Teflon Don, Epstein the Con, and QAnon
Why They Rhyme and The Danger of a Cornered Animal
As I mentioned the other day, I loathe discussing anything once it has gone too viral.
But I’m going to make an exception because this topic is central to my longtime Revenge of the Layperson thesis and I’m not going to concede ground that I have long covered just because I deplore clickbait opportunism and the dishonest methods of so many actors more interested in ad revenue and clicks than honest, ethical, and sincere analysis or reporting.
Unfortunately, so much of both the mainstream and alternative media fit that description.
The Cartman-Epstein scandal is a perfect lens for a deep dive into the nexus between American irrationality, conspiracy theories, and the potential catastrophic consequences for the rest of the world. Last week I summed up my concerns about the threat of the United States here and here.
Today I’ll be discussing Teflon Don and his next Houdini Act and a set of lunatic beliefs that we have covered for years, most often attributed to a movement called QAnon, how they inform the American MAGA movement, and how the recent Epstein scandal could result in the American president taking even more extreme measures to counter and survive it.
Teflon Don aka Cartman
The American president has another nickname, Teflon Don, which is a reference to an infamous criminal and gangster named John Gotti who was the mafia boss of the Gambino family in the 1980s.
The comparison is fitting in more ways than one but it is usually attributed to Cartman’s uncanny abiity to avoid political and legal scandals from sticking to him.
They finally got Gotti and he died in prison, so a boy can still dream.
In other words, this dude somehow gets away with anything and everything and has never been held accountable in a way that baffles most political pundits and even legal scholars. He seems somehow impervious and invincible.
He once quipped:
”I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn't lose any voters.”
At this point, I think we’d be hard pressed to not literally accept that assertion.
”He’s an outsider, a great businessman, and not a politician, yadda yadda yadda. He is authentic and speaks his mind, yadda yadda yadda. Sleepy Butter Hussein Obummer Joe Emails. Burn it all down!!!!!!!”
In the beforetimes, any one of the tens of thousands of illegal, treasonous, dishonest, and obscene things that Cartman has done would have disqualified any prior politician from achieving high office and many would have landed him in prison if he were but a mere layperson, not a reality show star, and not endowed with a half a billion dollar inheritance and the army of lawyers that that can purchase.
Hell, John Edwards’ promising political career was over in 2008 for having an affair. How fucking quaint is that?
Cartman has so decimated every societal and political norm of honesty, decency, professionalism, competence, decorum, ethics, and integrity and normalized the most vile of human behavior to such an extent that one wonders how and if the United States will ever recover or if a competent legitimate leader could ever win again.
Just a friendly reminder of a small subset of the transgressions that he has survived:
Birther Conspiracy Against Obama
Access Hollywood tape
Russia investigation (2017–2019)
Two impeachments
Pathological Liar - Tens of thousands of lies
Multiple indictments
Felony Convictions
Adjudicated Rapist
Hundreds of millions in penalties from criminal fraud
Dozens of Credible Sexual Abuse Allegations
Big Lie About Stolen Election
January 6th - Incited Failed Coup Attempt
Multiple Examples of Adultery
Starts a Global Trade War….because
Threatens to Invade Greenland, Panama, Canada, and Mexico…because
Dozens of examples of public corruption in open sight - Crypto, merchandising from the W.H., Emoluments Violations, Corporate and National Extortion
And 10,000 other things that we have all forgotten. I resent this one the most.
***Association with Epstein in Minor Sex Trafficking Case*** - TBD
***Government Coverup of Epstein Files*** - TBD
I feel for a younger generation or anyone who has only become politically conscious in the last decade as they will consider this political climate and social behavior as “politics as usual” and be wholly unaware that it was not thus until recently and is anything but usual.
Politics has become indistinguishable from online trolling and social media “influencing” as politicians increasingly abandon classical governance in favor of regressive back to high school behavior collecting followers to sign their year book, lobbying for the prom king and queen crowns, giving wedgies and making fun of the nerdy kids in band and maths lab.
Cartman even bought the school council which is ironically named Truth Social to rig the prom dance coronation ceremony and tweets “policy” to the school kids in the playground rather than perform any serious activities like running a super power.
