The silence surrounding Stacey Plaskett’s lawsuit by Epstein survivors exposes the staggering hypocrisy of both lawmakers and the legacy media. Politicians who pound the table about justice and accountability fall mute when the accusations land inside their own chamber. Journalists who dissect every lurid detail of Epstein’s life suddenly find no headlines when survivors point to a sitting member of Congress. This selective outrage isn’t oversight—it’s complicity. Survivors are abandoned the moment their stories threaten insiders, and the system shows once again that accountability is conditional, not principled.
That selective accountability corrodes credibility and turns justice into theater. By politicizing the scandal, lawmakers use survivors as pawns while letting the real villains—Epstein’s network of enablers—slip quietly back into the shadows. The result is a collapse of trust: citizens see investigations as performance, predators learn power protects power, and survivors are betrayed all over again. Epstein may be dead and Maxwell imprisoned, but the system that shielded them is alive and well—sustained by cowardice, silence, and the hypocrisy of institutions that pretend to defend justice while practicing selective blindness.
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That selective accountability corrodes credibility and turns justice into theater. By politicizing the scandal, lawmakers use survivors as pawns while letting the real villains—Epstein’s network of enablers—slip quietly back into the shadows. The result is a collapse of trust: citizens see investigations as performance, predators learn power protects power, and survivors are betrayed all over again. Epstein may be dead and Maxwell imprisoned, but the system that shielded them is alive and well—sustained by cowardice, silence, and the hypocrisy of institutions that pretend to defend justice while practicing selective blindness.
to contact me:
bobbycapucci@protonmail.com
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
What's up, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the
Epstein Chronicles. In this episode, we're picking up where we
left off talking about the hypocrisy surrounding Stacy Plaski. This
is where politicizing the story poisons the will. Rather than
treating Epstein's network of enablers and protectors as a bipartisan
stain that must be confronted at all costs, politicians use
(00:23):
it as a cudgel against the opposing side. Republicans see
it as a way to tie Democrats to scandal democrats
wielded against Wall Street financiers or the President of the
United States. But when the trail leads too close to
their own caucus, the investigation dies a silent death, and
the end result is that it leaves the true villains untouched.
(00:46):
Those villains thrive in this select of climate. Epstein and
Maxwell may be gone or behind bars, but their network
was never just two individuals. It was a system of facilitators, lawyers, bankers, academics, bureaucrats,
and yes, politicians who all made sure that the machinery
of abuse kept turning. When scrutiny is limited to whoever
(01:09):
makes for the most convenient political punching bag. Those who
actually grease the wheels of the operation slip quietly back
into the shadows, unscathed, so they can swim in their
money like Scrooge McDuck. The hypocrisy of ignoring Plasket while
demanding accountability from others sets the precedent for how easily
the public can be manipulated. Survivor's voices are amplified when useful,
(01:34):
muffled when inconvenient. The issue morphs into political theater rather
than a pursuit of justice, and the powerful interests behind
Epstein's operation breathe another sigh of relief. The spectacle ensures
that the system protecting them remains intact. And with credibility
being the currency of governance and journalism alike, Without it,
(01:56):
neither can claim legitimacy. By refuse to apply scrutiny evenly,
lawmakers and journalists squander that currency. Every act of selective outrage,
every wilful silence, sends a clear message. Justice is conditional.
That realization doesn't just diminish credibility, it annihilates it. When
(02:17):
credibility collapses, cynicism rushes in. The citizens stop believing in
congressional hearings they stop trusting investigations. They begin to assume
every probe is just a tool for scoring points rather
than uncovering truth, And in that climate, the powerful thrive.
Epstein himself benefited for years from a system dripping with
(02:39):
cynicism and selective enforcement. The lack of credibility in today's
response repeats that same pattern. Politicizing epstein scandal also ensures
that survivors are used once again as pawns. Their stories
are not treated as sacred truths demanding justice, but as
instruments of leverage and partisan con conflict. The minute those
(03:01):
stories risk implicating someone in the wrong political camp, they're shelved.
Survivors are re traumatized not only by the crimes themselves,
but by the selective recognition of their pain. What happens then,
the real villains, the enablers, the fixers, the institutions that
provided Epstein with protection slip back into obscurity. A lawsuit
(03:24):
against the sitting member of Congress becomes a footnote, not
a headline. Bankers who look the other way retire comfortably.
