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The Social Contract with Joe Walsh

In The Face Of Such Unprecedented Lawlessness, What Can We The People Do?

The Social Contract with Joe Walsh

The Bravery Project

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

4.6752 Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

I sat down with Robert Weissman, President of Public Citizen (citizen.org) to discuss how citizens and the courts can best and most effectively stop what Musk and Trump are doing. We’ve never seen such a brazen, lawless convergence of concentrated corporate & government power. But we must fight back. Have a listen.

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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.

0:13.5

I'm former Congressman Joe Walsh. Follow me here and join the millions of Americans who are renewing their social contract with each other.

0:23.6

The social contract, it's on us.

0:31.6

Hey, former Congressman Joe Walsh this Friday, I'm excited because I've got somebody who's going to be joining me right now,

0:38.5

who I have been dying to talk to since, oh, I don't know, since January 20th, since that

0:46.9

authoritarian we've got in the White House was sworn in. Let me welcome Robert Weissman into the show

0:53.9

this morning. Hello, my friend. Robert is

0:57.1

president of a great, great nonprofit public interest research litigation and advocacy organization

1:04.6

called Public Citizen. You need to follow them. You need to support them. You can follow them, by the way, on Twitter at public underscore citizen. Their website is citizen.org.

1:17.6

I can think of no group out there right now doing more to try to stop, call out, and oppose the corruption of Trump and Musk and everything that's going on

1:30.4

right now. Robert, welcome, my friend. It's great to be with you. I was telling someone who works with you

1:37.5

that I never would have thought of 12 years ago that that Tea Party Joe Walsh and you and I would be

1:43.5

on the same team here supporting,

1:46.3

but I never ever thought we'd be in a position like this.

1:49.9

You said something in a clip on TV a week or two ago that grabbed me.

1:56.7

Because this has been a pet peeve of mine for the last three weeks.

1:59.9

You said something like,

2:02.1

you know, Musk and Trump are engaging in just utterly lawless and unconstitutional activity.

2:11.3

And I've been screaming that every day. And it doesn't seem like that's getting talked enough about.

2:20.4

And there's so, Robert, there's so much confusion out there among people.

2:25.2

So let's start here.

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