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.