The congressional hearings surrounding Jeffrey Epstein are less about justice and more about optics. Behind the staged outrage, secret depositions, and selective leaks lies a carefully managed narrative meant to pacify the public while protecting the powerful. Key figures tied to the original Non-Prosecution Agreement—Acosta, Mukasey, Filip, Menschel, Villafaña—have never been subpoenaed, a glaring omission that reveals the process is not about uncovering truth but about burying it. Rather than transparency, we are handed redactions, secrecy, and closed-door questioning that serve only to shield institutions complicit in Epstein’s protection.
What the public is witnessing is a modern-day bread and circus. Instead of gladiators, we are given congressional theatrics designed to create the illusion of accountability while ensuring nothing of substance changes. Survivors remain sidelined, critical testimony is hidden, and the system that enabled Epstein continues untouched. The hearings are not a path to justice but a spectacle of distraction, meant to drain outrage, exhaust demands for truth, and keep the machinery of power intact. Until the curtain of secrecy is torn down, accountability will remain an illusion.
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What the public is witnessing is a modern-day bread and circus. Instead of gladiators, we are given congressional theatrics designed to create the illusion of accountability while ensuring nothing of substance changes. Survivors remain sidelined, critical testimony is hidden, and the system that enabled Epstein continues untouched. The hearings are not a path to justice but a spectacle of distraction, meant to drain outrage, exhaust demands for truth, and keep the machinery of power intact. Until the curtain of secrecy is torn down, accountability will remain an illusion.
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 performative nature of the congressional
hearings into Jeffrey Epstein. If this was a genuine investigation
into accountability, the first witnesses under oath would be those
who engineered one of the most disgraceful prosecutorial deals in
(00:23):
modern history. The NPA is the smoking gun in this
entire saga. It's the document that institutionalized Epstein's protection, enshrined
them in his immunity, and shielded as co conspirators. Yet
somehow those are responsible for creating it are deemed irrelevant
to the congressional probe. This omission alone is proof enough
(00:45):
that the process is rigged. The fact that Congress didn't
drag Alexander Acosta into a public hearing is damning. Acosta
himself admitted, under pressure that he was told to back
off Epstein because he was connected to intelligence. That statement
alone should have triggered a firestorm of subpoena's, televised hearings
and public reckoning. Instead, it was brushed aside, and Acosta
(01:09):
slipped back into obscurity. If Congress were serious, they'd force
him under oath in public, with no room for evasions.
But they didn't. Then there's Villafauna, the line prosecutor in
Florida who reportedly fought for a stronger case against Epstein
but was overridden by her superiors. Her testimony would have
(01:29):
been crucial not just to establish the chain of command,
but to reveal how much pressure came from above to
neuter the case. Yet Congress conveniently kept her off the list.
Why because her words could confirm that the rot went
higher than anyone in Washington wants to admit. Jay Menchell
and Mark Philippe, both senior DOJ figures at the time,
(01:52):
were equally critical. Their hands were on the steering wheel
when Epstein's deal was finalized. They could explain who pressured
and why. They could identify the names of the power
brokers whispering in the background, but they've been shielded from questioning. Again,
this is not justice, its containment. And what about Michael Mukasey,
(02:13):
the Attorney General of the United States. When the NPA
was sealed, his DOJ not only approved the deal, but
actively ensured that Epstein's co conspirators would never face consequences.
Mukasey's testimony should be front and center in any Congressional investigation,
Yet his name's never mentioned, his role never scrutinized. It's
(02:34):
almost as if there's an unspoken rule certain people, certain
offices remain untouchable. The inspector from the Office of the
Inspector General OIG is another glaring omission. If oversight truly mattered,
the OIG official responsible for reviewing the Epstein case should
have been dragged into a public hearing to explain why
(02:55):
their report took nearly four years to materialize and why
it ultimately tipped toad around the most explosive issues. Instead,
the OIG hides behind bureaucratic walls and Congress makes no
attempt to pierce them. What makes this even more infuriating
is the contrast with how aggressively Congress goes after other scandals.
