-Now- he remembers! It's -trump- freeing the 1/6 people. We said an hour ago how Tropical Soulvangelical forgot what that "second" thing was he wanted to talk about, but maybe having it as a separate base share here made sense anyway. TSV observes that we knew all along that -trump- was going to free the 1/6 people, ever since Biden pardoned Hunter Biden. Biden knew that if he didn't pardon Hunter, along with the 1/6 Committee members, he wouldn't have a chance in full expectation of -trump- freeing the 1/6 people. Firstly, TSV wants to assure the public that if they're worried that the 1/6 people won't be held to account, don't worry, it's going to happen. A number of the 1/6 people will no doubt cause -other- crimes, not necessarily politically connected, and the prosecutors in those cases will make the case for maximum punishment in the sentencing phase by citing their participation in 1/6, and how committing crimes after 1/6 is an act of bad faith on their having been pardoned, because almost certainly those second crimes will end in conviction. But also as far as TSV's concerned, the legal commentators knew this pardon was coming, so he thinks that them waiting for it and -then- using the Schumerism of This Is Bad in talking about it on TV is kind of disengenuous. TSV's wondering if they really think -trump- cares what they have to say? Of course not, because Lions Don't Lose Sleep Over The Opinions Of Sheep. That, in turn, TSV observes, casts doubt on whether we really are in a dictatorship, partly because -trump- forgot to declare one as per an apparent campaign promise, and also because he's having to weather criticism and legal challenges unimaginable in Luveshenko's Belarus in light of a seventh term there. TSV sees -trump- as losing steam in not hearing -trump- attacking the criticism and legal challenges online. In fact, there was that one reporter who asked -trump- a pointed question to his face about freeing a 1/6 person who attacked a police officer, and -trump's- only response is, I'll look into it. In the past, TSV has seen -trump- saying, you know what you're problem is? You're a wise guy! People like you ought to have what's coming to you! That's what -trump- once said to George Stephanopoulos right to his face, but all we're hearing now is, I'll look into it. TSV's not sure what this changing tendency means or even if it means anything, but one thing he wants someone on Insurgent to talk about, including Lawrence O' Donnell, is the absurdity of the so-called Department Of Efficiency. He wants people to point out, so he himself doesn't have to, that this Department is not a real department. He's seeing it as merely a PR Office whereby Elon Musk announces his utopian visions like executives tend to do whom TSV sees as having too much time on their hands. It's not a Department that was approved by Congress, signed into law by a President, and funded on a regular basis each year. The Department of Defense, and the Department of Homeland Security, by contrast, are -real departments- as per definition. The Department Of Efficiency is no more a department than TSV's own Department Of Rice Pudding. Why doesn't Insurgent talk about it instead of letting Schumer bully them into making the Daily BABVA on things? Speaking of Insurgent, TSV wonders where we're at on Elon Musk buying Insurgent. Or is that another Get Rid Of The Penny type proposal that's likely not going to happen in reality?

