GUN VIOLENCE IN AMERICA: FOR WHO THE BELL TOLLS NEXT.

Just five people shy of Sandy Hook elementary school mass shooting incident that claimed 26 lives, the Uvalde Texas Robb elementary school mass shooting at 21 victims, now ranks among the highest grossing gun carnage in America. It is sad that such frequent blood spilling has tragically become part of our culture as a society. May the souls of the killed now rest.

25th AMENDMENT: ITS NOW ALL CRICKET.

Madam Speaker Nancy Pelosi once questioned former President Donald John Trump's fitness to remain in office due to what she claimed was his declining mental capacity. Does anyone know what Madam Speaker presently thinks about the incontrovertible case which America is now saddled with? Just curious!

WHO WILL REBUILD UKRAINE?

The West should convert frozen Russian assets, both state's and oligarchs' owned, into a full seizure and set them aside for the future rebuilding of Ukraine. Like the Marshal Plan, call it the Putin Plan.

A HERO IS BORN.

I am staying put. I will not run away and abandon my people. The fight is here in Ukraine. What I need are weapons and ammunitions, not a ride out of town like former Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani - President Volodymyr Zelensky.

IT IS WHAT IT IS.

"There is too much hate in America because there is too much anger in America." - Trevor Noah.

WORD!

A life without challenges is not a life lived at all. A life lived is a life that has problems, confronts problems, solves problems and then learns from problems. - Tunde Fashola.

NOW, YOU KNOW.

When fishing for love, bait with your heart and not your brain, because you cannot rationalize love. - Mark Twain.

JUST THE FACT.

In our country, you can shoot and kill a nigger, but you better not hurt a gay person’s feelings - Dave Chappelle

DO YOU?.

“What you believe in can only be defined by what you’re willing to risk for it." - Stuart Scheller.

HEDGE YOUR CRISIS.

Never get in bed with a woman whose problems are worse than yours. - Chicago PD.

PROBLEM SOLVED.

'The best way to keep peace is to be ready to destroy evil. If you Pearl Harbor me, I Nagasaki you.' - Ted Nugent.

OUR SHARED HUMANITY.

Empathy is at the heart of who we are as human beings. - Cardinal Matthew Kukah.

WORDS ON MARBLE.

"Birth is agony. Life is hard. Death is cruel." - Japanese pithy.

REPENT OR PERISH - POPE.

Homosexuality is a sin. It is not ordained by God, therefore same sex marriage cannot be blessed by the church - Pope Francis.

CANCEL CULTURE IS CORROSIVE.


FOR SAKE OF COUNTRY.


MAGA LIVES ON: NO RETREAT, NO SURRENDER!

TWITTER IS BORING WITHOUT HIS TWEETS. #RestorePresidentTrump'sTwitterHandle.


WORD.

"If you cannot speak the truth when it matters, then nothing else you says matters.” - Tucker Carlson.

#MeToo MOVEMENT: A BAD NEWS GONE CRAZY.

"To all the women who testified, we may have different truth, but I have a great remorse for all of you. I have great remorse for all of the men and women going through this crisis right now in our country. You know, the movement started basically with me, and I think what happened, you know, I was the first example, and now there are thousands of men who are being accused and a regeneration of things that I think none of us understood. I’m not going to say these aren’t great people. I had wonderful times with these people. I’m just genuinely confused. Men are confused about this issue. We are going through this #MeToo movement crisis right now in this country." - Harvey Weinstein.


RON DELLUMS: UNAPOLOGETICALLY RADICAL.

"If it’s radical to oppose the insanity and cruelty of the Vietnam War, if it’s radical to oppose racism and sexism and all other forms of oppression, if it’s radical to want to alleviate poverty, hunger, disease, homelessness, and other forms of human misery, then I’m proud to be called a radical.” - Ron Vernie Dellums.


WHAT REALLY MATTERS IN LIFE - STEVE JOBS

“I reached the pinnacle of success in the business world. In others’ eyes, my life is an epitome of success. However, aside from work, I have little joy. Non-stop pursuing of wealth will only turn a person into a twisted being, just like me. God gave us the senses to let us feel the love in everyone’s heart, not the illusions brought about by wealth. Memories precipitated by love is the only true riches which will follow you, accompany you, giving you strength and light to go on. The most expensive bed in the world is the sick bed. You can employ someone to drive the car for you, make money for you but you cannot have someone to bear sickness for you. Material things lost can be found. But there is one thing that can never be found when it is lost – Life. Treasure Love for your family, love for your spouse, love for your friends. Treat yourself well. Cherish others.” - SJ

EVIL CANNOT BE TRULY DESTROYED.

"The threat of evil is ever present. We can contain it as long as we stay vigilant, but it can never truly be destroyed. - Lorraine Warren (Annabelle, the movie)


ONLY THE POOR WISH THEY HAD STUFF?

“I’m not that interested in material things. As long as I find a good bed that I can sleep in, that’s enough.” - Nicolas Berggruem, the homeless billionaire.

