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		<title>Are Americans Tired Of “Winning Yet?” A Sharp Political Satire.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 00:45:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A biting political satire examines claims of nonstop American “winning,” from inflation and tariffs to foreign policy, tourism, and national pride, while questioning the reality behind the rhetoric.]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>(<strong>ThyBlackMan.com</strong>) When he ran to become president, the current occupant in the Oval Office stated, “We&#8217;re going to win so much, you may even get tired of winning. And you&#8217;ll say, &#8216;Please, please, it&#8217;s too much winning.”</p>
<p>I don’t know about you, but I can truly say I need a little break from all the winning. It has been overwhelming. It has been breathtaking.</p>
<p>I could use a break from the winning for a while. It has been lightning quick, non-stop winning on so many fronts. Out of fairness, perhaps we should allow the other guys to win some, just to make it competitive.</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s look at some of the many wins so far.</p>
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<p>From day one before, he could warm up his desk seat, he single-handily brought the runaway inflation that he inherited from the previous administration completely under control. Like a masterful magician he waved his magic wand and the high price of eggs, bacon, bread, beer, coffee, gas and oil vanished into thin air.</p>
<p>Affordability was no longer some mysterious concept but a living reality for everyday American families.</p>
<p>Americans everywhere have seen unbelievable low prices on items never ever witnessed in years. Perhaps, ever. It has been nothing less than amazing and miraculous.</p>
<p>Prices continue to fall to the point it is just overwhelming. There is serious concern that with prices so low and continuing to fall Americans may become severely overweight.</p>
<p>Then there are the tariffs established by executive orders. Before the ink could dry, manufacturing plants relocated from other countries to the US. Thousands if not millions of jobs overnight flowed into the US. It has been nothing short of mind-blowing.</p>
<p>There would have been far more new plants and manufacturing jobs if the courts would not have interfered with the winning. But even with those courts interfering, manufacturing plants from Asian and other places began to relocate to the US. American workers, especially younger workers, are ecstatic and are rushing to fill the slots on assembly lines in those plants.</p>
<p>As one young man pointed out, “This is a dream come true. More than anything, being an influencer, rap artist or social media creator, I always wanted to work on an assembly line in a plant.”</p>
<p>The credit for this great win is due to the tariffs and the fantastic, unprecedented deals won by the current occupant of the Oval Office. Let no one be mistaken, only the current occupant of the Oval Office and no one else could have done it.</p>
<p>Countries for years probably going back to the early days of the nation’s founding have unfairly taken advantage of American presidents. Suckering them into terrible economic trade deals. But no longer.</p>
<p>New trade deals have been established within a wink of an eye. The current occupant of the Oval Office is a grand negotiator. A supreme deal maker.</p>
<p>The US is no longer a victim nation. The economic trade war has been won by America. It is just another in a barrelful of wins.</p>
<p>The US has gone from a place that foreign visitors were reluctant to travel to. Now it is the hottest place on the planet to visit. Everyone wants to visit the US.</p>
<p>There was a time foreigners questioned if it was safe to travel to the US. They were told it was too risky.</p>
<p>That ruthless, foreign street gangs and alternative, multi gender cabals had invaded the US spreading unbelievable terror across cities, towns and farm areas.</p>
<p>That is no longer the case. Bathrooms and bedrooms have been made safe again.</p>
<p>Federal troops and ICE are out there on the streets protecting lives and rights. Foreign visitors are flocking to the US in unprecedented numbers now.</p>
<p>Tourist centers, hotels and motels are now overbooked for the unforeseeable future. It has been incredible.</p>
<p>The US is so hot it is on fire. It has been a great win for everyone, not just the millionaires and the billionaires in the US. Everybody is winning.</p>
<p>People in other countries used to look at the US and Americans worryingly. Americans they felt were fat, ugly, uncouth and uncivilized. Not anymore.</p>
<p>The Canadians, Greenlanders, Mexicans, Nigerians, Cubans and people around the world have rediscovered America and Americans. They have nothing but love for the nation and its people. They now sing hosannas in praise of America and its people.</p>
<p>Until the current occupant of the Oval Office, American presidents were mocked and ridiculed by foreign leaders. They laugh behind their backs at them. No longer.</p>
<p>The current occupant is hailed and respected by foreign leaders everywhere. Jokes are no longer made. Foreign leaders are breaking down doors in an attempt to meet with the current occupant. Many have taken to dressing even speaking like him.</p>
<p>Then there was the war with Iran. It was a huge win for the US. Overnight the US was able to completely obliterate its nuclear weapons and its military capabilities.</p>
<p>Less than a year later the US returned just to ensure that Iran was not trying to piece together the destroyed pieces. Have to give them credit, the Iranians are an enterprising people.</p>
<p>Still, one would have thought Iran would have learned a lesson the first go around when they saw all their nuclear efforts setback to the stone age. But they didn’t.</p>
<p>The Iranians have since learned their lesson. It has been a painful lesson: Don’t mess with the US. It is not a paper tiger.</p>
<p>They were given 24 hours to surrender. It only took them a few minutes for them to bend their knees. Another great win for the US. World leaders including China, Russia and others were forced to conclude definitively the current leader of the US is not only not a buffoon but a military genius, perhaps one of the greatest in all history.</p>
<p>In recognition of how much we have been winning, the current occupant of the Oval Office is planning a new huge White House ballroom, an arch of success and a new garden project featuring all the founding fathers and others. During these great economic times this is exactly what the nation needs and wants.</p>
<p>We have been “winning bigly.” We have been winning so much it is tiring.</p>
<p>Staff Writer; <strong>Al Alatunji</strong></p>
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		<title>The Donald Trump Years by the Numbers.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jan 2026 21:58:58 +0000</pubDate>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>(<strong>ThyBlackMan.com</strong>) Future historians may rank Donald Trump as the worst leader in US history. Those historians along with future political and social scientists may focus on and highlight his character, morality and temperament in their assessments and conclusions. They may conclude after reviewing his pronouncements, actions and policies that he was the least competent, most ill-prepared, deeply conflicted person to sit in the Oval Office. They may also conclude that he was the most corrupted person also.</p>
<p>As for future social psychologists they may deduct that Trump was the most emotionally and mentally challenged individual to lead the nation. That his insecurity, desire to be accepted, inferiority complex, self-hate, alienation, anger, extreme personal unhappiness and instability propelled his desire for attention, power and retribution.</p>
<p><img decoding="async" class="aligncenter wp-image-135316" src="https://thyblackman.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Donald-Trump-Approval-Rating-Surges-Past-Obama-and-Bush-in-Second-Term.png" alt="The Donald Trump Years by the Numbers." width="720" height="413" srcset="https://thyblackman.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Donald-Trump-Approval-Rating-Surges-Past-Obama-and-Bush-in-Second-Term.png 785w, https://thyblackman.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Donald-Trump-Approval-Rating-Surges-Past-Obama-and-Bush-in-Second-Term-300x172.png 300w, https://thyblackman.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Donald-Trump-Approval-Rating-Surges-Past-Obama-and-Bush-in-Second-Term-768x440.png 768w, https://thyblackman.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Donald-Trump-Approval-Rating-Surges-Past-Obama-and-Bush-in-Second-Term-450x258.png 450w, https://thyblackman.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Donald-Trump-Approval-Rating-Surges-Past-Obama-and-Bush-in-Second-Term-780x447.png 780w" sizes="(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px" /></p>
<p>It led him to have utter disdain for conventional norms and standards, practices and conduct. A disdain only surpassed by his genuine disdain for the very people who proclaimed him their leader, their messiah.</p>
<p>However, for all their scholarly credentials and noted accomplishments, their perceptions and assumptions will all be merely just subjective conclusions. Perceptions and assumptions utterly shaped by the mores, values, practices, customs and attitudes of the time period that they live. Such mores, values and attitudes may be entirely different than those of today.</p>
<p>It would be no different that today. Forty, fifty years ago certain behavior, attitudes and practices that seem genuinely acceptable today would have been routinely condemned and denounced.</p>
<p>Nevertheless, future historians, political and social scientists and social psychologists will all have no doubt, have no debate that during the Trump years more Americans and others died from his actions and policies than any other person who occupied the White House. It will not be conjure or speculation. It will be based on numbers.</p>
<p>Politicians and others might lie, but numbers are numbers, they have a truth all of their own. So, let&#8217;s look at the numbers.</p>
