GUN VIOLENCE IN AMERICA: FOR WHO THE BELL TOLLS NEXT.

Just five people shy of Sandy Hook elementary school mass shooting incident that claimed 26 lives, the Uvalde Texas Robb elementary school mass shooting at 21 victims, now ranks among the highest grossing gun carnage in America. It is sad that such frequent blood spilling has tragically become part of our culture as a society. May the souls of the killed now rest.

25th AMENDMENT: ITS NOW ALL CRICKET.

Madam Speaker Nancy Pelosi once questioned former President Donald John Trump's fitness to remain in office due to what she claimed was his declining mental capacity. Does anyone know what Madam Speaker presently thinks about the incontrovertible case which America is now saddled with? Just curious!

WHO WILL REBUILD UKRAINE?

The West should convert frozen Russian assets, both state's and oligarchs' owned, into a full seizure and set them aside for the future rebuilding of Ukraine. Like the Marshal Plan, call it the Putin Plan.

A HERO IS BORN.

I am staying put. I will not run away and abandon my people. The fight is here in Ukraine. What I need are weapons and ammunitions, not a ride out of town like former Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani - President Volodymyr Zelensky.

IT IS WHAT IT IS.

"There is too much hate in America because there is too much anger in America." - Trevor Noah.

WORD!

A life without challenges is not a life lived at all. A life lived is a life that has problems, confronts problems, solves problems and then learns from problems. - Tunde Fashola.

NOW, YOU KNOW.

When fishing for love, bait with your heart and not your brain, because you cannot rationalize love. - Mark Twain.

JUST THE FACT.

In our country, you can shoot and kill a nigger, but you better not hurt a gay person’s feelings - Dave Chappelle

DO YOU?.

“What you believe in can only be defined by what you’re willing to risk for it." - Stuart Scheller.

HEDGE YOUR CRISIS.

Never get in bed with a woman whose problems are worse than yours. - Chicago PD.

PROBLEM SOLVED.

'The best way to keep peace is to be ready to destroy evil. If you Pearl Harbor me, I Nagasaki you.' - Ted Nugent.

OUR SHARED HUMANITY.

Empathy is at the heart of who we are as human beings. - Cardinal Matthew Kukah.

WORDS ON MARBLE.

"Birth is agony. Life is hard. Death is cruel." - Japanese pithy.

REPENT OR PERISH - POPE.

Homosexuality is a sin. It is not ordained by God, therefore same sex marriage cannot be blessed by the church - Pope Francis.

CANCEL CULTURE IS CORROSIVE.


FOR SAKE OF COUNTRY.


MAGA LIVES ON: NO RETREAT, NO SURRENDER!

TWITTER IS BORING WITHOUT HIS TWEETS. #RestorePresidentTrump'sTwitterHandle.


WORD.

"If you cannot speak the truth when it matters, then nothing else you says matters.” - Tucker Carlson.

#MeToo MOVEMENT: A BAD NEWS GONE CRAZY.

"To all the women who testified, we may have different truth, but I have a great remorse for all of you. I have great remorse for all of the men and women going through this crisis right now in our country. You know, the movement started basically with me, and I think what happened, you know, I was the first example, and now there are thousands of men who are being accused and a regeneration of things that I think none of us understood. I’m not going to say these aren’t great people. I had wonderful times with these people. I’m just genuinely confused. Men are confused about this issue. We are going through this #MeToo movement crisis right now in this country." - Harvey Weinstein.


RON DELLUMS: UNAPOLOGETICALLY RADICAL.

"If it’s radical to oppose the insanity and cruelty of the Vietnam War, if it’s radical to oppose racism and sexism and all other forms of oppression, if it’s radical to want to alleviate poverty, hunger, disease, homelessness, and other forms of human misery, then I’m proud to be called a radical.” - Ron Vernie Dellums.


