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Messy Times

By Christopher MessinaSociety & Culture
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Messy Times episodes

  • Messina's Federal Budget, Chapter 18 Health & Human Services - why we need to abolish it

    Messina's Federal Budget, the 15-year labor of love on behalf of Christopher Messina's fellow Americans, is available for purchase on Amazon.

    Our Gracious Enlightentaining Host is recording his reading of selections from the book. In the book, he recommends which Federal Departments are to be modified and which are to be abolished immediately. Overall, his suggested budgetary changes take us from today's insane $7.7 TRILLION in spending, to a far more manageable, rational and affordable $2.2 TRILLION.

    In today's selected reading, Mr. Messina tells us about the absurd rationalizations offered by champions of ObamaCare, notably serially wrong Leftist Paul Krugman.

    Enjoy!

    35 min
  • Consequences of Hostage Taking

    Written words don't suffice. We need to call out these evil people with at least as much energy as they put into lying about Israel defending itself from terrorists.
    My response to the Jew Hater Francesca Albanese at the Jew Hating United Nations takes under six minutes to convey. Brevity is the soul of clear-eyed morality.
    Truth is always one of the first casualties of any war but this insanity in which the global Left in combination with Islamist death cultists has managed to spin the most bizarre fabrications and inversion of objective reality is astonishing.
    It would never have occurred to me that ANY NATION would be criticized for rescuing hostages being held by terrorists. The sheer insanity of blaming anyone but the Gazans themselves for any collateral damage done during the IDF rescue operation shows you how sick and twisted these people have become.
    Hot tip for anyone that cares: If you don't want to get shot by the IDF, don't hold Israeli citizens hostage in your home.
    Amazing that needs to be spelled out, but such are the times we live in.
    AM ISRAEL CHAI.

    6 min
  • Reading Rabbi Lord Sacks on Pesach

    Jewish scholars - both religious and secular - discuss in depth the implications of the pagan prophet Balaam's description of the Jewish people:

    From the peaks of rocks I see them,

    From the heights I gaze upon them.

    This is a people who dwell alone,

    Not reckoning themselves one of the nations. (Num. 23:9)

    In this season of Pesach, I read the essay written by Rabbi Jonathan Lord Sacks of Blessed Memory, in which he discusses the potential meanings of the People that dwells alone.

    Not even 80 years after the Holocaust, evil scumbag Jew Haters are tromping around American college campuses, cheering on the murdering thugs of Palestine. No one seems to care.

    Have a listen. The Jewish People have survived and left to the dustbin of history numerous Empires who were laser-focused on our eradication. We're not so worried about Leftwing middle class Marxist twits who learned about Israel from TikTok ten minutes ago.

    To enjoy your Enlightentaining Host's words of wisdom on a far more prosaic topic - the US Federal Budget - go to Amazon to buy a copy of Messina's Federal Budget: https://a.co/d/hnd8LMI It is Amazon's #1 New Release in Cultural Policy! Who knew that was a thing?

    10 min
  • Concentration Camps, the Constitution and New York State

    Civic engagement is a prerequisite if we, the citizens, want to enjoy competent public governance. Ben Franklin warned us that we'd have this Constitutional government if we could keep it. Make no mistake: there are strong Leftist activists whose sole goal in life is to destroy our Western Civilization based in individual rights and responsibilities. They adore Cuba, Venezuela, North Korea and the Chinese Communists' totalitarian control of the population and want to bring that fun misery here to America.

    Attorney Bobbie Anne Flower Cox has been practicing law for 25 years. Formerly an attorney in Manhattan with the international law firm of Nixon Peabody, LLP, Attorney Cox now heads her own office, Cox Lawyers, PLLC.
    Attorney Cox has extensive experience in bringing lawsuits against municipalities on behalf of her clients. She has an impressive track record in fighting cities, towns, and villages against unjust and erroneous assessments that the government levies against her clients’ properties.
    When the government-manufactured Panic took hold under the flimsy excuse of a worse-than-average flu season, Attorney Cox stepped up to represent New York lawmakers and citizens against excessive government overreach, helping to curb the ever expanding arm of the government as it illegally reaches further into all aspects of New Yorkers’ everyday lives. Have a listen to her explain the mad illegal lawmaking by the New York State Executive Branch, how she fought it and why Kathy Hochul and Letitia James are still wasting tax dollars to reinstate a tool of totalitarian terror against the supposedly free citizens of New York.
    You can keep up with her never-ending fight for Americans' Constitutional rights here: https://attorneycox.substack.com/ and https://coxlawyers.com
    She is @attorney_cox on Twitter or whatever Elon is calling it now, for those of you inclined to brave that cesspool.
    To buy a copy of Messina's Federal Budget: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1549949
    And of course, LIKE AND SUBSCRIBE - IT DON'T COST NOTHIN' in the immortal words of Senator Bluto Blutarsky, who would support Bobbie Ann 100% were he in the Senate today.

    32 min
  • Latin American Drug Cartels - A Guest from the Formative Years visits the Studios

    Today's episode is the epitome of the #Enlightentainment that @MessyTimes was founded to provide in ample portions and frequent doses. Who doesn't love a prurient view into the lives of evil men? Half of Netflix and Hollywood is all about drug lords and mobsters. Ever wonder how much of what you see is fiction and if there is any fact at all?

