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.

Friday, August 14, 2020

BIDEN/HARRIS 2020: WHEN WILL THEY START TAKING QUESTIONS?

ICHEOKU says unfortunately the Democratic Party seem not to have learned a lesson from their 2016 outing when they shielded Hillary Clinton from the public and made her unavailable to the media. As a result, American people did not get the opportunity of knowing her stand on the many issues facing them and they rewarded her with a rejection. Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are apparently headed in the same direction and their own result will not be any different come November 3rd, 2020 as repeatedly doing the same thing and expecting a different outcome is insanity defined. 

ICHEOKU says if the duo think that they can just charm and smile their way to the White House, devoid of offering solutions to the many problems facing America, then they have another thing coming, an assured failed presidential run. Joe Biden has not been taking questions ever since he secured the presidential nomination and now that Kamala Harris has been chosen as his vice presidential candidate, it seems that she too have joined him in ignoring the media. It is unattainable and it is very fatal in presidential politics for ticket holders to expect American people to just hand them over the keys to the White House without knowing what the candidates intend to do when they get in there. 

Even their discernible attempt to make the November 3rd election a one issue coronavirus campaign will not fly because coronavirus is just one of many issues facing American people and for which urgent solutions are needed. If they want American people to replace the president, then they must convince them on the imperativeness and why Joe Biden is a better alternative. This demands powerful arguments and answers as to why; it cannot be just only because Joe Biden is not President Donald John Trump or that some media pundits do not like the president. There has to be more convincing reasons why the president should not be reelected and they have to adduce them publicly through  media engagements and answering questions. But so far, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are not so directed and you wonder why and if they will, when? 

ICHEOKU says the earlier the Democratic Party changes gear and make their presidential and vice presidential tickets holders available to the American public and allow journalists to dig out some answers to so many questions from them, the better their odds on November 3rd will be. But if they remain on the no taking of questions mindset, it will hurt their chances badly on Election Day as American people will not have been convinced on the need to replace the president A much more goal directed ticket would have been doing as many media events as they could muster and answering questions from wherever they might come and making their case to the American people on why they are a better alternative to the present ticket in the White House. But no, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have no issues to run on and they believe that American people so much dislike the president that they will usher them into the White House without more. 

Displacing an incumbent from office is not generally an easy task to pull off. It requires concerted effort because the people will want to know why they should take a risk with the newly offered instead of tagging along with what they already know and have. Whether what they will be getting is far much better than what they already have because most people do not normally change horses midstream, especially in time of great tribulation in the country. There is the coronavirus pandemic being managed, there is the economy in coma that needs to be resuscitated and of course there is the insurgent China that needs to be contained. The president is doing great tackling all the three major problems, so why should American people now take a chance with a tired and burnt out Joe Biden and his running mate Kamala Harris, who has been severally described as a transactional, slick and slippery character, to do a better job than the president without first convincing them. 

Hopefully, Kamala Harris will find time to tell American people why she accepted the Joe Biden's offer to be on his ticket after believing the women who accused Joe Biden of sexually assaulting them and calling Joe Biden a racist. Kamala Harris answering this two questions will indeed help American people to correctly ascertain her character, core and conviction and determine if indeed she truly believed those things then or she was merely pandering to political expedience; and why those her beliefs no long hold up now and whether she is comfortable being on the same ticket with the same sexual assaulter and racist. 

As for Joe Biden, he needs to tell American people why he has refused to take mental cognitive test and also explain to American people why he thinks he would do a better job than the president, especially after sharing the presidency of Barack Obama for eight long years; and why he believes that American people now trusts him to do the same job which he and Obama could not satisfactorily do between 2008 and 2016. But all these issues cannot be resolved unless Joe Biden and Kamala Harris start answering the questions about them. ICHEOKU says Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, please top insulting American people's intelligence by thinking that they have no thinking brains and will just vote for you just like that. Stop avoiding questions and start holding media events now, otherwise forget November 3rd as an already lost cause.

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