Episodes
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.
Tuesday Mar 12, 2024
Just Say No
Tuesday Mar 12, 2024
Tuesday Mar 12, 2024
CLR Show 1916. Air Date March 12, 2024. The list of constitutional and other crises that would be unleashed by a Donald victory in November are too long and frightening to enumerate. 'The destruction of the American Constitutional Order' is a reasonable shorthand for describing them. But that raises the unspoken issue of whether the American military would allow that destruction to take place or participate it in any way. It's a question that need not be resolved under the worst of circumstances. 'Just say no' to another Donald presidency. Joe is doing a damned good job under the most challenging of circumstances and deserves an opportunity to do even better for all Americans––and for the world.
Friday Mar 08, 2024
'...Just This One Time...' : The Friday Show
Friday Mar 08, 2024
Friday Mar 08, 2024
CLR Show 1915. Air Date March 8, 2024. We're breaking with a standard policy of not extrapolating outward from a single event to say that Joe Biden's State of the Union Address last night set the table for a Democratic win in November. The Trump-ists were shown to be against everything that Americans were for, including democracy. They have no policies and their only weapons are lies and grievance mongering. But, as Friday Co-Host, David Bach, reminded us, that doesn't mean that we can remove our chosen legislators' and Chief Executive's collective feet from the fire. We must demand more of them in the way of meaningful immigration reform and Israeli-Palestinian policy. That's how democracies do their greatest work.
Tuesday Mar 05, 2024
Fear of Judging
Tuesday Mar 05, 2024
Tuesday Mar 05, 2024
CLR Show 1914. Air Date March 5, 2024. In issuing it's incoherent ruling on Donald's clear disqualification from running for office under Article 14, Section 3 of the US Constitution, the Court proved only one thing: It is afraid to do its job; afraid of the threats and violence it would face against its members, their associates and families for simply dong their jobs and ending the Trump nightmare once and for all. Instead, they are acting like a banana republic court, operating at the whims and justifying the ends of the mob who controls them. The one lead by Capo Wannabe, mentally imbalanced Donald. This must change if we are to preserve our democracy.