F*ck Silence with Joe Walsh: Recent Episodes
Joe Walsh
In August of 2019, Joe Walsh did something he never expected he would do — he decided to run for president … against Donald Trump. Joe made that decision because he knew that President Trump had to be defeated, and no other Republican was willing to stand up and accept the challenge. Joe’s presidential campaign came to an end after the Iowa caucuses. He saw firsthand that Republican voters don’t want honesty or decency in the White House. They just want Donald Trump. It’s now clear: the Republican Party is a cult. The only option now is to make sure that Donald Trump is not re-elected in November. It’s incumbent on us as a country — and as citizens — to reject the current direction of the Republican Party and work to elect Democrats who are closest to our values.
After months and months of waiting, what's next for Joe Walsh is finally here. I'm excited about this announcement.
It's sometimes said that we get the government that we deserve, which raises the question, "What responsibility do we the people bear for our divided nation?" I try to answer that question in this episode.
In a party where once seemingly good leaders have again and again beclowned themselves in an attempt to appease Trump and his followers, Rep. Paul Gosar may be one of the more bizarre clowns in the circus.
I'm not a Republican. I'm not a Democrat. But I am working against the party that's the bigger threat to America. In this episode, I explain which party that is and why I believe that.
President Biden announced sweeping new vaccine mandates for federal employees as well as business owners during a press conference yesterday. Some of it I like, but some of it makes me very uncomfortable.
When I was still working in conservative media, I was confused when I would otherwise smart talk show hosts defend Trump when I knew that they didn't believe what they were saying. I tried to understand why they did this, and I now understand why it's something that I cannot do.
I've said a lot in the last week about President Biden's handling of Afghanistan, and a lot of people have wondered if I would be saying the same things to Donald Trump is he was still the president. In this episode, I'll tell you exactly what I'd be saying to Trump.
Watching Afghanistan fall to the Taliban after 20 years of wasted blood and treasure feels like a kick to the gut.
Andrew Cuomo's resignation really doesn't tell us much about Andrew Cuomo. But there are some lessons that we should learn from this ugly situation.
I'm often asked why I lost my radio show not just once, but twice, and the answer is the same -- I was paid to tell people what I believed, and I couldn't keep my mouth shut.
The founding of America was one of history's greatest advancements of freedom. And is Joe Walsh a reincarnated American Revolutionary War soldier?
Six years ago, there's not a single person who could have even remotely accurately predicted what we've experienced. We're living in a time with no precedent, and no one knows what's going to happen next.
Heading into the 2022 mid-term elections, crime is going to be big issue for both parties. One party understands that and knows how to use the issue to win votes. The other party needs to figure it out really quickly.
Tucker Carlson began promoting a new lie about January 6 this week on his FOX News show. He's now suggesting that the FBI was somehow involved in the insurrection.
It's very easy for us to escape to our respective echo chambers. Conservatives retreat to FOX News while progressives take refuge at MSNBC. But when we do that, none of us will ever get any smarter.
There's a tendency among some Americans to want to simply ignore Donald Trump. They're relieved that they don't have to pay attention to him anymore, and it's just become very easy to act like what he's saying and doing now is inconsequential. That's hardly the case. He should not be ignored.
At this point, we don't need a poll or a survey to tell us what we already know about the base of the Republican Party -- they're crazy.
It's almost hard to comprehend that the entire base of the GOP has been entirely radicalized by Donald Trump, but it's true.
Why is FOX News so obsessed with the origins of COVID-19? I talk about that, and I answer the question, "Joe, what's up with your radio show?"
This week, Democrats moved ahead to investigate what happened on January 6, but at the same time, Republicans acted like it never happened.
I am a conservative. I ran for Congress as a conservative. I voted as a conservative when I served in Congress. I've held and promoted conservative ideas on the radio. But the Republican Party is no longer a place for conservatives.