<p>During the first reign of Trump close to 600,000 Americans died from Covid. Normally, it would be the height of irresponsibility to hold an American leader responsible for what insurance companies might refer to as an Act of God. An event so out of the realm of human control that no insurance company would include it in its coverage policies. No American president regardless if they were Republican or Democrat, left or right would have been faulted.</p>
<p>But Trump’s response to Covid was anything but normal. It was irresponsible, callous, unconscionable, heartless, an abomination and evil. Instead of providing leadership during Covid, Trump went golfing. He refused to lockdown the nation for 30 or 60 days like many other countries did. An action to help to isolate Covid and stop its spread.</p>
<p>Instead, Trump in a politically calculating move refused to place the nation on a lockdown for one or two months thereby allowing Covid to spread nationwide. The end result Covid remained in the US longer than in other nations and produced close to 600,000 deaths. Trump likes to place his name on everything. So the almost 600,000 people who died bear his name, Trump&#8217;s deaths.</p>
<p>There were two political calculations that dictated Trump’s actions. One was that if he shut down the country the economy would experience a retreat, a reversal. The main engine for Trump’s approval numbers and his re-election efforts was a strong economy, he strongly believed. He went to no limits to proclaim how great the Trump economy was.</p>
<p>The great economy that he inherited from President Barack Obama who led the nation out of the Great Recession and put it back on firm footing. President Obama’s economy which Trump proclaimed for all to hear was the Trump economy. An economy which because of Trump’s irresponsible leadership during Covid led to manpower and product shortages which would eventually result in inflation.</p>
<p>The second political calculation was that his advisors from the outset before the nation was aware of Covid believed that a disproportionate number of Covid victims would be the elderly,  people of color in particular those living in big cities and the less affluent. Primarily and overwhelmingly Democratic voters and not Trump voters. Close to 600,000 Americans died. Regardless of their political affiliation they are Trump’s deaths.</p>
<p>During the reign of Trump there has been a noticeable uptick in hate speech and hate crimes in America. Each and every one of those deaths are on Trump’s watch.</p>
<p>There has also been an uptick in killings of Americans by law enforcement agents. Because of Trump’s words and policies each and every one of those deaths are also on Trump’s hands. They are added to the Trump deaths.</p>
<p>The number grows with each passing day and there is no guarantee his term will end in January 2029. Trump’s decision to attack Venezuela was clearly not about drugs coming into the US. It was about oil.</p>
<p>It also may have been about forcing a war with Venezuela and others thereby hoping to establish with voters a reason to not change horses in the middle of a race. It would be the manufacturing of a national security emergency to hold office. There might be deaths, Americans and others. So be it, mission accomplished.</p>
<p>Policies put into place during the early days of Trump’s second go around curtailed funding for life saving programs in America. Funding for healthcare programs for less affluent families and individuals.</p>
<p>Programs in America and throughout the world that helped to ease and prevent starvation and hunger, sickness and illness which would otherwise result in death. There will be millions who will perish as a result of Trump’s policies. They too will be Trump’s deaths.</p>
<p>Then there are the imperialist campaigns and wars being plotted by Trump flunkies. If they do occur there might be hundreds of thousands if not millions of people, some of which are Americans who might die. They too will be Trump’s deaths.</p>
<p>The future historians, political and social scientists and social psychologists will focus their research and attention on Trump.  How was he able suck the oxygen out of the air of a country?</p>
<p>At the same time, they will be compelled to ask how so many good people, self-proclaimed upright religious people, people with supposed morals saw no evil, heard no evil and did nothing to stop evil.</p>
<p>They will be compelled to understand how a nation became so filled with such unhappy, alienated, miserable people who were willing to follow an even more unhappy, miserable pied piper into the abyss.</p>
<p>May God have mercy on the soul of America. May God continue to bless the good people of the world who pray and protest for peace, hold up and host humanity as well as fight for freedom.</p>
<p>Staff Writer; <strong>Al Alatunji</strong></p>
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		<title>The US Might Want to Leave Venezuela Alone.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2026 01:31:54 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A critical examination of U.S. intervention in Venezuela, the legacy of Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan, and why regime change driven by oil, power, and profit puts America on the wrong side of history once again.]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>(<strong>ThyBlackMan.com</strong>) There are probably a few Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan veterans and retired military strategists and analysts who would convey to Trump the message “Leave Venezuela alone.” American soldiers and the American public are not cut out to fight a war longer than two weeks. Playing a video war game yes, but not an actual boots on the ground full scale military campaign.</p>
<p>At the same time, there will be a host of keyboard, internet and podcast warriors who will counter that this is not the 1960s. That the US government and military have all types of advanced military technology that allows them to sit on a battleship or some other luxury location and click buttons that will allow them to destroy the enemy while texting their lunch menu. That may very well be true.</p>
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<p>But as the Vietcong proclaimed and showed during the Vietnam Conflict and the Iraqis and Afghans years later, the power of the people is greater than the technology of the oppressor. It was a lesson learned the hard way by Americans. Shock and awe in the first moments of the conflict later turned to a steady chorus of taps and gun salutes.</p>
<p>Apparently, there were those who lived through those years and learned nothing. Then again, money and privilege allowed some to escape not having to fight and/or pay attention to those earlier military campaigns. It is understandable if their intimacy with that history might be suspect.</p>
<p>It would be similar to a person due to daddy’s, or mommy’s money and privilege never having held a job, drove themselves, shopped for groceries or filled up their car with gasoline.</p>
<p>During the first regime of Trump, he ordered Venezuelan military leaders to drop their support of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. Those military leaders responded by laughing at him.</p>
<p>Those military leaders may not have been in love with Maduro. But they like so many other people around the world they have no respect for a wannabe, make believe tough guy.</p>
<p>One thing which true, authentic men, real tough guys and gangsters understand is courage, respect and strength. They feel embarrassment and resent having to witness a fake man conduct himself as an eunuch.</p>
<p>In his press conference announcing the kidnapping of Maduro, his wife and son, Trump while barely being able to keep his eyes open went off script. He conveyed the real reason for violating international law. The seizure of Venezuela oil from Venezuela land and its people.</p>
<p>It had absolutely nothing, nothing at all to do with America&#8217;s drug problem. Trump and his minions can continue to blame Venezuela and everywhere else for America’s drug problem. He knows a whole lot of Americans will believe that lie. Why not? They have been willing to believe all his many other lies.</p>
<p>America does have a drug problem. Too many Americans are troubled and unhappy. America also has a mental health problem. Too many Americans are troubled and  unhappy. Maybe one day America will address its drug and mental health problems.</p>
<p>Trump once said that he could kill someone on Fifth Avenue and not lose any of his followers. That tells you what he thinks of his followers. It also tells a lot about his followers. Their values, morals and character. It seems they would be willing to march into hell following behind him.</p>
<p>Among the many things that Trump will be notoriously remembered for will be as another US leader, on the wrong side of history. Another US leader using US resources to undermine, destabilize and overthrow a government. In this case in a country where half the population considers themselves to be “morena” Spanish for black, brown or dark skinned. This time it is Venezuela.</p>
<p>In the past, it was the Congo, Vietnam, Guatemala, Dominican Republic, Cuba, Haiti, Grenada, El Salvador and Nicaragua among others.</p>
<p>The Trump regime with cooperation from American business interests and allies is involved in regime change. Seeking to replace a government it did not like. A government it instituted economic measures against to weaken its economy.</p>
<p>What is it about Venezuela’s government that Trump and previous US leaders did not like? Probably because Venezuela’s Maduro and Chavez like Patrice Lumumba of the Congo, Fidel Castro of Cuba and Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe refused to be puppets or harlots for the US.</p>
<p>American propagandists would have you believe that America does not like dictators and Maduro was a dictator. However, American presidents including the make believe one currently in the Oval Office loves them some dictators. As Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un will testify they have no better friend than Donald.</p>
<p>It has nothing to do with human rights, freedom of the press, democracy, religious persecution or minority and women&#8217;s rights. It definitely does not have anything to do with drugs.</p>
<p>Let us not forget while Nancy Reagan was telling school children to “just say no “to drugs, the US government headed by President Ronald Reagan by way of its CIA was bringing drugs into the US. Drugs like child sexual trafficking is big money. Let us not be fooled. Let us not forget.</p>
