As An American, I’m Thankful We Still Have Free Speech. Real Free Speech

The Social Contract with Joe Walsh

The Bravery Project

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

4.6 • 752 Ratings

🗓️ 25 November 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

In most other “free countries,” citizens and politicians would be arrested for the much of the speech we take for granted here. Hate speech, bigoted speech, reckless speech, irresponsible speech. I’m always thankful to live in a country that allows all this speech. A country where, the answer to hate speech, isn’t to censor or outlaw it, but to defeat it/outshout it with other speech. As broken as our politics is in America, I’m still thankful this Thanksgiving that we still believe in free, fulsome, & unfettered speech.

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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.
0:07.2	That means being tolerant, being respectful, staying informed, and being engaged.
0:13.4	I'm former Congressman Joe Walsh. Follow me here and join the millions of Americans who are renewing their social contract with each other.
0:23.6	The social contract, it's on us.
0:31.8	You know, it's Thanksgiving week.
0:34.9	It's two days before Thanksgiving.
0:37.4	My favorite holiday, I promise I will not end this show on a typical Joe Walsh, Debbie Downer note.
0:46.5	I promise I won't.
0:49.3	I love this time of year.
0:51.8	I love, love Thanksgiving. Now, I don't feel well today. I am down in the
0:59.2	dumps. I got something, something going on in my throat and my chest and my head. But I'm not going to
1:06.2	be a Debbie Downer, but I got to start this Tuesday before Thanksgiving.
1:14.0	I got to start pissed off.
1:16.4	I got to start by getting something off of my chest.
1:20.1	I've got to start with a pet peeve.
1:25.3	Everything.
1:30.3	Everything about Trump is a lie.
1:34.8	It's just the damnedest thing.
1:38.5	He lies, Trump does, the president, the guy we've put in the White House twice, he lies every time he opens his
1:47.8	mouth. He lies as he breathes. The people who work for him, the people who work with him and work for him lie.
2:04.1	It's part of the job description.
2:06.7	If you're going to work for Trump, you've got to lie for Trump.
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