Trump Despises & Doesn’t Understand Free Speech

The Social Contract with Joe Walsh

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🗓️ 29 April 2026

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Two days ago, Trump demanded a comedian be fired for telling a joke. Yesterday, he ordered the Justice Department to once again indict James Comey. For what was Comey indicted for this time? Exercising his right to free speech. Like all good dictators, Trump tries to silence speech he doesn’t like. Which is, for the umpteenth time, utterly un-American.

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0:00.0	We are not okay.
0:03.5	America is not okay.
0:05.4	And we all know that.
0:07.5	Former Congressman Joe Walsh, this is the social contract with Joe Walsh.
0:11.9	Let's figure out how to get okay together.
0:27.8	Okay. Hey Wednesday, hope you're having a good week. I don't really fit anywhere politically. You know that. I've talked about that now for years.
0:36.2	This former Republican congressman, former Tea Party guy this former
0:45.7	Republican this former independent this guy who now is a temporary Democrat I
0:51.0	don't really fit anywhere politically. It's not easy, but I've, I've resigned myself to that.
1:04.8	There's nothing else I can do because I am what I am. I have to say what I believe. I support the issues and the
1:16.0	policies. I support. So no regrets. No doubts, no regrets. Maybe every now and then a doubt over
1:24.7	things I've done the last six, seven, eight, nine, ten, 11, 12, 13, 14 years.
1:28.3	But no regrets.
1:29.9	I've, I am, I am who I am and who I am in American politics in 2026 does not really fit in either political party. I'm clearly, I clearly do not fit
1:51.5	in today's Republican Party, which is why I left today's Republican Party about, gosh,
1:58.3	six, seven years ago. And I don't think I'll ever fit in that Republican
2:03.6	party ever again. I'm a Democrat now for 10 to 11 months, but as I tell everybody, I'm a temporary
2:11.6	Democrat. I'm a Democrat only because I want to help the Democrats defeat my former party.
2:20.1	When it comes to policy, when it comes to things I believe in, I'm not really a Democrat.
2:27.1	I'm politically homeless and that's fine, right?
2:32.5	Because we all got to be who we are. And if we are who we are and it doesn't fit
2:38.8	in either box then it doesn't fit in either box now you can do what a lot of Republicans most
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