<p>If the dictator is good for business as usual, there is no problem. What is important is profit. To hell with the exploitation of the common man and woman.</p>
<p>Venezuela has the largest proven oil reserves in the world. US oil interests would love to have those oil reserves. Enter Trump like a thief in the night. A stickup, grand theft larceny.</p>
<p>Venezuela had a strong, stable economy as a result of being an oil producing nation. However, through trade manipulation, sanctions, sabotage, news distortions and disinformation campaigns, the US and its stooges worked to wreak havoc on the Venezuelan economy causing widespread shortages and starvation. Men, women and children have died as a result, courtesy of efforts and activities funded by American taxpayer money.</p>
<p>Hopefully, the Lord will be more merciful to Americans on that Great Judgment Day than American courts have been. Under American law, ignorance of the law is no excuse in sentencing. Americans better hope that the Lord will be more forgiving of not knowing or not caring what their government has and continues to do in particular to the least of us worldwide.</p>
<p>It is time for Americans of conscience to tell the regime in Washington, “Get your hands out of its pocket and your knees off its neck, leave Venezuela alone!“</p>
<p>Staff Writer; <strong>Al Alatunji</strong></p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>(<strong>ThyBlackMan.com</strong>) Believing they have a good campaign issue for 2026, Trump and Republican Congressional candidates will go into overdrive talking about violence and crime, in particular, if not exclusively, violence and crime in urban centers. So, let’s talk about violence and crime.</p>
<p>An eight-year-old and ten-year while sitting in a church pew in the act of worship were savagely and ruthlessly murdered. Just another day in the USA.</p>
<p>It is added to the growing list of such ungodly shootings in houses of worship. It joins the Mother Emanuel AME Church in South Carolina and the Tree of Life synagogue shooting in Pittsburgh to name just two that confound the mind.</p>
<p>An eleven-year-old boy playing a child’s game with other children rings a doorbell and runs away. “Ding, Dong, Ditch” the kids call it. They laugh as they run down the street to the next house to repeat the same act. Kids being kids, playing kids games.</p>
<p>Shock, horror and sadness replace the laughter as the eleven-year-old boy lies on the ground crying for help after being shot in the back. A gun owner must have thought his life was in danger. Why else would a grown man shoot an eleven-year-old boy in the back after the child rang his doorbell? Just another day in the USA.</p>
<p>It is estimated that there are 83-million-gun owners in the US. Many have multiple guns. There are more guns in the US than people.</p>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-135784" src="https://thyblackman.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Gun-Violence-Donald-Trumps-2026-Crime-Narrative-and-Americas-Failed-Second-Amendment-Obsession.jpg" alt="Gun Violence, Donald Trump’s 2026 Crime Narrative, and America’s Failed Second Amendment Obsession." width="612" height="408" srcset="https://thyblackman.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Gun-Violence-Donald-Trumps-2026-Crime-Narrative-and-Americas-Failed-Second-Amendment-Obsession.jpg 612w, https://thyblackman.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Gun-Violence-Donald-Trumps-2026-Crime-Narrative-and-Americas-Failed-Second-Amendment-Obsession-300x200.jpg 300w, https://thyblackman.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Gun-Violence-Donald-Trumps-2026-Crime-Narrative-and-Americas-Failed-Second-Amendment-Obsession-450x300.jpg 450w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 612px) 100vw, 612px" /></p>
<p>The US has more guns by far than any other nation. In fact, it is estimated that there are more guns in the US than in all the other developed nations combined. Is there something seriously wrong with that picture?</p>
<p>Guns are manufactured solely to hurt, maim and kill. Civilized people are supposed to act civilized. Killing other people is not what civilized people do. Granted, guns do not pull their triggers and kill people. It is people who pull the triggers on guns who kill other people.</p>
<p>If the killer didn’t have a gun they would find some other weapon, a stone, brick, knife, pencil, pen to assist them in killing, gun rights advocates argue.  However, it probably might be hard, much harder if the individual who fires off rounds and rounds and kills scores was left to use a stone or pen.</p>
<p>A child, a teen finds a gun inside their homes unaware that the gun is loaded and accidently ends up killing another child, teen or themselves. An adult who hears a strange noise outside their home. The adult reaches for a gun, adrenaline pumps through the person’s body. The adult empties the gun.</p>
<p>Because the person has not been to a firing range in a decade, if at all, the person hits everything but the squirrel that was the cause of the strange noise. Now the person looks down at the ground and sees a loved one or friend taking their last breath. The dying person’s blood flows freely from their body to the ground or floor creating a pool. Just another day in the USA.</p>
<p>Trump and Republican Congressional candidates will push the image that Washington DC, New York City, Baltimore, Los Angeles are out of control, lawless territories where crime and violence is prevalent. Crime statistics make such allegations false. That will not stop Trump and Republicans from saying it. Truth like the innocents of gun violence has been a victim for some time now.</p>
<p>It is also racist. However, that will not stop Trump or Republicans from saying it.</p>
<p>It has always been amazing that individuals who have no empathy for people who live in urban areas, who rigorously oppose programs and policies which would improve the wellbeing of people in urban areas, are the ones who seemed so preoccupied with calling out alleged violence in Chicago and other urban centers.</p>
<p>Do they really care about violence in particular gun violence in Chicago? Or part of some weird lame racist point supposedly directed at President Barack Obama because he lived in Chicago?</p>
<p>For years, the gun lobby and its supporters vigorously espoused the Second Amendment right for citizens to own guns. That American citizens need guns to prevent a hostile federal government going against We the People.</p>
<p>That one day there might be an evil, ungodly cabal headed by a demonic tyrant who would snatch away the citizens’ right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That would shut down longstanding institutions, debase traditions and conventions.</p>
<p>That would turn the government of the People, by the People for the People into a private social club that the demonic leader and his or her cabal games for their own personal enrichment.</p>
<p>The gun lobby and its no restrictions, no controls, gun right zealots maintained the Second Amendment was there to prevent such from occurring.</p>
<p>The Second Amendment to the US Constitution does not give citizens the right to own guns. Nor does it prevent it. The US Constitution is silent on the issue of individual citizens having guns.</p>
<p>The US Supreme Court in 2008 ruled that the Second Amendment gave individual citizens the right to own weapons. As we have seen with other US Supreme Court rules a future Court might rule differently.</p>
<p>As for gun rights advocates, most have no idea what the Second Amendment or any of the other Amendments to the US Constitution says since it is doubtful they have taken the time to read it. Then again, they are no different than the hundreds of millions who apparently never read the Seventh Commandment, &#8220;Thou shall not kill.” Although, it probably would not have made a difference with a lot of people. But that is another story.</p>
<p>What the Second Amendment states is that &#8220;A well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.&#8221;</p>
<p>At the time the Second Amendment was written there was no federal army. Individuals who had fought to gain independence from England using their own weapons were the militia.</p>
<p>When the US government established its federal army, the federal army was to serve as the well-regulated militia to prevent the rights of the people from being subverted by a future evil federal government.</p>
<p>Despite having a federal army, the gun lobby and its supporters maintain there is also a need for citizens to bear arms to prevent a tyranny enslaving the people.</p>
<p>Using the narrative of the gun lobby we can expect any day to see a majority of the 83-million-gun owners bearing arms marching on the White House and other federal buildings to prevent the current regime slithering further into a dictatorship.</p>
<p>With the exception of the “internet warriors” on their cell phones, iPad, laptops and computers, US gun owners are not thinking about marching anywhere but to their local beer and burger joint.</p>
<p>If an individual is counting on US gun owners to save the nation from tyranny, they may want to rethink that position. They have a greater chance of hitting the Powerball four consecutive draws than seeing that happening.</p>
<p>If Trump and others in Congress were serious about crime, violence, law and order they would enact sensible gun control measures. They would outlaw all assault and military type weapons. Require mandatory thorough and efficient background checks. Such background checks should include psychological evaluation.</p>
<p>If individuals are required to register their automobiles, then they should be required to register all of their guns. Owners of guns should be required to undergo regular gun training programs to both enhance their marksmanship and safety procedures.</p>
<p>As for shooting unarmed deer and rabbits, hunting should be outlawed. It clearly is no sport. It is uncivilized, barbaric and in conflict with the Seventh Commandment.</p>
<p>Thou shall not kill was not just about mankind. Not that it would make a difference since mankind has clearly been unable to follow that Commandment in dealing with itself.  God’s other creatures must wonder when humans will become civilized.</p>
