STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS: CHOOSE GREATNESS, A HOME RUN.

Madam Speaker, Mr. Vice President, Members of Congress, the First Lady of the United States, and my fellow Americans: We meet tonight at a moment of unlimited potential. As we begin a new Congress, I stand here ready to work with you to achieve historic breakthroughs for all Americans. 

Millions of our fellow citizens are watching us now, gathered in this great chamber, hoping that we will govern not as TWO PARTIES but as ONE NATION. The agenda I will lay out this evening is not a Republican Agenda or a Democrat Agenda. It is the agenda of the American People. Many of us campaigned on the same core promises: to defend American jobs and demand FAIR TRADE for American workers; to rebuild and revitalize our nation’s infrastructure; to reduce the price of healthcare and prescription drugs; to create an immigration system that is safe, lawful, modern and secure; and to pursue a foreign policy that puts America’s interests first. There is a new opportunity in American politics, if only we have the courage to seize it. Victory is not winning for our party. Victory is winning for our COUNTRY. 

This year, America will recognize two important anniversaries that show us the Majesty of America’s Mission, and the Power of American Pride. In June, we mark 75 years since the start of what General Dwight D. Eisenhower called the Great Crusade — the Allied liberation of Europe in World War II. On D-Day, June 6th, 1944, fifteen thousand young American men jumped from the sky and sixty thousand more stormed in from the sea, to save our civilization from tyranny. Here with us tonight are three of those heroes: Private First Class Joseph Reilly, Staff Sergeant Irving Locker, and Sergeant Herman Zeitchik. Gentle men, we salute you. 

In 2019, we also celebrate 50 years since brave young pilots flew a quarter of a million miles through space to plant the American flag on the face of the moon. Half a century later, we are joined by one of the Apollo 11 astronauts who planted that flag: Buzz Aldrin. This year American astronauts will go back to space on American rockets. 

In the 20th century, America saved freedom, transformed science, and redefined the middle class standard of living for the entire world to see. Now, we must step boldly and bravely into the next chapter of this Great American Adventure, and we must create a new standard of living for the 21st century. An amazing quality of life for all of our citizens is within our reach. We can make our communities safer, our families stronger, our culture richer, our faith deeper, and our Middle Class bigger and more prosperous than ever before. But we must reject the politics of revenge, resistance and retribution — and embrace the boundless potential of cooperation, compromise and the common good. 

Together, we can break decades of political stalemate. We can bridge old divisions, heal old wounds, build new coalitions, forge new solutions, and unlock the extraordinary promise of America’s future. The decision is ours to make. We must choose between greatness or gridlock, results or resistance, vision or vengeance, incredible progress or pointless destruction. Tonight, I ask you to choose GREATNESS. 

Over the last two years, my administration has moved with urgency and historic speed to confront problems neglected by leaders of BOTH parties over many decades. In just over two years since the election, we have launched an unprecedented economic boom — a boom that has rarely been seen before. We have created 5.3 million new jobs and importantly added 600,000 new manufacturing jobs –something which almost everyone said was impossible to do, but the fact is, we are just getting started.

Wages are rising at the fastest pace in decades, and growing for blue collar workers, who I promised to fight for, faster than anyone else. Nearly 5 million Americans have been lifted off food stamps. The U.S. economy is growing almost twice as fast today as when I took office, and we are considered far and away the hottest economy anywhere in the world. Unemployment has reached the lowest rate in half a century. African-American, Hispanic-American and Asian-American unemployment have all reached their lowest levels ever recorded.

Unemployment for Americans with disabilities has also reached an all-time low. More people are working now than at any time in our history — 157 million. We passed a massive tax cut for working families and doubled the child tax credit. We virtually ended the estate, or death, tax on small businesses, ranches, and family farms. We eliminated the very unpopular Obamacare individual mandate penalty — and to give critically ill patients access to life-saving cures,we passed RIGHT TO TRY. My Administration has cut more regulations in a short time than any other administration during its entire tenure.

Companies are coming back to our country in large numbers thanks to our historic reductions in taxes and regulations. We have unleashed a revolution in American Energy — the United States is now the number one producer of oil and natural gas in the world. And now, for the first time in 65 years, we are a net exporter of energy. After 24 months of rapid progress, our economy is the envy of the world, our military is the most powerful on earth, and America is winning each and every day.

Members of Congress: the State of our Union is Strong. Our country is vibrant and our economy is thriving like never before. On Friday, it was announced that we added another 304,000 jobs last month alone — almost double what was expected. An economic miracle is taking place in the United States — and the only thing that can stop it are foolish wars, politics or ridiculous partisan investigations. If there is going to be peace and legislation, there cannot be war and investigation. It just doesn’t work that way! We must be united at home to defeat our adversaries abroad.

This new era of cooperation can start with finally confirming the more than 300 highly qualified nominees who are still stuck in the Senate — some after years of waiting. The Senate has failed to act on these nominations, which is unfair to the nominees and to our country.

Now is the time for bipartisan action. Believe it or not, we have already proven that it is possible. In the last Congress, both parties came together to pass unprecedented legislation to confront the opioid crisis, a sweeping new Farm Bill, historic VA reforms, and after four decades of rejection, we passed VA Accountability so we can finally terminate those who mistreat our wonderful veterans.

And just weeks ago, both parties united for groundbreaking Criminal Justice Reform. Last year, I heard through friends the story of Alice Johnson. I was deeply moved. In 1997, Alice was sentenced to life in prison as a first-time non-violent drug offender. Over the next two decades, she became a prison minister, inspiring others to choose a better path. She had a big impact on that prison population — and far beyond. Alice’s story underscores the disparities and unfairness that can exist in criminal sentencing — and the need to remedy this injustice. She served almost 22 years and had expected to be in prison for the rest of her life. In June, I commuted Alice’s sentence –when I saw Alice’s beautiful family greet her at the prison gates, hugging and kissing and crying and laughing, I knew I did the right thing — Alice is here with us tonight.

Alice, thank you for reminding us that we always have the power to shape our own destiny. Inspired by stories like Alice’s, my administration worked closely with members of both parties to sign the First Step Act into law. This legislation reformed sentencing laws that have wrongly and disproportionately harmed the African-American community. The First Step Act gives non-violent offenders the chance to re-enter society as productive, law-abiding citizens. Now, states across the country are following our lead. America is a nation that believes in redemption.

We are also joined tonight by Matthew Charles from Tennessee. In 1996, at age 30, Matthew was sentenced to 35 years for selling drugs and related offenses. Over the next two decades, he completed more than 30 Bible studies, became a law clerk, and mentored fellow inmates. Now, Matthew is the very first person to be released from prison under the First Step Act. Matthew, on behalf of All Americans: WELCOME HOME.

Now, Republicans and Democrats must join forces again to confront an urgent national crisis. Congress has 10 days left to pass a bill that will fund our government, protect our homeland, and secure our Southern Border. Now is the time for Congress to show the world that America is committed to ending illegal immigration and putting the ruthless coyotes, cartels, drug dealers, and human traffickers OUT OF BUSINESS. 