Lawyers who broker sweetheart deals reinvent themselves as respectable professionals
without even handed accountability. The system resets itself and prepares
for the next Epstein. And the real tragedy is that
(03:46):
the Epstein case could have been a watershed moment. It
could have stripped bare the ways the elite protect one another.
It could have been the scandal that forced systemic change. Instead,
because of politicized it and hypocrisy, it's been reduced to
a tool for short term point scoring. The villains meanwhile,
adapt and they continue. And this dynamic doesn't just embolden
(04:11):
Epstein's enablers, it emboldens every predator who learns the same lesson,
power protects power. As long as you are connected, as
long as you have friends in the right places, accountability
will be selective. And as long as accountability is selective,
credibility evaporates. It's a vicious cycle that repeats until it
(04:32):
destroys faith entirely. And the silence around Plasket's lawsuit is
particularly corrosive because it illustrates the mechanics of that cycle
in real time. Lawmakers who demand accountability in hearings show
none in their own ranks. Journalists who chase Epstein's ghost
ignore a living case in front of them. The dissonance
(04:54):
is so obvious that only deliverate blindness can explain it,
and that blindness is what keeps the true villain safe.
And when that credibility is gone, even legitimate efforts are tainted.
Any new hearing, any new subpoena, any new bombshell report
is viewed skeptically. People assume it's all show, and often
(05:15):
they're right. In the fog of politicizing, truth itself becomes
collateral damage. Survivors are forced to live in a world
where their stories are never wholly believed because every retelling
has been stained by hpocrisy. The lack of credibility also
damages international trust. Epstein's reach was global royalty, foreign leaders,
(05:39):
global banks. When the United States demonstrates that even its
own lawmakers can avoid scrutiny, it signals to the world
that accountability here is a facade. The hypocrisy becomes not
just domestic scandal, but a diplomatic weakness at the root
of it. Politicizing this serves only the villains. Epstein network
(06:00):
relied on distraction, obfuscation, and shifting blame. That is precisely
what happens when you politicize this. Every partisan squabble over
Epstein's association ensures that the broader questions, the ones about
how such a system thrived, are drowned out. The survivor's
fight becomes background noise to the endless churn of political theater.
(06:23):
In such an environment, those who should face scrutiny find cover.
They wait out the news cycle, confident that the storm
will move on to the next scandal. The silence surrounding
Placid's case proves them right. It confirms that as long
as you are insulated by the right alliances, the spotlight
will move past you, leaving only survivors to carry the
(06:43):
burden of memory. This is why hypocrisy matters. It's not
just a moral feling, it's a structural one. Hypocrisy creates
loopholes through which villains escape. It ensures that justice is
never complete, that accountability is never whole, and each time
it happens, credibility erodes further, until trust and institutions is
(07:05):
gone entirely. Without credibility, even the most damning revelations lose
their power. The public shrugs, assuming it's just more noise,
more theater. That apathy is the perfect shield for predators
and enablers alike. It lets them return to the shadows
confident that the outrage will always be temporary, selective, and
(07:26):
safe for those with connections. In the end, the lack
of accountability for lawmakers like Plasket and the silence of
the media doesn't just harm survivors. It empowers abusers. It
lets the system regenerate, lets the villains breathe easier, and
leave survivors fighting alone. And this is one of the
greatest betrayals that an issue so monumental, so horrific, has
(07:49):
been reduced to selective outrage and partisan squabbling. Survivors were
promised justice, what they got instead was theater and the villains,
the ones who should have been dragged into the light,
slip quietly back into the shadows, smiling at the hypocrisy
that once again shields them. The rot at the core
(08:10):
of this entire scandal is not just the crimes of
Jeffrey Epstein and Glenn Maxwell. It's the way the institutions
that claim to defend the truth and justice have allowed
themselves to become little more than stage performers. Their silence
around Stacy Plaskett proves it. When the test came, when
the chance to show that accountability would apply to one
(08:31):
of their own finally arrived, they flinched, and that failure
is not peripheral, it's the whole story. Survivors did not
fight for years just to see their pain commodified into
hearings and headlines. They spoke out so that the machinery
of abuse could finally be dismantled. But the machinery survives
oil by hypocrisy, fuel by selective outrage, and shielded by politics.
(08:55):
Each time lawmakers or journalists look away from Plasket's lawsuit,
they sick ul to that machinery carry on. Nothing to
see here. Credibility cannot be selectively applied. Either it exists
as a principle, or it collapses into nothing. Right now,
it's collapsing. Every silence, every omission, every refusal to confront
(09:17):
inconvenient truths is just another brick pulled out of the foundation.
