SHITHOLE COUNTRIES: ACTUALLY AND ABSOLUTELY DO EXIST.

ICHEOKU says to enable us understand the the context better, it Is good to have a working definition of the term "shithole" country. A shithole country as one commentator opined, is a country whose leaders use and abuse their citizens rather than empower them, raise them up, protect them and give them opportunities to grow and prosper. 

It is a country whose leaders are not fair nor kind to the citizens and do not care about them or their welfare. It is a country where citizens rights are drastically infringed upon; where there is no due process rights and where citizens often lose their lives needlessly. It is a country which does not provide for its future generations and which does not give her citizens a decent chance at prosperity and a good quality of life. It is a country where there is no infrastructural development, lack of good water, accessibility, healthcare, basic food and other essentials of life including quality education, security and safety etc. 

So when the president called some countries shitholes, he meant that these countries should and need to put their act together and right the so many wrongs afflicting their citizens and people. This is the derivative from what the president said and any shithole country that does not like it should strive to remove the shithole prefix by doing better for themselves and country men and women. If anyone shithole country does not like being chastised, then let that country do something about it, in order to remove the reason for being chastised and thus render it moot. 

But it is unacceptable to be a beggarly nation and complain that you are being called out as a beggarly nation. If you are shamed into turning your fortunes around, then the chastisement worked; but you cannot be so needy in everything and still get mad simply because your benefactor said something to that effect. A beggar has no choice and if a tenant does not like the landlord or what the landlord said to him, the best revenge is to go build your own house and dispense with your landlord. This is a bitter truth medicine and this is the best answer in the circumstance and not all these hyperventilating. 

ICHEOKU is emphatic that what President Donald John Trump said is probably a long overdue clarion and wake-up call for those shithole countries to sit up, fix their countries and learn to take pride in themselves and countries. A child is expected to someday grow up; but when a country that got her independence over fifty years ago can still not provide basic things that make life livable such as water, roads, power, food etc, that country is literally stunted. It is about time these shithole countries take their medicine in order to get well and prosper and instead of being mad that they were called out, see such as a needed shot in the arm to work harder to defeat such opinion of them. 

If such a public shaming will force them to fold up their sleeves and get dirty in order to make their own respective countries GREAT AGAIN, translating them into a better place where nobody and none of their citizen wants to run away from, then such calling out is probably a most welcomed development. It is about time somebody confronted these failing countries with the gospel truth, as nobody ever runs away from a functioning, livable place. People only run away from disasters and such other none conducive environments which incommodes human existence. 

Therefore, what President Donald John Trump allegedly said concerning the merit of allowing migrants from "shithole" countries into the United States of America is factually in order. If it will help compel those countries, especially their leaders, into working harder to improve the fortunes of their countries and prevent their citizens from fleeing to the United States of America, then the objective would have been met. Query, if Americans did not fight and struggle hard to fix their own country, where would all those people from those shithole countries be running away to. 

ICHEOKU therefore says instead of crucifying the president for what he said, people from those "shithole" countries should accept the gauntlet and see it as a challenge to make their countries better and transform it into a much more livable place, rather than as an insult or curse. Those people should strive to prove President Donald John Trump wrong by either improving the quality of life in their societies or their people should stop flocking to the United States of America in protest to what the president said; or better still, to stay back in their own countries in order to prove to the president that their countries are not "shithole" countries. 

ICHEOKU says the extensive immigration policy of the United States of America is actually not helping those countries whose people are migrating to the United States. These are people who would have helped develop their own countries, but who have deserted them to come and enjoy the labors of others. The blood and sweat of the American people, who did not run away from their then own problems, but girded up, faced them squarely up and took time to laboriously make their own country much livable. By brain-draining and depriving their own countries of their much needed manpower, there is no manpower left behind in their countries to help build their own countries into a livable place. 

The same brain drain jeopardizes the critical mass necessary to help rally protests against their ineptitude governments and help compel their leaders to lead well. Such shithole countries leaders' predisposition is, why worry fixing their country and anyone who does not like it as it is, should take a hike to the ever welcoming United States of America. Then the attitude of their people migrating to the United States of America usually is, why bother with finding a way to pressure the government to fix what is broken when they can easily escape the dire condition back home by just running away to the United States of America; thus leaving their countries to wither away in utter desolation and lack of functionality and infrastructural development. 

ICHEOKU says a country's greatest resources is its people and any country suffering from acute depletion of their people through migration, especially the caliber regarded as brain-drain, is barren to say the least and will remain ever stunted to elaborate. Admitted it is hurtful, the feeling of being singled out and called a poop-pit hole, but sometimes truth is the best disinfectant, If such could touch a special place in those people's hearts to force them to doing better for their own countries, so be it. But where an Education Minister, for instance in a country like Nigeria, will not fix the country's education system because he or she could easily send his children to the United States of America for studies, then such country eminently qualifies as a "shithole" country. 

