It Takes Courage To Call Out Your Own Side. We Need More Of It (with Brianna Wu)

The Social Contract with Joe Walsh

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4.6 • 752 Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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She’s a woman of the left. Always considered herself a progressive. She’s also a transgender woman. And she had the courage to do the right thing, to call out the dangerous extremes in today’s far left. And it’s cost her politically & professionally. I can relate. A conversation with @briannawu.

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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.
0:31.1	Hey, welcome. Thank God.
0:34.4	It's Friday.
0:36.7	To cut to it right away, look, politics is my world for as long as I can keep
0:43.2	standing. And you know, because I say this a whole bunch, there is such a, in my world,
0:51.3	in my world of politics and political media and all the rest, there's such a dearth of
0:57.8	courage. And I define political courage this way, doing what you believe is right, saying what you
1:09.7	believe is right, even though you know it will hurt you,
1:13.3	may hurt you politically and professionally. I can tell you as a former congressman, there are very
1:19.8	few members of Congress, Republican, and Democrat who will do that. As a former right-wing
1:24.4	media guy, there are very few people in the political media world
1:28.6	who will do and say what they believe, what is right, when they know it will hurt them politically
1:35.8	and professionally. I'm so excited to have this woman on. Breonna Wu, I've talked about her before.
1:42.8	She is in my mind one of, hey, there she is.
1:46.6	Oh, Joe, it's my best friend.
1:48.3	It's so good to see you, buddy.
1:49.5	It's so good to see you.
1:50.7	When I think of Brianna Wu, everybody, I think of that word courage, political courage.
1:56.0	She is the executive director of the Rebellion Pack.
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