(03:15):
When the political will is there, lawmakers subpoena everyone from
low level aids to cabinet officials. They hold marathon hearings,
leak testimony, and saturate the airwaves with outrage. But in
Epstein's case, the will evaporates, the outrage never comes, the
subpoenas never touch the right names. And we're not talking
about an accident here, of folks. We're talking about a strategy.
(03:39):
The emission of these central figures exposes the central truth.
Congress doesn't want the story of the NPA told in full.
They want a version of the Epstein saga that emphasizes
salacious details, fringe players and low level functionaries, while keeping
the decision makers hidden. They want a story that scratches
(03:59):
the surface, but never drills into the foundation. The NPA
is the foundation. Without it, Epstein would have been dismantled
decades earlier, which is precisely why it remains untouchable. The
fix is also visible in the selective use of secrecy.
If lawmakers truly believed the NPA was defensible, they would
(04:20):
open the doors, unseal the files, and let the architects
explain themselves to the American people. Instead, they hind behind
closed depositions where testimony can be sanitized, redacted, or suppressed altogether.
The choice to shield these officials from public questioning is
the choice to protect them. Consider what public testimony from Acosta, Mukeesi,
(04:43):
or Philippe would look like. It would force cameras to
record their evasions. It would allow survivors in the public
to watch their body language, hear their excuses, and most importantly,
judge their credibility. It would strip away the narrative control
that Congress now jealously guard. The refusal to permit that
spectacle is not about order or procedure. It's about denying
(05:06):
accountability the decision, not the subpoena. These figures also reveals
how bipartisan the cover up really is. Epstein's protection was
not the work of one party, It was the work
of the system. Both Democrats and Republicans had skin in
the game, either through connections to Epstein himself or through
loyalty to the institutions that protected them. To call a
(05:30):
Costa or Mukhesi would mean risking collateral damage on both
sides of the aisle. So instead of a partisan clash,
we get bipartisan silence. And this silence underscores how deeply
intertwined the DOJ, Congress, and the intelligence community are in
protecting Epstein's legacy. By excluding the names tied to the NPA,
(05:50):
Congress is effectively admitting that the true scope of Epstein's
power cannot be discussed publicly. It must remain a whispered
secret known to insiders but concealed from the masses. The
absence of subpoenas also reveals the cowardice of the committee themselves.
Lawmakers love to grandstand when the stakes are low, but
when the stakes are existential, when the credibility of the
(06:12):
justice system itself hangs in the balance, they run for cover.
They'd rather host a control performance than risk exposing just
how corrupt their institutions have become. Even the media, usually
quick to pounce on omissions, has played along. Instead of
demanding answers about why Acosta or Mukhesi aren't being questioned,
(06:33):
they focus on side stories. This distraction serves the same
purpose as Congress omissions, to direct attention away from the
heart of the scandal and towards the edges where the
damage can be managed. The result is a pantomime of accountability.
On one hand, Congress waves subpoenas and issues press releases.
(06:53):
On the other, they deliberately avoid the most important witnesses.
It's a classic bait and switch, designed to pacify the
public while ensuring the truth remains buried. When the architects
of the NPA are excluded, the entire exercise collapses under
its own hypocrisy. You can't claim to be investigating the
Epstein scandal while leaving untouched the very document that enabled
(07:16):
his crimes to continue for another decade. To leave out
those names is to admit that the investigation is hollow,
and so the public is left once again with performance
instead of justice. The people who cut the deal, the
people who ensured Epstein's survival, remain immune from scrutiny. Their
absence is not incidental. Instead, it's the clearest signal yet
(07:40):
that congress goal is not to expose the truth, but
to bury it deeper. The fix was in from the start,
and the refusal to subpoena these key figures is all
the proof anyone should need. Until Villafauna, Acosta, Muchesi, Felippe, Menchel,
and the OIG inspector are forced to testify in public,
every Congressional hearing on Epstein is nothing more than smoke
(08:03):
and mirrors. The people know it, the survivors know it,
and deep down even Congress knows it. What we're watching
on fall with Jeffrey Epstein in Congress is nothing new.