WHAT REALLY MATTERS IN LIFE - STEVE JOBS

“I reached the pinnacle of success in the business world. In others’ eyes, my life is an epitome of success. However, aside from work, I have little joy. Non-stop pursuing of wealth will only turn a person into a twisted being, just like me. God gave us the senses to let us feel the love in everyone’s heart, not the illusions brought about by wealth. Memories precipitated by love is the only true riches which will follow you, accompany you, giving you strength and light to go on. The most expensive bed in the world is the sick bed. You can employ someone to drive the car for you, make money for you but you cannot have someone to bear sickness for you. Material things lost can be found. But there is one thing that can never be found when it is lost – Life. Treasure Love for your family, love for your spouse, love for your friends. Treat yourself well. Cherish others.” - SJ

EVIL CANNOT BE TRULY DESTROYED.

"The threat of evil is ever present. We can contain it as long as we stay vigilant, but it can never truly be destroyed. - Lorraine Warren (Annabelle, the movie)


ONLY THE POOR WISH THEY HAD STUFF?

“I’m not that interested in material things. As long as I find a good bed that I can sleep in, that’s enough.” - Nicolas Berggruem, the homeless billionaire.

Tuesday, January 12, 2021

AMERICA IS HEADED ON THE WRONG SIDE OF STABILITY.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Monday, January 11, 2021

WHAT'S WRONG WITH REPUBLICANS?

WERE THE SITUATION REVERSED, DEMOCRATS WOULD NEVER HAVE ABANDONED THEIR PRESIDENT NO MATTER THE PRESSURE. THEY STOOD FIRMLY BY PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON UNTIL THE END. BUT REPUBLICANS, THEY TAKE FLIGHT AT THE SLIGHTEST SIGHT OF TROUBLE. REPUBLICANS, NOT WORTH FIGHTING FOR. A MAGA PARTY IS CALLED FOR. REPUBLICANS ARE ALSO QUICK TO RESPOND TO TRAP QUESTIONS UNLIKE THE MORE ASTUTE POLITICAL PLAYERS THAT MAKE UP THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY. JOE BIDEN REFUSED TO ANSWER WHETHER HE WILL PACK THE COURT; DITTO NEWLY ELECTED SENATOR FROM GEOGIA WARNOCK. BUT REPUBLICANS ARE QUICK TO CONDEMN PRESIDENT DONALD JOHN TRUMP AND THROW MAGA FAMILY UNDER THE BUS. SUCH DIVISIVENESS IS A GIFT THAT KEPT ON GIVING TO THE DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS WILL PAY A HEFTY PRICE FOR NOT STANDING FIRMLY BEHIND THE PRESIDENT OVER A RIGGED ELECTION. THE DEMOCRATS IN UNISON KNOWINGLY PURSUED THE HOAX RUSSIAN COLLUSION AND ALSO THE UKRAINIAN TELEPHONE CALL NONSENSE FOR THREE LONG YEARS PLUS. BUT A MORE PROVABLE ALLEGATION OF ELECTION FRAUD THE REPUBLICANS SHOWED NO INTEREST IN GETTING TO THE ROOT OF THE MATTER. THEY BELIEVED THAT IT WAS PRESIDENT TRUMP'S PROBLEM AND NOT THE REPUBLICAN PARTY AS A WHOLE. IT IS SAD THAT THE DEMOCRATS HAVE FINALLY SUCCEEDED IN BURYING THE REPUBLICAN PARTY AT LEAST FOR THE NEAREST FUTURE. MAGA IS PISSED OFF.




REAL WHITE PRIVILEGE IS WHEN JOE BIDEN CALLS CAPITOL POLICE RACISTS AND THERE IS NO BACKLASH; BUT WHEN BARACK OBAMA CALLED BOSTON POLICEMAN STUPID ALL HELL WAS LET LOOSE.  JOE BIDEN GETS AWAY WITH THINGS BECAUSE HE IS SPECIALLY PRIVILEGED.


TRUMP BAN: TWITTER DIMINISHES OFFICE OF AMERICAN PRESIDENCY.

