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, August 11, 2020

JOE BIDEN'S CHOICE STIRS A REVOLT: REASON FOR DELAYED ANNOUNCEMENT.

ICHEOKU says whichever way he chooses, it doesn't matter, as Joe Biden will still lose the November 3rd election. President Donald John Trump will be reelected for a second term. A vice presidential candidate pick decision which is increasingly becoming very difficult for Joe Biden to make because of the need to satisfy all the forces competing for the position which are simply too many to completely satisfy and pacify. 

The Democratic Party is a coalition of the willing interests plus more, especially those who prefer it to the Republican Party not necessarily because they are ideologically ad idem, but because they see the party as the nearest best vehicle to maintain a lifestyle or a way of life which they prefer. Then within the main frame Democratic Party, there are the conservatives and the liberals, as well as the progressives who want to push the party to the extreme far left on issues which they care about. Then you have the LGBTQ wing which wants to know why a transgendered woman is not woman enough for the purposes of anchoring the Joe Biden's promised woman vice presidential slot. 

But topping the chart of conflict is the color of the skin of the person as black people are insisting that the woman must be a black woman or no deal. According to their argument, black people are the electoral backbone of the Democratic Party and have contributed so much to the party's successes, including Joe Biden's securing the presidential nomination which was Bernie Sanders for the grab, until black people turned things around for Joe Biden beginning with South Carolina. Their loyalty to the party, they say should no longer be taken for granted and they demand the vice presidential slot as a matter of right. 

So the political gymnastics which Joe Biden is currently maneuvering is an extremely difficult one, as all these disparate groups are righteously staking their claim to the position. This is why the announcement has been further delayed from the earlier scheduled first week of August to whenever it eventually happens. American people are now in the second week of Joe Biden's vice presidential pick watch and you begin to understand the intense pressure which the former Vice President is currently under, to choose a woman who will serve in his former capacity should he win the election, admittedly a near impossible task to pull off. 

ICHEOKU says the opposition against Kamala Harris is so intense that her choice is almost stalled that it will probably not happen. This much was discernible when the announcement which would have been made as promised during the first week of August was postponed, following the kite which was flown about her choice with Kamala Harris written on top of his to do list. But the Hillary Clinton led liberal white feminists wing of the party to which Elizabeth Warren belongs is strongly opposed to Kamala Harris choice. They are arguing the merit of choosing a minority female instead of any female who is rather most qualified for the job. They also contend why such a minority must be black when other minorities exist in the Democratic Party and finally that her choice will turn off white voters who will interpret it as a prelude to another black president in the White House so soon after the apology that was Barack Obama. 

On the other hand, progressives are against choosing Susan Rice because it will leave progressives out in the cold, being a huge voting bloc of the Democratic Party. It is their contention that both Joe Biden and Susan Rice belong to the same conservative wing of the Democratic Party. That selecting her will mean excluding the progressives and that the ticket will not be inclusive enough to entice their members to the polls on November 3rd. Further, that both Joe Biden and Susan Rice's biggest credential is their foreign affairs knowledgeability which will leave both of them bringing the same foreign policy gravitas to the ticket, instead of the diversity of expertise which pairing normally provides. 

Now to complicate matters further for Joe Biden, some group of 100 black people have publicly written to the campaign to demand that a black woman be chosen as Joe Biden's vice presidential candidate or they will not work for the campaign. But whether these people are true representatives of black people and have the ability to influence an outcome or just hustling for contracts in a successful Joe Biden's election is but anyone's guess. Whatever that may be, they are not helping Joe Biden make his decision but have thrown an additional wrench to the whole exercise. 

However, it really does not matter who Joe Biden eventually choses, ether way, he will still lose to President Donald John Trump. Joe Biden is in a kind of quandary now having alienated the entire men population of America by delimiting his choice to only females.  He is now finding out how huge a mistake that is, because as is always the case with women, there is now an additional hurdle of the type of woman. Joe Biden has found himself with a fish bone stuck in his esophagus which will neither go down into the stomach nor allow itself to be vomited. There goes the Joe Biden's third attempt to occupy the White House as his two other previous attempts similarly suffered some glitches from which they were never successfully rebooted. 

Anyway, the Joe Biden's vice presidential pick watch continues and hopefully it will not drag all the way to the August 17th convention. It is so sad how trivialized the Democratic Party is, where everyone thinks they know it all, only to always prove themselves grossly incompetent. They are evident that too many hands indeed do spoil the broth. Each one them wants to run things but not realizing that not everyone is gifted or knowledgeable on how things are run. Just look at what is happening in Chicago, San Francisco, New York and Los Angeles and you wonder who actually votes for this breed of politicians. On November 3rd, real American people who love America dearly, real patriots, will vote to stay the course. They will reelect President Donald John Trump for a second term. But until then, the vice presidential pick continues but it will not be Kamala Harris and ICHEOKU still bets on Elizabeth Warren. 

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