Tropical Soulvanglical isn't accepting any kind of rhetoric claiming he's just Monday Morning Quarterbacking. On the contrary, he's telling it like it is. For example, it's only in the modern age that elections have to be some kind of spectator sport, and TSV distinctly remembers a country that actually went out of its way not to make its elections into spectator sports. That was before most sports were invented, and elections were actually gentleman's agreement type exercises. What TSV remembers, however rightly or wrongly, is that the concept of "running mates" wasn't a thing. Whenever two people ran for President, the person who lost was presumed to become the winner's Vice President, so that way it's a balanced ticket perceived to be as fair as possible to the people. Whether that worked in practice is another matter entirely, but suffice it to say it was a time when we tried our darndest to make it work. TSV's estimation as to when that changed was about the time of Lincoln, and that it was just before or just after that that we introduced the concept of "running mates." Fast forward several decades and we started inventing sports. Baseball, then basketball, then football. Some time after that, maybe the 60s TSV's wondering, is when we referred to elections as "horse races." The notion that elections are any kind of sport or race TSV's wondering must have been totally alien to the country's founders. It was over five years ago TSV remembers when Ari Melber asked Elizabeth Warren if she had to pick -any- running mate from the past or present, she named Teddy Roosevelt, a Republican, and that pretty much stunned Melber. Maybe now that TSV sees people like Schumer and company to be increasingly toxic as time goes on for being so anti-Biden as they still are, he doesn't see it as a "circular firing squad" like he criticized the phrasing thereof in a past base share, but more of an effort to put country over party. Hence, the more anti-Biden the rest of the country gets, the more pro-Biden TSV gets. He's digging his heels in, and he doesn't think the rest of the country gets it or appreciates what was done or trying to be done for them, particularly the young people who want to hate him (both TSV and Biden) over Israel. TSV wants to ask the country in two years time whether they still regard Biden as the bogeyman, and he thinks he's going to get an opposite answer from what he's getting now in the form of this year's election results. There could very well have been an opposite answer even in -this- election in the form of what TSV calls the Closet Kamalas. These are people TSV observes as going out of their way to go -trumptrumptrump- with all the hats and merch and truck flags, and then they get in that voting booth, and when they think no-one's looking from outside the booth curtain, they push "Kamala." When you have a district that goes 80% for -trump- and -everyone- has -trump- signs on their lawn in that district, about 20% qualifies as Closet Kamalas. So TSV warns -trumpshanders- not to party so hard right now, because TSV's Biden his time.

Some more criticisms and stalwart determination and possible to-dos coming -from- Tropical Soulvangelical -for- Tropical Soulvangelical. So first of all, why the radio silence for the past two weeks or so? At least when he's not going after Mark Cuban and George Clooney. Well, as fatalistic as most of the activists were, TSV wanted to give them the benefit of the doubt just in case they were right and he was wrong. In any case, they still had important work to do. But that phase of things being over, he sees that they failed -precisely because- of their fatalism, which is TSV's criticism here. There were also too many texts being sent, and TSV thanks his lucky stars that he still has minutes on his flip, because he doesn't go with the bourgesie-ish smartphone ideal from a big provider offering "unlimited." TSV can go into detail about phone differences being cultural differences, maybe in a yet -another- base share, but let's go after fatalism. TSV talked about in the last base share about the folly of fatalism, but he wants to drive home the point that fatalism only results in a self-fulfilling prophecy. It's happened in 2004 and it happened 20 years later, so by that standard alone nothing has changed. That thing about "don't regret not doing more" TSV sees as causing people to end up doing less because guilt is such a poor motivator to get people to do anything. On those rare occasions people are guilted into "doing more" it's only with going through the motions. Of those 90,000 volunteers Kamala had on her staff, TSV can't point to even one who only acted out of guilt. As far as he can see, they all believed in what they did and nobody had to tell them to do things. But the biggest driver of fatalism in our overly westernized culture were the texts. Those texts that said "say goodbye to Kamala emergency in Pennsylvania" were just counterproductive. TSV's sick and tired of hearing style-over-substance type phrases such as "circular firing squad" or "snatching defeat from the jaws of victory," but look at that last one. It's the texts and their fatalism and the more fatalistic activism that snatched fatalistic defeat from the jaws of sincerely stalwart victory, not those actors borne of stalwart determination and pragmatism. As far as a circular firing squad is concerned, TSV saw the first shots in that squad coming from Bob DeNiro standing outside the -trumptrial- back in the spring, and more from the antibidens in that time. Those TSV observed were -unprovoked-. Nobody made Bob DeNiro kill the -trumptrial- in its last 48 hours when they already had it in the bag, and the reasons why TSV saw DeNiro doing so were westernized-cultural. We're just too westernized to make things work in as simple a manner as possible. That's why you need to embrace Tropical Soul as your ultimate best destiny. Those who stood by Biden and still do so now like TSV were pushing back against the fatalists and antibidens because it was doing so that was for democracy, and that's hardly a "circular firing squad." Fatalism and antibiden TSV observes this year as inviting undemocracy. The other thing you need to do besides following the righteous path of tropical soul is -not invite undemocracy-. TSV's also not using Rachel Maddow's todo list, because he already has his own, tentatively. It includes protecting affordable care, reproductive choice, alliances around the world and free and fair elections in defiance of the progressive prediction of no-more-elections, and doing all of this in the most stalwart pragmatic manner possible conserving Tropical Soul and the righteous path therein.

