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Jeffrey Epstein Accountability Is Not a “Satanic Panic” — Here’s Why
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Framing the current push for accountability in the Jeffrey Epstein case as a modern “satanic panic” mischaracterizes both the evidence and the nature of the underlying crimes. The satanic panic of the 1980s was marked by unfounded ritual-abuse...
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You know, like the Satanic panic of the 1980s. And look, I think there's some merit in being skeptical. We should all be skeptical of the things we're told. But where my skepticism ends is where the evidence starts. And over the past seven years, I have seen more than enough evidence to initiate a real investigation. Because I assure you, there is plenty to panic about. And I don't know if it has to do with cannibalism or kids being eaten. I've never seen any hard evidence for that. Now, we have some emails that are a bit goofy, right? Talking about beef jerky, storing it in lockers. But when you dig into that, the man he was talking to had a restaurant called Cannibal. So I don't know, were they eating kids? Maybe I can't confirm that one way or the other. But that's one of those side quests that I have no interest in following. Because I think that if you dive into the meat and the potatoes and you work your way through the things that we can actually prove, all that other stuff will fall into place eventually, right? Once you open the door, and I think it's important to get that door open, and once we have full transparency and a DOJ or a special counsel that is only looking for facts and not trying to protect people, then we can get to the bottom of what's a panic and what's not. But until then, I don't want to hear about, oh, people are overreacting. We don't have any idea what those files truly hold. And while I certainly have my doubts about the most salacious claims that have emerged from the files, until we have a full blown investigation, I'm not willing to write anything off, even things that might sound absurd. So today we have an article from the Spectator and the headline, the Epstein Files and the New Satanic Panic. This article was authored by Bridget Fedesy. I've spent the last few years building an audience of skeptics and let's be honest, more than a few conspiracy theorists who turned out to be write about some pretty big things. We saw MeToo devolve into a moral panic where accusation, equal guilt and due process was something only rape apologists cared about. That's not true. That's not true at all. Now, was it a bit overblown? For sure. Were people getting fired for just allegations? They were. Should they have had due process? They should have. But when it comes to Jeffrey Epstein and it comes to what's happening to his friends now, how many years did they have to come forward? How many years did they have to make things right to reach out and speak to the FBI or local police, whatever, but instead what they did was lied about their relationship. And now that they're getting outed, people want to call it a panic. Here's an idea. Don't hang out with people like Jeffrey Epstein. Pretty simple, man. Now, Bridget Fedacy, she might not care, she might not give a damn what people do with their spare time or if they hurt kids, but most moral, decent people, we care. And if you own a business or you run a company and one of Jeffrey Epstein's disgusting buddies is working for you, you have every right in the world to fire that person. Remember, these are the same people that demanded people get fired for making comments about Charlie Kirk being murdered. Now, look, I don't agree with those comments and I found them to be quite disgusting. But guess what? They shouldn't be fired. Right? You want to talk about a moral panic? We watch Covid turn half the country into snitches who drunk on their own righteousness, ratted out neighbors for Having a barbecue. We talked endlessly on podcasts about groupthink, social contagion, and mobs. Notice how she says she wasn't talking about Epstein, though, right? She's a tourist like the rest of these people who have a lot to say. They haven't been here from the jump. And she's doing this now to drive engagement. That's it. And trying to compare this to Covid or to any of these other things is just ridiculous. Look, if you weren't hanging out with Jeffrey Epstein, you have nothing to worry about. Pretty simple, right? And on some of the biggest questions, the lab leak, institutional corruption, gender affirming care, and the machinery of public manipulation, the conspiracy theorists were vindicated. Well, that's funny. She brings up gender affirming care. So you're worried about kids who are 14, 15, 16 getting a sex change, but not getting abused? That's weird. If they have the providence to, you know, choose to, as you would put it, engage with Jeffrey Epstein and do so as a prostitute, then shouldn't they have the kind of providence that's needed to get gender affirming care, or whatever you culture warriors call it? I mean, all we hear about is protect the kids, protect the kids. And now with this situation, it's a moral panic. Doesn't seem very consistent, does it? However, being right about some things has become a license to skip the evidence on the next thing. And the Epstein files are where the license is getting cashed in by everyone. Tell me you don't know what you're talking about without telling me you don't know what you're talking about. Now, before you go screaming pedo apologist, I didn't mean the people who want transparency. I don't mean the people who think powerful predators should face consequences. I mean the people, our people, my people, who are treating a document dump like a decoder ring, connecting dots that don't connect, assigning guilt by association and whipping their audiences into a frenzy that. That believes the BAAL worshipping elites definitely drank the blood of the infants and turned them into jerky with the confidence of someone who has never once been wrong about anything. Sure sounds like what Q was doing for all those years. Bridget, did you have anything to say about that? Anything to say about. Oh, Tom Hanks