November 23, 2025 • 14 mins
In this episode, we tear apart the delusion that anyone in power is coming to save us from the rot at the center of the Jeffrey Epstein scandal. No mysterious hero, no hidden plan, no 4D chess. Just a government and media machine built to protect predators while survivors fight alone. We break down how Donald Trump’s decision to call the Epstein case a hoax was not ignorance but a calculated act of cruelty, a full scale assault on more than a thousand victims, and a desperate attempt to smother the truth before it burns down the people who benefitted from Epstein’s empire. We dig into the cult-like loyalty that fuels the denial, the circus of rage and slogans substituting for thought, and the grotesque hero worship that turned politics into a personality cult at the expense of actual justice.
This is not a story about left versus right. It is a story about power versus everyone else. About survivors fighting uphill against billionaires, institutions, and a president who mocks their trauma and enables predators by pretending their suffering never happened. We expose how broken the system truly is, how the powerful protect each other while the public is distracted with memes and rage bait, and why nothing changes until regular people stop waiting for cavalry and pick up their own weapons: truth, persistence, and refusal to shut up. If you are tired of the lies, tired of the gaslighting, tired of watching monsters get protected while the wounded get buried, this episode is for you. This is the storm they keep pretending is coming. We are it.
to contact me:
bobbycapucci@protonmail.com
Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-epstein-chronicles--5003294/support.
This is not a story about left versus right. It is a story about power versus everyone else. About survivors fighting uphill against billionaires, institutions, and a president who mocks their trauma and enables predators by pretending their suffering never happened. We expose how broken the system truly is, how the powerful protect each other while the public is distracted with memes and rage bait, and why nothing changes until regular people stop waiting for cavalry and pick up their own weapons: truth, persistence, and refusal to shut up. If you are tired of the lies, tired of the gaslighting, tired of watching monsters get protected while the wounded get buried, this episode is for you. This is the storm they keep pretending is coming. We are it.
to contact me:
bobbycapucci@protonmail.com
Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-epstein-chronicles--5003294/support.
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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 going to pick up
where we left off At this point, I wouldn't be
shocked that if Donald Trump had his way, Glayne Maxwell
would have a cabinet post. And honestly, she would fit
right in. She has the same moral compass, she has
a talent for manipulating useful idiots. She has the same
(00:21):
hunger for power and control. The only difference is she
actually got held accountable for even a fraction of her crimes,
and considering his actions, Trump thinks that's unfair treatment. It's sickening,
and the terrifying part is that his followers would cheer
for it. Now, I'm not talking about the everyday American
who voted for Trump. No, I'm talking about the loyalist.
(00:43):
They would defend it the same way they'd defend everything
else he does. They'd come up with some excuse about
strategy or optics or whatever buzzword they are using to
avoid thinking. They would claim the media framed her and
demand she be treated like a misunderstood philanthropist. And that's
what they're doing, isn't it. They would call survivors liars
while posing with flags and pretending they care about the children.
(01:05):
They would rewrite history in real time and call it patriotism.
They post memes about how she was targeted because she
was fighting the deep state. They cost play moral superiority
while licking the boots of a predator. That is how
far gone they are. And the most pathetic part is
little simps in boot liquors who drool over everything he says.
(01:27):
Grown adults with bumper stickers and cheap merch like they're
in some fan club. They line up to scream his
slogans like parrots. They defend them like he is their mother.
They volunteer to humiliate themselves publicly for a man who
would trade them for a ham sandwich. It's strange behavior,
it's psychological rot, and it's embarrassing to watch. They treat
(01:49):
his rallies like their religious events, complete with emotional breakdowns
and group chanting. They dress up in costumes and hold
signs like they're at comic con for idiocy, They cry
when he wants on stage, like teenage girls watching the
Beatles in sixty four. They collapse under the weight of
their own desperation for belonging, and he knows it. He
feeds on it. He milks them dry financially and emotionally,
(02:13):
then tosses them aside when he's done. He weaponizes their loneliness,
their fear, their anger, their confusion, and they call it love.
