At the outset, let me offer the caveat that I will reserve final judgment until if and when more facts come out regarding the true motivations and interests of one Calley Means, the MAHA darling who brokered the partnership between RFK Jr. and Trump that may have, ultimately, been the deciding factor in the 2024 election — if not the deciding factor, then certainly one among many.
I don’t intend any of the following as a smear piece or an assault on Means’ character because there is simply not enough information in the public domain at this point, in my opinion, to pass said judgment.
Rather, I mean this as an exploration of the way that political movements have historically been subverted by nefarious interests, often using charismatic and charming conmen to achieve those ends, and the enduring suspicion that these tactics have engendered in the minds of an increasingly skeptical public.
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I have learned the hard way over the years, after being burned over and over, that it’s never advisable to full-throatedly endorse an up-and-comer to the political zeitgeist, no matter how attractive their rhetoric is or how sincere they appear.
Yet, time and again, I disregard those hard-learned lessons and take people at face value with minimal vetting — a failing based on a sincere desire to see positive change in the world that often hijacks my more critical faculties.
In that vein, when he hit the scene earlier this year with a bombshell Tucker Carlson interview, I wanted to believe Calley Means — the former, allegedly reformed agricultural and pharmaceutical lobbyist, groomed in the Ivy League with DEEP, multigenerational ties to the Deep State (for reference: Calley Means LinkedIn) — was the real deal.
His most recent podcast interview did nothing to cement that impression in my mind. Indeed, it did the opposite.
Throughout this two-year conversation, Means comes off exactly how one would expect an Ivy League-groomed professional political lobbyist to: gelled hair, suit and tie, large vocabulary, an inability to express any emotion that hasn’t seemingly been strategically pre-loaded to convey some facsimile of the real thing.
… And a pathological refusal to answer direct, simple questions like: “Should we pull the COVID shots off the market?”
Again and again, Means obfuscates when this question is posed to him, offering meandering non-answers of the kind you would expect from any standard, greaseball politician running for office.
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Is this assessment unfair?
Watch and decide for yourself.
You will have noticed, if you’ve been paying attention, that RFK Jr. has been conspicuously silent on the COVID-19 “vaccine” crimes since joining forces with Trump and subsequently being announced as HHS Secretary nominee — despite the issue being a major reason he skyrocketed in popularity over the past few years.In fact, in his otherwise excellent speech announcing the end of his candidacy earlier this year, the full transcript of which Chris Queens was diligent enough to put together for PJ Media readers, RFK Jr. fails to mention once the flagship issue that he has championed for decades at this point and that thrust him into the spotlight as an anti-corruption warrior fighting the good fight against Big Pharma in the first place — an odd omission, to say the least, for a man who literally wrote the book on Anthony Fauci.
Similarly, in Calley Means’ blockbuster book, “Good Energy: The Surprising Connection Between Metabolism and Limitless Health,” which Means has himself marketed as a treatise on the corruption and perverse incentives of Big Pharma based on his experiences inside the belly of The Beast, the word “vaccine” is not to be found one time in the entire thing.
Not one time — in a book dedicated to exposing pharmaceutical malfeasance? How could that possibly be a coincidence or an oversight?
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Adding to the suspicion that this whole MAHA thing is some kind of giant head fake to get around the elephant in the room — which, if not founded in reality, is understandable — is the fact that both of the Means (Calley and his sister, Casey) burst onto the scene from basically nowhere. Neither had any background to speak of in public advocacy on these topics before this year, neither had any significant following, and both were first-time authors when their book went mega-viral, which is, as anyone in the industry will tell you, is exceedingly rare on par with spotting a unicorn in Times Square.
Are we too jaded and cynical and overly suspicious of people who might actually have good intentions? Perhaps — but this skepticism has been hard-earned over decades of being lied to by people who come from Means’ world and who talk and act exactly like he did for two hours straight.
