On 4-15-23, WAPO reported on: "Trump, in legal peril, draws cheers at NRA convention; Pence draws boos" and on that date the Enlightened Prisoner responded thus:

"The NRA, (registered as a non-profit organization), spent more than $31 million in support of Trump during his 2016 campaign, and more than $16.5 million on his 2020 reelection campaign, according to OpenSecrets, which tracks campaign finance numbers."

Just how does a non-profit organization, (with some of the highest paid company executives in that type business), generate profits and resources to afford that kind of political influence?

Bet you'll play hell following the money on that one.

  On 4-14-23, WAPO reported that: "Senators call for probe of Thomas amid report of real estate deals with GOP donor" and on that date the Enlightened Prisoner responded thus:

Hm, the Republican (Senators) silence on speaking to conflicting conduct by Justice Thomas is explainable. They have no Congressional representative with a clear enough conscience to call the kettle black.

  On 4-13-23, WAPO published an Analysis for| "What you reject when you assert Trump’s complete innocence", and on that date the Enlightened Prisoner responded thus:

The United States of American has managed to survive a great many assaults on its ways of governance and the radical behaviorism of its elected and appointed members in its administration of governance.

We'll survive ex-President Trump and his lickspittle minions, you'll see.

  On 4-12-23, a WAPO penned Opinion wrote that | "Matthew Kacsmaryk calls the right-leaning judicial branch’s bluff" and on that date the Enlightened Prisoner responded thus:

“Can a free government possibly exist with the Roman Catholic religion?” John Adams mused to Thomas Jefferson. No, Jefferson opined: “In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty.”

Yes, the words of those who founded our nation's freedom from religion in our documents of governance. And yet our numerous and varied styles of religion within the country continue to act as organized political parties, trying to influence and bend an entire country to their way of wanting things to be.

Please, practice your religious faith in freedom as our enabling documents allow but stay the course of your doctrine and practice it unto yourself.  Do not interfere with my governance needs for the standing population.  

  On 4-10-23, WAPO published an article on: "Have trucks really conquered every corner of America?" And on that date the Enlighted Prisoner responded thus: 

As victims of the industry's sales and marketing cadre, shouldn't we be embarrassed to learn how easily we, (not the governments), are influencing and causing the rollercoaster geopolitical crisis points in the world-wide mining of our non-renewable fuel source?

But hey, shouldn't the government be embarrassed at how much revenue they soak from us for the excise and sur taxes on every aspect of these vehicles from showroom to road? Or how much of that tax revenue is funneled directly to their general funds and how a disproportionate amount expended isn't even used for vehicle related reasons?

Well, some of us just put more thought into this equation than that of style, color and neighbor envy thinking.

  On 4-6-23, WAPO reports that, Probe widens into federal watchdog over missing Jan. 6 Secret Service texts, and on that date the Enlightened Prisoner responds thus:

Isn't it that MAGA cult bunch that's been telling us our government is going to hell in a handbasket, and now we find this is the way they prove it?  By lack of transparency and obfuscation in the way they govern.

 On 4-7-23, WAPO reported that, Clarence Thomas has reported receiving only two gifts since 2004, and on that date the Enlightened Prisoner responded thus:

The fact that businessman Crow donated gifts of money or material gifts to both Clarance & Ginna Thomas is evidence enough for finding presumptive influence design. It's high time a member of the highest court found out their conduct is subject to review and determination of corrupt behavior by lesser courts.

When such conduct escapes lack of scrutiny it becomes an example of morbid behavior for our nation of laws, not individuals.

 The Opinion from the Washington Post on 4-3-23 read, | How the 1876 presidential election enabled Jim Crow.  And on that date the Enlightened Prisoner responded thus:

What started as a social gathering I was at recently turned a little sour when the women, (a reflection on our times), began arguing the politics of recent headlines. One of the husbands of dubious respectability then tried to end all argument by shouting, "...you're nothing but a bunch of wokes!"

I'd just become aware that a proper definition for woke was, "to be informed, educated of, and aware of social injustices." I couldn't help but offer the rejoinder at him, "you're damned right they are."

Following his surprised look, he was asked to describe a social injustice of his awareness. The silence was deafening.

 Silicon Valley Bank’s risk model flashed red. So its executives changed it. Wrote the Washington Post on 4-2-23, and the Enlightened Prisoner responded thus:

When the dust settles on the SVB debacle, will any lesson be learned about containing the lack of transparency by bank executives and board members throughout the banking industry? Unlikely.

You see, in the corporation's world, their business plans and its execution are a closely guarded secret, and governance operates within totalitarian control. You are only made aware of their operational miscues after the fact, or in made for entertainment movies, sanitized by Hollywood Screenwriters.

 Shocked and defiant: How Trump is responding to unprecedented indictment, wrote the Washington Post and on 4-1-23, the Enlightened Prisoner responded thus:

Of course, Trump's in upset mode. For four years he was a Presidential apprentice, then his realm was pulled up short for reasons of failing to have hands, (head and heart also), big enough to handle the job. His record of prior business/marriage failures and contractor stiffs not withstanding he set a record for the most criminally corrupt administration yet.

So now his crass personality is on stage again for, that's right, paying off a prostitute to hide his sexual prowess. But he's back into theater in order to dupe whatever cash he can out of the faithful for facing this charge and the other two pending investigations that will probably charge him with real criminal conduct. And he's the best the Republican party can claim for leadership, really?

Maybe we need a new political party in the race. We could call it "Citizen's United". Oh wait, that's already taken by the dark money party, right?