Tropical Soulvangelical believes that Justin Timberlake didn't want the DUI video to come out, because he didn't want to end up on the Schlepstein List. This is TSV's list for those celebrities who probably -should- have been on the Epstein List proper if they knew more people. He's not sure whether other ordinary people would necessarily be "shocked" to hear Timberlake sound very much self-entitled in the video as the cops had him do the walking test. The original DUI TSV hears was charged some time last year or so, and the video came out just a little after a week that Timberlake's ex Britney Spears was charged with or at least fell under suspicion of DUI. TSV regards the release of the Timberlake video as a step in the right direction towards restoring a -true- sense of due process for the rest of us. The video makes TSV wonder whether cops had their sights on Timberlake for some time for good reason, perhaps because of community complaints. Otherwise TSV's sure Timberlake would have been given a free pass on everything he does wrong for as long as the system charges the rest of us with shoplifting and sentences the rest of us twenty years to life for what otherwise should have been a misdemeanor charge. Timberlake ended up having to do community services which TSV was sure Sean Diddy Combs was going to get last year for his remaining charges, though at no time did TSV believe Timberlake was ever in danger of having his license revoked. But TSV was also sure that if it weren't for the Epstein Files, the Timberlake video would never have seen the light of day. This is for TSV reminding celebrities that they are truly no different than the rest of us, and therefore are entitled to -nothing-, and the Spears and Timberlake incidents should be ample proof. Most stores TSV has observed have stopped playing Say Something that Timberlake collaborated with another artist on, at least until maybe the fall when they think everyone's going to forget what happened. TSV's hoping that Timberlake's artistic collaborator on that track will himself come out and at least distance himself from Timberlake's bad behavior. In any case, TSV reminds people that people like Spears, Timberlake, Savannah Guthrie, Epstein, etc... ...no good.

Tropical Soulvangelical is boycotting the Oscars now that the Oscars had already taken place a day ago as of this writing. Those of you tuning in will know of TSV pointing out the personal corruption of celebrities at large due to both the Epstein Files and the "Schlepstein" Files. As for the Schleps, TSV has included both Savannah Guthrie as per our previous base shares and apparently Britney Spears for having engaged in DUI and hence ruining the good will that was sent her way a few years ago over the conservatorship issue. You will likely recall our pointing out how up to 90 percent of celebrities are guilty of -something- whether or not that involves the law, and how that casts doubt on the spirit of due process. While the Guthrie and Spears cases were going on, TSV remembers an incident 30 years ago whereby a limo was pulled over for speeding, though TSV forgets the city offhand, and then Guns'N'Roses frontman Axl Rose was found in the passenger area. The cop was apparently forced to tear up the speeding ticket because Rose threatened to cancel the Guns'N'Roses concert that was to take place in that city the night after. None of us, TSV points out, have that kind of excess power, and he regards Axl Rose as still -personally- owing that city the amount spec'd on the speeding ticket. He also wonders whether once fans found out that this happened that at least 20 percent of them decide they weren't Guns'N'Roses fans anymore and stopped following the band in protest. That might be the reason why TSV doesn't hear about Guns'N'Roses anymore and how Slash has time to make regular appearances as guest guitarist for Kimmel. So as cases like this one and Guthrie and Spears and Epstein continue to pile up over the past years and decades, TSV considers most award shows like the Oscars, as well as the Tonies and Emmies, as a wholesale effort on part of the scourge of celebrity to downplay its inherent darkness and lie to people that they truly are, somehow, like ordinary people themselves. TSV makes an exception for the Grammies with respect to the lesser categories won by various acts TSV wants to know more about as part of his life's education in music. Not so for visual, though he does acknowledge history being made in the cinematography category this year he's heard on newsradio. Even there, it seems obvious to him that the Oscar people go out of their way to find a pinpoint of "significance" to try to sell themselves to the people with, knowing how terrible the celebrity scourge really is and how it's an increasingly difficult effort for them to dust all the instances of excesses and corruption under the rug. Oh and the Oscars being over doesn't influence TSV into not boycotting them. This year's Oscars are already written in the history books, and it's TSV's boycott that gets written into said books as well. Probably every single year going forward.

So where does Tropical Soulvangelical stand on the War In Iran? Like apparently 60 percent of the population, he's against it. He tells people that it's a wag-the-dog exercise in the part of politicians to try to distract from the Epstein files, and that it'll increase gas prices and the threat of terrorist attacks. But one thing he hasn't told people is that the war is an attack on religious devotion. He appreciates Simon Whistler's analysis from a war fronts perspective, but believes there's much that's missing. TSV has yet to see an acknowledgment of the fact that Iranians are pretty much the most religiously devoted people on the face of the earth, particularly those in cities most sympathetic to the office of the Ayatollah. They look at us in our most personally corrupt secularist state and just seethe with divine anger at what we're doing to their country. They've already gotten a fatwa to utterly destroy all Americans everywhere, particularly those who don't follow any true sense of spiritual conviction, no matter the particulars of the persuasion. TSV reminds people they can best believe that it's the devoted Iranians who keep up to date on the Epstein files with the most interest, even more than the gossipy Americans who just want to catch people with their pants down. By contrast, TSV sees devotees as finding out who's engaged in the most sin, and who from that is causing the most destruction in their country, particularly damage to religious institutions and symbols. TSV then sees that among the devotees comes a new generation of international terrorists that may make Al Qaida and Isis look pretty tame in comparison. We're talking about people who don't care about what the U.N. says or even what their own government says about capitulation or what international law says about formal declarations of war. TSV remembers when he used to catch up on the BBC much more than he does now about Al Qaida's internal discussions, and they interviewed Dr. Fahdel. Dr. Fahdel points out that terrorists are not afraid of antiterror laws or security forces. He points out that they're only afraid to go to Hell. TSV doesn't see the new and upcoming generation of terrorists to fare any differently. TSV sees the terrorists seeing, for example, -trump- being in the Epstein files as evidence of the Western cauldron of sin, and how the West has to -burn- to be freed of that sin so that it'll have little to no incentive to be attacking religiously devoted countries and communities around the world, and that's how they look upon the concept of holy vengeance. This is what TSV believes needs to be talked about, and he'll stop at nothing till he finds this narrative.