If there were any other group, we would call it
a cult and send therapists. Instead, we call it politics
and pretend that it's valid. Trust the plan, bro, The
storm is coming. Where we go, one we go? All
(02:34):
hearing grown adults say that nonsense with the straight face
is depressing. These people think they are freedom fighters, but
they cannot even think for themselves. They substitute logic with fantasy.
They accuse everyone else of being stupid while getting played
like a slaw machine in Vegas, and they still don't
realize that they're the joke. You watch them talk, and
(02:54):
it's like staring into an open electrical panel with loose
wire sparking their brains glitch, constantly trying to reconcile fantasy
with reality. They swallow every ridiculous conspiracy like candy, and
then wonder why nothing changes. They think they're decoding clues
from invisible insiders, but they're really just refreshing message boards
written by trolls in their underwear. They think they're watching
(03:16):
YouTube videos counts as research. They think being loud is
the same as being right. They think patriotism means obedience
to a man instead of loyalty to country and truth.
They have turned gullible into an identity. It's tragic and
hilarious at the same time, and honestly, how do you
trust anything these people say? They've been wrong about every
(03:36):
prediction they've ever made. They keep moving the goalposts like
toddlers playing soccer. They justify every failure with another imaginary prophecy.
They can't admit they were conned because their identity is
glued to the lie. They would rather burn the world
down than acknowledge basic reality. They scream deep state to
avoid accountability. They scream conspiracy to avoid embarrassment. They'll never
(03:58):
admit to the obvious because admitting it would be admitting
they wasted years of their lives worshiping a scam. It
would mean admitting they cut off family members and lost
friendships over a fraud. It would mean admitting they were
manipulated like puppets. Pride is a hell of a drug.
They would rather die than say the words I was wrong.
They would rather watch the country collapse than take responsibility.
(04:21):
They cling the lies like drowning men, cling the floating debris.
It's heartbreaking to watch people sink while insisting that they
are swimming. Look, it's time to stop living in fantasy
fairytale land. It's time to stop believing every criticism is
from the radical left. It's time to stop assuming every
journalist is a communist operative. It's time to stop pretending
(04:43):
Trump is some kind of misunderstood hero. What he is
is a selfish, delusional, egomaniac who cannot handle the truth.
He betrayed survivors the moment he called Epstein a hoax.
He spit in the face of victims. He mocked their trauma.
There's no defending that. And if that's the hill that
people want to die on, then let them out there.
Because reality doesn't care about a team jersey or a hashtag.
(05:05):
Reality does not care about who you've voted for. Reality
shows up eventually like a landlord demanding rent, and when
it arrives, all the memes and slogans in the world
are not going to protect them. The truth always comes
through the floorboards eventually, and when it does, the people
who are screaming hoax will be left standing naked in
the middle of the street with nothing left to hide behind.
(05:29):
Do you know absurd? It sounds to call people libtards
or leftoids every time they disagree. It makes you sound
like a twelve year old playing Xbox. It's weak, it's childish.
It's the verbal equivalent of wearing stained sweatpants and screaming
from a basement. It proves you don't have an argument,
so you just throw insults like confetti. Adult should be
able to do better. Apparently not. And it's wild how
(05:52):
proudly they use those words, like approve some great intellectual point.
They act like throwing playground insults is some kind of
debate victory. Volume equals intelligence and humiliation equals persuasion. They
scream into comments sections like derange lunatics while thinking they're
changing the world. Meanwhile, the rest of us are watching
them unravel like a cheap sweater trying to survive a
(06:14):
washing machine. Their entire personality is just anger and memes.
They have nothing to say, nothing to contribute, nothing to build.
They just throw names around like monkeys flinging handfuls of shit,
and then wonder why nobody respects them. It's exhausting listening
to adults who speak like malfunctioning wind up toys. I mean,
come on, cat turd and libs of TikTok are your
(06:36):
intellectual leaders. Those are the voices you trust to lead
national discourse. That is the brain trust guiding your moral compass. Huh,
A cartoon cat account and a meme page. This is
how civilization collapses and becomes jokes in a history book.
