The Social Contract with Joe Walsh

Hakeem Jeffries met privately with Jared Kushner in recent weeks. Incredible. Kushner should be under oath in front of a congressional committee. The fact that Jeffries met with him confirms that Jeffries doesn’t understand this moment and cannot meet this moment. And if he’s the next Speaker, that’s not a good thing for the Democratic Party or the country.

For Tequila Talk this week, Cliff Schecter and I sat down with Julie Roginsky, long time Democratic consultant and cofounder of @MaydayNetwork and cofounder of @LiftOurVoicesUS, to discuss recent NATO moves to combat a potential Russian attack on a NATO country. And how it’s always been so obvious that Trump is a Russian asset. Really, really concerning stuff.

In this age of Trump, Democrats need to fight and meet this moment. Trump is, quite literally, everything our Founders feared. That means Democrats need to do things they’ve never done before. This is an unprecedented moment in American history. And all the old Democratic talking heads like Axelrod don’t understand this. So ignore them.

My weekly sit down with my younger, Socialist friend Xander Schultz. We focused solely on Trump’s attempt to fuck with, destroy the legitimacy of, disrupt, cheat at, and maybe even cancel the midterms this November. There’s no bigger issue Americans face right now than defending these midterm elections from the enemy in the White House

The coward and misogynist in the White House did it again yesterday. He personally attacked a female reporter. In ugly, cruel terms. And once again, not one member of the White House press corps said anything in her defense. Not one. Not one stood up for their female colleague. It’s bad enough that these reporters have normalized Trump, they’ve also allowed him to repeatedly attack female reporters. Shame on them.

The Trump administration is waiting for immigrants to apply for legal benefits to stay in this country legally, they then won’t process the applications and will allow the applications to expire, then they’ll arrest these immigrants and throw them into jail. They’re encouraging immigrants to do the right thing, then they ignore what the immigrants did and arrest them. That’s evil.

My weekly sit down with long time Chicago Democrat Edwin Eisendrath, we covered the primary results in Michigan and Wisconsin, the state of the DSA, and the deplorable conditions are sailors are enduring in Trump’s stupid, illegal war. As usual, Edwin is more optimistic about things than me. Interesting chat.

A sitting United States senator went on his podcast yesterday and knowingly spread a malicious, dangerous lie. Knowingly. Our Republic is in deep trouble because way too many Americans are increasingly untethered to truth, untethered to the facts. And when we have our political leaders wantonly spreading disinformation, then maybe we’re done.