391. The House Of Representatives Is A Microcosm Of Us
The Social Contract with Joe Walsh
The Bravery Project
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🗓️ 17 May 2024
⏱️ 9 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The mighty and resilient Merrimack River, carving through the communities of our great region. |
| 0:06.0 | My name is Linda Lorden, proud president of Merrimack County Savings Bank, and like the river that serves as our namesake, |
| 0:13.0 | where a constant yet ever-changing presence, because to us, it's bigger than banking. |
| 0:19.0 | It's about powering communities and putting people first |
| 0:22.1 | it's about knowing where you came from and where you're going that's Merrimack |
| 0:26.7 | style visit us at the Merrimack.com this is about defending democracy. |
| 0:38.0 | This is no longer Democrats versus Republicans. |
| 0:40.8 | What do you want your kids to believe in? |
| 0:44.0 | There must be given to take. |
| 0:46.3 | This is White Flag with Joe Walsh. |
| 1:06.0 | So I don't know this Friday if what I've got to say right now is terribly enlightening, but let me do it. Look, the House of Representatives, that body in which I served a few years back, is a dysfunctional, |
| 1:16.9 | chaotic, divisive, ugly, hateful mess. |
| 1:23.2 | Just look at the House every day. |
| 1:26.9 | Absolute chaos. |
| 1:28.9 | People shouting at each other, people yelling at each other, Republicans and Democrats, Republicans |
| 1:34.8 | yelling at Republicans, Republicans yelling at Democrats, Democrats yelling back at Republicans, |
| 1:40.0 | Democrats arguing with Democrats, nobody listening to each other. It's an ugly, partisan mess. |
| 1:50.8 | Our House of Representative is. And look, I felt that way when I served in Congress 10 years ago. |
| 2:19.3 | I thought back then the house is a pretty ugly, divisive, dysfunctional mess. It's 100 times worse now. 100 times worse. Do you see what happened last night? Take a look at what happened last night. Here's my here's my pearl of wisdom for the day you had a that that committee hearing a government oversight and reform a committee on which I |
| 2:25.9 | served um um um mtg Marjorie Taylor Green said something to aOC offensive of course course, she started it. AOC fired back. And then |
| 2:37.2 | Congressman Jasmine Crockett, who I really like, got into the mix. And they all just started |
| 2:42.7 | hurling ugly personal insults at each other. You ought to check it out. Google it. Check it out. I mean, it was five to |
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