It's the same ancient formula that rulers have always used.
When their people demand justice, but the truth would be
too dangerous to reviewal It's bread and circus, modernized for
(08:26):
the age of television, sound bites and controlled leaks. Instead
of gladiators, we are given committee hearings instead of lions
were fed sanitized depositions. The spectacle looks like accountability, but
in reality it's a diversion meant to keep the masses
entertained while nothing of substance changes. The Roman emperors perfected
(08:48):
this strategy because it worked. When the crowd grew restless,
they threw them games, bread and blood in the arena. Today,
the American political establishment throws us hearings, headlines, and the
occasional scapegoat, but the principle is the same. Pacify the people,
never challenge the power. Epstein's congressional hearings are not about
(09:09):
unearthing truth. They're about managing outrage so that the system
that created them can remain intact. Every televised clip of
a congressman fanning anger, every carefully leaked document, every promise
of further investigation serves as the modern day equivalent of
the Roman spectacle. It looks grand, feels important, stirs emotion,
(09:31):
but it resolves nothing. The people leave believing they've seen
a fight, that justice is somehow moving forward, when in
fact the arena is empty and the victor's predetermined. When
we ask why these hearings are secret, why the most
important figures are never subpoenaed, why documents come blacked out,
were brushed aside with platitudes. The show must go on,
(09:54):
but only on the terms of those running it. We're
expected to applaud the spectacle and accept his progress. Yo.
This is not just as folks. We're talking about crowd
control and the public is the audience being manipulated. The
Roman emperors knew that the more elaborate the show, the
less attention would be paid to the corruption of the
empire itself. In the same way, the more elaborate the
(10:17):
Epstein hearings appear, the less attention is paid to the
fact that the institution of justice and governance were complicit
in his protection. The very spectacle of accountability becomes a
tool for preventing accountability. Congress knows the public is hungry
for answers. They know survivors and citizens alike want the truth,
(10:37):
but instead of delivering it, they give us a stage
version of it. Stripped of danger, stripped of teeth. It's
like watching actors play out a trial without ever calling
the guilty to the stand. The curtain goes up, the
curtain comes down, and we're left exactly where we started,
none the wiser, but a little more exhausted. And exhaustion
is the goal. If they can tire the public out
(10:58):
with endless bread and skis, eventually they'll stop demanding real justice.
They'll grow numbs, cynical or resigned. They will shrug and
move on. That's the true objective of these hearings, not
to uncover truth, but to drain the energy of those
who still believe the truth can be found. But the
irony is that by attempting to control the narrative so tightly,
(11:20):
Congress reveals more than it hides. Their refusal to subpoena
the key players, their obsession with secrecy. They're carefully crafted
investigations that lead nowhere. These are all tells. There are
signs that the truth is not just inconvenient, but catastrophic.
The cover up is not sloppy, it's deliberate, and it
betrays just how much is at stake if the curtain
(11:43):
ever falls, if the NPA architects were hauled in. If
the intelligence angle were pressed, if the financial networks were exposed,
the entire system would be implicated. That's why it cannot happen.
That's why instead we are given theater of accountability. Better
to distract the public with gladiatorial hearings than risk letting
(12:05):
them glimpse the rot at the empire's core. The bread
and circus approach also ensures that the guilty are never
truly punished. In Rome, the emperors never threw their fellow
elites to the lions. They fed the poor and enslaved instead.
In the Epstein saga, the powerful remain untouched, while low
level associates and expendable figures are thrown to the wolves.
(12:28):
The illusion of justice is preserved, while the reality of
impunity endures. The most tragic part is how many people
fall for it. The headlines flash the hearing stream and
the public is told, see, your leaders are taking this seriously.
But it's no different than tossing bread into a starving crowd.