    Brian Dennard spent years in clandestine service to the US and visits the Messy Times studios to discuss the early days in the 1970s when the American government was most concerned about the proceeds of drug money going to foment Marxist revolution abroad and here at home.
    Tune in for a rollicking tale of Alberto Sicilia-Falcon, La Tigressa Irma Serrano, Mexican President Echevarria, Jose-Lopez Portillo and why the matador Gaston Santos thrust his groin at massive bulls in the ring.
    You will learn a great deal not only how the Latin American drug trade got its early growth in the 1970s, but also get a sense of how those early beginnings turned into the colossal financial beast full of violence and futile attempts at control we are familiar with now.
    LIKE AND SUBSCRIBE - IT DON'T COST NOTHIN' in the immortal words of Senator Bluto Blutarsky.

    54 min
  • Halvening is Nigh! Nothing to fear... unless you need Bitcoin payment rails for your business...

    Kurt Wuckert, Jr., Chief Bitcoin Historian visits the beachside studios of  @MessyTimes  to talk about #Bitcoin and all its implications. Every 210,000 coins or

    roughly four years, the block reward of Bitcoin is cut in half. Every infrastructure player in Bitcoin has to find ways to make money on transaction volume instead of the block reward. The bootstrapping subsidy was designed to help the Bitcoin ecosystem develop to the point where a natural economy would take hold.  

    Fifteen years in, the Bitcoin experiment is getting near the

    point where real economic transactions need to take the place of subsidy-chasing. Bitcoin (BSV) is no weirder than HTML for the Internet. Most users don't understand how the Internet works, but they use it. Same thing here. Huge businesses can be built using blockchain data and payment rails, without you thinking about it.

    Come on in! The #blockchain is fine! Together we will connect another 4 billion people to the economy, providing a path for true freedom and economic liberation which will drive every Leftist, control freak Progressive Statist completely insane - an added if delicious bonus. For more of Kurt's wisdom, check out  @Kurtwuckertjr  and his weekly show on  @CoinGeek .

     

    https://christophermessina.substack.com/ for more details and sheer Enlightentainment.

     

    LIKE AND SUBSCRIBE - IT DON'T COST NOTHIN', to quote the immortal Senator Bluto Blutarsky.


    27 min
  • Samantha Ettus discusses our shared mission to squelch Jew Hatred

    The evil Gazan Government still holds Israeli hostages - both alive in perpetual terror as well as the rotting corpses of murdered Jews - 138 days after their rape, torture and murder spree of October 7th.Samantha has a robust social media following on Instagram, where she is a consistent voice of reason and advocacy for the safety of Jews in hostile world: https://www.instagram.com/samanthaettus/

    What everyone needs to bear in mind is that none of the idiots - whether highly educated or dragging knuckles - yapping and screaming about "Israel" and "Palestine" give a gnat's burp in a hurricane about the geopolitical specifics of the Gaza-initiated war. They hate Jews. Period. And they've found a great, "safe" way to march in the streets calling for another Holocaust - they pretend suddenly they care about Israel and the 75+ years it has been beset by evil hatred.

    The message to the Jew Haters of the world - especially in America - is that whether you're a casual weekend hobbyist only going to the "Free Palestine" rally because the cute girl you're trying to get with asked you to come along, or a committed, rabid, ready-to-attack-the-first-Jew-you-see maniac, you will not be tolerated. Jews will not hide and cower from you. We - and all moral people who know you losers for what you are - will push back against your aggressions and stand proudly on the side of Western Civilization.

    The evil Islamic death cults - Hamas, Fatah, Hezbollah, the Iranian government - have been lying to their people for 100+ years now. The Jews are not leaving their homeland. There has never in history been a country called "Palestine." These evil morons instead of building a prosperous society alongside their Jewish brothers who had come home after the Romans ran them off their land, chose to worship pointless Hate and claimed they would destroy Israel.

    All they know how to do is destroy and frankly, they are not very good at that. They've been trying since 1947 - every war Israel has ever fought , including this one, has been a defensive war in reaction to aggression. This is the point of the spear for Western Civilization. There are not "two sides" to this conflict. There is a rational nation defending itself against evil terrorist chaos.

    If you're a Jew, be loud and proud about it. If you're a rational moral human being of any religion - or none - stand strong and decide your Western culture is worth defending against those who want to destroy it.

    40 min
  • Sports Advertising! Jews! And a Pounamu Magen David!

    Find out why Stephen Fry’s Alternative Christmas Message landed so well this year, on a channel opposite King Charles’s chat to the Kingdom.

    Richard Bermitz has a long and storied career in UK sport advertising. Join us for a fascinating conversation about the history of the business of sport in the UK and then Europe more broadly.

    In addition to getting a crash course in the dynamics of sporting clubs, fan loyalty and the commercial reality underpinning your favourite teams, Messy Times fans searching for current affairs insights are in luck!

    Richard is a member of the UK's Jewish community. We discuss how the evil events perpetrated by the Gazan Government on 7 October 2023 have impacted communities across the UK, Europe and the US.


    1 hr 21 min

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