DAVID KOCH: DEAD AT 79 YEARS, ADIEU.

ICHEOKU says a billionaire of right, David was a member of the oil and pipeline fortune Koch family of Wichita Kansas. David and his elder brother Charles Koch were also known for their libertarian political causes and activism; and were fondly and sometimes derisively referred to as the Koch Brothers. 

They were extremely fearful of the government becoming much more socialistic and domineering, and evolving into a very controlling, socialist type of government. As a result they deployed some of their wealth to influencing policies as well as the overall political direction of the country by donating to candidates who espouse their brand of government hands free on citizens, enterprises and businesses. They also donated generously to other causes, especially cancer research. 

So it is possible that there is some popping of champaign in some quarters as a result of his demise, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders in ICHEOKU's mind. The cheering not necessarily because he died, but that his anti socialist activism perished, thus removing a huge stumbling block for their agenda of turning America into a socialist country. 

David Koch died of old age related infirmities, although he survived prostrate cancer twenty seven years ago. David Koch was 79 years old. ICHEOKU says may his soul now rest. 

ANTHONY SCARAMUCCI: A MIDGET SCORNED!

"Voters will be wary of meddling with the success of Trump’s economic policies. I think he’ll get resoundingly re-elected. He’ll probably have a 40 state landslide, because what are you going to do? You’re going to put a socialist in place and wreck the entire economy?” - Anthony Scaramucci.

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ICHEOKU says that was the PIG FACE midget just last month, July 3rd, 2019, on CNBC's Squawk Box and you ask yourself what suddenly changed? He wanted in for the spotlight but was REJECTED. A case of a woman or rather, a midget scorned, one would say. A pitiful slime ball who does not know how to take a rejection and have resorted to cheap blackmail and lashing out in the process. But good enough, American people have seen through his hollowness and it reeks of enviousness. What a sadistic humanoid.

BIDEN IGNORES OBAMA'S ADVISE: RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT.

ICHEOKU say but Joe Biden's ego was in the way and he ignored the advise; and Americans are beginning to see what the former president witnessed first hand, up close and personal, the reason he offered the candid advise. But Joe Biden chose to listen to mercenary hangers-on who want to profit from a Joe Biden's presidency, while ignoring the man under whom he served as vice president for eight long years. A man who knows him better and who has his best interest at heart, especially in deference to his advanced old age. Today, Americans are witnessing the pitiful sight that is Joe Biden on campaign stumps, apparently battling serious memory loss and finding it extremely very difficult to string sentences together, lacks coherency and struggles through explanations.

ICHEOKU commends former President Barack Obama for not holding back and for honestly assessing the situation and dutifully confronting Joe Biden's viability as a presidential candidate in 2020 and asking him to reconsider his decision to run. By doing so, the former president has displayed the candor of truthfully speaking and making a good judgment call; as well as having the courage to speak up, regardless. That Joe Biden chose to ignore the wise counsel is a decision which Joe Biden will later regret and wish that he had listened. It is obvious that Joe Biden lacks both the capacity and capability to mount a successful presidential election bid and there is no pretending about it. His advanced old age and medical condition have conspired to take away the shine from the Joe from Scranton who became the Amtrak riding Senator from Delaware and it shows. 

According to sources, former President Barack Obama said to Joe Biden, "You don't have to do this, Joe, you really don't"; and further to urge Joe Biden's advisers not to let Joe damage his legacy with a run for president or embarrass himself on campaign trails. However, ICHEOKU says does not know whose "legacy" Barack Obama was referring to here, whether it is his own legacy, which is practically non existent since they have been completely decimated by President Donald John Trump or Joe Biden's personal legacy. But regardless, Joe Biden has already accomplished both as he has embarrassed himself on the trail and have also damaged whatever legacy that was being referred to. On his own personal legacy as not being worthy of the honor of an elevation to the presidency and to Obama's, because there is nothing left of his legacy anyway. 

This advise not to run possibly explains what led to the Joe Biden's statement that he told Obama not to endorse him. The stubborn Joe Biden possibly fired back at Obama, saying that he does not need his advise, approval and/or endorsement to run for president. The most likely fallout scenario would be Joe Biden saying to the former president that he will run for president regardless; and if the former president wants, let him not endorse him and then soldiered on to declare his intention to run for president 2020. May be Joe Biden mistook the friendly advise as a bad intentioned Obama, having finished his own presidency and did not want Joe Biden having a go at it. Joe Biden was probably thinking that Obama was trying to sabotage his effort at also becoming president himself. It is possible that the sincere advise by Obama was misconstrued by Joe Biden as antagonistic and possibly, together with his wife Jill, concluded that Barack Obama did not mean well  for them. 

The former president also alluded to the old and out of touch Team Biden which is not good for today's political campaign; to which ICHEOKU says like candidate, like his team; both of them are 'too old' and 'out of touch with the realities of the current political discuss in the land. They are a convergence of political Neanderthals, as old Joe Biden only feels comfortable in the company of his generation and does not trust or wants to be lost and left confused in the midst of millennials. It is the same reason Joe Biden does not want to pass the torch because he wants it all for only Joe Biden and does not believe any other person can do it better than Joe can. Simply too self absorbing.