As we speak, large, organized caravans are on the march to the United States. We have just heard that Mexican cities, in order to remove the illegal immigrants from their communities, are getting trucks and buses to bring them up to our country in areas where there is little border protection. I have ordered another 3,750 troops to our Southern Border to prepare for the tremendous onslaught.

This is a MORAL issue. The lawless state of our Southern Border is a threat to the safety, security and financial well-being of all Americans. We have a moral duty to create an immigration system that protects the lives and jobs of our citizens. This includes our obligation to the millions of immigrants living here today, who followed the rules and respected our laws.

LEGAL immigrants enrich our nation and strengthen our society in countless ways. I want people to come into our country, but they have to come in legally. Tonight, I am asking you to defend our very dangerous southern border out of LOVE and DEVOTION to our fellow citizens and to our country. No issue better illustrates the divide between America’s WORKING CLASS and America’s POLITICAL CLASS than illegal immigration. Wealthy politicians and donors push for open borders while living their lives behind walls and gates and guards.

Meanwhile, working class Americans are left to pay the price for mass illegal migration — reduced jobs, lower wages, overburdened schools and hospitals, increased crime, and a depleted social safety net. Tolerance for illegal immigration is not compassionate — it is cruel. 1 in 3 women is sexually assaulted on the long journey north. Smugglers use migrant children as human pawns to exploit our laws and gain access to our country.

Human traffickers and sex traffickers take advantage of the wide open areas between our ports of entry to smuggle thousands of young girls and women into the United States and to sell them into prostitution and modern-day slavery. Tens of thousands of innocent Americans are killed by lethal drugs that cross our border and flood into our cities — including meth, heroin, cocaine and fentanyl.

The savage gang, MS-13, now operates in at least 20 different American states, and they almost all come through our Southern Border. Just yesterday, an MS-13 gang member was taken into custody for a fatal shooting on a subway platform in New York City. We are removing these gang members by the thousands, but until we secure our border they’re going to keep streaming back in.

Year after year, countless Americans are murdered by criminal illegal aliens. I’ve gotten to know many wonderful Angel Moms, Dads and families –no one should ever have to suffer the horrible heartache they have endured. Here tonight is Debra Bissell. Just three weeks ago, Debra’s parents, Gerald and Sharon, were burglarized and shot to death in their Reno, Nevada home by an illegal alien. They were in their eighties and are survived by 4 children, 11 grandchildren, and 20 great-grandchildren.

Also here tonight are Gerald and Sharon’s granddaughter, Heather, and great-granddaughter Madison. To Debra, Heather, Madison, please stand:few can understand your pain. But I will never forget, and I will fight for the memory of Gerald and Sharon, that it should never happen again. Not one more American life should be lost because our nation failed to control its very dangerous border. In the last two years, our brave ICE officers made 266,000 arrests of criminal aliens, including those charged or convicted of nearly 100,000 assaults, 30,000 sex crimes, and 4,000 killings.

We are joined tonight by one of those law enforcement heroes: ICE Special Agent Elvin Hernandez. When Elvin was a boy, he and his family legally immigrated to the United States from the Dominican Republic. At the age of eight, Elvin told his dad he wanted to become a Special Agent. Today, he leads investigations into the scourge of international sex trafficking. Elvin says: “If I can make sure these young girls get their justice, I’ve done my job.” Thanks to his work and that of his colleagues, more than 300 women and girls have been rescued from horror and more than 1,500 sadistic traffickers have been put behind bars. Special Agent Hernandez please stand: We will ALWAYS support the brave men and women of Law Enforcement –and I pledge to you tonight that we will NEVER Abolish our heroes from ICE.

My administration has sent to Congress a commonsense proposal to end the crisis on our Southern Border. It includes humanitarian assistance, more law enforcement, drug detection at our ports, closing loopholes that enablechild smuggling, and plans for a new physical barrier, or wall, to secure the vast areas between our ports of entry. This is a smart, strategic, see-through steel barrier — not just a simple concrete wall. It will be deployed in the areas identified by border agents as having the greatest need, and as these agents will tell you, where walls go up, illegal crossings go way down.

San Diego used to have the most illegal border crossings in the country. In response, a strong security wall was put in place. This powerful barrier almost completely ended illegal crossings. The border city of El Paso, Texas, used to have extremely high rates of violent crime — one of the highest in the country, and considered one of our nation’s most dangerous cities. Now, with a powerful barrier in place, El Paso is one of our safest cities.

Simply put, WALLS WORK and WALLS SAVE LIVES. So let’s work together, compromise, and reach a deal that will truly make America SAFE. 

As we work to defend our people’s safety, we must also ensure our economic resurgence continues at a rapid pace. No one has benefitted more from our thriving economy than women, who have filled 58 percent of the new jobs created in the last year. All Americans can be proud that we have more women in the workforce than ever before — and exactly one century after Congress passed the Constitutional Amendment giving women the right to vote, we also have more women serving in Congress than ever before. As part of our commitment to improving opportunity for women everywhere, this Thursday we are launching the first ever government-wide initiative focused on economic empowerment for women in developing countries.

To build on our incredible economic success, one priority is paramount –reversing decadesof calamitous trade policies. We are now making it clear to China that after years of targeting our industries, and stealing our intellectual property, the theft of American jobs and wealth has come to an end. Therefore, we recently imposed tariffs on $250 billion dollars of Chinese goods — and now our Treasury is receiving billions of dollars. But I don’t blame China for taking advantage of us — I blame our leaders and representatives for allowing this travesty to happen. I have great respect for President Xi, and we are now working on a new trade deal with China. But it must include real, structural change to end unfair trade practices, reduce our chronic trade deficit, and protect American jobs.

Another historic trade blunder was the catastrophe known as NAFTA. I have met the men and women of Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Indiana, New Hampshire, and many other states whose dreams were shattered by NAFTA. For years, politicians promised them they would negotiate for a better deal. But no one ever TRIED — until now. Our new U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement — or USMCA — will replace NAFTA and deliver for American workers: bringing back our manufacturing jobs, expanding American agriculture, protecting intellectual property, and ensuring that more cars are proudly stamped with the four beautiful words: MADE IN THE USA.

Tonight, I am also asking you to pass the United States Reciprocal Trade Act, so that if another country places an unfair tariff on an American product, we can charge them the exact same tariff on the same product that they sell to us.

Both parties should be able to unite for a great rebuilding of America’s crumbling infrastructure. I know that Congress is eager to pass an infrastructure bill –and I am eager to work with you on legislation to deliver new and important infrastructure investment, including investments in the cutting edge industries of the future. This is not an option. This is a necessity.