Here comes Tropical Soulvangelical getting me the Happy Bachelor to split our base share into two separate shares with the election. Here's the first one with Allan Lichtman's Keys To The White House, and seeing how Mr. Lichtman does his YouTube live update on Thursdays, TSV's hoping he isn't trashing his own Keys and their predictability, because TSV believes that the Keys being worked properly actually -did- predict a -trump- win, but that there was wrong information and assumptions being used. TSV believes that the two keys that gave -trump- a win was social unrest and challenger charisma, and here's how. With social unrest, TSV begs with differ with Mr. Lichtman in that the anti-Israel protests weren't limited to just a few college campuses as per TSV's understanding of those protests. In fact, there's nary a college TSV knows about that -didn't- have protests, and that the protest groups did everything they could to carry their anti-Israel hatred of Biden onto Harris. Again it's about young people and Biden, whereby TSV thinks young people are mistaken about how terrible Biden is as a public figure. Mr. Lichtman didn't believe that the protests compared with the antiwar protests of the 60s, but TSV observes that they didn't have Facebook or Twitter, etc., back in the 60s, so the protests were more out and obvious then. The other key was about challenger charisma, which Mr. Lichtman also dismisses on -trump- but TSV thinks -trump- was still charimatic enough with those young swing voters that TSV believes put -trump- over the finish line, because, again, it's this thing with If Not One Then The Other that TSV thinks young voters were thinking about Biden and generalizing to Harris. They truly seemed to believe that they should go with -trump- because they hate Biden and generalizing to Harris over Israel and perceptions of the economy. The economic bit with short-term TSV wonders could be a third key in -trump's- column, because contrary to what TSV heard Mr. Lichtman say, you probably do have to factor in economic perceptions. TSV does agree with Mr. Lichtman that most of these perceptions are highly incorrect and anti-Biden biased, but TSV also believes they need to be factored in with the Keys and they weren't. More about the election in our other base share.

Tropical Soulvangelical already talked about the Keys To The White House in the other base share, but he now wants to let out on how terrible Presidential elections really are, even when his candidate wins, and how he doesn't believe they were ever truly democratic, even when his candidate wins, and it's actually not about the Electoral College. It's partly about the involvement of self important consultants such as George Clooney and Mark Cuban and Bob DeNiro whom TSV doesn't believe have any business putting their thumb on the scale in terms of them telling people what to do in activist matters, particularly with respect to that hostility towards Biden that TSV sticks it to them with, and will do so in years and decades to come. The other problem is with election year anxiety and how TSV believes that interferes with people making sound activist decisions based on sincere stalwart defiance rather than as desperate and futile attempts at things as is what TSV has observed since 2004 at least as progressive traits. He's never seen any actual -stalwart- progressive efforts in election matters, because otherwise we would be hoisting Kamala Harris on our proverbial shoulders with victory chants to boot. It confirmed TSV's donkeyish conservatism for him, and how you need to conserve stalwart defiance over letting them see you sweat, not to mention conserving National Principle that TSV also observes as progressive forces not making a priority. After all, the situation with -trump- TSV parks at the feet of the progressives from Ed Snowden onwards when they still inexplicably back in 2013 emphasized second- and third- and fourth- guessing one's national confidence just because Ed Snowden said so. Ed Snowden was the Clooney/DeNiro of his time, and TSV sees progressives as not taking Putin as seriously then as TSV did. They actually believed that Putin's Russia was part of New Europe that needed to be placed above Old Europe which they faulted as colluding with Obama on surveillance issues. In that way they were for Putin before they were against him just two and a half years ago, which TSV sees as too little too late. But TSV wants to contact the Harris Team about retaining the Great Coalition that involves those who wish to conserve things of value from across the political spectrum, because he sees the election as a mere snapshot rather than as a setting in stone of how things "have" to be for the next four years, supposedly unchangingly, and that's another cultural assumption TSV sees as erroneous with elections. We had elections in the UK, Mexico, the Philippines, Mozambique among other countries, and he's never heard of election anxiety at the same level as in the U.S., not even in Mozambique. TSV has never heard of those countries' Cloonies/DeNiros/Cubans as ever putting their thumbs on the scale like they do here. When Kier Starmer rose to prominence in the UK, TSV never heard of Brits biting their nails over whether Rishi Sunak would be overcome, or whether a British DeNiro type would ruin it for the Labour Party like ours did outside of the -trump- courthouse back in the spring. So this base share along with the Keys share is TSV outlining everything that's wrong with American Democracy, how the country's Founders should have and never prevented such and issues such as the electoral college tend to distract from real democratic problems. The electoral college TSV thinks deserves its own base share, but suffice it to say that if you -could- solve the electoral college problem, TSV doesn't see it as -truly- doing anything signficant enough to solve the other problems with, which are cultural. Stay tuned as TSV continues to dress down the country for its democratic problems for the rest of the year.