It is also significant to note that by ignoring Obama and running, Joe Biden is holding aloft the promise which he made to late Senator John Sidney McCain to stay active in politics and not to let President Donald John Trump "ruin" it for everybody. He sees himself as Captain America, who will save Americans from President Donald John Trump and that way, he will keep his promise. Unfortunately, that desire by Joe Biden to keep a solemn promise which he made to a man who is now dead, is trying to once again cost the Democratic Party heavily with another presidential election loss. 

Anyway, whatever happens, at least President Barack Obama, like Pontus Pilate, has washed his hands off the tribulations of Joe Biden presidential quest. It is clear that Joe Biden brought it unto himself by rejecting the wise counsel of his former boss. Whether his forging on was born out of unchecked ambition or a result of someone being too full of it, Americans will soon find out. But first, he must win the Democratic Party's primaries, secure the ticket and then proceed to do the impossible, win the the White House on November 3rd, 2020. Until then, Americans can only wait and watch to see whether the former president will be vindicated or Joe Biden will prove him wrong; either way, ICHEOKU is staying tuned. 

DON LEMON: A ME TOO VICTIM OR OFFENDER?

ICHEOKU says were standards the same, may be the victim should be believed; but of course it is CNN and liberal politics and it is okay to accept that anchorman Don Lemon "categorically denies the claim." Unlike Justice Kavanaugh, who similarly categorically denied such a Me TOO claim, but his wasn't categorically enough nor okay. 

Query, is it because different standards applies when the alleged victim/accuser is a female or the alleged perpetrator/accused is a liberal? Just asking. 

But whatever happens, this is definitely not a good time for the fake news CNN's image as two of its presenters became the news for the wrong reasons. Chris Fredo Cuomo for his threatening angry tirade to kill somebody by throwing him down the stairs to a neck break and Don Lemonade Lemon's stinky sexual assault on a bartender, who he asked whether he likes pussy or dick as he shoved his "tainted" fingers under his nostrils. 

Anyway, unlike Chris Fredo Cuomo whose ugly incident was captured on video, Don Lemonade Lemon is lucky to still enjoy the benefit of the doubt because neither a photographic nor video evidence of his alleged assault exists. But it is the ME TOO era and the only thing that changed is that it was a male who made the accusation and against another male; otherwise the female feminists maniacs would have swung into action calling for the head of Don Lemonade Lemon on a platter and vociferously demanding that CNN cut him loose. Lucky Lemon.

CHRIS FREDO CUOMO: HAS SERIOUS ANGER ISSUES.

ICHEOKU says it is now obvious that all his pretentiousness on fake news CNN were just a charade, a mask of Zorro; feigning dignity, civility and gentlemanliness where none exists. It all came off like a woman's mascara in the rain and at last, he was exposed for who he is, an angry person who cannot take what he regularly dishes out to others and nearly on a daily basis. 

This is a guy who has been calling the president RACIST and a TRAITOR for "colluding" with the Russians, but who could not stand the same test when applied to him; and in his case, it was just his name being mistaken for Fredo and he erupted. A case of serving others a medicine which himself would not take. A pitiful hypocrite. 

Anyone who watched the video where he threatened violence on an innocent fella, of pushing him down the stairs to his ultimate death by broken neck, can then imagine  what he would have done to all those fake news media hacks who have been accusing the president of being a Russian agent, were he to possess the powers of the office. Just a mistaken name and he went off like a rocket, blowing his top gasket in the process. He not only threatened to kill the guy by a neck break through a fall, but he also was very unruly, unguarded and cursed like a drunken sailor, using profanities, not minding that his 9 year old daughter was present. 

ICHEOKU says such an erratic behavior is a testament that the suits which he wears merely covers up a raw, crass and uncouth street fella, who lacked proper upbringing, including right mannerisms and etiquette. Little wonder he cannot seem to shake off the complexity of being an underachieving Cuomo and the least fulfilled of the Cuomos. That such a vagrant individual is the face of CNN and anchors a one hour program on the station daily, is yet another scandal to hit the network. Regrettably, this is the same guy who has been accusing Trump's MAGA supporters of vagrancy. 

ICHEOKU has nothing personally against Chris Fredo Cuomo, but after watching that video, is emphatic that CNN should not keep him a day longer on the network; at least not on television. A desk assignment will do, as his continuing stay on television will only be a reminder of the career-killing, indelible life altering rant. Keeping him will reflects poorly on the network and he should not be the example which CNN wants its viewers to emulate, especially their young and easily impressionable ones. 

The name Fredo shouldn't have such a bile to it as to provoke any disciplined person to such a ravenous rage, except of course the person is a time bomb waiting to go off. ICHEOKU wonders what kind of childhood which Chris Fredo Cuomo had that enshrined in him such a level of anger. Even watching his Snowball's eyes and twitching face on television and some expressions which keep them company, as well as his sometimes forced showing of teeth which he passes for a smile, tells any keen observer that he is not a happy person. Anyway, going to anger management class will be in order and any gun control measures must start by taking his guns away and keeping him away from guns. Such an angry and easily provoked personality has no business having guns handy. 

ICHEOKU says Fredo is not a racist word, otherwise Italian Don Corleone would not have named his second son Fredo. In fact Fredo is an endearment for Frederick and ICHEOKU knows a lot of people named Frederick who are affectionately called Fredo and they love it. Also Francis Coppola is Italian and he wouldn't have allowed such an Italian slur "Fredo" in making the movie; neither would Mario Puzo, another Italian, have chosen the racist name for the character in his book, The Godfather. The Godfather was not about putting Italians down but showcased their struggles through early life in America and rise to fortune. 