The next major priority for me, and for all of us, should be to lower the cost of healthcare and prescription drugs — and to protect patients with pre-existing conditions. Already, as a result of my administration’s efforts, in 2018 drug prices experienced their single largest decline in 46 years. But we must do more. It is unacceptable that Americans pay vastly more than people in other countries for the exact same drugs, often made in the exact same place. This is wrong, unfair, and together we can stop it. I am asking Congress to pass legislation that finally takes on the problem of global freeloading and delivers fairness and price transparency for American Patients. We should also require drug companies, insurance companies, and hospitals to disclose real prices to foster competition and bring costs down. 

No force in history has done more to advance the human condition than American Freedom. In recent years we have made remarkable progress in the fight against HIV and AIDS. Scientific breakthroughs have brought a once-distant dream within reach. My budget will ask Democrats and Republicans to make the needed commitment to eliminate the HIV epidemic in the United States within 10 years. Together, we will defeat AIDS in America.

Tonight I am also asking you to join me in another fight that all Americans can get behind: the fight against childhood cancer. Joining Melania in the gallery this evening is a very brave 10 year old girl, Grace Ee-line. Every birthday since she was 4, Grace asked her friends to donate to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. She did not know that one day she might be a patient herself. Last year, Grace was diagnosed with brain cancer. Immediately, she began radiation treatment. At the same time, she rallied her community and raised more than $40,000 dollars for the fight against cancer. When Grace completed treatment last fall, her doctors and nurses cheered with tears in their eyes as she hung up a poster that read: “Last day of Keemo.” Grace — you are an inspiration to us all. 

Many childhood cancers have not seen new therapies in decades. My budget will ask Congress for $500 million dollars over the next 10 years to fund this critical life-saving research. To help support working parents, the time has come to pass SCHOOL CHOICE for America’s children. I am also proud to be the first President to include in my budget a plan for nationwide paid family leave — so that every new parent has the chance to bond with their newborn child.

There could be no greater contrast to the beautiful image of a mother holding her infant child than the chilling displays our nation saw in recent days. Lawmakers in New York cheered with delight upon the passage of legislation that would allow a baby to be ripped from the mother’s womb moments before birth. These are living, feeling, beautiful, babies who will never get the chance to share their love and dreams with the world. And then, we had the case of the Governor of Virginia where he stated he would execute a baby after birth.

To defend the dignity of every person, I am asking Congress to pass legislation to prohibit the late-term abortion of children who can feel pain in the mother’s womb. Let us work together to build a culture that cherishes innocent life. And let us reaffirm a fundamental truth: all children — born and unborn — are made in the holy image of God.

The final part of my agenda is to protect America’s National Security. Over the last two years, we have begun to fully rebuild the United States Military –with $700 billion dollars last year and $716 billion dollars this year. We are also getting other nations to pay their fair share. For years, the United States was being treated very unfairly by NATO — but now we have secured a $100 billion dollar increase in defense spending from NATO allies. As part of our military build-up, the United States is developing a state-of-the-art Missile Defense System.

Under my Administration, we will never apologize for advancing America’s interests. For example, decades ago the United States entered into a treaty with Russia in which we agreed to limit and reduce our missile capabilities. While we followed the agreement to the letter, Russia repeatedly violated its terms. That is why I announced that the United States is officially withdrawing from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, or INF Treaty. Perhaps we can negotiate a different agreement, adding China and others, or perhaps we can’t,  in which case, we will outspend and out-innovate all others by far.

As part of a bold new diplomacy, we continue our historic push for peace on the Korean Peninsula. Our hostages have come home, nuclear testing has stopped, and there has not been a missile launch in 15 months. If I had not been elected President of the United States, we would right now, in my opinion, be in a major war with North Korea. Much work remains to be done, but my relationship with Kim Jong Un is a good one. Chairman Kim and I will meet again on February 27and 28 in Vietnam.

Two weeks ago, the United States officially recognized the legitimate government of Venezuela, and its new interim President, Juan Gwydo. We stand with the Venezuelan people in their noble quest for freedom — and we condemn the brutality of the Maduro regime, whose socialist policies have turned that nation from being the wealthiest in South America into a state of abject poverty and despair. Here, in the United States, we are alarmed by new calls to adopt socialism in our country. America was founded on liberty and independence — not government coercion, domination and control. We are BORN FREE, and we will STAY FREE. Tonight, we renew our resolve that America will NEVER be a socialist country.

One of the most complex set of challenges we face is in the Middle East. Our approach is based on principled realism — not discredited theories that have failed for decades to yield progress. For this reason, my Administration recognized the TRUE capital of Israel — and proudly opened the American Embassy in Jerusalem.

Our brave troops have now been fighting in the Middle East for almost 19 years. In Afghanistan and Iraq, nearly 7,000 American Heroes have given their lives. More than 52,000 Americans have been badly wounded. We have spent more than $7 trillion dollars in the Middle East. As a candidate for President, I pledged a new approach. Great nations do not fight endless wars.

When I took office, ISIS controlled more than 20,000 square miles in Iraq and Syria. Today, we have liberated virtually all of that territory from the grip of these bloodthirsty killers. Now, as we work with our allies to destroy the remnants of ISIS, it is time to give our brave warriors in Syria a warm welcome home.

I have also accelerated our negotiations to reach a political settlement in Afghanistan. Our troops have fought with unmatched valor — and thanks to their bravery, we are now able to pursue a political solution to this long and bloody conflict. In Afghanistan, my Administration is holding constructive talks with a number of Afghan groups, including the Taliban.

As we make progress in these negotiations, we will be able to reduce our troop presence and focus on counter-terrorism. We do not know whether we will achieve an agreement — but we do know that after two decades of war, the hour has come to at least try for PEACE. Above all, friend and foe alike must never doubt this nation’s power and will to defend our people.

18 years ago, terrorists attacked the USS Cole — and last month American Forces killed one of the leaders of the attack. We are honored to be joined tonight by Tom Wibberley, whose son, Navy Seaman Craig Wibberley, was one of the 17 sailors we tragically lost. Tom: we vow to always remember the heroes of the USS Cole.

My administration has acted decisively to confront the world’s leading state sponsor of terror: the radical regime in Iran. To ensure this corrupt dictatorship never acquires nuclear weapons, I withdrew the United States from the disastrous Iran nuclear deal.

And last fall, we put in place the toughest sanctions ever imposed on a country. We will not avert our eyes from a regime that chants Death to America and threatens genocide against the Jewish People. We must never ignore the vile poison of Anti-Semitism, or those who spread its venomous creed. With one voice, we must confront this hatred anywhere and everywhere it occurs.

Just months ago, 11 Jewish-Americans were viciously murdered in an Anti-Semitic attack on the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh. SWAT Officer Timothy Matson raced into the gunfire and was shot seven times chasing down the killer. Timothy has just had his 12th surgery — but he made the trip to be here with us tonight. Officer Matson: we are forever grateful for your courage in the face of evil.