Tropical Soulvangelical's starting to get an idea of whom the culture of Tropical Soul's adversaries will be and what they'll try to do in the post-Trump era, possibly starting the first Wednesday after next month. He already has it out for Schumer and Schiff, and Bob DeNiro and George Clooney. He's adding Mark Cuban to that list, even though he knows almost nothing about him. He does know that Cuban's a Bidenhater like Clooney/Schumer/Schiff, and wants to be a powerbroker like Clooney. Other than that, he hears that Cuban's a sports executive of some sort, possibly owning the San Antonio Spurs, but for some reason has chosen to involve himself in politics and for reasons TSV suspects as being -anything else other than- public service. He hasn't ruled out Mark Cuban interviewing on/for Allan Lichtman's channel for some reason or another, but he doesn't see Mr. Lichtman wanting involvement with powerbrokers after clarifying that his Keys To The White House are about governing and not campaigning. But when he saw Mark Cuban as early as May of 2021 proclaim that Biden Is A Bad President, he already knew he was seeing Ed Snowden 2.0. He also sees the powerbrokers as dominating the agenda for Insurgent, which as of that Wednesday or so, might as well call itself Establishment, because the -real- Insurgency with TSV is him being right now the collective Biden Bros, or the Joe Bros, whichever phrase he arbitrarily thinks comes out the catchiest. This is pretty much as much as he knows right now, and as you can tell he's hardly -ever- thinking about -trump- so that's why he's not "outraged" at/about -trump- as much as the Bidenhater Powerbrokers who he sees as the collective -newtrump-. Don't get him wrong, -trump- is still the world's most immoral human being that's ever lived, but -trump- also makes a good stalking horse for those whose motives are just as questionable at best. He does not believe -for a second- that the posttrump era coming up is always going to be like the end of Return Of The Jedi with a montage of the different virtual worlds awash in celebration and pulling down -trump- statues. That bit TSV suspects is short-lived, and then the powerbrokers will start -trumping-, possibly by throwing the most faithful elements of the coalition under the bus. TSV strongly advises Liz Cheney and George Conway, for example, to watch their backs while also keeping an eye on -trump-. So it's going to be like Jedi for about 36 hours before it turns into the Jedi Purge of Revenge Of The Sith. This is what he's come to believe that powerbroking is ultimately about, and he stands ready to throw the powerbrokers under the bus even sooner than the powerbrokers stand ready to throw the coalition under the bus.

So here's Tropical Soulvangelical's regular check-in where the "Doomsday Election" is concerned. You might have rightly guessed that TSV's recently tuned into Allan Lichtman's youtube channel and a couple of interviews again, but he also wants to see what the "business bettors" on the election say too. Even when the Centrist Donkeys were in the process of kicking Biden out of the election, Insurgent itself at least showed that Biden was getting a 53% business bettor rate to -trump's- 47%. So TSV imagines that Kamala's probably getting even better, though TSV doesn't care to try to guesstimate accordingly. But he still sees the Insurgent of October 2024 essentially pulling their hair out and biting their nails, and he thinks this is for a number of reasons. Understandably you don't want people to say, oh well -I- don't need to donate or volunteer because Allan Lichtman says Harris is going to win anyway, and then take on an illusion of invulnerability. Not taking things for granted TSV sees as reasonably healthful. Where he sees Insurgent going, and even late show comics, is -not- particularly healthful. Both Insurgent and the comics he sees as relying solely on polls, even though he's also seeing the same polls come under criticism for undercounting or overcounting key groups, whichever those may be. He sees both of them as being in the same exact place TSV was before he started periodically doing Lichtman videos and election stress videos, and then being -very selective- where Insurgent is concerned. He's going to need to do that for the comics as well, so in the meantime he's coping with everyone else disregarding Lichtman's keys to the White House and the business bettors, both of which have a better track record than the polls, in favor of said unreliable polls, by doing non-election- and mostly non-political- videos like mysteries regarding disappearing people or weird space signals, or facts about science and history, as well as scifi as he sees them appearing in his lists. At the same time he's doing what he's deciding to do where the election is concerned, and he's deciding not to do more than he's planning lest that become a neurotic exercise like in 2004. Again he's looking back at 2004 as a lesson of what -not- to do. He does think that some late show comics want him to feel guilty about "not doing more, just in case," but he thinks that's really just an uncalled-for guilt trip. TSV thinks back to the many quotes and passages attributed to Ben Franklin, and he thinks that the passages are tailored toward a present day guilt trippy anxiety he doesn't think Ben Franklin ever intended. David McCullough's accounts of 1776 portrayed the -real- pitfall America faced, because the country's founders could have been hanged for what they were doing, so not even 2004 or 2016 TSV thinks even remotely resembles the account of 1776. So here's what he asks of Insurgent. Do you really think 2024 is as bad as 1776, right now in late October? Or is the only way they can answer that question is for them to say, we'll let you know when the election is over.

