A Radical Reset
Our Republic has been converted into a democracy which is just another name for mob rule. The mob is getting what it wants, to paraphrase H.L. Mencken, good and hard. One day soon, the entire edifice is going to collapse under its own weight and what takes its place historically will be tyranny. A Radical Reset is the alternative and the system is called Antipolitism. It calls for a new republic based upon merit and not ambition. No parties, no money in politics, no careers in politics, and only serving the public good.
A Radical Reset
Unmasking the Epstein Myths
Conspiracy theories fascinate us because they provide order to chaos and explanation for the inexplicable. In this thought-provoking episode, we dive deep into the psychology behind conspiracy thinking, using the recent Jeffrey Epstein controversy as a compelling case study.
The facts about Jeffrey Epstein reveal a complex individual - a talented financial professional who built a billion-dollar empire through education and hard work, while simultaneously engaging in reprehensible personal behavior. His desire to associate with powerful figures wasn't necessarily about building a "client list" for criminal activities, but more aligned with his craving for proximity to fame and influence. I detail why the much-discussed "Epstein list" never actually existed, despite persistent claims to the contrary, and how this misunderstanding has been weaponized across the political spectrum.
The Alan Dershowitz case provides a fascinating window into the reliability of accusations surrounding Epstein. When Dershowitz was accused by one of Epstein's primary victims, he fought back with irrefutable evidence disproving the allegations, leading to a withdrawal of the lawsuit with claims of "mistaken identity." This doesn't diminish the accuser's victim status, but it does raise important questions about memory, motivation, and the complexity of truth in high-profile cases.
What makes this examination particularly valuable is understanding why big conspiracies fundamentally don't work. The logistics of maintaining secrecy among numerous people over extended periods are virtually impossible - consider that statutes of limitations on conspiracy expire, creating risk-free opportunities to profit from revealing information. Someone always talks - to lovers, friends, in moments of drunkenness, or for financial gain. This fundamental truth helps explain why major conspiracy theories, from JFK to 9/11, fail under scrutiny.
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Happy Monday everybody. It's me, herbie K, your host here on A Radical Reset. Before we start the show, I'm not going to be talking about antipolitism today, but if you would like to learn about antipolitism which is converting our republic, our democracy, now descending into mob rule, as all democracies do, historically, without exception, all democracy ends in tyranny and to avoid that, I'm proposing a new kind of republic and that republic is called an anti-political republic and it converts public office from an ambition and a career to simply a duty to serve, and it's a republic by merit-based lottery and it's well thought out, I promise you, and the manifesto of that is called A Radical Reset. It's on Amazon, you can get it in Kindle paperback or hardcover by me, herbie K. What else do I want to share with you today? And, of course, pass around the podcast. I wasn't going to talk about this. The subject matter of today's podcast was something I was not going to talk about, but now I feel compelled to because somehow this thing has legs and that's the Jeffrey Epstein thing. So let me, I mean, to me it's crystal clear what's going on and both sides have a lot of can point fingers at themselves. Both sides of this, of this, this tempest in a teapot over over this low life. Jeffrey Epstein Okay, jeffrey Epstein was definitely a disgusting human being, but he was also a very talented human being.
Speaker 1:He was a self-made billionaire in the finance sector and to do that this isn't something you wake up in the morning, decide you're going to be. It requires an enormous amount of education and work and research on an ongoing basis. You're going to get to my point in a minute. So he was that. He was also a fame whore. He was one of those people that just loves to rub elbows with the rich and famous and to do that, he was both a political junkie and he made his jet available as a favor quote unquote to the rich and famous and powerful because it got him off. Powerful because it got him off. So it wasn't, you know, did he involve some of the people he was dancing around with in his sexual escapades on his island? I'm sure, but you know there's only 24 hours in a day and you have to sleep part of it and he's running his business empire at the same time. Guys, he was an unbelievable low life in his private life, but he was a split and a lot of people touched him that had nothing to do with his sexual thing, and this is the reason I'm bringing this up.
Speaker 1:There was never a Jeffrey Epstein list. Lots of reporters, professional reporters, who know what they're doing. Jeffrey Epstein list. Lots of reporters, professional reporters, who know what they're doing. It's easy to use Google or Grok or whatever you want to use, to look this up From the beginning. It was released early on that there was never a client list of Jeffrey Epstein. Okay, jeffrey Epstein had clients of his hedge fund, but that's completely divorced from the sexual nonsense. Okay, there's two completely different things. So there was no client list. You know, he wasn't like accumulating. He wasn't blackmailing anybody.
