MEGHAN MARKLE: THE AGONY OF AN UNWANTED PRINCESS.

In an interview granted to the BBC during their visit to Africa last summer, Meghan lamented that she was dying in silence inside the British royal family as an unwanted princess and that nobody ever cares to ask her how she was doing. In her own words, Meghan said, "I never thought it was going to be easy, but I thought it will be fair. Not many have asked me if I was ok. The good thing is that I got my baby and I got my husband, but I am not welcomed in England." 

With those words, a woman in agony finally broke her silence in a cry for help and announced to the world that she is living in bondage of royalty, unwanted, disliked and unwelcome. Put in another way, she said that she is tired of the facade and wants out. But will they just let her walk away in view of what happened to Lady Di; or will her husband Prince Harry be able to stick it out with her for as long as it takes for her to be accepted by the British people. Will Harry instead, take a cue from what happened to Fredo in The Godfather and understand that it is dangerous to take side with anyone against the family and return to his birth inheritance before it is too late. 

Although many would argue that Meghan is not just anyone but his wife, to which ICHEOKU counters that before Meghan, there was a family and she merely joined in. Blood is thicker than water and Meghan does not have royal blood coaxing through her veins. 

ICHEOKU says Meghan's interview was reminiscent of her mother in-law, the late Lady Diana's interview prelude to her divorce from husband Prince Charles and subsequent murder in Paris. Lady Di told the world of her anguish in the royal family, shedding light on the darkness that is the British royal family. She lamented being an unhappy woman in an unhappy marriage; and that her marriage was choked up, suffocated by a third party participant. Many people knew exactly who she was referring to as the third party, Mrs Parker Bowles, the lover of Prince Charles who he later married.  

While Lady Di's problem was marital infidelity of a lecherous husband who kept a mistress, Lady Meghan's problem appears to be a rejection and not being wanted in the palace nor accepted by the British people. It is therefore understandable that Prince Harry is worried  and expressed fear for his wife's safety and that Meghan might experience the same fatal, cruel fate which met his mother. ICHEOKU says his fear is palpable and it is not without reasonable basis, as Lady Di would still be alive today but for the conspiracy that eventually took her life. 

Meghan shares in the blame for not preventing or preparing for what she is now faced with. She entered into the boondoggle on her own volition, thinking that she can have her way and possibly change an institution which have lasted for thousands of years. But she rudely found out that the British monarchy is like a cult and demands total, absolute surrender and submission. Meghan was obsessively possessed with an opportunity at scoring a real life Prince but forgot that such usually comes with heavy burden, so she can cry ICHEOKU a river; tough luck.

She was so mesmerized by the allure of a real life Prince that the whirlwind romance got noticed by Prince Williams who warned his little brother Harry to slow it down and not to rush into something without first studying it carefully. But Prince Harry ignored the advise and took side with his newly found love against his only brother and proceeded to wed Meghan. It appears that Harry shared the counsel with his wife and her indignation at  William could be the genesis of the rift that eventually led to the falling out between the two formerly inseparable brothers. As is often the case, women hate family members of their husband who objected to their being married into their family. 

Meghan knew or should have known that she will not be welcome into the royal family. Harry also knew or should have known that his family will not and did not like his choice of a bride. A conflicted Harry however went rogue and decided to pitch his tent with Meghan against his family wishes. ICHEOKU says but is Meghan worth the trouble of Harry losing his family and peradventure, his royal inheritance. Unfolding events will soon reveal whether the decision Harry made was a wise one or a big fumble.

Meghan walked herself into the conundrum and should bear her present predicament with the equanimity of a gold digger, who finally got what she was looking for only to regrettably discover that all that glitters is not usually gold. She seems to have outsmarted herself in her quest to marry a prince and with it came the heavy load, which she now complains is too heavy for her fragile heart and slender shoulders to bear. What was she expecting will happen with all the baggage she brought with her into the royal family. Was she expecting a red carpet reception and not an inquest to find out how she bewitched Harry into wedding her. 

Now she understands how painful rejection is and exactly how her father felt being rejected by her. She shut him out from meeting his in-laws, uninvited him from her wedding and made him feel irrelevant, unwanted, useless, disposable and discarded. For Meghan, it seems that all that mattered to her was that she had captured a real life Prince. But karma is a bitch as she never knew that her tepid welcome in Britain had a very short expiration date. It did and she is now throwing her hands up in frustration in search of sympathetic ears and empathic mouths to ask her if she was ok? 

But she never asked her father if he was ok being shut out of his own daughter's wedding by his own daughter. She never gave a hoot about how her father felt, watching another man walk his own daughter down the aisle. She never cared how her father felt being denied the opportunity of a father and daughter first dance, making Mr Thomas Markle miss the eternal joy which came with it. Such a mean girl deserves no sympathy nor should she get one in her time of tribulation.

Meghan treated her father very poorly during her fairly tale crossover from a trailer park into royalty. Her current travail is possibly connected to it, evident that what goes around comes around. She should therefore deal with it in the same manner she expected her father to deal with the humiliation which she put him through during her wedding to Prince Harry. She wangled herself into the situation and now tangled, must find a way to untangle herself from the mess which she created. Nobody was consulted then by her before taking the plunge and nobody should be bothered now that she found out that she couldn't swim the tide. 

It necessarily followed that the royal family, like any other thinking family, wondered what manner of a woman would abandon her own family in a desperate bid to marry a Prince. How desperate could Meghan have been to allow another man, the father of her groom, to walk her down the aisle; when her own biological father was still alive and well, willing and able, ready and wanted to grace his daughter's wedding but was denied the opportunity. Thomas Markle had even fitted his tuxedo and was good to go but Meghan said no deal. 

Every well mannered girl dreams of the day her father would walk her down the aisle, but not Meghan. She lost the respect of every right thinking person from the way she treated her father and her apparent desperation in having another person's father walk her down the aisle. She was seen as a desperate woman who conned her way into the British royal family but she now feigns ignorance of why the Brits saw her as contrived, deceitful and manipulative and served her their cold dish of revenge.  

It is a fact that the closed off attitude of the British royal family did not help; begging the question why marry into it and if she must, why appear so desperate about it. How did she think the royal family and the British people would perceive or interpret her action, that she ensnared their prince and sacrificed her own father in the process. Why would Meghan ever think that Harry's people will be convinced that Prince Harry was not bewitched by her into marrying her. She is older than Harry; she is black; she is a foreigner; she was previously twice married and twice divorced; she is not virtuous for a prince, yet married a British Prince and in the manner she did it, but still delusional that she will be welcome and be a darling of the British people, really? 