ICHEOKU says by banning President Donald John Trump from its platform, Twitter has diminished the office of the United States of America president in the eyes of the world. Imagine how the office will now be ridiculed in Pyongyang, Moscow, Tehran and Beijing and other capitals in the world as a toothless bulldog. It is not about President Donald John Trump but the office of the president which future occupiers has been irredeemably damaged and reduced in stature in the eyes of the world. The ban of President Donald John Trump from Twitter has reduced the estimation of the office and rendered the office powerless before everyone watching America and for so long. 

Imagine how belittling it is really indeed that an American president would be banned on an American social media platform which is operating in America and by an American owner and without dire consequences. What foolish freedom gives Twitter the right to so reduce the office of the president in such a manner that is demeaning. How can any world leader be expected to respect an American president going forward when such a president does not have power over Americans and American companies, including Twitter; and cannot punish them for going out of line. Haven't Twitter gone too far an dhow much of this should be tolerated. There should be a law shielding an American president from such humiliation. 

It is the American people that were humiliated when their president is prohibited from communicating to them through an American company operating in America. If Twitter cannot respect the office of the president, what use is their operating license anyway and why should they be allowed to continue making use of the Internet access granted to them. Why should Twitter be allowed to continue to operate within American terrestrial and territorial space when they could insult an American president in this manner. Something needs to be done, at least if not for President Donald John Trump, but for future presidents in order to protect the office from such a ridiculous humiliation.  

What is not fair is not fair regardless of whose ox is gored. It is President Donald John Trump today but who knows which president the bell might toll for tomorrow and years to come. If Twitter is allowed to get away with what they did, who knows what any future president might be forced to suffer from any other fringed company executive who disagrees with the president's political and ideological philosophy. A matter made worse because the over 80 million followers of the president on Twitter has been rendered incommunicado with their president and nobody knows or gets information about the president's condition and his activities. 

It is a sad day in America and a sign of ominous times ahead when such a drastic challenge to the office of the president is tolerated. Twitter should lift the ban immediately and give back the president access to his Twitter handle. It is sad when Americans, especially the hard left, will stand by and watch with glee an elected president of America being humiliated in this manner by an American company doing business in America.  #RestoreThePresidentTwitterHandle.  

Sunday, January 10, 2021

THE PRESIDENT MUST NOT LEAVE ANY MAGA BEHIND. HE MUST GRANT PARDON TO ALL MAGA CAPITOL STORMERS AS A PARTING GIFT. THEY DID IT FOR HIM AND HE SHOULD GIVE THEM A RETURN FAVOR. #GrantThemPardon.


THE PRESIDENT SHOULD GRANT THEM PARDON, MAGA CAPITOL STORMERS!


ICHEOKU says President Donald John Trump does not have many friend in the Republican Party establishment and Chris Christie is definitely not his friend He is a phony and a great pretender. He would have helped the president run his administration but refused because he did not want him to succeed. Imagine a fella who ran for president giving the excuse that his wife does not want to move to Washington DC as reason for not accepting an appointment offer by the president. Query, if he had won the presidency himself, would he have presided from Trenton or wherever in New Jersey they call home. He is definitely one person who will never be elected president of the United States of America alongside Mitt Romney. It will not happen; at least not as long as MAGA lives. It is sad.


IT'S TIME: THE Republican Party NEEDS TO GO.

ICHEOKU says never in the history of political party politics has a party brought so much harm on itself than the Republican Party as it presently stands. The only way forward for the party is to be dismantled and a new party birthed that will be more dynamic, more compassionate, more feisty and which will fight harder as if their political life depends on recorded victories. But the present crop of good ole boys holding sway in the Republican Party needs to go; they need to make way for more viable and able young turks to take control. People who still have and possess the seal to put up the good fight necessary to protect the interest of their grassroots. 