None of these Italians would have tolerated any disparaging of their heritage through a racial slurring name, Fredo. Chris Fredo Cuomo misfired by alleging that Fredo is racist and akin to the word Nigger because it is neither. He should have instead claimed the name and own it; and then turn it into a profitable brand merchandising and made a fortune doing it. 

But what was witnessed is a man embroiled in rage and you wonder if his home is a safe place to raise children and whether his daughter and wife are even safe being under the same roof with him. The Children welfare services ought to pay them a visit and conduct welfare check on them, failing which they should be removed from the home. CNN must therefore withdraw its blanket support for their angry presenter as not to do so, presupposes that the network condones violence and by necessary implication, encourages same and/or a threat of it, regardless of whatever preceding provocation that might have occurred. 

CNN must not be seen to endorse what happened or in any other way telegraphs, by their reaction, that such outlandish outburst is okay, even in defense of oneself. It is also not okay for adults, particularly parents, to curse in front of their children. It is the same thing which the network accuses Trump and Trump's supporters of doing that their anchorman did and now they suddenly approved of it. 

Threatening to throw a person down the stairs is as serious any threat could be and it should not be taken lightly. Possibly, it was a tip of the iceberg of the real Chris Fredo Cuomo that Americans and the whole world saw on the video and you wonder what the eruption would look like behind an enclosed space, with no camera rolling. It is for the same exact reason that our Lord and master Jesus Christ admonished that he who is without sin should throw the first stone. Here is a man who is in the business of casting aspersions on people and who continuously disparages the president, losing his temper so publicly and going off like a tornado. Even Bill O'Reilly's "DO IT LIVE" outburst fades in comparison. 

Chris Fredo Cuomo is irreparably damaged and has lost the moral authority to opine on people's behavior, especially the president. As long as he shall live and for however long CNN decides to keep him on television, and regardless of whatever achievements and accomplishments he may record, the video has forever defined him and he will be remembered for the angry outburst as Fredo. It is SAD and it is the sad reality of life, as anyone's reputation could so easily go up in smoke at a moment, either as a result of their own making or the witchery of others. But in this case, Christopher Fredo Cuomo has no other adversary except himself, as he could have easily walked away, but chose to show the pestilence that he has been going to the gym and pumping iron. Now, it is only regrets, the mother of "HAD I KNOWN."

JEFFREY EPSTEIN: JUMPED OR WAS PUSHED?

ICHEOKU says in a high powered intrigues-filled world, where many have been killed for less, killing an already trapped quarry wouldn't be that much a difficult task to pull off. Here was a man who had attempted suicide once and should have been on a 24/7 suicide watch, but suddenly succeeded in killing himself and inside the same facility where he was being held and supposedly under a suicide watch. 

ICHEOKU says what exactly happened can only be unraveled through a thorough forensic investigation, as anything short of that will amount to a continuing cover up of the decision to get rid of Jeff and with it, bury every other scandal arising from the sex scandal which implicated the high and mighty of the society. A matter made so appalling because he "killed" himself so soon following the revelation of the many powerful men who were implicated in the sex scandal including a member of the British royal family Prince Andrew, New Mexico former Governor Bill Richardson the United States Ambassador to the United Nations and Energy Secretary under Bill Clinton, Maine Senator George Mitchell. 

So, is it possible that Jeffrey Epstein did not kill himself but was a victim of a conspiracy to silence him and make him a never to be available witness? Who had something to gain with Jeff out of the picture and were there video cameras tuned on him recording his every move. Something does not seemingly add up here when a prison under suicide watch in a facility succeeded in still killing himself. Regardless of the enormity of his crimes, it is not sufficient that he died as there were so many unknowns the country would have wished a trial would have throw more lights on. As Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar rightly said and ICHEOKU agrees, 'it is not enough that a bad guy died, as there were other bad guys involved in the sexual abuse saga." Who are these bad fellas who were on the Jeff Epstein Lolita joyride. But now, without the main accused person being present, how far the investigation would go is but anyone's guess. 

ICHEOKU says but why would Jeffrey Epstein kill himself instead of taking a chance at trial and with the best criminal defense lawyers money could procure, hope for a successful defense. OJ Simpson beat two murders rap and sexual molestation is definitely a lesser offense than murder; so a verdict of acquittal was a possibility. Moreso, he could have waited until the whole process exhausts itself and if an undesirable verdict results, then end his life if that is what he really wanted to do. But now, Jeffrey is gone and never to be heard from again; and you wonder if all the troubles he went through getting rich, only to now die like a dog, was worth effort afterall. But yes, the preacher in Ecclesiastes 1:2 was right that all is vanity. Jeffrey Epstein was 66 years. May his soul now rest.

MARK ZUCKERBERG: UNBAN THE BANNED!

ICHEOKU says Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg is gradually morphing into a full blown dictator, but will Americans accept that? Selectively banning from Facebook people with different viewpoints is not good nor healthy for a pluralistic society with diversity of human beings and diverse viewpoints. In the ongoing battle of ideology, there must be a level playing field and not one unfairly rigged by social media for a predetermined outcome.

DAYTON OHIO SHOOTER CONNOR BETTS: ANOTHER ANGRY AMERICAN.