And when credibility collapses, so does trust. Survivors know this,
citizens know this, and predators know it too. The predators
thrive on this hypocrisy. They know how short attention spans are.
They know how easily outraged is commodified and repackaged into safe,
(09:39):
performative acts. They know that as long as lawmakers and
journalists only apply scrutiny. When it's politically safe, they will
always have cover. This is how impunity replicates itself generation
after generation. Plasket's lawsuit should have been a turning point,
a moment where lawmakers proved that they were willing to
(10:00):
hold one another to the same standard they impose on others.
It should have been proof that the media's watchdog role
extended beyond safe targets. Instead, it's become an indictment of
the entire system. The hypocrisy is not just obvious, it's grotesque.
The media cannot continue to posture as defenders of survivors
while ignoring survivors when they aim their accusations at political insiders.
(10:25):
That double standard is toxic. It betrays the very people
they claim to uplift. It turns journalism into marketing, advocacy
into theater, and justice into a punchline. Likewise, lawmakers cannot
keep demanding accountability from Wall Street, academia, or Hollywood while
refusing to confront a colleague in their own ranks. That
(10:47):
silence betrays their constituents and mocks the survivors. It tells
the public in no uncertain terms that accountability is a weapon,
not a principle. This is where politicizing this proved proves
most damaging. By turning Epstein into a partisan weapon, lawmakers
have insulated the very people who most need scrutiny. They've
(11:08):
allowed genuine accountability to be buried under tribal scorekeeping, and
in that burial, the villains thrive, smiling in the shadows, untouched.
The survivors have always known the truth. Epstein was not
a lone monster. He was a hub in a network
of power, privilege, and protection. Maxwell was not as only enabler.
(11:28):
The network stretched across institutions, governments, corporations, and media. But
every time the system refuses to confront its own, that
network remains intact, untouchable. The lack of accountability metastasizes into
a crisis of legitimacy. How can lawmakers claim moral authority
while shielding a colleague. How can journalists demand transparency while
(11:52):
selectively omitting inconvenient truths. The hypocrisy is not just embarrassing,
it's fatal to public trust. Without trust, democracy itself, Falters
survivors deserve more than this. They deserve to see every enabler,
no matter how politically connected or protected, dragged into the light.
(12:13):
They deserve to know that their suffering will not be
leveraged as theater and then forgotten when it cuts too close.
They deserve a justice system that's unafraid to stare down
its own hypocrisy and act anyway. Instead, what they see
is silence, and that silence is violence in its own way.
It reaffirms to predators everywhere that accountability is negotiable, that
(12:35):
the system will always protect insiders. It leaves survivors isolated,
forced to fight battles alone that should be fought collectively.
The media's cowardice is equally unforgivable. Outlets that the vote
endless space to dissecting the most trivial Epstein adjacent rumor
cannot muster a headline when survivors sue a sitting member
of Congress. Yo, we're not talking about journalism here. What
(12:58):
we're talking about is enabling. It's a conscious decision to
protect power rather than confront it, and lawmakers who never
tire of proclaiming themselves defenders of women and children reveal
their true priorities through their silence. They will champion survivors
when it suits them, But when survivors bring claims that
(13:19):
threatn a political ally, Suddenly justice takes a back seat.
The tragedy here is at Epstein's survivors deserve for this
moment to be different. After decades of silence, after years
of complicity. This was supposed to be the reckoning. This
was supposed to be the moment when institutions finally proved
they were stronger than corruption. Instead, those institutions felled again
(13:43):
in plain view. Failure of this scale has consequences. Survivors
lose faith in the justice system, citizens lose faith in democracy,
Predators gain faith that they can act with impunity. This
is the cycle that hypocrisy sustains. Betrayal of the vulnerable,
protection of the powerful, and erosion of trust at every level,
(14:06):
and the conclusion rights itself. Selective accountability is no accountability
at all. Politicizing outrage is no justice at all. Survivors
have been failed not just by their abusers, but by
the very systems that promise to protect them, and every
act of silence, every shrug, every deliberate omission deepens that betrayal.
(14:28):
If institutions truly wanted to prove they cared, they would
confront Plasket's lawsuit with the same vigor they bring to
financial hearings and sound bite driven outrage. They would show
the public that no one, even a colleague, is exempt
from scrutiny. Instead, they protect their own and in doing so,
protect the system that created Epstein in the first place.