Ordinarily, were his or her children to be studying in Nigeria, he will have a stack in the project make Nigerian education great again and an added incentive to right the wrong that is a depleted and discredited education system, An education system where students do not have conducive environment to  study and lecturers are owed salaries and deprived of livable environment to impact knowledge. So, why do the job when a big brother America is there to cater to their children's need to acquire good education? As for the rest of their society that cannot afford the expensive United States of America education cost for their own children, too bad, tough luck. 

Also, when a country's president runs overseas for medical treatment and remains there for over 150 days, a privilege which over 95% of the citizens cannot afford, that is a shithole country. When a country does not have power and stays in darkness for more nights than it ever sees light, that is a shithole country. When in a country, terrorists Fulani cattle nomads indiscriminately slaughter innocent sleeping women and children, and the government of the country, headed by a Fulani, looks the other way, that is a shithole country. 

When an illiterate former tyrant, without even a First School Leaving Certificate, intimidates himself into the country's presidency, that is a shithole country. When in a country, placard carrying protesting innocent citizens are recklessly massacred by the government's army, that indeed smells like a shithole country. When in a country, a president of the country's Senate is an indicted criminally corrupt individual and he is still presiding over the Senate without resigning or temporarily stepping aside, that is what a shithole country really looks like. When in a country the Inspector General of Police is at liberty to sleep with any woman police official just because he can, that is a shithole country and the list goes on. 

ICHEOKU's only issue with what the president said is his delineation of such descriptive to only Haiti and African countries including Nigeria, because there are so many other shithole countries in the world, depending on whose definition is used and the prevailing paradigm employed. In America for instance, those who are down and out on their luck, including millions of homeless, drug and alcohol addicts, could see themselves trapped in a "shithole" country. Ditto will those who ran afoul of the law, as well as those who were wrongly convicted and incarcerated; and who will spend the rest of their lives in tiny prison cells, swear that America is a "shithole" country because of their fate. Further, some people looking from the outside into America might also be forced to conclude that death sentences and executions as practiced in America smacks of a "shithole" country practice. 

So America could, in some peoples' eyes and estimation, somewhat fit into this description of a "shithole" country, depending on who you ask. To the American who lives in the economically desolate Appalachian mountain range including some parts of West Virginia, as well as economically deprived Detroit and the killing fields of Southside Chicago, they might see themselves as trapped in a "shithole" country. Yes indeed, some Americans who live in certain necks of the wood in the country have it worse than people who live in some of those now identified shithole countries of Africa and Haiti. 

Those Americans who lived through, as well as those who died, during the horrors of Hurricane Katrina, especially in New Orleans 9th Ward, who did not have luck with being rescued, would probably swear that they lived in a shitlhole country. Those Americans who were residents of Flint Michigan during the water crisis could also possibly say that they lived in a shithole country as the crisis unfolded. When you add victims of the opiates crisis and drugs ravaging America and those crackheads and junkies sprawling on the streets of major cities in America, you will get more of those Americans who strongly feel that their country is a shithole country as well. 

ICHEOKU is emphatic that every country has their own problems and issues that could make them a shithole country, admitted that they are all not of the same severity across the board. Throughout the world exist countries that will perfectly fit and so easily be subsumed into a shithole country defined, if seen through the lenses of those who are being shafted and left under the economic ladder and their citizens who are down and out and whose cases are not salvageable. Yes, the colored lens is good, but sometimes it does not capture the whole picture and yes, it depends on who is doing the judging and what indices are being used. 

In Venezuela for example, citizens cannot even find toilet papers to wipe their behind and you wonder why have a shit hole when you cannot even use it hygienically? So, if you cannot find tissue papers to use after doing your business, doesn't that push Venezuela to the top of the totem pole of shithole countries. Then factor in countries that repress their citizens including Russia, China, North Korea, Iran etc and their unfortunate citizen victims will shout at the top of their lungs that they live in a shithole country. Saudi Arabia which still carries out beheading and where ancient religious practices still dominate her citizens affairs is definitely another such shithole country, especially for those at the end of the pointed tip of the spear in the Kingdom. Mexico also qualifies as a shithole country, depending on whether one is interviewing those victims of drug war gone awry. 

So the list of "shithole" countries is not easily exhaustible as every country has its own dark underbelly spots and areas which will somewhat somehow make them eligible for that inglorious list. This is the only downside from what President Donald John Trump said, because he limited his observation to just the African continent and black dominated Haiti. Every country, without exception or rather negligible few exceptions, still have a lot of work to do in aspiring to really and truly become a paradise on earth. So until mission accomplished, we all can only pray to die someday and still be in the good books to make heaven in order to experience bliss, because there is no paradise anywhere on this planet earth; and America is certainly not one, the hyped grandiosity notwithstanding. 

But the overhyped righteous indignation of the Democrats and their liberal media hordes which have taken the narrative into a near absurdity is understandable. These are Trump hating lynch mob, who have been looking for something and anything with which to crucify President Donald John Trump since their last November 8th, 2006 election loss. So their pretentiousness is a given and ICHEOKU and Americans are not fazed nor deterred. Former President Barack Obama who so "loved" Africa and never called Africans out publicly as a shithole continent did more damage to Africa than help them. He murdered African King Moummar Gaddafi for no reason and threw Libya into a continental chaos  which has since spiraled out of control into anarchy, where slavery has now been reborn and human beings are being sold off into slavery on auction blocks and purchased as chattels. 

