📍 ESSAY: The Panic Around the Files

“They Want to Publish Child Porn”: The Loudest Lie in the Room

Background: In July 2025, members of Congress pushed for expanded public access to sealed court records related to Jeffrey Epstein’s trafficking network. The demand focused on revealing names, testimonies, and flight logs. This push was shut down by a vote of 211-210, Rebulicans. So right-wing media, including Tim Pool, falsely framed the vote as an attempt to “publish child porn.”

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This week, talking heads like Tim Pool lit up with claims that Democrats “voted to publish child porn.” It’s not just disingenuous, it’s stupid. Not clever, not strategic, not protective…

Stupid.

Because even by their own logic, it breaks apart.

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🧠 If the Files Are Fake, What Are They Protecting?

Trump and his defenders have claimed that the Epstein files were faked by Obama, Hillary, and “radical leftists.” Fine. Let’s pretend for a second that’s true.

If they’re fake, then what exactly are Democrats accused of trying to publish? Fake child porn? That’s not a political stunt. That’s an act of manufacturing and distributing criminal content. It would mean the FBI, DOJ, federal courts, and law enforcement agencies fabricated the most vile material imaginable. That’s a wild conspiracy with zero evidence and still no explanation for why so many of the names, logs, and sealed depositions keep showing up across verified government files.

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🔍 If the Files Are Real, Then the Lie Is Protection

If the files are real (which all credible reporting, leaked depositions, and court records say they are), then this panic isn’t about “protecting victims.” It’s about protecting the people who victimized them. Even Trump said it would ruin people. So… ok?

We’ve seen this before in the Catholic Church, the Boy Scouts, and NXIVM. Every time the truth got close to powerful hands, the excuse wasn’t denial. It was **gasp** CONCERN.

"We can’t release this. It’s too sensitive. Too dangerous. Too shocking.”

No, what’s dangerous is sealing up the truth because it implicates the wrong names.

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🔥 Here’s What We Know

• Epstein trafficked minors.

• There were powerful clients.

• There were flight logs, aliases, aliases for aliases.

• There are sealed depositions, evidence of coercion, rape, and cover-up.

• And, some in power would rather shout “child porn” than answer the real questions:

  Who was there? Who did what? And why haven’t they been named?

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🗣️ The Real Panick

This isn’t about Democrats. It’s not about protecting children. It’s about avoiding accountability, because when that spotlight moves too close to certain names (politicians, billionaires, former presidents) the instinct is always the same:

• Smear the people asking questions.

• Flood the air with noise.

• Frame the pursuit of justice as the real crime.

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✨ ETHER

They say asking for names is exploitation.
But what they’re defending… is silence.
And it’s not the children they’re protecting.
It’s the people who still think they’ll get away with it.

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