ICHEOKU says why are there so many angry Americans willing to take out their hurt on others by killing innocent Americans at the slightest tip over. ICHEOKU is emphatic that political ideology has nothing to do with it, neither is the availability of guns the primary driver. These lunatics are hurting, angry and easily tipped over; and have no compunction in taking it out on defenseless citizens. It Is about time we as a people stopped making excuses or solely blaming the NRA for the senseless acts of some deranged sadists and admit that a lot of Americans are hurting and mentally damaged. 

What creates the level of hurt in these people that they would go about killing innocent people is beyond ICHEOKU. Why are they this so mad? May be the media and Hollywood could tone it down a notch and stop sensationalizing of their programmings as well as excessive violence in their movies, which only works up people, instead of merely informing them. The media and Hollywood, instead of just finding some politicians to scapegoat for all these shootings, should learn to take some responsibility for their part in it and join hands in finding a solution or at least some reduction thereto. 

The unending carnage is not solely because of the NRA or availability of guns, but has something to do with too much anger and hatred in the land. People are just worked up, angry and looking to take it out on others. ICHEOKU is emphatic that even if all the guns in America are taken away, these misfits will still find a way to commit their heinous acts, including somehow securing guns from somewhere. America is bleeding and it is about time everyone came together to try and resolve the crisis, especially cheap politicians who are always seeking to mine such a tragedy for political gains. 

Beto O'Rourke was blaming the president's rhetoric for the El Paso shooting but hasn't similarly blamed anyone's rhetoric for the Dayton Ohio shooter who killed 9 and wounded 27 in a bar. His taciturnity came probably after he learnt that the Dayton Ohio shooter was a register Democrat who supports Elizabeth Warren, ANTIFA and agrees with Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in America turning into a socialist country. This is the risk anyone runs in seeking to make unnecessary political gains out of such national tragedies. Enough of these wastage of American lives.

EL PASO SHOOTER PATRICK CRUSIUS: WHEN ANGER EATS YOU UP.

ICHEOKU says what anger can do to somebody, hollow him out from the inside, turning him into a hateful mass murderer; who threw reason to the air, killing 20 people and injuring 26 others. It is sad and it is inexplicable; but why some Americans are so angry and easily irritable that they readily resort to murderous rage is simply incomprehensible. 

So, as we continue to discuss sensible gun control measures as well as the role NRA has to play in its success, it will also be nice to put focus on people's psychology and overall mental health. Why are people so angry and easily irritable, that they often take vengeance on innocent people. It is awfully pitiful. 

ICHEOKU says may the souls of the 20 El Paso killed now rest and wishes the 26 injured and hospitalized, speedy recovery. May justice take its course in bringing Patrick Crusius to justice; admitted that no amount of punishment, including 20 death penalties, can atone for his calamitous act, not even a death by a thousand cuts. What a human debris.

ELIZABETH WARREN: STILL THE STRONGEST CANDIDATE

ICHEOKU says the outcome-determined  polling, which places Joe Biden on the front burner notwithstanding, the Democratic Party must bite the bullet and pick a candidate who stands some chance of mounting a serious contention for the presidency in 2020 or at least would acquit   himself or herself well, trying. 

The Democrats must allow the process to pick a winner and not mire it down as they did in 2016 with Hillary Clinton's selection over the more populist Bernie Sanders. A repeat of 2016 must not be tolerated in 2020, otherwise the same result will be had. 

The pack of twenty candidates have just completed their second debate and only the Senator from the great State of Massachusetts, Elizabeth Warren, has proved herself very capable of taking a serious shot at the presidency 2020. Democrats must therefore forget their old book of politicking and try something new, refreshing and exciting; by fielding a feminist female extraordinaire who is not shy nor afraid to get down on the mat and battle it out with the president. 

Elizabeth Warren checked all the departments of the big umbrella Democratic Party, especially the new paradigm, going into the 2020 presidential election. She is a female, she is a feminist, she is a white woman, she is educated, she debates quite well, she is a progressive and she is a fighter. All that is left for the Democratic Party to do, is to persuade John Delaney to pair up with her as a vice presidential candidate. 

Progressivism is the new thinking in the Democratic Party, as the core base of the party wants a forward looking candidate to lead the fight. The Democratic Party honchos must not let its base of support down by going backward with Joe Biden, because if they do, they will be punished with a rejection at the poll. Americans are a futuristic people and they do not like to go back and lick up their vomit. Joe Biden is in the past, he belongs in ancient history and should be left in the rearview mirror of American politics where he rightly now belongs. A retirement is quite in order for the good old Joe, the boy from Scranton and Amtrak riding Senator from the great State of Delaware.

However, the only issue ICHEOKU sees with such an Elizabeth Warren's headship of the ticket is that it will shut out the black minority, which is a strong support base and huge component part of the Democratic Party. This is partly why Hilary Clinton lost the presidency in 2016, because, against all advice, she refused to pick black Cory Booker as her vice presidential candidate and blacks stayed out the election because they felt they had no dog in the fight. To win, the Democratic Party must present a team that would energize black voters and make them turn out en-masse to vote. Also, if Elizabeth Warren  settles for a black male vice presidential candidate, white men will feel slighted that they were completely left out and will vote against her or stay out the election to register their anger. 

This is the only threatening issue to Elizabeth Warren's presidential candidacy as the Democratic Party has become so compartmentalized, that every constituent part of its membership is fiercely striving for a seat at the table. So, an all white ticket will not satisfy nor be acceptable to black people and Elizabeth being a minority female, cannot afford to run a two minorities team. The challenge of the Democratic Party is how to effectively balance the various competing interests on a ticket, without causing a major fractious crisis within the party. 