Imagine trying to explain this error to somebody from the future.
(06:56):
Imagine telling them that millions of adults waited for guidance
from anonymous avatars with cartoon profile pictures. They would think
we had collectively lost our minds. They would assume a
meteor must have hit the water supply and scrambled everyone's
frontal lobes. It's embarrassing in a way that just doesn't
wash off. We have people who cannot tell the difference
(07:17):
between truth and a meme thread determining the direction of
national conversation. We have adults whose source of information is
screenshots from strangers, and they brag about it like it's enlightenment. Yo,
it's time to wake up from the fever dream It's
time to realize that the con has always been that
Donald Trump cares about you. He doesn't care about you.
He never did. He cares about himself, and that's it.
(07:40):
You're just a pawn, a customer. You're a body in
a rally crowd, nothing more. He uses you and laughs
behind your back, and you can hear it in the
way he talks about his own supporters. He calls them
warriors until they want something from him, and then they
magically become losers and traders. He loves them until they
think for themselves, and then they become enemies. Its conditional affection,
(08:02):
with all the sincerity of a Carnival barker selling miracle
tonic from the back of a wagon. He treats people
like fuel. When the tank is empty, he just moves
on to the next refill station. He's not a leader.
He's an addict, and applause is his drug. And the
more desperate that his audience becomes, the more powerful he feels.
(08:22):
And look, nothing has exposed as selfishness more than his
behavior around the Epstein files. If he really support a transparency,
he would demand every name release publicly immediately. If he
cared about survivors. He would stand with them instead of
mocking them. If he cared about justice, he would push
for real accountability. Instead, he did the opposite. He helped
the cover up by calling it fake. He helped the
(08:43):
abusers by discrediting the evidence. That's who he is, and
the fact that he's fighting this hard to bury the
story should terrify everyone. Innocent people do not panic when
the truth is on the horizon. Innocent people do not
sprint the microphones and call victims liars. Innocent people say,
let everything be revealed and let the facts speak. But
guilty people go on the offensive immediately, screaming and pointing
(09:07):
fingers and lighting fires to distract from the smoke. Guilty
people weaponize confusion. Guilty people try to turn the crowd
against the accusers. And every time he opens his mouth
about Epstein, the desperation pours out of him like a
busted hydrant. Meanwhile, survivors are still struggling to rebuild their lives.
They're still dealing with trauma every single day. They're still
(09:29):
trying to be heard over powerful voices trying to silence them.
They have to watch the world treat their suffering like
some Internet debate topic. They have to watch billionaire defendants
get handled like royalty while they get questioned like criminals,
and then the president calls them liars. That is cruelty
that cannot be forgiven. Nobody deserves that. And the pain
(09:50):
doesn't stop when the headlines fade. It follows them home,
into their beds, into their sleep, into their futures. They
carry scars that will never heal, while the people who
hurt them fly private jets and give speeches about how
unfair life has been to them. They fight every day
just to stay alive emotionally, while the world argues about
whether their trauma is trending. They didn't get parades or
(10:14):
rallies or hashtags shouted through bullhorns. They got silence and
doubt and suspicion and loneliness. And somehow the people who
harm them or enable the harm are treated like misunderstood royalty.
It is an injustice so grotesque it feels biblical. And
people wonder why the survivors don't come forward. They wonder
(10:35):
why victims stay silent. This is why, because every time
someone opens their mouth, a mob forms to destroy them.
Because all people care about is their team winning. Because
truth is become irrelevant because cowardice is rewarded and bravery
is shredded. It's a disgrace to humanity. It's a stain
that will not wash off. And it's not just strangers
(10:55):
on the internet. It's families who turn their backs because
they cannot handle the discomft effort. It's communities who pretend
they did not hear anything because they want to protect reputations.
It's institutions that bury complaints because money matters more than people.
