On 12-7-23, the Washington Post penned an Opinion titled: "The Trump dictatorship: How to stop it", and on that date the Enlightened Prisoner responded thus:

The liberal Republicans who would have you believe the country suffers from ills that can only be fixed by totalitarian governance are feeding you lies. They continually cite malfeasances of current government that exist only because of their reluctance and undemonstrated efforts to join in finding fixes.

Be warned that they are asking you to turn over your Constituted liberties to their brand of power governance that circumvents what has been the reason for our country's greatness. Representative government with cooperative efforts to find and apply kind and fiscal workable solutions, despite political party differences.

    On 11-4-23, the Washington Post penned an article on "Doug Burgum suspends long-shot presidential campaign" and on that date the Enlightened Prisoner responded thus:

In a statement, Burgum said: “While this primary process has shaken my trust in many media organizations and political party institutions, it has only strengthened my trust in America.” He also criticized the Republican National Committee’s debate requirements, calling them “arbitrary criteria.”

I don't know fully about his Presidential qualifications but, he certainly hit that nail on the head. It's the uncontrolled money in politics that drives the party's power brokers and the for-profit media's responsibility to fairly represent everyone making the invasive sacrifice politics requires.

   On 12-4-23, the Washington Post penned an Opinion piece for "Politicians in both parties need to face up to the national debt", and on that date the Enlightened Prisoner responded thus:

How come these anxiety producing reports on our debt crisis always pick on reducing the programs that mostly take care of our dependent pensioners or our national health care?

How about the administrative costs for running the government such as maintaining a well-supplied military, or a law enforcement, incarceration, and justice system. Then there's the costs of the increasing personnel, space, and equipping to support our Legislative and Executive branches of government. Also, there's all those government agencies and departments that regulate and take care of our lands and fair conduct of our industrial, food, and supply chains.

That's right folks it's a package deal that everybody matters, or nobody matters. It's a government that provides some of the best living conditions possible within the comfort, security and opportunity from a county that always assumes a leadership example for the rest of the world's governed societies.

So you're damned right it takes taxes, a lot of tax revenue. So, if you've got a Legislative or Executive representative telling you taxes are too high or unnecessary, then you've got a political nutcase who smooths your feathers but doesn't want to admit how uncaring they are for what ruffles them in the first place.

     On 12-2-23, the Washington Post penned an article entitled: "Trump pardoned them. Now they’re helping him return to power", and on that date the Enlightened Prisoner responded thus:

Of all the known actions of Trump for which a courtroom finding is unnecessary for condemnation, this abuse, this malfeasance of the elected office he occupied stands as evidence for his perverted inhuman traits to undermine our societal values.

The misuse of a humanitarian device like pardons being used as bargaining chits to promote a self-serving agenda for perversion of our political system stands alone as the greatest evidence of Trump's path to treasonable conduct.

As a human being Trump has no equal as a lying, untrustworthy and for certain deraigned personality. Wake up folks, he desires an office for his personal demagogue use, not for any benefit to US. And sound the alarm because now you've met his corps of pardoned misfits to help make it happen.

    On 11-30-23, the Washington Post penned an Opinion by Robert Kagan, Editor at large for | "The Trump dictatorship", and on that date the Enlightened Prisoner responded thus:

My Gawd, how overdue and excessively wordy is this essay.

However, the Trump phenomenon can only be attributed to our own embarrassing acknowledgement that the money influence coupled with instant news distribution, (in any uncontrolled nor fact-based format), had more to do with him than our own check and balance, an informed electorate.

Unless our Legislative Branch gets serious about effective election reforms and putting candidates in more dialog-laced performance forums we will continue to be influenced by power brokers, not qualification, nor human decency.

     On 11-30-23, the Washington Post penned the article: "George Santos says lawmakers ‘bullying’ him as expulsion vote looms", and on that date the Enlightened Prisoner responded thus:

“It doesn’t mean that it’s goodbye forever,” he (Santos) said.

Hopefully, this sad saga of human indecency and national embarrassment will pass. Eventually it seems, not soon enough.

In the future, let's hope the news media pays more attention to their obligation to inform us, (the voting public), of unqualified and undesirable candidates before election instead of capitalizing on their headline grabbing aftereffects.

    On 11-27-23, the Washington Post penned an Analysis |"With Trump moving closer to renomination, rewriting Jan. 6 attack gains urgency", and on that date the Enlightened Prisoner responded thus: 

"What Trump is doing now, 340-odd days before the 2024 general election, is amplifying self-serving falsehoods and finding a hungry audience for them. This is also precisely what he was doing in the weeks before the Capitol riot." (...wrote the WAPO analysis).

For those registered to vote in this country who continue to ignore overwhelming evidence of Trump's record for illegal and abusive use of power or denial of oaths and rule of law. And yet he continues to remind us he offers us and our government nothing going forward but a continuing self-serving agenda of illegal and abusive conduct, think!

Think about just how much turmoil follows in his path. Think about how little value he puts in law-abiding people of goodness and service. Think about the human wrecks left in the wake of his lies and bully tactics. And think about how little purpose or care to now or going forward he puts into the tranquility of our country.

He was and is, unfit to serve as a steward for our government.  And so say I.  

    On 11-26-23, the Washington Post penned an article that: "Univision anchor Jorge Ramos rebukes network for not challenging Trump", and on that date the Enlightened Prisoner responded thus:

“We cannot normalize behavior that threatens democracy and the Hispanic community, or offer Trump an open microphone to broadcast his falsehoods and conspiracy theories. We must question and fact-check everything he says,” (quoted from the WAPO article)

Trump does not allow time or space for challenge to his monologs. And they are consistently staged.

There is no way to describe his publicity offerings than pure propaganda.

     On 11-25-23, the Washington Post penned the article: "Russia held these Ukrainian teens captive. Their testimonies could be used against Putin", and on that date the Enlightened Prisoner responded thus: 

It is a world-wide shame that we tolerate the likes of Russia's Putin who corrupts the concepts of value and goodness in his fellow human beings.

He is truly a horrible person who deserves our contempt and disrespect.

     On 11-21-23, the Washington Post penned an Opinion by Catherine Rampell | "Why we’re borrowing to fund the elderly while neglecting everyone else", and on that date the Enlightened Prisoner responded thus:

Ms. Rampell would have you believe that pensioners enjoy a one-way street of monetary benefits it seems. Well, Ms. Rampell, consider this. Those government pensions when combined with other sources result in pensioners paying, that's right, federal income taxes. And don't forget the percentage of monthly deduction from that government pension that goes. that's right, into Medicare and prescription drug plans.

And most of all recall that pensioners enjoy travel, food, and entertainment rather than sitting around growing old, so they make great contributions, that's right, to federal, state, and local sales, excise, and sur tax coffers.

Doesn't sound like much of a free ride to me. Kind of like those who protest the free ticket immigrants get. Who are also making payments, that's right, to those same sources. Get a clue, cry-baby.