Kamala Harris would have been a "perfect" candidate because she checked all the markers as well, including being black; but she cannot win the primaries and her chances at defeating the president is nearly none existent. Americans are afraid of her, she has anger issues and Americans are not ready for another minority president, at least not now. ICHEOKU says provided Joe Biden is not coronated as Hillary Clinton was in 2016 and imposed on the party, it will surely be an exciting election campaign 2020 to watch and closely follow.

PASS THE TORCH AND DO IT NOW!

ICHEOKU says to the two great grandfathers, Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders, they should please know that their moment in the sun has since passed. They should allow the next generation of leaders to emerge and lead the Democratic Party. Pouring an old wine in a new skin never works and will not work; enough of the clinging to power and disruption of much needed transfer of power to the next generation. They must please withdraw their participation in the Democratic Party's presidential nomination process, because it is not reserved for a Council of Elders. They should allow the young to grow, by passing the torch now.

JOE BIDEN: CHOOSING HIM, A BIG MISTAKE.

ICHEOKU says the Democratic Party will be daft and strategically unthinking to so do. But unfortunately, it is steadily looking like Joe Biden will be the it, the candidate of inevitability. It is apparently the same old script which the party used in 2016 when they foist Queen Crooked Hillary Clinton on the party that they have dusted up once again and trying to use it to midwife Joe Biden's candidacy. This is a classical definition of insanity, repeatedly doing the same thing while expecting a different outcome. If it did not work then with Hillary Clinton in 2016, why does the party think that it will work now with Joe Biden. 

A Joe Biden who could not attract up to 5,000 people to his presidential campaign launch event in his own native home Scranton, is who the Democrats now want Americans to believe will defeat a president who regularly attracts close to 25,000 people to his campaign events. It is definitely an interesting perspective, except that it will require the suspension of disbelief to accept the illogicality of their argument that the multitude of people who throng President Donald John Trump's political events, will suddenly make a somersault and switch sides, and vote differently come Election Day November 3rd, 2020. 

The Democrats are needlessly attaching too much importance to name recognition, practically the sole reason they think that Joe Biden is the most formidable candidate to take on President Donald John Trump in 2020. But they selectively forgot that Hillary Clinton had a more recognizable name than Joe Biden; ditto Jeb Bush, but both were roundly defeated by the president. If the two well recognized individuals were demolished by the president, despite their storied names, it shows that name recognition is not everything. Therefore, what chance does a weak and fledgling old Joe Biden stand against the president in 2020, his recognized name notwithstanding. 

ICHEOKU says at best minimal; hence name recognition should not be the controlling authority in choosing a presidential candidate for the Democratic Party in 2020. The Democrats should go for a more youthful, more vibrant, more vivacious and more feisty individual who could command the attention of the American people and who could in actuality give the president a run for his money. Joe Biden does not possess any of the listed items more than the rest of the other 19 candidates; admitted none of them will defeat the president in 2020. None of the 20 candidates has what it will take to defeat the president; the president looms larger than life and towers far above all of the competitors. 

But Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was right that going backwards is not an option; and except the Democratic Party nominates a futuristic change candidate, with a forward-looking agenda, the party will again lose the next election in 2020 to President Donald John Trump. The reason the government is broken and highly dysfunctional is that those who have been running the government for far too long, such as Joe Biden, who was first elected to Washington DC in 1972, a preeminent political dinosaur of Washington DC, are still clinging to power. They broke the government, yet they have refused to step aside, move away to make way, for people with can do spirit to help fix the government. 

Just ask yourself what does Joe Biden still need by seeking yet another Washington DC government job, after having Washington DC government job for nearly half a century. The only possible explanation is that it is a power drunk move, by an establishment elite, who feels like fish out of water without being in power. Then a follow up question, what exactly is Joe Biden planning to do now, which the past 47 years did not provide, enable, yield or afford him the opportunity to do. The answer is nothing really. 

ICHEOKU says what is even so uplifting and worth clamoring for in old Joe Biden, which will make him attractive to the electorates, that the Democratic Party thinks would make them want to vote to elect him their president. What different message, short of "I hate Trump's guts", will Joe Biden bring in 2020 that will make the American people, who previously rejected the Obama/Biden policies in 2016, when they voted to elect President Donald John Trump president, now want to gravitate back to him. What has changed between 2016 and 2020 for the Democrats to now think that Joe Biden is the it, the acceptable darling of the American voting public. 

ICHEOKU says except job performance of an incumbent president is no longer a factor and there will be no presidential campaigns and debates, the Democrats seemingly are not feeling the pulse of the American people correctly. Otherwise, the indicators and barometers are there that President Donald John Trump will be reelected on November 3rd, 2020. As one poled individual once said, "Joe Biden is Hillary Clinton 2.0 and nominating him will be the worst mistake the Democratic Party will ever make going into the presidential election 2020." ICHEOKU completely agrees and urges the Democratic Party to save themselves another teary eyes on November 3rd, 2020 by being proactive now. Say no to Joe Biden. Tell Joe Biden to #PassTheTorch.

THE BALTIMORE TWEET: NOT RACIST.