There are certain things which are not amenable to sporadic change, such as thousands of years institution, especially not because a fully liberated American feminist gold digger said so or desired it. Meghan went about marrying Prince Harry the wrong way and in a manner that reeked of desperation. She lost the respect and regard of the royal family as well as many other discerning people by the way she treated her father and allowed another man to walk her down the aisle and also have the first dance with her, two honors reserved for any daughter's father, regardless.

Her action depicted her as an ill mannered lady, who was cruel to her father all in a desperate bid to get into a social status and circle where she does not belong. She was a  peasant without any pedigree whatsoever, who desperately sought a life of royalty. From how everything started, it became a question of if, but not when the sand castle she created will wash away with the tide of time. The current developments confirm that the Royal family have had enough of Meghan and are now ready to dump her; and if it means together with Harry, so be it. 

Her injury was self inflicted. She did not understand hierarchy. Instead of taking her place on the queue behind the future Queen of England and wife of William Kate Middleton, to understudy royal etiquette, mannerisms and courtesies, understanding that she is not and will never be the future queen of England and that Kate is her boss, she acted as if she should be the object of all attention and affection. She was rude to her palace assigned personal staff. She desperately wanted to displace Kate before the Queen with her affectations and came off as crude, rude, ill mannered, ill prepared and heavily deficient in royal mannerisms. 

The British monarchy is an enduring institution which have lasted for thousands of years, principally because there are rules of engagement governing its membership. The institution and its rules are strange to Meghan, the reason she brought on herself her current sadness, married into a royal family that did not want nor welcome her. Were ICHEOKU to advise Meghan, will recommend that she cut her losses and get the hell out of there before a suicide-triggering, manic depression sets in. She should get a divorce immediately as things will not get any better because certain things do not change. Alternatively, she should persuade Harry to renounce his prince-hood so that they can become commoners, not hemmed in by royal etiquettes. Thereafter, they can move on with their lives, weaned off the tentacles of the monarchy. But any other thing, including her current cry for help, will not a thing change. 

Meghan does not qualify to be a British princess, her general background considered. She also broke a palace rule by engaging in politics when she attacked President Donald John Trump, which forced the punch back harder president to Twitter-lash her as a nasty woman. She became known as a Princess Nasty Woman of the British royal family, a blemish which was a hard swallow for the Queen who became caught in a spat between the wife of her grandson and a president who she has a soft spot for.

So the crux of the matter was not necessarily that Prince Harry married a black woman, admitted the Brits would rather he had married an unblemished British white blonde from a British upper class family. The Brits are not mad because Harry married a foreigner but that he married a trailer-trash, uncouth divorcee, a desperado, who shamelessly begged another man to walk her down the aisle and give her away in marriage. Who does that and still expects the respect of the family she is married into or the wider British people. Most decent women would rather the wedding did not take place than bar her family members, particularly any of her parents, from attending, no matter the oddity of her family. 

People who have been paying attention to the odd couple that this day will come and that the unwanted Princess would soon outlive her tepid welcome. Her clock started ticking when she humiliated her father out from attending her wedding, which The manner in which Meghan humiliatingly treated her father during her wedding was the beginning of her unhappiness in Britain. People took note of it. Our Lord said to honor your father and mother that your days of happiness may be long; but unfortunately, Meghan did not heed Exodus 20:12 hence the shortness of her happiness in Britain. She is now frantically telling her sad tale as an unwanted gatecrasher into the British royal family in a desperate bid to  attract sympathy.  

ICHEOKU says as a general rule of the thumb, whenever a person speaks about their love life as "complicated", it is either non existent or is far from being the great fairy tale of bliss which they had expected going into the relationship. Meghan Markle is now feeling the blues and desperately seeking empathy, but she must first apologize to her father and ask for his forgiveness. What she did to her father was indeed heartless and despicable, that many people ares still incensed at her and she cannot get what she wants without first making amends.

Further, her misery was self inflicted as she does not belong in the royal Manor to begin with. She does not have the right pedigree nor was she tutored well to prepare her for such a high profile position that sometimes demands great stoicism. She is not a lady in the proper use of that term. She is an untamed, wild eyed, crazed out Hollywood feminist, who is not versed in royal etiquettes and does not know how to role play in a monarchy set up. She sees herself as a liberated feminist but forgot that such idiocy has no place in a traditional setting like a monarchy. 

It is unfortunate what is happening to Meghan but she brought it upon herself because of her obsession of royalty. She was so possessed with marrying a real life prince that even when her friends warned her not to do it, she ignored them and distanced herself from them. Now, realty has set in and it is all regrets. But unbeknownst to her, certain things do not change and the rules governing the British monarchy will not change just because Meghan Markle wished so. Her only choice, if it could still qualify as choice, is to either submit or be kicked out or as it now seems, simply walk away; ending her fairly tale adventure in Monarchy land. 

But the British monarchy is greater and bigger than Meghan Markle and have lasted for thousands of years before she crashed into it. It will continue to endure, with or without Meghan. It also will not bend over or break or succumb to Meghan. Prince Harry is fully aware of the preeminence of the monarchy but caused the rift anyway, when he veered off his destined path and married a woman with so much baggage. He must therefore make up his mind to either to go all out with Meghan by renouncing his royalty or cut his losses now by walking away from her and returning back to his inheritance just like the biblical prodigal son. 

Birds of the same plumage usually flock together, but there is nothing Harry has nor shares in common with Meghan, except single humanity and ICHEOKU says refuses to accept that it was a case of love conquers all. Rather it is a tragedy of a palace wrecker, who has put a wedge between formerly two inseparable brothers, two princes, who were joined at the hip by the tragedy of their mother's loss. What Diana put together, Meghan has pulled apart and put sunder. Now she wants to tear the palace down and bring the British Monarchy down as well. There are home wreckers and home breakers, but with Meghan, she is threatening to take the British Monarchy down. 

It depends on whether the Queen will act peremptorily to cut off Harry from his inheritance and thus deny Meghan the joy of taking down the British Monarchy; because she will if the opportunity ever avails her. But it appears the palace will readily sacrifice Harry if it forced to make the ultimate decision between choosing either him or the monarchy and the world is seeing its tell tale signs and flashing lights that the tense situation will soon come to a head. What a rebellious prince. 