Tuesday, December 25, 2018

CHARLES SCHUMER'S BORDER WALL: ELECTIONS HAVE CONSEQUENCES?

ICHEOKU says why is the Charles Schumer led Democratic Party behaving as if the election of 2016 did not take place and as if his party is still in power and therefore still calling all the shots in Washington DC; and also as if President Donald John Trump was not elected president based on election promises which he made to the American people? 

Watching the current absurdity going on in Washington DC where a minority party is holding a party in power hostage to its own agenda, indeed questions everything the Democratic Party has told American people previously that elections have consequences and you wonder if it is only when the Democratic Party wins elections that the rule applies. Why is it that they tell us this and then turn around and seem to forget the fact that President Donald John Trump was elected president in 2016 and therefore his election should have consequences as well. Or did they forget that the president was elected largely in part for his tough stance on immigration, including his promise to build wall on America's southern border; admitted Mexico was supposed to pay for it. but things did not work out as earlier planned to make Mexico pay for it. 

But irrespective of who pays for the wall, if the president won the election by reason of his promise to BUILD THE WALL, why then should the expressed wishes of the more than 63 million Americans who voted for the president not matter to the Democratic Party or be of such consequence as to warrant the fulfillment of the promise and expectation from the government which they put in power. Why then do people vote for any particular candidate based on campaign promises and why do people even run for offices if not to articulate what is important to the electorates, with a promise made to fulfill them if elected? Why then do candidates make promises to the electorate, based on which they swing their votes, if it turns out that they will be frustrated from keeping their election promises, by the obtuse and obstructing minority party? 

A case in point being the southern border wall with Mexico which catapulted President Donald John Trump into the White House, and which Charles Schumer, Hillary Clinton and even Barack Obama once supported, only to now become anti wall obstructionists just because their lunatic fringe base is against it. How about President Donald John Trump's own base or is it only the Democratic Party's base that should be catered to and whose wish must always be fulfilled? Where is the tolerance and accommodation or is the political relationship now so one sided that it must always be the Republican Party which is always forced into a retreat while the Democratic Party becomes so bullish that they always have their way or it is the highway for everybody else. 

Where is the fairness and honesty in the horse trading usually involved in politics and where is the justiciability. Why did the Democratic Party take over the House of Representatives in the last Midterm Election if not for the promise of keeping Obamacare which they made to their base. So, how will they feel if Republicans decide to obstruct them or truncate it and make their promise to their base go up in smoke? Politics should never be a game of winner takes it all or a stance of my way or the highway, because what goes around always have a way of coming around. It should be a little here and a little there, flesh and bone situation, and in that way, both political parties' bases will feel like their votes mattered and counted.

ICHEOKU says therefore necessary accommodations must be made by the Congress to enable the president satisfy the wishes of the millions of Americans who want the wall built and thus help him fulfill his election promise to them; otherwise what use then is running for any office, if the wishes of the electorates doesn't matter any more or can be simply discountenanced by a minority opposition party. 

ICHEOKU says short of trying to force a distance between the president and his base and thus separate them from him because of the 2020 election, the Charles Schumer led Democratic Party have no other business or any cogent reason for obstructing and resisting the building of the southern border Mexico wall. The Republicans must therefore treat such a continuing obstruction as an affront to them as the majority party and to their president and find a way of circumventing the Democrats obstruction. If it means deploying the nuclear option, so be it; afterall their former leader Harry Reed used it to confirm two otherwise would have been impossible to confirm liberal Justices of the Supreme Court. 

Were it the Democratic Party that ran on the BUILD THE WALL promise and won, they would have since flooded the airwaves with their "election has consequences" outcry and will stay on the message until every American says let the Democrats build their wall. But not with the Republican Party, which sometimes appear to be not willing to fight for anything which their party's base wants or believes in; afraid of being branded racist or any other inclement adjective. 

ICHEOKU says what happened to the fighting spirit which distinguishes the two political parties, failing which, we should just have a one Party State and forget about it. What is worse if ICHEOKU may ask, is it using the nuclear option to confirm Supreme Court Justices that lasts a lifetime and which decisions affects nearly everything in the society or using it to clear obstacles towards securing needed funding to build the wall. Only that it would seem that even the Republican Party are equally sabotaging the president's agenda and do not want him to succeed, otherwise why not just go full metal jacket on approving the entire $25 billion for the wall and damn the consequence. But they are mad as well, alongside their Democratic Party establishment, that an outsider crashed their Washington DC's power party, uninvited and hijacked the center seat at the head table. 

Anyway, American people are waiting and watching to see how the current border wall triggered government shut-down face-off eventually works out; but truth be told, President Donald John Trump needs to have his wall built and it does not matter nor should it matter if the next Democratic Party's candidate runs on demolishing the wall and if he or she wins on that promise, should feel free to take bulldozers to the wall and demolish it. But let candidates be allowed to fulfill their campaign promises otherwise American electioneering campaign is doomed for vacuousness; because words should matter and campaign promises which secured victory for a candidate should as a matter of need, be fulfilled. BUILD THE WALL and let American Tax payers pay for it.

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