The same African loving Obama, boycotted the largest concentration of black people in the world, the country of Nigeria; and refused to visit it throughout his eight long years in office. Yes indeed, Barack Obama "loved" Africa so much and you ask yourself how did he translate this "love" into anything tangible and meaningful to and for Africans? ICHEOKU says Barack Hussein Obama did not do jack for the "shithole" Africa, despised the professed "love", other than try to export homosexuality carte blanc to the African continent, period. Please give ICHEOKU harsh words than cruelty, anytime, any day. 

So what is it exactly that people are talking about, other than that a bold, brash and fearless President Donald John Trump, who does not suffer fools lightly, bravely put into words what millions of others regularly muse about. So what if those countries are called out for what they are; if they don't like it, they should do something about it or otherwise hush. 

Simply put, the snitching Democratic Senator Durbin was out to get President Donald John Trump, otherwise why leak what was said in the heat of passion during a private conversation? It is the same lack of trust which has nearly stalled governing in America where a chief executive cannot have the assured confidences of a top legislator who was invited to hash out some matters of State. This is atypical of a political scoundrel who was out to ensnare the president for purposes of gaining some political advantage and readily drove his Brutus dagger at the the slightest opportunity; but luckily and unlike Julius Caesar, the president survived and will thrive. The other good news is that the Teflon President have survived far worse things that were thrown at him and will also ride out the latest tempest in a tea cup. 

Their "Fire and Fury" hit job has flamed out without the anticipated meltdown; and now it is back to their worn out regurgitate that the president is a racist. ICHEOKU says but who is not a racist in America, as well as the entire world? So, why single out the president to brand him one or is what he said worse than Queen Crooked Hillary Clinton calling black American males Super Predators? Is Obama's "clinging to their guns and religion" comment any better and more desirable and palatable? Like Jesus said, he who is without sin should cast the first stone, but unfortunately, liberalism and Godism are two polar opposites, otherwise they would have known better. Happily though, such hatchet job has been repeatedly carried out previously with the president still standing and this dust raised by the "shithole" countries comment will equally blow over by the weekend. 

As has been revealed, this shows that politicians are indeed contrived. Some pro immigration senators went to the president to seek his approval for an immigration bill proposal which did not meet the president's stated objective of providing funds to build the wall and end chain migration. The president somewhat lost his cool, using some tough words as he turned them down. As a revenge, one of them, Democratic Senator Durbin invented a story of the president said this and that. 

But these traducers are again wasting their time because the American people who are with the president far outnumber them. They can try all they want and invent and manufacture accusations upon accusations, but the American people's support for their president will never wane nor flounder; and they far outweigh all the conspiracies put together against the president. They will re-elect their President Donald John Trump come 2020 because they see in him an American champion and cheerleader in chief extra-ordinaire, whose love for country is feverishly passionate. They love him dearly and Wall Street is responding in kind as well as jobs which are beginning to move back to the United States of America. Americans will never desert such a fighting president, who is studiously fighting for their cause. 

Finally, instead of anyone or country chastising President Donald John Trump for what was said, they should see it as a moment of truth, a time for reflection, a time for the taking of stock, to review their affairs and introspect on what they have been doing wrongly which  has led to the continuing exodus of their people to America and other European and Asian countries. They should ask themselves why they still have shitholes in their countries when the rest of the world have since adapted plumbed and flushing toilets. 

They should try to figure out why their "shithole" countries are not functional? They should try and find an answer as to why things are not running optimally and as they should in their shithole countries? They should ask themselves why things are not well ordered and why there is no law and order in their shithole countries? They should introspect on why their shithole countries do not have necessary infrastructures and cannot provide employment opportunities and good standard of living for their citizens. In short, those shithole countries should find out why their citizens are running away from their shithole countries. 

These are the questions that need to be answered and not this current hyperventilation over what the President Donald John Trump allegedly said. Former British Prime Minister David Cameron once called Nigeria a "fantastically corrupt country", did the heavens fall? Dick Cheney once told Patrick Leheay to go fuck himself, did the heavens fall? There is a litany of such public officials outburst, a result of frustrations of their offices, which are bogged down by snail fashion inactivity due to no fault of their own. 

For a former Chief Executive like President Donald John Trump, who is used to getting things done, it must be a daunting task not to be allowed the free hand to do the things he needs to do in his march to make American Great Again. Such slowing down, which is somewhat deliberate partisan ploy, is rubbing the president wrongly. ICHEOKU certainly feels the president's frustrations and this possibly triggered his blowing off his casket. The volcano sometimes erupts after much internal combustive smoldering, so every human being has their point of no return, at which they will show their other side. But does this make them bad person, ICHEOKU says I don't think so; and it does not make President Donald John Trump a bad person nor more racist than any other American, regardless.