Messy Times

Messy Times and the Brownstone Institute were both created to fight back against the tsunami of lies about the Wuhan Hysteria.  The Administrative State has not ceased in its Orwellian efforts to make everyone mouth insane lies.  The key to a complete governmental takeover of power is when a populace has been so beaten, bored and just wearied into mouthing the absurdities, if that is the "pass" to living a normal life.  

Lest anyone think that Elon Musk buying Twitter put an end to the bizarrely tight relationship between (mainly) Democrat government officials and the electronic public fora, think again.  Countless people are silenced and banned from platforms like LinkedIn (that values publishing rampant antisemitism over the free speech of a Jewish executive who points out the Jew Hatred), Reddit (which squashes anything even remotely endorsing free markets or classic American values) to Google/YouTube who went from "Don't Be Evil" to "Serve Every Leftist Censorship Duty We're Given from the Chinese Communist Party or the US Democrat Party - if One Can Tell the Difference Anymore."

Not as catchy as the original, but certainly accurate.   

We can remember a time not so long ago when journalists and public gadflies made it their sacred duty - often at real personal risk - to hold government to account.  How did that turn into a hand in glove relationship where the FBI, CIA, NSA and countless others like Representative Adam "Even for a politician, I lie like a drunken sailor" Schiff produced written documents showing how they demanded private companies censor things they didn't like?  They have grown so brazen in their lies that Administration officials will tell Congress under oath that "the border is secure" as millions of foreigners break our laws and invade our nation. 

Pay attention, kids.  These totalitarian clowns locked your kids out of school and yourselves as supposed "free adults" out of work - based on the false claim of "protecting us."  It was all a colossal lie.  They are still telling the lie and their enforcers are so effective I'm not even posting this episode to YouTube.  Not only have they not apologized, they refuse to admit despite the abundant empirical data that they were 100% wrong.  Wrong about all of it - the stupid masks mandates, the idiotic plexiglass in store interiors, the random "6 foot social distancing" nonsense which is not a medical or a scientific term, the fake vaccines which did NOTHING to prevent transmission - all of it was crap, pure and simple.  Those of us who stood up did so at real cost.

This government has been giving you the Groucho Marx treatment and daring you to object:  Whom do you believe? Me or your damned lying eyes?

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Most people know the solar calendar has ticked over to 2023.  The cognoscenti are aware that a far more important milestone has been reached - the start of the 4th season of MessyTimes and all the glitteringly brilliant #enlightentainment that entails!

Join #CraigWright and our Glittering Host for a rollicking ride starting with the ignominious and predicted collapse of #FTX and the lying fraud #SBF and ending with a hard binary choice between two competing philosophical systems of deliberate existence.  Kantians in particular will want to brace themselves!

For those interested in learning more about real world, critical minerals #NFT applications, please register for Christopher Messina's February 15th lecture in the City of London about using the #blockchain to advance a #Greenland rare earths mine: https://www.zyen.com/events/all-events/how-to-nft-a-greenland-rare-earths-mine/

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Bill Rice, Jr. joined us in the Messy Times studios on 1 December 2022 for a fascinating dialogue.  

His research indicates that the Wuhan Virus was present in the US population much earlier than the 2020 start date claimed by the Government. 

Settle back with a mug of spiked eggnog and a plate of chocolate rugelach.  Allow us to Enlightentain you during this festive season.  

How long do you think blood is stored before being used?

MessyTimes is honored to have Jim Hawes visit us to discuss his experience in fighting the free-market capitalist corner over a long and exciting career.   

Upon the expiry of his operation's classified status, Jim wrote a wonderful book about his work in Central Africa in 1965, Cold War Navy SEAL: My Story of Che Guevara, War in the Congo, and the Communist Threat in Africa.  

We touch on his valuable service to the nation and humanity by shooing Che Guevara out of Africa so the Bolivians could do the world a huge favor by removing this evil murdering sociopathic parasite from amongst the living, before discussing Jim's experience in private equity in then-emerging markets in Asia.  

Join us to find out why - among other things - he deserves at least 1/7th of the credit for introducing American fast food to Asia!

Dr. Alexander shares the Six Main Lies Fauci, Birx and the rest of these clowns told us all about the Wuhan Virus.  There are myriad little lies emanating from the big ones, but covering the Big Ones is exhaustive, exhausting and infuriating enough.  

He is the author of the recently published book Presidential Takedown, writes for Brownstone and has a great substack called the Alexander COVID News.   

He brings an invaluable perspective as a doctor and epidemiologist recruited by President Trump in May 2020 from the Chinese Communist-dominated World Health Organization (WHO).  Join us for a fascinating discussion both from the epidemiological point of view and as someone who was abused by the unelected and still unaccountable Administrative State mandarins in the Swamp who tried to refuse to hire a Presidential appointee that the bureaucracy had no LEGAL right to block from being hired. 

The importance of his message is highlighted by the fact that YouTube censored the interview within 90 seconds of my posting it AND threatened Messy Times with being banned for life if I continued to "spread COVID misinformation."  What is this?  2020?

We at Messy Times take that censorship as a badge of honor. 

Quick point: Early on in our discussion (@3:30) I refer to "January February 2022" - I misspoke and meant "2020."  The context is clear. 