Tonight we are also joined by Pittsburgh survivor Judah Samet. He arrived at the synagogue as the massacre began. But not only did Judah narrowly escape death last fall — more than 7 decades ago, he narrowly survived the Nazi concentration camps. Today is Judah’s 81st birthday. Judah says he can still remember the exact moment, nearly 75 years ago, after 10 months in a concentration camp, when he and his family were put on a train, and told they were going to another camp. Suddenly the train screeched to a halt.

A soldier appeared. Judah’s family braced for the worst. Then, his father cried out with joy: “It’s the AMERICANS.”

A second Holocaust survivor who is here tonight, Joshua Kaufman, was a prisoner at Dachau [Dah-kow] Concentration Camp. He remembers watching through a hole in the wall of a cattle car as American soldiers rolled in with tanks. “To me,” Joshua recalls, “the American soldiers were proof that God exists, and they came down from the sky.”

I began this evening by honoring three soldiers who fought on D-Day in the Second World War. One of them was Herman Zeitchick. But there is more to Herman’s story. A year after he stormed the Beaches of Normandy, Herman was one of those American Soldiers who helped liberate Dachau [Dah-kow]. He was one of the Americans who helped rescue Joshua from that hell on earth. Almost 75 years later, Herman and Joshua are both together in the gallery tonight –seated side-by-side, here in the home of American Freedom. Herman and Joshua: your presence this evening honors and uplifts our entire nation.

When American soldiers set out beneath the dark skies over the English Channel in the early hours of D-Day, 1944, they were just young men of 18 and 19, hurtling on fragile landing craft toward the most momentous battle in the history of war. They did not know if they would survive the hour. They did not know if they would grow old. But they knew that America had to prevail. Their cause was this nation, and generations yet unborn. Why did they do it? They did it for AMERICA — they did it for us.

Everything that has come since –our triumph over communism, our giant leaps of science and discovery, our unrivaled progress toward equality and justice — ALL of it is possible thanks to the blood and tears and courage and vision of the Americans who came before.

Think of this Capitol –think of this very Chamber, where lawmakers before you voted to end slavery, to build the railroads and the highways, to defeat fascism, to secure Civil Rights, to face down an evil empire.

Here tonight we have legislators from across this magnificent Republic. You have come from the rocky shores of Maine and the volcanic peaks of Hawaii; from the snowy woods of Wisconsin and the red deserts of Arizona; from the green farms of Kentucky and the golden beaches of California. Together, we represent the most extraordinary nation in all of history.

What will we do with this moment? How will we be remembered? I ask the men and women of this Congress: Look at the opportunities before us! Our most thrilling achievements are still ahead. Our most exciting journeys still await. Our biggest victories are still to come. We have not yet BEGUN TO DREAM.

We must choose whether we are defined by our differences — or whether we dare to transcend them. We must choose whether we squander our inheritance — or whether we proudly declare that WE ARE AMERICANS: We do the incredible. We defy the impossible. We conquer the unknown.

This is the time to re-ignite the American Imagination. This is the time to search for the tallest summit, and set our sights on the brightest star. This is the time to rekindle the bonds of love and loyalty and memory that link us together as citizens, as neighbors, as patriots. This is our future –our fate — and our choice to make. I am asking you to CHOOSE GREATNESS. 

No matter the trials we face, no matter the challenges to come, we must go forward together. We must keep America FIRST in our hearts. We must keep Freedom alive in our souls. And we must always keep FAITH in America’s Destiny – that One Nation, Under God, must be the HOPE and the PROMISE and the LIGHT and the GLORY among all the nations of the world! Thank you. God Bless You, God Bless America, and Goodnight!

VIRGINIA GOVERNOR RALPH NORTHAN, REALLY?

ICHEOKU says he is a member of KKK and loves to mock black people, by painting his face black. Not good for the Commonwealth State of Virginia and should resign immediately. Florida State Secretary of State, Mike Ertel, resigned for simply painting his face black for Halloween. So, why the wait?

NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS DOES IT AGAIN: 6TH TIME SUPER BOWL CHAMPIONS.

ICHEOKU says congratulations to the boys from New England, their quarterback Tom Brady, their head coach Bill Bilchick as well as their owner Robert Kraft, for winning Super Bowl LIII, their sixth together in the franchise history. 

They beat Los Angeles Rams 13 - 3, in a game that was tough and indeed lived up to the billings of what a Super Bowl ought to be, and without any side walking all over the other side. It was a good game. Once again congratulations to the winner as well as the loser for a game well fought of Super Bowl LIII played at Mercedes Benz Stadium in Atlanta Georgia, February 3rd, 2019.

JUSSIE SMOLLET'S ATTACK: A HOAX?

ICHEOKU says it will require the suspension of disbelief to accept as is, the account of the alleged attack on homosexual gay man and actor in Empire Television series, Jussie Smollets. That he was attacked by two white men, who roughed him up, threw some liquid on him and shouted this is MAGA country. The account looks simply made up, as the coincidences were laughable at best, if not outrightly concocted. How did they know precisely that he was going to be where he was and got there at the same time they did, armed with some liquid and noose, did what they did to him and then escaped, without being caught or seen by anyone else except Ms Smollets? 

Why were his attackers not captured by any of the neighborhood surveillance cameras or the attack captured on video, including the act of roughing him up, pouring the bleach on him and affixing the noose on his neck. Why did he not remove the noose immediately the attack ended, but wore it like a prized medal back to his apartment, until minded by his lover to remove it? Shouldn't removing the noose be the first reaction of any traumatized victim, upon regaining his freedom and senses. Shouldn't freeing himself of the noose have been uppermost in his mind, then make a contemporaneous 911 call, before dashing back to his pad to await the police arrival? 

What happened to the fast food which he went to buy, did he lose it during the melee or clutched unto it until he got back to his apartment and still ate it? How did his attackers  know that he was a homosexual gay black guy, without seeing his face to know his identity, since it was in the dark. How could his attackers have shouted gay slurs faggot, or did somebody tip them off that Ms Smollets was gay and enroute to the fast food restaurant and asked them to waylay him on his way back? Why would Ms Smollets assume that every American watches Empire and knows who he is and that he was black and gay? ICHEOKU says never watched the television series and does not know about this guy or the fact that he is a black gay man until this developments, so why would he think that his attackers knew him? The randomness is doubtful except it was an inside job prank, staged by his friends to get his adrenalin racing. 

Since the explanations so far provided by him  are not adding up and a lot of questions are still left unanswered or answered satisfactorily, is it then possible that Ms Smollets made the whole thing up, as a stunt to get attention or was he lashing out as a result of love gone sour. Imagine how convenient it was that the attackers shouted "This is MAGA country" and you wonder if Ms Smollets did not manufacture that aspect of the tale just to give it extra coloration, as perpetrated by Trump supporters against a black gay guy. But unbeknownst to Ms Smollets, there are many non white people who are members of Team MAGA, including ICHEOKU who happens to be non white person. Why continue fanning the amber of racism or is the tension in the land not enough already that it needed another fuel? Such race baiting is not good for our cohesiveness as a nation and need to stop. 