<p>Governments at all levels in the US must do more to ensure that people in all communities feel free to sit under their fig tree and not be afraid.</p>
<p>Using fear tactics and false narratives about crime and violence in the 2026 election for votes should be deemed by all parties irresponsible and un-American.</p>
<p>Finally, Americans need to judge their society not in terms of its technological devices and advances but how we treat each other as human beings. Hurting, maiming and killing is not civilized.</p>
<p>America may proclaim its great technological accomplishments but the actions of its people in how they treat each other suggest that they are nothing more than cave dwellers.</p>
<p>Staff Writer; <strong>Al Alatunji</strong></p>
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		<title>Donald Trump and the Republican Propaganda Playbook: Race and False Narratives.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2025 02:39:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Donald Trump and Republicans have perfected political propaganda, from the welfare queen myth to fearmongering about immigrants, crime, and transgender people—echoing the tactics of the Third Reich.]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>(<strong>ThyBlackMan.com</strong>) Republicans even before Trump have been masters in the messaging war. They have used the playbook of the Third Reich that the bigger the lie, the more often it was stated and the louder it was amplified the more likely people will believe it. Republicans have perfected that approach with the voters. Trump however has taken it to an even higher level.</p>
<p>For years Republicans pushed the narrative of the welfare queen who was beating the system by receiving welfare while riding around in a late model luxury car. The image Republicans stealthily crafted was for voters to envision a Black woman as the welfare queen taking advantage of the system and the taxpayers.</p>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter wp-image-135531" src="https://thyblackman.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/image-43.png" alt="Donald Trump and the Republican Propaganda Playbook: Race and False Narratives." width="690" height="233" srcset="https://thyblackman.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/image-43.png 1239w, https://thyblackman.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/image-43-300x101.png 300w, https://thyblackman.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/image-43-1024x345.png 1024w, https://thyblackman.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/image-43-768x259.png 768w, https://thyblackman.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/image-43-450x152.png 450w, https://thyblackman.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/image-43-780x263.png 780w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 690px) 100vw, 690px" /></p>
<p>Racist yes, false yes, but extremely effective despite the fact the majority of people on welfare were whites. The image Republicans wanted voters to have in mind when they went to the polls to vote was that of the Black welfare queen cheat.</p>
<p>More recently, taking their cue from Trump, immigrants in particular immigrants from Latin America and Haiti were projected as barbarians coming to destroy America and its people. These Brown and Black people, a savage invading army, Blitzkrieg across open borders at the personal direction and encouragement of President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris. Trump and Republicans went into overdrive shouting that message to the masses.</p>
<p>Savage invaders bringing guns and fentanyl to cause destruction and death to Americans. Rapists and pedophiles, Trump and Republicans maintained, recruited by Democrats and their billionaire donors to cause havoc in America. Being brought into the country again personally by President Biden and Vice President Harris to steal American jobs while raping woman and children.</p>
<p>It seems a lot of people truly believed it from the polls. Or was it just an excuse to cover and hide their racist and sexist desire not to vote for the Black woman?</p>
<p>A whole lot of American voters, Republicans, Independents and Democrats truly believed this false narrative of open borders and savage Brown and Black people flooding into the country to hurt and harm America and Americans. Trump and Republicans clearly received a grade of A+ for their creativity while receiving a F- with a red circle for honesty.</p>
<p>If that narrative, which was extremely effective, was not enough, Trump and Republicans decided to create the false narrative about transgender people who make up one whole percent of the population taking over schools and bathrooms across the US forcing men to become women and women to become men.</p>
<p>As the propagandists of the Third Reich would be only happy to point out, if you tell a lie often and loudly, the people will believe it. So, Trump and his Republicans allies stated that false narrative often and loudly. A whole lot of people believed it.</p>
<p>Despite Americans still dying of drug use, as if Trump and Republicans really cared about drug use in the US, now there is complete silence from Trump and Republicans about fentanyl and America’s drug problem. Did the issue magically go away or was it just another false narrative to fool the gullible?</p>
<p>It is understandable if there are Americans who are confused about what is really happening regarding America’s drug problem. First and foremost, America has a drug problem. It is part of its mental health problem. A problem the nation refuses to acknowledge.</p>
<p>Perhaps there is too much money to be made from the illicit drug industry. Nonetheless, Americans are some of the unhappiest people on the planet. That too is part of its mental health problem.</p>
<p>Still, it is understandable if Americans are confused. On one hand, Trump and Republicans in their One, Big, Ugly Bill Act eliminated funding for programs aimed at fighting drug and substance abuse.</p>
<p>On the other hand, Trump is threatening to send the US military to invade Mexico to fight the cartels. Maybe his threat was just an attempt to change the narrative away from the Epstein-Trump files?</p>
<p>Which brings me to the subject of the new false narrative. Trump and his Republicans minions are gearing up for the 2026 midterm elections. They need a new false narrative to run on. That new false narrative is that crime is out of control and lawlessness is rampant in various US big cities.</p>
<p>Trump has already deployed National Guard troops to Los Angeles and recently to Washington DC. In Los Angeles, he cited lawlessness during the protest against his regime’s use of masked men to round up and detain people. In DC, his decision to use the National Guard was because of a supposed car jacketing of a federal employee.</p>
<p>The use of troops in big cities is something that Trump has wanted to do. Were agent provocateurs used in Los Angeles to cause trouble as an excuse to use the National Guard? Was there really a carjacking in DC?</p>
<p>When a person lies so much it becomes very difficult for people to believe the person when they are actually telling the truth. At the same time, governments including the US have used false flags to provide the pretense to do what they actually wanted to do.</p>
<p>Trump targeting Los Angeles, Washington DC, Baltimore, New York and Chicago is to be expected. Why? Because each is a city in which a majority of the residents are people of color and is headed by a Black mayor.</p>
<p>Los Angeles and DC in particular have a Black woman as mayor and Trump has a particular dislike of Black women. Probably because they refused to allow him to abuse and mistreat them as he was able to do with other women.</p>
<p>During the run up to the 2024 presidential election, Trump and Republicans flooded the airwaves with political commercials which highlighted an immigrant killing a citizen while driving. However, no mention of the hundreds of drunk driving incidents by Road Rage Nancy and Billy Boy that same day.  For the latter, it was just another day in the USA.</p>
<p>Similar political commercials can be expected highlighting some incident in a big city in which Nancy or Billy Boy somehow end up being a victim, real or fake.</p>
<p>As we inch towards 2026, we can expect the rhetoric to be constant and loud regarding crime and lawlessness in big cities. Although the reports, both local and FBI, indicate that crime in major US cities has seen a significant drop from the covid years that will not stop Trump and Republicans from voicing otherwise.</p>
<p>It will not stop Trump and Republicans from fabricating a false, fake and phony narrative about crime and lawlessness. They know if they say it long enough, often enough and loud enough a significant number of Americans will believe it. Trump and Republicans are counting on it.</p>
<p>Social scientists were very clear once it became known that the US and the world were in a world-wide pandemic what more than likely would occur based on what had happened during the 1919 Spanish Flu pandemic. They pointed out that there would be increase in crime and lawlessness, substance abuse, depression, suicides and inflation.</p>
<p>All those things occurred and were in response to the pandemic. So, crime went up everywhere, not just big cities. However, crime and lawlessness have returned to pre-covid numbers. Nevertheless, that will not stop Trump and his Republican flunkies from blatantly lying to the American people about crime and lawlessness.</p>
<p>At the same time, to be fair, crime and lawlessness have increased significantly in the US since January 2025. It is being directed out of the White House by the biggest criminal to step foot inside the Oval Office. If anyone knows about crime and lawlessness it is the crime master, Donald J. Trump.</p>
<p>Staff Writer; <strong>Al Alatunji</strong></p>
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		<title>Democrats Winning Congress Could Lead to Donald Trump Impeachment or Political Deal.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2025 18:09:31 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[If Democrats win control of both the Senate and House, impeachment of Donald Trump could be on the table—or a political deal forcing him to undo his own agenda. Either path could reshape 2026 and beyond, leaving JD Vance and Republicans in a no-win situation.]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>(<strong>ThyBlackMan.com</strong>) If Democrats win both the US Senate and the House of Representatives, they would be in the position to impeach Donald Trump. It will be one of the first things demanded by the Democratic base and others. Independents and many Republicans will support Trump’s impeachment.</p>