So here's a continuation of what Tropical Soulvangelical said through this shares base in the last base share. He wanted both me and him to go through that last share because he doesn't always like repeating the same points that he thinks should come across well enough -once.- Since that last share, TSV continues to -only- glance upon Insurgent's video titles and as of this writing they're just as fatalistic as ever, particularly regarding an NBC poll that supposedly show Harris and -trump- "neck and neck," and which was never talked about in the basic headlines TSV heard on newsradio this morning. If TSV bothered to look at those videos, he suspects that Harris may very well be still above -trump- per individual swing states by 2-3 points, and maybe 5-7 and outside the margin of error. Now that he thinks about it, he remembers Insurgent -also- reminding people that national polls don't matter as much as swing polls, and now he sees them engaging in amnesia with respect to this particular national poll, without any kind of substantive clue in their video titles as to why this particular national poll matters more than the rest. Missing is the important point TSV reminds people is that there are a number of early voting states where people already voted, so he doesn't think they're going to show up as for one or another candidate in the polls. TSV then went back to finding more Allan Lichtman videos including him saying he's not changing his prediction for the election, reminding (apparently) Andrew Cuomo's brother about keeping track of the fundamental forces that influence elections, and that's in terms of governance and not campaigning. TSV also took more action, including writing postcards to swing states as encouraged by an older relative, and making donations to a couple of Voter Rights' Groups with legal boots on the ground to challenge the anti-cert practices among others that TSV heard Mr. Lichtman cite as red flags in lieu of a video that Mr. Lichtman himself posted actually just a week ago about the 2000 election. In that video, he reminded his audience about how his predictions for Gore were actually right, but it's the ballot-handling that took place that failed to reflect how people actually voted. That's why TSV wanted to help the VRGs just a little more than the committees, but he still wants to do one more round of donations for the committees as well. In the meantime while he's doing what he thinks is an appropriate amount of civilian duty for himself, he's also watching mystery videos about intruiging but -non-political- topics as a way of avoiding the hysteria as per Insurgent. There very well could be a national poll later in the week from another outlet that would show Harris above -trump- by 5 points or so, and then Insurgent will celebrate. Right now they're nail-biting, and TSV wonders if they should be called NBN, the Nail Biting Network. As per post-election plans TSV believes NBN has, he thinks they're using this hyper-presentism to distract from possibly planning to throw either Harris or the conscientious conservatives, or both, under the bus for any number of reasons. TSV has it out against the AIG's who want Israel to stop being a country, as well as the centrist Donkeys for their betrayal of Biden. TSV's making his own post-trump plans accordingly to keep pursuing Principle as God intended for all human beings.