These old Republicans have to voluntarily retire or be forced out and be made to move on for a new breed of Republicans to reinvent and reposition the party. The old guard no longer have what it takes and if they could not defend their turfs in Georgia and Arizona; could not defend their presidency and their majority in the Senate, what use are they anyway going forward. They do not speak with one voice, they are deathly afraid of the Democratic Party and they do not know any longer how to fight bareknuckle, the reason the Democratic Party usually make a mince meat of them on every issue and controversy. They easily cave to pressure and they always play to be loved and accepted by the other side and mainstream media at the expense of their base. 

What use are they anyway still calling themselves a political party when they cannot act and fight like one; and which represents the other half of the American polity. If the current imbroglio was about a Democratic president, Democrats would have forcefully stood by him or her and fought bloody and would have also spin what took place into an explainable passionate reaction of the people; afterall some people did something which some people will do anyway. But no, they ran to the hills at the slightest push and abandoned everything dear to the party including their president and their voting bloc. Where is the fight in them anyway and if they cannot defend their voters and president, what then is the use of their continued existence. 

These people who have outlived their political usefulness and should go or be forced to go. Enough of the fear and enough of the capitulation. Let those who can fight take over and assure Americans that there are still two formidable political parties in America. How can they allow the Democrats to divide and conquer them by causing such an irrecoverable rift between them and their base. How dare they accept the narrative that those who breached the Capitol were asked by the president to do so? How can they accept the narrative that it was the MAGA family and not some of them that wrecked havoc in the Capitol? Where were they when Ilhan Omar in response to 9/11 said "because some people did something?" Where were they when Nancy Pelosi in response to BLM and ANTIFA mayhem said "some people gonna do what some people gonna do?" 

Why would these Republicans attribute what happened to the MAGA world and accept that the president was responsible for it. Was Iran which shouts "death to America" responsible for 9/11? When 9/11 happened through the action of Saudi Arabia nationals, was Saudi Arabia held responsible for it? Too what if the president said to march to the Capitol but he did not say to breach the Capitol or destroy it or things therein. ICHEOKU says is not justifying nor in any way trying to explain away or condone the havoc that was the Capitol storming, but strongly disagrees that the Republican Party should pile up on the president for what happened. Yes, his words may have caused some people to over react and over exhibit their passion, but to hold him responsible for the actions of adults is simply over reaching. 

A matter made worse because these Republican leaders did not give the president a benefit of the doubt before joining forces with his detractors to nail him on the cross. But regardless of what happens, the beneficiary is the Democratic Party which have successfully buried the Republican Party, admitted those Republican leaders might be mistaken that it was only the president that was ran over. Far be it as MAGA is comprised of diverse Americans from diverse political and philosophical backgrounds and they strongly stand firm with the president. They do so because they are convinced on the rightness of his cause and they also strongly believe that Joe Biden did not win the election and could not have won it, at least not honestly. 

The president wanted to pursue the declared result of the election but was not allowed to so do. He hired election lawyers but they were intimidated and blackmailed into withdrawing from the case. He approached the various courts in the land including the Supreme Court to hear him out but they rejected his plea. What then did any rational and reasonable person expect people to do if not to act out their passionate conviction. Now some of these people are being punished when other people who did similar things last summer were not punished. Where is the justice and where is the fairness; yet some people are preaching a hollow unity and you wonder how can people truly unite when they are treated differently due to their political believe and ideological differences. If we are one American then equal treatment should be administered to everybody. No justice, no peace. But ICHEOKU blames it on Republicans who have mortgaged their souls to Washington DC Deep State and could care less about their base supporters. It is sad.

Saturday, January 9, 2021

LINDSEY GRAHAM TOO: PARTOOK IN THE SABOTAGE.

ICHEOKU says his name is Lindsey Graham. He is a RINO. He is a good friend to the Bidens and was a good friend to late John McCain. Now you know why he betrayed the cause and disparaged the base. MAGA will never forget!


A BOILING KETTLE NEEDS SOME VENTS, DO NOT SEAL ALL OF THEM UP. DO NOT MAKE MILLIONS OF AMERICANS FEEL LIKE CORNERED ANIMAL. YOU CANNOT BEAT A CHILD AND ASK HIM NOT TO CRY. REPRESSION BREEDS RADICALIZATION. #LetOppositionBe.


