The Social Contract with Joe Walsh

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My weekly tequila talk conversation with Democratic strategist Cliff Schecter. Also joining us is Richard Chew of WCPT radio in Chicago. We talked about the Dem party and what they must do to win. Great conversation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My weekly sit down with my younger socialist friend, Xander Schultz. And we get into the whole “label” thing - when people throw out terms like communist or socialist, how best to take that stuff on. Xander had a great rebuttal- focus on corruption. Also, how do we get people who disagree with each other to actually listen to each other. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

By supporting Donald Trump, Republicans told the world they don’t give a damn about personal character. Democrats, don’t do the same, it’s wrong, personally Al character matters, and you can still win by electing “fighters” with good personal character. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On June 18, Trump’s Justice Department issued a memo claiming that federal disability laws don’t require state level integration, guidance in direct conflict with the 1999 Supreme Court Olmstead decision. This memo must not stand. Time for Congress to codify into law the Olmstead decision. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A lot of talk these days about certain people who “hate” America, and the right is going to town on certain elements of the left that clearly don’t like America. And there are folks on the left who despise what America is. But nobody hates America more than someone who loses an election and refuses to accept the results. No one hates America more than someone who opposes our founding principles. H...

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My younger socialist friend and I chatted again this week, focused especially on the problems of homelessness, addiction, and mental health, what to do, what not to do, what if anything government should do. We agreed that letting these folks hang in public spaces isn’t the answer, we looked for a better term than “institutionalize.” Neat conversation Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for mor...

From the moment he was sworn in, he’s been stuffing his pockets with money and his family has been stuffing their pockets with money…to the tune of billions. We’ve never seen anything like it. He singlehandedly fucked up the economy, he illegally took this country to war, and he’s desecrating the people’s house. And along the way, he’s personally enriching himself. He doesn’t care about you. Hoste...

I sat down with Brian Karem, longtime political journalist & reporter to try to make sense of where we’re at - what’s Trump really up to? Is Trump really all there? Why has today’s media utterly normalized him? And…what the heck is the Democratic Party doing/and where are they heading? Interesting conversation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A conversation with Genia Simkin, who runs samizdatonline.org, an organization dedicated to getting independent reporting into the hands of people who live in countries where the government controls what information people are allowed to see. It’s difficult work, but it’s an important, necessary cause. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Trump threw a 250th anniversary State Fair in DC this weekend and nobody showed up. I mean nobody. It’s super easy to make fun of, but the whole thing is sad. Trump has ruined our 250th. He’s humanly incapable of unifying this country. And so the American people will celebrate our 250th not as one unified country. But as a divided, siloed, balkanized country. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy...

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I sat down again with my Socialist friend Xander Schultz and we discussed how best to put forward a positive vision for voters to counter what Trump and MAGA put out there. One takeaway - The left needs to unabashedly display more pure love for this country. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Every day there are reminders. Every day. ICE going after citizens, going after people legally here on work permits, going after immigrants without any criminal record who’ve been here for years. These good, decent, hardworking folks have always been Trump’s targets. Because he doesn’t want brown & black immigrants here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Democrats are having their tea party moment, it’s a tea party coming from their Democratic Socialist wing. What will this lead to? Who knows? But I come from the tea party, and the tea party morphed into MAGA, and the GOP is now full on MAGA. So who knows? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Former U.S. Navy Pilot and author Ken Harbaugh has an amazing piece out right now in The Atlantic called “The Witches Of Ukraine’s Resistance” detailing the incredibly courageous work of everyday Ukrainians in Russian-occupied territories. Ken & I sat down to chat. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

He fucked it up. The reflecting pool that is. It’s gone bad. Algae everywhere, peeling paint, etc, etc. And, once again, after one of his fuck ups, he lies about what happened. Will a pool, will the Lincoln Memorial’s reflecting pool finally compel Americans to do a bit of reflecting on their own? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Barack Obama opened his presidential library yesterday. Donald Trump humiliated America in front of the entire world yesterday. Once again. How did we get from Obama to Trump? What led to Trump? The answer is much more comprehensive than you think. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Traveling the country this summer, speaking to regular Americans across the political spectrum has convinced me that the divide in this country is much more serious than the experts and the talking heads think. It’s not just social media. It’s more profound. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

No matter where you are on Trump’s stupid, illegal war, there’s no doubt that Trump and America lost. And Iran won. We come out of it much weaker. This is what happens when you have an idiotic sociopath in the White House. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A video from yesterday showing ICE thugs ramming a vehicle in front of a school with children in it. And then throwing the parents to the ground and handcuffing them in front of their children. This kind of cruel shit goes on every day, everywhere in this country. We must not forget. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

I ignored Trump all weekend. Woke up this morning to headlines about a “deal” with Iran, a UFC bash at the White House, and Trump deciding to turn July 4th into a big Trump rally. He launched an illegal war, he fucked up our economy, and he’s trying to distract you with breads & circuses, all while purposely dividing this country. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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