So here's some more -trump- stuff Tropical Soulvangelical wants to expound on, though right now as of me the Happy Bachelor writing this, he mostly remembers the bit about the Inspectors General and not that second thing he wanted to talk about. So of course, generally speaking, it's a -bad- thing to have fired the IGs, but for some reason TSV's observed that only Lawrence O'Donnell and just about no-one else has pointed out that the firing was done illegally, and hence the IGs seem to TSV to have legal grounds to file proper lawsuits. The law calls for a firing of an IG to take place at least 30 days after announcement of such, which in turn has to contain actual substantive reasons for the firing. Both TSV and LOD failed to see either occur. But TSV has observed the fired IGs using BABVA on TV in response instead of filing a lawsuit, because he hasn't heard whether they filed lawsuits. Of course filing a lawsuit does kind of behoove the plaintiff to watch what they say in public just in case it can be held against them, and it's certainly possible that BABVA can be used against them, he's thinking. But even worse for the IGs TSV has observed is that the firings put the IGs themselves under an uncomfortable microscope. He's thinking that they could be taken to task for not adequately reined in -trump- during -trump's- first term, particularly those first two years before Congress switched party control, and hence the spotlight was mostly then taken off the IGs until recently. The reason why I the Bachelor believe this to be the case is solely because TSV doesn't remember the IGs weighing in on matters after 2018 when Congress was doing so, or at least there wasn't coverage. But the most serious unanswered question of all is, why didn't the IGs protest the undemocratically ousting of Biden in 7/24 by his own party? The expected answer is, not my jurisdiction, which TSV finds unfathomable because the IGs are just as American as -he- is, so how can they not have an opinion about it and not talk about it? Do they really think that condemning the overthrow of Biden is necessarily a serious overstep of their job descriptions? TSV's starting to have the same questions regarding Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger and TLP. Looking back, he's heard roaring silence from them regarding what happened to Biden in 7/24, and he also finds that inexplicable. Sure the undemocracy of -trump- is terrible, but so is the undemocracy of Schumer and Schiff in overthrowing Biden. You can't condemn one form of undemocracy, TSV thinks, and let another just slide like the way they seemed to have. Also, even though he sees AOC as being the one who will challenge Schumer in 2028 for the Senate, he still sees AOC as having the progressive stains of Ed Snowden and accusations of antisemitism during the crisis in Gaza. There being a ceaseful that has apparently held, or at least TSV hasn't heard otherwise on audio, hasn't made those kinds of unanswered questions go away. But while we're talking about audio, TSV -vaguely- remembers the BBC talk about the IG situation on Saturday morning, because the firings took place Friday evening. But he doesn't remember anyone else talking about it till -Monday- evening, so he's wondering why most outlets sat on it for a full 3 days, an entire weekend. Maybe they were mostly finding out who's going to be in the Superbowl. Maybe the Superbowl matchup was more important for pretty much everybody than the IG issue. But, dang, what was that second thing TSV wanted to talk about where he saw more holes than swiss cheese in people using BABVA in talking about it? Help him out here, people.

So here comes Inauguration Day 2. Looks as though Tropical Soulvangelical is going to be referring to -trump's- entire second term as One Big Inauguration, particularly if it turns out, as TSV suspects, there's very little -trump's- necessarily going to get done. TSV's already made the case as to why the Gulf Of Mexico will still be called the Gulf Of Mexico, but he wants to add to that. -If- the mapmakers are made to rename the Gulf Of Mexico, TSV believes that the phrase Gulf Of Mexico is going to become the name of the next hot indie band. TSV further contends that if -trump- still wants to be a dictator, he'll try to get Pam Bondi to criminally challenge said band in an attempt to erase the phrase Gulf Of Mexico from everybody's mental consciousness. Not even Bashar Al-Assad was ever able to do that to his people, nor Putin to his, so that ain't gonna happen here, TSV's hedging. But he wants to follow up on this two-sexes thing. He heard strains coming from FM Newsradio about how many of -trump's- executive orders will end being challenged in court, and hence not being executed immediately, to the apparent contradiction of the fatalists who seem to believe that -trump's- orders can't be questioned just because -trump- wants to be a dictator. The two-sex order is apparently being challenged accordingly on the basis of protection for trans people and non binary people, but what's more important for TSV is how the two-sex order is what -trump- intends to be a you-must-think-what-I-tell-you-to order which of course is the kind of thing that ought to laughed at. Same with the Gulf Of Mexico. -trump- -could- rename Denali back to Mt. McKinley because TSV's (mis)understanding of the naming of sites specifically within the U.S., particularly within the purview of the park service, is that the park service under the auspices of the Interior, now overseen by whom TSV understands is an anti-environmental ex-oil magnate, can make the name change easily enough. But it's still reverse- cancel culture against those living around the mountain that still will refer to it as Denali and will produce official signs to the same effect. Is -trump- going to get Pam Bondi to go after those people as well? All this is not even 1% of what TSV's seeing for the One Big Inauguration, so don't blame us. We voted Pro-Biden, and we are the 36%.

