Our Allies Around The World Hold Their Leaders & Their Powerful Elites Accountable. We Don’t

The Social Contract with Joe Walsh

The Bravery Project

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

4.6 • 833 Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2026

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Woke up this morning to the news that Britain’s former Prince Andrew had been arrested because of his involvement with Epstein. Also found out that South Korea just sentenced their former president to life in prison for temporarily imposing martial law. But here in America, we don’t hold our former president accountable for trying to overthrow an election, and we’re not holding our rich & powerful accountable for being involved with a notorious sex trafficker. Shame on us.

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0:00.0	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.
0:20.0	Hey, thanks for joining me this Thursday. We're not okay. I love our new theme song. The name of the song, by the way, guys, is, man, I am not okay by federalist number nine. Check it out on YouTube. Man, I am not okay by Federalist number
0:41.9	nine. We're not okay. This country that we all love, this good, great, decent country of ours
0:47.4	that's going to celebrate, right? 250 years this year, this this great good decent country is not okay and again i spend a lot of
1:05.2	time out on the road talking to people across the political divide and i can ask, you know, people from Maga right to far
1:12.9	left and everywhere in between that question, are we okay? And gosh, 97, 98% of the people in
1:22.6	whatever room I'm in will say we're not okay. They've got different. We've all got different
1:26.6	reasons for why we're not okay. They've got different. We've all got different reasons for why
1:29.0	we're not okay. But everybody kind of thinks and believes that right now, America ain't healthy.
1:35.3	I'll tell you this. I'm not going to do a lot of yelling and screaming this morning,
1:43.2	because I just don't have it in me but
1:46.9	understand my passion is there I'll tell you what you know a country is not okay
1:56.8	when a country doesn't hold its rich and powerful and connected accountable for bad things they do.
2:10.5	When a people, a free people doesn't hold its leaders accountable, when they bad shit when they break laws when they're
2:22.4	openly corrupt when they ignore the constitution when they ignore separation of powers and checks
2:31.8	and balances when our leaders when a leader does all of that
2:37.2	and we don't hold our leaders accountable for any of that we don't hold him accountable for that
2:43.6	that's a that's a people that just is not okay that ain't a healthy society at all if a free people does not hold its leaders accountable
3:06.4	then that's a free people that deserves to be ruled upon. And if a free
3:12.7	people doesn't hold its rich and powerful, its elites accountable for doing shit that if you and I
3:21.2	did that shit, we'd be in jail right now. We'd be banished from society.
3:26.6	If a people doesn't hold it's rich and powerful and connected accountable,
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