It doesn't solve the hunger, it just quiets it for
(12:49):
a while. The hearings don't solve the scandal, They just
muffle it until the next distraction comes along. We're told
to trust the process. But what process is this that
hides names, protects reputations, and keeps survivors muzzled. A process
that shields the architects of the NPA while parading around
meaningless witnesses. That's not a process. It's pageantry, and pageantry
(13:13):
by design is meant to dazzle the eyes while blinding
the mind. If Congress truly cared about justice, every Epstein
hearing would be public, Every transcript would be released in full.
Every official involved in his protection would be called to
testify under oath on camera, with no room for redaction
or spin. Instead, we're told those things are impossible, dangerous,
(13:37):
or inappropriate. That excuse is nothing more than the emperor's decree.
The games are enough, The bread is enough. Now be quiet.
The Roman crowds were told the games were a gift,
a privilege bestowed by their rulers. In the same way
we're told that secret meetings, these partial disclosures are acts
(13:57):
of benevolence. We're supposed to be grateful for the crumbs,
never daring to demand the feast of truth. To ask
for more is to risk being labeled unreasonable. Conspiratorial or dangerous.
But the truth is that withholding public testimony is the
clearest proof of guilt. No honest institution hides its actions
(14:18):
from the people it claims to serve, no sincere investigation
centers the very facts it claims to be pursuing. This
is why the Epstein hearings cannot be trusted. They're not
about justice, They're about illusion, and the illusion is designed
to protect those who sit above it all. So, like
the Romans, we're being asked to trade our outrage for entertainment,
(14:40):
to be distracted by the appearance of justice while the
machinery of power grinds on, untouched, unchallenged. Yo. This is
an old game, but it still works because it praise
on human nature. We crave resolution, and so they give
us the performance of resolution, carefully staged and hollow. In
(15:02):
the end, what we're witnessing is not the pursuit of justice,
but its opposite. It's the weaponization of process against the truth.
The hearings are not a path forward. They're a cul
de sac loop designed to exhaust and confuse. They're the
bread and circus of a modern empire desperate to preserve itself,
and just as Rome fell, so too will any system
(15:25):
that relies on deception instead of truth. Bread and circus
can buy time, but it can't buy legitimacy. Eventually the
crowd sees through the spectacle, Eventually the truth slips out.
Until then we're left to watch the performance knowing full
well that the stage is rigged and that the real
story remains locked away behind the curtain. That's the bitter
(15:48):
conclusion that we are being misled once again, not by
accident but by design. What's presented as accountability is nothing
more than a sideshow meant to play, caate and pass
on and until the curtain is ripped down, until the
Bread and Circus end, justice for Jeffrey Epstein's survivors will
remain as elusive as ever. All of the information that
(16:12):
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 performative nature of the congressional
hearings into Jeffrey Epstein. If this was a genuine investigation
into accountability, the first witnesses under oath would be those
who engineered one of the most disgraceful prosecutorial deals in
(00:23):
modern history. The NPA is the smoking gun in this
entire saga. It's the document that institutionalized Epstein's protection, enshrined
them in his immunity, and shielded as co conspirators. Yet
somehow those are responsible for creating it are deemed irrelevant
to the congressional probe. This omission alone is proof enough
(00:45):
that the process is rigged. The fact that Congress didn't
drag Alexander Acosta into a public hearing is damning. Acosta
himself admitted, under pressure that he was told to back
off Epstein because he was connected to intelligence. That statement
alone should have triggered a firestorm of subpoena's, televised hearings
and public reckoning. Instead, it was brushed aside, and Acosta
(01:09):
slipped back into obscurity. If Congress were serious, they'd force
him under oath in public, with no room for evasions.
But they didn't. Then there's Villafauna, the line prosecutor in
Florida who reportedly fought for a stronger case against Epstein
but was overridden by her superiors. Her testimony would have
(01:29):
been crucial not just to establish the chain of command,
but to reveal how much pressure came from above to
neuter the case. Yet Congress conveniently kept her off the list.
