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Jeffrey Epstein Accountability Is Not a “Satanic Panic” — Here’s Why · The Epstein Chronicles

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Speaker 1: What's up, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the
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Epstein Chronicles. There is a whole cadre of people out
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there that think the Epstein files are overblown, and that
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Jeffrey Epstein was nowhere near as bad as people are
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making them out, and that this whole entire thing is
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just overblown, you know, like the satanic panic of the
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nineteen eighties. And look, I think there's some merit in
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being skeptical. We should all be skeptical of the things
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we're told. But where my skepticism ends is where the
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evidence starts. And over the past seven years, I have
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seen more than enough evidence to initiate a real investigation,
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because I assure you there is plenty to panic about.
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And I don't know if it has to do with
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cannibalism or kids being eaten. I've never seen any hard
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evidence for that. Now. We have some emails that are
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a bit goofy, right, talking about beef jerky storing it
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at mockers. But when you dig into that, the man
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he was talking to had a restaurant called Cannibal So
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I don't know where they eating kids. Maybe I can't
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confirm that one way or the other, but That's one
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of those side quests that I have no interest in following,
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because I think that if you dive into the meat
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and the potatoes and you work your way through the things,
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that we can actually prove, all that other stuff will
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fall into place eventually, right once you open the door.
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And I think it's important to get that door open,
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and once we have full transparency and a DOJ or
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a special council that is only looking for facts and
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not trying to protect people, then we can get to
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the bottom of what's a panic and what's not. But
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until then, I don't want to hear shit about oh,
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people are overreacting. We don't have any idea what those
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files truly hold. And while I certainly have my doubts
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about the most salacious claims that have emerged from the files,
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we have a full blown investigation. I'm not willing to
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write anything off, even things that might sound absurd. So
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today we have an article from the Spectator and the
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headline the Epstein Files and the New Satanic Panic. This
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article was authored by Bridget Fetas. I've spent the last
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few years building an audience of skeptics, and let's be honest,
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more than a few conspiracy theorists who turned out to
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be write about some pretty big things. We saw me
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too devolve into a moral panic where accusation equal guilt
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and due process was something only a rape apologists cared about.
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That's not true. That's not true at all. Now, was
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it a bit overblown? For sure? Were people getting fired
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for just allegations they were? Should they have had due process?
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They should have. But when it comes to Jeffrey Epstein
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and it comes to what's happening to his friends, now,
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how many years did they have to come forward? How
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many years did they have to make things right, to
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reach out and speak to the FBI or local police, whatever.
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But instead what they did was lied about their relationship.
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And now that they're getting outed, people want to call
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it a panic. Here's an idea. Don't hang out with
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people like Jeffrey Epstein. Pretty simple man now, bridget fantasy.
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She might not care, she might not give a damn
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what people do with their spare time or if they
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hurt kids. But most moral decent people we care. And
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if you own a business or you run a company,
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and one of Jeffrey Epstein's disgusting buddies is working for you,
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you have every right in the world to fire that person. Remember,
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these are the same people that demanded people get fired
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for making comments about Charlie Kirk being murdered. Now, look,
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I don't agree with those comments, and I found them
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to be quite disgusting, But guess what, they shouldn't be fired, right,
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you want to talk about a moral panic. We watch
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COVID turn half the country into snitches who drunk on
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their own righteousness, routed out neighbors for having a barbecue.
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We talked endlessly on podcasts about groupthink, social contagion, and mobs.
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Notice how she says she wasn't talking about Epstein though, Right,
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She's a tourist like the rest of these people who
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have a lot to say. They haven't been here from
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the jump, and she's doing this now to drive engagement.
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That's it. And trying to compare this to COVID or
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to any of these other things is just ridiculous. Look,
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if you weren't hanging out with Jeffrey Epstein, you have
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nothing to worry about, pretty simple, right, And on some
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of the biggest questions, the lab laque, institutional corruption, gender
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of firming care, and the machinery of public manipulation, the
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conspiracy theorists were vindicated. Well, that's funny. She brings up
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gender of firming care. So you're worried about kids who
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are fourteen, fifteen, sixteen getting a sex change but not
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getting abused. That's weird. If they have the providence to,
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you know, choose to, as you would put it, engage
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with Jeffrey Epstein, and do so as a prostitute, then
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shouldn't they have the kind of providence that's needed to
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get gender affirming care or whatever you culture warriors call it.