Can you guess what -trump- -didn't- say in his inaugural address? Do you know what four words you didn't hear? Tropical Soulvanglical was reading the cliff notes on Wikipedia, and never did they say that he ever said, "I'm a dictator now." TSV believes Schumer placed pressure on Kamala Harris to try to tell people that -trump- swore to become a dictator on Day One. It looks as though MLK day was Day One for -trump- despite it being a holiday, so he already broke his campaign promise of declaring dictatorship. Supposedly that's why roughly 50.3 percent of the electorate voted for him, maybe they -did- want a dictatorship, but the fact that he didn't declare dictatorship in so many words on Day One TSV thinks maybe that should have angered the -trump- hatters who came out in full force for the express purpose of hearing -trump- saying, "I'm a dictator now." In any case, TSV tells the fatalists, put -that- in your pipe and smoke it! In response and even -before- Day One took place, the fatalists tried to say, well, he -has- declared dictatorship but not in so many words, but that's really stretching it, and TSV sees it as moving the goal posts on the definition of declaration of dictatorship. But things like declaring there are only two sexes or let's rename the Gulf Of Mexico the Gulf Of America TSV finds really absurd for a number of reasons. For one thing you can't declare in an executive order that two plus two equals five just because -I- said so. Also, renaming a body of water isn't something you can just use an executive order on, because you need to go to whoever it is who's charged with what to name something. He seems to think that just because Google was there at the Inauguruation that Sergey Brin will somehow lean on the engineers at Google Maps to rename the Gulf Of Mexico because -trump- told him to. Google doesn't get to rename geographic features on the map. TSV's sure that OpenStreetMaps will likely forever and forever refer to that body of water as the Gulf Of Mexico no matter what -trump- says, though it might prompt an edit war on OSM, which TSV believes the Gulf Of Mexico will win. But he still doesn't think absurd orders like these by themselves amount to a dictatorship no matter what the fatalists say. What -does- amount to a dictatorship is TSV's observance of how Schumer and Schiff overrode the will of primary voters to pressure Biden out of the race in July24, and how we can never get that democracy back until Schumer and Schiff are driven out of office as political price to pay, and the schumerdonkeys are made to repent for what they did and allowing Schumer's home office to pressure them into something they should never have done. This TSV still intends to make happen via the primaries of 2026, and primarying out as many schumerdonkeys as possible in the House at least. It's with future elections that TSV will himself restore our democracy.

Tropical Soulvanglical got around to seeing the interview between Joe Biden and Lawrence O'Donnell, and his takeaways go beyond the fatalists' emphasis on Biden's concerns about big tech. Among other things, one thing TSV heard Biden say was Biden saying he regretted being heavier on the policy and lighter on the politics. But the implication TSV hears in that is that at age 82, Biden may be feeling like life's too short to be as concerned about earthly politics as about doing those things we're all supposed to be doing for one another, hence the policies bit. Sure, maybe if there was a little more emphasis on the politics for Biden, you won't have centrist Donkeys betraying their own democratic values to push Biden out of the race. Very honestly, TSV in regarding the interview will not forget July24 or the importance of there being a political price for the centrist Donkeys to place cynicism over faith. Biden, on the other hand, TSV sees as about faith and principle, and this gets to TSV's other takeaway. He believes that all those who -still- "hate" Biden just because they hate Biden, not the hardcore trumpists who will hate Biden anyway, but the young anarchists who seem to believe there's nothing to believe in should tune in without pride or prejudice to the interview, because TSV thinks they may understand why Biden had to do what he did, and maybe get more mature appreciation. Values such as faith and principle as per the two men TSV saw on his open-source lounge laptop screen he thinks are more the exception to the rule in terms of how many people TSV sees -really- holding and following in 2025. TSV is even more concerned about that than a tech oligarchy or the centrist Donkeys not being held accountable, including also -trump- being held accountable, because it's lack of faith and principle he sees as leading to things such as oligarchy and cynicism and personal corruption. Unfortunately TSV isn't sure that it's not too late for Gens Y and Z to really understand what that means, so he's looking to Gen Alpha, and if necessary, Gens Beta and Gamma, to really exemplify those values as we march forward.