The suggestion that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from Donald Trump has now become widely accepted by GOP voters, and no one is more amused by that than Donald Trump himself.
The House Republicans are set to take a vote next week to strip Liz Cheney of her leadership position for one reason and one reason only — she refuses to believe the Big Lie that the 2020 election was stolen from Donald Trump. She insists on believing the truth, and the GOP is punishing her for it.
The biggest contrast after President Biden's first address to a joint session of Congress was just how unserious Republicans are compared to Democrats.
Every night, millions of people tune in to FOX News, and they're lied to by the hosts. This should matter to you.
Republicans spend a lot of time talking about "freedom" but it's become pretty clear over the last year that they have no idea what that word really means.
Just three months ago, a group of Americans committed an act of domestic terrorism at the U.S. Capitol, supported by President Trump, in an attempt to overturn the election. Don't let Trump or his accomplices in conservative media try to convince us that it was anything else.
As the trial of Derek Chauvin — the police officer charged in the death of George Floyd — opens this week, let's take a moment to revisit exactly what happened and how Floyd's death could have been avoided.
After years of increasing political tribalism, has America become too divided to ever become united again? Is it too late?
Time and time again, when the Republican Party should be standing up to condemn one of its own for something truly wrong and offensive, they respond with silence.
The Biden presidency is off to a pretty good start, but it shouldn't be controversial to suggest that the president should be holding regular press conferences. But it is. Why?
There's been a lot of debate recently about how we ought to think about our Founding Fathers, both what they wrote and who they were. So what should we do with them?
In response to the governors of Texas and Mississippi repealing their mask mandates and fully opening their states, President Biden described those decisions as, "Neanderthal thinking." Of course, Republicans had to respond to that.
It may not be what you want to hear, and it may not encourage you during these days, but it's true. Trump could be president again, and we need to be ready for that reality.
This is the dilemma of the Republican Party — it's very existence depends on whether it can tell its members the truth that they don't want to hear.
We've reached a point in this country that all we want to do it is retreat into our own echo chambers and have our per-existing opinions confirmed ... and it's killing us.
The greatest task in the ongoing effort to rescue people from the creeping disease of Trumpism is to overcome the widespread, deep-seeded lies that are believed.
As we re-live the horror of January 6th through this impeachment trial, there may be a tendency to want to move on and move past. But a people that moves on from January 6th invites another January 6th.
There is a place where you won't hear about impeachment this week. It's a place where a lot of other things are talked about — immigration, big tech censorship, transgender bathrooms — but not impeachment. Where is that place? I talk about it on this episode.
All of the back-and-forth about Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene can be summed up very succinctly — Republican voters have been radicalized. That's the only explanation you need.
Three months after the election and less than two weeks into Joe Biden's presidency, as someone who is politically homeless, allow me to offer some unsolicited advice to Democrats.
Yes, the president incited a riot in an effort to overturn the results of the election, but no, Republicans in the Senate are not going to vote to convict him during an impeachment trial.
As Donald Trump prepares to leave the White House in disgrace, most Republicans don't see anything wrong with how he's behaved in the last several weeks.
It's being reported that Congressional Republicans are fearful to vote for Donald Trump's impeachment because they're concerned for their safety and the safety of their families. To all of them, I say, "Welcome to the club." I've been here for a while.
Wednesday was a sad and tragic day. It was the culmination of over four years of lies from Donald Trump.
It may be a new year, but I'm not going to apologize for my language because the Republicans continue to embarrass themselves, all the way to the end of Trump's presidency.
There will be a big difference between how Democrats treat Joe Biden when he becomes president and how Republicans have treated Trump these part four years.
I served with Jim Jordan in Congress. We were good friends, and we fought the same battles together. But then Trump happened.
There are a lot of people who will be in shock on January 20th when they witness Joe Biden being sworn in as the next president, and for many people, the reality won't matter.