(14:50):
And so we arrive at the gut punch. Epstein may
be dead, Maxwell may be in prison, but the network
that enabled them is alive and well. Because the very
people who claim to fight for justice are too cowardly
to fight when it matters, most survivors are left to
fight alone while lawmakers and journalists polish their hypocrisy. The
(15:13):
villains haven't disappeared, They're not gone. They've just learned the
oldest trick in power. Stay quiet, let the outrage burn out,
and scurry back into the shadows while the system shields you.
And once again, the survivors are left staring at the silence,
knowing the truth that no one in power dares to
stay out loud. Justice in this country is a performance,
(15:36):
not a promise. All of the information that goes with
this episode can be found in the description box.
What's up, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the
Epstein Chronicles. In this episode, we're picking up where we
left off talking about the hypocrisy surrounding Stacy Plaski. This
is where politicizing the story poisons the will. Rather than
treating Epstein's network of enablers and protectors as a bipartisan
stain that must be confronted at all costs, politicians use
(00:23):
it as a cudgel against the opposing side. Republicans see
it as a way to tie Democrats to scandal democrats
wielded against Wall Street financiers or the President of the
United States. But when the trail leads too close to
their own caucus, the investigation dies a silent death, and
the end result is that it leaves the true villains untouched.
(00:46):
Those villains thrive in this select of climate. Epstein and
Maxwell may be gone or behind bars, but their network
was never just two individuals. It was a system of facilitators, lawyers, bankers, academics, bureaucrats,
and yes, politicians who all made sure that the machinery
of abuse kept turning. When scrutiny is limited to whoever
(01:09):
makes for the most convenient political punching bag. Those who
actually grease the wheels of the operation slip quietly back
into the shadows, unscathed, so they can swim in their
money like Scrooge McDuck. The hypocrisy of ignoring Plasket while
demanding accountability from others sets the precedent for how easily
the public can be manipulated. Survivor's voices are amplified when useful,
(01:34):
muffled when inconvenient. The issue morphs into political theater rather
than a pursuit of justice, and the powerful interests behind
Epstein's operation breathe another sigh of relief. The spectacle ensures
that the system protecting them remains intact. And with credibility
being the currency of governance and journalism alike, Without it,
(01:56):
neither can claim legitimacy. By refuse to apply scrutiny evenly,
lawmakers and journalists squander that currency. Every act of selective outrage,
every wilful silence, sends a clear message. Justice is conditional.
That realization doesn't just diminish credibility, it annihilates it. When
(02:17):
credibility collapses, cynicism rushes in. The citizens stop believing in
congressional hearings they stop trusting investigations. They begin to assume
every probe is just a tool for scoring points rather
than uncovering truth, And in that climate, the powerful thrive.
Epstein himself benefited for years from a system dripping with
(02:39):
cynicism and selective enforcement. The lack of credibility in today's
response repeats that same pattern. Politicizing epstein scandal also ensures
that survivors are used once again as pawns. Their stories
are not treated as sacred truths demanding justice, but as
instruments of leverage and partisan con conflict. The minute those
(03:01):
stories risk implicating someone in the wrong political camp, they're shelved.
Survivors are re traumatized not only by the crimes themselves,
but by the selective recognition of their pain. What happens then,
the real villains, the enablers, the fixers, the institutions that
provided Epstein with protection slip back into obscurity. A lawsuit
(03:24):
against the sitting member of Congress becomes a footnote, not
a headline. Bankers who look the other way retire comfortably.
Lawyers who broker sweetheart deals reinvent themselves as respectable professionals
without even handed accountability. The system resets itself and prepares
for the next Epstein. And the real tragedy is that
(03:46):
the Epstein case could have been a watershed moment. It
could have stripped bare the ways the elite protect one another.
It could have been the scandal that forced systemic change. Instead,
because of politicized it and hypocrisy, it's been reduced to
a tool for short term point scoring. The villains meanwhile,
adapt and they continue. And this dynamic doesn't just embolden
(04:11):
Epstein's enablers, it emboldens every predator who learns the same lesson,
power protects power. As long as you are connected, as
long as you have friends in the right places, accountability
will be selective. And as long as accountability is selective,
credibility evaporates. It's a vicious cycle that repeats until it
(04:32):
destroys faith entirely. And the silence around Plasket's lawsuit is
particularly corrosive because it illustrates the mechanics of that cycle
in real time. Lawmakers who demand accountability in hearings show
none in their own ranks. Journalists who chase Epstein's ghost
ignore a living case in front of them. The dissonance
(04:54):
is so obvious that only deliverate blindness can explain it,
and that blindness is what keeps the true villain safe.
