ZHE SHELLEY WANG: THE CHINESE WHO ROCKED MELINDA'S BOAT?

ICHEOKU says is she another sleeper cell Chinese spy secretly working for the Chinese Communist Party who cracked Bill Gates' source code? Is she the earthquake which finally brought down the marital house of Melinda Gates after rocking it for so long since 2015? Who knows how many Microsoft's proprietary secrets she has possibly siphoned and handed over to China since her rendezvous with the Gates. But are there no Americans who are masterful of the Chinese language for the Gates to have engaged as their Chinese interpreter. 

Why are some Americans playing ignorant of the threat posed by China and not fully alert at what China is doing to supplant America. Why are they not incensed that China is trying so hard to displace America as the number one in the world and are stealing everything and anything which they can from America to use in countering America's advances. China is America's greatest adversary and is actively engaged in espionage against America and everything that makes America great including Microsoft? 

China is mining America's top secrets and proprietary information, using every person they can get hold of including many Chinese Americans, regardless of their long stay in America and supposedly professed loyalty to America. Like many immigrants, there is no place like home, where their heart really is and American Chinese are no exception. Many Chinese Americans are equally vulnerable to external influences and therefore  recruitable by their motherland's Communist Party as they see such opportunity as a way to  show they are patriotic Chinese. 

But hey, the unfolding drama in the household of Bill and Melinda Gates is steadily looking like a material for a Hollywood blockbuster movie. ICHEOKU prays that Oprah Winfrey will soon land an interview with Melinda Gates and pry out from her all the insider information which the world is anxiously waiting to know about what really brought about their divorce. If anyone can make Melinda spill it all, Oprah is it; as she is specially talented and gifted in making people give up their innermost secrets. 

When you think that only California's Congressman Eric Swalwell was into the Chinese, here comes one of the most recognizable billionaire and philanthropist extraordinaire, co-founder of Microsoft who later morphed into a vaccine aficionado, say me too am into them as well. Bill Gates has been Chinese whipped and has his now failed marriage as a proof. ICHEOKU says there must be something about Chinese honey pot, may be it is extra sweetened and too tempting that even Bill Gates has now fallen into it headlong. 

It is sad that what Bill and Melinda Gates represent globally over this many years has now been sullied by a failed marriage brought about by uncontrollable philandering of Bill. It must be in the name as there could be something possibly in the name that triggers infidelity as one other fella named Bill also did something with Monica Lewinsky. But unlike Melinda, Hillary forgave her own Bill and did not head to divorce court. ICHEOKU prays that Melinda, the now scorned woman, will find the winning spirit to carry on and not let what happened keep her down; admitted hell has no fury like a woman scorned. But life happens.  

ELON MUSK HOSTS SNL TONIGHT.

ICHEOKU says the jokes running Saturday Night Live no longer consider Elon Musk good enough to host their gradually dying show, simply because he is not too deep into cancel culture and other wokeist theories of absurdities. But lets hope he can take a dig or two at Joe Biden who has become a do not touch deity and sacred occupant of the White House as far as the leftist anarchists are concerned.  Despite the many things which they could have made hilarious jokes about Joe Biden out of, they simply pass or close their eyes at it. It is sad that the once must watch Saturday night comic show no longer packs the punch that it was known for many years back and even when President Donald John Trump was in the White House. 

Even a skit about "I can't find my mask; where is my mask", would create a great laughter but they won't dare go there nor touch it with a SNL's long stick. ICHEOKU will watch to see if Elon Musk will finally do something about it and actually throw something at Joe Biden and damn the consequence. It is about time somebody at SNL bent down and pick a little flower from the grounds of White House and hand it to Jill, the doctor; but don't ever let her even give you a coronavirus vaccine because her doctorate is in education and not in human wellness. #ElonMustHostsSNL.

ZUCKERBERG WILL NOT LIFT THE BAN ON TRUMP.

ICHEOKU says President Donald John Trump should forget ever getting back on Facebook and other social media platforms as the forces behind his banishment are as superior, if not the same forces that forced him out of the White House. They want to render him politically impotent and they will do whatever it takes to ensure that he remains in the cold doldrum of social media's total and complete quarantine. He should therefore continue to explore other options to stay visible online as may provide themselves; but as for the big three major players, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram, he is toast. Even in the impossible event he is ever allowed back, it will be with such pigeonholed restrictions that he might as well not be even present there. But the "You're fired" brash Trump punchlines that he is known for will never be allowed or seen again on these social media platforms. The left is vicious and they neither forgets nor forgives. It is sad. 

YORUBA'S INTEREST IN 2023 NIGERIAN PRESIDENCY: INCOMPREHENSIBLY SELFISH.

ICHEOKU says it is absolutely unfathomable that any other group in Nigeria, particularly the Yoruba Southwest, will be actively seeking the presidency of Nigeria in 2023 and to the detriment of Southeast Igbo people who rightly deserves a shot at the presidency. With so many decades of marginalization and having never been allowed at the helm of affairs in Nigeria for over 55 years, Igbo people rightly deserves a recompense of 2023 presidency.

The best way to remedy their situation and to truly redress their hurt feeling of not being treated as equal citizens of Nigeria is for other nationalities in Nigeria, particularly Yoruba and Hausa/Fulani people, to unanimously concede the presidency in 2023 to Igbo people who shall then chose among themselves who to nominate. Igbo people have earned the right to first refusal of Nigeria presidency in 2023 than any other group in Nigeria and should be allowed to exercise it. Any other group of people in Nigeria seeking the presidency in 2023, particular if the Yoruba people, simply indicates that Nigerian's unity does not matter to them and that they do not care if every Nigerian group is  treated fairly and equally or perpetually marginalized. 

But with the Yoruba people, it seems that it is always all about them and nobody else, the reason their acute selfishness has contributed heavily in the erosion of unity in Nigeria. Who knows what Ahmed Bola Tinubu has been discussing with Muhammadu Buhari all these times he visits Aso Rock and they hold their usual closed door meetings. It is possible the two are always strategizing on and fine-tuning how Yoruba and Fulani people will continue to tag-team Igbo people and perpetually keep them in bondage of marginalization and inside political dog house in Nigeria, without ever allowing them a chance at any national political relevance and/or leadership/power position in Nigeria.

ICHEOKU says that any Yoruba person should be coveting the Nigeria presidency in 2023, so soon after four of their kinsmen have been in the seat of power, without any Igbo person taking a turn except for the four years Alexander Ekwueme was a sidelined Vice President to Shehu Shagari and Ebitu Ukiwe's one year as Babangida's Chief of General Staff or de-facto Vice President, is to say the least greediness personified. Olusegun Obasanjo had 11 years headship of Nigeria (3 years as Head of State and 8 years as president); Ernest Shonekan was the Head of Nigeria Interim government for 4 months; Oladipo Diya was Chief of General Staff or de-facto Vice President in Sani Abacha's regime for 3 years and Yemi Osinbajo will soon complete his 8 years as Vice President of Muhammadu Buhari. 

