We are not okay. America is not okay. And we all know that. Former Congressman Joe Walsh, this is the social contract with Joe Walsh. Let's figure out how to get okay together.

Hey, this Thursday, I don't know where to start.

I don't know who said it.

It's probably been said a bunch.

I hope you're having a good week, though, by the way.

Hope you are having a good week.

Thanks for tuning in to the social contract with me, Joe Walsh, former congressman, former presidential

candidate, former Republican, former Tea Party guy.

I'm just a former, a bunch of things, but thanks for checking in, tuning in this morning.

Right, it's been said a bunch.

Maybe somebody first said it and made it famous.

And it kind of goes like, why throughout human history are bad men able to do really bad things because good men are afraid to speak out?

Because good men are afraid to act.

And there's so much truth in that.

When you look up and down human history,

example after example of a bad man, an evil man,

able to commit bad evil atrocities,

generally because good men didn't have the courage to stand up to him,

to stand up to them, to call them out, to fight back against what bad men will do.

Man, that's certainly the story of this Trump era.

We all spend so much of our time. I do as well, talking about what a bad, bad, bad man Donald Trump is.

And all the bad, bad, bad, bad things he does. We all spend too much of our time doing that when really the story of this trump

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