It happened not too long ago in Houston Texas where some black people claimed that a white skinhead, hater of black people, shot into a vehicle killing an 11 year old black girl; only for the allegation to later turn out to be that it was a black guy who infact did the shooting and killing of the black young girl. According to Ms Smollets, the attackers beat Ms Smollets up, threw a caustic liquid on him, which miraculously did not land on his face nor impacted his eyes; and later put a noose on him but did not draw it tight. So, why would the attackers go to the trouble of throwing some liquid on him without precisely targeting his eyes and face with it? Why would the attackers waste their time bringing a noose and putting a noose on his neck without drawing it tight or at least choking him a little bit with it? 

Yet Ms Smollets did not fight back nor scream and shout for help and he was within a residential neighborhood and not too far from the fast food place where he had gone to buy some dinner. When the attackers were attacking him, was he tremblingly crouching down in fear and moaning in pain or did he try to fight back, kick, scratch and crawl his way out of danger zone? Did he try to escape by running or did they hold him down and restrained as they pummeled him, poured the liquid on him and then put a noose on his neck? Why did nobody see any of these happen or came to his rescue and above all, why did he wear the noose back to his apartment. Did his attackers seize his phone or dispossess him of his watch, wallet or jewelries. Who goes about with bleach and noose, seeking out victims to torment, except it was a prank pulled off by people who know him. 

Why did the surveillance camera, located at the location of the attack, not capture the actual attacking or was it not functioning? Simply put, there are so many things that are not rounding off, which is highly suggestive that no attack actually ever took place. It is possible that Ms Smollets might be up to no good and was emotionally under the weather and decided to concoct the story just to get someone's attention back or just decided to act out a bottled depression. So, until the police completes their investigation, nobody except Ms Smollets, will ever know what truly happened and it is regrettable. 

Hopefully the police will do their work to unmask the attackers or at least yield a forensic explanation or account of what really happened. ICHEOKU is somewhat convinced that what Ms Smollets said happened, did not happen; at least not as he claimed and therefore not buying it. However, if it did, ICHEOKU prays that the police will solve the crime quickly and arrest the culprits for prosecution; at least some fingerprints would have been left on the noose. Race relations in America is steadily getting worse and stories like Ms Smollets will only add to the tension in the land and make matters worse. If it was a fluke, it will make it more difficult to know when real victims need real help. People should therefore please cease and desist from hoaxes or at least not exaggerate any actual encounter, in order to keep things within tolerable level, because nobody will gain from an open race war in America. Let everyone please calm down. 

ONNOGHEN: SIMPLY SHAMELESS.

ICHEOKU says Nasir el-Rufai was indeed right that former Chief Justice of Nigeria Walter Samuel Nkanu Onnoghen, is shameless. Look at a very corrupt person trying to explain away a consistent deposits of nearly the same tranches of money, as profits from his currency trading and you wonder when did he open a bureau du change or was he simply converting bribery proceeds paid to him in Naira into dollars to sustain their value. 

That this man has not been put in handcuffs and paraded before the cameras is the worst scandal unfolding in Nigeria. If the alleged transactions were from his trading in foreign exchange, FOREX and AGRICODE, where are the documentations backing the various transactions? Also where are the tax papers evidencing the taxes which he paid on the income and profits from so trading? Further, he alleged that some of the deposits were sourced from his "reserve" and you ask yourself what reserve or has the former chief justice become the Central Bank of Nigeria, with his own foreign currency reserve. Further, how much was his grand estacode that he could save tens of thousands of dollars, as evidenced in the frequency with which those deposits were made? 

ICHEOKU says how much medical expenses were paid to him and how many times was he actually in fact sick and hospitalized to warrant such a heavy amount of medical expenses being paid to him. Why were the "medical expenses" even paid to him and not paid directly to the hospital from which he sought and received the treatments. Why would the former judge collect medical expenses when he was not sick and did not expend any money treating himself. This is exactly what Corruption 101 looks like, that a person who was not sick collected such a very high medical expenses; while ordinary citizens who are in fact really sick could not find any succor in the destitute medical institutions nor had the means to pay their charges and fees in bills. 

Yet this mongrel is who some crazy loonies are still defending his actions and questioning why he was fired, a firing which even came too little too late as he deserved to have been fired since last decade. How could any sane person not find such a flagrant abuse of office, monetizing the judiciary and the administration of justice, a violation of everything they hold dear to their conscience. How could any decent person stand a Chief Justice of his or her country making out like bandit from selling justice to the highest bidders and still find such a slime ball admirable enough to be shielded and protected. What exactly moves or rattles the conscience of Nigerians if this scandal is not enough or are these Nigerians not actually looking into the allegation, but are too incensed at the president that they are prepared to throw everything to the winds, provided the president is disparaged.

ICHEOKU says with all his claimed forgetfulness about the various transactions, one begins to wonder whether he is also suffering from amnesia and dementia like the president, and ought to have retired from office by reason of incapacity; rather than to hang in there only to now be disgraced out of office. How can a lawyer, a judge and Chief Justice of a country, forgot that he had millions of dollars and billions of Naira deposited in several bank accounts in his name. How can he also not know that it is illegal not to declare your assets as a public servant. This former Justice Walter Onnoghen reeks of corruption and in fact he criminally abused his high office in the land as the former Chief Justice of Nigeria and deserves to have the book thrown at him, at least to make an example of him on how not to be a corrupt Chief Justice.

ICHEOKU says does not know about you, but this guy is a source of shame to the judiciary and everybody involved in the legal profession. He has given the law an indelible mark of calumny and the damage which he caused to the dispensation of justice in Nigeria is irreparable. How can such an endemically corrupt fellow be serving as the chief presiding officer of the judiciary for this long before being discovered. It is pitiful and it is SAD and also inexplicable, as there is nothing to explain or understand with such a wanton abuse of office, a Chief Justice parceling out "justice" according to the highest bidder. In fact that guy is lucky that ICHEOKU is not running things, otherwise he would have been since locked away in detention, following a very public humiliating arrest; handcuffed like the common criminal which he is and frog marched into detention. What a pathetic and shameless fella, caught with his hands in the cookie jar, yet had the temerity to insult every body's intelligence with such a buffoonery cockamamie of an explanation.  Simply shameless. Lock him up and seize his assets.

GOVERNOR NORTHAM OF VIRGINIA: JUST ANOTHER GOOD OLE BOY JIM CROW.

ICHEOKU says the fact of the matter is that until they are caught pants down with their racist hand in the cookie jar, they mask and pretend otherwise. But they all are cut from the same cloth, the white supremacist cloth, which makes them feel entitled, arrogantly think that they are better than others and in fact believe that they are superior to everybody. To them, there is no other better or superior race before them, hence they expect others to kneel, bend in genuflection with heads bowed in respect. 