BREAD AND BUTTER: GRANTED FULL PARDON.

ICHEOKU says following tradition, President Donald John Trump granted full pardons to two turkeys meant for the presidential thanksgiving dinner table on Thursday 28th November 2019 Thanksgiving Day celebration. Two turkeys, named Bread and Butter, were spared the butcher's knife and will now live out their natural lives in a farm somewhere; only old age will do them in and no longer the human stomach. 

It would appear that the two birds before knowing their fate, were asking each other, "YOU or ME", who is it gonna be? But both birds got lucky, courtesy of a humane President Donald John Trump, who decided to spare their lives and granted them full pardon and immunity from both the butcher's knife and cooking utensils.  ICHEOKU says happy turkey day America, admitted Bread and Butter won't be on the dinner menu. 

NYOUNG YOU: SET HER FREE.

ICHEOKU says when are people going to start taking responsibility for their actions and not needlessly blaming others or someone else for making them do something. Unlike the Plainville teenager Michelle Carter who was convicted for "encouraging" her boyfriend Conrad Roy to kill himself, Nyoung You did not encourage nor force Alexander Urtula to jump off to his death. 

Here was a 22 year fully grown adult man, old enough to be a father, who gave in to the monsters in his head whispering to him to do it, and now a young woman's life is facing ruination just because she once dated him. So, what if she told him to go die or kill himself, commonly used fighting words, which people readily use each time they quarrel or have a fight with each other. A rather emotionally and psychologically disturbed individual, who couldn't stand losing his girlfriend, decided to end his sad life and some people wants to blame the girl as responsible for that? 

ICHEOKU says it certainly does not make any sense at all, as she is not his emotional support animal. At only 21 years old, she cannot be said to be responsible for what a 22 year man, who is  older than her, decided to do by ending his life. Both of them were mad at each other following an impending breakup of their relationship and as everybody knows, breaking up is usually not a happy nor easy thing. The girl reserves the right to walk away from a relationship which she is either fed up with or is no longer fascinating to her. She walked and the guy jumped, so why blame her for exercising a right which she fully have, freedom of association. 

Unless somebody is saying that the girl owes the guy her affection and love in perpetuity and has no right or choice whatsoever in who she dates, then she has no case to answer because a fully grown man decided to give up and give in to his emotional demons and took his own life. She did not push him, encourage him nor goaded him on to make the jump off the building. All she did was curse him out because of her frustrations with the relationship which is no longer working as she had expected it. She ended it and she is now being held to account for it just because she used common fighting words in exchanged texts with him. Really? 

That such words would be a ground for her an indictment is simply befuddling. Were that the case, millions of people would have similarly taken their lives, having been severally told in their lives to go die or kill themselves. Even parents sometimes curse out their children that they will never amount to something and that they should just go and die. How many of such parents have ever been charged when their child acts on their devious impulses; but here a young woman is being charged for a crime which she did not commit.   Charging her with involuntary manslaughter is not fair nor right or justifiable. She only used mere words and short of any other active involvement in bringing about his death, such should not have been sufficient to ground culpability, regardless of the pervasiveness nature of her use of those words. 

How could she have “physically, verbally and psychologically" abused him so much that it now graduated to a criminality. The guy was not chained to her and he was a fully grown adult who could have exercised his right to walk away and end whatever abusive relationship he was in with her, but chose otherwise. She was not his mother nor his care giver; and they being not married, does not owe him a duty of care not to "abuse" him or not to use those words which  the guy might have considered too much to handle. Love hurts and sometimes love also kills, but baring any express direct act which resulted in the death of another, mere words should not be ground for liability. What about the girl's freedom of speech and she did not shout fire in a crowded theater either; she merely ended a failed relationship. The duty of a tortfeasor to take his victim as he finds him does not arise here since the girl does not even know that she was dealing with an emotionally depleted flagella of a human being. 

So what if both of them exchanged thousands of text messages, lovers do; and even none lover like Queen Crooked Hillary Clinton wrote 57,000 emails, 33,000 of which she deleted and bleached washed, yet she has not been held accountable for them. Ms You sent 47000 text messages to Mr Urtula and he in return sent her 28000 text messages. So what is the big deal that a girl was in a relationship which was going no where and tired of it, decided to end it; but the guy tried to win her back but failed and decided to take his own life. People break up every day and they curse each other out while doing that, so why is this particular case any different.  Her traducers selectively leaked some text messages where she told him to go die and kill himself; but how about those romantic and affectionate ones where she professed her love for him or her desire to end it but he was being insistent to the point of irritating her and pushing her buttons. Why are all the text messages not being leaked or released. 

ICHEOKU says regardless of her threats to harm herself or her manipulative skills which she used on the guy, at the end of the day, it was the guy who had the primary duty and responsibility over his actions, including his decision to jump off a building to his death. This fact of consequence should be the guiding light in this matter because not every person that was ever told to go die or kill yourself, acted on it; the insistence or constant persuasion notwithstanding. The girl also proved herself a good person by returning to the United States to face her charges as many others who are similarly exposed would have decided not to return. What happened to the two young fellas is rather unfortunate; but the surviving girl who is already over traumatized by the suicide of her boyfriend should not be further exposed to more trauma by holding her accountable for the one who jumped first. May the guy now rest and may the girl be set free so that she can carry on with her life.

I WANT NOTHING, I WANT NO QUID PRO QUO - PRESIDENT TRUMP.

ICHEOKU says what is the use of Mr Gordon Sondland's presumptions and assumptions, when the president have already told him explicitly that he wants nothing from Ukraine and their newly elected President Volodymyr Zelensky. Short of trying to entrap the president, probably with a recording device to capture the president on tape asking for a quid pro quo, what was the necessity of repeatedly asking the president what he wants from Zelensky. 

ICHEOKU says it is possible that Sondland is a Deep State agent and was wearing a wire or had a rape recorder on, when he placed that call to the president, hoping to finally obtain the smoking gun evidence of the president's corrupt intentions in the delayed release of the military assistance to Ukraine. It is unfortunate and regrettable that a man who the president appointed to an ambassadorial position with the European Union, ended up playing the Judas Iscariot in the Deep State effort to bring down President Donald John Trump before he brings them down. Yes indeed, there is a competition and race against  time, between the president and the Deep State, on who will first take the other out; and whoever succeeds, would have an America remade in an image as they see fit. 