And when that credibility is gone, even legitimate efforts are tainted.
Any new hearing, any new subpoena, any new bombshell report
is viewed skeptically. People assume it's all show, and often
(05:15):
they're right. In the fog of politicizing, truth itself becomes
collateral damage. Survivors are forced to live in a world
where their stories are never wholly believed because every retelling
has been stained by hpocrisy. The lack of credibility also
damages international trust. Epstein's reach was global royalty, foreign leaders,
(05:39):
global banks. When the United States demonstrates that even its
own lawmakers can avoid scrutiny, it signals to the world
that accountability here is a facade. The hypocrisy becomes not
just domestic scandal, but a diplomatic weakness at the root
of it. Politicizing this serves only the villains. Epstein network
(06:00):
relied on distraction, obfuscation, and shifting blame. That is precisely
what happens when you politicize this. Every partisan squabble over
Epstein's association ensures that the broader questions, the ones about
how such a system thrived, are drowned out. The survivor's
fight becomes background noise to the endless churn of political theater.
(06:23):
In such an environment, those who should face scrutiny find cover.
They wait out the news cycle, confident that the storm
will move on to the next scandal. The silence surrounding
Placid's case proves them right. It confirms that as long
as you are insulated by the right alliances, the spotlight
will move past you, leaving only survivors to carry the
(06:43):
burden of memory. This is why hypocrisy matters. It's not
just a moral feling, it's a structural one. Hypocrisy creates
loopholes through which villains escape. It ensures that justice is
never complete, that accountability is never whole, and each time
it happens, credibility erodes further, until trust and institutions is
(07:05):
gone entirely. Without credibility, even the most damning revelations lose
their power. The public shrugs, assuming it's just more noise,
more theater. That apathy is the perfect shield for predators
and enablers alike. It lets them return to the shadows
confident that the outrage will always be temporary, selective, and
(07:26):
safe for those with connections. In the end, the lack
of accountability for lawmakers like Plasket and the silence of
the media doesn't just harm survivors. It empowers abusers. It
lets the system regenerate, lets the villains breathe easier, and
leave survivors fighting alone. And this is one of the
greatest betrayals that an issue so monumental, so horrific, has
(07:49):
been reduced to selective outrage and partisan squabbling. Survivors were
promised justice, what they got instead was theater and the villains,
the ones who should have been dragged into the light,
slip quietly back into the shadows, smiling at the hypocrisy
that once again shields them. The rot at the core
(08:10):
of this entire scandal is not just the crimes of
Jeffrey Epstein and Glenn Maxwell. It's the way the institutions
that claim to defend the truth and justice have allowed
themselves to become little more than stage performers. Their silence
around Stacy Plaskett proves it. When the test came, when
the chance to show that accountability would apply to one
(08:31):
of their own finally arrived, they flinched, and that failure
is not peripheral, it's the whole story. Survivors did not
fight for years just to see their pain commodified into
hearings and headlines. They spoke out so that the machinery
of abuse could finally be dismantled. But the machinery survives
oil by hypocrisy, fuel by selective outrage, and shielded by politics.
(08:55):
Each time lawmakers or journalists look away from Plasket's lawsuit,
they sick ul to that machinery carry on. Nothing to
see here. Credibility cannot be selectively applied. Either it exists
as a principle, or it collapses into nothing. Right now,
it's collapsing. Every silence, every omission, every refusal to confront
(09:17):
inconvenient truths is just another brick pulled out of the foundation.
And when credibility collapses, so does trust. Survivors know this,
citizens know this, and predators know it too. The predators
thrive on this hypocrisy. They know how short attention spans are.
They know how easily outraged is commodified and repackaged into safe,
(09:39):
performative acts. They know that as long as lawmakers and
journalists only apply scrutiny. When it's politically safe, they will
always have cover. This is how impunity replicates itself generation
after generation. Plasket's lawsuit should have been a turning point,
a moment where lawmakers proved that they were willing to
(10:00):
hold one another to the same standard they impose on others.
It should have been proof that the media's watchdog role
extended beyond safe targets. Instead, it's become an indictment of
the entire system. The hypocrisy is not just obvious, it's grotesque.