Biden did his farewell address which Tropical Soulvanglical saw as significantly covered on Insurgent, including a 48 minute interview with Lawrence O'Donnell which TSV wants to see more of in detail. Biden talked about the dangers of an emerging oligarchy, but TSV has observed that the oligarchy had already existed between 10 and 20 years in tech with full blessing from the 2000s progressive movement many of whom TSV saw going to the -trumpists-. The -real- oligarchy TSV thinks the country should be vigilant of is, of course, the oligarchy of the -trump lite- Schumercrats in having overthrown Biden as a sitting President and against the will of primary voters. Never Forget July24. TSV sees the -trumpists- as in fact a little easier to deal with than the Schumercrats, because the -trumpists- are more visible and out there than ever before. TSV figures it's only a matter of time before the Schumercrats will reach the same stage, and it wouldn't surprise him that a number of -them- would radicalize in the same way he sees Big Tech and Ed Snowden on the -trumpist- side. So for every -trumpism- that takes place and gets solved this coming Monday and after, TSV seeks to pair each one with a Schumerism for full perspective accordingly. He saw Insurgent go craven over oh no -trump- says he'll start doing X on day one and oh no that must mean starting Monday (!) despite the fact that Monday is also a national holiday so TSV expects a lot of the militants to want to take that day off to sleep in and watch Netflix all day. TSV wants to make a donation to a charity before he talks about the fires in LA, because he saw how Elon Musk politically and mean spiritedly attacked the fires in LA in such a way that TSV's convinced that the world's richest man did not even donate even one penny to any charity trying to help people there. But TSV will say this. That bit on Kimmel where someone gets caught doing an AI fake of the Hollywood sign itself going on fire TSV takes to mean that that steals the thunder beforehand of a cynical visual news person wanting to be the first one to take a picture of that for real, and who has gained likely unwarranted permission to go into dangerous areas accordingly in the opposite direction of the evacuations. He does peruse Insurgent's video titles at least, and 90 percent of them he finds logical holes in enough for it not to be worth his while, those kinds of yeah-but moments. He will always love his country, but he still makes the point of being critically thinking about what others claim outside of those basic headlines he hears each morning on newsradio, and knows when it's just someone's opinion, and a craven or conventional or outright absurd one at that. TSV wants to go after the word "woke" next when he gets a chance, because he saw that with the fires of LA.

It's 1/7, the day after the anniversary of 1/6. As such, Tropical Soulvangelical wants to remind people that 1/6 didn't end on 1/6. It ended in July 24, so now that it's 1/7, TSV sees it appropriate enough to correct the record on things. He saw Insurgent's headlines talking about how the elephantines have a selective amnesia regarding 1/6. Sure that's true, but TSV sees the flip side of donkeys having a selective amnesia regarding July 24, and how we've pretty much ensured a dictatorship by -somebody- by undemocratically defying the will of primary voters in pressuring Biden to exit the race in that time. For some reason, TSV sees conventional culture as having an irretrievably odd definition of democracy, in that they seem to believe that primary elections don't count as elections. Essentially democracy is -only- something that you do every four years in November with respect to choosing a President, and apparently not inherent in any other elections, such as school board elections TSV's expecting to come up for his state and town about May or so, or for that matter housing board elections like the one TSV saw posted in the billboard at the Bachelor Boulevard North bus stop. Remember people saying things last year like, if the wrong person wins, there will be no more elections? Apparently, they seem to believe that housing board and school board elections don't count as elections, and yet TSV's expecting both this year, so TSV asks, how can you say you're a democracy in the first place if you're trying to "renegotiate" the very definition of democracy? There's any number of countries that don't have elections of any kind, so TSV figures what they wouldn't do to even have housing board elections, and here we are in the free world taking housing board elections for granted. So TSV admonishes the donkeys, particularly the schumerdonkeys that took the side of Schumer and Schiff and hence have no gumption about overthrowing Biden, and reminds them not to limit discussions about democracy to their own selective spin as they once again use 1/6 as a sociological football. 1/7, and TSV hasn't heard a peep out of them regarding the subject of democracy, only otherwise legitimate complaints about congestive pricing.