So all together, Yoruba people have been in power for 22 years and 4 months as against Igbo people's 5 years; yet they want another go at it and you wonder is it due to thoughtlessness or crass greed. It is a glaring indication that they do not care about Southern solidarity or even fairness within the Nigeria political spectrum; and that everything is about themselves and nobody else. ICHEOKU says can anyone imagine the opprobrium which the Yoruba people would have rained down on Igbo people were the situation to be reversed and an Igbo person is actively seeking a shot at the Nigeria presidency in 2023. A matter made even worse because of all the effort that have been made over so many years to effectuate a handshake across the Niger. 

Why are Yoruba people not always as supportive to Igbo causes as Igbo people are to Yoruba causes and sometimes even spearhead and champion them. But all Igbo people's effort at rapprochement have always been rebuffed, resisted and sometimes even sabotaged by Yoruba people and you ask yourself why do they always behave antagonistically towards Igbo people. Why this hostility and has it grown to such degree that nothing can ever be done to broach brotherly spirit between the two groups. Even media, particularly news print media do not even cover Igbo matters as they cover other groups, except of course when it is crime related and they want to portray and depict Igbo people as the abhorrent group in Nigeria. 

What manner of a people are these sons and daughters of Oduduwa anyway, that they cannot find it in themselves to give Southern Nigeria's unity a serious try. Why are they the way they are and why do they do the things they do and any attempt to seek answers will be met with that they allow Igbo people to live and do business in their region. ICHEOKU says so what, are Igbo people not paying to live and do business in Yoruba land and by extension extensively enrich their region with real estate developments and a whole lot of revenue from property and other taxes as well as living expenses. 

But the Yoruba hostility towards Igbo people did not start today, but a very long time ago before independence when their Obafemi Awolowo sabotaged Nnamdi Azikwe's victory in the old Western regional House of Assembly because he did not want Igbo people to "dominate" Yoruba people in Yoruba land. The move irrevocably instituted tribalism in Nigeria as the sabotaged Zik returned to Eastern Region and forced out a minority, present day Akwa Ibom State man, Eyo Ita who was the head of Eastern government as in his own understanding, mirroring Obafemi Awolowo, Igbo majority in the East cannot be lorded it over by the minority Efik man. 

Subsequently, there was the Biafran civil war and it was the same Yoruba's Obafemi Awolow who ensured that Igbo people were dealt with the harshest cruelty known to mankind. He engineered and imposed a bone crushing economic blockade which completely shut off food and medicine supplies to war ravaged Biafra and it led to kwashiorkor with millions of women and children starving to death due to malnutrition. 

At the end of the war, Obafemi Awolowo also seized all Igbo people's money in the banks, giving them only 20 pounds in lieu of whatever millions their bank deposits might contain. It was during the same time that he indigenized all foreign companies in Nigeria and auctioned them off to his Yoruba people and in some case even provided them loan with soft and often interest free government loans which to pay for their purchase price. It is also worthy of note that it was during the same time when Igbo people had only 20 pounds to their name and could not afford to participate in the purchase of these companies. It led to the economic gap between Yoruba and Igbo people which is continuously being bridged. But not yet done with his bloodiness, he caused so many Igbo properties to be seized, deemed abandoned in Yoruba region particularly in Lagos State. 

Then the second republic came and while Zik's Eastern NPP was opened negotiation for a working alliance with Awolowo's UPN, Awolowo went behind to hold a different alliance meeting with Shagari's NPN. Then add Oladipo Diya's  asinine hatred for Igbo people and his resolute stand against appointing Igbo people to government positions because according to him, Igbo people should not be rewarded for the civil war with appointments in the Abacha regime. Then there was the MKO Abiola's well deserved and rightly won presidential election which was principally sabotaged by his Yoruba people. 

Obas and prominent Yoruba people were promised and given oil blocks as a trade off for Abiola's presidency and they sold out. Obi of Lagos Akiolu once threatened to publicly name those who recievied the oil blocs but was prevailed upon and he reneged. It is also on record that many prominent Yoruba people served in the Abacha/Diya regime and Olusegun Obasanjo was also on record in South Africa telling the whole listening world that Abiola was not the messiah which Nigerian people were looking for. 

The annulled election led to the "Abiola riot" in which Igbo people actively participated and vociferously demanded that Abiola's mandate must be restored. Then NADECO was formed to fight Abacha and to restore Abiola's mandate; but while all the efforts were being made to ensure that Abiola got his mandate back, his Yoruba people were working to ensure that he was never sworn in and they succeeded. Eventually Abdulsalam Abubakar's regime released an Abacha imprisoned Olusegun Obasanjo from prison and made Obasanjo president under the color of an election, as a payback for Yoruba people over Abiola. Obansanjo spent eight years in Aso Rock and before then in 1976 to 1979, another 3 years as Head of State. Osinbanjo in 2023 would have served 8 years as Nigeria Vice President. 

But Igbo people have not been similarly privileged but it does not matter to some of this Yoruba people that they have had a fair shake at Nigeria's seat of power and that others, particularly Igbo people deserves their own fair shake. Are they this callous or simply too greedy not to give a care in the world about this apparent injustice which have kept Igbo people in the cold for more than 50 years now. Igbo people would not have done it to Yoruba people and would be the ones hollering at the top of their lungs for   a Yoruba person to become president in 2023 were the position to be reversed. But Yoruba people are still actively lobbying and seeking the Nigeria presidency in 2023 despite all these. 

Ahmed Bola Tinubu is running for president in 2023 and now Olusegun Obasanjo is sponsoring Akinwumi Adesina, his former Minister of Agriculture and President of African Development Bank as his preferred candidate to counter Tinubu. ICHEOKU says does it mean that this two men, Tinubu and Obasanjo, are conscienceless and that they actively support and are part of the marginalization against Igbo people. Even the present Muhammadu Buhari quagmire which Nigerians are mired in was with active connivance of this two Yoruba personalities as Buhari could not have been elected without them. 

Before Obasanjo and Tinubu's conspiracy which kicked Goodluck Jonathan out of Aso Rock, Buhhari had three times run for and three times lost the presidency as Nigerian people continuously rejected him until Obasanjo assured Nigerians that Buhari was "educated enough to be president" and Tinubu committed several bullion vans into the project. But instead of apologizing to Nigerians for what they did to them with Buhari and then disappearing into the oblivion for being such poor judgement of character, here they are again, shamelessly seeking to get into Aso Rock themselves, personally and by proxy. But the duo has no shame and they are as shameless as street hookers fighting over their pay.