Tropical Soulvangelical's in the process of reassessing this whole doomsday trope where the election is concerned, as per also the past couple base shares. He's -not- taking back his -own- finding that We're All Doomed in X days and weeks or so, but that's now for emerging reasons he wants to find time to try to explain. Firstly, the only thing you need to know about doomsday in general is the basics laid down in Revelations, that no one will know the exact day or time, and that it'll come like a thief in the night. Secondly is the importance of mental health and how a few hours ago TSV was watching videos about Election Year Anxiety, and right now fewer videos about the election itself. He wishes that the videos he saw were made in the recent cycle, and not 1 to 3 years ago. But among other things they suggest pulling back a bit, and here's where he thinks there are -trump lite- telemarketers in the Donkey's campaigns. He figures that the campaigns will in fact make an -attack- on the mental health messaging and come up with red herring type arguments as to apparently why you -shouldn't- obey your own instincts during this election, which of course are just as wrong on their face as the things -trump- himself is saying. TSV has already cast his early vote, and he's made another donation for Kamala at the same time, and his remaining donations he plans to do are judicious and healthfully few in number in the remaining days, so all those texting him asking for money should really just lay off and get off his case. The ones he particularly says this to are ones that end their texts with "don't regret not doing more." He actually regrets not doing -less- in 2004, which was the last doomsday election, and that's Bush-Kerry, and that's an election whose historical videos he watched -never- mentioned the doomsday trope that was used then. This is evidence of conventional westernized amnesia, and he suspects that all those people telling -him- we're all doomed and about existentialism will -never- go back to that messaging after the election is over, and here's why he suspects that. Now-me-too-male Al Franken during the 2004 cycle TSV remembers saying, if Bush wins this one we'll just be a banana republic. And then Bush -did- win that one, but Al Franken did -not- say, okay now we're a banana republic, and neither did anyone else after that race ever again, and instead Al Franken sighed and said, okay people, keep fighting. TSV believes something similar will happen here, no matter how the election turns out, and it's just as two-faced as you can get. The mental health videos warned about the messaging of fear in campaign ads, and those are very replete TSV has seen this year as well. But among other things TSV wants to do independently of the Donkey's telemarketers using emotional manipulation, he still wants to go after Schumer and Schiff and Stabenow for having thrown Biden under the bus, having the gall to pretend to support him in an apparent "tribute," and then helping send out texts in this cycle like nothing ever happened back in July the way TSV distinctly remembers happening.

Tropical Soulvangelical wants to follow up on what he said about Eric Adams, because it was just within the first two hours or so of Eric Adams getting indicted that TSV said he doesn't think Adams should resign. TSV's revised that point of view to say that he's more open to a resignation of Adams -per se-, partly because he had no idea just how much media coverage Eric Adams getting indicted would get, but TSV -will not- call for a resignation. TSV knows full well that calling for a resignation of Adams is one-and-the-same as throwing in the towel on issues of principle for the city. For example, TSV observes that pretty much the day after Eric Adams got indicted, the city council proposed legalizing jaywalking, which is just nothing short of flabbergasting, and which confirms for TSV the kind of anything-goes politics that the city council really wants to do but they don't yet have a rubber stamp at Gracie Mansion. Other than sending the message that the city council doesn't think either principle or proper behavior matter, TSV knows full well legalizing jaywalking will just lead to all sorts of on-street conflicts at the intersection. TSV's going to get all these people who seem to think that legalized jaywalking means they can climb on the hoods of people's cars at the intersection just because they think they could (they -can't-), or push other people out of the way at the crosswalk, or bully those people who -by principle- proceed as if jaywalking were still illegal and actually look both ways before they cross the street and observe traffic signals accordingly. If someone doing so gets struck by a car because jaywalking is legalized, that person should have ample grounds to sue over jaywalking being legalized. Overall, TSV's observing that the jaywalking example shows there being this legalization fever sweeping the city council, because now you can see what they -really- wanted to do to the city, but they felt like Eric Adams was holding them back, and they're just waiting for the nearest opportunity to get their way regardless of how -all- city residents feel, and not just those who are pro-jaywalking. Oh, and by the way, TSV still believes we're heading for a dictatorship despite no-one talking about it, pretending that talking about economics will automatically -make- people forget that dictatorship is eminent in a month's time.

