Tropical Soulvangelical forgot specifically what it was that made him mad enough to get me the Happy Bachelor to do a base share for him. But while he's trying to remember, a few things. Firstly, he strongly doubts that Colbert will take his advice and find a post-CBS gig to continue some sort of show from, and that's because TSV believes Colbert's under pressure from some of his supporters to take a CBS-or-nothing stance. They'll try to tell him that if he looks for a post-gig, that will amount to a "surrender" of sorts. TSV hasn't heard anything specifically, but Colbert did have "pod save america" on after last year's election which TSV found Team Joe's criticisms of to be valid. The criticisms are that, who do they think -they- are to think -they're- the ones to "save" America, being centered in Beverly Hills and not necessarily reflecting the concerns of the working class, particularly the pro-46. So TSV thinks psa's helping put this pressure on. Another issue is about the political trope of the Weak Donkey. TSV still thinks this sentiment is directed at actual registered Donkey voters (despite their everyday protests) and not the central party even though it should be directed at the party. TSV would otherwise not disagree with the trope -if- it were directed at the party, but he thinks it's actually very hypocritical to accuse -someone else- of being weak when -you're- too weak to specify who exactly you're talking about and not name names. TSV wants it to be Schumer and Schiff and the Dirty 30 and George Clooney and Jake Tapper and the other Bidenhaters, and this being only a little over a year after 7/24, TSV has observed that this Weak Donkey sentiment -still hasn't- acknowledged the attacks on Biden, so doubly hypocritical is this trope. A third thing is the "hidden story" trope being floated by some activists that claim that certain stories -they- think Americans should be concerned about are somehow inherently unreported. On the contrary, TSV has found experientially thus far over the past six months or so that 90% of what he believed he needed to know he's found -does- get reported either on newsradio for him first thing in the morning, or in Wikipedia's list of events for 2025. Sure you're never going to cover 100%, but where the missing 10% is concerned, he observes the activists as using the "smoking gun may be a mushroom cloud" argument because they, too, aren't specific enough as to which missing stories people should be looking out for. He believes that if you ask them, you're only going to get what amounts to their -opinion- and not actual reportable facts. He already does that here, because what's to stop TSV from declaring that the opinions he's getting me the Happy Bachelor to put out aren't themselves "hidden stories" that conformist society wants to deny are going on, just because he says so? And now here's a fourth thing. He never got a chance to say so 15 months ago, but over the Memorial Holiday Weekend of 2024, he got harassed on the road by a tailgater trying to get him to speed on a 45 speed limit road and TSV's already doing 50, and the tailgater passed him over a double yellow line with a roaring engine (no it wasn't a muscle car). TSV beeped at him and the tailgater beeped back at him in a kind of how-dare-you stance. TSV now, in August of 2025, condemns the tailgater as inherently personally corrupt and will not fall prey to the past events argument that the conformist society would try to give him. It was probably about politics but TSV never takes -his- politics out on the road. He's just trying to get from point A to point B, so it just doesn't make sense to him regarding people who just take a drive out on the road because they got nothing better to do and wasting all that gas. So accordingly he turns to the tailgater right now and asks him if things are really better off for the tailgater 15 months later than 15 months ago, and hence says to the tailgater, May God Have Mercy On Your Soul. TSV doesn't forget things because it's actually a sin to do so. It amounts to lack of faith in the things you claim to believe in.