Thanks To Trump, Bigotry, Racism, Indecency, Cruelty, & Ignorance Are Now Cool

The Social Contract with Joe Walsh

The Bravery Project

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

4.6 • 752 Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

A Hispanic Member of Congress gave the Spanish language rebuttal to Trump’s address. The official House Republican Twitter account called him an “illegal immigrant.” Disgusting, cruel, ignorant…but hey, in today’s Trump era, that tweet will get a bunch of high fives. Trump has made it permissible for people to be their very worst.

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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.
0:07.3	That means being tolerant, being respectful, stay informed, and being engaged.
0:13.5	I'm former Congressman Joe Walsh. Follow me here and join the millions of Americans who are renewing their social contract with each other.
0:23.7	The social contract, it's on us.
0:31.6	There's no other way to say this.
0:37.1	Because of Donald Trump it's cool to be a bigot you can be as bigoted as you want to be
0:49.1	because of Donald Trump as indecent as you want to be.
0:56.7	You can be a racist.
0:58.2	You can be ignorant.
1:01.1	It's like all the guardrails that all of us kind of internally have.
1:10.1	We all got good and bad in us we try to monitor the bad we typically do our best
1:24.1	to keep an eye on the bad like we've all got a bigot in us and we've all got an angel in us, right?
1:30.4	We've all got a saint in us and we've all got the devil in us.
1:34.6	Trump has unleashed the very worst of us.
1:54.0	Politicians because of Trump no longer pay a price at all for being 100% bigoted. Cruel, indecent, ignorant.
2:03.1	There's no price to pay.
2:09.2	It's cool to be an ass because of Trump.
2:14.4	In this Trump era, man, it's fucking cool to be an asshole.
2:21.6	Because of Trump, it's great to be an absolute dick toward people you disagree with it's awesome you're not going to pay a price like look i'm former congressman i've always been
2:33.1	known for saying what I believe. And oftentimes, I push the
2:39.8	envelope and I've gotten ahead of my skis and I've said things I regret. But that's the key. I regret
2:48.2	many things I've said. I still regret things I've said.
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