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

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

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

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

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