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.

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Tuesday, January 12, 2021

AMERICA IS HEADED ON THE WRONG SIDE OF STABILITY.

ICHEOKU says when Nancy Pelosi announced way back before the election that it does not matter what happens on November 3rd that Joe Biden will be sworn into office on January 20th as the president of the United States of America, nobody raised an eyebrow. Nancy Pelosi also once said in response to a question about the mayhem being visited on American cities last summer by BLM and ANTIFA that some people are going to do what some people do. Ilhan Omar also once said regarding 9/11 attacks that "is it because some people did something." 

Neither Nancy Pelosi nor Ilhan Omar or other Democratic Party's leadership condemned BLM and ANTIFA and nobody ever called them out nor asked them to be canceled because of their apparent support of the destructive activities. It is also noteworthy that no Muslim nation including Saudi Arabia was held accountable for 9/11; not even Iran which regularly calls for death to America. Maxine Watters also urged her supporters to get in the face of Republicans as well as Eric Holder who told supporters to kick them. 

So why is President Donald John Trump being specifically singled out and called out and accused of being responsible for what went down in the Capitol. History tells us how underground movements usually come about, when voices are silenced and suppressed; and concerns ignored and they find alternative way out of their forced muzzle. It always does not end  well and Americans should be afraid of such development ever rearing its head in America. 

America must avoid driving the disaffected MAGA world underground because everyone will suffer the consequences of such fallout. Britain lost most of its colonial territories when it drove every opposition underground, one of the most notable one being the Mau Mau organization in Kenya. When a people feel that they have nothing to loose, live for or look forward to, desperation sets in and it usually results to horrible consequences. It is therefore unhealthy to dismiss the concerns of MAGA world as irrelevant and irrational, hence they should not be reviewed as meritorious enough to be looked into. 

If four years of Democratic Party's challenge of the 2016 election protest as a Russian Collusion  outcome was accommodated and investigate, why not also accommodate and investigate the few months of MAGA challenge of the November 3rd election as fraudulent. People have their boiling point at which time, feeling completely exhausted, they become irrational and do strange things in acting out their disgust. 

No suicide bomber was born that way. They become lethal from a persuaded need to redress perceived injustice fueled by none stop continuous propaganda. Afghanistan and Somalia as well as so many other hell-holes in the world used to be functioning societies where citizens dreamt dreams about a rosy future for their children and grandchildren and those to come after them. Unfortunately, America is taking for granted the lasting peaceful co-existence of her citizens that some people who rightly feel strong attachment to America are being now being antagonized and literally marginalized and pushed aside and out of what they rightly believed is their America. 

These people have no other place they can call home and it will be a fight to the finish should push ever come to shove and they have to put their feet down in defense of what they see as their only home turf in the world. Mexicans can run back to their original country; ditto Africans and Asians, but these folks have no other place known to them but America and they would rather die fighting than turn tails because they have no place else to scurry to. A society functions as one when every member of that society feels equally treated under the same rule and law. 

MAGA Nation strongly feels that Joe Biden did not win the last election and couldn't have won it, albeit honestly. It is the same way that Democrats believed that Trump colluded with the Russians to win the 2016 election. MAGA world see Democrats received a different treatment to their concern than what they are receiving themselves due to their own protest of an election. Suppressing their concerns or repressing those who are expressing similar concerns will not make the concern go away nor will it aid healing the nation. It can only exacerbate the hurt feelings and provoke extreme actions. 

Lastly the worst mistake anybody could make now is to think that any resulting crisis will be summarily easily quelled or that it will be like the civil war where the line were clearly more discernible. If anything happens now, the whole 50 States will be the theater and there will be no markers on anybody's face to show who belongs to which divide. It is the type of thing that leads to a failed State and nobody really knows what percentage of the military is on which side. 

Therefore all efforts must be made to cool down the raging temperature in the land as the alternative is not the stuff any loving American should ever wish on their beloved country. Instead of canceling and banning people who believe differently or hold different political and ideological opinions, the energy should be geared towards finding common meeting ground in order to help pull the nation back from its precipitous perch on the cliff. America is in a  precarious place and only one little trigger will make the difference but defusing it should be an all hands on the deck task.