ICHEOKU says is not in anyway denying Yoruba people the right to participation in politics and/or to seek whatever office in Nigeria which they crave. But fairness demands that they be circumspect about others, particularly Igbo people, who have not been allowed to hold power during the last 55 years. They will not accept such nor will they tolerate such imprudence from the Igbo people were the situation to be reversed. If Yoruba people are sincerely committed to Nigerian unity and care about Southern Nigeria brotherliness and care about the handshake across the Niger, they should be the ones drumming support for a Nigerian president of Igbo extraction in 2023. 

There should be no Yoruba person queuing up for president in 2023 and they will dutifully do whatever it takes to ensure that an Igbo person become the next president of Nigeria in 2023. It is the right and proper thing to do and it is the only way to ensure Nigeria unity by carry every part of the country along. A president of Nigeria of Igbo extraction is sacrosanct to keeping Nigeria as one and nothing else is truer than this incontrovertible fact. Therefore Tinubu and Obasanjo must drop their ambitions and throw their weight behind the Project Elect Igbo person president of Nigeria in 2023. Nothing else makes sense and nothing else counts. 

TRUMP: THE SAD REALITY OF 2024.

ICHEOKU says to say that President Donald John Trump will win the presidential race in 2024 is to concede that he lost it in 2020. But he did not; he won the election but was merely stopped from being sworn by the Deep State. Unfortunately, the same forces which forced him out of the White House in 2020 will also prevent him from coming back to the White House in 2024. Any person arguing alternative theories to the contrary is either lying to themselves or being economical with the truth. It is sad.

FACEBOOK BAN OF PRESIDENT TRUMP STAYS: NOT SURPRISED WITH THE RULING.

ICHEOKU says did not expect otherwise as the ban of President Donald John Trump on Facebook was woke culture driven and not necessarily because the president did anything wrong to warrant it. The alleged January 6th speech incitement of the Capitol riot has since turned out to be a fable, yet that was what they based their initial decision to ban him. So where is still the justification to keep him banned, one might ask? But the extreme far leftist liberals, snowflakes, largely homosexual crowd that constitute a large swathe of Facebook workforce wanted him permanently silenced on Facebook and they are succeeding in executing it. 

This people have been at war with President Donald John Trump since his 2016 jaw dropping presidential victory and they were part of the anti Trump forces that eventually forced him out of the White House in 2020. They want to dwindle his influence and effectiveness; and to silence him or at least drastically curb his social media's larger than life presence. They want him gone and he will stay gone. 

ICHEOKU predicts that after whatever review Mark Zuckerberg will be conducting as recommended by the committee, that the final decision will still remain that Trump stays banned from the platform. All Facebook has been doing thus far with their "oversight" committee is to find a veneer for their meritless action. But now that the speech police has released its final report, urging Facebook to take up the gauntlet and make the right final call, lets see what other trick that is left up Mark Zuckerberg's sleeve.

In their ban of the president following the January 6th Capitol melee, Facebook had said that they believe the risks involved in allowing the President to continue on their platform during this period were simply too great. But following the January 20th hitch free installation of Joe Biden, one had expected Facebook to immediately lift the suspension since the supposed "risks" have dissipated. But no, instead, they passed the buck to an "oversight" committee to "review" the decision to continuously keep the President on their "do not fly" list or rather do not participate on their platform list. 

How independent this "oversight" committee really is and whether they could afford to defy the wishes of Mark Zuckerberg is now clear as they simply rubber stamped his decision to keep President Trump off their wall and then, passed the final decision on the duration of his ban back to Mark Zuckerberg. Who is fooling who with this back and forth game which Mark Zuckerberg is playing, ICHEOKU might ask?

The "oversight: committee knows exactly what was expected of them and they understood as a matter of fact that none of them dare not go against Facebook Emperor Mark Zuckerberg's decision and they dutifully complied to it like very obedient underlings. What stopped them from giving a definitive time period during which the suspension or ban would lapse? What stopped them from even ruling that since the "risks" associated with the January 6th Capitol mayhem has abated that there was no longer a need to continue to keep the President off Facebook? But no, they rubber stamped the already in place ban and then passed the final decision as to any review of its duration back to Mark Zuckerberg. 

Why Mark Zuckerberg thought that American people are too dump to understand the game he is playing with his Facebook is simply beyond ICHEOKU. He would have on his own summarily did what Twitter Jack Dorsey did, just permanently ban the president and damn the consequences. But no, he is a very weak person who has a personality problem, sort of a personality inferiority complex disorder and is looking for some committee to take the responsibility of the pronouncement. He is over compensating for his psyche disequilibrium by excessively wielding powers over people and what they are allowed to say or not say on his Facebook; people he never in his widest imagination and dream ever thought he will mingle in their circles talkless of lording it over them. 

ICHEOKU says the "oversight" committee could have saved everybody the trouble of waiting for this long for their "decision" by timely announcing six months ago their endorsement of the already in effect decision to keep the President off their platform. Why the needless delay only to eventually announce the same outcome which nearly everyone knew was coming down the pike. If the committee knew that the indefinite suspension was not appropriate, why did they not draw a timeline themselves and put it within a clearly definitive time period since their decision is supposed to be final and beyond the review of Mark Zuckerberg. Why did they have to still defer to Mark Zuckerberg since they are supposedly the final arbiter or the Facebook Supreme Court on matters concerning grievances against Facebook and their decisions to keep some users out of their platform. 

It reeks of corruption and it is the same thing which applies in every sphere of our lives, where only the "good fellas" are allowed within so many circles. Everyone is bound by unquestioned loyalty to the paymaster who must be continuously pleased in order to keep the paycheck coming. How many conservatives and truly independent persons are members of the committee? Why did they insist that Mark Zuckerberg has the final say on whether the ban of Trump was a justifiable response that is consistent with the rules which applied to every other users of the platform. ICHEOKU says why did Mark Zuckerberg even bother appointing a supreme oversight committee if it cannot make final decisions over matters concerning Facebook arbitrariness with users and Mark Zuckerberg is still in charge of making the final decision and has said that he will consider the committee's decision and determine an action that is clear and proportionate; but in the meantime that the President's accounts remain suspended. 

What exactly is a Facebook's "community standards" and which people constitute the membership of this "community" whose "standards" must not be crossed. For the committee to still conclude that the President "severely violated" the community standards of Facebook on January 6th despite incontrovertible evidence which showed that his Save America Speech did not incite the Capitol disturbance is to say the least simply idiotic. Their "severely violated" phraseology reminds ICHEOKU of Mitt Romney's "acute conservative" qualifying credential. 

What a pathetic group of people who cannot rise above their pettiness and need to be personally worshipped who are now wielding their newly acquired social media power so arbitrarily. A pitiful people who somersaulted from the original charge that the President's speech caused the riot to now that he wrote glowingly of the rioters post riot, as the new reason for banning him. Meanwhile no democrat was banned for their support of Black Lives Matter and ANTIFA when they were destroying American cities last summer. The committee found that Facebook makes up its rules as it goes, yet they failed to end such arbitrariness by definitively ruling the ban meritless and deserving to be upturned. 