ICHEOKU said it severally before and is here reiterating it that every white person, regardless of party affiliation and whatever pretentiousness, is primarily racist, period. All they do is put on the mask of Zorro and wear a facade of being different, but they all believe  think and feel the same superiority to other races. They also know how to pretend otherwise, especially within earshot or eye sight in order not to appear pr actually show their true colors. But periodically, they mask is blown away to reveal their true identity as is the case with the Virginia Governor Northam. What a shame that won't go away. 

This was the same guy who few days ago was calling for the legitimization of infanticide, now exposed as the worst racist of them all, a Ku Klux Klan wearing hoodie, who also likes to paint his face black in mockery of African Americans. If not that he was caught, he will still be showing his false teeth and pretending to be everything to everybody, including black Americans. But underneath the mask, is a racist pig who is simply another good ole white boy, milking the system as he exerts his whiteness and uses it to oppress, intimidate and progress. Megan Kelly was fired from her NBC gig for a similar black face act and so did former Florida Secretary of State, Mike Ertel, forced to resign for painting his face black for Halloween. Therefore, this Governor of Virginia must do the needful and end his governorship of shame forthwith. 

The Great Commonwealth State of Virginia cannot put up with having such an openly racist governor running a State that is literary majority African Americans, despite the storied racism that built that State, which is still prevalent, depending on which part of the hood or neck of the wood which you are in. So, without any further ado or much delay, ICHEOKU hereby calls of Governor Ralph Northam to resign the office immediately and his office, let another take. What the governor now represents is indeed too hurtful and very damaging to millions of black Americans, so it cannot be tolerated and not a day longer. Away with the KKK, black face wearing, racist, bigoted, Jim Crow of Virginia, Governor Ralph Northam. ICHEOKU says yet another racist gift from the Democratic Party which also gave America George Wallace and Robert Byrd. Interesting.

KAMARA HARRIS: ANY 'ME TOO' OUTING OF MAYOR WILLIE BROWN?

ICHEOKU says it is a publicly available information that Senator Kamara Devi Harris, the presidential candidate wanna-be of the Democratic Party, had a well known sexual relationship with then married Mayor of San Francisco, Willie Brown. The two were engaged in a romantic affair, which would be considered adulterous, while the mayor was still married to his wife of so many years, which culminated in their divorce. Such a home wrecker now wants to be president of the United States of America and you ask yourself, really? 

Without the love affair, the Senator would not have gotten the necessary leg up in life, which saw her effortlessly break into the clogged up California politics, rising from a young District Attorney of San Francisco to the Attorney General of the State of California and eventually to the United States of America Senator from California, within such a short span in politics. Hers would otherwise have been a case of the present day "Me Too" beneficiary, but to her credit in respecting commitments, she has refused and has not needlessly called out Mayor Willie Brown for "sexually harassing" her. She refused to play the victim as she knew what she wanted and went about getting it; a case of using what she has to get what she wants, a bottom power for political power quid pro quo power play. 

ICHEOKU says appreciates her for not being a hostage taker, who would heartlessly take advantage of the situation to blackmail a man for a dalliance that was rather mutual and voluntary, by alleging undue influence and that she was taken advantage of. Definitely, a  huge credit for her, because she appreciated the fact that her legs up gave her the leg up in life, as her career rocketed off as a result and she is enjoying the fruits of her spread eagle and not whining about Uncle Willie. The good news for her is that the Willie Brown scandal will not cause any damage to her presidential ambition because she is already a politically damaged candidate for a nation-wide election. The country witnessed her during the Justice Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation hearing and concluded not to have anything to do with such an obtuse irritant in their White House. Also her anger and bitterness towards anything President Donald John Trump rubbed American people wrongly and they will never forget nor forgive her in a hurry. 

ICHEOKU says she is definitely photogenic and her smile is as beguiling as that of Barack Obama, who once called her 'the best looking Attorney General'; but she is a serpent, a viper and apparently heartless. She broke a married man's home without giving a hoot's damn about the wife and she took it out on Justice Kavanaugh as well as inferring that border patrol agents are akin to KKK. Her early life lechery was such that many potential suitors were scared away and Mayor Willie Brown eventually ended up not marrying her as well. This left her angry, bitter and unmarried until very late in life in 2014, long pass her youth and when menopause would have probably set in, when a divorce with two kids saw her as an asset and made her a trophy wife. Her being childless and not ever personally experiencing the joy which babies bring, most likely informs her very fiery pro-abortion activism. She is also not black, but like Barack Obama, was a product of racial cross breeding, a hybrid of an Indian mother and a Jamaican father; which informs her always identifying herself as a person of color and not a black American, presupposing that she does not even like being called a black American. 

As a District Attorney in San Francisco, she stopped prosecuting people busted with marijuana, which later facilitated the legalization of the drug in San Francisco as medicinal recreational herb, long before it received a State-wide legalization. So, technically, Kamara Harris was instrumental to marijuana being legalized in California, and just like Governor Gavin Newsom, who as Mayor of San Francisco engineered the homosexual revolution in America by allowing the first gay marriages in San Francisco.  So, Kamara Harris is a revolutionary and that streak still runs deep in her blood which American people have come to witnessed since she joined the Senate. They equally got an eyeful and earful about her warped ideology and philosophy during her recent town hall meet on CNN. 

The good news however is that she stands no chance in hell of securing the nomination  for president of the Democratic Party; and if she does, she will be rejected by the American people as simply too radicalized for the presidency. Like former Governor Moonbeam Gerry Brown, also another radicalized Californian, Kamara Harris will only get an "E" for effort in trying and that will be as far as she will go with her current tall dream of becoming president of the United States of America. She will only end up where she currently is, in the Senate; but never at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue as American people will never elect another minority president, especially not so soon after Barack Obama threatened everything foundational about America. Obama destroyed it for every minority in America because he spooked the white people so badly that they got scared of losing everything; and the experience was too eerie for them to want to relive it. 

Kamara Harris is seen as too wild-eyed, too risky a proposition to be allowed into the White House and will only waste her time gallivanting across the land, but will not ever make it into the White House. A feminist liberal Hillary Clinton's female supporter told ICHEOKU that Kamara Harris stands absolutely zero chance at making it out of the nomination process and might be challenged in her reelection bid for the senate when the time comes in order to curb her excessive ambition. She also went on to say that she personally does not like Kamara Harris and that so many of her colleagues, her Hillary Clinton feminist females loathes her, especially for daring where their Queen failed. She also confessed that it will be a blemish on Hillary Clinton's feminist record for Kamara Harris to reap where she did not sow by first making it to the White House before their revered feminist champion Hillary Clinton.

Kamara Harris is a sworn radical who does not love America and who would rather have America flooded out by illegal immigrants than sign off on building the protective Southern border Wall. Kamara Harris is simply not good for America as she loves illegal immigrants more than Americans and her statements are full of anti American institutions and once called for the banning of ICE and equating border control to the Ku Klux Klan. But President Donald John Trump will walk all over her and make a  minced meat of her should she secure her party's nomination. The president vanquished the Clinton and the Bush political dynasty, so Kamara Harris will only be a piece of cake for him to serve up.

