Good Gawd, our government under President #45 just ran amuck over all their oaths, procedures, Congressional mandates, mission statements, due diligent responsibilities, and accountability, just like their trendsetting lying leader. Our Country's ethics have never been so low. Evidence indeed that the Republican party is totally corrupt and unfit to govern. (Comment on 7-21-22 from the Enlightened Prisoner)

Group doorbells homes across Washington, searching for illegal voters, and drawing complaints and on 6-29-22 the Enlightened Prisoner responded thus:

This non-official group of MAGA misfits, unable to accept what certified numbers have told them, and totally unsuccessful in court challenges are now becoming redesigned neighborhood busy body squads to spread their continuing propaganda message that government is dishonest and can't be trusted. Well, guess what? That's just exactly what this last election was attempting to fix. The trouble is the losing side is apparently slow learners. I know their MAGA boss is.

 Man, 4 grandkids killed by Texas fugitive had gone to ranch to fish reported by WAPO, and on 6-6-22, the Enlightened Prisoner commented thus:

We pause, we feel the remorse, we confront the details, we write our own scripts about what coulda' or shoulda' altered the outcome, then we absorb still another senseless loss of our fellow citizens at the hands of circumstances we feel powerless to have prevented. While other countries observe and think, crazy Americans, why don't they see what too many guns, too many cars, and too many available drugs are doing to them?

 Opinion | Trump’s latest Jan. 6 scam poses a hidden challenge to Democrats published on 64-22, and on that date the Enlightened Prisoner commented thus:

Any attempt by the Trump MAGA cult to interfere or undermine the Public Hearings of the House Committee on the January 6th matter is little but additional proof for their fear of public disclosure and accountability.

Their total obstinate and uncooperative performance with this legally empowered hearing's invitation to participate is a national disgrace. These are established facts and evidence the Committee has bought together as a public service and the MAGA cult's claims of partisanship is mere hyperbole.

Their talk and plan to create diversion or self-serving opinions which will undoubtably lack fact or evidence deserves our upmost disrespect for it represents naught but a cover for the dirty hands of their guilt.

 Opinion | Garland’s mushy speech to Harvard grads does not inspire confidence, a WAPO editorial of 5-11-22, and on that date the Enlighten Prisoner commented thus:

In September 1983, James Q. Wilson, a Political Scientist wrote the book, "Thinking About Crime". His summary paragraph at the end still provides one of the best lessons we have yet to learn.

"Wicked people exist. Nothing avails except to set them apart from innocent people. And many people, neither wicked nor innocent, but watchful, dissembling, and calculating of their opportunities, ponder our reaction to wickedness as a cue to what they might profitably do. We have trifled with the wicked, made sport of the innocent, and encouraged the calculators. Justice suffers, and so do we all!"

 Group doorbells homes across Washington, searching for illegal voters, and drawing complaints reported by the Seattle Times, and on 5-30-22, the Enlightened Prisoner commented thus:

This non-official group of MAGA misfits, unable to accept what certified numbers have told them, and totally unsuccessful in court challenges are now becoming redesigned neighborhood busy body squads to spread their continuing propaganda message that government is dishonest and can't be trusted. Well, guess what? That's just exactly what this last election was attempting to fix. The trouble is the losing side is apparently slow learners. I know their MAGA boss is.

 In first test after mass shootings, Senate GOP poised to block domestic terror bill, a WAPO analysis of the Senate legislation, and on 5-26-22, the Enlightened Prisoner commented thus:

"Republicans argued that the bill, which would set up domestic terrorism offices across three federal agencies, was unnecessary and that Democrats are trying to score political points."

If you wanted proof that there's a total obstructionist intent with everything the Republican MAGA cult members put their political foot on, look no further. Lacking any program alternative, or logical argument, the party cult members have little but vain excuses to offer for their pathetic existence. They really need to be voted out of a place at our governmental table.

 Inside the Republican push to stop Trump’s ‘vendetta tour’ in Georgia, a WAPO article, and on 5-22-22, the Enlightened Prisoner commented thus:

I don't get it, Trump keeps making rash, rude, character assassination comments about US Citizens who have done little but oppose his "values", and the media continues to afford them publicity without benefit of challenge or verification. We have regulatory rules that prevent publishers from certain offensive content but give license to public media that's being used for naught but listener provocation for sales promotion? And they don't care about the effect that has on civilized behavior? How crass is that?

 

On 2-24-22, in a letter to the Editor of the Shelton Mason County Journal, the Enlightened Prisoner wrote thus: 

 It was the mouth of Trump that caused the consternation and inadequate responses to our pandemic, his mouth that set-in motion the riotous insurrection against our house of government, his mouth that has put party politics as a power struggle rather than a negotiated means of governmental administration, his mouth that has made the art of lying, backbiting, character assassination, and unsophisticated leadership talk the stuff of today's unhinged politicians. 

 Federal Judge Amit Mchta, last week, ruled in his published judicial opinion document that the civil damages charge against Former President Trump for causing the January 6^th riot actions, damage and personal assaults may proceed.  And in that ruling he stated the following:

"After all, the President's actions here do not relate to his duties of faithfully executing the laws, conducting foreign affairs, commanding the armed forces, or managing the Executive Branch," Mehta added. "They entirely concern his efforts to remain in office for a second term. These are unofficial acts, so the separation-of-powers concerns that justify the President's broad immunity are not present here."

His troubles are Trump's own making and retribution is coming.  Meanwhile, it's up to us the informed electorate to recover from this era of unhinged politics by selection of candidates that represent the values represented in our governing documents, not the words of candidates using false agendas for finding fault and hate as their platform of performance.  This is not a time to engage in the obdurate behavior for petty party politics of obstruction for the sake of power. 

Our Country’s strength for opportunity and economic stability has come this far out of respect for being a country of laws, not personages.    

 Only 22 people saw the Buffalo shooting live. Millions have seen it since said WAPO in an article about the Buffalo shooter's video clip of his murdering saga showing up on social media and the Enlightened Prisoner on 5-16-22, responded thus:

“The purpose of terrorism is always to reach the greatest number of people possible with the most horrific or spectacular attack that you can perform.”

Kind of like a Trump MAGA Rally where he spews unchallenged falsehoods and attacks his hated American of the week.