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The Social Contract with Joe Walsh

What ICE Is Doing Is Forcing Us To Decide What Kind Of Country We Want To Be

The Social Contract with Joe Walsh

The Bravery Project

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

4.6833 Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2026

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Sat down with long time Democratic thought leader & strategist Mike Nellis to review the political impact these masked federal thugs on our streets is having on public opinion. Hint: the American people are generally horrified by what they’re seeing.

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0:00.0

We are not okay. America is not okay. And we all know that. Former Congressman Joe Walsh,

0:08.7

this is the social contract with Joe Walsh. Let's figure out how to get okay together. welcome to another episode is just to wakonda forever go yes i already love the starts of this show

0:32.0

um it's good to see everybody welcome to another episode of welcome to the party pal with me mike

0:36.5

nellis and former tea party congressman joe walsh where we used to check out how joe is doing as a democrat now we just bitch and moan about whatever trump is doing on any given day of which there is a shit ton we are going to talk about my appearance on newsmax which was literally 20 minutes ago and i am pissed off i want to do that oh Oh my God. It's fucking wild, man.

0:56.3

We're going to talk about ice.

1:09.9

We're going to talk about Greenland. We're going to talk about Trump saying that there shouldn't be elections in the midterms, which was not a great quote in the Washington Post earlier today if you haven't seen you. While we're getting started, do me a favor if you're watching this on substack. Hit the hard button. You can hit it frequently, hit it as often as you can.

1:13.2

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4:33.4

so more people see it, and both of us grow. If you are not subscribed to one or both of us, subscribe to one or both of us. And if you're watching it on YouTube, like and subscribe to both of our channels. And everybody, it's so great to see you. I love doing this show. Joe, you're the fucking man. Let me, I know I've done most of the talking, but I was on Newsmax. They invited me on because they wanted to talk about the Somali scandal in Minnesota with Medicare and Medicaid fraud. And I was all prepared for that. And then Carolyn Levitt went live with her press conference as she's wanted to do. And Newsmax decided to make the whole thing about ICE. And they picked a wrong fucker to bring on Newsmax today other than you maybe. Were you on alone or another? It was me, John Bachman and some woman named Brianna, who I don't know her. Now, I'm going to tell you this. She was perfectly capable of holding her own, Brianna, the woman that I was debating, but John Bachman could not, and I like John to be clear, he could not stop defending her. Okay. So I come in and I'm like, hey, they're kidnapping people on the streets. And they're like, no, no, no, no, Mike, they're not kidnapping people. They're just, they're just going after they're targeting violent offenders. And then Brianna goes, I swear to God, Brianna is like, you know what, no, John, we're getting every illegal immigrant out of the country. We're going to remove every single one of them because if you're here, she went full, full Reich to me. I don't know how else to describe it. And I got it, I got in a great moment where I was like, listen, and I just spoke to the viewer. These two are like coming at me and I basically just like I gave up up and I was like, I just talked to people watching. I was like, I hope you just heard what happened because every single problem in this country they blame on immigrants. Prices are too high immigrants. Housing immigrants. Violence immigrants. Everything immigrants. You know why? Because they don't have a fucking solution to improve your life. And they came at me so hard. They laughed at me. They brought up this stupid story about me. We'll just talk about ice now to get into it. But they brought up that the fucking, I want your take on this in a second, but the stupid story about the officer having internal bleeding damage after being ran by the car by Renee Good. When we've all seen the fucking video and, if he had internal bleeding damage, they would have been blasting that out for the last 10 days after Renee Good was murdered. And they haven't. You know, why? Because they made it up. And I'm sorry, I'm like the first person generally to try to believe the cops. And these fucking people think were so stupid. I can't do it anymore. Kick it, Joel. Mike, how did they both react to you? Oh, they were, they couldn't have been meaner. They were, I mean, they laughed at me. They acted like I was crazy. They told me that I was defending like rapists. I mean, it was, it was probably the most insane right-wing TV hit I've ever done, where it was like, it's always two to one, guys, to be clear. I do these all the time. You do them, too, Joe. It's always two to one. I know that. But usually, the moderator will allow me to go after Brianna. And when they step in a lot, it's because the person can't do it. But Brianna could do it. So it was a true like two on one, let's fight and argue. And like I had lost my temper within three minutes, within three minutes of it. And it's just, they're taking the veil off altogether. Molly or somebody was just shouting out feelings, Doc, shouting out my sweatshirt. Thank you for that. I'm very proud of my Brett the Hitman Hart Japanese sweatshirt that my wife bought me for Christmas. Michael, Michael, God, I'm going to get to cook that. This is going to be the most chaotic episode that we've had because I think you and I are both pissed. I want to watch that. I'm going to go back and watch that segment. I want to watch that segment. Look, here's the deal. Again, I talk to Trump supporters every fucking day. They love what ICE is doing,

4:41.8

Mike. His base does, but that's it. The rest of America is horrified by what's going on on our streets. And you said that, I think you said that they always go out blame immigrants because they got no planner.

4:49.9

That's always true too, but they always blame immigrants, brown and black immigrants.

4:53.9

And brother, I was on that side. I did some of it. This is well because their audience is older

4:59.8

and white and it's easy for them to go after brown and black people it's their it's their

5:06.0

go-to it's their ultimate go-to i say that as someone who used to do it and and america is

5:13.0

recoiling against what's happening on our streets right now it's i mean it's a tracy just says

5:19.0

it's pure evil and and she's absolutely right. Because what,

5:21.6

what did they promise in the campaign? We're going to close the border, which I think makes sense. We're going to get rid of violent offenders, drug dealers, sex traffickers, all that. Great. Makes sense. But that isn't what they're fucking doing. And they can act in their right wing media ecosystem bubbles like they're never going to face the voters again. But they're facing the voters in November. And they are facing maybe the angriest electorate that we have ever seen,

5:40.4

certainly on the economy where everything is worse, but people are turning on ice. Two polls out this week, one from CNN, says that a majority of Americans feel like ice makes our cities less safe. And then another poll showed that a majority of Americans believe that we should abolish ice altogether, which, and Joe, I want to get your take on this and you can have mine after that, but like, do you know how hard it is to get a majority of Americans to be anti-law enforcement about anything? Like, that's a hard thing. Law enforcement and serving in the military is at the core of American culture, it's very hard to turn people against that. It's why to fund the police

6:10.9

is one of the worst initiatives that the left has ever taken on because the way that they framed

6:15.2

it was so anti-copate, alienated everybody, even though most of the ideas are not inherently

6:19.8

terrible. They're at least worth discussing. The other number, my favorite political strategist,

6:25.0

that jumped out at me was 86%. 86% of the American people, Mike, have seen these ice videos.

6:33.2

Yep.

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