Even though it was about a week ago, Tropical Soulvangelical reflects on the Hungarian elections that swept Victor Orban from power. The biggest comparison, obviously, is with -trump-, and TSV's observations that the Clooneydonkeys use Victor Orban's long rein in Hungary as an example of what could happen if people in general don't protest -trump- the Clooneydonkeys' way in particular (rather than their own). They cite the fact that Victor Orban was in power for 16 years, and suggest that the long time in power was itself a reason why Hungary was pretty much a dictatorship. TSV's understanding of Hungary's form of government is that of a parliamentary democracy, so right there there are differences from the US with a Jeffersonian democracy. TSV's not aware of term limits in Hungary, so there likely wasn't anything to stop Victor Orban from running for another term for as long as, apparently, the people wanted him, or rather, wanted his -party- to stay in power. The main reason why he was swept from power, apparently, had to do with economics. TSV watched a Simon Whistler video where Whistler apparently said he thought it was "surprising" that it was economics that made the people vote against Orban. TSV wasn't so surprised, though, because it does run in line with the Ben Franklin concept of self-interest as a motivating factor for people to favor or disfavor certain figures at any given moment in time. So TSV's wondering: how can Hungary be a dictatorship if the dictator was swept from power in peaceful elections, where Orban actually conceded defeat and apparently offered his congratulations to the victorious Peter Magyar party? Russia and North Korea, apparently, this was not. Whistler made another video since then which TSV may or may not end up watching regarding Victor Orban's political machine, implying that just because Orban may be out of power doesn't mean he doesn't have influence through said political machine. Fair enough, but in the US in various places, TSV's observed that there were various political machines that have persisted for over a century, going all the way back to Tammany Hall, with a political cartoon of his thumb pushing down on a major city with the caption saying, "Well, what are you going to do about it?" TSV's wondering why now in 2026 no-one's looking back at that and saying, wow that was very undemocratic! But he can venture a guess, and it's about the Clooneydonkeyist concept of presentism, which is also the reason why they imply that the July24 attacks on Biden should be seen as totally irrelevant now solely because they took place in the past. Do they also think that the dictatorship of Tammany Hall is also irrelevant because that was at least a hundred years ago? Or will they wake up one day, and wise up, and understand that history is immutable to the point where you have to deal with the fact that these events happened, and you can't just "irrelevantize" those events you find politically inconvenient? Also, who do they think -they- are to decide what historical events are and are not relevant in the present age if they themselves -also- don't have dictatorial ambitions like -trump- and Orban? So while the rest of the world viewed Hungary as a newly remounted Iron Curtain solely because of Orban's long rule, TSV wonders why they didn't now admit that they were wrong about Hungary being a dictatorship if Orban's long rule by itself made it so? Instead, TSV sees them changing the subject to the celebration of -trump- losing an ally in Europe, likely to avoid having to explain why they were wrong about Hungary's dictatorship. TSV isn't surprised, and he runs through various texts coming through on his phone -also- avoiding the politically awkward, like when he texted back Robert Reich's group regarding the proposed Paramount merger for his group to sign the petition #SpiritOf46 to condemn the War On Biden. He doesn't blindly follow every petition and fundraiser that comes his way like the Clooneydonkeys apparently want him to, including a text from March of 2025 claiming that -trump- was going to revoke Biden's pardons for Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger, when a year later Glenn Kirshner himself outlined how such a revocation is constitutionally impossible. TSV looked at that original text back in March 2025 and thought, wait a minute, that doesn't sound right, but he doesn't think that the 18-25 Pod Save Youthtatorship Of America would be so skeptical, and neither would a significant portion of attendees at various No Kings rallies wanting to hear Bernie make a speech there. Oh, and TSV's been actively keeping track of the legal challenge against -trump- trying to kill mail-in voting with an Executive Order while almost no one he's aware of is talking about that specific court case. It all goes to show that the best way to defend democracy is to help promote everyone maintaining perspective. Not to mention helping them uphold the morally required concept of principle that TSV sees Biden as being all about.