Why because her words could confirm that the rot went
higher than anyone in Washington wants to admit. Jay Menchell
and Mark Philippe, both senior DOJ figures at the time,
(01:52):
were equally critical. Their hands were on the steering wheel
when Epstein's deal was finalized. They could explain who pressured
and why. They could identify the names of the power
brokers whispering in the background, but they've been shielded from questioning. Again,
this is not justice, its containment. And what about Michael Mukasey,
(02:13):
the Attorney General of the United States. When the NPA
was sealed, his DOJ not only approved the deal, but
actively ensured that Epstein's co conspirators would never face consequences.
Mukasey's testimony should be front and center in any Congressional investigation,
Yet his name's never mentioned, his role never scrutinized. It's
(02:34):
almost as if there's an unspoken rule certain people, certain
offices remain untouchable. The inspector from the Office of the
Inspector General OIG is another glaring omission. If oversight truly mattered,
the OIG official responsible for reviewing the Epstein case should
have been dragged into a public hearing to explain why
(02:55):
their report took nearly four years to materialize and why
it ultimately tipped toad around the most explosive issues. Instead,
the OIG hides behind bureaucratic walls and Congress makes no
attempt to pierce them. What makes this even more infuriating
is the contrast with how aggressively Congress goes after other scandals.
(03:15):
When the political will is there, lawmakers subpoena everyone from
low level aids to cabinet officials. They hold marathon hearings,
leak testimony, and saturate the airwaves with outrage. But in
Epstein's case, the will evaporates, the outrage never comes, the
subpoenas never touch the right names. And we're not talking
about an accident here, of folks. We're talking about a strategy.
(03:39):
The emission of these central figures exposes the central truth.
Congress doesn't want the story of the NPA told in full.
They want a version of the Epstein saga that emphasizes
salacious details, fringe players and low level functionaries, while keeping
the decision makers hidden. They want a story that scratches
(03:59):
the surface, but never drills into the foundation. The NPA
is the foundation. Without it, Epstein would have been dismantled
decades earlier, which is precisely why it remains untouchable. The
fix is also visible in the selective use of secrecy.
If lawmakers truly believed the NPA was defensible, they would
(04:20):
open the doors, unseal the files, and let the architects
explain themselves to the American people. Instead, they hind behind
closed depositions where testimony can be sanitized, redacted, or suppressed altogether.
The choice to shield these officials from public questioning is
the choice to protect them. Consider what public testimony from Acosta, Mukeesi,
(04:43):
or Philippe would look like. It would force cameras to
record their evasions. It would allow survivors in the public
to watch their body language, hear their excuses, and most importantly,
judge their credibility. It would strip away the narrative control
that Congress now jealously guard. The refusal to permit that
spectacle is not about order or procedure. It's about denying
(05:06):
accountability the decision, not the subpoena. These figures also reveals
how bipartisan the cover up really is. Epstein's protection was
not the work of one party, It was the work
of the system. Both Democrats and Republicans had skin in
the game, either through connections to Epstein himself or through
loyalty to the institutions that protected them. To call a
(05:30):
Costa or Mukhesi would mean risking collateral damage on both
sides of the aisle. So instead of a partisan clash,
we get bipartisan silence. And this silence underscores how deeply
intertwined the DOJ, Congress, and the intelligence community are in
protecting Epstein's legacy. By excluding the names tied to the NPA,
(05:50):
Congress is effectively admitting that the true scope of Epstein's
power cannot be discussed publicly. It must remain a whispered
secret known to insiders but concealed from the masses. The
absence of subpoenas also reveals the cowardice of the committee themselves.
Lawmakers love to grandstand when the stakes are low, but
when the stakes are existential, when the credibility of the
(06:12):
justice system itself hangs in the balance, they run for cover.