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I mean, all we hear about is protect the kids,
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Protect the kids. And now with this situation, it's a
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moral panic. Doesn't seem very consistent, does it. However, being
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right about some things has become a license to skip
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the evidence on the next thing, and the Epstein files
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are where the license is getting cashed in by everyone
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tell me you don't know what you're talking about without
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telling me you don't know what you're talking about. Now,
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before you go screaming pedal apologist, I didn't mean the
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people who want transparency. I don't mean the people who
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think powerful predators should face consequences. I mean the people,
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our people, My people, who are treating a document dump
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like a decorring, connecting dots that don't connect, assigning guilt
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by association, and whipping their audiences into a frenzy that
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believes the ball worshiping elites definitely drank the blood of
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the infants and turned them into jerky with the confidence
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of someone who has never once been wrong about anything.
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Sure sounds like what Q was doing for all those years,
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bridget Did you have anything to say about that? Anything
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to say about Oh Tom Hanks is at gitmo Oprah's
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being brought to a black site to be interrogated, ther
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storm is gathering. Shut up, please, just shut up. Because
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all of that was cool, right, All of that was
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within the realm of reality. That was all stuff that
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could really happen. But this, this is a step too far. Look, folks,
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never mind what you've seen, never mind what you've read.
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You should just listen to what people like this author
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tell you because they obviously know better. Pass Vindication has
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turned into its own form of authority, and it's just
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as unearned and just as dangerous as the institutional authority
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it replaced. The skeptics and the conspiracy theorists have merged
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into one giant horseshoe shaped audience, and they found the
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one panic that they all have permission to join. Is
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she upset that she wasn't on this story from the jump?
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Is that what it is? Seems like there's a lot
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of that going around. Look, I get it, you had
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a blind spot, you missed it, But doubling down and
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acting like there's nothing here is wild azell. And here's
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the thing. This isn't a left right problem. It's an
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everyone problem. The extremely online Democrats are wielding the Epstein
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connection as a cudgel against Trump. Branding is entire orbit
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as the Epstein class, while they are are you crazy
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right now? How many Epstein adjacent people are around Trump?
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How many were around Biden? How many were around George
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Bush and Barack Obama? So yeah, the Epstein class, proper
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way to classify these people. Extremely online Republicans are convince
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the files will finally expose the network of democratic pedal elites.
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She had no problem with that before, right, she cashed
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in on that. I'm sure I built an audience on skeptics,
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And yeah, none of them thought that this was going on.
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None of them thought that the WEF was coming to
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steal your kids. Remember all of that. Klau Schwarber or
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whatever his name was, was the most evil man ever
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to do it. Meanwhile, do was nothing but a pawn.
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You want to talk about whipping your audience up into
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a frenzy, That's how people like this build their audience.
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But now, now stop asking questions. Just listen to what
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the government's telling you, because they're telling you the truth. Now.
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Of course, when the other party gets into power, everything
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will be a conspiracy again, everything, but this with tangible evidence.
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This is a moral panic. Both sides are looking at
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the same documents and seeing completely different movies. The Epstein
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files are like a box of chocolates. There's something in
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there for everyone. We've seen versions of this movie before.
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In the eighties and early nineties, the satanic panic consumed America.
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Preschool teachers were accused of ritual abuse. Yeah, did they
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go to the island. Did they hang out at Jeffrey
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Epstein's house with traffic girls? Did they accept money from
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Jeffrey Epstein? Did they pass on state secrets? A word?
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None of that happened, Okay, so you're just talking nonsense,
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got it. Families were destroyed, people went to prison, the
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whole thing was built on nothing, recovered memories, leading questions,
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and a culture so desperate to protect children that it
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went into some kind of collective hysteria. And the irony
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is thick. The same people that yelled for the last
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eight years about protect the children now say it's a
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moral panic and hysteria. Who are these people really protecting?
