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Republicans who are on the fence because they feel they will be betraying their loyalty to the RNC they have supported and voted for all their lives, should not be afraid of change. The RNC you have today is not the RNC of 2016. The party is a MAGA party now... otherwise, the RNC, pre-2016 will not nominate twice impeached, and the 34-time convicted felon who boasted of assaulting women and does not shy away from saying he will break the law that he had broken several times. He has only survived because some in the SCOTUS have bent the rules to keep him afloat... RNC of Ronald Regan/John McCain will not nominate a candidate that allegedly instigated an insurrection. The party will not nominate a man who uses the most vile language you don't want to hear as a normal - decent human being. You will nominate a man who appointed members of his family into plum strategic positions with the sole aim of making money out of government (otherwise, Ivanka's husband will not be the Middle-...

I am often bewildered when privileged people choose to disregard the humanity of others. When they are called out, they become offended. When you intentionally mispronounce someone else's name; you are corrected and you say you don't care. Like calling VP Kamala's name anyhow, or calling Iraq and Iran like you call Apple's products: I-ran and I-raq. Wrong! Wrong !! Wrong!!! This is a lesson in social intelligence quotient FAILED. A cardinal rule in social IQ is to "treat people the way they want to be treated." Deliberate and nonchalant attitude towards mispronouncing others' names is the hallmark of race supremacy that was exemplified during the slavery era that extended into Jim Crow, and now into today's mindset of some right-wing white supremacists in the name of opposing "political correctness" - they erased all the cultures of the enslaved Africans - and forced them to take on their master's name, to never speak their native langua...

  I used to think that Kaitlan Collins of CNN was too young at less than 30 years to have been handed the CNN White House Chief correspondent position before she became the primetime anchor at 9 PM on the channel. However, the day she earned my respect was the day she cornered Trump's second Attorney General, the renowned lawyer and two-time AG, Bill Barr. This was a man who called DJT names for wanting to overturn Biden's election but has now endorsed DJT for president again. Ms. Collins asked Barr what has Biden done that was worse than a man who wanted to thwart the peaceful transfer of power for the first time in the history of America. Barr quivered and stuttered that Biden's whole government was a disaster. Collins asked him again, do you mean that is worse than a man that wanted to steal an election. Barr said, stammering again, did he succeed. Barr should know better that attempted burglary and murder are criminal offenses in America, he was a two-time AG of America...

When your support goes to a leader who uses racist epithets to describe you, and you follow him because he lies to you that he is creating jobs for your people. If we go deeper, what type of jobs is he talking about? Here are the types of jobs in his own words paraphrased: "Biden is a disaster with his border policies - he is letting in thugs and rapists from the south, and you know what, they are taking Black jobs... I have done more for the blacks than any president since Abraham Lincoln. Unemployment was the lowest in my time. Now Biden has opened the border, and they are taking black jobs" What are black jobs? Low-paying jobs.... Janitorial, construction, housekeeping, cleaners, and auxiliary nurse jobs that require no skills, and keep you in the low class or lower middle class in perpetuity. This statement and insinuation not only insult the African American community but the Hispanics... All Americans deserve an equal chance at all the opportunities in the land. There i...

Nigerians have been protesting the prevailing economic hardship that has worsened in the last 15 months since President Tinubu took office. While we cannot blame the current administration for all the woes of the land, they have surely added to it, and they have not been up to the task of alleviating the suffering of ordinary Nigerians. Inflation has run riot, the naira has been devalued beyond any other time in Nigeria's history, and the majority of our people are hungry, I mean people are hungry... it is 1984 again for many families, even worse for some. Buhari ruined the country with his lack of oversight and ethnic bigotry that fueled Fulani and banditry activities and took them to another level. President Tinubu has a chance of a lifetime to re-write the wrong he did to Nigerians by forcing an incapable man on us for his own political ambition - you all know what I mean. We all know the cure to the issues preventing appreciable progress with all the goodwill of Tinubu. His go...