<p>Their support for impeachment will not be due to Trump’s embarrassment of America to the world. It will not be because he has shown himself to be totally incompetent.</p>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter wp-image-135495" src="https://thyblackman.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/image-42.png" alt="Democrats Winning Congress Could Lead to Donald Trump Impeachment or Political Deal." width="707" height="207" srcset="https://thyblackman.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/image-42.png 2033w, https://thyblackman.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/image-42-300x88.png 300w, https://thyblackman.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/image-42-1024x300.png 1024w, https://thyblackman.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/image-42-768x225.png 768w, https://thyblackman.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/image-42-1536x450.png 1536w, https://thyblackman.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/image-42-450x132.png 450w, https://thyblackman.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/image-42-780x228.png 780w, https://thyblackman.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/image-42-1600x468.png 1600w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 707px) 100vw, 707px" /></p>
<p>It will not be because he has forced people around the world to have a less than favorable view of America and Americans. It will not be due to his lies, indecency and evilness.</p>
<p>Nor will it be as a result of seeing the images of children starving and dying due to his immoral, inhumane and evil actions eliminating needed humanitarian assistance to the less fortunate. On seeing longtime neighbors and workers they had befriended over the years being rounded up by masked men and placed into detention cages and centers.</p>
<p>It will not be because Trump is a conman, convicted felon, racist, xenophobia and misogynist. There were enough people who were willing to completely overlook those character faults and make him the face of America. None of those things will matter.</p>
<p>What will matter however is if their 401ks and stock portfolios crater due to his gross economic mismanagement of the economy. That enough people are compelled to decide which one of the three they will be able to afford between food, air conditioning/heat and medicine.</p>
<p>What will matter is that he will have forced millions of Americans into a worse financial situation than they were in prior to his second disastrous term .</p>
<p>That they see their butter, bread and beer continue to rise to the point that it becomes too costly to continue to watch their favorite programs and shows on cable and streaming networks.</p>
<p>Democrats will be expected to proceed with impeachment and convict Trump on treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors.” High crimes and misdemeanors are not defined in the US Constitution.</p>
<p>Stupidity may or may not pass the smell test. But bribery, treason, sedition, election fraud, gross corruption and moral turpitude might be likely if his past history is any indication.</p>
<p>However, Democrats might want to take a page from the Republican Party playbook. They might want to follow in their footsteps and place the party before the people and partisan power before patriotism and principles.</p>
<p>Instead of impeaching Trump, Democratic leaders would offer him a deal that he will not want to refuse. It would require him to sign all legislation passed by the Democratic controlled House and Senate that would reverse everything that he did the first two years. Everything, every program removed, every person fired, every agency and department eliminated, and every dollar withheld would be reinstated.</p>
<p>Trump is all about the deal. He is not an ideologue. He is a chameleon and would have no hesitation keeping his end of the deal if it meant not going to jail.</p>
<p>He could remain in office and continue to bumble, stumble and fumble. Continue to remain America’s clown prince to the world.</p>
<p>He would remain visible in the public eye and a reminder of why things were as they were. Establishment Republicans, the few that still existed, might give thought about reclaiming the Republican Party from MAGA. However, that thought would quickly be retired. There would be no profiles in courage.</p>
<p>Trump remaining in the White House would be an albatross on Republican Congressional candidates in 2028 as well as the party’s nominee for president. They would probably secretly wish that the Democrats had impeached him.</p>
<p>MAGA would be disappointed if Trump did a 180 and became Trump the Democrat again. Disappointed, but not surprised. Many have always been suspicious of Trump. His past contributions to Democratic candidates and officials. His lack of positions and floating positions. His New York City connection and lifestyle.</p>
<p>Democrats would have the desire and be pressured to hold various investigations into possible wrongdoing by Trump and his flunkies. Understandable, but not the correct course to take.</p>
<p>After taking control of both houses, Democrats should remain laser focused night and day on measures to reverse everything Trump and the former Republican control Congress had enacted.</p>
<p>With the deal Democrats would give Trump he would be only too pleased to place his signature on that legislation. There probably will be quite a few Republicans who survived a 2026 blue tsunami who would join Democrats in passing such measures.</p>
<p>Democrats should not make Trump the campaign issue in 2026. Restoring those programs and funding that Americans had lost should be the entire focus of the  campaign.</p>
<p>As for revenge, Trump will be only too busy throwing Republican House and Senate leaders as well as his only cabinet members under the bus for the country’s social and economic malaise. That has been his history, and a leopard does not change its spots.</p>
<p>At the same time, MAGA will be only too busy in a civil war. Democrats need not concern themselves with it.</p>
<p>On the other hand, Democrats might move forward with impeachment allowing JD Vance to become president. He would be able to run for the office in 2028 as president. He would probably be viewed as presidential. However, that would not be hard after Trump.</p>
<p>Vance may be green but  he is no fool, no siree. True, he is a chameleon like Trump and does not seem to have any problem changing his positions. Nevertheless, many would find it refreshing to no longer have Trump sucking up all the oxygen in the room.</p>
<p>Vance however would be handed a political grenade whether he does or does not pardon Donald Trump. He would anger MAGA if he didn’t. It would unite for a moment all the warring factions within MAGA to turn their knives on him.</p>
<p>If he did pardon Trump his political career would be over. Either way he would be in a no-win situation.</p>
<p>Vance would be left to spend his time hanging out with Mike Pence. Both wondering how things might have turned out if they had not taken Trump’s telephone call.</p>
<p>Staff Writer; <strong>Al Alatunji</strong></p>
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		<title>From the Great Chain of Being to MAGA: Gender Roles Then and Now.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2025 23:23:50 +0000</pubDate>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>(<strong>ThyBlackMan.com</strong>) There was a time when men were men and women were women. When men were dominant and ruled and women were submissive and obedient to the man, all men. It was a simpler time, less complicated time.</p>
<p>It was a time with clear rules of social conduct and engagement which made things comfortable, convenient and safe. Rules both men and women seemed only too happy to follow.</p>
<p>There was an order to the universe. The Great Chain of Being was unbroken and aligned with nature and mankind. Birds flew and fishes swam. Men ruled the world, and women were in control of the kitchen and were submissive in the bedroom. The moon traveled around the earth, and the earth traveled around the sun.</p>
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<p>It was a time when boys and girls read about the adventures of Tom, Huck and George. Mary, Sue and Jane were given cameo appearances, if that. Jose, Jamal, Maria and Safiya didn’t even get that.</p>
<p>When a woman entered a public place and there were no seats available, a man without hesitation promptly rose and gave his seat to the woman. It was not just a courtesy. It was part of the written and unwritten rules of the time.</p>
<p>Such rules and customs are probably now thought of as being chauvinistic and sexist. However, not just men but women were more than happy to follow the rules and customs. It was perceived by many, men and women as reflecting order and decency.</p>
<p>The rules of engagement were passed to sons from their fathers, grandfathers, uncles, older brothers and other males including teachers and sport coaches. They were also passed on to them by their mothers, grandmothers, aunts, older sisters and other women. The rules of engagement were reinforced by books, television and movies.</p>
<p>It was the same enculturation that daughters received from their mothers, grandmothers, aunts, older sisters and other females also reinforced by books, television and movies.</p>
<p>An important element of the rules of engagement was the male’s duty, responsibility and the law of nature to pursue the female. There was a thing called courtship with distinct rules of engagement and conduct. Women were taught during courtship that they were supposed to appear hard to get.</p>
<p>As outlined in the rules of engagement, the male was the benevolent predator and the female the respected prey. It was part of a woman’s duty to compel the men to work at gaining her acceptance. They were taught to say “no” when in reality it was a maybe, or in fact a “yes” but not really a “no.”</p>