is at Gitmo. Oprah is being brought to a black site to be interrogated. The storm is gathering. Shut up. Please, just shut up. Because all of that was cool, right? All of that was within the realm of reality. That was all stuff that could really happen. But this. This is a step too far. Look, folks, never mind what you've seen, never mind what you've read. You should just listen to what people like this author tell you because they obviously know better. Past vindication has turned into its own form of authority, and it's just as unearned as, and just as dangerous as the institutional authority it replaced. The skeptics and the conspiracy theorists have merged into one giant horseshoe shaped audience and they found the one panic that they all have permission to join. Is she upset that she wasn't on this story from the jump? Is that what it is? Seems like there's a lot of that going around. Look, I get it. You had a blind spot, you missed it. But doubling down and acting like there's nothing here is wild as hell. And here's the thing. This isn't a left right problem. It's an everyone problem. Extremely. Online Democrats are wielding the Epstein connection as a cudgel against Trump, branding his entire orbit as the Epstein class while they are. Are you crazy? Right now? How many Epstein adjacent people are around Trump? How many were around Biden? How many were around Trump, George Bush and Barack Obama? So yeah, the Epstein class. Proper way to classify these people. Extremely. Online Republicans are convinced the files will finally expose the network of Democratic pedo elites. She had no problem with that before, right? She cashed in on that, I'm sure. I built an audience on skeptics. And yeah, none of them thought that this was going on. None of them thought that the WEF was coming to steal your kids. Remember all of that? Klaus Schwarber, or whatever his name was, was the most evil man ever to do it. Meanwhile, DU is nothing but a pawn. You want to talk about whipping your audience up into a frenzy? That's how people like this build their audience. But now, now stop asking questions. Just listen to what the government's telling you, because they're telling you the truth. Now, of course, when the other party gets into power, everything will be a conspiracy again. Everything but this. With tangible evidence. This is a moral panic. Both sides are looking at the same documents and seeing completely different movies. The Epstein files are like a box of chocolates. There's something in there for everyone. We've seen versions of this movie before. In the 80s and early 90s, the satanic panic consumed America. Preschool teachers were accused of ritual abuse. Yeah, did they go to the island? Did they hang out at Jeffrey Epstein's house with traffic girls? Did they accept money from Jeffrey Epstein? Did they pass on state secrets? Oh, word. None of that happened. Oh, okay, so you're just talking nonsense. Hey everybody.
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Get your information from other people. Nobody who is serious about this story or serious about justice is chasing those salacious ghosts. That's all going to come in time. Because guess what? There are verifiable crimes here that are provable. And frankly, it's not even debatable. The fact that something terrible actually happened becomes a justification for whatever theory you might want to push. Isn't it weird, man? Is compelling and it might be true, but it's not evidence. Well, you know what is evidence? All those witness statements, all those court documents, all those people who corroborated the stories that we've heard time and time again. Over 40 girls from Palm Beach High School who were abused. That's real. Okay? That is real. And there's plenty of evidence to support it. Just like there's plenty of evidence that Jeffrey Epstein was trafficking people. I mean, we just have a report coming out of England today about Epstein trafficking women and girls through UK all the way up till his death. And that's something I've been telling you for years, that Jeffrey Epstein was active all the way up till his death. And there's plenty of compelling evidence to prove that. And the medium has evolved the Satanic panic was fueled by daytime talk shows. Geraldo, Sally, Jesse, Raphael, Oprah. These shows had massive reach and obligation to verify anything before putting it in front of millions of eyeballs. They fed on the fear and guilt of the first generation of women to trust their kids to daycares and mass. They didn't spread the panic because they were evil. They spread it because it was an incredible television. Now, mind you, in the opening paragraph of this piece, she told you that's exactly how she built her audience. By the way, that's not how I built mine. I don't talk about salacious bullshit here, okay? And keeping it a buck. Everybody wants names, names, names. I've been naming names now for seven years. You know those names that were just called out on the congressional floor? I've been calling them dudes out since 2019, way before they were popular or this story was popular. Now, one thing I will say is there's a lot of people that have shown up that are doing exactly what Bridget is suggesting here. There's a lot of people that are only focusing on the salacious aspects of the story, and that really doesn't do it any good because it gives room for pieces like this to pop up. And then everybody gets painted with the same brush. It's the same that I dealt with for the last seven years, trying to put everybody under the same umbrella. And that's not the truth. Because for some of us, this is not a game. This is not about engagement. It's not about driving viewership. I don't care about any of that. I don't have any kind of social media presence because I don't care. I don't care about being famous. I don't care about being popular. I don't care about any of it. What I care about is these scumbags who have been screwing all of us for all these years are held accountable. And if that's via financial crimes, so be it. If they're guilty, they should go to jail like everybody else. And. And if that's a panic, well, I guess I'm a fucking panickin. Podcasting is the daytime talk show of our era, only