Speaker 1:All of that is a construct of overactive imaginations. Now I can understand why people might think there's a list, because I think there's something in human nature that looks for conspiracy. Conspiracy is explanation of the disgusting. Okay, that's what it really comes down to. So all of us, if we get down to our basis roots, even our belief in God, we feel like there has to be an explanation to what happens to us in our lives. It can't just be random. There has to be a certain plan to it all. Some people see that plan in God, some people, depending on the religion and I'm the first to say I'm ignorant of what I'm about to say, but see it manifest in karma. There's lots of different, but people try to attach meaning.
Speaker 1:And when something really horrible happens, um, like, for example, the recent crash of the uh, the, the 747, or it was a 787, whatever it was over in India, it looks like you know the, the co-pilot either, I think what he did cause I'm a licensed pilot I think he, um, instead of raising the landing gear, he, he raised the flaps at low altitude and dropped the plane onto the ground. He may have turned off the fuel, I mean, but it's just plain old human error. But you know, when something horrible like this happens and kills 250 people or so on the ground and, you know, just destroys lives forever, people try to, you know, see, is there some kind of someone to sue, at least, you know, like immediately. This is clear in this particular case, that had nothing to do with the airplane, but that was the place where most people went right away. It was a Boeing airplane, after all, and Boeing had had some other problems and that fomented conspiracy in people's minds and yada, yada, yada, when it really was just plain old pilot error. Most airplane accidents, by the way, are just plain old pilot error. So you know, we have a tendency to do this as human beings and I completely, completely understand this tendency. I have it myself. We all have it.
Speaker 1:So let's turn to the Jeffrey Epstein thing. It's such a disgusting thing and he's rubbing elbows with so many you know, rich and famous people and there's a natural, you know. Then there's the built-in envy that a lot of people have about rich and famous people and the things they can get away with. That we can't. And this was just ripe for conspiracy.
Speaker 1:But from the very beginning, the serious reporting that's been done on this and again, please fact check me there was never a list what there is is, are what there is, are what there is is depositions. Depositions is plural what. I guess we'll go with the what. What there is is depositions, lots and lots of depositions, and in these depositions and there are photographs and there are recordings there are a lot of people that touched Epstein in the course of like using his jet and this and that and the other, but they are after being investigated thoroughly. There's nothing there. They weren't doing anything, they were just for lack of a better term guilty by association. And yet these are rich and famous people and they're going to get smeared.
Speaker 1:Now, what underlines all of the credibility and the reason that there's a lot of reasons to doubt a lot of these accusations is the case of Alan Dershowitz. So Alan Dershowitz early on in this entire Epstein investigation, it came out that he was being accused by. There is a. There was one primary accuser of Jeffrey Epstein and it was a woman named Virginia Joffrey and I'm probably mispronouncing that. She passed away at the age of 41. I think she killed herself. I'm not not entirely. It could have been cancer. I'm making this I you know what forget. I said that Just. It just seems to be a tragic story, but she was one of the young girls that went to the Epstein Island and she was the primary accuser of Jeffrey Epstein, and this is going to sound like I'm smearing her and I'm not.
Speaker 1:You could be telling the truth about one thing and lying about another thing, but she went after Dershowitz and sued him, trying to get money from him, and Dershowitz because he was innocent and had resources and is a brilliant attorney did what someone in his position would do if they were innocent, which is fight back. And he had the receipts. So the you know the all these dates and times that she said he was here and there and on this Island and that Island and this plate and that plane. Dershowitz had hard receipts and and evidence and proof and close circuit you name it proving that this is all bullshit. Everything she said about him was bullshit and so she withdrew her lawsuit and claimed that it was a case of mistaken identity. Well, you know, go take a good long look at Alan Dershowitz and you know two plus two equals four.
Speaker 1:Virginia got a little caught up in maybe how much money she could make as a result of this. It doesn't diminish that she was a victim of Epstein to also understand that she was likely to, you know, not exactly as pure as Driven Stone. Maybe the experience so scarred her that it turned her into something of a sociopath herself. Who knows? I'm not a psychologist, but one does not negate the other. I want to make that very, very clear. But it does point out that she is not she was not God rest her soul an entirely truthful person and she was not above going after somebody who had nothing to do with it. So a lot of you know, she was the primary accuser of most, if not all, of the people that are in this, this greater Epstein file.
Speaker 1:Okay, so all of it? There's just no, there's just no. They're there. What there is is a way to ruin the lives of a lot of people, and this is why the report isn't going to be released or shouldn't be released. Who knows what they're going to do now. Maybe redact the hell out of it and release it. Maybe that's the way to get rid of this story. But I don't know. I'm not a PR professional, but there's a lot of smoke. There's no fire here, and the real reason that there's no Epstein list is because there never was and this is not news, this is something that's been out for years that there never was an Epstein list. Okay, so now we're clear. That's the factual basis of the case.