ICHEOKU is emphatic that the Deep State is panicked because of the various things they did wrong which the investigations of the Justice Department is about to unearth and they are pulling all stops to prevent it from ever being made public. But this Gordon Sondland guy is a creepy fella, who, despite the president's stated position that he does not want anything from Ukraine, still went forth to assert that he "presumed" differently. Why the presumption when the express position of the president have already been made known to him and unequivocally. Presumptions are only tenable when there is doubt or lack of clarity as to a position, but not when there is a clear, unassailable and unambiguous  expressed wishes. 

Gordon Sondland is definitely an enemy within; the proverbial green snake in a green grass. He is a Never Trumper who supported Jeb Bush during the 2016 Republican Party presidential primaries and was a fierce critic of the president, before he finally purchased an ambassadorship slot with a one million dollar donation to the President Donald John Trump inauguration ceremony. But now, this; which suggests that he was a mole working for the Never Trumpers wing of the Republican Party, Jeb Bush and the Deep State; and wanted to take down the president from within the inside. It is so sad and pitiful that nobody can easily be trusted, not anymore. Anthony Scaramucci is also another creep, who wanted to destroy the presidency of President Donald John Trump from within, but was discovered early enough and thrown out of the White House like a sick puppy. 

The lesson here is that the president in his second term, should be wary of sudden friendships and should avoid appointing anyone who is not a member of the original Team MAGA to any position of trust or value. Enough of the betrayals. How dare this Sondland enlist in the grand conspiracy against the president. How could he sleep restfully at night knowing that he gave a false testimony against the president, regardless of the inducement or threat to his business enterprise, including a Democrats engineered witness intimidation to boycott his hotels. Where is his candor, character and core, if he could betray a president who trusted him enough to appoint him an ambassador. 

Lastly, to those who claim that the president did not make the disclaimer until he got wind of the impending Congressional investigation as a result of a whistle blower coming forward, the only acceptable evidence of his complicity is to produce evidence of him saying at any preceding time to Zelensky, "Give me something in return for the military assistance."  So, until then, the mother hen can scream all it wants at the hawk which snatched its chic, it is wasting its time. Therefore, it is about time the impeachment charade is ended, so that Americans can move on and begin to pick up the pieces of the past three years of constant feuding; as they would rather wait to make their decision known, one way or the other, on November 3rd, 2020. What a shame and a distasteful stain on Madam Speaker Nancy Pelosi second coming as speaker of the House of Representatives. Impeach him for what; for NOTHING?

DEMOCRATS: THE GAME THEY PLAY.

ICHEOKU says they are playing a mind game, messing with the president's mind; as they relentlessly wage an unending psychological warfare against the president. A president who is easily baited and they got him busily occupied, going and coming, in defending their charges without having full concentration in his governance. And for a president who is always in a combative mode and ready to defend himself, his family, his presidency and his innocence, they have a perfect quarry in him to bayonet. They know that the president will always react and respond to their needling, hence the "it is over here, it is over there" pranks which they are playing with the president's mind. 

ICHEOKU wishes the president could have the self discipline to stay out of the current impeachment fray and allow those bulldogs Republicans in the House to do the fighting for him. If there is something the president needs to say or wants to contribute in his defense to the inquiry proceedings, he should route it through them; but should stop the distraction and sudden interferences with their defense strategy, which the president's tweets and impromptu comments tends to bring about. 

Yes indeed, they have nothing on the president but the president is not fully convinced about that, his show of bravado and poker face notwithstanding. In his inner mind, he somewhat believes that the Democrats could have a joker which they are keeping very close to their vest, which they might spring on him at any time. The Democrats have succeeded in murking the waters enough to instill in the president this mental anguish that they probably got the goose on him. The believe may not be factual or reasonable; but the creation of self doubt is what the whole psychological operation (psyop) is all about. They want to create some elements of doubt in the president's mind that he possibly did something wrong and illegal which he cannot recall and that the Democrats have found out about it. 

Although it is ridiculous and laughable that no such big bomb has dropped thus far and with the president's first term nearly over; but the mind game which they are playing with the president will make Anthony Hopkins green with envy, that the Democrats are outpacing him in his area of authority, Hannibal Lecter and Silence of the Lambs considered. The Democrats are not interested in finding the president guilty of anything because they know that the president is innocent and did not do any of those things which they have accused him of, Russian collusion included. Their mission is not to find the president guilty of something, but to keep him distracted, disturbed, confused and wondering if he inadvertently did something wrong which the Democrats might find or have already found and merely waiting to spring it on him and jeopardize his Make America Great Again agenda for the American people. 

The president loves the American people so much that he is wary of causing any snafu that might clog up the wheels of his set out objective, to fix what is broken about America, socially, politically and economically. The president is afraid of being in any compromised position which might force him to bargain away his promise to Make America Great and Keep America Great; in return for a soft landing which will enable him to keep his presidency. This and nothing personally beneficial to the president is what is keeping the president up late at night, wondering what is up the sleeves of the Democrats and why Madam Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her henchmen and women are unwavering in their maniacal attacks on the president, fervently throwing one accusation after another, hoping that something would stick. 

But unbeknownst to them, the president is a teflon president and as innocent as anyone could be, who occupies the White House; hence their lack of success with finding evidence of the president's hand inside the cookie jar so far. ICHEOKU strongly believes that they have nothing on the president, because if they do, they would not have allowed the president to last this far in office, almost at the end of his first term. Those crazed out wild eyed Trump hating Democrats would have since marshaled him out of the White House, but they have no incriminating evidence against the president to convert into a weapon of removal. They have thrown all manners of mud at the president and none have stuck on him so far; the latest being the impeachment nonsensical, which will also land in the same pile of disused bin like all the others before it. 

Were ICHEOKU the president, will learn to start ignoring those Democrats and allow them to self immolate. If they have evidence of the president's guilt, let them produce it; but in any other event to not give them the satisfaction of having the president worried and concerned about whatever maniacal allegation which the Democrats might choose to manufacture in the future. The Democrats are desperate because of the president's many successes so far, aware that the next four years will be cementing the president's legacy, which might be somewhat very difficult to change, should the American people ever decide to give power back to the Democrats. 