ICHEOKU says does not think that the president's tweet concerning the Congressman from Baltimore, Elijah Cummings, is racist; nor did he tweet it with racism on his mind. It is only that people have mastered the art of attacking the messenger, rather than addressing the message in order to parry away issues which they would rather not discuss nor engage in. A very distractive, change the subject, ploy and approach to issues; a readily available clever tool in the hands of politicians, who are often times averse to being called out and would do whatever it takes to change the subject. The issue should have been whether the president's tweet was true that the Congressman's district is in a parlous condition and not that the president said it, needless to turn it into a racial issue. 

Probably, Baltimoreans, especially their politicians, were mad that the president brought a global attention to the squalid state of affairs in their city and publicly shamed them. They would rather nobody knew the actual state of affairs in their city and it being made so public by President Donald John Trump put them in a bad light, as another failed liberal city of America. Their angst was not because what the president tweeted was not true; otherwise they have since invited the media to walk them through the neighborhoods. It was not also because the president falsely accused Baltimorean Congressman Elijah Cummings; either. The appalling state of Baltimore has been previously highlighted by Bernie Sanders, Baltimore Sun newspapers as well as the New York Times. The president merely added his voice to it and because his voice has a global reach and everybody has now come to know about it, they are crying blue murder.  

A corrigible city government and its politicians would have taken a lesson from the president's tweet and try and fix their broken city; and even asked the president to help them with money to fix their city. This is where the Congressman would have come in and use his Congressional position to plead with the president for federal dollars to help lift his Congressional district. But no, they hate the president; hence everything that comes from the president, even if otherwise ordinarily beneficial, must be castigated and put in a dump and branded racist. Then you ask yourself what is racist in telling a Congressman to first take care of his district before pretending that illegal immigrants at the Southern border are not being treated well enough or has it tougher than impoverished American citizens who live in his district. 

Afterall, it was the Congressman who claimed that no human beings should be allowed to live like those illegal immigrants, while hundreds of thousands of poor African Americans and other down on their luck Americans live in far worse conditions than those illegal immigrants; begging the question, why does the Congressman's' charity not begin from home. But he is a politician and politicians are all about posturing and he wanted his moment in the sun by badgering the Border patrol head at his committee's hearing. Americans were shocked to see the Congressman's tone of admonishment, particularly when he said that people don't have to live that way, whereas millions of Americans, are living worse than that way, including in his own Baltimore Congressional district. as well. 

A point which nobody needs to go searching too far in order to see, such that ICHEOKU considers it scandalous that America will be parading its generosity abroad when millions of its own citizens are living in worse conditions than those foreigners which their country is often helping abroad. All it takes is a travel through the inner cities of America, the Midwest, the Appalachian, as well as the gutted Ross belt and some shocking levels of poverty will be staring one on the face. Yet, these forgotten Americans are killing themselves daily due to despondency, overdosing on drugs, committing suicides with guns and whatever they can find to end their lives, but their government is in Washington DC pretending that all is well; and that they have money to be helping other countries while their own citizens are in such a perilous state; and with great incredulity as to what happened to their own American dream, which has since turned into a nightmare. 

ICHEOKU says may be one of the ways to control immigration is for America to start showing its poor people and their impoverished neighborhoods to the world, as it will surely deter immigrants craving a shot at the American dream. The logic will be so easily discernible - if American citizens are this impoverished, why bother coming over. But no, a country of camera, lights and action, would like to showcase only the good, while intentionally forgetting the bad and the ugly. This is incentivizing the out of control immigration, which thus makes America's inner city citizens to be out competed  by more hungry immigrants who readily take the jobs which they would have been doing and for far too less a wage, thus compounding an already bad situation. 

But the president must not be allowed to air it and when he does, a deflection of racism is thrown into the mix just to keep the lid over the situation and you wonder whether this situation will ever be resolved or solved. It is a vicious circle and there is apparently a conspiracy of silence around it, the reason all these people are now hollering racism because they do not want the world to know what the real situation is actually in America. 

ICHEOKU says if Congressman Elijah Cummings must be angry, he should first be angry at the state of affairs of impoverished American citizens, particularly those who call his district home and thereafter, he can look at those illegal immigrants at the Southern border. But he got the whole situation wrong when he forsook his primary constituents who are living in squalor and became an advocate for illegal immigrants. This is the issue that needs to be discussed and not whether a presidential tweet was racist because it was not. The president only drew attention to the Congressman's misplaced priority and many in his congressional district agree with the president that the Congressman got it all mixed up, as they too could use some help from the government in order to improve their living conditions. Such a calling out is not racism by any definition, no matter how widened.

MUELLER'S TESTIMONY SHOCKER: MULLER'S REPORT WASN'T HIS.

ICHEOKU says it is abundantly evident from his demeanor, fidgetiness, tutored and stammered labored responses and his overall askance look that Robert Mueller did not read nor wrote the report which goes by his name The Mueller''s Report. Such inference is easily deductible by closely watching his mannerisms and listening to his answers to the questions, particularly as it appertains to the content of his report during his testimony before the United States Congress Judiciary Committee. 

ICHEOKU is emphatic that Robert Mueller did not read the report prior to his appearance at the hearing and couldn't have otherwise written it. He literally did not have a clue about the content of the Mueller Report and frequently asked for a reference page and paragraph, from where he reads to know or "refresh" his recollections before either collaborating it or punting the question. Anyone whose original work is being questioned, would readily recall the vital points and issues which he raised once minded; but not Robert Mueller, thus validating the claim in some quarters that some Democratic Party interest just used him to pursue an objective, which unfortunately bombed. 

