Conversations With Americans: Why We’re So Easily Triggered By Events These Days

The Social Contract with Joe Walsh

The Bravery Project

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

4.6 • 752 Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Continuing my conversation in Northern Virginia with former FBI and Homeland Security analyst Brian Murphy. Today we talk about misinformation & disinformation. Who’s responsible for the spread of both? What’s the result of both? What does it mean to be radicalized? Fascinating conversation.

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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.
0:07.3	That means being tolerant, being respectful, staying informed, and being engaged.
0:13.5	I'm former Congressman Joe Walsh. Follow me here and join the millions of Americans who are renewing their social contract with each other.
0:23.7	The social contract, it's on us.
0:32.3	Hey, Wednesday morning.
0:34.2	Thank you, everybody, for joining former Congressman Joe Walsh here on the social contract with Joe Walsh.
0:42.3	I don't know what the answer is, but I know it's a problem.
0:48.3	Misinformation and disinformation.
0:52.3	The fact that so many of us every single day are bombarded by and pay attention to things
1:03.1	that aren't the truth. I don't know what we do about that. In so many ways, right? TikTok, we are such a lucky generation of people.
1:14.3	We are so fortunate to be alive right now.
1:17.8	We've got, look at right here.
1:20.2	I mean, we've got this technology.
1:22.2	We've got computers.
1:23.8	We've got the internet.
1:25.1	We've got laptops.
1:26.3	We've got smartphones.
1:27.4	We've got 24-7, man, a gazillion sources of information at our fingertips every single day. That's a great thing. What an amazing thing.
1:45.3	But there's so much bullshit out there.
1:50.2	What do we do about it?
1:53.4	And because we have so many sources and so many places to go, right, to stay informed.
2:07.2	So many of us are exposed every day to utter bullshit and lies.
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