Here's where it's at with Tropical Soulvangelical and the primary victory of Zohran Mamdani. TSV's glad that Cuomo lost, and that the city folk demonstrated that values matter, and that you can't just get in just on name recognition alone, which is what TSV thinks Cuomo thought he could do. TSV also wants to remind people that as of his watching the Mamdani/Brad Lander interview on Colbert, Mamdani and Lander 'co-endorsed' each other in the race, and this TSV wants to send as admonishment to the so-called Young Socialists Of America. TSV doesn't want the young socialists to overlook Lander and how he helped Mamdani out on this one. Another thing is that from that same interview, TSV gathers that Mamdani genuinely wants to represent and reach out to all New Yorkers, regardless of whether they identify as 'socialist' or not. But once that happens, TSV would find it hard to believe that the young socialists would -not- then turn on Mamdani as another 'centrist' or some element of the central party, just because his reaching out to all New Yorkers they'll interpret as not doing the group's bidding. TSV remembers that one American founder that warned against interested groups, even though TSV sees such groups as almighty more powerful than unassociated individuals like himself -ever- could be, but that in our fervor to 'save' democracy, nobody will ever heed that warning. TSV also sees the young socialists as believing that anyone who votes for Mamdani either in the primary or the general election automatically identifies as a young socialist of sorts, and that no voter should be surprised when they then get a mailing claiming that 'we now see you as one of us.' TSV truly doesn't quite see any meaningful difference between this particular group and the Mangioniists who want to exonerate Mangioni for having killed a health insurance executive, so he doesn't want the young socialists to try to 'leverage' Mamdani. TSV is keeping watch here.

Firstly, Tropical Soulvangelical wants to condemn the political violence taking place in Minneapolis along with the mistreatment of a U.S. Senator a day or two before that. But he thinks this is unaccountability attempting to cloud his comments on both No Kings' Day and -trump's- military parade. So for the most part, as TSV was scanning the Wikipedia article on No Kings' Day, he saw that for the most part the protests were free of co-option or gate-crashing by the politicians (though he saw that Bernie did go to a protest in Stowe, VT, TSV didn't, -yet-, see evidence that Bernie took privilege in insisting on making an impromptu speech, a la Hands Off). But as per -trump's- parade, TSV saw the westernized visual media making nail-biting comments which TSV saw as playing into the hands of -trump- because TSV believes that's -exactly- what -trump- wants. TSV will not buy any excuses on the part of the westernized media that they're only doing their free press work, and TSV would not be surprised if this kind of inexplicable coverage was promulgated by the Central Donkeys as part of their continuing War On Biden in an attempt to spin a fatalistic and hopeless narrative. TSV still believes that both the Central Donkeys and the westernized media -wanted- -trump- to win the election last year in order to, among other things, premeditate a military parade to create a narrative over. If Kamala won or if the Central Donkeys ceased and desisted as per the true wishes of the public and allowed Biden to get a second term (contradicting what TSV now believes were central party distorted polls), TSV's pretty sure that they wouldn't have insisted on tanks being in the streets. But since this was the 250th anniversary of the U.S. Army, they would have obviously wanted to make sure that there was an official observation of some sort, perhaps a smaller parade or an event elsewhere in the Washington area, an air show from a base close to Washington, like maybe Annapolis in Maryland. In any case, TSV wouldn't have bought the apparent intellectualist insistence that Biden or Harris would never have tolerated -any- observation of the anniversary, just that they would not have requested tanks in the streets. Also in contrary to the intellectualist/westernized media/Central Donkey narrative, TSV believes that the public would have given some measure of support to an Army anniversary of some sort in the case of a Kamala or second Biden presidency, but that they would have healthfully made sure such an observation would have a proper place in the culture. So TSV figures you can argue that -trump's- parade kind of took -away- from the importance of the military forces rather than reinforced such importance. In the same way Kimmel and his announcer observed that the Marines stationed in L.A. were looking kind of bored and possibly not disagreeing with the demonstrations protesting crackdowns on immigration (and it's likely that there are Marine members that are immigrants themselves), TSV figures that the tank riders would also look like they're going through the motions thinking to themselves, do we -really- have to do this? Nothing in the fatalist media about how it was pouring rain for most of the day or what TSV's coworker pointed out was Marco Rubio letting out a big yawn while observing the parade, and a very certain downplaying of the fact that the parade was poorly attended by the public. And one last thing TSV wants to point out, most importantly. Today was Father's Day, which TSV also sees as God's Day, and TSV believes that the best way to observe the day after the parade is to help God out the best way we can, including holding ourselves to the concept of principle and some manner of God-given intelligence which TSV saw happening in about half the places he looked the day before.

A little something closer to home for Tropical Soulvangelical. Apparently, someone installed a spy cam in one of the restrooms near where TSV works at Bland Barns, and they turned themselves in after the camera was found. TSV wants to talk about this one as delicately as possible, since child abuse is one of the worst things about living in our world. But these days in post-pandemic America, TSV's more sensitive to how certain topics and content are inherently offensive, and to that end this spy cam incident strikes him as endemic to a larger culture that doesn't make right-and-wrong a priority, nor does it emphasize the importance of long term committed relationships. TSV can't help thinking that you wouldn't have this sort of thing happen if people didn't feel compelled to attack children just to alleviate loneliness. It was just over a week ago that -trump- pardoned a reality TV couple, though what TSV heard at first was that they're a reality TV couple, and didn't readily hear what they went to jail for till afterwards. There was footage on Kimmel where the couple were making inappropriate comments about each other's clothing to the point where any underage child happening across it while a parent was in the room would end up asking, what did they mean by that, with respect to any kind of slang they heard, and the parent would be understandably flustered trying to decide to explain to the child what the participants said, why they said it, and why such content was readily accessible on TV. TSV had requested that we tone down the 'glamour shots' elsewhere on this shares base, so that we're not caught saying one thing and doing another while TSV's trying to get the message out about the importance of living relatively monastically in a morally conscious manner in a world just knee deep in sin. He perceives that only a small percentage, perhaps 1-5%, will try their darndest to follow and stay on the righteous path to the point where the number 144877 increases in importance. According to Scripture, that's the number of people already lost in rapture in the early 2000s, and that was over 20 years ago, but TSV's hoping that maybe we can add on to the 144877 before the world ends, though no one will know the exact day or time. Finally, he's also hoping that now that jaywalking has been legalized in New York City, the same percentage of folk living there will become part of an anti-jaywalking messaging troupe letting people know how jaywalking is actually -even more wrong- now that it's been legalized, and to refuse to jaywalk or give into peer pressure on Jaywalking Danger Awareness Day, though TSV hasn't seen a specific date as to when that's going to be this year.