Like Joe Biden said, America will forever be transformed should the president get another term in office. ICHEOKU says yes indeed, old Uncle Joe is right that American people want their country back; they want it to return for good by making America great again. They are grateful that President Donald John Trump is on a mission to reinvent America and bring it back to the image envisaged by the founding fathers, who wanted an America which is uniquely different from the rest of the world, where the people decide who governs them; as they enjoy unparalleled and unabridged freedom of choice over matters concerning their lives and well being. ON November 3rd, 2020, Madam Speaker Nancy Pelosi will realize ow disappointed American people are that she deviated from the reason she was given the mandate of November 2018. Sad.

PETE BUTTGIEG: IS AMERICA READY FOR A GAY PRESIDENT?

ICHEOKU says if Iowa says yes then America will have no choice but follow the lead or at least give him a fighting chance without walling him off because he chose a different lifestyle. Iowans did it with Barack Obama when against all odds, they signed on to a black candidate and it propelled Barack Obama all the way to win the presidency, and twice. 

So, is America once again headed to the same road previously traveled with another improbable candidate come into being. The South Bend Indiana Mayor has zoomed past every other Democratic Party presidential candidate in the latest poll from Iowa, nearly doubling his closest rival, Elizabeth Warren at 25% to 16%; and you wonder what message Iowans are trying to telegraph to the rest of the country that it is okay to have a First Man in the White House as opposed to the traditional First Lady which America is used to having. 

Short of his homosexual lifestyle and petite size, ICHEOKU has always maintained that Peter Paul Montgomery Buttgieg aka Pete Buttgieg is the best candidate for the Democratic Party. He is most qualified, most erudite, most articulate and most eloquent candidate amongst the wildebeests running for the 2020 presidential nomination of the Democratic Party. Youth is also on his side and he backs all the mentioned credentials with his military service. So, put in another words, Pete Buttgieg checks all the salient markers which makes a president fully grounded and having the right resume for the job, as he covered all the fields. 

ICHEOKU's only nagging concern for his candidacy is whether America is ready for a homosexual president with a homosexual First Man occupying their White House. However, the canary in the mine of American political direction is the Great State of Iowa and if they approve of Pete Buttgieg, so be it; admitted that New Hampshire and the predominantly black South Carolina also tells something about the direction where the wind is blowing. But Iowa is usually the it and once they decide, most times, the rest of Americans usually follow their lead. Therefore the rise of Pete Buttgieg polls in Iowa is significant and must be a cause for concern for all the other presidential candidate currently jostling for the nomination of the Democratic Party. 

That Pete Buttgieg is now the front runner in Iowa, passing Elizabeth Warren, who has of late become too anti men, anti white people, anti successful people and unabashedly nuts is understandable. Bernie Sanders ate the apple of death when he embraced the kiss of death that was the endorsement of the nut job from New York 6th Congressional District, crazed out wild eyed Alexandria Ocasio Cortez. Bernie Sanders poll numbers has sunk so low since that embrace and has never recovered, such that he is now trailing at number 4th position in Iowa at mere 15% approval, behind even Joe Biden at number three, whose play at the presidential nomination has since lost steam, his hot-air balloon which he is gliding to the White House with, having been punctured by the Ukrainian scandal. 

ICHEOKU says provided Pete Buttgieg maintains his current momentum and takes it all the way through New Hampshire and South Carolina and secures the nomination; then picks a good vice presidential running mate, he will definitely give President Donald John Trump a run for his money in 2020; admitted he will not defeat the peoples president and leader of Team MAGA, who is unstoppable right now and is almost assured of a second term. But such a strong showing will give him all the headwind he will need in 2024 when he will once again definitely make another play for the White House with much confidence and better experience running a presidential campaign. Youth is on his side and he would have learnt a lot of lessons on how to run a presidential election and will be more optimistic with President Donald John Trump no longer running and the presidency will then be anybody's, to have. 

ICHEOKU says likes Pete Buttgieg most among all the Democratic Party's candidates running for the presidential nomination. His eloquence, articulation and knowledgeable grapple of the issues are his most enviable credentials; added to his military service for the fatherland. Anyway, ICHEOKU wishes Pete Buttgieg luck in securing the Democratic Party's presidential nomination and hopefully the party's henchmen and women will allow the will of the nominating electorates to prevail this time; unlike the rigging that rigged out Bernie Sanders in 2016. That done, the future is very bright for the Mayor of the small middle America city of South Bend Indiana and American people will keep their eyes on this fella as he tries to write history for both himself and the American society at large. Go Pete Go! 

BBC INTERVIEW WITH DUKE OF YORK: THE PRINCE LIED.

ICHEOKU says it is rather condescending and intelligence-insulting, for the the Duke of York, Prince Andrew, to stare down the world of viewers who watched his interview with the British Broadcasting Corporation and deny sexual dalliances which took place between him and a Jeffrey Epstein linked girl who was converted to his comfort woman. 

One thing is to commit a crime and the other thing is to be boneheaded about it to bullshit your way around it, convinced that you are the smartest guy in the building and the other fellas are plain stupid and idiotic to know any better. Why lie about sexual liaisons which took place repeatedly and which adult will not read that through his body language, in the pictures of a peering Prince Andrew waving goodbyes to his sexual comforter, still in a pajamas or house robe. Who doesn't know, looking at the picture, particularly his grateful eyes, that he just had sex and was just letting the girl leave. But now, he decided to insult our general intelligence by doubling down on what he did by denying it. 

Imagine how the victim will feel being victimized twice with this his non denial, denial.  What man sees off a lady in the early hours of the morning in his pajamas or bathrobe or lounge robe, if not a man who just finished having sex with her and nicely letting her off the door. Why add to the insult on the victim. Why not just apologize for the indiscretion and ask for her forgiveness. But no, he is a prince and can do no wrong, believing that he can get away with just anything, including sexual molestation of a minor. ICHEOKU says even that picture suggests that it was not the first time the prince had a fling with the girl as there is something which spelt familiarity in his eyes. 

Guys do stuff all the time, like when they have sex in their buddy's homes, especially those who are still playing the field, who have something to protect or who are married and do not want to risk being caught in a hotel. Yes, it is also common for a visiting friend to once in a while score a chic, often times arranged by his host. But in this case, the only problem was that the girl in question was a minor, who was taken advantage of by the prince, only to now claim memory fog of the incident. It is very offensive for a man to deny knowledge of a girl or woman who he had sex with; as to do so is to treat the girl as a nobody or not somebody enough for the man to have taken notice of her. 