<p>At the same time, it was explained to the male that the rules of engagement meant that it was expected for him to show his true desire and commitment to the female which entailed going to great lengths to show his desire and commitment. These rules of engagement like the others were reinforced by men and women as well as books, television and movies.</p>
<p>Fast forward to today. The world has changed. Many men of all ages and quite a few women look at the world, their world and do not see themselves in it. The rules of engagement, the roles, customs and practices which once defined, provided comfort, safety and security to their parents and grandparents no longer exist.</p>
<p>Tom, Huck and George were exiled. Jose, Jamal, Maria and Safiya appeared for a moment and then were banned. Mary, Sue and Jane were omnipresent climbing mountains, flying planes, taming dragons. Taylor, Chris and Kelly briefly escaped the closet only to be pushed back in again.</p>
<p>Yes, the world has changed and many, both men and women, are not happy with the change.</p>
<p>There are many, both men and women, who reminisce about the good old days. They are not interested in seeing a woman in the Oval Office or the pulpit.</p>
<p>For many the Great Chain of Being has been broken and there is chaos all around. What is also all around is alienation, a growing alienation, resentment and anger.</p>
<p>This alienation is especially felt  among younger men of all ages. While attempting to navigate through the world, their world, more often than not they are confronted with confliction and confusion as to what is expected and permitted.</p>
<p>Where there were once clearly defined rules and expectations regarding conduct to engage others, many find themselves forced to navigate through the twilight zone within the outer limits without clearly defined rules and customs.</p>
<p>For example, what was once accepted as an action that expressed a guy&#8217;s true commitment and desire to be with a woman, today might result in a guy being arrested for stalking. A man opening a door for a woman or getting out of his seat to allow a woman to sit might get a hostile look and/or called a creep or sexist.</p>
<p>It is clearly not easy being male in today&#8217;s society. That is not to say it is easy being female. There is a great deal of alienation throughout America. A lot of unhappy, angry people. The social pendulum has shifted significantly from one side to the other and has left many wobbly and unsteady.</p>
<p>The male and female detente is just one element of that alienation.</p>
<p>Nonetheless, recognizing the alienation may help to understand some of the support the<strong> MAGA</strong> movement and other such groups with their toxic masculinity have with men 45 years of age and younger. These young men see themselves as being under attack for no reason other than they are male. It has left many of them feeling vulnerable and angry.</p>
<p>At the same time, it is baffling why women, especially 45 and younger, are attracted to <strong>MAGA</strong>.</p>
<p><strong>MAGA</strong> is openly anti-women in its policy pursuits and rhetoric. It does not attempt to hide it.</p>
<p><strong>MAGA</strong> actively supports the repeal of a woman’s reproductive rights. It has been vocally supportive of the elimination of DEI policies and programs. It is assumed the elimination of DEI will negatively impact Blacks and other people of color.</p>
<p>However, by far the greatest beneficiaries of DEI, affirmative action and equal employment programs have been women, white women. Women, white women, have probably been the greatest casualties both number and percentage wise of Musk-Trump DOGE’s cold, insensitive federal employee firings.</p>
<p><strong>MAGA</strong> and others on the far right have been vocal in their desire to see women transported back to the 1950s. In fact, it is in support of a proposal to eliminate the one man, one vote, one woman one vote election law and replace it with one vote per household for married adults. Under such a proposal the man head of the household would be the eligible voter.</p>
<p>So why are young women attracted and supportive of <strong>MAGA</strong>? There are those who believe it is due to their hate of women, including themselves.</p>
<p>The value system, customs, traditions, rules of engagement and conduct of the 1960s, 1950s and periods before those decades was forged from several thousands years of oral and written history, customs, traditions, laws and tenets both social and religious. In the 20th century it was also reinforced through literature, television and films.</p>
<p>Perhaps, authors, scriptwriters and playwrights, directors, producers, influencers and other creative people will use their creative skills to develop a new value system, new customs, traditions, definitions, symbols which will result in new rules of engagement and conduct.</p>
<p>We could use less werewolves, vampires, serial killers and sociopath protagonists. We could use more examples of what manhood, womanhood, relationships, marriage, love and so much more may look like. Until then many will remain living in a twilight zone within the outer limits.</p>
<p>Staff Writer; <strong>Al Alatunji</strong></p>
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		<title>Republican Party’s Hypocrisy: From Roe v. Wade to MAGA Extremism.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2025 19:34:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The GOP embraced evangelicals after Roe v. Wade, but policies on healthcare, education, climate, and guns reveal hypocrisy. MAGA’s rise deepened this indifference to children.]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>(<strong>ThyBlackMan.com</strong>) After the 1973 US Supreme Court ruled in the landmark decision Roe V. Wade, which established a woman&#8217;s constitutional right to an abortion, the Republican Party decided to hitch its wagon to overturning that ruling.</p>
<p>Right-leaning evangelicals as well as Catholics were proactively and aggressively courted by the party. The party which claimed to be the defenders of the “unborn” and “family values”. The election of Republicans to national office became the mission of many evangelicals and Catholics.</p>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter wp-image-135185" src="https://thyblackman.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Republican-Partys-Hypocrisy-From-Roe-v.-Wade-to-MAGA-Extremism.jpg" alt="Republican Party’s Hypocrisy: From Roe v. Wade to MAGA Extremism." width="485" height="323" srcset="https://thyblackman.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Republican-Partys-Hypocrisy-From-Roe-v.-Wade-to-MAGA-Extremism.jpg 600w, https://thyblackman.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Republican-Partys-Hypocrisy-From-Roe-v.-Wade-to-MAGA-Extremism-300x200.jpg 300w, https://thyblackman.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Republican-Partys-Hypocrisy-From-Roe-v.-Wade-to-MAGA-Extremism-450x300.jpg 450w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 485px) 100vw, 485px" /></p>
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<p>With the election of President Barack Obama in 2008, the Republican party would see its numbers increase with the influx of Tea Party members.</p>
<p>The Tea Party was a fiscal conservative movement that professed concern about the size of the federal government, taxes, and the increasing federal deficit. The Tea Party vehemently opposed the Affordable Care Act and of course President Obama the first Black President of the United States of America.</p>
<p>Republican officials initially believed that the Republican Party would coop the Tea Party movement. However, it was the Tea Party which ended up co-opting and taking control of the Republican Party.</p>
<p>Eventually, the Republican Party would undergo an even more radical change with longtime established Republicans forced out of the party by a new and more lethal element. That more lethal element was MAGA which took complete control of the party.</p>
<p>Groups like the Klan, American Nazis, and other White Suprematists as well as far right conspiracists which were not welcomed in the Republican Party were now welcomed with open arms.</p>
<p>What has been baffling to many has been the lack of concern and support to children once born by so many under the Republican big tent. The right had professed unwavering championship of the unborn but extreme indifference to children once born.</p>
<p>It has not just been indifference and unconcern for the well-being of children outside the womb. There have been policies pushed and supported by Republicans which are deadly to the healthy growth and development of children.</p>
<p>Separating children from immigrant parents just because the regime can is wrong, inhumane, immoral, unconscionable and pure evil. It definitively does not align itself with promoting family values.</p>
<p>Removing millions of Americans with children off of Medicaid does not seem to be supportive of children. Discontinuing school nutritional programs for children from less affordable families does not seem in line with strengthening families.</p>
<p>Cancelling vital lifesaving aid to millions of children around the world who will die due to starvation, malnutrition and disease. It cannot be viewed as being beneficial to the wellbeing of children.</p>
<p>Eliminating the US Department of Education will not assist less than affluent children escape the cycle of poverty and attain meaningful employment and careers. It does not seem to be in the best interest of children, families, communities or the nation.</p>
<p>Maintaining that climate change is a left-wing hoax to be discounted will result in children everywhere inheriting a far more dangerous, toxic and hostile planet. Opposing sensible gun and assault weapon controls will just result in thousands of children ending up just another death by gun statistic. Neither position seems supportive of children.</p>
<p>With their silence, the religious right and others have given support to an imitation despot and his merry band of unholy, un-Christian, un-American and unrighteous “warriors”. They have also placed the lives of children on an altar to Moloch.</p>
<p>The politicization of abortion by both the right and left is a sin. But an even greater sin is that a parent or parents in America, the supposedly wealthiest country in history, are forced to have to choose between the life or death of an unborn child due to financial considerations. That very notion is a sin. An abominable sin of the nation.</p>
