Episodes
2 days ago
Sink or Swim... Republicans?
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2 days ago
CLR Show 1926. Air Date April 23, 2024. With the passage of the foreign aid bill over the weekend by two thirds of all republicans and all the threats of the clown car republicans to destroy the speakership of Mike Johnson thwarted, republicans have set their unsavory endgame in motion. Donald no longer owns them. But will they still feel compelled to embrace him in an effort to placate a constantly shrinking extreme MAGA base that will cast the functional republican party into an extended diaspora––with unknown effect on the our entire governance system––or take the first painful steps––now––to create a new post-Donald party modeled after some earlier iteration(s) of traditional republicanism?
6 days ago
The Sum of the Vectors: The Friday Show
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6 days ago
CLR Show 1925. Air Date April 19, 2024. Four discrete events; Israeli retaliatory missiles fired into Iran, protestors being removed from the Columbia campus in 48 hours, the Trump NY criminal trial jury being seated and Speaker Johnson moving foreign aid packages to the floor of the House, can be individually viewed as evidence of the political and governance failures that spawned them. But collectively, viewed as force vectors from 50,000 feet up, they can also be seen as a series of first steps in a positive global direction. Hopeful signs, perhaps. The important thing is to view no current event in isolation or out of context. With Friday Co-Host, David Bach.
Tuesday Apr 16, 2024
OR...Wake Up and Smell the Ashes
Tuesday Apr 16, 2024
Tuesday Apr 16, 2024
CLR Show 1924. Air Date April 16, 2024. Once again, the unthinkable has happened for the trumpists: Donald is actually sitting a criminal court room facing the virtual certainty that he will be convicted of what Michael Cohen has already done jail time for. One can only imagine––and hope––that whatever rational heads may remain in the technical republican party are weighing the real world options: Donald cannot win; funding his legal bills is a pathway to up and down ballot failure; he is best removed from the ticket before the republican convention to avoid an internal insurrection (his Daughter-in-law's efforts to the contrary notwithstanding); that the real choice is between loss of an election cycle or two or the death of a republican party that chooses to go over the cliff with Donald. Their decisions will impact the entire nation for many years to come.
Tuesday Apr 09, 2024
Eclipsing Hopelessness
Tuesday Apr 09, 2024
Tuesday Apr 09, 2024
CLR Show 1923. Air Date April 9, 2024. Most people experiencing yesterday's total eclipse realized moments of unanticipated joy and connection, well beyond any connection provided by nationality, race, ethnicity, education, political affiliation or religion. In essence, they experienced an unanticipated affiliation with the Universal Energy that defines, binds and empowers us all, and connections us with all life and matter that every has or ever will exist, beyond all time and throughout the multiverse. This recognition of affiliation is the source of all hope (which is just another word for love) and the starting point for solving all the problems that confront us as a species. Really.
Friday Apr 05, 2024
When The Better Becomes The Best: The Friday Show
Friday Apr 05, 2024
Friday Apr 05, 2024
CLR Show 1922. Air Date April 5, 2024. The pure obstructionist/do-nothing mode of the republican congress has prevented any number of positive, democratic-sponsored laws from being passed, but should not obscure the fact that Joe Biden has done a great deal with the few legislative tools he has. For democrats to focus on what he may not have accomplished in full is wrong-headedness in the extreme. Marvel instead on what he has been able to do and consider what would happen if he were not available after 2024 to prevent republicans from deconstructing the Constitution and ending America's leadership role in the world. With Friday Co-Host, David Bach.
Tuesday Apr 02, 2024
The Wheels Grind Slowly But Finely
Tuesday Apr 02, 2024
Tuesday Apr 02, 2024
CLR Show 1921. Air Date April 2, 2024. While it seems likely the New York courts will find Trump guilty within the next 2 months, it remains unknown what sort of sentence will be imposed. At one extreme, Donald may still find himself a free man campaigning for the presidency. Which means he must be defeated at the ballot box, and it's becoming increasingly apparent that his defeat is more than just a possibility. At that point, if there are still unsettled criminal cases against him, we can all expect to see the wheels of justice continuing to grind slowly... but, ultimately, grinding Donald very finely.
Tuesday Mar 26, 2024
The Trumpian Party Death Wish
Tuesday Mar 26, 2024
Tuesday Mar 26, 2024
CLR Show 1920. Air Date March 26, 2024. The idea is rarely spoken in public, and may not even be consciously held by most Trumpians. But they share a collective death wish for their party. They have no choice but to recognize that Donald is the antithesis all of things that have ever been republican and they have been drawn into a trap that allows them to speak and act out only what Donald's narcissistic psyche wishes. The only way to move forward is to allow Donald to self-destruct. The alternative is unthinkable––for most.
Friday Mar 22, 2024
'If It Seems Too Good To Be True' : The Friday Show
Friday Mar 22, 2024
Friday Mar 22, 2024
CLR Show 1919. Air Date March 22, 2024. Donald is about to lose more than half a billion dollars, he is still facing 91 criminal counts, he is draining the RNC to pay his millions in legal bills, and the RNC has come out with a 'conservative platform for 2024' that flies in the face of everything Americans overwhelmingly want, including reproductive rights and labor rights. How is it possible Donald still seems to be neck in neck with Joe Biden? Something is not right with the polling. To quote the ancient adage: 'If it seems too good to be true, it probably is." With Friday Co-Host, David Bach.
Tuesday Mar 19, 2024
(Not) A Repeat Performance
Tuesday Mar 19, 2024
Tuesday Mar 19, 2024
CLR Show 1918. Air Date March 19, 2024. Donald's ability to spew one outrageous lie after the next may seem like a repetition of his days in the White House, but cannot be read as an indication of his ability to return there and continue the coup he began on 1/6/21. He has nothing but land mines ahead of him in the 8 months between now and the election. And he will be financially ruined in less than a week. The mindless cheers of his (dwindling) base should not be the sound we listen for. Instead, listen to the growing moans of real republicans and independents who are searching for viable alternatives.
Friday Mar 15, 2024
'Deja Vu All Over Again' : The Friday Show
Friday Mar 15, 2024
Friday Mar 15, 2024
CLR Show 1917. Air Date March 15, 2024. The unsettling sense that we've been here before with Donald is unfortunately valid. But we know far more about this clinical narcissist than we knew in 2016. And we have Donald's trail of illegality and incompetence to guide us. The argument this time is simple: Do you want totalitarianism or democracy? Regrettably, there are too many in this country who would choose the former. But the vast majority want democracy and we must continually make––and illustrate––that argument right through the November election and beyond, in every way and in every forum available to us. With Friday Co-Host, David Bach.