The media cannot continue to posture as defenders of survivors
while ignoring survivors when they aim their accusations at political insiders.
(10:25):
That double standard is toxic. It betrays the very people
they claim to uplift. It turns journalism into marketing, advocacy
into theater, and justice into a punchline. Likewise, lawmakers cannot
keep demanding accountability from Wall Street, academia, or Hollywood while
refusing to confront a colleague in their own ranks. That
(10:47):
silence betrays their constituents and mocks the survivors. It tells
the public in no uncertain terms that accountability is a weapon,
not a principle. This is where politicizing this proved proves
most damaging. By turning Epstein into a partisan weapon, lawmakers
have insulated the very people who most need scrutiny. They've
(11:08):
allowed genuine accountability to be buried under tribal scorekeeping, and
in that burial, the villains thrive, smiling in the shadows, untouched.
The survivors have always known the truth. Epstein was not
a lone monster. He was a hub in a network
of power, privilege, and protection. Maxwell was not as only enabler.
(11:28):
The network stretched across institutions, governments, corporations, and media. But
every time the system refuses to confront its own, that
network remains intact, untouchable. The lack of accountability metastasizes into
a crisis of legitimacy. How can lawmakers claim moral authority
while shielding a colleague. How can journalists demand transparency while
(11:52):
selectively omitting inconvenient truths. The hypocrisy is not just embarrassing,
it's fatal to public trust. Without trust, democracy itself, Falters
survivors deserve more than this. They deserve to see every enabler,
no matter how politically connected or protected, dragged into the light.
(12:13):
They deserve to know that their suffering will not be
leveraged as theater and then forgotten when it cuts too close.
They deserve a justice system that's unafraid to stare down
its own hypocrisy and act anyway. Instead, what they see
is silence, and that silence is violence in its own way.
It reaffirms to predators everywhere that accountability is negotiable, that
(12:35):
the system will always protect insiders. It leaves survivors isolated,
forced to fight battles alone that should be fought collectively.
The media's cowardice is equally unforgivable. Outlets that the vote
endless space to dissecting the most trivial Epstein adjacent rumor
cannot muster a headline when survivors sue a sitting member
of Congress. Yo, we're not talking about journalism here. What
(12:58):
we're talking about is enabling. It's a conscious decision to
protect power rather than confront it, and lawmakers who never
tire of proclaiming themselves defenders of women and children reveal
their true priorities through their silence. They will champion survivors
when it suits them, But when survivors bring claims that
(13:19):
threatn a political ally, Suddenly justice takes a back seat.
The tragedy here is at Epstein's survivors deserve for this
moment to be different. After decades of silence, after years
of complicity. This was supposed to be the reckoning. This
was supposed to be the moment when institutions finally proved
they were stronger than corruption. Instead, those institutions felled again
(13:43):
in plain view. Failure of this scale has consequences. Survivors
lose faith in the justice system, citizens lose faith in democracy,
Predators gain faith that they can act with impunity. This
is the cycle that hypocrisy sustains. Betrayal of the vulnerable,
protection of the powerful, and erosion of trust at every level,
(14:06):
and the conclusion rights itself. Selective accountability is no accountability
at all. Politicizing outrage is no justice at all. Survivors
have been failed not just by their abusers, but by
the very systems that promise to protect them, and every
act of silence, every shrug, every deliberate omission deepens that betrayal.
(14:28):
If institutions truly wanted to prove they cared, they would
confront Plasket's lawsuit with the same vigor they bring to
financial hearings and sound bite driven outrage. They would show
the public that no one, even a colleague, is exempt
from scrutiny. Instead, they protect their own and in doing so,
protect the system that created Epstein in the first place.
(14:50):
And so we arrive at the gut punch. Epstein may
be dead, Maxwell may be in prison, but the network
that enabled them is alive and well. Because the very
people who claim to fight for justice are too cowardly
to fight when it matters, most survivors are left to
fight alone while lawmakers and journalists polish their hypocrisy. The
(15:13):
villains haven't disappeared, They're not gone. They've just learned the
oldest trick in power. Stay quiet, let the outrage burn out,
and scurry back into the shadows while the system shields you.
And once again, the survivors are left staring at the silence,
knowing the truth that no one in power dares to
stay out loud. Justice in this country is a performance,
(15:36):
not a promise. All of the information that goes with
this episode can be found in the description box.
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