They'd rather host a control performance than risk exposing just
how corrupt their institutions have become. Even the media, usually
quick to pounce on omissions, has played along. Instead of
demanding answers about why Acosta or Mukhesi aren't being questioned,
(06:33):
they focus on side stories. This distraction serves the same
purpose as Congress omissions, to direct attention away from the
heart of the scandal and towards the edges where the
damage can be managed. The result is a pantomime of accountability.
On one hand, Congress waves subpoenas and issues press releases.
(06:53):
On the other, they deliberately avoid the most important witnesses.
It's a classic bait and switch, designed to pacify the
public while ensuring the truth remains buried. When the architects
of the NPA are excluded, the entire exercise collapses under
its own hypocrisy. You can't claim to be investigating the
Epstein scandal while leaving untouched the very document that enabled
(07:16):
his crimes to continue for another decade. To leave out
those names is to admit that the investigation is hollow,
and so the public is left once again with performance
instead of justice. The people who cut the deal, the
people who ensured Epstein's survival, remain immune from scrutiny. Their
absence is not incidental. Instead, it's the clearest signal yet
(07:40):
that congress goal is not to expose the truth, but
to bury it deeper. The fix was in from the start,
and the refusal to subpoena these key figures is all
the proof anyone should need. Until Villafauna, Acosta, Muchesi, Felippe, Menchel,
and the OIG inspector are forced to testify in public,
every Congressional hearing on Epstein is nothing more than smoke
(08:03):
and mirrors. The people know it, the survivors know it,
and deep down even Congress knows it. What we're watching
on fall with Jeffrey Epstein in Congress is nothing new.
It's the same ancient formula that rulers have always used.
When their people demand justice, but the truth would be
too dangerous to reviewal It's bread and circus, modernized for
(08:26):
the age of television, sound bites and controlled leaks. Instead
of gladiators, we are given committee hearings instead of lions
were fed sanitized depositions. The spectacle looks like accountability, but
in reality it's a diversion meant to keep the masses
entertained while nothing of substance changes. The Roman emperors perfected
(08:48):
this strategy because it worked. When the crowd grew restless,
they threw them games, bread and blood in the arena. Today,
the American political establishment throws us hearings, headlines, and the
occasional scapegoat, but the principle is the same. Pacify the people,
never challenge the power. Epstein's congressional hearings are not about
(09:09):
unearthing truth. They're about managing outrage so that the system
that created them can remain intact. Every televised clip of
a congressman fanning anger, every carefully leaked document, every promise
of further investigation serves as the modern day equivalent of
the Roman spectacle. It looks grand, feels important, stirs emotion,
(09:31):
but it resolves nothing. The people leave believing they've seen
a fight, that justice is somehow moving forward, when in
fact the arena is empty and the victor's predetermined. When
we ask why these hearings are secret, why the most
important figures are never subpoenaed, why documents come blacked out,
were brushed aside with platitudes. The show must go on,
(09:54):
but only on the terms of those running it. We're
expected to applaud the spectacle and accept his progress. Yo.
This is not just as folks. We're talking about crowd
control and the public is the audience being manipulated. The
Roman emperors knew that the more elaborate the show, the
less attention would be paid to the corruption of the
empire itself. In the same way, the more elaborate the
(10:17):
Epstein hearings appear, the less attention is paid to the
fact that the institution of justice and governance were complicit
in his protection. The very spectacle of accountability becomes a
tool for preventing accountability. Congress knows the public is hungry
for answers. They know survivors and citizens alike want the truth,
(10:37):
but instead of delivering it, they give us a stage
version of it. Stripped of danger, stripped of teeth. It's
like watching actors play out a trial without ever calling
the guilty to the stand. The curtain goes up, the
curtain comes down, and we're left exactly where we started,
none the wiser, but a little more exhausted. And exhaustion
is the goal. If they can tire the public out
(10:58):
with endless bread and skis, eventually they'll stop demanding real justice.
