Diatribes of Jay

1. The overwhelming majority of Trump’s cabinet were straight, white, older Christian men. His Vice-President, Mike Pence (who now disowns Trump), was one. Of Trump’s twenty-two other Cabinet...

https://jaydiatribe.blogspot.com/2024/09/twenty-eight-reasons-to-vote-for-kamala_16.html

What will you do when the Deportation Troops come to take away your neighbor? your friend? your employee, gardener, cook, nurse, housekeeper, elder-care worker, day-care worker, medical assistan...

https://jaydiatribe.blogspot.com/2024/09/cause-and-effect-i-what-will-you-do.html

Now that Kamala Harris is the Democratic nominee, only one candidate is showing signs of age and age-related dementia, even derangement. One increasingly self-evident sign is his “word salads�...

https://jaydiatribe.blogspot.com/2024/09/trumps-word-salads-three-served-raw.html

No, I’m not writing about Ukraine or Gaza, or even the whole of the combustible Middle East. None of those wars is likely to last a millennium. The war I’m writing about is not military—at ...

https://jaydiatribe.blogspot.com/2024/09/the-new-millennial-war.html

Are you sending donations monthly, or at random, to the Democratic Party or to particular candidates who appeal to you? If so, there’s a more impactful and effective way to give your hard-earne...

https://jaydiatribe.blogspot.com/2024/08/how-to-make-your-political.html

“We can hang together, or we can hang separately.” — Old Western folk saying. “Can’t we all just get along?” — Lament of Rodney King, a Black Angeleno, after videos of his delibera...

https://jaydiatribe.blogspot.com/2024/08/can-we-pull-together.html

Capitalism without competition is a blueprint for an aristocracy of inherited wealth, worse than Ye Olde England’s aristocracy of landed gentry. It’ll take us time to get there, but we Americ...

https://jaydiatribe.blogspot.com/2024/08/the-long-overdue-counterrevolution-in.html

“Those whom the gods wish to destroy, they first make mad.”—ancient proverb, attributed to Euripides, but refined over the centuries. “Congress shall make no law . . . abridging the free...

https://jaydiatribe.blogspot.com/2024/08/how-our-media-are-pushing-domestic.html

For anyone who doubts Kamala Harris’ qualifications or readiness to serve as our 47th president, I have a single prescription. Watch her as she accepted her nomination last night. Click on the ...

https://jaydiatribe.blogspot.com/2024/08/she-hit-it-out-of-park.html

In several recent essays, I’ve been trying to expound on the differences between policies and vision (The best one is here .) In the past, I’ve made the mistake of implicitly criticizing our ...

https://jaydiatribe.blogspot.com/2024/08/policy-versus-vision-price-gouging.html

In case you missed it, the Democratic National Convention in Chicago got off to a good start tonight. It was an evening of powerful themes, each of which we can expect to see throughout the remai...

https://jaydiatribe.blogspot.com/2024/08/the-dems-day-1-themes.html

We live in an age of “memes” and “vibes.” The Web besieges us algorithmically with “clickbait” thousands of times a day. So most of us have forgotten, if we ever learned, how to focus...

https://jaydiatribe.blogspot.com/2024/08/vp-harris-qualifications.html

I went to sleep last night with tears in my eyes, thinking about Tim Walz and Kamala Harris. What struck me was something simple yet wonderful. All we have to do is elect them, and we can get bac...

https://jaydiatribe.blogspot.com/2024/08/back-to-normal.html

It’s not often that I fail to make a point. But my last essay on this forum failed miserably. Out of 27 comments, only one seemed to get my point. So I’m trying again. The point was the diffe...

https://jaydiatribe.blogspot.com/2024/08/policy-and-vision.html

Don’t get me wrong. I’m as enthused about VP Harris having all but clinched the Democratic nomination as everyone else. The meteoric rise of her campaign moved me from saying “Our species i...

https://jaydiatribe.blogspot.com/2024/08/vp-harris-please-give-us-vision.html

Never in my 79 years have I seen such a seismic shift in party prospects so late in a presidential campaign. Never have I seen a party so rapidly leave despair behind, find hope and begin to feel...

https://jaydiatribe.blogspot.com/2024/07/visions-of-landslide-heave-into-view.html

Take a look at this clip of the Demagogue, Kamala Harris’ opponent. Bear through the PBS promos and run the timer from 4:44 to 5:04. Then stop the clip and think a bit. Is this whom we want as...

https://jaydiatribe.blogspot.com/2024/07/look-at-this-creep.html

How and why can Kamala Harris win when Hillary Clinton did not? I’ve been thinking a lot about that question since Harris became VP. The answer depends a lot on her experience. She was San Fran...

https://jaydiatribe.blogspot.com/2024/07/the-kamala-harris-advantage.html

When President Biden first bowed out, my reaction was immense relief. Now, just two days later, I’m filled with awe. In just over 48 hours, a fractious party known for its circular firing squad...

https://jaydiatribe.blogspot.com/2024/07/the-kamala-harris-miracle.html

Dear Mr. President, When I heard the news that you are stepping down, like millions of Americans, I felt a huge surge of relief. It was strong enough to bring tears. My relief had little to do wi...

https://jaydiatribe.blogspot.com/2024/07/thank-you-joe.html

“How many Texans must freeze and broil, ‘fore they know that science is real?” — my respectfully submitted addition to Nobel Laureate Bob Dylan’s questions “blowin’ in the wind.”...

https://jaydiatribe.blogspot.com/2024/07/jd-vances-fairy-tale.html

Ten days ago, I published a post on the Roberts Court’s decision in Trump v. U.S. , the presidential immunity case. In it, I reasoned (among other things) that the Court had gone rogue, complet...

https://jaydiatribe.blogspot.com/2024/07/presidential-immunity-and-judge-luttig.html

THIS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT POST I’VE EVER WRITTEN ON THIS BLOG, AND ONE OF THE SHORTEST. PLEASE READ IT. OK. I get it now, at last. Joe Biden is our candidate. Period. Four months is too short ...

https://jaydiatribe.blogspot.com/2024/07/how-biden-can-win.html

“That vision thing.”— President George Herbert Walker Bush, explaining why he lost to Bill Clinton The two “v” words in my title will fix the fate of our nation. It happened twice befo...

https://jaydiatribe.blogspot.com/2024/07/vision-and-values.html

My post on “Wes Moore for President ” didn’t go over well on DailyKos. Most commenters treated me like an idiot apostate. They taught me how hard it is to change the direction of a train ru...

https://jaydiatribe.blogspot.com/2024/07/more-on-wes-moore.html