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, July 19, 2020

KANYE WEST: THE MELODRAMA OF A DEAD ON ARRIVAL PRESIDENTIAL RUN.

ICHEOKU says what jolted him or did he think that one can just wake up one day from a midsummer night dream and have a go at the presidency. What takes many years of planning and strategizing to foray into, he thinks that less than 100 days to the election can accommodate? It only goes to confirm the thought in many circles that he is very erratic and unpredictable. It also cements the perception that the Kanye West you will see on any given day depends on the Kanye West that woke up and on which side he woke up. Although he is likable and successful, but running for the presidency of the United States of America requires more than a spontaneous declaration and so close to Election Day. 

ICHEOKU says had Kanye YZY West said that he is forming an exploratory committee for a possible 2024 presidential run, may be, some people would have taken him seriously. At least, American people will see him as establishing necessary protocols required of any serious candidate who is seriously considering himself for the American presidency. There is a process and there is a procedure, none of which he met before his sudden declaration of intention to run for the presidency this 2020 and long after the primaries have ended and people are beginning to pay closer attention to the two candidates running from both parties. 

Kanye West should have stayed clear of the 2020 election and continued his support for the president until he serves out his second term in 2024. Thereafter, he would have cashed in on the then already established goodwill of MAGA family as well as an assured president's endorsement. Some evangelical Christians would also have been persuaded by his newly professed conversion into taking a chance at him by supporting his bid. But for him to so suddenly throw away every political mileage he had cultivated by publicly embracing the president shows that he is not an adept political strategist which makes him the joke of a presidential candidate wanna be. 

ICHEOKU says thought that 2024 was his intended target year to run for the office when he started cultivating some political base by identifying with President Donald John Trump, formed his Christian group and speaking out publicly on issues that affect and concerns American people. Kanye would have stayed the course, continue to create and expand his support base as well as continue to convince American people that he is credible and in fact intact upstairs. But for him to suddenly announce that he is running for president with only four months to Election Day November 3rd simply reduces him in the sight of reasonable Americans as a joke of the century. 

It is either he has lost it once again or he does not actually have the slightest clue about what it means to run for president, a process which takes several years of exploration and planning in order to mount an effective campaign. A politically more savvy Kanye West would have continued to cultivate the president and then exploit the connection to  secure MAGA support for his 2024 presidential run and see how far it could take him. But to now say that he is dropping the red MAGA hat shows that he is unreliable and cannot be trusted. So what if the Secret Service hustled the president into a bunker due to a threatening breach of the peace. It was not the president's decision because presidents don't make decisions about their safety and security; he had no choice in the matter because when the Secret Service says come with us Mr President, a president must comply. 

So, why drop his support for the president because of such trifle excuse or did he want the president to fight his security detail who knew best from their read of an unfolding threatening situation. The same Kanye West now pretending unmatched bravado once sent a peace emissaries to the Bloods gang in Compton when they placed a hit on him because of his slavery being a choice comment. If Kanye West felt threatened then which facilitated the measures he took to remove the threat, why then is it not ok by him that the Secret Service took steps to ensure the president's safety and security as was necessarily required. Why even blame the president for what was not within the president's purview or was he just looking for any excuse to justify his betrayal of an otherwise budding political friendship with the president in order to reestablish his blackness in the black community. 

Kanye West was beginning to get some traction among white people after what he did to their Taylor Swift yanking her microphone away from her and also what he said about President George W Bush not loving black people during Katrina hurricane. Some believers and other Christians alike were also beginning to take a second look at him and loving what they see unfolding that is a new Kanye West, becoming a convert and doing religious worships. Many people were beginning to believe that Kanye West is a changed man only to be disappointed by his sudden somersault and announcement that he is running for president with only four months to the election. 

He nearly succeeded in pulling the wool over people's eyes with his newly found piety and also being a self thinking black man by wearing the red hat. But he botched it all with his sudden declaration of intention to run in the 2020 presidential election.It only confirms Kanye West as too erratic and rascally and not a serious person for the American presidency. No rational person will take him serious going forward about running for president any longer as to want to waste their votes on him. What triggered him into losing all the garnered goodwill and a near endearment back into the white people with his open embrace of President Donald John Trump. Imagine a potential Kanye West and Kid Rock 2024 presidential ticket? It would have been a ticket to beat but he just threw everything away just like that.

He called coronavirus vaccine effort a ploy to implant chips in people, the mark of the beast, and said that Planned Parenthood is a devil's agent that is killing black babies in order to control black population. Which constituency is then left for him to court, having sacrificed MAGA and also dumping on liberal causes. He has no political philosophy and no stated direction which he plans to lead America in. Kanye West bungled what would have been his greatest opportunity for a credible 2024 run, anchored on MAGA and President Donald John Trump's endorsement. His action could only be described as a mental disorder related; otherwise why now when almost all the States have closed their nominating process to be on their ballot. How can a serious Kanye West run for president without knowing even such a basic information about when it is timely to join a presidential race.

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