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

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

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

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

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

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

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