Former President Bill Clinton did that with Monica Lewinsky when he dismissively referred to her as "That Woman" in his now infamous scandalous and malicious remark, "I did not have sex with that woman, Ms Lewinsky." Prince Andrew seems to have taken a page from Bill Clinton's playbook when he told the BBC interviewer that he has a mental fog about having sex with the girl. He even went further to challenge the girl's memory and recollection of the incident, claiming that he has a medical condition which prevents him from sweating, in response to his victim's claim that he sweats profusely during sexual intercourse. One thing is to abuse the girl, but the prince should not have compounded his victim's agonizing experience by accusing her of lying about it. 

ICHEOKU says if the prince first met Epstein in 1999 and they continued to see each other subsequently, what exactly constituted the subject matter of their meets? Did they become business partners and what businesses did they execute or conduct or carry out together during the many years following that they were seeing each other? The prince said that he chose to stay in Jeffrey Epstein's mansions because it "was a convenient place to stay"; and you wonder what happened to all the luxurious 5 Star hotels dotting the neighborhoods. The only explanation for his preferred place of hangout is that they were having sexual orgies and possibly some drug binge together therein. Epstein's mansions provided him with the much needed shield from paparazzi prying eyes; as well as from hotel workers who might be tempted to take and sell pictures of him to tabloid publications for pretty pennies. Epstein's mansions provided the prince with a secured den, where he can turn loose and go buck wild partying without prying eyes. 

But the prince can deny all he wants, sheltered by his royal status in Britain. if indeed the prince feels that he is innocent and have nothing to either fear or hide, he should take the next flight to the United States of America to defend his innocence. ICHEOKU says the prince is as guilty as sin and the only reason he now granted the interview to BBC is because Jeffrey Epstein has been permanently silenced by his killers and can no longer defend himself or tell on people who heavily partied with him in his many mansions. So, until then, let the prince's conscience keep him company; believing that he still has any left. What a pitiful fella, who cannot man up to accept responsibility for what he did and lying about it and against his victim. Sad.

IMPEACHMENT HEARING DAY 2: STILL NO CASE MADE AGAINST THE PRESIDENT.

ICHEOKU says the Democrats' third witness, Marie Yovanovitch, had the entire Day 2 of the impeachment inquiry hearing to herself, but unfortunately for the Democrats, she could still not make a case for them on the impeachment of the president. In fact, she somewhat fully exonerated the president when she confirmed that the president did not take bribe nor committed any other crimes; and you wonder why the fruitless waste of time and resources is still going on. 

It is sad and it is disgustingly a bewilderment that Madam Speaker Nancy Pelosi chose to end her storied political legacy, two time Speaker of the House of Representatives, in this sordid manner. She falsely accused the president of a crime and couldn't prove it; and still wants to impeach the president for it  ICHEOKU says impeach the president for what; for doing his job for which he was elected by executing the functions of his office. It is simply incredible what the Democrats under the leadership of Madam Speaker Nancy Pelosi in this session has become. Rabid dogs which barks and bites at anything that moves or has a shape or form, regardless. 

ICHEOKU says why does Madam Speaker Nancy Pelosi wants to end her political career with such nastiness and falsehood against the president, one may ask. She is so obsessed with harming the Trump's presidency that she bypassed the natural impeachment committee of the House of Representatives, headed by Jerry Nadler and handpicked her hatchet man Adam Schiff to deliver the head of the presidency of President Donald John Trump on a platter. But whether Adam Schiff is doing a good job carrying out his Nancy Pelosi assigned task is but anyone's guess. So far, he is failing and there is no prospect of his succeeding in proving and establishing a crime which was not committed. 

Adam Schiff is one such creepy fella that seeks to always insert his hatred and disdain for the president into the impeachment inquiry hearing. Several times in the 2nd day hearing, did he gavel the Republicans out of their questioning of the witness. He came across as being somewhat being very rude, harsh and mean to Republican Congress woman from New York's District 23, Elise Stefanik; as he repeatedly refused and prevented her from asking questions tot he witness. Even when speaking times were yielded to her by ranking member Nunes, Adam Schiff still disrespectfully prevented her from using such time to ask the witness some questions. His interruptions and refusals to allow Elise to ask some questions to the witness was so much that it seemed personal and you wonder if there was some harassment going on. 

As he did with the wrongly reading of the telephone transcript in the House's committee hearing, Adam Schiff, once again mischaracterized the president's tweet as witness intimidation by deliberately and mischievously leaving out the elucidating portion of it. However, Marie Yovanovitch admitted that the president's tweets will not deter her from continuing to carry on with her job, which conclusively put to rest the assertion by the Democrats and Adam Schiff that the tweet was threatening. Also one wonders whether the tweet can still qualified to be called a threat and witness intimidation, when the supposed "victim" and subject of the tweet was not even aware of the supposedly intimidating tweet, until Adam Schiff read her in on the tweet. 

The witness Marie Yovanovitch held herself well and is in every material particular, was a good witness; only that her assigned task was rather too challenging; she was asked to help make a case against the president when none existed. ICHEOKU says except for her somewhat expression of feelings of entitlement to the American ambassadorship in Ukraine, she safely passed as a credible and believable witness. But unfortunately for her, only the president has the plenary power, vested by the constitution, to post and recall ambassadors to United States foreign missions. She happens to be just one in several hundreds and her diplomatic service is not a right, but a privilege which is very much dependent on the president's goodwill. Today, the president can hire and posts you to wherever his hearts desires and tomorrow, he can just tell you that 'You're fired', case closed. 

Also, as a much touted anti corruption ambassador, Marie Yovanovicth did not or rather failed to establish that her supposed credentials when she was in Ukraine. It was during her time there that the former Ukrainian President ran a very corrupt government; it was also during the same period that the people of Ukraine rose up against the corrupt president and voted him out of office. She also did not know or looked the other way as Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden milked Ukrainian Burisma of several hundreds of thousands of dollars; and you wonder how her anti corruption gravitas was honed in and earned if she couldn't and did not nip any of these plus more in the bud. She also whined about the unceremonious nature of her recall from Kiev, to which ICHEOKU retorts that ambassadors are not entitled to a cerebrated with fanfare recall, especially not by the president under whose goodwill they serve. 