Anyway, ICHEOKU says agrees with President Donald John Trump that free speech is at stake here and that the radical far left lunatics who are controlling social media are using their very peculiar standard to decide what is good for everybody and what people must abide to, on the penalty of being canceled. Their problem is that they are not properly equipped for any battle of ideas and want only their version of peculiar truth to prevail, but are deathly afraid of the real truth coming out. If the mainstream media and the four big television networks had stood in the way of social media when they started, just as social media is presently standing in the way of free speech, may be there will be no social media today. But they benefitted heavily from the open culture enterprise in America but are now asphyxiating free speech. The conservative right side of America as well as the Republican Party must stop their whining about the left dominated social media and find a way to create comparable alternative platforms to compete and fill the yawning space for conservative viewpoints. It is sad. 

INDIAN FUNERAL PYRES: THERE ARE BETTER ALTERNATIVES.

ICHEOKU says India needs to seriously rethink how it disposes human cadavers following the overwhelming COVID-19 deaths which has brought their practice to the fore and highlighted the inherent shortcomings in it. People are literary inhaling burnt human flesh which technically could pass for cannibalism and you wonder the lasting trauma which the unintended consequences must leave in the palates of these undertakers. Yes, it is their religious tinged practice, but since modernization have impacted every facet of humanity why not also the manner of disposing human remains. Modern crematoriums and incinerators should seriously be considered by the Indian government as alternative going forward and they should also ban the practice of open funeral pyres. It is shocking to so many civilizations that in this 21st century India human remains are still being disposed of like burnt offerings and in this open public manner. Our hearts are with Indian people in this time of great tribulation in their land but they can do better by modernizing accordingly.

TRUMP WILL NOT RETURN TO THE WHITE HOUSE: NOT IN 2024 AND NOT EVER.

ICHEOKU says although a strong fan, supporter and member of the MAGA family, but regrets to be a conveyor of the bad news that President Donald John Trump will never be allowed back in the White House and will forever remain just a one term president. So, if he is thinking about running for president again in 2024 as a comeback kid, he should first have a serious rethinking about it because it will never come to fruition. For him to be disallowed and prevented the second time in 2024 will be too much burden for any heart to bear. He will be better off correctly reading the handwriting on the wall and graciously pass the torch over and decline the temptation to run again. He should not delude himself that 2024 will be the new 2016 or that the stolen election of November 3rd, 2020 will be atoned for. So many things have changed since his mesmerization of the nation in 2016 which catapulted him into the White House. So much water have also passed under the bridge since then and the water has now become murkier with the 2020 stolen election that it will be practically impossible for him to even wade through it in 2024. 

It is therefore a safe bet to make that it is finished for him as far as ever making a triumphant reentry into the White House. It will not happen in 2024 and it will not happen at any other future time, no matter what. His opportunity to remain in the White House was forever lost when he did not declare a Martial law and institute a State of emergency before the January 6th Congressional affirmation of The Steal and right up to January 20th when the Deep State formally sealed it and took him out of the White House. They were brazen, they were persistent, they were adamant and they eventually had their way and in his place, Joe Biden was installed in the White House, freezing him out and forever foreclosing his ever entry into the White House. 

The same Deep State which took him out of the White House in 2020 will never allow him to come back to the White House. The likelihood of an earth scorching vengeance is simply too great a risk for them to take and they will not accommodate any circumstance whatsoever that would trigger it. Moreso, other antagonizting forces including the Black Lives Matter and their ANTIFA partners will resolutely stand their ground never to see President Donald John Trump back in the White House and if it means destroying America to achieve this, they will not blink. It does not matter how American people vote in 2024, afterall their vote did not really matter in 2020 because they voted to reelect President Donald John Trump but their votes were supplanted by the schemes of the Deep State which padded the votes for Joe Biden. 

ICHEOKU says it is not a question of whether American people will vote for Trump in 2024,  afterall they voted for him on November 3rd, 2020; but that their votes will not decide the outcome of the election. The Deep State and their collaborating forces will in their usual manner of self righteousness decide what is in the best interest of America and a Trump return in the White House will not be their top first choice. They took him out in 2020 for some reasons best known to them and those reasons will not simply disappear and will still be there in 2024; in addition to other likely changing circumstances between now and then which will make it impossible for him to return to the White House. 

That he made a lot of enemies during his four years in the White House including parting ways with his former Vice President Mike Pence and with it spooked the evangelical christians community who are possibly now wary of him. Also losing Mitch McConnell and so many people who helped with his 2016 presidential election victory is not helpful and will be additional baggage to carry going into 2024. Instead of gaining and growing more friends among top echelon of the different communes in the Republican Party, he increased his enemies base and politics is a game of the many, the merrier. Even his former supporter Christ Christie has not forgiven him for not making him the Attorney General because of his son in-law Jared Kushner's objection and he has already fired the warning shot by indicating that he will run for president in 2024. 

President Trump's best option for relevance in 2024 is to find a potential candidate to start grooming now for the nomination and then try and sell him or her to the American people when the time comes in 2024. But as things stack up now, there is no such nationally visible candidate among the crop of Republicans loyal to him who commands such a profile that is needed for a presidential election victory. The only person who could have otherwise comfortably fill the slot, Mitt Romney, has been damaged beyond repair among Trump Republicans, aka MAGA family, that hell will first freeze over before he can get the shot. Jeb Bush, Christ Christie and Mike Pompeo are not it either as there is something about them that does not translate to winning presidential election.

So since he has found himself in such a crossroads of "un-electability" if he runs in 2024, and a second bar from the White House will be such a huge disaster to his ego, fielding a candidate remains his best possible option. That way, when the candidate is eventually "defeated", which is most likely,  he will claim that it shows that only him is acceptable to the MAGA family and that he could have ran and easily won, but decided not to be selfish by giving another person a shot at the presidency. That is the only best scenario that will be available for President Donald John Trump in 2024, for a win win situation where he will still win even in defeat. 

The 2016 presidential election was an opportunity which came and he boldly saw it to fruition. Although, he bravely fought so hard to keep off the Deep State in 2020 and technically succeeded; but no single individual could have withstood the army of detractors amassed against him and they succeeded in taking him out of the White House. They succeeded and they are now building every bulwark possible to keep him out permanently and it will be much easier now they are operating from within the inside and have very obedient operatives everywhere salivating to carry out whatever directives that will ensure Trump does not return back to the White House. 

Therefore, as long as Joe Biden is holding up steadily and not degenerating any further and his handlers dutifully and masterfully manage his deterioration and keep it away from the American public; barring any cataclysmic event such as the economy going completely bust or his frail and mumbling body publicly giving up, Joe Biden will be around in 2024. Since 2020 proved that he is the only candidate which the Deep State can cleverly impose on the American people, they will certainly utilize him again come 2024. 