Robert Mueller was eagerly answering Democratic Party members' questions or attempting to respond to hem; unlike the Republicans, whose insightful questions he parried off  and did not answer them. Some questions particularly captured ICHEOKU's attention, including how he contradicted himself on Collusion and Conspiracy being synonyms in his report, only to deny it during the hearing. He also failed to answer why an investigation into an alleged Russian meddling in our election only investigated one campaign but not the other. If indeed Mueller was truly determined to conclusively and thoroughly get to the bottom of the Russian meddling in our election in 2016, why did he not also investigate the Hillary Clinton's campaign to see if Russians also intruded in it. Afterall the stated objective of the Mueller Team was to find out if Russia meddled in our election; as they could have easily found an entry door through the Clinton's campaign. But Mueller refused to state why her campaign was not investigated, in order to find out if the Russia's meddling was as in-fact as pervasive as he concluded is still debatable.

Also by stating that he could not "exonerate" the president, Mueller transferred the onus and burden of proving his innocence on the president, which made a mockery of America's criminal law jurisprudence of presumption of innocent until proved guilty. It was not the place of the prosecutor, Robert Mueller, to determine whether or not the president is innocent or guilty of a charge. His job was to find and collect evidence of the president's culpability, which could be used at trial to prove beyond reasonable doubt the president's guilt. But the final decision of guilt still rests with the adjudicator or presiding authority but definitely not the prosecutor. Even such arbiter is still precluded from determining the president's innocence or lack of it; only whether he is guilty of the charge or not. So by Robert Mueller going out of his way to impugn the president with his statement that he could not "exonerate" the president, he embarked on a prosecutorial frolic, which is not known to criminal law and therefore a gross illegality and overreach.

Robert Mueller equally refused to answer why the letter which he wrote against the finding of the Attorney General on his report was deliberately leaked to the media, when his nearly two year long investigation never leaked. Robert Mueller also refused to answer why he charged everybody who "lied" to his investigating team and who are associated with the president, but refused to say why he did not indict those who lied to him, but  who are anti Trump and on the other side. Needless to add that his investigating team were largely composed of anti Trump lawyers and Hillary Clinton's sympathizers. 

Robert Mueller also reached a conclusion on Collusion, part of his report; but failed to similarly also reach a conclusion on the Obstruction, part two of his report; despite his mandate to reach a decision either way, regardless of what the practice of the Department of Justice was. A fair prosecutor would have concluded either that there was no evidence that the president was guilty of Obstruction or that there was, for which the president would have been indicted but for the DOJ guideline. But Robert Mueller was being clever by half in not answering the question as well. 

ICHEOKU says all these established clear evidence of bias or appearance of it on the part of Robert Mueller against the president, which tainted the report he finally came out with. But to Robert Mueller, it does not matter because the president is "below" the law, hence the principles of fair trial did not avail him, hence they were denied to him. As far as Robert Mueller was concerned, the president was expected to first establish his innocence before Mueller could "exonerate" him. What a farcical stranger to criminal prosecution and Mueller was fully aware of it, but did it anyway. ICHEOKU says with this Mueller Report and its attendant testimony, Robert Mueller may have inadvertently written the final chapter of his book of life, because long after he is gone, he will be remembered largely for this infamous Mueller Report. A pitiful way to sign off on his storied legacy. SAD.

10 DOWNING STREET: BORIS JOHNSON MOVES IN.

ICHEOKU says British Trump is now the new Prime Minister of the United Kingdom; Boris Johnson, that is. He resoundingly won the contest for the PM with nearly 100,000 votes out of the 160,000 Conservative party members who voted to elect a new Prime Minister. He replaces the disgraced and very incompetent Theresa May, who was forced to resign the office because of her inability to midwife Brexit to fruition. 

The bombastic Bojo, as he is fondly known, is a quick rise to the British highest political office, the Prime Minister. A journalist turned politician he first ran for elective office in 2001 as a member of Parliament and won as a representative for Henley. He was also once the vice chairman for the Conservative Party, a Shadow Minister for Arts, a Shadow Minister for Education, Mayor of London, Member of Parliament representing Uxbridge and South Ruislip, Foreign Secretary and now the British Prime Minister. A meteoric ascendancy indeed. 

Boris Johnson will certainly be a different kind of Prime Minister and exactly what a Britain that is somewhat lost in political correctness, which saw a Pakistani Muslim become the Mayor of London, and many British cities already lost to Islamism, needs at this trying times. Bojo does not suffer fools lightly and once derided Burkha-wearing Muslim women as resembling bank robbers and post boxes. He also once described Queen Crooked Hillary Clinton's as a sadistic nurse in a mental hospital. A Brexit campaigner in chief who has vowed to actualize the exit of Britain from the European Union by the October 2019 deadline. Hopefully he will follow through with all the optimistic and high spirited statements, especially his promised ending of the diet of misery which British people have been forced to take and put spring back in the steps of every Brit. 

ICHEOKU says so far, he is talking the good talk and hopefully he will also walk the good walk by repositioning Britain at the pedestal where it was loomed high. He must also remember to first recover the detonator from Brussel before unwrapping the suicide vest from Britain, just to avoid any unintended consequences by an aggrieved Europe as a scorned partner is always very dangerous. Anyway, ICHEOKU wishes Boris Johnson a successful term in office and hopefully he will nominate Nigel Farage as the new British ambassador to the United States of America and that way premaritally seal his friendship with President Donald John Trump, a fan of both men.  Congratulations Bojo.