Speaker 1:Now, now that I've gone after all the people who were believing that this is you know. Oh, and, by the way, I want to make this crystal clear to all you, democrats and Republicans If either Joe Biden or Donald Trump was in those files, they would have been released. Remember that Biden had control of those files through his Justice Department for the last four years and didn't release them. And now Trump has control of them and he's not releasing them. And if Biden were in them, or Hunter or somebody that he could make crap out of, trump is certainly not above doing it. So you can all relax. Neither Biden nor Trump are in those files. It flies in the face of reason. So calm the fudge down on that one, okay. So now let's go into where was I going. I lost my train of thought, okay. So, epstein, you know, as I get older, I just hate that. Did I lose my train of thought anyway? So so there's no there there in the files.
Speaker 1:Oh, now I'm going to talk about the fault of, of what is the fault of the administration and in particular Pam Bondi, and what's going on with the Don, the Dan Bongino slash cash, patel, patel disaster. This is inside baseball. Now, what's going on there is that Pam Bondi stupided out and she way overpromised to underdeliver. And, as I've spoken to in the past, the quickest way to get people to betray you is to set them up for betrayal by betraying them, and you do that by promising something that you have no intention of or cannot possibly achieve on their behalf. Don't make promises you can't keep is what it boils down to, because when you do that, you become a betrayer and nobody will ever. You'll lose all your credibility as a human being.
Speaker 1:So Pam Bondi alluded to yes, if you go into what she said at the press conference, and yes, she never said that she saw the Epstein list, that she had the file on her desk, but prior to that she had put out a binder and the binder was part one and it was a bunch of stuff from the files, and then there was a tab in there and this is what she handed out to a number of mainstream sources and and, uh, you know, major podcasts and political source, so on and so forth. I need to take a sip of water, I'm a little dry now. So, anyway, it had a tab that said part two and there was nothing behind part two alluding to there's a lot more to come. So she, I frankly think that if anyone needs to fall on their sword, it's her. But what happened was is that Dan Bongino and Kash Patel, following the lead of their boss, who is Pam Bondi, remember, pam Bondi is the Attorney General. The Attorney General is the boss of the FBI director, who, in turn is the boss of the assistant FBI director. So this is the. There's the chain of command.
Speaker 1:So they went out and fell on their sword and, even though they knew there was nothing in that file, they went with what their boss said, thinking that she had her reasons for doing it. And then, you know, she basically threw them under the bus by in her presence, when she was next to Trump during the cabinet meeting going. And anyway, it's inside baseball and everyone needs to calm down. There's no there there. Now, if I were in Trump's shoes, what would I do? Probably redact out every possible name, not release the photos with a detail explanation as to why, and then release all the rest of the files and let people comb through them, because there's no there there and it'll blow out, it'll go into the background, like all great conspiracy theories do. And now I want to speak a little bit to conspiracies in general, because, while this conspiracy is going to fizzle out because there's absolutely no there there and it's easy to double check, like everything I just said, it's easy to double check, it's easy to go find out. I know I accumulated the information and shared it with you, but certainly you can go out and check every bit of information that I just shared, and that's true of anyone who's being rational about this. This is much ado about something, because I don't want to say it's much ado about nothing.
Speaker 1:Again, jeffrey Epstein was a lowlife but he had a lot of associations outside of Epstein's Island and you know, you just imagine that you took a. You know you took a ride. You're not a politician even. You're just a well-known, famous business person or whatever it might be. You took a ride on his jet because he offered it to you and it happened to be convenient, and yours was somewhere else, or whatever the story might be. So you know, among this powerful crowd, this is not an unusual thing Riding on each other's jets. You know, the thing about a jet is it doesn't do well if you leave it parked. You need to fly it. Okay, I speak to you now as a pilot. So you know, and there are a lot of tax benefits to flying it and the burning fuel and so on and so forth. So you have to look at it from a much more, let's say, prosperous point of view. You know everyone's doing each other a favor, but you know it's anyway. So you wouldn't want to be tarred by that brush. I mean, you would have nothing to do with Epstein's Island, just the fact that you knew Epstein.
Speaker 1:But there are people that you know. There are people that know all kinds of infamous people along the way, and that doesn't make them guilty. I worked because I was a criminal. I worked alongside people who were involved in my businesses and they were not criminals. They just were unfortunate enough to be too close to me. By the way, I didn't turn on any of them and they all escaped unharmed on purpose. I wasn't going to go down blaming people around me. So the bottom line here is relax and and and there's there's really. There's no there there. Now we move on to broader conspiracies, and there's so many of them.
Speaker 1:I just saw a poll that said the majority of democrats still believe the trump russia collusion story is is real, even though it's been debunked, and it was clearly a hoax. Um, you know, this is again the mindset of people. They, when someone really believes something, even when it's debunked later, it's so hard to give up that belief that you just pretend like it was never debunked, like it was never said. You know, I can't. The worst victim of that of all is definitely President Trump who's been the victim of. I mean, like, the list goes on and on.