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And what's the goal here? That's my real question. The
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Epstein situation is different in one critical respect. Jeffrey Epstein
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was a real predator, Real crimes were committed. We know
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the real victims exist. But that kernel of truth is
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exactly what makes this current panic more dangerous, not less.
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It gives everyone permission to treat speculation as truth, proximity
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is proof, and a flight log as a conviction. Well,
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who are you listening to? That's the problem. Get your
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information from other people. Nobody who's serious about this story
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or serious about justice is chasing those salacious ghosts. That's
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all going to come in time, because guess what, there
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are verifiable crimes here that are provable, and frankly, it's
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not even debatable. The fact that something terrible actually happened
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becomes a justification for whatever theory you might want to push,
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isn't it weird? Man? Is compelling and it might be true,
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but it's not evidence. Well, you know what is evidence.
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All those witness statements, all those core documents, all those
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people who corroborated the stories that we've heard time and
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time again over forty girls from Palm Beach High School
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who were abused. That's real. Okay, that shit is real,
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and there's plenty of evidence to support it, just like
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there's plenty of evidence that Jeffrey Epstein was trafficking people.
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I mean, we just have a report coming out of
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England today about Epstein trafficking women and girls through UK
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all the way up till his death. And that's something
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I've been telling you for years, that Jeffrey Epstein was
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active all the way up till his death. And there's
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plenty of compelling evidence to prove that. And the medium
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has evolved. The Satanic panic was fueled by daytime talk
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shows Heraldo, Sally Jesse, Raphael Oprah. These shows had massive
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reach and whole obligation to verify anything before putting it
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in front of millions of eyeballs. They fed on the
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fear and guilt of the first generation of women to
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trust their kids todaycares and mass They didn't spread the
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panic because they were They spread it because it was
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an incredible television Now, mind you, in the opening paragraph
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of this piece, she told you that's exactly how she
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built her audience. By the way, that's not how I
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built mine. I don't talk about Slasia's bullshit here, okay,
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and keeping it a buck. Everybody wants names, names, names.
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I've been naming names now for seven years. You know
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those names that were just called out on the Congressional floor.
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I've been calling them dudes out since twenty nineteen, way
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before they were popular or this story was popular. Now,
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one thing I will say is there's a lot of
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people that have shown up that are doing exactly what
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Bridget is suggesting here. There's a lot of people that
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are only focusing on the salacious aspects of the story,
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and that really doesn't do it any good because it
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gives room for pieces like this to pop up and
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then everybody gets painted with the same brush. It's the
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same shit that I dealt with for the last seven years,
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trying to put everybody under the same umbrella. And that's
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not the truth because for some of us This shit
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is not a game. This is not about engagement, it's
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not about driving viewership. I don't care about any of that.
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I don't have any kind of social media presence because
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I don't care. I don't care about being famous, I
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don't care about being popular. I don't care about any
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of it. What I care about is these scumbags who
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have been screwing all of us for all these years
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are held accountable. And if that's via financial crimes, so
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be it. If they're guilty, they should go to jail
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like everybody else. And if that's a panic, well I
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guess I'm a fucking panicking. Podcasting is the daytime talk
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show of our era, only worse. They're no producers who
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might occasionally pump the brakes, no network standard departments, no FCC, nothing,
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just a microphone, an audience, and an algorithm that rewards
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the most outrageous possible interpretation of any given event. I mean,
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look not for nothing, But isn't that exactly what you
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and all your friends do? And isn't that what you're
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doing here taking the contrarian position to try and drive
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the algorithm, as Candace Owens has demonstrated with impressive consistency.
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You can be wrong every single day, demonstrably, provably wrong,
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and your audience will only grow because they aren't here
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for accuracy. They come for the feeling of being on
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the right side of a secret history that the normies
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are too naive to see. While she's outing herself right
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here as somebody that looks like she despises her own audience.
