Calley Means: Our major institutions have been captured

"I think we don't realize that there's a defining existential issue in our country where our major institutions have been captured. I think there's pings of consciousness trying to alert us to this. You having people on that are calling this stuff out, trying to ring the alarm bell, and people flocking to this show. Iconoclasts from the military industrial complex, from the health care industrial complex.

I think Elon being the richest person, the world's trying to tell us something. It's like, let's get resources to these people calling these things out. I think it's like Donald Trump, like I've been thinking about this a lot. Why is he the defining figure of our lifetime? Like why have voters again and again and again gone to him and said, you know, this MAGA movement, like, why are we like supporting this person, making him the defining person of our generation?

What does he represent? He represents like putting finger on something that's just not quite right with institutions. And I think the problem is we can't quite wrap our head around how bad it is and how so many people are complicit. But there's all these signs right now, and I think we're going to be brought to our knees if we don't realize this, that our institutions have been captured.

Like to me, healthcare, what Casey talks about, it's a really visceral example of something just not right with what's happening to food, what's happening to our kids' health. And I think it's happening to the military too, or the military industrial complex. Like I'm truly worried that we're on the verge of almost a societal level collapse with what's happening to our food, what's happening to our health, what's happening with the potential to nuclear war.

And I think we have people starting to realize this and they're trying to like lunge out for it, but we're being told it's alarmist, we're being told it's a conspiracy theory. And to me, that's what we've kind of landed on this health issue. Let's just bring it down to the facts of what's happening to kids. Let's bring it down to just like, forget the conspiracy theory. What even anyone's saying in this room?

Let's look what's happened to our food and looks what's happened to kids. Because by the stats we're seeing, there's something really dark happening. Like outside any conspiracy theory, just the statistics of what is happening to our health in this country and uniquely in America, it's dark."