TV off and think, you know what? We -are- a bunch of self-obsessed excessive types, and we need to get a grip. Nobody predicted that SignalGate would happen. Harris never made such a warning on the campaign trail, and maybe she should have. TSV for his part would never specifically predicted SignalGate, but he figured some kind of "scandal" or something was bound to happen. Again he's seeing not so much Lex Luthor as much as Dick Dastardly.