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That seems like a pretty bad idea. This is the
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incentive structure that has eaten the American discourse alive. Our
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institutions have failed so completely that people will believe whatever
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they want to believe, and the market has responded accordingly.
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You see, here's the problem. Instead of attacking the institutions
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like she should, she has a problem with people who
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are filling in the gaps. But that's human nature when
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we don't have the whole story. So be mad at
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the institution, be mad at the Department of Justice, be
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mad at the administration. But instead she wants to be
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mad at her own listeners, her own viewers, her own readers.
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There is no penalty for wild speculation, no reputational cost
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to being wrong. The crazier the allegation, the more your
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audience trusts you because in a world where every institution
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has lied to you, the person saying the most unbelievable
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thing must be the one telling the truth. Everyone on
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all sides knows this, and everyone on all sides is
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cashing in. It doesn't matter what team jersey you're wearing,
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the Epstein Files or content event of the year, and
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no one is leaving money on the table except me apparently.
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So this is exactly what I was saying. Seems to me,
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she's upset because she doesn't know the real story, so
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she's forced to play catch up, and this is not
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the story to do it. So instead of really giving
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it a good hard look and looking at the actual evidence,
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she's decided that she's going to full on the most
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salacious part of it and trying to mean everybody who's interested,
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and frankly, I think it's sour grapes. And if you notice,
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a lot of the people who are talking trash about
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this story about what's going on here were the people
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that rose to prominence with COVID, But now they're not
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the main character anymore. And it's a big deal. Oh
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we're what do you mean, We're not part of this story.
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We didn't break it no, you didn't. In fact, you
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don't even know what you're talking about. It would be
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depressing where it's solely a content game, but it's not.
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Real people are getting caught in the insanity. Not a
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word about the survivors, not a word about the girls
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who were abused, not a word about the rest of
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us who are getting fucked by these people. But real
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people are getting caught up in the insanity. When Representatives
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Row Conna and Thomas Massey, a Democrat and a Republican
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united in bipartisan recklessness, started naming names and amplifying allegations
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from the fire, they weren't performing some brave act of transparency.
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They were directing a mob at specific human beings, like
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you did during COVID. I mean, you folks were just
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so pleasant during that. Do they think we've all forgotten?
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I mean, the grift was out of control. Everybody all
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of a sudden was a scientist. Take this, take that,
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Oh this is fake, this is real. Meanwhile, I kept
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my mouth shut, you know why, because I had no
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idea what I was talking about. Kind Of like all
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these people when it comes to Epstein, Some of those
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people turned out to be ordinary citizens with no connection
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to anything criminal. It didn't matter. The names were out.
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The Internet did what the Internet does. People who had
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done nothing wrong became targets because congressmen wanted an engagement,
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and a culture that has replaced due process with virality
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gave him the tools to get it. The Satanic Panic
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destroyed real people too. That's the part everyone forgets. It
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wasn't just a weird cultural moment. Innocent people went to prison,
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children were traumatized by the investigations meant to protect them.
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We tell ourselves we've learned from that, and then we
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do it again with better technology and a bigger audience.
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The question isn't whether Jeffrey Epstein was a monster. He was.
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The question is whether the people who correctly identified pass
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moral panics can resist turning a real crime into everything
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crime for clicks. No one in media paid a price
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for the NonStop, silacious fear mongering of the Satanic Panic.
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They all got richer, like all of you did during COVID,
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I mean, stop it. Could you be any more of
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a hypocrite? Holy shit? Although if you're all the way
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down the Epstein rabbit hole, you probably think it's evidence
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that the widely debunked satanic panic stuff was in fact
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also real. While I disagree with the author about most
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of the things she's saying, what she asked to say
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about some of the more salacious stuff is not completely
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incorrect because it does more harm than good. And there's
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a lot of people out there that are trying to
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capitalize on this and monetize it without the real story.
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So what they're doing is grasping onto the most relacious
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parts and trying to use those for engagement farming. So
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in that regard, she's right, there's a lot of people
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out there that really just don't have any idea what
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they're talking about. And as we can see here in
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the article that goes for journalists as well, all right, folks,
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that's going to do it for this one. All the
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