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.

Sunday, March 1, 2020

JOE BIDEN FINALLY WINS: BUT NOT ON HIS OWN MERIT.

ICHEOKU says will not read much into the South Carolina's Joe Biden victory until he confirms on Super Tuesday that the South Carolina's victory was not a flash in the pan, by winning resoundingly. Joe Biden won South Carolina because black voters often vote as told, either by their pastor or their political leader. A sort of herd mentality, where everyone tows the line drawn by their dear leader and as in this case, Jim Clyburn, who said it is Joe and Joe it was, no questions asked. Joe Biden therefore did not win through his own grit and merit, but was carried on the shoulders of Jim Clyburn through the finish line.  In fact his victory was technically a cheating as Jim Clyburn gave Joe Biden undue advantage over other candidates in South Carolina. 

The Congressman reputed as The Godfather of South Carolina Democratic Party's politics in fact won and secured the victory for Joe Biden, a kind of bequest, bestowed on Joe Biden by the Democratic Party's establishment's representative, Jim Clyburn. So what will Joe Biden do in the Super Tuesday States without a Jim Clyburn or any other local dream-maker to help save Joe by carrying Joe through the finish line. This is where the 64 thousand dollar question is and only Joe Biden's performance on Super Tuesday can supply the needed answer to this question. ICHEOKU says is not hopeful that Joe Biden will do  wonderfully very well on Tuesday because Joe Biden lacks fire in his belly to achieve victories on his own and his campaign might likely implode after the Super Tuesday's results are all tallied for lack of viability going forward. 

ICHEOKU is emphatic that until Joe Biden can prove on Super Tuesday that he has the capacity to do it on his own, his victory in South Carolina is but superficial and whatever momentum  generated, tenuous. It was a victory handed to him and not one, well merited and rightly earned by him. Without the endorsement of the Democratic Party establishment, represented by Congressman Jim Clyburn, Joe Biden could possibly have lost South Carolina to Bernie Sanders and other candidates. But black voters were told to fall in line behind the establishment's candidate Joe Biden and they obeyed by casting their ballots for him. ICHEOKU says thought that slavery and ownership of human beings ended a long time ago, but seemingly not in South Carolina, where people still obey as instructed and voted for a man whose better days are since over. 

How can any South Carolina voter, who voted for Joe Biden, say in good faith, that he or she voted for the most qualified among the candidates. A man whose memory lost is now subject of embarrassment and who could not even remember where he is at any given time, yet this is the man South Carolinas voted for the presidential nomination of the Democratic Party. It does not make sense and it never did make sense; except that South Carolinas showed that they have no independent minds of their own nor the capability to make an honest assessment of the candidates, but only voted as instructed. Voted Joe Biden for what reason, to have a zombie president in the White House, whose presidency will be hijacked by some interest groups like Nigeria's current presidency with a zombie president. Anyway, lets see how old Joe Biden performs in Super Tuesday States and until then, ICHEOKU will reserve congratulations on the South Carolina victory. 

It is also disingenuous to call for other candidates to drop out from the primaries race just because Joe Biden finally won a State. Nobody called for Joe Biden to drop out when he lost three consecutive primaries preceding his current South Carolina victory, so why the call that others should drop out. Joe Biden only just won one primaries with South Carolina and so did Pete Buttigieg with Iowa; and Bernie Sanders is on top of them all by winning two primaries in New Hampshire and Nevada; and is very likely to widen the gap on Super Tuesday. ICHEOKU says let each candidate determine when to throw in the towel and on their own accord, without being bullied or pressured out of the competition. The alien from Space Tom Steyer decided to call it quits after South Carolina, so let others determine what their respective thresholds will be. 

ICHEOKU says as we wait to see how Super Tuesday will play out, Bernie Sanders must not succumb to the pressure of the Democratic Party's establishment to surrender his inevitable nomination to Joe Biden. Their argument that Joe Biden is the only candidate that could beat President Donald John Trump is a farce, as the same argument was made in 2016 for awarding the nomination to Queen Crooked Hillary Clinton and everyone knows how it turned out. Bernie Sanders is the only candidate with impassioned followers and he must be ready to run as an independent third party candidate, should the Democratic Party take away his nomination. ICHEOKU says may the tag of inevitability be affixed on a candidate on Super Tuesday, so that American people can begin their compare and contrast immediately as they head towards November 3rd, 2020. 

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