<p>Perhaps, the biggest example of the hypocrisy of the right, in particular the religious right, as it relates to children has been its utter silence regarding the Epstein files. To be correct, since his Attorney General has been reported as indicating that Trump’s name is prominent throughout the files, it should be named the Epstein-Trump files. Trump enjoys seeing his name on everything. So might as well place his name on the files along with Epstein.</p>
<p>One would think that the religious right would be in an intense religious fervor demanding all the violators of the young girls face the wrath of the holy and the righteous. But instead, we have heard just the sound of silence. Hypocrisy by any other name remains hypocrisy.</p>
<p>While the religious right has been quiet regarding the Epstein-Trump files one group on the right has not. Some in MAGA world have urged the release of the Epstein-Trump files because they were led to believe that the files contain the names and pedophilic actions of high-ranking Democrats and their donors.</p>
<p>Some in MAGA world went into overdrive demanding the release of the files and documents that they were certain would prove embarrassing to Democrats and progressives. However, their interest was not about justice for the young girls. Their interest was strictly political.</p>
<p>That is not surprising since MAGA is not about morality, justice, freedom, integrity or decency. If it was, there is no way it would march behind a man who may not swim in a swamp, but no doubt enjoys a daily bath in a cesspool.</p>
<p>MAGA despite the banner they hoist proclaiming to Make America Great Again, is a movement which has no tenets, no principles other than being against. They are against immigrants, Blacks and other people of color, women, LGBTQIA+ community, the elites (whatever that is supposed to mean in their minds), communist, socialists, globalists, Democrats and Republicans and everyone else on the planet.</p>
<p>MAGA is all about being against. It is also all about hate.</p>
<p>If anyone doubts that critique of MAGA, watch what occurs when the pied piper of chaos, corruption and incompetence plays his last note. MAGA world will break out into a vicious, ugly and brutal civil war which will make Games of Thrones look like a Japanese Noh Drama.</p>
<p>The public may never see the Epstein-Trump files. If they did there might be a lot of people who might find the information beyond troubling. They might see an addition to the names of prominent elective officials of both parties, the names of established business leaders, well-known actors, sports figures, musicians and religious leaders.</p>
<p>Would anyone really be surprised? It seems men of power and authority throughout the ages and in all cultures have had a peculiar affliction for young girls and boys.  America, do you really want to see what is in the Epstein-Trump files?</p>
<p>Staff Writer; <strong>Al Alatunji</strong></p>
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		<title>America’s Experiment with Democracy May Be Over.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2025 18:10:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A chilling fictional scenario reveals how easily the U.S. could slide into authoritarian rule — with public approval. From martial law to media control, the story exposes America’s fragile democracy.]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>(<strong>ThyBlackMan.com</strong>) In December, 2023, approximately a year before the 2024 presidential election, I wrote an article in which I had Donald Trump winning the 2024 election. President Biden had yet to drop out and I had Trump narrowly beating President Biden.</p>
<p>The article went on to discuss how within just a few months after Trump took office he issued a series of executive orders significantly increasing his power beyond anything anyone had done before.</p>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter wp-image-127871" src="https://thyblackman.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Is-America-Ready-for-Autocracy-The-Future-of-U.S.-Democracy-and-Governance-scaled.jpg" alt="America’s Experiment with Democracy May Be Over." width="617" height="412" srcset="https://thyblackman.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Is-America-Ready-for-Autocracy-The-Future-of-U.S.-Democracy-and-Governance-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://thyblackman.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Is-America-Ready-for-Autocracy-The-Future-of-U.S.-Democracy-and-Governance-300x200.jpg 300w, https://thyblackman.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Is-America-Ready-for-Autocracy-The-Future-of-U.S.-Democracy-and-Governance-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https://thyblackman.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Is-America-Ready-for-Autocracy-The-Future-of-U.S.-Democracy-and-Governance-768x513.jpg 768w, https://thyblackman.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Is-America-Ready-for-Autocracy-The-Future-of-U.S.-Democracy-and-Governance-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://thyblackman.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Is-America-Ready-for-Autocracy-The-Future-of-U.S.-Democracy-and-Governance-2048x1367.jpg 2048w, https://thyblackman.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Is-America-Ready-for-Autocracy-The-Future-of-U.S.-Democracy-and-Governance-450x300.jpg 450w, https://thyblackman.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Is-America-Ready-for-Autocracy-The-Future-of-U.S.-Democracy-and-Governance-780x521.jpg 780w, https://thyblackman.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Is-America-Ready-for-Autocracy-The-Future-of-U.S.-Democracy-and-Governance-1600x1068.jpg 1600w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 617px) 100vw, 617px" /></p>
<p>The US Supreme Court was requested to weigh in on the constitutional crisis brought on by an overly aggressive executive branch and a nonfunctioning legislative branch. The US Supreme Court decided there was no case law available to decide the matter and felt it lacked judicial precedent to issue any type of ruling. So the executive branch continued its power grab.</p>
<p>Peaceful protests were taking place in various US cities to counter what some believed was an attempt to establish an authoritarian regime. Some of the peaceful protests became violent with attacks on law enforcement and the damaging and burning of public property.</p>
<p>Trump in the fictional article without any checks or balances went on to declare martial law in various large US cities. He did not hesitate to place those cities under federal control using National Guard and regular US Army troops to patrol the streets of those cities. Local police departments would be taken over by military commanders and local police officers would report directly to military personnel for assignment.</p>
<p>Various reporters would later learn that the Trump regime had infiltrated the peaceful protests with agent provocateurs whose job it was to cause violence and disturbance. It would give the regime the excuse to use the army and National Guard.</p>
<p>The regime also implemented a cultural war in which various books, movies and television programs were outlawed.</p>
<p>Throughout the article, after describing the action the Trump regime had initiated, it was pointed out that a significant majority of the American public approved of the actions of the regime. That such approval was widespread and came from all regions and racial, religious, social and economic sectors.</p>
<p><strong>The goal of the article was to show just how easy it would be for the Trump regime or any other regime to establish a dictatorship within the US without a shot being fired</strong>. That a significant majority of Americans would have no problem if such occurred.</p>
<p>The article generated a range of discussion. Many found the article to be another left wing, socialist propaganda piece to undermine Trump’s presidential candidacy.</p>
<p>Trump however was the farthest thing from this author’s concern. It was not about Trump but the American people. It was what I believed to be their willingness without complaint to accept authoritarian rule.</p>
<p>As long as their favorite reality television show, their seemingly unquenchable thirst for vampires, werewolves, sociopaths and serial killers was not interrupted. The price of their beer and chips remained constant, Americans could care less about the US Constitution, due process, martial law, representative democracy and the concept of freedom.</p>
<p>Others saw the article as being some draconian fiction in the realm of The Outer Limits and The Twilight Zone. Outlandish and irresponsible fearmongering.</p>
<p>Because it was during the lead up to the 2024 presidential election a lot of the comments made by readers were partisan in nature and reflected their like or dislike of a candidate or party. They did not address the fragile state of America’s democracy.</p>
<p>However, there were a few individuals who indicated they were military veterans who were certain that America would never end up in a dictatorship because the military would never allow for it to happen. They made passionate and compelling arguments. I wonder if they still stand by their viewpoint.</p>
<p>The current regime within days and hours after taking office basically cut off the leadership head of the military. It removed long established military officers in the army and veterans and career officers in the Pentagon.</p>
<p>They were replaced with individuals whose military experience and knowledge was highly questionable. The current regime was not interested in highly qualified military and foreign affairs experts. It wanted individuals whose only qualification was their unquestionable loyalty to the regime.</p>
<p>I was convinced when I wrote the article that Americans would not be upset if their experiment with democracy ended and an authoritarian form of government replaced it. I hoped I was wrong.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, I was proven right. Americans, overwhelmingly, have shown they have no problem with individuals who have been in the country for years contributing to the well-being and commerce of communities and the country being rounded up by masked men and placed in detention centers.</p>