I wasn't an original Never Trumper. I voted for him in 2016 because I hadn't paid much attention to Trump before he decided to run for president. But since then, I've learned a lot about him.
Hundreds of thousands of Trump supporters have bought the lie that the election was stolen from Trump. They still believe that he'll be president for four more years, and when Joe Biden is sworn in next month, these people are going to be very, very angry.
It's easy to laugh at the folly of Donald Trump's attempts to claim the election was rigged, but what he and his minions are doing really isn't funny.
As we head into the last weeks of 2020, it's time to look ahead to the next four years. What should we expect?
We all want to live in a free country, but are we willing to do what it takes to be free?
It wasn't a wipe out for Republicans two weeks ago, but Donald Trump lost decisively. Why?
Donald Trump has lost. He'll never admit it. He'll never acknowledge that Joe Biden won. He'll never concede. So how does this end?
What a crazy and exhausting week it's been. But now that it's over, we know that Joe Biden will become the 46th President of the United States and that makes me really damn happy for our country.
The election is tomorrow, so I'm making one final plea to all the Republicans and conservatives who may be listening.
Over the past year, many liberals and progressives have reached out to me to thank me for what I've done and for the principled stand I've taken. But I need to make it very clear — I don't deserve your thanks.
In less than three weeks, Donald Trump will lose this election, as will many of his Republican enablers. But when this happens, we'll have a problem — a huge number of Americans won't accept the results of this election because of what they're being told by Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, Laura Ingraham, and countless others in conservative media.
Decades from now, if you're still around to answer, what will you tell your children and grandchildren when they ask you, "What did you do in 2020?" What kind of answer will you be able to give them?
For months, Donald Trump and the Republicans around him who enable him and support him have been flouting the rules. All of us have had to make sacrifices and play by the rules. Meanwhile, Trump and his friends have done whatever they've wanted to do.
As he recovers from COVID-19, Donald Trump is saying and doing a lot of things. There's just one thing for us to do -- ignore him.
With the news that President Trump has tested positive for COVD-19, we should have both of these reactions — get well soon and we told you so.
Last night's first debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden will be remembered for a lot of reasons. It was ugly. It was nasty. It was chaotic. But ultimately, when we look back at this debate, history will remember it as the debate that lost Trump the election.
Of all the legacies that Donald Trump will leave once he's out of office in January, the death of the Republican Party will be one of the most profound.
Despite what Donald Trump says or thinks, he's going to lose on November 3rd, and he will leave office in January. That's what you need to hear and believe today.
Donald Trump is going to send up a Supreme Court nominee to the Senate, and Mitch McConnell has promised a vote before the election. You think that's wrong? Then, what are you prepared to do?
It's a question that Joe gets asked all the time about Trump's followers: "Why?" What motivates these people to continue to support and defend Donald Trump? Joe knows a lot about Trump's followers because they are the same people who supported him. He can explain their thinking.
It's time to stop worrying about Donald Trump because after Election Day, because after Election Day it's all of his enablers in the Republican Party that we need to focus on.
One thing is certain -- Donald Trump has a long history of being a superspreader, possibly of COVID-19, but certainly of BS.
With 56 days to go until the election, Sen. Mitt Romney thinks criticizing Donald Trump is enough. It's not.
Every day, I'm asked why it is that I'm working to defeat as many Republicans as I can in November. I explain in this episode.
No one will be happy with this episode of the podcast, because as I watch the rush to judgment on both sides around Kyle Rittenhouse and what he did in Kenosha, it reinforces the divide that exists in our country.
On the final night of the RNC, with the White House festooned for a campaign rally, a crowd of thousands waiting to hear from Trump, the fireworks display, and the violence that followed, all I felt was sadness.
Democrats cannot afford to ignore the violence in places like Kenosha and across the country. Democrats also cannot underestimate the power of Donald Trump's "law and order" appeal. It's time for Joe Biden to be pro-active.