ICHEOKU says Kamara Harris will not be nor mount any serious opposition as she is just basking in the sun of the soon to fizzle out national spotlight. Her fifteen minutes of national fame as that angry colored woman who is seeing red and lashing out, and who wants to give everything away for free to everybody including illegal immigrants, without telling Americans how she will fund the freebies, will soon pass. Luckily enough she has been called out by members of her own Democratic Party on the free stuff as being an untenable ambition and now she is darting her eyes like someone caught with her hands in the cookie jar, thus damaging her ambition beyond redemption; a case of failure to launch one would add. 

Such a fatal error of trying to appeal to the farthest left of the Democratic Party nut-jobs, has cost her the mainstream of her party as well as independents; and thus has driven her presidential ambition into a cul-de-sac from where she cannot back out. ICHEOKU is emphatic that Kamara Devi Harris, the Indian-Jamaican colored woman American, will not  inch close to anywhere near the White House. She might also be challenged for reelection to the Senate and will likely lose her reelection battle, should former Governor Gerry Brown decides to have a go at adding a United States Senator to his resume. California is a machine-politics State and she might be forced to step-down for Gerry Brown to have his moment at Washington DC. But whatever happens, ICHEOKU says will keep an eagle eyes on her foray into presidential electioneering politics, admitted not optimistic of her chances or advancement with the nomination process. However, ICHEOKU agrees with Barack Obama and paraphrasing the former president, says that Kamara Harris is one heck of a Senator good looking, thanks to her Indian heritage. 

JAMES INGRAM: REST IN PEACE.

ICHEOKU says he was simply one of the best of era gone by, the good old seventies and eighties rhythm and blues music time; and yes, he was good indeed. 

James Ingram, 66, died of brain cancer, glioblastoma. May his soulful soul now rest. ICHEOKU says love his "Yah Mo B There" song the most. Adieu Jimmy.

NICOLAS MADURO: TIME'S UP !

ICHEOKU says to the many headaches of former Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is now added the United States of America which has thrown its weight behind the interim President Juan Guaido Como. With it comes the freezing out of the $11 billion Venezuelan oil from the world oil market and the readying of 5000 United States Marines who will soon parachute into Caracas to storm the presidential palace and yank Maduro out of there. 

ICHEOKU says it is not a matter of if, but when; as the tale tell signs are everywhere that the days of Nicolas Maduro in Caracas's presidential palace are now measured in weeks but definitely not months. The choice is now his, either to make it out alive as a captured prisoner or assume room temperature in the process; or better still, flee into exile in Moscow now before it is too late. Away with the dictator! 

NANCY FUND THAT WALL

ICHEOKU says NANCY PELOSI: FUND THAT WALL.

PRESIDENT TRUMP ENDS GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN: HE WAS MAGNANIMOUS.

ICHEOKU says the president rose above the fray and in fact came out tops for ending the government shutdown. For the president, it was not all about politics or the need to score some cheap brownie points about who won what or lost what or who caved in or did not cave in. He was also not too proud to yield, if only such gesture will help move the needle., as his objective remains the same, to solve an existing problem. He is a CEO who is rooted in problems solving and who sees the never ending illegal immigration crisis in the Southern border with Mexico, as a problem which needs to be solved and which actually in fact has a proven solution. Once it is fenced off, it will become a problem solved, case finished.

So, you wonder why the other side is not willing to have the problem solved or and the recurring crisis resolved. It does not make sense and it never made sense; nor will it ever in the future somewhat make sense; that there is an existing problem with an apparent proven solution, yet some people are against solving it. ICHEOKU says which side are these Democrats anyway, that want or rather prefer to sustain the recurring illegal immigration problem at the Southern border. Are these democrats real Americans or what, that they should be standing with the enemy instead of with the American people whose lives are constantly being threatened and endangered by this influx of illegal migrants from the Southern border. 

ICHEOKU commends President Donald John Trump for once again taking a courageous step to accommodate the Democrats' request to first agree to reopen the government before they can agree to negotiate the border security including a border Wall. For some shallow anarchists, by doing so, the president caved in to the Democrats as he got nothing in exchange before reopening the government. To this people, ICHEOKU says there is a story of two goats that met each other on a narrow country bridge over a river. None of them would yield the right of way for the other to first pass. They started fighting and butting heads for the right of first passage until they slipped and fell down from their perch, into the river and drowned. An end which could have been otherwise avoided if only one of them had played the proverbial fool and yielded way and allowed the other to first pass before passing itself. Such hidden wisdom would have saved both goats lives, after first successfully crossing the bridge as well. 

So, a time always comes in live when a bigger person had to show some magnanimity and concede a point to a smaller person, as stooping down to listen to a dwarf does not make a giant less taller. President Donald John Trump is the giant here because a dwarf cannot spring up to meet the ears of a giant, but a giant can stoop down to hear the dwarf out and that is exactly what happened here. The Democrats can go on singing and dancing their victory song; but if one thing came out of the government shutdown, it shows that the Democrats are a very mean lot; otherwise where was their hearts in watching their fellow country men and women go for three weeks without money in their pockets, to pay their bills and purchase groceries as well as put food on the table. They held out trying to project strength while their fellow citizens suffered. There is no real strength in such a heartless pose and American people acknowledges the president for being so touched and moved by their pains and suffering that he yielded some ground and reopened the government. 

ICHEOKU is emphatic that there is definitely a case to be made about having a border Wall in the Southern border with Mexico. If for nothing else, it will surely make the work of the border patrol agents much easier, as those illegal immigrants will be corralled to a lawful entry point where they can be legally processed;  instead of having to chase them down through a stretch of thousands of miles of a border. Like sheep and the shepherd in the plains, with shepherd dog helping to direct the flock into the pen, so shall the border Wall help funnel those illegal immigrants to the lawful entry points. A Wall will also encourage sensible migration and be more efficient in controlling migration; as resources which otherwise will be dissipated and stretched thin along the thousands of border miles, can now be more efficiently deployed as at need basis and that way result in an overall enhanced policing of the border. 

Even drones and spotters flying around and spotting the thousands of illegals will be concentrated in areas without border Walls and that way become much better utilized, with increased yield. There is no argument that border Wall works, as has been established and proved beyond doubt in numerous occasions, with reduced immigration in areas with border Walls or barriers. Also, many immigrants have been captured on video trying to scale through a barrier, but failed. Yes, border Wall will not stop all illegal immigrations, but at least it will drastically reduce them to tolerable numbers, which is the primary objective of every laws and regulations, including ones against homicides. Just get it down to acceptable numbers and it is problem solved. 