Friday, January 8, 2021

A PRESIDENTIAL PARDON IS IN ORDER.

GRANT ALL OF THEM PRESIDENTIAL PARDON, HEAVENS WILL NOT FALL. THEY WERE AS PASSIONATE AS BLM AND ANTIFA. THEIR CLAIM TO PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION VICTORY WAS ALSO WELL FOUNDED, ADMITTED SOME FORCES WANT TRUMP OUT OF THE WHITE HOUSE. THEY ARE FELLOW AMERICANS AND IT WILL HELP HEAL THE LAND. BLM AND ANTIFA DID A $2 BILLION DAMAGE, HOW MUCH WAS THE DAMAGE TO THE CAPITOL? NO JUSTICE, NO PEACE.



LINDSEY GRAHAM: A SERPENTINE LEPROUS POLITICIAN.

ICHEOKU says with a friend like Lindsey Graham, President Donald John Trump does not need an enemy. He is the worst leprous politician walking the face of the earth and in Washington DC where he is a swamp dweller. It was just few months ago that he was groveling at the feet of MAGA family as he faced the biggest threat to his power hold in Washington DC, begging every night on Sean Hannity's FoxNews for MAGA help. MAGA rallied around him, raised millions of dollars for his campaign and voted massively to ensure his reelection to the Senate. In gratitude, he threw MAGA and their leader, the president, under the bus and at the slightest sense of trouble and you wonder what manner of a man is he anyway. Sean Hannity must stop trying to rehabilitate him with airtime as he stands forever damaged in America's political right.

ICHEOKU has always known that he is not the friend he pretended to be to the president ever since his man-Friday John McCain passed away, leaving him friendless in Washington DC. His so many past tweets attacking the president also evidence his fickleness, lack of character, conviction, core and untrustworthiness. Why then did he put up all the facade throughout the last four years only for the mask to now peel off to reveal the great pretender he is, a green snake lurking in green grass. Julius Caesar was stabbed so many times by Roman conspirators  incising some Senators but it was only the stab from Brutus that he felt most because it came from someone he least expected due to their closeness. 

It is somewhat understandable of other's repulsive behavior and disparagement of MAGA and their leader President Donald John Trump, but that of a man who got so close to the president and benefitted so immensely from him is definitely a no no. That he become such a turncoat after all that was done for him by MAGA and President Trump is rather too painful an experience that he has damaged himself forever in the eyes of millions of people who signed up to President Donald John Trump's America's rejuvenation agenda. Why Lindsey Graham of all persons, except that he is a snake, an embed who was never committed but was only milking the situation. 

This is a man who promised to investigate Hunter Biden's BURISMA corruption scandal but reneged once Jill Biden complained that he used to be their family friend and that she does not know what came over him. Imagine if his Senate judicial committee had opened the investigation as he promised before the Democratic Party's primary what advantage it would have been for the president's campaign. But he yielded to the Biden's and his inaction led to the conflict of a contested election facing the nation today as Joe Biden would not have survived that presidential primary. Where was Lindsey Graham's benefit of the doubt that those who stormed the Capitol could have acted on their own passion of the moment? Where was his denunciation and condemnation of BLM and ANTIFA throughout last year when they held America hostage, looting, burning and destroying historical statues. 

At no time did he ever excoriate Nancy Pelosi and Charles Schumer or called on them to denounce their foot soldiers who were destroying America. But it is MAGA family and their leader President Donald John Trump, the people that made it possible for him to defeat the armada of progressive resistance to his reelection last year, that he did not waste time to renounce and divorce himself from. What percentage of the over three million MAGA family that came to Washington DC stormed the Capitol? What is his evidence that the president asked them to storm the Capitol short of telling them to march to the Capitol in show of strength.  