Anyway, the bottom line is that the president did not commit any crime, whether quid pro quo or bribery; and he is in charge of America's foreign policy direction. Also, like Obama did by appointing George Mitchell as his Middle East peace envoy, every president reserves the right to periodically go outside the usual channels of the State Department to delegate a trusted outsider, as an ambassador plenipotentiary, for a specific task or to go on a special one-time mission for him and his government. Therefore, the president did nothing wrong in sending Rudy Giuliani to Ukraine on a mission, as his special envoy of the president  with a specific assignment and it does not matter how Adam Schiff prefers to feel about, contour or color it, regardless. 

As America awaits other future witnesses which Adam Schiff may decide to bring forth, the fact of the matter is that he who is innocent is not afraid of any accusation. President Donald John Trump did nothing wrong in how he decided to proceed and pursue America's foreign relationship with Ukraine. The president has absolute right to direct America's foreign policy objective and concomitant to it, is the right to send and recall ambassadors to America's foreign missions, at will. The president also did not demand nor give or receive bribe from Ukraine or any other country or person or company for that matter. Also, unlike Joe Biden, the president did not threaten any country, including Ukraine, with do what I told you or it is game up for your interests. The witch hunt is real, but it has become a case of the harder they come, the harder they fall, with the president.  This current impeachment nonsense against the president, will also fail. 

At the end, only Madam Speaker Nancy Pelosi will have her decades of career in politics sullied with the baseless and thoughtless impeachment of the president, which she should have avoided at all cost, but caved in to the many witches and wizards in the coven of the Democratic Party, who held the sword of Damocles over her neck to force her into this woeful path which is now being traveled. It is unfortunate and it is pitiful what Madam Speaker Nancy Pelosi has allowed to go on in her House of Representatives. If this is an indicator of how not to run a peoples elected House of Representatives, no country should have a House of Representatives, including America. Sad.

IMPEACHMENT HEARING DAY 1: NO CASE SUBMITTED.

ICHEOKU says if only the Democrats learnt their lesson from other previous outings against the president, they would have prepared their case and witnesses for the current impeachment drama much better. But unfortunately, Russian Collusion, Micheal Cohen, Stormy Daniels, Robert Mueller and Michael Avenatti saga did not prepare them for this moment. They once again fumbled the ball of public opinion as they did not or failed to make a case for the American people to convict the president. 

The only lesson to take away from today is that going up against an innocent man is not always an easy task to mission accomplish. Their feeble attempt to once again make something stick to the teflon president, through their two "ace" witnesses, has again fizzled out; as the witnesses could not identify the crime which was committed by the president for which he should be impeached. Also, their knowledge of what the president allegedly said in the telephone conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was based on hearsay and not on first hand percipient knowledge. 

ICHEOKU says if William Taylor and George Kent are the Democrats best witnesses, imagine what the others will be like. It is sad and it is pitiful, the descent into which the Democrats have sunk in their attempt to remove a duly elected president, whose only fault was defeating their Queen Crooked Hillary Clinton and demystifying the Washington DC power holding club, the  proverbial Deep State. 

Just like former Secretary of State Tillerson, Secretary of Defense Mad Dog Mattis and once acting Attorney General Sally Yates, people who thought that the president was rather working for them and therefore should take instructions from them and not carry out the president's express orders, this current traducers from the State Department forgot who is the boss. They forgot who was elected president of the United States of America and with it, the prerogative power to set America's foreign policy direction. They also forgot that they serve at the will of the president and that they should either comply to his directive and implement them or ship out of the administration. They also forgot that the State Department works for the President and not the other way around; and that the president's power to appoint and recall ambassadors to and from their foreign mission postings is plenary and unconditionally. 

Their arrogance knows no bounds and their ego was bruised when they were sidelined by the president in decisions involving Ukraine. They were mad that they can no longer impress their friends in Kiev as the go to fellas in matters involving Ukrainian relationship with America. This is all there is to know about the beef that led to the current chapter of the Democratic Party's raging feud against the president. Like their other previous attempts against the president, this impeachment too shall also fail, as American people have seen through the charade, a concocted fable, to once again have another go at the president. 

The Democrats are shameless and Madam Speaker Nancy Pelosi will someday regret having this impeachment as her political epitaph. Imagine impeaching a president just due to raw hatred and because she is on a baseless, power tripping, egotistic jamboree. She is so possessed by the fever of impeachment that she is prepared to damage her political legacy as well as the presidency by setting a bad example on how to abuse the impeachment powers of the Congress. One thing about setting a bad precedent is that it might be the Democrats turn to get burnt some time down the road, in the future. They impeach a Republican president today and tomorrow it will be the turn of the Republicans to impeach a Democratic president and the cycle continues until America becomes a third world political experiment with fluidly presidency. 

She also did not learn a lesson from the Harry Reid's lowering filibuster threshold for confirmation of Supreme Court Justices to less than the previously required 60 Senators. Today, the Republicans have borrowed the example to confirm Justices Gorsuch and Justice Kavanuagh; and the Democrats are crying blue murder, forgetting that they thought the Republicans the roadmap, when they set the precedent with Justices Sotomayo and Keagan. Further, why is Madam Speaker so addicted to the Speakership that she traded her honor to satisfy the mob wing of her party in Congress who threatened revolt if their impeachment demand was not met. 

Where is her steely resolve or is her backbone too femininely fragile she had to cave in and give in to the anarchists wing of her party. But when history of the impeachment is written, none of these agitators would be remembered, as only Madam Speaker Nancy Pelosi will be inked as the Speaker of the House of Representatives who impeached a president for no other reason other than hack partisanship and in order to mollify a vociferous anarchists wing of her Democratic Party. 

ICHEOKU is emphatic that the ongoing impeachment of President Donald John Trump is baseless and without foundation; that even the two key witnesses could not say what exactly the president's crime was that warrants his impeachment. It is sad and depressing watching the theatrics which the Democrats are exposing Americans for the world to see and you ask yourself how dumb could these people be not to see the damage and harm which they are causing to America's image globally. People are wondering how smart are these Americans that would embark on the impeachment of a president based on such ridiculousness. It is so unfortunate.

BERNARD TYSON: KAISER CEO AND CHAIRMAN, DEAD AT 60..

ICHEOKU says his sudden death on Sunday, without any hospitalization or a known sickness, following a public outing on Saturday, suggests a catastrophic event took place in his heart. May be he had a massive heart attack that led to his being found dead on Sunday morning in his home. 