As it presently stands, the Republican Party has no person who can seriously mount a winning challenge against Joe Biden in 2024. The only person who could have done that is President Donald John Trump, but unfortunately, he has been declared a persona non grata in the White House and he will never be allowed to get back in there. The Deep State will rather have Black Lives Matter and their ANTIFA partners burn down the White House than to see Trump move back in there.

There is no alternative to President Donald John Trump and but for the Deep State machination, he will easily win the presidential election in 2024. So many people who hopped on the Trump MAGA train in 2016 did so solely because of then candidate Donald John Trump. The New York brash billionaire excited their curiosity to such a level that they became fixated in seeing a different non traditional politician in the White House. He did not disappoint them. So, without him being the Republican Party's arrowhead in 2024, many of those people who were on that train in 2016 will hop off or chose to ride on another train or just forget the entire journey altogether. President Donald John Trump is the reason for the season and he performed satisfactorily, the reason they voted to reelect him in 2020 but the Deep State prevented his second term.

The Republican Party establishment is not a good outfit anymore. They have lost their souls and with it the base of the party. They care more about acceptability in woke Washington DC and do not care nor defend their foot soldiers, their primary voting bloc. They are usually quick to drop them like hot potatoes at the slightest sign of trouble, unlike the Democratic Party which are always in locksteps with their Black Lives Matter and ANTIFA collaborators anarchists rebels, no matter what. So, why continue risking it all when those people for whose benefit the risks are taken do not appreciate or care about the risk takers. 

Several hundreds of such people, exuberant supporters of the Republican Party, are today languishing in Federal nets, some are still being interrogated, some have already been charged and awaiting trial, while some others are still in various detention centers several months later for their excessiveness of January 6th, 2021. But instead of the Republican Party coming to their aid, by explaining that their action was an excessive exuberance by some over excited supporters, they simply threw them under the bus as domestic terrorists and reprobates and walked away. But the Democratic Party defended Black Lives Matter and ANTIFA when they destroyed so many American cities during last year's summer riots which the Democrats explained away as some people will do what some people will do. 

Anyway, 2024 for President Donald John Trump will be a Catch-22 sort of situation, either way, the Republican will not take back the White House. Trump, because the same forces which took him out in 2020 will not tolerate his reinstatement and other potential candidates, because they are not electable. The Republican Party's opportunity to remain in the White House was lost in 2020 and the period continuing up to January 20th, 2021 and it will not come back in 2024 and in the case of President Donald John Trump, never. It is the sad reality which MAGA nation is struggling to cope with, aware that it is a very difficult reality to admit. ICHEOKU says election reform throughout the country could provide a safe passage for the Republican Party out of the vice grip of the Deep State, but we shall see.

THEIR DIVORCE WILL TEST MANY MARRIAGES

ICHEOKU says if all the money in the world could not save a marriage, then we all might as well give up and quit  trying and just surrender to whatever fate throws up at us in matrimony. Therefore, it is about time society stopped deceiving itself with the continuous propagation of marriage as the only way to a happy life since it most always ends in break ups and those who hung in there are not afterall necessarily that happy. 

So many would not have gotten into it and so many who are already inside it would have since abandoned ship if not for society's expectations of them. But at last, Melinda Gates said to hell with the society's expectations of her and decided to do what is in her best interest over a marriage which was irretrievably shattered into pieces. ICHEOKU says cannot wait for the day to come when we all can finally know the truth about what was the last straw,; the red line which Bill crossed that triggered Melinda to say, damn whatever consequences, I cannot take it anymore and then made the call to her divorce attorneys. Life is not always as rosy as we think, especially looking from the outside. 

LIFE WITH A NERD: BORING?

ICHEOKU says being married to a nerd must be quite boring, regardless of all the money in world. What could their married life situation behind the closed door, with no prying eyes looking in, really look like. But we may never know of it until Oprah Winfrey can make Melinda Gates bare it all in a Meghan Markle's styled interview. It will break all known ever recorded interview charts. So, until then, we are left with mere speculations as to what likely led to their breakup, the proverbial stick that finally broke the Carmel's back.

BILL AND MELINDA GATES DIVORCE: WHAT HAS MICROSOFT GOT TO DO WITH IT?

ICHEOKU says what Microsoft joined together Microsoft apparently have pulled asunder, albeit technically; case closed. They met at Microsoft and they parted ways while still Microsoft made uber billionaires and philanthropists extraordinaire with net worth in excess of $120 billion. At least there will no need or fight for spousal support for either other as each person will make out like bandit following their marital property distribution. Like the other billionaire Amazon's Jeff Bezos and his former wife MacKenzie Scott with a net worth of over $130 billion, who similarly parted way in January 2019 after 25 years together and raising four children, Bill and Melinda Gates are parting ways after 27 years together and raising three children together. Both former couples similarly met and married at their various work places. While Jeff was 54 and MacKenzie was 48 when they divorced, Bill is 65 and Melinda is 56 as they called it quits. Who knows if it is now an open season for divorce for tech billionaires?

But why call it quits at this late stage, now that they are in their sunset years following retirement, at 65 years and 56 years respectively and after navigating life together for so long, more than a quarter of a century. What was it that they have endured for all these years which they can no longer manage to live with going forward or was it an entirely new shocking development that shockingly violated their trust and confidence in each other. Could one of them have found a new love just like Jeff Bezos and wanted out in order to go be with their new heart's delight? Did one of them cheat and was caught or they simply grew apart and cannot continue to live together as a couple. 

But whatever it was, they are not presently saying and are currently shielding the real reason for their divorce in a well crafted legalese: "We no longer believe we can grow together as a couple in the next phase of our lives. We ask for space and privacy for our family as we begin to navigate this new life."  What led to the sudden "disbelief" in their togetherness and what "next phase" of their lives are they talking about really? At old age when they should be reminiscing their lives together and enjoying things which every long married couple normally enjoy in retirement, they are looking forward to the "next phase" of their lives and ICHEOKU says doing what really? ICHEOKU says it will be good when eventually the trigger is revealed as the couple represented something bigger and huger than both of them and to just throw it all away at this stage is not encouraging. 

ICHEOKU says is not making a case that married couple should remain together in perpetuity no matter what; or that they should never ever divorce, afterall it is still legal. But that Bill and Melinda Gates have somewhat become iconoclastic couple who are role models to millions of people. For them to divorce now only helps propagate the pardon of those school of thought who maintain that marriage is hellish as they will now have another failed marriage to point at as another example of the impossibility of staying together of two previously strangers. As always, there are always exceptions to every rule just like with every other thing else and after 27 years of being together, "held in whatever marital yoke", one would expect that their worse fears are since behind them and that they have learnt how to successfully manage the challenges of two people being forced by society to stay together as one through matrimony. 