worse. There are no producers who might occasionally pump the brakes. No network standard departments, no fcc, nothing. Just a microphone, an audience, and an algorithm that rewards the most outrageous possible interpretation of any given event. I mean, look, not for nothing, but isn't that exactly what you and all your friends do? And isn't that what you're doing here, taking the contrarian position to try and drive the Algorithm. As Candace Owens has demonstrated with impressive consistency, you can be wrong every single day. Demonstrably, provably wrong. And your audience will only grow because they aren't here for accuracy. They come for the feeling of being on the right side of a secret history that. That the normies are too naive to see. Well, she's outing herself right here as somebody that looks like she despises her own audience. That seems like a pretty bad idea. This is the incentive structure that has eaten the American discourse alive. Our institutions have failed so completely that people will believe whatever they want to believe, and the market has responded accordingly. You see, here's the problem. Instead of attacking the institutions like she should, she has a problem with people who are filling in the gaps. But that's human nature when we don't have the whole story. So be mad at the institution, be mad at the Department of Justice, be mad at the administration. But instead, she wants to be mad at her own listeners, her own viewers, her own readers. There is no penalty for wild speculation, no reputational cost to being wrong. The crazier the allegation, the more your audience trusts you. Because in a world where every institution has lied to you, the person saying the most unbelievable thing must be the one telling the truth. Everyone on all sides knows this, and everyone on all sides is cashing in. It doesn't matter what team jersey you're wearing, the Epstein files, or content event of the year, and no one is leaving money on the table except me, apparently. So this is exactly what I was saying. Seems to me she's upset because she doesn't know the real story, so she's forced to play catch up, and this is not the story to do it. So instead of really giving it a good, hard look and looking at the actual evidence, she's decided that she's going to focus on the most salacious part of it and trying to mean everybody who's interested. And frankly, I think it's sour grapes. And if you notice, a lot of the people who are talking trash about this story, about what's going on here, were the people that rose to prominence with COVID but now they're not the main character anymore, and it's a big deal. Oh, we're. What do you mean? We're not part of this story? We didn't break it. No, you didn't. In fact, you don't even know what you're talking about. It would be depressing where it's solely a content game, but it's not real. People are getting caught in the insanity. Not a word about the survivors, not a word about the girls who were abused. Not a word about the rest of us who are getting fucked by these people. But real people are getting caught up in the insanity. When representatives for Okana and Thomas Massie, a Democrat and a Republican united in bipartisan recklessness, started naming names and amplifying allegations from the files, they weren't performing some brave act of transparency. They were directing a mob at specific human beings. Like you did during COVID I mean, you folks were just so pleasant during that. Do they think we've all forgotten? I mean, the grift was out of control. Everybody, all of a sudden was a scientist. Take this, take that. Oh, this is fake. This is real. Meanwhile, I kept my mouth shut. You know why? Because I had no idea what I was talking about. Kinda like all these people when it comes to Epstein. Some of those people turned out to be ordinary citizens with no connection to anything criminal. It didn't matter. The names were out. The Internet did what the Internet does. People who had done nothing wrong became targets because congressmen wanted engagement. And a culture that has replaced due process with virality gave him the tools to get it. The Satanic panic destroyed real people, too. That's the part everyone forgets. It wasn't just a weird cultural moment. Innocent people went to prison. Children were traumatized by the investigations meant to protect them. We tell ourselves we've learned from that, and then we do it again with better technology and a bigger audience. The question isn't whether Jeffrey Epstein was a monster. He was. The question is whether the people who correctly identified past moral panics can resist turning a real crime into. Into everything Crime for clicks. No one in media paid a price for the non stop, salacious fear mongering of the Satanic panic. They all got richer, like all of you did during COVID I mean, stop it. Could you be any more of a hypocrite? Holy. Although if you're all the way down the Epstein rabbit hole, you probably think it's evidence that the widely debunked Satanic panic stuff was in fact also real. While I disagree with the author about most of the things she's saying, what she has to say about some of the more salacious stuff is not completely incorrect because it does more harm than good. And there's a lot of people out there that are trying to capitalize on this and monetize it without knowing the real story. So what they're doing is grasping onto the most salacious parts and trying to use those for engagement farming. So in that regard, she's right. There's a lot of people out there that really just don't have any idea what they're talking about. And as we can see here in the article, that goes for journalists as well. Alright folks, that's gonna do it for this one. All the information that goes with this episode can be found in the description box. What's going on everyone? It's bluff here and we're driving through the states in the Bluffmobile and the best thing that we can do is play our favorite casino style games. On Spin Quest they have over a thousand games including live dealer blackjack and craps. With tons of slots and unlimited options. You can get a $30 coin pack for just $10. For new users sign up today. 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