They'll grow numbs, cynical or resigned. They will shrug and
move on. That's the true objective of these hearings, not
to uncover truth, but to drain the energy of those
who still believe the truth can be found. But the
irony is that by attempting to control the narrative so tightly,
(11:20):
Congress reveals more than it hides. Their refusal to subpoena
the key players, their obsession with secrecy. They're carefully crafted
investigations that lead nowhere. These are all tells. There are
signs that the truth is not just inconvenient, but catastrophic.
The cover up is not sloppy, it's deliberate, and it
betrays just how much is at stake if the curtain
(11:43):
ever falls, if the NPA architects were hauled in. If
the intelligence angle were pressed, if the financial networks were exposed,
the entire system would be implicated. That's why it cannot happen.
That's why instead we are given theater of accountability. Better
to distract the public with gladiatorial hearings than risk letting
(12:05):
them glimpse the rot at the empire's core. The bread
and circus approach also ensures that the guilty are never
truly punished. In Rome, the emperors never threw their fellow
elites to the lions. They fed the poor and enslaved instead.
In the Epstein saga, the powerful remain untouched, while low
level associates and expendable figures are thrown to the wolves.
(12:28):
The illusion of justice is preserved, while the reality of
impunity endures. The most tragic part is how many people
fall for it. The headlines flash the hearing stream and
the public is told, see, your leaders are taking this seriously.
But it's no different than tossing bread into a starving crowd.
It doesn't solve the hunger, it just quiets it for
(12:49):
a while. The hearings don't solve the scandal, They just
muffle it until the next distraction comes along. We're told
to trust the process. But what process is this that
hides names, protects reputations, and keeps survivors muzzled. A process
that shields the architects of the NPA while parading around
meaningless witnesses. That's not a process. It's pageantry, and pageantry
(13:13):
by design is meant to dazzle the eyes while blinding
the mind. If Congress truly cared about justice, every Epstein
hearing would be public, Every transcript would be released in full.
Every official involved in his protection would be called to
testify under oath on camera, with no room for redaction
or spin. Instead, we're told those things are impossible, dangerous,
(13:37):
or inappropriate. That excuse is nothing more than the emperor's decree.
The games are enough, The bread is enough. Now be quiet.
The Roman crowds were told the games were a gift,
a privilege bestowed by their rulers. In the same way
we're told that secret meetings, these partial disclosures are acts
(13:57):
of benevolence. We're supposed to be grateful for the crumbs,
never daring to demand the feast of truth. To ask
for more is to risk being labeled unreasonable. Conspiratorial or dangerous.
But the truth is that withholding public testimony is the
clearest proof of guilt. No honest institution hides its actions
(14:18):
from the people it claims to serve, no sincere investigation
centers the very facts it claims to be pursuing. This
is why the Epstein hearings cannot be trusted. They're not
about justice, They're about illusion, and the illusion is designed
to protect those who sit above it all. So, like
the Romans, we're being asked to trade our outrage for entertainment,
(14:40):
to be distracted by the appearance of justice while the
machinery of power grinds on, untouched, unchallenged. Yo. This is
an old game, but it still works because it praise
on human nature. We crave resolution, and so they give
us the performance of resolution, carefully staged and hollow. In
(15:02):
the end, what we're witnessing is not the pursuit of justice,
but its opposite. It's the weaponization of process against the truth.
The hearings are not a path forward. They're a cul
de sac loop designed to exhaust and confuse. They're the
bread and circus of a modern empire desperate to preserve itself,
and just as Rome fell, so too will any system
(15:25):
that relies on deception instead of truth. Bread and circus
can buy time, but it can't buy legitimacy. Eventually the
crowd sees through the spectacle, Eventually the truth slips out.
Until then we're left to watch the performance knowing full
well that the stage is rigged and that the real
story remains locked away behind the curtain. That's the bitter
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conclusion that we are being misled once again, not by
accident but by design. What's presented as accountability is nothing
more than a sideshow meant to play, caate and pass
on and until the curtain is ripped down, until the
Bread and Circus end, justice for Jeffrey Epstein's survivors will
remain as elusive as ever. All of the information that
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