Anyway, as long as he shall live he has become a pariah, just like Mitt Romney, among Republican voting power base, especially members of the MAGA movement. He will never recover from the odium of his betrayal and will be accordingly shunned and hounded wherever he is seen. He is a fair weather friend who rode on the backs of MAGA and the president to win his reelection but dropped them like it is hot at the slightest tempest. A treacherous elf who did not stand firm for the base and their cause just to court acceptance to the other side. What a shame.

DON'T DO IT MR PRESIDENT.

DO NOT PARDON YOURSELF MR PRESIDENT. UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCE MUST PRESIDENT TRUMP PARDON HIMSELF. THAT WILL BE SACRILEGIOUS AND A POLITICAL HARAKIRI, AN ACT OF COWARDICE.



PRESIDENT TRUMP MUST NOT GRANT HIMSELF PARDON.

ICHEOKU says under no circumstance should President Donald John Trump ever grant himself PARDON. He should instead courageously and bravely allow himself to be martyred and watch himself grow taller, huger and larger. But for him to allow himself to be seen as a frightful, squealing, lily-livered person, by granting himself pardon will be too detrimental to the profile of courage which he has built during the the last four years. 

He should bravely face whatever travails his detractors may chose to levy against him and watch his supporters firmly stand by him throughout the length of the ordeal. But if he preemptively grants himself pardon, he will be forever diminished in the eyes of his supporters, the world, as well as the general American public who will now be convinced that all the allegations against him are true and that he is deathly afraid to face the repercussions and  consequences, hence the easy cowardly way out. 

Good generals ad leaders throughout history would rather fall on their swords to defend their honor and that of their followers than become hounded as a turncoat leper. This should be the guiding light for the president going forward as the fight to fix what is broken about America is a fight of a lifetime. Therefore he must on no account whatsoever grant himself a peremptory pardon as the long term effect will be far worse than any temporary benefit that may accrue to him. Instead he should consider granting everyone who put their neck on the line for him throughout his tumultuous four years in office including those who stormed the Capitol a general pardon and damn any blowback that may occur. 

Those who stormed the Capitol acted on his passionate speech, admitted they overreached themselves by breaking and entering the building. Their rowdiness is somewhat understandable but never justifiable. Those Americans who burnt down police stations last summer did not face charges. Those who caused havoc in Seattle and wrecked courthouses did not face charges. Those who stormed the Supreme Court building during Justice Brett Kavanaugh's saga did not face charges. Those who burnt down churches and tore down statues did not face charges, so why should the case against some Americans who stormed the Capitol be any different. Is it because they are conservatives and support the president? 

If they were Democratic Party's foot soldiers BLM and ANTIFA, Democratic Party's leadership would have explained their action away as "some people are going to do what some people will do"; but unfortunately, with Republicans, they run away and abandon their own foot soldiers the moment they smell the slightest trouble. Thus begging the question, does it still pay to be a Republican Party supporter or even member? 

During last year's upheaval, over $2 billion in properties damage were sustained as BLM and ANTIFA took the country hostage to their riots, looting and burning; yet they were all set free. But now that far less  property damage was levied in Capitol, the people whose passion carried away will be punished severely. ICHEOKU says, really? It is such one sided approach to issues involving Americans that is riling Americans and hopefully it will be nipped in the bud before it forever draws an indelible line on the sand between Americans. It is unfortunate that the same American people are being segregated and treated differently depending on their politics and philosophy and you wonder how united is such a country really. 

ICHEOKU says as American people await to see what happens, President Donald John Trump must not make the mistake of walking into a trap of pardoning himself. It is better to wait and see what his detractors will do and if he will be the first former president of the United States of America to be sent to prison as that will set an incalculable precedent. He did not lock Hillary Clinton up and she was not even a former president, so let Americans see if Joe Biden will lock him up. The president is a champion of the masses and he must be prepared to take it and make whatever sacrifices on behalf of the masses who have made so much sacrifices for their president and will be prepared to make more should the occasion arise. Real leadership is about sacrifices and not only benefits and he should be man enough to take whatever his traducers may throw at him because of and on behalf of the people. Like Jesus, he will grow taller, huger and larger following such a persecution and should dare them to try. Don't do it Mr President!