Tropical Soulvangelical's misgivings about the -realities- of having politicians speak at No Kings' rallies were confirmed with two things he found. One is the situation with Eric Swalwell, and the other is the outright and unnecessary difficulty of finding information with respect to one bit of resistance he -does- want to get involved in, and that's the attacks on mail-in ballots. So with Eric Swalwell. TSV doesn't know whether Swalwell spoke at any of the No Kings' events, but he wouldn't be surprised if he did. TSV as per our previous base share we put out not even a week ago does respect the general background upon which No Kings takes place, along with Presidents not being Kings, but that's where his respect and blank checks end. So TSV imagines Eric Swalwell possibly being one of the more "bleeding hearted" doomsday ultimatum speakers, saying something to the effect of, if -donald trump- does this, that or the other thing, we're all doomed!!! Those extra exclamation points TSV is pretty sure appear on Eric Swalwell's teleprompter. But TSV had already made strong implication that up to 90% of politicians invited to speak at the rallies are trying to divert attention from their own shortcomings. TSV imagines Eric Swalwell for his part after he says, ...we're all doomed(!!!), secretly thinking, boy I hope they don't find out that I attacked those women. So what about the mail-in ballot situation? TSV's been trying to find out what happens when or after a lawsuit gets filed in a district court, because all he knows is that -trump- signed an executive order attacking mail-in ballots and in response attorneys general from 24 states said they filed a lawsuit at the U.S. District Court in Massachusetts. But here's the problem. TSV figures that the web site for the court in MA would have some sort of list of records amidst which is acknowledgment of receipt of said lawsuit, but thus far he hasn't found it yet. So does that mean that said acknowledgment is not meant to be publicly available information? Or is it that the web site is just so arcane, TSV has found, that it'll take him forever to peruse through at least 30 records or so? TSV found there are three district courts in Massachusetts, one in Boston, another in Worchester, and a third one TSV forgets the city of, but the attorneys general didn't mention in their announcement, or at least TSV's own a.g. hadn't announced, which specific court city they filed the lawsuit in. Perusing through the web site isn't like using Google or A.I. You have to bring up -each individual date on a given court's calendar- and scroll through each page to see whether you can find something to the effect of, State1 State2 State3 etc v US, filing of response to -trump's- executive order attacking mail-in ballots. Then you have to do that two times more, one for each city. TSV hasn't found a search field on the site where he can google the filing directly so he can get his questions answered. In the meantime, he sees the media online getting all doomsaying themselves, probably because they, too, don't have ready access to the information despite there being an option on the court site to sign up for press releases, which for some reason only the press and not an actual citizen has access to. Another thing he finds doesn't help is that his a.g. has a Twitter policy of not looking at DMs sent to the a.g.'s office, so that when TSV wanted to send them a word of encouragement and support, they made -that- overly hard to do so. TSV thinks he can find a way around things, but here's No Kings TSV seeing as predicting the end of the world where democracy is concerned, but it's not because of -trump- to have such a thing happen. It's because of outright bureaucracy. TSV finds that so socially delayed, because why don't they have No Bureaucracies rallies? Probably because that would make too much sense.

You may have noticed we didn't do a base share when No Kings was going on nearly two weeks ago. Again, Tropical Soulvangelical reiterates his skepticism for the concept beyond his -general- agreement that Presidents are not Kings. But he reminds people of -other- types that aren't Kings, and those are Members Of Congress and politicians. His condemnation of last year's No Kings events had to do with the disingenuous and hypocritical nature of -politicians- making speeches at the events, because TSV sees that as an attempt to distract from their own dictatorial ambitions, as well as the personally corrupt motivational election interference against Biden they abetted nearly two years ago. By the way, he questions the judgment of those organizers that invited said politicians to speak at the events. So when he gets all these texts saying things such as, yes we know how you feel about Biden but we need all hands on deck, and -that means you!!!-, he counters by bearing witness to the textmakers -themselves- having to get all -their- hands on deck with respect to the #SpiritOf46 and the concept of principle that it stands for. TSV wishes we had a country founder in the past that pointed out how -true- democracy is all but impossible without the concept of principle. Otherwise it's both tyranny of the majority -and- The Other Side Lite. Anyone trying to tell TSV he needs to get all his hands on deck he sees as -trump lite-, also because he doesn't see how defense of democracy has to itself be a dictatorship. Look what happened with Ed Snowden and his cult of true believers. Was -that- a true defense of democracy? TSV says not, and has taken to deleting most of his texts as they come in except for the peer pressure/guilt trippy ones. To those he replies with a #SpiritOf46 missionary statement. He's having a hard time getting the #SpiritOf46 to go viral like #MeToo did, and he suspects you can't just build it and they will come like in the Field Of Dreams. You need an aggressive promotion campaign, and for that you need deep pockets, which TSV as an ordinary Joe just doesn't have. He was hoping to get the #SpiritOf46 to catch fire so that the personally corrupt -trump lite- anti-Biden Donkeys trying to change the subject will quake in their shoes for their refusal to recant and repent.