America, we got to get back to doing what's expected of us as free citizens in this democracy.

That means being tolerant, being respectful, stay informed, and being engaged.

I'm former Congressman Joe Walsh.

Follow me here and join the millions of Americans who are renewing their social contract with each other.

The social contract, it's on us.

Hey, this may be a, a boring show today, and for that I apologize if people are not exactly thrilled with what I'm about to say.

But I, look, I have a fatal flaw. I come into the studio here and with a mood, in a mood,

and the mood I'm in, what's on my mind,

what I'm thinking about dictates what I'm gonna talk about.

And this is what I wanna talk about this Thursday,

just under four weeks out from this election.

And I'll do my best to make sense here.

A lot of this may not make sense.

And for everybody who wanted to tune in to me on TikTok, looks like I've been suspended from doing any

live TikToks until October 16th. We'll look into that. Must be my language. I don't know what it is,

but to my TikTok audience, I apologize. We're in a scary place right now.

I believe that in my bones.

America is in a very scary place right now.

Now, everybody listening to me may agree with that, probably does agree with with that and probably agrees with that for very

different reasons. Like many of you on the right and maybe many of you on the left will agree

with me that America is in a very scary place right now, but we may disagree as to why we are in such a scary place.

And I think we're in a scary place because of this. And to explain what I mean, let me begin with this.

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