Thursday, January 7, 2021

CONGRATULATIONS TO BIDEN-HARRIS.

ICHEOKU says with all the options challenging the November 3rd 2020 presidential election now exhausted with the Congress having voted to uphold the election, congratulations is now in order. It is also noteworthy that the president has promised a peaceful transfer of power to the incoming administration on January 20th. ICHEOKU says congratulations to President elect Joe Biden and Vice President elect Kamala Harris. All the best.

TRUMP THROWS IN THE TOWEL: WILL TRANSFER POWER PEACEFULLY.

ICHEOKU says it took the loss of four lives to finally get to this climax as the president has promised a peaceful transfer of power on January 20th. It was an unwinnable fight with the amassed forces against him including members of the Republican Party, the Deep State as well as the Democratic Party. However he gave it his all; it was a good fight, admitted a one-man army is always outmaneuvered, outflanked and usually overwhelmed. How much fight can a man really wage against literally the world, but all is good that ends well; and no martial law will be declared any more as the saga of power-baton transfers goes on undisturbed. 
ICHEOKU says possibly the threatened mass resignation of his cabinet, preceded by the resignation of First Lady's press secretary Ms Grisham, as well as the rumored possible  invoking of Article 25 to remove him from office congregated to persuade him that it was time to throw in the towel. Is it possible too that First Lady Melania helped force the issue as well. However, millions of MAGA will be disappointed that they came this far and ended with the same result; but without any meaningful roadmap to actualize the desired objective, it will be foolhardy and futile continuing the fight. 
ICHEOKU says whatever finally forced his hands is now irrelevant as the bottom line is that the tension in the country will now somewhat defuse and the democratic experiment that is America safely trudges on. ICHEOKU commends the president for realizing that the game is up and that the judgment about what happened on November 3rd 2020 should now be left for in the hands of God. ICHEOKU heretofore congratulates president-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamara Harris and wishes them all the best. What a president who history will not easily forget as his Make America Great Agenda agenda resonated with the American people and so also was his America First policy objective. President Donald John Trump was exceptional and extraordinary president.

Wednesday, January 6, 2021

CAPITOL STORMING: THE END OF ELECTION PROTEST?

ICHEOKU says those who make peaceful change difficult make violent change inevitable the saying goes. In as much as no reasonable person justifies violence, American people should try and fathom some understanding of the underlying frustrations and anger that triggered those who stormed the Capitol. There was an election the result of which is being contested. They went to the courts for their anxieties but they were dismissed. They went to state legislatures but were also equally dismissed. They complained and complained but they turned to deaf ears; and now they are watching as the process to confirm Joe Biden's election is proceeding full steam without a care in the world about their concerns. They became triggered, thinking that Bastille experience could be reenacted in the Capitol in order to achieve what have eluded them since November 3rd. Was it the best approach, ICHEOKU does not think so. 

However, the world watched as American cities, neighborhoods, businesses, churches were looted, burnt and destroyed last year without any meaningful pushback or repercussions whatsoever. What changed or is the Capitol so sacred that it is better than all the other places in America that were destroyed last year during the riots that bedeviled America. It is debatable, but those concerns about the irregularities involved in the last November 3rd 2020 election seriously need looking into. It will most likely not change anything about the election result but at least it will provide some closure and succor as the semblance that something was done will definitely placate these people. The appearance will suffice. 

But now, they might force some of those protesters to go underground and having nothing to lose, they might start blowing things up and committing mass murders as a vent for their anger and frustrations. It is also very unfortunate the rush to condemnation especially by Republicans who watched last year as ANTIFA and BLM burnt American cities without Democrats condemning their action. Violence of any kind is unacceptable but it will be nice to at least look into the concerns about the November 3rd  2020 presidential election especially in the six swing states that are being contested as rigged. It does not matter who is eventually sworn in on January 20th, but it matters that the process that got the person into office is seen and be determined as fair and that it was not through a rigged process. America is hurting.