Jeffrey Epstein Accountability Is Not a “Satanic Panic” — Here’s Why (3/2/26)

0:00What's up everyone and welcome to another episode of the Epstein Chronicles. There is a whole cadre of people out there that think the Epstein files are overblown, and that Jeffrey Epstein was nowhere near as bad as people are making him out, and that this whole entire thing is just overblown, 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? Not about beef jerky, story at a mockers, but when you dig into that, the man he was

1:03talking to had a restaurant called cannibal. So I don't know where 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 council 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 shit 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

2:03off, 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 Fetticie. 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 right about some pretty big things. We saw me too, devolved into a moral panic, where accusation equal guilt and due process was something only rape apologies cared about. That's not true. That's not true at all. Now was it a bit overblown? For sure, where 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

3:07local 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 Fettici, she might not care. She might not give a damn what people do at 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 want to 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 rotted out neighbors for having a barbecue.

4:09We 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

5:13that'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 screamin, 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 dumb like a Dakota Ring, connecting dots that don't connect, assigning guilt by association, and whipping their audiences into a frenzy that believes the ball-worshipping elites. Definitely drank the blood of the infants, and turned them into jerky, with the confidence

6:14of someone who has never once been wrong about anything. Sure sounds like what Q is doing for all those years, Bridget. Did you have anything to say about that? Anything to say about, oh Tom Hanks is that gitmo? Oprah's 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. Last vindication has turned into its own form of authority, and it's just as unearned, 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?

7:17Is 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. That 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 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 petta 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.

8:20Remember all of that? Cloud Schwarber or whatever his name was, was the most evil man ever to do it. Meanwhile do 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 is 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. What is with tangible evidence? This is the 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?

9:21Did they pass on state secrets? Oh, word. None of that happened. Okay. So you're just talking nonsense. Got it. Families were destroyed. People went to prison. The whole thing was built on nothing, recovered memories, leading questions in a culture so desperate to protect children that it went into some kind of collective hysteria. And the irony is thick. The same people that yelled for the last eight years of I'll protect the children now say it's a moral panic and hysteria. Who are these people really protecting and what's the goal here? That's my real question. The Epstein situation is different in one critical respect. Jeffrey Epstein was a real predator. Real crimes were committed. We know the real victims exist. But that kernel of truth is exactly what makes his current panic more dangerous, not less. It gives everyone permission to treat speculation as truth, proximity as proof, and a flight log as a conviction.

10:21Well, who are you listening to? That's the problem. Get your information from other people. Nobody who's 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 shit 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

11:24and girls through UK all the way up to his death. And that's something I've been telling you for years that Jeffrey Epstein was active all the way up to 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, Haraldo, Sally Jessie Raphael, Oprah. These shows had massive reach and a whole 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 daycars 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 was. 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.

12:26I'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 shit 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 shit 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.

13:27If they're guilty, they should go to jail like everybody else. And if that's a panic, well, I guess I'm a fucking panicking. Lasting 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? Seeing the contrarian position to try and drive the algorithm, as Candice Owens has demonstrated, with impressive consistency, you can be wrong every single day, demonstrably, provably wrong, and your audience will only grow. Because they are in here for accuracy, they come for the feeling of being on the right side of the secret history that the normies are too naive to see. While she's outing herself right here as somebody that looks like she despises her own audience,

14:30that seems like a pretty bad idea. This is the incentive structure that is 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 is 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.

15:33It 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 our 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, 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.

16:37Real 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 were getting fucked by these people. But real people are getting caught up in the insanity. One representative's role, Connor and Thomas Massey, 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 at a control. Everybody all of a sudden was a scientist. Take this. Take that. Oh, this is fake. This is real. I kept my mouth shut, you know why? Because I had no idea what I was talking about. Kind of 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.

17:38The internet did what the internet does. People who had done nothing wrong became targets, because congressmen wanted engagement and a culture that has replaced new process with virality gave him the tools to get it, to say panic, 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 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 shit? Although if you're all the way down the Epstein rabbit hole, you probably think it's evidence

18:40that 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 asked 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 on to 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. All right, folks, that's going to do it for this one. All the information that goes with this episode can be found in the description box in the description box. All right, folks, that's going to do it for this one. All the information that goes with this episode can be found in the description box. All right, folks, that's going to do it for this one. All the information that goes with this episode can be found in the description box.

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