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.

Thursday, May 6, 2021

FACEBOOK BAN OF PRESIDENT TRUMP STAYS: NOT SURPRISED WITH THE RULING.

ICHEOKU says did not expect otherwise as the ban of President Donald John Trump on Facebook was woke culture driven and not necessarily because the president did anything wrong to warrant it. The alleged January 6th speech incitement of the Capitol riot has since turned out to be a fable, yet that was what they based their initial decision to ban him. So where is still the justification to keep him banned, one might ask? But the extreme far leftist liberals, snowflakes, largely homosexual crowd that constitute a large swathe of Facebook workforce wanted him permanently silenced on Facebook and they are succeeding in executing it. 

This people have been at war with President Donald John Trump since his 2016 jaw dropping presidential victory and they were part of the anti Trump forces that eventually forced him out of the White House in 2020. They want to dwindle his influence and effectiveness; and to silence him or at least drastically curb his social media's larger than life presence. They want him gone and he will stay gone. 

ICHEOKU predicts that after whatever review Mark Zuckerberg will be conducting as recommended by the committee, that the final decision will still remain that Trump stays banned from the platform. All Facebook has been doing thus far with their "oversight" committee is to find a veneer for their meritless action. But now that the speech police has released its final report, urging Facebook to take up the gauntlet and make the right final call, lets see what other trick that is left up Mark Zuckerberg's sleeve.

In their ban of the president following the January 6th Capitol melee, Facebook had said that they believe the risks involved in allowing the President to continue on their platform during this period were simply too great. But following the January 20th hitch free installation of Joe Biden, one had expected Facebook to immediately lift the suspension since the supposed "risks" have dissipated. But no, instead, they passed the buck to an "oversight" committee to "review" the decision to continuously keep the President on their "do not fly" list or rather do not participate on their platform list. 

How independent this "oversight" committee really is and whether they could afford to defy the wishes of Mark Zuckerberg is now clear as they simply rubber stamped his decision to keep President Trump off their wall and then, passed the final decision on the duration of his ban back to Mark Zuckerberg. Who is fooling who with this back and forth game which Mark Zuckerberg is playing, ICHEOKU might ask?

The "oversight: committee knows exactly what was expected of them and they understood as a matter of fact that none of them dare not go against Facebook Emperor Mark Zuckerberg's decision and they dutifully complied to it like very obedient underlings. What stopped them from giving a definitive time period during which the suspension or ban would lapse? What stopped them from even ruling that since the "risks" associated with the January 6th Capitol mayhem has abated that there was no longer a need to continue to keep the President off Facebook? But no, they rubber stamped the already in place ban and then passed the final decision as to any review of its duration back to Mark Zuckerberg. 

Why Mark Zuckerberg thought that American people are too dump to understand the game he is playing with his Facebook is simply beyond ICHEOKU. He would have on his own summarily did what Twitter Jack Dorsey did, just permanently ban the president and damn the consequences. But no, he is a very weak person who has a personality problem, sort of a personality inferiority complex disorder and is looking for some committee to take the responsibility of the pronouncement. He is over compensating for his psyche disequilibrium by excessively wielding powers over people and what they are allowed to say or not say on his Facebook; people he never in his widest imagination and dream ever thought he will mingle in their circles talkless of lording it over them. 

ICHEOKU says the "oversight" committee could have saved everybody the trouble of waiting for this long for their "decision" by timely announcing six months ago their endorsement of the already in effect decision to keep the President off their platform. Why the needless delay only to eventually announce the same outcome which nearly everyone knew was coming down the pike. If the committee knew that the indefinite suspension was not appropriate, why did they not draw a timeline themselves and put it within a clearly definitive time period since their decision is supposed to be final and beyond the review of Mark Zuckerberg. Why did they have to still defer to Mark Zuckerberg since they are supposedly the final arbiter or the Facebook Supreme Court on matters concerning grievances against Facebook and their decisions to keep some users out of their platform. 

It reeks of corruption and it is the same thing which applies in every sphere of our lives, where only the "good fellas" are allowed within so many circles. Everyone is bound by unquestioned loyalty to the paymaster who must be continuously pleased in order to keep the paycheck coming. How many conservatives and truly independent persons are members of the committee? Why did they insist that Mark Zuckerberg has the final say on whether the ban of Trump was a justifiable response that is consistent with the rules which applied to every other users of the platform. ICHEOKU says why did Mark Zuckerberg even bother appointing a supreme oversight committee if it cannot make final decisions over matters concerning Facebook arbitrariness with users and Mark Zuckerberg is still in charge of making the final decision and has said that he will consider the committee's decision and determine an action that is clear and proportionate; but in the meantime that the President's accounts remain suspended. 

What exactly is a Facebook's "community standards" and which people constitute the membership of this "community" whose "standards" must not be crossed. For the committee to still conclude that the President "severely violated" the community standards of Facebook on January 6th despite incontrovertible evidence which showed that his Save America Speech did not incite the Capitol disturbance is to say the least simply idiotic. Their "severely violated" phraseology reminds ICHEOKU of Mitt Romney's "acute conservative" qualifying credential. 

What a pathetic group of people who cannot rise above their pettiness and need to be personally worshipped who are now wielding their newly acquired social media power so arbitrarily. A pitiful people who somersaulted from the original charge that the President's speech caused the riot to now that he wrote glowingly of the rioters post riot, as the new reason for banning him. Meanwhile no democrat was banned for their support of Black Lives Matter and ANTIFA when they were destroying American cities last summer. The committee found that Facebook makes up its rules as it goes, yet they failed to end such arbitrariness by definitively ruling the ban meritless and deserving to be upturned. 

Anyway, ICHEOKU says agrees with President Donald John Trump that free speech is at stake here and that the radical far left lunatics who are controlling social media are using their very peculiar standard to decide what is good for everybody and what people must abide to, on the penalty of being canceled. Their problem is that they are not properly equipped for any battle of ideas and want only their version of peculiar truth to prevail, but are deathly afraid of the real truth coming out. If the mainstream media and the four big television networks had stood in the way of social media when they started, just as social media is presently standing in the way of free speech, may be there will be no social media today. But they benefitted heavily from the open culture enterprise in America but are now asphyxiating free speech. The conservative right side of America as well as the Republican Party must stop their whining about the left dominated social media and find a way to create comparable alternative platforms to compete and fill the yawning space for conservative viewpoints. It is sad. 

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