Tropical Soulvangelical skimmed through the Wikipedia article about Allan Lichtman with great interest, but frankly finds absolutely no reassurance in Mr. Lichtman's prediction of a Harris win. This is because despite that Keys To The White House set of 13 true-or-false questions, TSV finds it just sets up a very fatal overconfidence and wishful thinking situation. He's going to look back to see what Mr. Lichtman said about 2004, Bush-Kerry, because that's the election that this year's election reminds him of, mainly because of the doomsday trope that leads TSV to believe that -trump- may very well win by a landslide -but- TSV doesn't believe that means the automatic end of democracy no matter what -trump- tries to do. In order for that to happen, TSV believes that all democratic activists would need to be jumping off bridges the Wednesday after, and you don't need to be Allan Lichtman to tell you that that's just not realistic. You just need life experience with TSV has -a little more of- than he did 20 years ago. That's partly because if this race is close, -trump- won't have a mandate to kill democracy, and if the race is supposedly more about the economy than about democracy, -trump's- mandate would be about economics rather than democracy. That said, TSV only partially agrees with Hillary Clinton and Michael Cohen that -trump- would at least -try- to do a lot of damage, but TSV looks back to -trump's- attempt to repeal Funny Named Care. Sure it was because of John McCain that that didn't happen, but TSV observes that -trump- never tried to as actively repeal Funny Named Care during the remainder of his term. So begins TSV's skepticism about the doomsday trope though he can never fully rule it out. It's going to concern him that on those Insurgent 'radio' segments he hears about the doomsday trope that there's going to be a whole variety of possibly logical fallacy type arguments, including red herring, that are going to be made about how supposedly doomsday is inevitable if the wrong side of the coin faces up when tossed and landing to the ground. By contrast, TSV would greatly follow any critique Michael Cohen might make of KTTWH in what TSV expects to be Mr. Cohen's case as to why KTTWH cannot possibly predict the election with accuracy this time around, because Mr. Cohen knows -trump- far better than Mr. Lichtman does, and how -trump- himself is not one of the 13 keys. Maybe there needs to be a 14th -trump- key? But one last thing that TSV found great interest in is Mr. Lichtman's strong disagreement with the Centrist Donkeys' decision to pressure Biden out of the race, partly because TSV and Mr. Lichtman appear in agreement that the Centrist Donkeys did in fact -pressure- Biden out of the race. But TSV wants the Democratic Coalition to make plans for a New Resistance because, again, despite Mr. Lichtman's predictions, TSV points to how a close race tends to favor a Not-Donkey candidate and not a Donkey one, and hence TSV sees no realistic path to victory for Harris. He'd like to be wrong that Mr. Lichtman would be right, but he wishes closeness of race, too, were one of the KTTWH's.

Tropical Soulvanglical doesn't think Eric Adams should resign out of being indicted, but TSV feels realistic enough to believe that Mr. Adams should not run for a second term. He's already unpopular with 28% of the vote, and the indictments only serve to counter Mr. Adams's pro-principle arguments, but here's the thing. It's Mr. Adams himself -standing- for principle that TSV sees at stake, not the concept of principle itself. But that hasn't stopped what TSV observes as the highly -unprincipled- extreme Squad as getting political capital out of saying he should resign immediately. They appear to wish to not only win but -dominate- the politics of Gracie Mansion in terms of the culture of personal corruption in the city to the opposing viewpoints of those value voter city residents who believe, like TSV, that National Principle taking the form of Municipal Principle has to be top priority, even above economic interests. TSV doesn't believe -for a second- that a Squad Mayor of New York City would even -consider- reaching out to pro-principle value voters, because from the point of view of a Squad Mayor, if one point of view is false, namely Eric Adams himself, then the other one somehow -must- be true, and that's the apparent point of view that the concept of principle doesn't matter either philosphically or culturally, and are too likely to use the office of Mayor to browbeat the residents accordingly instead of helping solve their problems.

Tropical Soulvangelical's taking a momentary break from what he sees as a generally hopeless election to talk about the racketeering and sex slavery, etc., that Diddy's been accused of. He wants to caution young singles in their 20s and 30s wanting to go on dating adventures in this day and age about which persons and groups they hook up with online, particularly at -adult- dating sites. So it's the accusations against Diddy and what the big guy upstairs personally -convicted- Jeffrey Epstein of doing when the latter killed himself. So in the end, Epstein -did- face accountability far greater than he did on Earth, because it'll last for all eternity for him. So while TSV allows me the Happy Bachelor to still socialize with my Happy Bachelor Girlfriends, he's choosing a more spiritually aware celibacy for himself and has decided not to date, because we live in too corrupt a society for that dating practice not to be tantamount to looking the other way. Dating, he now believes, and since the failures of humanity to really take good hard lessons out of the pandemic, is aiding and abetting immorality at large. He hasn't ruled out finding the right person namely by chance with whom "it just happened," but he knows that's still within the boundaries of right-and-wrong, and dating by contrast is -not- within those boundaries anymore. So his cautioning to young people is to watch out for what he calls those Nubile Nickies on the adult sites promising a willing partner for anyone who goes to a Nubile Nicky event, plying, naturally, Nicky's Nubiles, because once you get there, you see the potential partners as not appearing of-age or whose body language suggests going through the motions because it's all under hidden duress. TSV has next to no confidence that said dating sites would ever effectively police themselves of these Nubile Nicky types, and the accusations that Diddy's accused of essentially point to him being a Nubile Nicky type, particularly him drugging his victims, getting them to have sex and catching it all on camera as a form of blackmail. TSV's pretty sure most adventurous singles in their 20s and 30s are reacting with outright -surprise- that any hip or happening party animal type they may find fun with could -ever- be accused of such heinous acts. TSV, on the other hand, is as far from surprised as anyone can get. What he's heard fits the profile of a Nubile Nicky, a -pimp- of sorts rather, like a hand in glove. Ever since he's seen humanity morally failing in the post-pandemic world, he's always suspected there being numerous Nubile Nicky types out there, so the only thing he -is- surprised about is having one being confirmed for him. TSV never thought he could ever be that spot-on. So he wants adventurous young singles to watch out for their own personal safety and each other's while they're at it, but also to think about how their adventure-seeking is both blinding them to the immoralities of the party organizers promising a good time and looking the other way from the suffering of their victims. Most of all is the attention they give said organizers to make the latter feel like, I Can Do Anything I Want, which is -the- immorality of the 2010s, and which there was that divine punishment to all humankind in the form of the pandemic, and how we cheated ourselves out of an opportunity to come clean, repent and hold ourselves accountable. That's what TSV sees the Diddy case being all about, and -another- suspicion he has is -trump- possibly in raising funds to pay his legal fees and campaign financing hawking tee shirts reading Diddy Did Nothing Wrong.