It's law enforcement that asks survivors what they were wearing,
or if they're sure they're remembering correctly, as if the
(11:16):
trauma is a trick question on a quiz. Every step
of the process is an obstacle course designed to break them.
And when someone finally manages to crawl through the fire
and speak anyway, you have a president laughing in their
faces on television and calling their pain imaginary. Nothing crushes
the soul faster than that level of betrayal. It's a
miracle any survivor speaks at all. Listen, the truth is
(11:40):
not complicated. The powerful protect the powerful. Institutions protect institutions.
The government protects itself first, second, and third, billionaires protect
their network. The media protects advertisers. Nobody is riding in
to save us. Nobody is working on this behind velvet curtains.
We either fight or we get buried. It's the rule
(12:00):
of the world, whether people want to admit it or not.
Everything runs on self interest and leverage. Justice is a
luxury item and most people can't afford it. People think
the system fails because it's broken, but the truth is
the system works exactly the way they built it. It's
designed to protect those with the most to lose and
grind everyone else into dust. That's why predators with private
(12:23):
jet access get polite court dates and survivors get cross
examined until they collapse. That's why billionaires go home after
hearings and victims go back to therapy. The scales are
not unbalanced accidentally. They're engineered that way, and the only
time anything changes is when people force it to change.
And look, maybe that sounds harsh, maybe it sounds hopeless,
(12:44):
but hopeless honesty is better than false comfort. People need
to understand the scale of what we are facing. People
need to understand that if we do not push, nothing moves.
People need to see that the system is designed to
protect predators. People need to stop romantics. These politicians like
their action heroes. They're not. They're cowards hiding behind podiums.
(13:05):
And the sooner people accept that reality. The sooner we
stop wasting energy waiting for rescue. The sooner we stop
crying into pillows, hoping someone powerful suddenly grows a conscience.
They never will. They're allergic to that kind of responsibility.
They're terrified a truth. They're addicted to the applause. But
they would rather let the world burn than lose their
own seat at the table. They have no intention of
(13:28):
fixing anything because the chaos benefits them. They stay rich,
they stay untouchable, they stay protected, They stay insulated behind
lawyers and media consultants and gated estates while regular people bleed. So, yeah, listen, folks,
there is no cavalry, no savior, there's no secret plan.
There's only us, the people who actually give a damn,
(13:49):
the people who refuse to let the story die, the
people who will not sit silently while predators are shielded
by power. We are the storm they keep pretending is coming.
And that storm is not built from hashtags or hope
or magical thinking. It's built from rage. And honesty and refusal.
It's built from regular people who have had enough. It's
built from every survivor who refuse to be erased. It's
(14:12):
built from every whistleblower who lost their job telling the truth.
It's built from every person who stopped waiting and started pushing.
It's built from voices that will not be silenced and
eyes that will not look away. They think they can
outlast us, they think we'll get tired, they think will
eventually shut up and move on. They don't understand who
(14:32):
they're dealing with. Like I said, We're not letting this go,
not now, not ever. 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 going to pick up
where we left off At this point, I wouldn't be
shocked that if Donald Trump had his way, Glayne Maxwell
would have a cabinet post. And honestly, she would fit
right in. She has the same moral compass, she has
a talent for manipulating useful idiots. She has the same
(00:21):
hunger for power and control. The only difference is she
actually got held accountable for even a fraction of her crimes,
and considering his actions, Trump thinks that's unfair treatment. It's sickening,
and the terrifying part is that his followers would cheer
for it. Now, I'm not talking about the everyday American
who voted for Trump. No, I'm talking about the loyalist.
(00:43):
They would defend it the same way they'd defend everything
else he does. They'd come up with some excuse about
strategy or optics or whatever buzzword they are using to
avoid thinking. They would claim the media framed her and
demand she be treated like a misunderstood philanthropist. And that's
what they're doing, isn't it. They would call survivors liars
while posing with flags and pretending they care about the children.
(01:05):
They would rewrite history in real time and call it patriotism.
