The pharmaceutical industry spends 5 times more on lobbying and public affairs than the oil industry

Calley Means: "If people wanna do something before the election, they're trying to slide the Farm Bill 5 year extension under our noses right now. They're trying to vote on that right now because they're trying to get it in before Trump gets in because they know Trump's gonna blow stuff up.

If you wanna call your member of Congress, take one minute, ask them to do food and and, you know, not have just government funded Ozempic before fixing our food system, the Treat and Reduce Obesity Act, and tell them it needs to be a 1 year extension on the farm bill. This is happening right now.

I'm getting literally from heroes and members of congress are asking me to talk about this. They're trying to jam this farm bill that it's 90% subsidizes ultra processed food ingredients. I mean, we're we're slanting. We're just we we we you know, as a conservative growing up words are generated. As a conservative growing up, I used to work for you know, conservative think tanks used to pay us too, along with the NAACP.

Excuse me. We used to pay conservative think tanks, the pharma industry. So we rig the system, and then we pay conservative influencers to say it's nanny state to question the rigged system. Think about how screwed up that is. Right?

We we we we rig the system beyond recognition. Tens of 1,000,000 of dollars of lobbying spending to ensure that sugary drinks, that diabetes water is on food stands. And then the moment you question that, you get attacked by the conservative influencers saying your nanny state. We are still in that situation.

We're waking up, and I think Trump's really realigned the parties to where when I grew up, you know, as a young conservative, it's like you trust the farmer, trust food without question, and it's totally against orthodoxy on the conservative side to question any corporation.

That's changed, which is a very good thing. But you still have little remnants of that. Fixing a rigged market is not an attack on the free market. It's a necessity. We have the the pharmaceutical industry spends 5 times more on lobbying and public affairs than the oil industry.

There's 5 pharmaceutical lobbyists for every single government official. The health care industry, just as it just as the economics, is the highest spender of TV news, the the highest funder of TV news. They're the highest funder of politicians themselves, literally, by far. They're the highest spender on research. They fund the regulatory agencies themselves.

Right? They fund the NAACP and civil rights groups and weaponize issues like feminism, racism, and body positivity very strategically to get this to shut up. They are just demonstrably the health care industry is the lifeblood of every single institution that we trust in America, and to question that is not nanny state. That's something Trump and RFK have kinda bashed through. We need a reset.

We need to come together, with the farmers, you know, with the brave people in health care and and and have a reset. And I would just ask you, any listeners, is it does it feel like it's a marginal issue, or does it feel like you know, we kind of need to have almost a spiritual reset here.

And that's kind of I I think we can. Like, I like, if we keep focusing on this and keep pushing, I think we can really unleash what everyone wants, honestly."