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, March 26, 2021

A SHAM PRESS CONFERENCE OF FURNISHED QUESTIONS AND REHEARSED ANSWERS.

ICHEOKU says one of the hallmarks of presidential press conference is usually its spontaneity. But when the same press conference becomes a rehash of an already seen questions and earlier prepared answers then the built up excitement is defeated. Today, after over 50 years of being imposed on Americans and installed in the White House, Joe Biden ventured out to do a press conference but it ended up badly. 

There was no fireworks, he was dower and nothing came out of it that moved the news trajectory or even made the news. It was flat at best and less informative to say the least; and for a man who continuously preaches unity of American people, the fact that he refused to call on any conservative reporter to field a question says it all about the seriousness of his professed unity. No journalist from Fox News, OAN or Newmax was called up to ask a question and you wonder how the millions on the right side of American politics will see this open disdainful behavior.  

Joe Biden also confirmed to the world that he is a Methuselah and was in the United States Senate for 120 years before he became a Vice President and then eventually installed in the White House by the Deep State. He called on specific reporters from his notebook who most probably submitted their questions ahead of time to enable his minders prepare answers for  them. But he still struggled remembering the answers and had to directly read them as written for him in his handbook. It was heartrending watching the labored read and you wonder why his minders did not also correctly write for him the number of years he was in the senate since they went to the length of providing him the answers to other questions. How did he know the right  flashcards to bring if the questions were not provided to him ahead of time and answers to them also made available.

So many questions which many people had expected to see were not asked; instead the journalists were busy asking a 78 year man who barely made it through the last election and who is less than 60 days in his term whether he will run again in 2024. Meanwhile there was no questions on January 6th Capitol riot; on the economy; joblessness and why he canceled the Keystone XL pipeline project and whether he regrets the jobs that were lost as a result. Nobody asked him if he had continued with the border wall and not canceled it, whether it would not have helped to stem the southern border immigration crisis. Even when he said he has no apologies for canceling all the measures put in place by President Donald John Trump which checkmated the immigration crisis, none of the reporters pushed back to explain that the measures were indeed working. Also he was not challenged to renounce his messaging which is encouraging the migration. 

He read the answers to the questions which were very noticeable with the questions on the expected withdrawal date of American soldiers from Afghanistan and North Korea missiles firing provocations. It is also instructive that no journalist deemed it fit to ask Joe Biden whether his administration is purposely preventing journalists from going to the holding facilities until they straighten things out so that they will not see the appalling state of affairs there now. They also failed to challenge him on the cancel culture epidemic which is infesting the country and whether such is not autocratic and anti democratic. There was also no questions on why Prince Mohamed Bin Salaman was not punished for killing journalist Jamal Khashoggi; the Kenyan government slaughter of Tigrans and of course the Myanmar ongoing military attack on democracy. 

It was such a pitiful event and it is obvious that a lot of cover up was involved in staging the press conference, especially by the journalists who were themselves a far cry from their adversarial self during President Donald John Trump time in the White House. The journalists were not driven by fact finding and information gathering; they merely willfully participated in a ruse orchestrated to satisfy anxious Americans who were steadily getting worried that the man occupying their White House has not addressed a press conference for over 50 days since he was installed in office. It is a shame.

Anyway, it is good that he survived the press conference, did not faint or collapse and did not sip any water throughout the slightly over one hour press meet, if ICHEOKU could call it that. Let us hope that he will going forward make himself more readily available to the media and also learn to take questions and answer them off cuff. But whatever happens, the practice of leaking questions ahead of time to our leaders which was started by Donna Brasile with Hillary Clinton must stop. It somewhat questions the intelligence of our leaders and the world is laughing at America on how Hollywood has corrupted everything in America with everything being literary scripted just for show. It questions America's seriousness and challenges its place as a leader of the world if they could allow such a mentally and physically debilitated man to be leading them.

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