They post memes about how she was targeted because she
was fighting the deep state. They cost play moral superiority
while licking the boots of a predator. That is how
far gone they are. And the most pathetic part is
little simps in boot liquors who drool over everything he says.
(01:27):
Grown adults with bumper stickers and cheap merch like they're
in some fan club. They line up to scream his
slogans like parrots. They defend them like he is their mother.
They volunteer to humiliate themselves publicly for a man who
would trade them for a ham sandwich. It's strange behavior,
it's psychological rot, and it's embarrassing to watch. They treat
(01:49):
his rallies like their religious events, complete with emotional breakdowns
and group chanting. They dress up in costumes and hold
signs like they're at comic con for idiocy, They cry
when he wants on stage, like teenage girls watching the
Beatles in sixty four. They collapse under the weight of
their own desperation for belonging, and he knows it. He
feeds on it. He milks them dry financially and emotionally,
(02:13):
then tosses them aside when he's done. He weaponizes their loneliness,
their fear, their anger, their confusion, and they call it love.
If there were any other group, we would call it
a cult and send therapists. Instead, we call it politics
and pretend that it's valid. Trust the plan, bro, The
storm is coming. Where we go, one we go? All
(02:34):
hearing grown adults say that nonsense with the straight face
is depressing. These people think they are freedom fighters, but
they cannot even think for themselves. They substitute logic with fantasy.
They accuse everyone else of being stupid while getting played
like a slaw machine in Vegas, and they still don't
realize that they're the joke. You watch them talk, and
(02:54):
it's like staring into an open electrical panel with loose
wire sparking their brains glitch, constantly trying to reconcile fantasy
with reality. They swallow every ridiculous conspiracy like candy, and
then wonder why nothing changes. They think they're decoding clues
from invisible insiders, but they're really just refreshing message boards
written by trolls in their underwear. They think they're watching
(03:16):
YouTube videos counts as research. They think being loud is
the same as being right. They think patriotism means obedience
to a man instead of loyalty to country and truth.
They have turned gullible into an identity. It's tragic and
hilarious at the same time, and honestly, how do you
trust anything these people say? They've been wrong about every
(03:36):
prediction they've ever made. They keep moving the goalposts like
toddlers playing soccer. They justify every failure with another imaginary prophecy.
They can't admit they were conned because their identity is
glued to the lie. They would rather burn the world
down than acknowledge basic reality. They scream deep state to
avoid accountability. They scream conspiracy to avoid embarrassment. They'll never
(03:58):
admit to the obvious because admitting it would be admitting
they wasted years of their lives worshiping a scam. It
would mean admitting they cut off family members and lost
friendships over a fraud. It would mean admitting they were
manipulated like puppets. Pride is a hell of a drug.
They would rather die than say the words I was wrong.
They would rather watch the country collapse than take responsibility.
(04:21):
They cling the lies like drowning men, cling the floating debris.
It's heartbreaking to watch people sink while insisting that they
are swimming. Look, it's time to stop living in fantasy
fairytale land. It's time to stop believing every criticism is
from the radical left. It's time to stop assuming every
journalist is a communist operative. It's time to stop pretending
(04:43):
Trump is some kind of misunderstood hero. What he is
is a selfish, delusional, egomaniac who cannot handle the truth.
He betrayed survivors the moment he called Epstein a hoax.
He spit in the face of victims. He mocked their trauma.
There's no defending that. And if that's the hill that
people want to die on, then let them out there.
Because reality doesn't care about a team jersey or a hashtag.
(05:05):
Reality does not care about who you've voted for. Reality
shows up eventually like a landlord demanding rent, and when
it arrives, all the memes and slogans in the world
are not going to protect them. The truth always comes
through the floorboards eventually, and when it does, the people
who are screaming hoax will be left standing naked in
the middle of the street with nothing left to hide behind.
(05:29):
Do you know absurd? It sounds to call people libtards
or leftoids every time they disagree. It makes you sound
like a twelve year old playing Xbox. It's weak, it's childish.