But what eventually triggered them, leading up to this development must have been one helluva big intolerable problem. However, ICHEOKU have always wondered how Melinda was able to successfully put up with Bill's weirdness all these years of their being together and yes, that fella Bill do look creepy. Even the way he darts his eyes, twitches and make body movements when making statements are sometimes very eerie. Then add his fanatic campaign for vaccines and vaccinations, especially since the Chinese coronavirus pandemic stuck the world. He appears to have the firm believe that there is vaccination for everything and that people can literally vaccinate themselves out of any problem; begging the question, why did he not inoculate his marriage from the virus of divorce which has now claimed it. 

ICHEOKU wishes the now erstwhile couple all the best, admitted ICHEOKU would rather they had toughened out whatever issue it was and remained together, even if it meant just faking it. It is one thing ICHEOKU appreciates about Queen Crooked Hillary Clinton, her powering on in her marriage with Bill Clinton despite the challenges of Monica Lewinsky scandal. Whether what she has with Bill can be called marriage in the strict sense of it, at least they did not divorce and are still together in the eyes of the watching world. That is the only thing that counts and which Bill and Melinda should have done, put up a facade and stay apart and in some case, don't even have to see themselves. ICHEOKU says the lockdown possibly forced the issue as with so many other couples who were compelled to see each other 24/7 and then discovering how much they loathe each other and cannot tolerate one another. But hey, stuff happens and Bill and Melinda Gates parting ways has just happened. Life goes on. 

In their public announcement disclosing their divorce, Bill and Melinda issued this statement: "After a great deal of thought and a lot of work on our relationship, we have made the decision to end our marriage. Over the last 27 years, we have raised three incredible children and built a foundation that works all over the world to enable all people to lead healthy, productive lives, We continue to share a belief in that mission and will continue our work together at the foundation but we no longer believe we can grow together as a couple in the next phase of our lives."

LIZ CHENEY SHOULD HAVE SINCE BEEN GONE.

ICHEOKU says it is even a scandal that Liz Cheney lasted this long in the leadership position of the Republican Party following her sabotage of the wishes of the Republican Party broader membership. Nobody is questioning her right to hold and express her opinion on anything, but not as a leadership member of the Republican Party, which position imposed on her an absolute obligation to dutifully only reflect and represent the wishes of the Republican Party membership and not her own. So, if she knew that her opinion is at variance with the Republican Party's and that she cannot suppress and subsume it accordingly, she should have since resigned as a leader in the party; but to attempt to superimpose her own opinion over the opinion of the majority of the Republican Party is usurpation of the office. She represents the people and not the other way round and it is incumbent on her to carry out the wishes of the people and not her own. Therefore, any new vote of no confidence to remove her from her position is a vote come so many months late, as she would have be removed a day after the January 6th madness. But better late than never is still a good option. #RemoveLizCheneyNow. 

DEREK CHAUVIN'S NEW MOTION FOR A RETRIAL: SIMPLY A WASTE OF TIME.

ICHEOKU says it does not matter how many times the case is retried or in whichever place it is move to, even if to Mars; the conviction will not change. The kneeling on the neck video evidence is simply too overwhelmingly and Black Lives Matter and their ANTIFA partners will always ensure that the outcome remains the same. Nobody wants a repeat of the last summer's ruinous riots which destroyed a lot of things in America totaling $2 billion. 

Therefore, except Derek Chauvin is directly paying for whatever new trial that he is seeking, the tax payers of Minneapolis should be saved from any further expenses in the Derek Chauvin's murder of George Floyd because the verdict will not change. He will always be re-convicted no matter how many times the case is retried, regardless of the venue. So, his attorney Eric Nelson should move on to some other cases and quit trying and wasting his time on a matter which verdict is cast in stone.

NIGERIANS ARE BEING SLAUGHTERED WITH COAS IBRAHIM ATTAHIRU SUPERVISING.

ICHEOKU says Joe Biden not too long ago called Russia's Vladimir Putin a killer but he has not said a word about the ongoing slaughter in Nigeria, especially of innocent men and women majority of who are Christians, by the government of Muhammadu Buhari. His Fulani herdsmen terrorists are killing Nigerins while he looks the other way. Except for the government pampered Boko Haram terrorists who are operating in Northeastern Nigeria, Fulani herdsmen terrorists are savaging Nigerian Christians in Southern Kaduna, Benue State, Southwest, Southsouth and Southeast Nigeria. They are killing, maiming, looting, burning, raping girls and women at the pain of being slaughtered if they resist but Muhammadu Buhari is silent and tepid at best. 

Fulani terrorists herdsmen became more emboldened when their kinsman Muhammadu Buhari and moved into Aso Rock. His body language, lopsided appointments and selective deployment of the military and other security resources mostly against Christians and in favor of his muslim Fulani kinsmen has exacerbated the situation. These Fulani herdsmen terrorists do not operate in Fulani dominated States of Kano and Bauchi but continues to unleash never seen before mayhem in other parts of Nigeria in the guise of pasturing. Meanwhile the Northern part of Nigeria has more than 70% of the entire Nigeria land mass and Kano State government had asked them to move to Kano State with assurance that he will provide them with whatever amount of land they need for pasturing. But they refused and have continued to cause ruinous havoc on people, their farmlands, general livelihood and overall quality of life in the Middle Belt and Southern parts of Nigeria. 

To make matters worse in the existential threat which these Fulani terrorists pose for other groups in Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari's government disarmed other groups of Nigerians except his AK47 wielding Fulani herdsmen terrorists kinsmen. He also appointed only Fulani people as heads of major Nigerian security agencies and in a few others, their subservient cronies, who  just sign off on whatever they dictate. Since Muhammadu Buhari came to power in 2015, over 100,000 Nigerians have lost their lives as a result of insecurity imposed on Nigerians by his nepotistic approach to fighting the scourge. He frequently pardons and releases captured and arrested Boko Haram terrorists back into the society where they reenter their terror fields of operation even more vicious and more bloody than they were before. How any rational government could release captured terrorists with the blood of his country men and women in their hands back into the public defies any logic.

Meanwhile his kinsmen the Fulani herdsmen terrorists freely roam about and openly sling their AK47 as they viciously lay communities to waste but his security agents are under strict orders not to disturb them. Even to declare them terrorists and proscribe them, he has refused; but he did not waste time in proscribing Indigenous Peoples Of Birafra, IPOB, a group which is a human rights group agitating for equity or separation if the injustice in Nigeria cannot be remedied.  Now, his security agents including the army, police, state security service and other sundry security operatives are publicly aiding and abetting these Fulani terrorists by bombing communities to soften them before the marauders swoop in and finish off survivors. These people being killed are the same "fellow" Nigerian citizens who they are supposed to protect and serve but now being killing in their hundreds. 