A proven leader who turned Kaiser Permanente into America's largest non profit medical conglomerate, he will be sorely missed by those who know him, his family and staff of the company, as well as other friends and business colleagues. Bernard Tyson was only 60 years old. May his soul now rest. Adieu Bernard. 

WHOOPI GOLDBERG: DEFINED RAPE DOWN.

ICHEOKU says it is shameless how these crazed out, wild eyed, feminist liberals selectively configure things as it suits them. Suddenly rape is no longer rape or as Whoopi would put it, "it wasn't rape, rape." ICHEOKU asks what exactly did Whoopi Goldberg mean by saying that a man who pled guilty to having a full penetration sexual intercourse with a minor did not commit rape as understood by Whoopi. 

She is trying to explain away a criminality by comparing it to what obtains in other countries where minors are regularly sexually molested, raped and sometimes even killed for refusing sexual advances. This was a 13 year old child that the rapist got drunk and drugged and repeatedly raped her, yet the same Whoopi who was against Judge Brett Kavanaugh for the alleged harassment of an adolescent Dr Ford, is now rooting for a real convicted rapist, just because he belongs to her political camp. 

ICHEOKU says to Whoopi Goldberg, just in case she doesn't know, statutory rape is a strict liability offense, which codifies and punishes sexual intercourse with a minor.  

MICHAEL BLOOMBERG: TO THE RESCUE?

ICHEOKU says except that rescuing the Titanic was not possible, otherwise Michael Bloomberg would have had a fair shot at saving the Democratic Party in 2020. The doomed fate of the Democratic Party in 2020 was sealed a long time ago, a fait accompli; and no magician can help them pull off a different outcome. Their nemesis is an over accomplished and highly beloved President Donald John Trump, who is making America great again and fulfilling his campaign promises. 

The president loves America so much and he is fighting so hard to keep America, America; free from foreign control and the dictatorship of world globalists. As a result, the American people see in him their champion in chief and they are sticking with him, regardless of whatever the fake news media says and the Democratic Party does. It does not matter who runs or gets the presidential nomination nod of the Democratic Party, as President Donald John Trump will be reelected for a second term come November 3rd, 2020. 

ICHEOKU makes bold to state, categorically and unequivocally, that nobody, not even TEN Michael Bloombergs, will defeat the president in 2020. American people love their president, they have bonded with their president and they will not be easily separated from their president, who has proved and established his undeniable and unassailable credentials as a bona fides president of record. He has kept his campaign promise to Make America Great Again and American people, in turn, will reelect him to Keep America Great. The ride so far on his presidency's train is a good experience and nobody is disembarking from that gravy train in 2020. 

No serious minded and sincere American wants to go back to the tried but failed Barack Obama era policies which stifled innovation, stagnated jobs creation and which in fact caused a lot of panic and despair among patriotic Americans, who worried themselves sick on what their America has become. It made them hopelessly nervous and turned many of them pessimistic; an experience which they do not want to relive again. The current tunes coming out of the White House is music to the ears and they cannot get enough of it. On November 3rd, 2020, they will vote to retain the president in office. Therefore Michael Bloomberg is reacting too little too late on the parlous state of the Democratic Party presidential effort, thinking that he will make much difference or cause a change of heart by the American people on who their president becomes. 

Michael Bloomberg seems to be a good man and a very generous giver to causes dear to him. He was also a good Mayor of New York City while it lasted. But America is bigger than New York City and running for the presidency of the United States of America is far much different than running for the mayoral race in the municipality of New York City. American values matter and it is apparent that those who call New York City home and who voted twice to elect Michael Bloomberg their Mayor, share different values from majority of Americans who in fact determine the outcome of presidential elections, those Americans who live in the Middle and Southern parts of the country. 

To these other Americans who don't live in New York City and who do not share the same values as Michael Bloomberg and his New Yorkers, killing infants in the womb matters; being left alone to decide what size of drinks they want matters; government not dictating to them how to live their lives and micro managing their activities matters; and of course they want Americans to run America and they do not want to be beholden to some elitist globalists in Brussels. 

It is not a question of being a billionaire as America's presidency is not for sale or purchase; nor is it to be auctioned off to the highest bidder. President Donald John Trump won because he is relatable as a blue collar billionaire who talks and thinks like majority Americans in the heartland and the South, as well as some in both coasts. Micheal Bloomberg is a good manager, having built a some good companies and will be good for America's business; but there is more to being elected president than being a good business man. President Donald John Trump is a good business man and he communicated very well with American people and spoke their language. Michael Bloomberg does not seem to be a good folksy talker and it will be very hard for him to break into American heartland and the South because he looks standoffish and too elitist. 

But his biggest and by far the most insurmountable problem militating against his election as president is his petite size. Pete Buttgieg is suffering from the same problem, otherwise he would have been a good shoeing for the nomination. Americans are still keen on looks and presentations; and would rather have a tall and manly looking president leading them and as a leader of the free world, who can tower and talk above the heads of other world leaders. But at less than 6 feet tall, Michael Bloomberg is too short for the office of the presidency and there is no science known to man of growing him a little taller. American people will not stand the sight of an American president looking up to other world leaders in international meets as it is not psyche and sight friendly. 

All these observations and projections are made, believing the tall probability that the crazed out, wide eyed, leftist wing of the Democratic Party would tolerate or allow Michael Bloomberg's emergence as the nominee of their already hijacked party. He will be stopped from ever clinching the nomination of the party, otherwise it will be a great handicap match, pitted against the most formidable politician America has ever seen and known, President Donald John Trump. 

Therefore, the argument Michael Bloomberg is making about being the only one who could beat President Donald John Trump does not hold water. It died the same natural death which claimed the once held aloft view that Joe Biden is the only candidate that could defeat President Donald John Trump in 2020. Nobody in the Democratic Party, not even Barack Obama or even Bill Clinton, can defeat President Donald John Trump in 2020. Mitt Romney was right in declining to run in 2020, stating that President Donald John Trump will be reelected and that nobody will beat him. But Michael Bloomberg's ego is prodding him on and in a free country, anyone can dream dreams. 

ICHEOKU says it is good however that he decided to run, as it will be a good way for him to redistribute some of the money which he does not need but has piled up over the decades. With it, he will be able to purchase additional resume burnisher, a presidential candidate or a presidential nominee, but definitely not the presidency of the United States of America. But whether 'Little Michael' or 'Stiff Michael', he does not look the part and he will not be elected president of the United States of America, period.