Opinion | Just how racist is the MAGA movement? This survey measures it.  And on 9-27-22, the Enlightened Prisoner commented thus:

These results demonstrate pretty clearly that racist attitudes are formed by a lack of exposure to US societal historical education and, the pressures associated with an overabundance of peer group association. It's the same arrogant attitude that makes such a significant portion of our population believe they really occupy a superior class of individual over others.

How about the historical fact that the US's best-selling liquor, (Jack Daniel's), was actually the mesh recipe created by a plantation slave? Or that only 1/6th of the Southern State's population were slave owners, yet they controlled the politics that drove the victimized attitude into civil war footing?

Opinion | Why Trump may be at a tipping point by Washington Post Editorial writer Jennifer Rubin, and on 9-22-22, the Enlightened Prisoner commented thus:

Jennifer, when the dust settles on the miscreant laced career of defeated President Donald Trump, your journalistic efforts to expose and explain his unqualified and morally corrupt behavior will be remembered as a tribute to our national principle for an unfettered press. And certain proof of the inadequacy for cable news in an entertainment format.

   Opinion | Trump’s legal problems multiply as his excuses disappear wrote the Washington Post, and on 9-14-22, the Enlightened Prisoner responded thus:

There's beginning to be no doubt that the defeated President Trump is the lowest form of moral corrupt individual we've ever experienced in an elected public servant office. The lying subterfuge that Trump and his attorneys are creating is naught but damning.

This whole event of illegal taking and concealing property that rightly belongs to the United States Government is intolerable. And the idea that this miscreant is afforded such profusely privileged indulgence that would certainly not be afforded any other US Citizen is appalling.

This is absolutely treasonous behavior and a total violation of the oath of office he declared before a Supreme Court Justice and the United States public upon his election to uphold and defend our US Constitution.

As a US Citizen I demand that justice be served and this matter resolved.

 An ex-professor spreads election myths across the U.S., one town at a time by a WAPO story, and on 9-11-22, the Enlightened Prisoner responded thus:

“I don’t think he understands what he’s talking about most of the time,” said Greenhalgh. “He takes things and extrapolates them to a place that comes completely out of thin air. It sounds good and people believe it because it sounds authoritative if you don’t know much.”

The operative words here folks are, "...if you don't know much." And that is the reason such hucksters as Clements exist. You are rubes who are controlled by what you hear instead of following your own instinct to know more. And that role is what's causing a country of indentured servants to a false premise. Donald Trump has no moral sense or compassion to govern, only to rule and line his pockets in selfish disregard for his followers.

 Opinion | The coming storm: America is not ready for a future pandemic, a Washington Post Editorial Board article and on 8-27-22, the Enlightened Prisoner commented thus:

How unfortunate that the Post's Editorial Board is so unaware of our history. The Administration of President Obama did in fact create an emergency plan to deal with a pandemic. It was an initial look at the matter and when the incompetent Administration of Trump came it was passed along for more study and fine tuning. I understand it found little interest and somehow was disregarded and, I don't know, maybe it was flushed. Or so the story goes.

 

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Justice Dept. releases 2019 memo on rationale for not charging Trump with obstruction.  A WAPO article and on 8-24-22, the Enlightened Prisoner commented thus:

I took the time to download and read the Muller Report. With an investigative background, the nuances of the report were conclusive to me that there were efforts by Trump's campaign minions to engage and encourage Russian military intelligence cyber agents to interfere in our National Presidential election on behalf of Trump. Trump's guilt? Are you aware of any business he was not a fully hands-on manager? And he refused to be interviewed.

Then, after the Muller investigation charged and convicted several of those campaign minions, Trump pardoned them. And don't forget, the Muller Investigation was so well conducted that there's still outstanding federal warrants for the arrest of several Russian citizens who are suspected of those cyber interferences in the election. There are no extradition agreements with Russia.

The tragedy of all this skullduggery is that the Muller Report was adequate and would give a concerned Congress every right to declare the election of Trump null and void. There's not enough shame to cover Trump and his cohorts for the crimes they have committed against this country and the malfeasance and abuse of the exalted position he occupied.

 WAPO Perspective: GOP attacks go beyond FBI and elections to delegitimize government, and on 8-24-22, the Enlightened Prisoner responded thus:

Those of us who give thought to the Republican MAGA cult's strategy of delegitimizing our federal government agencies based on hyperbole accusations of misstated and unsupported source material are convinced it is done for a nefarious cause and effect.

Why else would they make such outlandish claims without benefit of standing for cross-examination nor proposed remedy. Instead, they melt away and let an inflamed public acerbate their virulent rhetoric.

Citizens beware and neither serve nor favor those who ask for your loyalty before trust.

 Beto O’Rourke’s risky quest for votes in deep-red Texas and on 8-21-22, the Enlighted Prisoner commented thus:

There's a world of new thoughtful and compassionate politicians out there waiting for discovery. The media just needs to get off this merry-go-round of thinking there's some entertainment value in revisiting the leftovers from that last failed administration we voted off the island for good reason.

 On 8-20-22, the Enlightened Prisoner said thus:

"Do not serve nor please an unprincipled man who asks for loyalty before trust." 

 Documents show how Trump landed Lincoln Memorial for Fox News event, and on 8-13-22, the Enlightened Prisoner responded thus:

"A spokesman for the Secret Service declined to comment. A Trump spokesman did not respond to requests for comment." (WAPO article) 

Trump's 45th legacy: The most un-transparent and non-accountable Administration in the history of our nation. What went on behind their closed doors is a national disgrace. Unchallenged lies, misuse of office authority, disregard for the norms and protocol for position requirements, outlandish theft and misuse of government funds and services for non-official purposes, language, purpose, and attitudes that are entirely contrary to the Presidential duties and responsibilities of our trusted respect for the US Constitution and its elected officials.

If your continued support for this miscreant fool is a matter of personal pride, then you've naught but a disrespect for the values of your country and deserve the shame of your convictions.