The tally of Nigerian lives lost to Muhammadu Buhari security operatives have risen astronomically over the last six years he has been in power. They slaughtered over 300 Shiites Muslims in Kaduna; over 150 IPOB members in Nkpor and Onitsha in Anambra State; another 23 IPOB members in Emene Enugu State; another 3824 IPOB members in Obigbo Rivers State; 100 Nigerian citizens in Akwa Ibom State; over 1000 people in Benue State and the count is still ongoing. Many of these victims of Muhammadu Buhari's vampiric security agents were innocent Nigerians whose only "crime" was that they dared challenge Fulani herdsmen terrorists who were ravaging their land, raping their daughters, sisters, wives and mothers. They were killing their people and destroying their farms and homestead and when they rose to fight back, Muhammadu Buhari's sent in his henchmen in uniform to exterminate their "nuisance." 

ICHEOKU says condemns in the strongest term the Muhammadu Buhari often resort to isa of military force to quell local disturbances which the police could have easily stopped. But no, a few of his Fulani people ran afoul of other groups essence and he has to show wanton force to intimidate them into total surrender. How any government can justify massacring over three thousand of its citizens from just one community because a few of them had a run-in with some army officers that resulted in the loss of lives of about four military men is beyond pale. Where is the proportionality? How can any rational government declare a peacefully agitating group IPOB a terrorist organization and proscribe them, but refused to declare an internationally recognized terrorist organization, the Fulani herdsmen terrorists, a terrorist ogroup and similarly proscribe them. Then when people complain about the disparity, Muhammadu Buhari will send his killer brutish army to go and lay them to waste.

Meanwhile Joe Biden is keeping mum and has not strongly condemned Muhammadu Buhari for his atrocious government in Nigeria or does Nigerian lives not matter as much as those Russians, the reason Vladimir Putin is a murderer but Muhammadu Buhari is not? Joe Biden is a pretend Christian and not a devout Catholic, otherwise why are Nigerian Christians seeing such level of destruction in the hands of Muhammadu Buhari's kinsmen, the Fulani herdsmen terrorists, and Joe Biden has not risen up to the challenge and asked Muhammadu Buhari to call his kinsmen to order. 

At the rate Muhammadu Buhari is killing Nigerians, he will definitely kill more Nigerians by the time he finishes his term than all the other previous Nigerian presidents, heads of state and government combined. His current military chief Attahiru is particularly evil and he looks it, just look at those eyes of his and he is darker than Hades. This fella have dropped so many bombs on Nigerians citizens in Benue, Imo State and Akwa Ibom State that it is safe to conclude that he must be enjoying washing down his meals with Dracula's crimson liquid. 

These bombs are not smart bombs; they are dumb bombs and are widely killing, maiming and blowing people and properties up randomly. So many innocent Nigerians are being killed as a result of these non precision bombs falling from military planes and landing in market places, schools and communities just because some people protested and did something. It is a very uncivilized government reaction to a cicil disruption; it is barbaric to arbitrarily drop bombs on citizens in the name of fighting insecurity. Bombing communities just because a few bad actors, who might not even live there, did something should never be an acceptable new normal in Nigeria or any where else. ICHEOKU recalls that Nigerians rejoiced when the former Army Chief Burutai was relieved of his post because he lived up to his name, he was BRUTAL; but unfortunately, Nigerians did not bargain for the monster from Hell who took over from him. A heartless blood sucking vampiric gnome whose his heart is as dark as his skin is black. 

Muhammadu Buhari's Attahiru controlled ill equipped and badly trained troops are afraid of ground combat, aware that some of the local militias can take them on mano-a-mano, hence the cowardly resort to indiscriminate aerial bombardment of communities,  the same people the army was  supposed to protect from any external aggression. It is sad and condemnable and should be absolutely condemned into-to by every descent God fearing person. If some of the people are insurgents and need to be dealt with, why not just send in the commandoes or special forces or even the infantry to specifically target and eliminate them; and avoid or at least reduce the number of casualties which result from the indiscriminate bombings. Such a very high number of dead Nigerians is simply beyond the threshold of an acceptable collateral damages in any military action; especially when majority of those killed by these bombs are women and children, many of who were just sleeping when the bombs blew them up. Joe Biden, should please do something about Nigeria's Muhammadu Buhari to call him to order or at least, call him a killer just like he did Vladimir Putin. #NigeriansAreDying.

JUSTIN BIEBER'S DREADLOCKS: WHAT'S THE FUSS ON CULTURAL APPROPRIATION?

ICHEOKU says Justin Bieber did nothing wrong in choosing to wear dreadlocks and therefore owes nobody any apology nor an explanation for his new hairstyle of choice. When black women because of their scanty "nappy" hair add hair extensions or attachments or just wigs, nobody ever calls them out or demand that they apologize for "culturally appropriating" white people's hair, so why Justin Bieber? 

And hair is not the only thing black people have ever "culturally appropriated" from white people and other races and of course vice versa. Therefore all the hyperventilating nonsensical about "cultural appropriation" in general needs to stop, irrespective of which race finds something interesting and nice in the other race and wants to copy and emulate it. 

it is rather a good thing worthy of praise when people see some goodness in what others are doing or find them so appealing that they want to be identified with it. Such is something worthy of celebration and not something to fuss about or fight over, regardless of whose "culture" was being "appropriated". So, it is a thing of joy to see pop star Justin Bieber wearing his hair frazzled, which some race baiters termed dreadlocks and accused him of "cultural appropriation" of black people's hair style. 

ICHEOKU says black people are and should be happy that Justin Bieber  finds "their" hairstyle interesting enough and worthy of wearing it. It is a plus and not a negative thing, as such a big music pop star is a walking and breathing human advertisement who are normally paid a lot to advertise a product or a lifestyle. If some of his millions of fans fall in love with the hairstyle because their idol wore it, that will translate to more dollars in the pockets of such hair stylists, including many black stylists. So, why the fuss?

ICHEOKU says does not understand why any group of people should create a ruckus over the hairstyle which Justin Bieber chose to wear or even make exclusive claim of ownership to it or any other thing for that matter, because all cultures have crisscrossed over the many centuries of human interactions that nothing could be said to be still entirely exclusive, not any more. From habits to dress code to the food we eat to the music we listen to and the general lifestyle, the story has been a continuously evolving and mixing outcome. 

For instance, black people used to run around naked in Africa jungles before being civilized, so should we now crucify them for "culturally appropriating" Western fashions and clothing? Even driving cars, speaking English, eating Chinese food, Italian food, Mexican food, India food are some things which did not come naturally to black people, but nobody is calling them out for engaging in them or should those cultures now put a marker that "culturally appropriating" is prohibited. 

None of these cultures which gave these to the world ever protested that other people, who are not members of their "culture", including black people, are "culturally appropriating their stuff. So, why must black people always be the first and literally the only ones to complain when other people from other cultures find their things interesting and make an inroad into what tblack people believe they started or that are traditionally associated with them. ICHEOKU says it is not right and it should be discontinued and discouraged as human interactions across every culture is to be preferred and not shunned. It makes all of us better human beings and those who are with us are definitely not against us. 

