PODCAST DROP: When Your Father Punches the Vice President
Air Force Veteran Combat Controller visits the Messy Times studios for a talk about the virtues of national service, the value of conversation across political and tribal lines and supporting our vets
Javier Trujillo graced the Messy Times studios with his presence. We had a wonderful discussion, starting with his family's immigration to the United States after his father engaged in some spirited fisticuffs with the Vice President of his home country, Ecuador. Easily one of the top five reasons I've ever heard for leaving one's home nation.
Javier is an attorney in California, slightly more leftwing than your Enlightentaining Host but small differences in political opinion ought never sever the bonds of comity native between patriotic American citizens!
Prior to his becoming an attorney - and subsequent to his early years as a burgeoning wastrel during the Vietnam War years - Javier joined the Air Force and trained to be a Combat Controller. Have a listen to his thoughts on the value of military service across a range of dimensions, not least of which is fostering a sense of national unity. If you like what we've got to say, please head straight to the website for the Combat Control Foundation and donate generously to support our veterans and their families, who have sacrificed so much so we can still breathe free and even produce podcasts poking serious criticism at our elected clowns, er, officials.
https://www.combatcontrolfoundation.org/
Lastly, I urge you to read your Host's magisterial new work laying out a roadmap to right size our federal government: Messina's Federal Budget will change your life and our government. Get involved; here is the practical roadmap to follow. Your Gracious Author has done the fifteen years or research and analysis - you just need to tell your elected representatives how to change their votes unless they want to be voted back into the terrifying (to them) private sector.