BRITAIN HAS A NEW PRIME MINISTER: HURRAY.

ICHEOKU says congratulations to Boris Johnson, the British Trump. 

THE SQUAD: HOW COULD THEY LOVE AMERICA?

ICHEOKU says when you love something, you are proud of it and you are bound to do right for and by it; as well as protect it from harm, damage or injury. Such expected disposition also includes not allowing any person to insult, disparage, ridicule or otherwise belittle the thing in any other way. You also do not talk it down, but continuously remain its cheerleader in chief. 

As a result, you somewhat morph into its marketing officer, as any good salesperson would, for any good product which he or she is trying to move. A mother's love for a child is one such good example of such abiding and unconditional love, which a person should have for a child, thing or country. For instance, when you have a house or is inside a house which provides you shelter from the elements, you don't tear it down; rather, you defend and protect it from any and every antagonistic foreign and external foe trying to take the roof out and render you homeless. This is the crux of the current embroilment between real American people and those four nutcase Congresswomen, who have formed themselves into a gang of four, aka The Squad. They do not love America and at best, not deeply enough; and not in such a way as beneficiaries of the American largess such as them, would or are expected to love a country which has given them so much. 

In which other country would their stories of coming from nothing to becoming something have been realized within such a short period of time in their lives. Many marvelous dreams come through, especially for Alexandria Ocasio Cortez who rocketed from a waitressing in a drinking bar to a United States of American Congresswoman from New York. Then add Omar who was a rescue from a Somalian refuge camp less than two decades ago and is now also a United States Congresswoman from Minnesota. The incredible but true story is about the same for the other two Congresswomen from Michigan and Massachusetts who round up the membership of the The Squad, Presley and Thliab. Their story of ONLY IN AMERICA, where dreams frequently come through for those who dare to aspire. 

ICHEOKU says what then is it exactly, that still riles these four women and cause them to hate America this much, despite having benefited so much from what America has to offer. Why do they hate America so much that at every opportunity, they trash it in such a way that you begin to wonder if America is really this horrible, why are they still there and not take a refuge somewhere else. Where is their love of country and gratitude to America which made them who they are today; which still protects, provides and defends them. An America which translated their dreams into realities of epochal achievements, which would have still remained merely a fairly tale dream in so many other countries, but a reality in America. But they chose to remain angry ingrates who pine away in sorrowful condemnation of the country which gave them its all.

Instead of disparaging America, these gals should be singing praises of America for allowing them realize their own American dreams; admitted, millions of others are still chasing their own dreams, while many millions of others have hopelessly watched as their dreams have since turned into unmitigated nightmares. That is what love of country is all about, showing gratitude for the privilege of being a citizen and not disparaging it at any slightest given opportunity. 

ICHEOKU says this is true, notwithstanding the famed right to free speech, freedom of expression ingrained in a democracy. Talking down of one's  country is definitely not the only way to truly exercise one's right to freely speak. That is what enemies and detractors do, but not patriotic citizens who love their country dearly. Patriots fight and defend the honor of their country, but they do not help detractors tear their country down or in any other way, demean it. If these four renegade women spend their time talking ill of their country and literary pulling it down, what then do they expect detractors of America to do or is it a case of unwittingly doing the job for them? 

Therefore, when one continuously belittles, insults and talk down something, such as one's own country, it becomes somewhat difficult, if not impossible, to reconcile such an unflattering conduct with love of country. Such crazy "love" is anathema to the country's well-being, as with such love, the country does not need any other enemy, because the enemy within is enough threat already. 

How could these women be calling for a borderless America; an American without security officials; an America where everything is free without saying how they are going to be paid for ; an America where babies are cavalierly aborted; an America where all the structures that hold it together are torn apart; an America which is completely gutted and remade in their own fantastically maniacal image; an American without an American flag; an America where the entire world's population are emptied into; an America which is a different America as we currently know it and in fact an America which ceases to be America. Yet they pretend to love America and you wonder with all these their desire come through, would there still exist America in the true sense of it. 

Something is wrong with the picture and only a person who hates America would advocate for such radical, complete and total remake of America; because once done, it will no longer be America that will remain, but a caricature of America, a ghost of the America that once was. 

These four knuckleheads who call themselves "The Squad" are guilty of lack of love for America. They have no real and true love for America and possesses shallow lip-service love at best. They do not have such love for country as real patriots do, that makes them pay the ultimate sacrifice for their country if need be. If America were a chattel or commodity and the opportunity avails itself for these women, they would readily auction America off for pittance without batting an eyelid. These women are mad and angry; and their deep seated anger at everything America stands for readily shows and boils out each time they open their anti America acerbic mouths. 

ICHEOKU says will reecho President Donald John Trump's words that these women should freely look elsewhere to anchor their boats of citizenship if they cannot stand America anymore. Good enough, America is still one of the countries that does not bar its citizens from leaving the country whenever they so desire. Rather, it is the deluge of people from other countries wanting to call America home who are flooding America, including those jumping in from the Southern border, that is the problem. How to effectively, sensibly control and regulate their inflow is the issue and not that anybody is stopping those who wants to leave. What a squad of undignified, rascally, feminists anarchists, who are seeking their fifteen minute of fame and in the process trying to destroy America and take it down. Thankfully enough, President Donald John Trump says not under his watch and is fighting back and is winning. Kudos to the MAGA-Nation. #SAYNOTOTHESQUAD. #MAGA/KAG2020.