In America, The Attorney General Is NOT The President’s Lawyer. He/She Is The People’s Lawyer.

The Social Contract with Joe Walsh

The Bravery Project

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

4.6 • 752 Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Hearings began today for Trump’s pick for Attorney General, Pam Bondi. Most Americans don’t understand who or what the attorney general is. The AG is the top law enforcement officer in the country. The AG is NOT the President’s lawyer. The AG must be independent. Must not be political. Pam Bondi fails that test. She should not be appointed. And…well done Michelle Obama.

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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, stay informed, and being engaged.
0:13.6	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.
0:31.2	Welcome, everybody. Hello, TikTok. Hello, everybody listening on every other platform this morning. Thanks for tuning in. Former Congressman Joe Walsh. This is the social contract with Joe Walsh. That notion, let's start there. The social contract. Grab your coffee, grab your tea, TikTok. That concept,
0:57.4	the social contract. It's the name of this podcast and I talk about the social contract every day.
1:05.2	And what the social contract is is it's kind of like our deal with each other, our contract with each other,
1:12.9	our responsibilities as citizens in this experiment, in this free country.
1:23.1	What we're supposed to do to keep this democracy going?
1:26.9	You've heard me rattle them off before.
1:29.0	Be tolerant of differences. Stay respectful toward people you disagree with. Be engaged,
1:34.9	get engaged, and stay informed. Man, this is all what we the people have to do to keep this
1:44.1	democracy going. that one right there
1:46.8	though i want to drill down on today stay informed my favorite founding father thomas
1:54.1	jefferson said and i'm paraphrasing tick tock jefferson said's gone. This republic, whatever I'm giving you
2:03.3	right now, whatever we're giving you, whatever we founded, it takes two to tango, Jefferson said.
2:09.6	Our representatives have to represent us, but we the represented, we got a job too, Thomas
2:16.8	Jefferson said. informed stay educated
2:20.8	stay aware stay informed and Jefferson believed that when a people stopped doing that
2:31.6	if a people stopped paying attention, stopped staying informed, stopped staying
2:37.1	educated in their country, in their politics, the democracy would go away. We're really close to
2:46.5	that right now. Too many of us aren't informed. Too many of us, way too many of us, are led by
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