Bruce de'Medici returns to the Messy Times studios to discuss the recent brilliant idea for the US government - meaning YOU, the taxpayer - to backstop massive insurance losses which insurance companies don't feel like paying when a cyber attack causes billions of dollars in damage to American companies.   

Bear in mind both the attacked company AND the insurance provider entered into a cyber insurance contract voluntarily in a free market.  The insurance company is not offering to share the profits with you, the taxpayer, from a cyber policy which doesn't pay out any claims.  They are very interested, however, in having you come to their rescue should a company make a claim for a payout.  

After getting a fresh dose of infuriating #Enlightentainment from two non-conflicted observers about one more instance of Leviathan reaching into your pocket to pay off someone else's losses, might we suggest as a palate cleanser that you check out CoinGeek's Bitcoin 101 free course offering? It is more important than ever that you get a clear handle on this whole Bitcoin Thing: https://tpow.app/ebc70fcc

Your Enlightentaining Host trusts a priori Craig Pirrong, Professor of Finance at the University of Houston and blogger https://streetwiseprofessor.com/ on the basis of his undergraduate degree from the University of Chicago.  

Beyond that ironclad qualification of intellectual honesty, Craig has demonstrated repeatedly the fortitude to speak truth to power, when power is making serious mistakes in policy and regulatory interpretation.   

Join us as we kick around those fraudulent criminals at FTX who deserve the kicking.  You'll especially be excited to hear about the Special Unique Prize for Amazing Innovative Thought that Craig has won, along with an exciting new addition to your Host's bucket list.

After getting a fresh dose of #Enlightentainment from two non-conflicted observers, might we suggest as a palate cleanser that you check out CoinGeek's Bitcoin 101 free course offering? It is more important than ever that you get a clear handle on this whole Bitcoin Thing: https://tpow.app/ebc70fcc

There is a great deal to the colossal mess of the bankruptcy of FTX, the almost absurdly mismanaged "crypto exchange" run by Sam Bankman-Fried and, well, apparently no one else. 

@Messy Times is honored to host Fred Grede who aside from being a fellow University of Chicago alumnus is a very experienced exchange executive and the former bankruptcy trustee who for a decade worked out the Sentinel Management Group collapse starting in 2007, which featured significant financial fraud.   Join us as we touch on a number of the crucial factors which will impact how this whole investigation and bankruptcy process plays out.  Legal jurisdiction - Bahamas v. United States - will likely arise very quickly.  

Status of creditors, status of customers, the role of equity investors, how Sam's $40 million donations to Democrats in the midterms will impact proceedings are just the tip of the massive mountain of his screw up.  There are to be determined complexities around whether any of the groups owned money will form up as a class or whether some larger players will decide to assert claims on their own. All of this and more will be bearing down on Sam and his cohorts living - for now - in the Bahamas.  

After getting a fresh dose of #Enlightentainment from two non-conflicted observers, might we suggest as a palate cleanser that you check out CoinGeek's Bitcoin 101 free course offering?  It is more important than ever that you get a clear handle on this whole Bitcoin Thing: https://tpow.app/ebc70fcc

Because the impacts from this colossal fraud will be felt for years and the bad news will continue to unfold, Joshua Henslee and your Enlightentaining Host just couldn't resist sorting through the sordid stupidity a bit more.    

The new CEO of #FTX is a very experienced workout executive who oversaw the Enron bankruptcy and wrote in his filing for FTX than he has never seen such insane incompetence and lack of operational and financial controls.  

Who on earth would give this shlub and his weaselly little meth freak girlfriend a penny, never mind billions of dollars?  It's bizarre and stinks to high heaven.  

On the plus side, maybe the entire #ESG fraudulent shakedown nonsense will finally be coming to an end.  Mussy-haired Sam and his illegal theft machine were given higher ESG ratings than almost any company on earth despite having ZERO governance controls and now we're seeing that they have done massive Social damage.    

Tune in for a highly informative discussion and find out why one should never accept "reputation" as a replacement for sound due diligence.

FTX is the most recent example of why good financial regulatory guard rails are a splendid idea. In an ideal laissez-faire world, the market would sort out the criminals from the honest people.  In reality, every lying scumbag like Sam Bankman-Fried who stole billions from customers and gave $40 million to Democrats this election cycle (second only to George Soros) destroys confidence in the market and massively impacts the global economy.  

Unfortunately, that makes some basic risk management and regulatory oversight a necessary overhead cost for those of us who are not lying criminal fraudsters.   A lot of good people just had a lot of money stolen from them by a chubby vegan asshole who just took billions of dollars of customer money to give to his underage-looking, self-confessed amphetamine freak girlfriend Caroline Ellison at Alameda Research to "trade."  

This co-conspirator has spoken publicly about having no risk management skills or any interest in acquiring any and gleefully lost all those billions of dollars that Sam gave her illegally.  

There is a lot to this evil theft but we suggest you keep a close eye on the $40 million Sam gave to Democrats for the midterm elections. Those politicians must be forced to return that money to whomever is put in charge of clawing back any assets whatsoever to return to injured creditors.  Much like people who had just gotten "dividends" from Bernie Madoff before the Ponzi scheme collapsed, that money must be disgorged back to the general creditors' pool.  

What can every American do?  Call and write your Congressional representatives, the White House and your Governors' offices demanding those "public servants" return that cash.