The president has shown and exhibited his big heart in honestly seeking a solution to an existing problem, by demonstrating that it was not about his ego or self interest and not afraid to take a beaten and blow back from his seeming u-turn.  But his sole interest is that the problem at the Southern border be solved and he has expressed his willingness to have it solved. The president, by agreeing to reopen the government has demonstrated that he is ready, willing and able to solve the problem and have it permanently resolved. To this end, he had made so many concessions in order to meet the Democrats demands and show good faith in the entire process. The president made concessions on DACA and other ancillary technological approach to border security; he also agreed not to give a State of the Union address to the nation while the government shutdown lasted; and now he has also agreed to first reopen the government to jumpstart the negotiation. 

Now, the ball is on the Democrats' court and hopefully they can now take steps to negotiate and let the president solve the Southern border problem by building the promised border WALL Meanwhile Madam Speaker Nancy Pelosi can start the goodwill building by reinventing the president to deliver the State of the Union address as earlier agreed on for the January 29th, 2019. ICHEOKU says well done Mr President for not being too proud to accommodate the Democrat's requests, seeing that American people are hurting by the government continued shutdown. It is a demonstrable willingness on the president's part to negotiate a settlement on building the border Wall. ICHEOKU is convinced that the president has satisfied every reasonable American that he meant well and he will eventually  get the funds to build that Wall. ICHEOKU says Nancy Pelosi, #FUNDTHATWALL.

JUAN GUAIDO COMO: VENEZUELA'S INTERIM PRESIDENT SWORN IN.

ICHEOKU says opposition leader and a Barack Obama's look alike, Juan Guaido Como, was sworn in as interim president of Venezuela and was immediately recognized by President Donald John Trump and other Latin American countries; effectively ending the rule of the soon to be former President Maduro, whose only choice now is to take the next flight out of Caracas to Moscow for asylum/exile; or face a forcibly eviction from the presidential palace by parachuting American Marines. 

At 35 years, Como is the stuff revolutionaries are made of - youthful, courageous and exhibits great oratory prowess. ICHEOKU says congratulations to the peoples power of Venezuelans that facilitated his ascension into office and hopefully Maduro will allow a peaceful transition by surrendering his mandate and seek a safe passage out of the country, short of bloodletting and eventual long term imprisonment in America. Once again, peoples power prevailed.

OCASIO-CORTEZ ECLIPSING PELOSI: WHEN WILL THE CAT FIGHT BEGIN?

ICHEOKU says before too long it will happen, as women know how not to allow each other steal the shine off them or take them out of the spotlight. Old lady Madam Speaker will definitely not allow the newbie Ocasio-Cortez to eclipse her shine in the Congress, not as long as she remains Madam Speaker with power to do and undo. 

It will be only a matter of time and the continuing media interest in Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, before Nancy Pelosi shows her who is the boss, the real deal in the Congress. But until then, it will seem that the House of Representatives now has a new bride, the darling of everyone, regardless their reason, Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. 

The Congresswoman from the State of New York is the new chic on the bloc and everyone in Washington DC knows it; as every gaddam person in the media is now swooning to get a date with her. What a whirlwind of a media blitz it has been for her within the last few weeks. A gift that keeps on giving for any politician, such that so many of her colleagues are dying for a minuscule of the attention being showered on her and will soon start getting jealous of her and with it comes the Satanic envy. 

Every where you turn, every channel you change to and every newspaper and magazine you rifle through, as well as radio, it is the same refrain, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez; and you wonder when will the honeymoon be finally over, if ever. It is America and Americans are usually giddily excited with new things, novelties, especially such a storied tale of an American dream come through. A Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who went from her waitressing job in a bar, to becoming an elected member of the United States of American Congress; the youngest person ever elected to Congress that is, and within her very first time foray into politics as a candidate for any office. ICHEOKU says what a feat.

Like President Donald John Trump like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, as both non career politicians struck Americans like a thunderbolt and with it shook the establishment order of politics. They invited themselves to the power party and took the center table and are unapologetic about it too. They breached every protocol of climbing the ladder of political power structure and defied the otherwise known conventional reprimand of "wait for your turn" which is usually associated with politics and did the unthinkable, displaced career politicians. Both, now have the bulls-eye tattooed on their backs, as career politicians and the establishment politicians see their accomplishments as a slight to everything they hold sacred in politics and they will be angling to take their pound of flesh and bring both of them down in a banging flash. 

It will only get nastier and messier as both Trump and Ocasio-Cortez continue to get the publicity and attract the following which has made them the two most popular politicians in America, if not the entire planet earth. Thus begging the question, for how long will Madam Speaker tolerate having the spotlight taken away from her and put up with being displaced in the media by this newbie, her epicurean perch as the most powerful woman in politics in America, considered. ICHEOKU vouchsafes, not for too long and when she strikes, it is going to be venomously poisonous. 

But until that death bite, ICHEOKU is hopped on the ride, as Americans are staying tuned to the saga of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and hopefully will watch her redefine the Democratic Party and remake it in her own image. So far so good, as she is succeeding and her entertaining value is phenomenal too. She is definitely a breath of fresh air to the swampy old gang, some of who has been in Washington DC long before the 29 year old Alexandria was even born. She is a millennial original and her fellow Utopian dreamers are attached, attracted to both her message and her image. But Nancy Pelosi is definitely not finding it funny, both being displaced from the center page and having to share the spotlight with ACO. ICHEOKU says cannot wait for the showdown between Nancy Pelosi and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to begin, even right at this minute. It will be fun to watch them go at each other, clawing and hair-pulling, included. ICHEOKU says Nancy, please move over as Alexandria is here. 

PRINCE PHILIP: TOO OLD TO DRIVE, YANK THE KEYS AWAY.

ICHEOKU says at 97, stubbornly still driving and causing accidents, somebody should intervene and order His Majesty to stop, before he causes more damage. It shouldn't take until he eventually kills somebody or even kills himself in an accident, before the authorities in Britain will tell the prince that his good days behind wheels are since over; and that he should allow somebody to help him get around as he lives out his twilight years. 

Prevention is better than cure and there is no means of bringing back the dead to life. The intervention must be NOW as tomorrow might be too late. He escaped this time and so were his victims; but he or his next victims might not be as lucky tomorrow. Somebody does not have to first die or be irreparably injured before Prince Philip realizes that his days behind the wheels is no longer good for the public, as well as to himself. He must allow people who still can and who still have all their faculties intact to do the driving while he relaxes and enjoy the ride as a chauffeured dignitary. 

If he must drive, a driving stimulator should be acquired for him, so that he can be driving a stationary vehicle, but not one venturing unto public roads, with its attendant risks of exposing the pubic to great dangers to both their lives and limbs. Prince Philip is now an existential danger to people on the road and his nuisance must be abated before it results in fatalities. He must accept that everything in life has a shelf span and that his days are nearing their end and learn to live out the final years of his life in peace as he awaits the inevitable end of all mortals. If it means the Queen intervening to save her Prince and her subjects from foreseeable harm, so be it; but let somebody take those keys away from the prince before it is too late. ICHEOKU says yank the keys away from his hand and do it NOW.