(ThyBlackMan.com) The federal budget remains a disaster, and for all the splashy talk of cost-cutting and tariff-driven revenue, Americans know it. Especially galling is that the latest fiscal wreckage is being overseen by an administration that promised business acumen and conservative restraint. Republicans are delivering the opposite: a self-inflicted destruction ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Disdain for President Donald Trump translates into a refusal to accept reality if doing it gives Trump a political victory. Examples include, but are certainly not limited to, the continuing assertion that Trump, about Charlottesville, said some variation of, “There were good and bad white nationalists and neo-Nazis on ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Let’s cut to the chase. Most of Donald Trump’s threats against Ivy League colleges are an attempt to divert attention away from an economy heading into crisis. The trade war is producing economic and foreign policy nightmares. Despite the DOGE show, budget deficits are projected to rise further under ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Every day we delay in not voting into law, the ten year, 10%, $25,000 Baby Boomer Consumer Tax Cut, is a day without a plan of long-term Job creation, economic prosperity, and growth for working-class Americans, across this nation. Our real and most comprehensive level of unemployment for March, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Donald Trump’s defenders have taken great offense to suspicions by Democrats and others that the Trump family and its close circle are doing insider trading to profit from market convulsions. There’s no “proof,” they say. It’s true that there’s been no proof so far, but there’s surely enough smoke ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) As all of this shameful racist stuff has been going on more than usual, I took the time to read about a man who long ago set the standard for white people to step up and not just say what somebody else should do or not say what this nation owes ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) President Barack Obama finally did last week what so many of us have been waiting for him — and Bill Clinton and George W. Bush — to do. He stood up and spoke out about the threat to our constitutional democracy posed by Donald Trump. There is a very ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Since his inauguration as the forty-seventh president of the United States three months ago, Donald Trump has embarked upon a whirlwind agenda that has/is completely disrupting the status quo in the sense he has smashed the illusions he is a populist and opened the floodgates of massive governmental disruption. Trump ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) This is Earl Ofari Hutchinson. I’m in Los Angeles’s Little Chinatown. Chinatown, if you will, because there’s nothing little around it and anything about it. Let me pan a little bit. As you can see, some of the businesses here, and I’m standing in front of one of the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) What do you do when the economy is going to hell, 401(k)s are going down the toilet and we’re bracing for higher prices on nearly everything? If you’re an average American, you worry. If you’re Donald Trump, you go golfing, as he did twice last weekend, even as people ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Have you ever made a significant purchase, such as a used car, and later realized it was a mistake? Once you’re at home, you crunch the numbers and realize that with the new monthly car payment, auto insurance, gas, and maintenance for this model, along with your other monthly ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There’s something about Barack Obama’s words that still lingers long after he’s left the podium. Maybe it’s the cadence of his voice, or maybe it’s the substance behind the sound bites. Either way, his quotes continue to resonate—especially now, when the world feels like it’s changing faster than we ...