On the first night of the RNC, elected Republican officials stood up in front of their party and the country and said things about Donald Trump that just aren't true. And the worst part about it is that they knew what they were saying wasn't true, but they said it anyway.
It was unlike any other political convention that we've every experienced, but this year's DNC gave us a lot to talk about as Election Day grows closer. Joe offers his thoughts and reflections.
He's not even trying to hide it. Donald Trump is now saying things out loud that you would expect to hear from a dictator, and he doesn't even care.
With Election Day less than 90 days way, Donald Trump has boiled his entire campaign down to a single strategy — scare the fuck out of white people. In his mind, the future of his presidency hangs on that.
We all may tell ourselves that it's not true, but deep down, for most of us, we all really want to be ruled by a king or a queen, as long as that monarch gives us what we want. It's a sad reality, but Donald Trump has proven it to be true.
Donald Trump campaigned on the promise that when he was elected that he would drain the swamp. Turns out that he's just as corrupt as everyone in the swamp, and he never had any intention of draining anything.
A lot of people are feeling very confident right now about Joe Biden defeating Donald Trump in November. But never forget that this is a big country, filled with a lot of people who deeply support Trump. Now is not the time to be cocky.
There's very little that Joe Biden and Joe Walsh agree on. Ideologically, we are two very different Joes, but if I, as a TEA Party conservative, can vote for Biden, then you can too.
Some of you may still be shocked and surprised by how low Donald Trump will sink. That shock comes from the fact that you think that we all should be better than this. But make no mistake, with Trump there is no bottom. He will continue to do whatever he thinks he needs to do to win re-election.
As the Republican stands on the brink of its very existence, there's one decision that Republicans will make that will mark them forever — will they vote for Donald Trump?
In a world that's been consumed by "cancel culture", it's become clear that most Americans — on the right and the left — can't handle freedom. We need to stop trying to suppress speech just because we don't agree with it or find it offensive.
There's no doubt that conservative media has become more cruel since Donald Trump became president. The cult-like devotion to Trump has driven this. Tucker Carlson's treatment of Sen. Tammy Duckworth is just the most recent example of this, so what does Joe think about how Duckworth -- his former political rival -- was treated? Joe explains in this episode.
On this Independence Day weekend, I've come to the sad conclusion that America can never be united as a nation ever again.
This November isn't just about defeating Donald Trump. It's also about defeating every single one of the Republican Senators who have protected and enabled him for the past four years. We need to burn the Republican Party to the ground.
Nine years ago, when Joe Walsh and Jim Jordan served in Congress together as Republican lawmakers, they were virtually indistinguishable when it came to their political positions. Now, after almost four years of the Trump Presidency, Jim Jordan has shown everyone that the Republican Party has been irreparably damaged by Donald Trump.
With the constant, never-ending stream of treacherous behavior coming out of the White House, it can tough to step back, every once in a while, and take wider view of what Donald Trump has done and how badly he's damaged the country. In this episode, I take that step back and reflect on the big picture.
Everyone is paying attention to John Bolton this week because he's got a book coming out, and it's full of allegations and accusations about Donald Trump. While there's little doubt that those claims are all true, it all rings a little hollow because when it really mattered, John Bolton refused to stand up and take a risk. He stood by while so many others risked their livelihoods to call out Trump, and now, he should be ashamed.
Of all the Republicans and conservatives who have sold their souls to Donald Trump, the absolute worst of them has to be Sen. Ted Cruz.
Only one thing matters come November — defeating Donald Trump. Forget anything else that might divide us. Removing Trump is the thing that should unite us.
Every single Republican elected official needs to be on record today with the answer to this question, "Are you voting for Donald Trump in November?" No more games. Answer the question.
I went to Congress as a TEA Party Republican. For years, I took great joy in taking shots at Nancy Pelosi. But today, I'd take a President Pelosi over Donald Trump in a heartbeat, and it's not even close.