<p>Have no problem with those individuals ending up in prison cells in other countries without trial or due process. Many will go as far as to indicate that was what they voted for.</p>
<p>An overwhelming majority of Americans have no problem that other Americans have and will be fired from federal jobs for no legitimate reason. Just as long as it is not their son, daughter, other family member or friend.  Many will indicate that is also what they voted for.</p>
<p>They don’t care if millions of their country men and women will lose their healthcare insurance just as long as it is not someone they know. That the commercials they see of starving , undernourished children throughout the world may become tenfold perhaps include children in the US.  All the result of cruel, heartless and evil policies of the current immoral regime. I guess they voted for that also.</p>
<p>There are some Americans concerned the regime&#8217;s irrational and irresponsible economic policies may force them to spend more for their butter, bread and beer. That the country might even head into a severe economic downturn. Otherwise, all is well.</p>
<p>I was certain that the country could easily slide into a dictatorship. I must admit however, I didn’t think it would be as easy and as fast as it did.</p>
<p>Still, my biggest bewilderment and disappointment has been to witness major corporations and prominent law firms, prestigious institutions of higher learning and longtime respected and established media outlets bow and take a knee. Many of them had projected how fierce they were in their defense of freedom, independence and integrity.</p>
<p>But in the end, like the O’Jays said, some people will sell their soul for the money. They will lay down for the money.</p>
<p>America’s experiment with democracy  may not survive its slide into authoritarianism. However, if it does survive it will need to have a majority of its individuals to think critically, examine evidence, ask questions, and insist on finding the truth.</p>
<p>It will need to establish a true democracy in which far more people than not proactively and consciously participate in that democracy. It will also need to have solid, reputable institutions, political, social and economic, which are truly committed to the American people and America’s democracy. Institutions and organizations truly willing to fight for the American people and America’s democracy.</p>
<p>Staff Writer; <strong>Al Alatunji</strong></p>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2025 01:13:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Donald Trump still yearns for a Nobel Peace Prize, but history, integrity, and reality say otherwise. Unlike true peacemakers such as Obama, Mandela, and MLK, Trump’s legacy is marked by division, not diplomacy.]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>(<strong>ThyBlackMan.com</strong>) Donald Trump along with his revenge enemies tour, real and imagined, yearns to win the Nobel Peace Prize. Mary wanted to be a superwoman. I wanted to play for the Los Angeles Dodgers. But it didn&#8217;t happen.</p>
<p>Some things are just not meant to be. Donald you will not be getting the Nobel Peace Prize in this lifetime or any other.</p>
<p>The Nobel Peace Prize is reserved for individuals who truly have made effect to bring peace into the world. Individuals like Nelson Mandala, Elie Wiesel, Mother Teresa, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Lech Walesa, President Jimmy Carter, Bishop Desmond Tutu and of course President Barack Obama.</p>
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<p>When President Obama received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2008 he received it  “for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.&#8221;</p>
<p>People throughout the US and around the world applaud the selection of President Obama for the Nobel Peace Prize. Although most people were thrilled, there were some like US Senator Mitch McConnell and members of the then Tea Party movement, the forerunner to the MAGA movement, who were extremely unhappy.</p>
<p>Ten years after President Obama left office many who traded their tinfoil hats for red MAGA hats are still suffering acute anxiety and other mental and social disorders. Why? Because the president of the United States of America for not just one term but eight full drama and scandal free years was a Black man.</p>
<p>President Obama as president was loved by people in the US and throughout the world. He reignited a hope once again in America’s exceptionalism. That good would triumph over evil, brotherhood over sectarian, parochial interest and peace over war.</p>
<p>He goes down as one of the great presidents as well as one of the most intellectually gifted presidents. He was and is a man of faith, family, decency, compassion and integrity. None of those things Donald is associated with you.</p>
<p>It is understandable why you despise President Obama. You could never be like him.  It turns you into knocks then and now because of his achievement. To see so many people truly like him.</p>
<p>You are a lifetime white supremist. Like most white supremist their schizophrenia is due to their sense of inferiority towards people of other races. It is a mental disease.</p>
<p>As for the Nobel Peace Prize it is not given out to any Tom, Dick or Donald. It goes to someone who has in the words of its founder Alfred Nobel “who, during the preceding year, shall have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind.”</p>
<p>Sorry Donald, that clearly is not you this year or any other year. I think you understand.</p>
<p>In February of this year, you met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu while  deciding to attack Iran in the latest episode of “ The Invisible Weapons of Mass Destruction.” At the time, you also signed off on Prime Minister Netanyahu&#8217;s decision to wage a scorched earth and starvation campaign in Gaza.</p>
<p>You mentioned then that “they will never give me a Nobel Peace Prize. It’s too bad. I deserve it, but they will never give it to me.”</p>
<p>Sinners in hell believe they deserve ice water and central air. But then there is reality.</p>
<p>If you were to receive the Nobel Peace Prize it would lose all meaning. It would be a mockery of epic proportion.</p>
<p>As the wiseguys in New York City and New Jersey would tell you, fuhgeddaboudit the Nobel Peace Prize. Move on.</p>
<p>You always wanted to be a Don, a Mafia Don, so go for it. That is something in your reach.</p>
<p>A Mafia Don is ruthless, mean, tough, cold-hearted, conniving, merciless and feared. The ultimate tough guy. That is something which you can achieve.</p>
<p>You have already within the short time you have been in office this term implement some cold, merciless actions. You have forced tens of thousands out of work.</p>
<p>You have implemented policies which cause millions to lose their healthcare coverage. You have stopped humanitarian aid to people around the world which will lead to millions dying. Of increasing the spread of disease and possible pandemics worldwide. However, those things might not be immediate.</p>
<p>You will want to show your ruthlessness now and not later. To enhance your reputation as the baddest of all time. For your name to go now in history as Donald The Great.</p>
<p>You can do it but one thing you will need to do is stop going back and forth. When you say you are going to do something, stick with it. This thing with saying you are going to implement 50 percent tariffs in two weeks only to say later you are going to implement it in two months makes you look weak.</p>
<p>A real Don would have told the president of Brazil, prime minister of Canada or president of Mexico in two weeks I will be implementing a 50 percent tariff on your country unless you meet these five conditions. After two weeks they would be running back to you asking for leniency. To which a real Don would say the new arrangement is 65 percent and ten conditions.</p>
<p>A Don can never look weak. A Don gains his respect by fear, not weakness. A Don who is perceived as soft or indecisive usually ends up like most who are seen that way: forgotten, disrespected, or taken out.</p>
<p>So if you want to etch your name throughout history as Donald The Great here is what is suggested as the Commander and Chief that you do. You attack Russia, China and Brazil.</p>
<p>The Brazilian President has at least three times basically given you the finger. The Ukraine president has also refused to kiss your ring so put Ukraine on the list with Canada, Greenland and Denmark. Canadians like the British are soft and as soon as they see the tanks getting close to Detroit on their way to the Canadian border they will surrender.</p>
<p>You would attack Iran, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Spain, and the rest of Europe. Cuba and of course Mexico.</p>
<p>The Mexican president is a woman who seems to have outfoxed you and made you look like a John and not a Don. She is a woman, and as you said you like to grab women by their privates so make her an example. Teach her and other women everywhere a lesson and bomb Mexico back to the 1950s.</p>
<p>Attack all of them and others at the same time with the exception of Cambodia which accepted your bride to nominate you for the Nobel Peace Prize and Qatar who is giving you a plane.</p>
<p>You will go down in history as Donald The Great. There may be some additional titles attached to the name but so be it. You will be the man who attacked Globalism.</p>
<p>Give no thought to those who might be critical of your actions. Your MAGAphiles will be there for you.</p>
<p>As you have said you could kill someone on Fifth Avenue and you would not lose one of your supporters. They could see you in a video with little girls and boys on Pedophile Island and you would still have their back. Now that is some kind of loyalty.</p>
<p>Your MAGAphiles in your honor will sing Hosanna in the Highest from mountain tops and in caves. They will proclaim you the Messiah of Messiahs, the Lord of Lords and the King of Kings.</p>
<p>Think about it, Donald the Great, the greatest of all Dons. You might also want to give some thought about your transition, not from office but your transition, how you will be able to get ice water and central air.</p>
<p>Staff Writer; <strong>Al Alatunji</strong></p>
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