It's the verbal equivalent of wearing stained sweatpants and screaming
from a basement. It proves you don't have an argument,
so you just throw insults like confetti. Adult should be
able to do better. Apparently not. And it's wild how
(05:52):
proudly they use those words, like approve some great intellectual point.
They act like throwing playground insults is some kind of
debate victory. Volume equals intelligence and humiliation equals persuasion. They
scream into comments sections like derange lunatics while thinking they're
changing the world. Meanwhile, the rest of us are watching
them unravel like a cheap sweater trying to survive a
(06:14):
washing machine. Their entire personality is just anger and memes.
They have nothing to say, nothing to contribute, nothing to build.
They just throw names around like monkeys flinging handfuls of shit,
and then wonder why nobody respects them. It's exhausting listening
to adults who speak like malfunctioning wind up toys. I mean,
come on, cat turd and libs of TikTok are your
(06:36):
intellectual leaders. Those are the voices you trust to lead
national discourse. That is the brain trust guiding your moral compass. Huh,
A cartoon cat account and a meme page. This is
how civilization collapses and becomes jokes in a history book.
Imagine trying to explain this error to somebody from the future.
(06:56):
Imagine telling them that millions of adults waited for guidance
from anonymous avatars with cartoon profile pictures. They would think
we had collectively lost our minds. They would assume a
meteor must have hit the water supply and scrambled everyone's
frontal lobes. It's embarrassing in a way that just doesn't
wash off. We have people who cannot tell the difference
(07:17):
between truth and a meme thread determining the direction of
national conversation. We have adults whose source of information is
screenshots from strangers, and they brag about it like it's enlightenment. Yo,
it's time to wake up from the fever dream It's
time to realize that the con has always been that
Donald Trump cares about you. He doesn't care about you.
He never did. He cares about himself, and that's it.
(07:40):
You're just a pawn, a customer. You're a body in
a rally crowd, nothing more. He uses you and laughs
behind your back, and you can hear it in the
way he talks about his own supporters. He calls them
warriors until they want something from him, and then they
magically become losers and traders. He loves them until they
think for themselves, and then they become enemies. Its conditional affection,
(08:02):
with all the sincerity of a Carnival barker selling miracle
tonic from the back of a wagon. He treats people
like fuel. When the tank is empty, he just moves
on to the next refill station. He's not a leader.
He's an addict, and applause is his drug. And the
more desperate that his audience becomes, the more powerful he feels.
(08:22):
And look, nothing has exposed as selfishness more than his
behavior around the Epstein files. If he really support a transparency,
he would demand every name release publicly immediately. If he
cared about survivors. He would stand with them instead of
mocking them. If he cared about justice, he would push
for real accountability. Instead, he did the opposite. He helped
the cover up by calling it fake. He helped the
(08:43):
abusers by discrediting the evidence. That's who he is, and
the fact that he's fighting this hard to bury the
story should terrify everyone. Innocent people do not panic when
the truth is on the horizon. Innocent people do not
sprint the microphones and call victims liars. Innocent people say,
let everything be revealed and let the facts speak. But
guilty people go on the offensive immediately, screaming and pointing
(09:07):
fingers and lighting fires to distract from the smoke. Guilty
people weaponize confusion. Guilty people try to turn the crowd
against the accusers. And every time he opens his mouth
about Epstein, the desperation pours out of him like a
busted hydrant. Meanwhile, survivors are still struggling to rebuild their lives.
They're still dealing with trauma every single day. They're still
(09:29):
trying to be heard over powerful voices trying to silence them.
They have to watch the world treat their suffering like
some Internet debate topic. They have to watch billionaire defendants
get handled like royalty while they get questioned like criminals,
and then the president calls them liars. That is cruelty
that cannot be forgiven. Nobody deserves that. And the pain
(09:50):
doesn't stop when the headlines fade. It follows them home,
into their beds, into their sleep, into their futures. They
carry scars that will never heal, while the people who
hurt them fly private jets and give speeches about how
unfair life has been to them. They fight every day
just to stay alive emotionally, while the world argues about
whether their trauma is trending. They didn't get parades or
(10:14):
rallies or hashtags shouted through bullhorns. They got silence and
doubt and suspicion and loneliness. And somehow the people who
harm them or enable the harm are treated like misunderstood royalty.
