The Social Contract with Joe Walsh

My younger socialist friend and I chatted again this week, focused especially on the problems of homelessness, addiction, and mental health, what to do, what not to do, what if anything government should do. We agreed that letting these folks hang in public spaces isn’t the answer, we looked for a better term than “institutionalize.” Neat conversation

From the moment he was sworn in, he’s been stuffing his pockets with money and his family has been stuffing their pockets with money…to the tune of billions. We’ve never seen anything like it. He singlehandedly fucked up the economy, he illegally took this country to war, and he’s desecrating the people’s house. And along the way, he’s personally enriching himself. He doesn’t care about you.

I sat down with Brian Karem, longtime political journalist & reporter to try to make sense of where we’re at - what’s Trump really up to? Is Trump really all there? Why has today’s media utterly normalized him? And…what the heck is the Democratic Party doing/and where are they heading? Interesting conversation.

A conversation with Genia Simkin, who runs samizdatonline.org, an organization dedicated to getting independent reporting into the hands of people who live in countries where the government controls what information people are allowed to see. It’s difficult work, but it’s an important, necessary cause.

I sat down again with my Socialist friend Xander Schultz and we discussed how best to put forward a positive vision for voters to counter what Trump and MAGA put out there. One takeaway - The left needs to unabashedly display more pure love for this country.