Tropical Soulvanglical is likely going to be repeating himself here until, and maybe after Election Day, but he's becoming skeptical with respect to this being a so-called Doomsday Election, like the way Bush-Kerry was, except that Bush-Kerry turned out not to be doomsday, mainly because Bush lost the privatize-Social-Security election. And now TSV's hearing people who seem to want his alliance saying something to the effect of, well yes we said past elections were doomsday elections, but this time we mean it. So, TSV wonders, are you saying you -didn't- mean it during Bush-Kerry, and if so, what substantive assurance can you give him that this actually -is- a doomsday election to the point where a -trump- victory means the end of everything? Are we just going to just throw in the towel and wave the white flag? Is everyone who wants Kamala to win and fails to get her to do so just going to cower and let -trump- do stuff because of whatever possible spin that says -trump- got political capital from his possibly upcoming victory? And if not, does that mean that the undecided voters feel like they're seeing through all the talk about a doomsday election and just seeing it as rhetoric? And if so, why isn't TSV allowed to feel the same way? Also, if it's truly a doomsday election, why doesn't TSV see Kamala making that actual pitch to undecided voters rather than -just- focus on economics and immigration where undecided voters are concerned? Is it because of that whole Ben Franklin thing about focusing on someone's self-interest? TSV wonders why anyone should think of what Ben Franklin said there as gospel as if we can't have a discussion about that now. Isn't maintaining a democracy in -everyone's- best interest? If the wrong person wins, will all those undecided voters continue to whistle past the graveyard and deny themselves as living in a dictatorship? So it's either one or two things for TSV. Either this -is- a doomsday election and somehow the undecided voters are just being too pigheaded and stubborn, or the undecided voters are right in believing that it's -not- a doomsday election and TSV's being sold a bill of goods by those who are supposed to be his allies and this is just Bush-Kerry all over again. These are the unanswered questions TSV has, along with whether or not Kamala's doing enough interviews to get analysts to stop claiming that no-one knows who she is, and TSV wants Insurgent to get him satisfactory answers to him on a silver platter rather than -just- talk about how terrible Chris Robinson is, or -trump- or JD Vance or Laura Loomer, or how terrible it is what Springfield Ohio is going through. None of that matters to TSV because if we go into late October with it -still- being 49-49 in all swing states, a Kamala win will almost certainly get challenged at the Supreme Court because Clarence Thomas and Sam Alito are personally corrupt for accepting bribes for favorable opinions. Even though Mark Elias sounding the alarm on the anti-certification movement was effectively his job interview as part of Kamala's election legal team, TSV doesn't see that team as having any chance in hell against a corrupt move-the-goalposts court system. That's why he wants to see the undecideds finally decide in Kamala's favor so he can personally present a slam-dunk case in front of the Supreme Court that they cannot deny or kabuki dance their way out of. Stay tuned.

