This Is Not Who We Are

The Social Contract with Joe Walsh

The Bravery Project

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

4.6 • 752 Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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We’re detaining people in day care centers, schools, courthouses, places of work, parking lots, hospitals, etc, etc. we’re detaining veterans, wives of veterans, fathers of veterans, etc, etc. this is not who we are.

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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.
0:07.0	That means being tolerant, being respectful, stay informed, and being engaged.
0:13.0	I'm former Congressman Joe Walsh.
0:15.0	Follow me here and join the millions of Americans who are renewing their social contract with each other.
0:23.3	The social contract, it's on us.
0:31.4	I go to bed every night and I say to myself every night, this is not who we are.
0:38.3	I'm back to saying that. this is not who we are. I'm back to saying that.
0:40.0	This is not who we are.
0:41.6	This is not what America is.
0:43.3	I say that to myself every darn day throughout the day when I wake up in the morning.
0:50.7	And when I go to bed at night, this is not who we are.
0:55.0	This is not what America is.
0:59.0	That land of opportunity, that shining city on the hill that Ronald Reagan spoke about.
1:07.0	This is not that. Trump's America is not that. Trump's America is a vengeful
1:19.0	America, an ugly America, a cruel America, a dishonest America, a fearful America this is not who we are right now every day in this country every single day
1:40.3	ice and border patrol agents are grabbing men and women and teenagers and old men and old women and kids.
1:53.0	Grabbing people without any criminal record, grabbing them, detaining them, trying to deport them, grabbing people without any criminal record
2:03.8	from Home Depot parking lots and 7-Eleven parking lots and daycare centers and parks and homes
2:11.9	and places of business. 7-Eleven parking lots, courthouses,ouses hospitals just nabbing them off the streets
2:23.3	women children old men old women no criminal record at all.
2:36.9	But every day in this country, our immigration cops fully masked, right?
2:44.8	Fully armed and fully masked.
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