Speaker 1:The Charlottesville thing was one that went on and on and on and it was never true from the beginning, but it still goes on. You know, they repeat it. You know, convicted rapist that one's not only is, is the. Is the um civil case going to be overturned? It's just a ridiculous case when you really look at it. But the rape had nothing to do with it. Okay, so, like everyone, but this, these are how these things spread. People get these evil things in their case when you really look at it. But rape had nothing to do with it. Okay, so, like everyone, but this, these are how these things spread. People get these evil things in their minds. They, they want to believe the worst and then, and then it all makes sense to them and there must be other people involved and it must be also nefarious. And you know, life just isn't that complicated and these big conspiracies don't exist. Little conspiracies exist. Big conspiracies never exist because there are too many people involved.
Speaker 1:I'm going to save you in the future a lot of time and trouble when it comes to trying to recognize conspiracy. There can be a conspiracy between, let's say, a couple of family members or a mafia organization. As long as they keep it, even within a mafia organization, they don't tell everybody. If you keep it on a need to know, on a very and the conspiracy is short term, you're conspiring to rob X, you know and and you're going to. You're going to rob X, but there's a date that's going to happen and when it's over, then the conspiracy is over and that conspiracy can be real. But even that conspiracy is tough to keep secret because when one of those people are brought down for something maybe completely unrelated, they will break that conspiracy for their own self-interest, to protect themselves and to get a plea deal.
Speaker 1:Well, in real life, when you have these gigantic conspiracies, starting with the Kennedy assassination which has now, he was killed by a crazy person. Lee Harvey Oswald was so crazy that the Russians threw him out. That's the true story. Okay, they weren't behind it. He was too crazy for the communists. So, yes, he did kill President Kennedy, there's no doubt about it. But you know all the other things the turning bullets so-called, which wasn't, and you know and the extra shots that wasn't, and it's all been debunked.
Speaker 1:And still there's probably a majority of people, or certainly a significant minority of people that still believe it, but the reason that you know it can't be true. Forget all the technicalities, forget all the moving parts, forget the knoll and the hit, the gunman on the knoll and all the other things. Okay, forget all of that and understand that while the statute of limitations on murder never runs out, the statute of limitations on conspiracy does, and it ran out decades ago. So if there had been a broader conspiracy, there's a seven-year statute of limitations. In some cases it can be extended to 10 years, but the year of the murder was 1963. So by 1973, there was no statute of limitations and you would have to believe that nobody involved in this conspiracy tried to profit from their involvement. Okay, it's 10 years later. Maybe they've lost a fortune, maybe they're not living as wealthy as they once did, maybe they'd like to live wealthy. They know they have a hot story. Nobody sold it. Nobody sold it even when they were past the point when they could be convicted and you'd have to believe that nobody talked to their lover in bed and that that lover never told anybody else. And nobody ever got drunk at a bar, and nobody ever. It's just too many people involved. That's true of the 9-11 conspiracy and the so-called bombs planted in the other towers. Someone had to plant those bombs and you'd have to believe again. That was 2001. The statute of limitations on conspiracy ran out in 2008. Now, even guys, you'd have to believe that nobody talked to anybody or it was connected to anybody and nobody tried to profit from it, which is just. If there was really that conspiracy. It's an absurd assumption. There are no big long-term conspiracies. There's no such thing. There are short-term conspiracies that terminate and then are about an issue so minor that they'll never be brought up again and just dissipate.
Speaker 1:The conspiracies to commit crimes. Conspiracy to commit murder. You know, half of murders go unsolved every year. More than half of murders go unsolved. A lot of those murders, I'm sure, involve conspiracy, maybe a lover, and most often a lover and a spouse. Okay, that's a conspiracy. And that conspiracy can work because, you know, assuming they end up together or at least, if they split down the road, they're smart enough not to sell each other. Whatever that one could work, although you can already see the weakness in that one too.
Speaker 1:My advice to all of you, if you ever think of not conspiring to commit a crime God forbid it's murder or anything else is. Don't do it because you're going to get rolled on. Just assume that's going to happen. But anyway, that's what I had to share with you today. Conspiracies generally aren't real unless they're short-term and very, very, very, very, very controlled on a need-to-know basis.
Speaker 1:And the Epstein conspiracy is no conspiracy and really it's all been out there from the start. It's just people putting it together and people on the right using it for self-promotion and to create a stink, and people on the left now feeding off of it because they sense a weakness in Trump's armor. Just, everyone, calm down. This is all much ado about nothing. We have a lot of serious problems to worry about. This is not one of them, and that's it. Have a beautiful, beautiful day and I'll talk to you again on Wednesday, and God bless you. Oh, don't forget to pick up a copy of A Radical Reset on Amazon, the Manifesto of Antipolitism. Don't forget to like and share and all that other good stuff, and let's see what else. That's it. God bless you, god bless your family and God bless America.