So here's Tropical Soulvangical's general take on the election thus far. He thinks it's a good thing for Kamala to have done that interview with 6abc taking place in Jonestown PA within -trump- country, because that goes along the lines of doing more interviews so as to introduce yourself to people. He thinks it's kind of peculiar that criticisms of her not doing more interviews come from the -trump- campaign itself, because to him it sounds like a -constructive- criticism. He's more used to a criticism to the effect of Kamala somehow being a 'Marxist,' which burned down at the gate at the debate. He doesn't get another criticism from an immigrant journalist that she should have done more, preferably in the debate, about going after that whole dogs-n-cats thing, because he's not sure Kamala was any more aware than TSV itself of what dogs-n-cats-gate would turn into just in -trump's- first five or so words of, they're eating the dogs and cats, because just on the face of it, it made sense to TSV that Kamala would properly exercise the oh-come-on eyeroll choreography at just those five words. He did see her criticize the effects that that conspiracy theory had on Springfield, Ohio, with respect to all the lockdowns at schools and town halls when she did that journalist group interview. He did see mention on Morning Whoa on Insurgent about there being a prominent Creole restaurant in that town that apparently gets a lot of patronage, and not just from the Haitian immigrant community. He's also wondering whether in or near the town there's a Haitian community radio station, possibly on AM, and which also exemplifies the importance of AM, because he's not sure if such a station would necessarily work on FM. For one thing, FM has -way- too many stations on the dial, and they're all format-changing/singles-oriented/top-40/really cutthroat. Perhaps there are high school and college stations for Springfield on FM, but a Haitian community station TSV thinks would go far deeper than the superficiality of the FM sound would allow for. You really don't need crystal clear sound on discussions on that station, TSV doesn't think, nor crystal clear on the culturally enriching music that gets played on that station, namely from artists that are big in Haiti but maybe not as well known in the US. You're not going to get that from your smartphone. There's a lot about our Caribbean neighbors TSV doesn't think we know a whole lot about, because we tend to only see them from a tourist destination point of view. TSV hopes that prominent presenters from said station would do an interview on Insurgent to talk about both how dogs-n-cats-gate is making them worried, and a little bit more on the history of Haitian immigrants in the town, to turn otherwise negative press into a positive in a sense. TSV's further suggestions would be for Kamala to find other 6abc type local stations both in Michigan and Wisconsin to do interviews on, and he wants to contact 6abc to thank them for the interview and to do a followup with undecideds with whatever more -specific- questions they may have. He doesn't think it does much good for undecideds to say, well I don't know anything about Kamala, when they also don't want to specify what else they want to know, particularly when this is supposed to be a doomsday election, and you shouldn't be fidgeting over the question of sausage or pepperoni when your plane's going down.

OK people so by now you've seen the debate, except kind of for Tropical Soulvangelical who admits he kind of wussed out and just looked at the Cliff Notes summary of the debate footage. That's partly because most outlets that aren't Insurgent or the late show hosts have truly wanted for Kamala to have a "Biden" style fail at the debate, even though his understanding of Kamala told him that she was going to have -trump- for breakfast (though it was 9pm in the evening, a bit late for breakfast), and he saw her do so. Up to this point, said outlets kept on insisting that no-one knows who she is, and that she needs to define herself before -trump- defines her -for- her. The problem is, TSV truly believes said outlets, and he wants to call out three in particular, will -still- insist that nobody knows who she is despite apparently a very big set of ratings for the debate. TSV only saw a thumbnail of one video of swing voters' responses to the debate, but he's pretty sure at least one of those is going to be a plant who will say, well I still don't know anything about her! She didn't say anything about what she wants to do for the country! I have two kids in college about to try to find their first home once they graduate and Kamala hasn't explained how her economic plans will help them! And then said outlets, TSV expects, will mainline the plants without even looking at the possibility of their being plants, and then insist, well, the swing voters made clear that Kamala didn't say anything about what she wants do for the country. We heard from one swing voter who has two kids in college about to try to find their first home once they graduate express frustration over Kamala not explaining to them how her economic plans will help them. TSV firmly expects there to be plants posing as swing voters in the swing voter panels that said outlets will make no attempt to screen, and whom said outlets will quote said plant swing voters verbatim, and that said outlets will attempt to prevent the polls from meaningfully changing after the debate, and then point to the unchanged polls and say, Kamala failed to move the needle, and hence -trump- won the debate. Sure TSV saw a thumbnail/title from CNN saying "devastating" very likely meaning for -trump- but this is just the first six hours. How about the next 18 hours after that? What if even those outlets, TSV wonders, who gave the debate victory to Kamala will try to turn around and give it back to -trump- as above? So here are those three outlets that TSV wants to go after specifically, though he's not going to limit to those three: The New York Times, the Associated Press, National Public Radio. It's going to be these three outlets TSV firmly expects to spin the debate toward -trump- with their very oh so polite intellectualism, even though he claims that people in Illinois are eating dogs and cats, and everyone who tuned in heard him say that, and that was included in TSV's Cliff Notes. TSV would actually be -amazed- if any of the three outlets would even mention the dogs and cats bit. So in post-debate, TSV would be very interested in his part for the election to join with pro-principle petitioning groups to go after the outlets to make sure they don't spin towards margin-of-error polls that they insist don't move the needle. Oh, by the way, since NPR's been waging a personal war against Biden, particularly in their insistence that Russia was not going to invade Ukraine two weeks before Russia did so, TSV refers to them as National Putin Radio. So unless TSV finds those principled groups that'll hold the outlets' feet to the fire, we're all doomed, like he's been saying the past week.