It is an injustice so grotesque it feels biblical. And
people wonder why the survivors don't come forward. They wonder
(10:35):
why victims stay silent. This is why, because every time
someone opens their mouth, a mob forms to destroy them.
Because all people care about is their team winning. Because
truth is become irrelevant because cowardice is rewarded and bravery
is shredded. It's a disgrace to humanity. It's a stain
that will not wash off. And it's not just strangers
(10:55):
on the internet. It's families who turn their backs because
they cannot handle the discomft effort. It's communities who pretend
they did not hear anything because they want to protect reputations.
It's institutions that bury complaints because money matters more than people.
It's law enforcement that asks survivors what they were wearing,
or if they're sure they're remembering correctly, as if the
(11:16):
trauma is a trick question on a quiz. Every step
of the process is an obstacle course designed to break them.
And when someone finally manages to crawl through the fire
and speak anyway, you have a president laughing in their
faces on television and calling their pain imaginary. Nothing crushes
the soul faster than that level of betrayal. It's a
miracle any survivor speaks at all. Listen, the truth is
(11:40):
not complicated. The powerful protect the powerful. Institutions protect institutions.
The government protects itself first, second, and third, billionaires protect
their network. The media protects advertisers. Nobody is riding in
to save us. Nobody is working on this behind velvet curtains.
We either fight or we get buried. It's the rule
(12:00):
of the world, whether people want to admit it or not.
Everything runs on self interest and leverage. Justice is a
luxury item and most people can't afford it. People think
the system fails because it's broken, but the truth is
the system works exactly the way they built it. It's
designed to protect those with the most to lose and
grind everyone else into dust. That's why predators with private
(12:23):
jet access get polite court dates and survivors get cross
examined until they collapse. That's why billionaires go home after
hearings and victims go back to therapy. The scales are
not unbalanced accidentally. They're engineered that way, and the only
time anything changes is when people force it to change.
And look, maybe that sounds harsh, maybe it sounds hopeless,
(12:44):
but hopeless honesty is better than false comfort. People need
to understand the scale of what we are facing. People
need to understand that if we do not push, nothing moves.
People need to see that the system is designed to
protect predators. People need to stop romantics. These politicians like
their action heroes. They're not. They're cowards hiding behind podiums.
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And the sooner people accept that reality. The sooner we
stop wasting energy waiting for rescue. The sooner we stop
crying into pillows, hoping someone powerful suddenly grows a conscience.
They never will. They're allergic to that kind of responsibility.
They're terrified a truth. They're addicted to the applause. But
they would rather let the world burn than lose their
own seat at the table. They have no intention of
(13:28):
fixing anything because the chaos benefits them. They stay rich,
they stay untouchable, they stay protected, They stay insulated behind
lawyers and media consultants and gated estates while regular people bleed. So, yeah, listen, folks,
there is no cavalry, no savior, there's no secret plan.
There's only us, the people who actually give a damn,
(13:49):
the people who refuse to let the story die, the
people who will not sit silently while predators are shielded
by power. We are the storm they keep pretending is coming.
And that storm is not built from hashtags or hope
or magical thinking. It's built from rage. And honesty and refusal.
It's built from regular people who have had enough. It's
built from every survivor who refuse to be erased. It's
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built from every whistleblower who lost their job telling the truth.
It's built from every person who stopped waiting and started pushing.
It's built from voices that will not be silenced and
eyes that will not look away. They think they can
outlast us, they think we'll get tired, they think will
eventually shut up and move on. They don't understand who
(14:32):
they're dealing with. Like I said, We're not letting this go,
not now, not ever. All of the information that goes
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