Anything being emulated is something good and admirable. as nobody imitates bad and distasteful things. So, instead of chastising Justin Bieber for wearing "dreadlocks", he should be admired and thereafter, encouraged to do a better job next time by seeking out a professional loctician, preferably one who has mastery of dreadlocks and is well versed in white people's dreadlocks, so that he may wear a better, nicer and more convincing dreadlocks. What he had will make Bob Marley throw a fit of fury as it ain't dreadlocks; at least not the real one.

AFGHANISTAN FOR AFGHNIS, PERIOD.

ICHEOKU says the final withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan must be irreversibly committed to and no amount of Deep State upheaval should lead to a reversal. Even a child gets weaned off his mother's breast milk after a while and therefore Afghanistan cannot be continued to be baby seated in perpetuity. If it is not now when? If they like let them blow up their entire country or kill every Afghani they see, the homebound journey must be a mission fully accomplished this time; so that by the new promised date of September 11, 2021 there will be no single American solder left in that parched piece of earth. 

If the 39 million people that call Afghanistan home cannot defend their country and allow a few million extremists terroristic Talibans to tell them what to do, so be it. It is either they are generally complicit or they do not care enough to rise up to the occasion to secure and take their country back. Bring the troops home and damn the consequences, including even a totally and completely destroyed Afghanistan. Let their neighbors and countries within that hemisphere worry about it. Twenty long years of committed blood and treasure is more than enough. America has tried and it does not matter whether America's best is good enough in their assessment. Only America has the right to make that call and thankfully Joe Biden has committed to see that through. #JustBringThemHome. 

JOE MANCHIN'S WIFE APPOINTMENT MIRRORS MITCH MCCONNELL'S WIFE'S.

ICHEOKU says President Donald John Trump "bribed" Mitch McConnell with the appointment of his wife, Elaine Chao, as Secretary of Transportation, believing that it will help keep The Mitch closer and more loyal to his White House. Joe Biden has taken a page from the Trump's book of nepotism by now also "bribing" Joe Manchin with the appointment of his wife, Gayle Conelly Manchin, as the co-chair of the Appalachian Regional Commission, believing that it will help securely anchor the much coveted West Virginian "vote-maker-in-chief" in the Senate on his White House side. 

President Donald John Trump knew that 'The Mitch' was the then Republican power broker in chief in Washington DC and that without his support, his MAGA and America First agenda will be dead on arrival. So he heavily lobbied the then Republican Senate Majority leader to smoothen the way. Joe Biden is similarly aware that without Joe Manchin's golden vote in the Senate, that the Democratic Party's agenda to remake America will not see the daylight and has begun to seriously lobby him in order to ensure that the agenda will have a smooth sailing. Like Trump, Joe Biden figured out that there is no better way of doing this than by having someone so dear and so close to Manchin's heart, who will be whispering sweet nonsensical into his ear each time they enjoy the comfort of their bedroom, as she reiterates the Democratic Party's agenda and the need for him not to disappoint the expectations. 

But from the experience garnered in the Elaine Chao's effort, it seems that either she did not share the same sleeping space with The Mitch or that he quickly dozes off each time her whisper makes it into his ear drums, because President Trump did not get what he bargained for by her appointment. Mitch did not capitulate as expected and instead, a war ensued which is still raging till today. Hopefully, Joe Manchin will also learn to simply tune off each time his wife wants to turn their bedroom pillows into a pulpit for the Democratic Party's agenda "upturn America down on its head." So far, he has conducted himself very well amidst his newly acquired  awesome vote power in the Senate and will not allow his wife's appointment to ever dilute it.

Joe Manchin is a man of great conviction, he has core and character; and hopefully will not easily compromise his stand. The Joe Biden's White House has just tested his resoluteness by this appointment and time will tell if it effected and influenced his decisions going forward. Mitch McConnell did not sell his conscience as he refused to be unquestionably slavishly loyal to President Donald John Trump and did not agree to every Trump's agenda. He also refused to be dictated to or allow the Senate to be turned into Trump's yes chamber. Hopefully, Joe Manchin will also do the same and not allow himself to be intimidated or for his conscience to be mortgaged by reason of this appointment. The Democratic Party is gun-ho ready to implement their agenda and at whatever cost possible; and only Joe Manchin is standing in their way and they have resolved to desperately lobby for his support.

Although politics is a game of the possibles, the usual quid pro quo deal makings; but such brazen appointments should be avoided and strongly discouraged because it sends a wrong message. It clearly telegraphs the rot in politics as American people knew for a fact that there were underlying reasons behind both appointments, without which they would have never been made. Although both women are qualified for the positions, but American people are not too stupid not to understand that if not for who they were married to, they might never have been appointed to the positions. It was the underlying imperative of securing their husbands vital support for the respective administrations' agendas that ultimately influenced their choices. 

ICHEOKU says the appearance is not good as it reflects cronyism and nepotism; and regardless of whatever the true underlying reason might be, the appearance suggest that it was influence tinged. Both President Trump and Joe Biden wanted something from both men respectively and they decided to use their wives as weapons of choice; lobbying for them from the inside and nagging their husbands into compliance if need be. Such does not bode well for the image which America continuously tries to present as a nation where family ties does not factor in when decisions are made on who occupies what positions of power and authority. Although there is no hard evidence to emphatically substantiate the motivations behind the appointments, but circumstances suggest it as it is the same reason for the maxim that 'justice must not only be done but must  also be seen to be done.

Let's hope that Joe Manchin is a good understudy of Mitch McConnell and that he will come out of it smelling like roses, unblemished and untarnished and keep his stellar reputation in tact. Also, ICHEOKU strongly believes that he will remain consistent in his conviction and will always vote for what is in the best interest of the American people as well as the people of West Virginia who sent him to Washington DC as their Senator. By always voting right, he will be upholding  the ideals and values of the people of Great West Virginia who are largely conservatives and not as woke as the nut job liberal anarchists wing of the Democratic Party. ICHEOKU says the Democratic Party is being too myopic in trying to burn down the house simply because they got the key to the house, forgetting that there is no guaranteed majority in perpetuity in Washington DC. 

It was the same mistake their Harry Reid made when he changed the 60 votes filibuster proof majority required to confirm a Supreme Court Justice when he desperately confirmed Justices Kagen and Sotomayor. But it came to later bite the Democrats when Republicans used the same tactic to confirm Gorsuch, Kavanaugh and Barrett.  A case of what goes around that came around full circle and thankfully, Joe Manchin is so far reminding them of this imperative. May the wisdom of King Solomon remain his guidance and may God grant him a clear mind always to know to do what is right for the country. May he never sheepishly follow his Democratic Party into perdition in their quest to drive America into a place which America has never been to before. Thank you Joe for holding America's interest first before the Democratic Party and please remain the voice of reason which destiny has thrust upon you with that special golden vote.