America Is Currently Not A Constitutional Republic

The Social Contract with Joe Walsh

The Bravery Project

Joe, Politics, Trump, Wash, Joewalsh, News, Thedaily, Thelincolnproject, Podsaveamerica

4.6 • 752 Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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All government powers in this country are limited by the Constitution. The Constitution is our framework. Well right now, the Constitution doesn’t even matter. We have a president who is raising taxes because his feelings are hurt, nobody stops him, even though the Constitution makes clear he has no power over tariffs. None. But he does it anyway.

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0:00.0	America, we got to get back to doing what's expected of us as free citizens in this democracy.
0:07.0	That means being tolerant, being respectful, staying informed, and being engaged.
0:13.3	I'm former Congressman Joe Walsh. Follow me here and join the millions of Americans who are renewing their social contract with each other.
0:23.4	The social contract, it's on us.
0:31.7	You know me, I can't, I can't tell a lie.
0:34.8	I can only tell you what I believe, what I think, and I'm in a bad mood this
0:39.2	morning. I'm in a shitty mood this morning, and I don't want to hide it. I want to use it. And by the way,
0:47.3	all of you, all of us who love this country profoundly, and every single day we pay attention to what's going on with this country and were flooded every day, right, with so many different emotions.
1:06.8	Ride those emotions. Run with them. If you're in a bad, shitty mood, don't try to be in a good, good
1:12.5	mood. If you're scared to death one day with where this country is going, embrace that fear.
1:22.6	Use that fear. Don't wake up every day and think, I'm going to be a happy warrior today to them, no matter
1:31.1	what, no matter what's going on, no matter what kind of mood I'm in, no matter how I'm impacted,
1:38.3	no matter what corrupt, lawless shit Trump is doing, no matter how his enablers in the Republican Party are
1:46.6	bending over, they're down on their knees all day, letting them do whatever he wants, no matter
1:50.7	the circumstances, use the mood you're in that day and use it to act to resist man to just advance i can tell you unlike you every day i go through a flood
2:16.0	of emotions and there are days I'm fired up.
2:18.8	There are days I'm down and I don't want to get out of bed. There are days I'm fucking pissed off.
2:24.6	There are days, man, I'm singing and smiling. I'm a happy warrior. We generally love that phrase,
2:31.3	happy warrior. We want to be happy warriors every day, but we can't be happy warriors every single day.
2:39.2	Not if you genuinely care about where this country is right now.
2:45.7	So whatever your mood, as I end this tangent, whatever your mood, don't let that mood paralyze you.
2:58.4	Don't try to change that mood. Don't get out of that mood. Use that mood that day to keep going.
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