MAGA and the QAnon Link
Several years back, I unwittingly was dragged into the weird and horrific YouTube cottage industry and subculture of “True Crime.” It’s one of the most irrational and immoral sections of the universe I’ve ever visited.
It’s filled with ruthless, craven, ignorant grifters who know nothing of any of the relevant prerequisite skill sets necessary to discuss crime and punishment professionally and ethically but that doesn’t stop them from peddling their opinions for big money, doxing innocent people, and accusing everyone and anyone of being a murderer and pedophile, and with real life consequences.
That space was dominated by the most gullible people I’ve ever seen in such large numbers. They were absolutely convinced and obsessed by the idea that pedophilia and child sex traffickers are everywhere and that kidnapped or murdered children and adults in America number in the millions, despite the data on active missing persons showing the actual numbers to be nowhere near that scale and more along the lines of around ten thousand or less. And many of those have nothing to do with any criminal activity.
And the grifters were more than happy to feed them up this massively exaggerated and imagined crisis on the daily while begging for superchats, beer, and cigarette money.
Any missing or harmed child or adult is too many but to use that level of demagoguery to make money is sickening.
What was happening there was a perfect case study to understand the evolved human sense of moral disgust, a topic we have covered many times over the years.
Interestingly enough, it emerges from the more common, primitive form of disgust that we experience with our touch, visual and olfactory senses when feeling something slimy, seeing a grotesque image, or smelling a noxious or offensive odor.
Those experiences are an evolved mechanism to protect us from guts, rotting food, bacteria, feces, and other harmful substances in our environment like decomposing corpses.
Somewhere in our evolutionary past, that physical sense of disgust somehow was coopted by our moral intuitions and now manifests as that ick factor we get from what we consider offensive human behavior.
So, you’d have to be a psychopath to not feel a strong visceral revulsion to the idea of a baby or young child being physically harmed or worse. It is about as normal a human emotion as there is.
And grifters, marketers, politicians, and lawyers alike know how powerful moral disgust and other human emotions are and they pull at our heart strings all the time for their personal gain and to influence our behavior.
In the case of the true crime grifters, they prey on the retired, widows, empty nesters, the gullible, the religious, the paranoid, the mentally ill, and the traumatized victims of crime themselves.
I tried to bring skepticism and science to that world to confront some of the false claims, the rampant pseudoscience and conspiracy theories, and the atrocious immoral and dangerous behavior.
I completely regret it.
I developed a small and fiercely loyal following who were very disappointed when I announced my departure but it was just too toxic an environment and I did not believe I could have enough impact to justify the time, effort and personal risk.
I especially appreciated the barrage of death threats that I received, the private investigator who doxxed me, a report to place me on an FBI watchlist and all for having exposed some very dangerous grifters, including a very popular retired and dirty ex-cop turned True Crime guru and fabulist who regularly accuses innocent people online, without evidence, of having committed heinous crimes and who had been successfully sued as an active cop for violating the civil rights of three innocent teenage boys decades before.
It sufficed to assert that you were a “pedo hunter” or a self-avowed savior of lost children to start a successful true crime channel and bonus if you threw in a heavy allotment of “Praise Jesus” and “Amen” references to solidify your law enforcement credentials and virtue bona fides.
What is the relevance of that little side story?
That world was disproportionately inhabited by QAnon, both consumers and creators, so I had the unfortunate displeasure of seeing the phenomenon first hand and how it manifested.
Much of that community was not only disproportionately QAnon but also MAGA.
While MAGA may not be only QAnon, QAnon is all MAGA with few exceptions.
They share radical and extreme views relating to conspiracy theory psychology, religious zealotry, Christian eschatology, Christian dominionism, anti-liberalism, anti-science, and an acute susceptibility to cult behavior.
The reason I witnessed such a fanatical and irrational obsession with child sex trafficking and pedophilia in that YouTube space was because it is at the heart of both QAnon and MAGA ideology.
What does QAnon believe?
QAnon is a far-right conspiracy theory and online movement that began in 2017.
They believe that there is a secret, global cabal of Satan-worshipping pedophiles who control the world. This cabal is made up of Democratic politicians, celebrities, billionaires, and “globalists.”
And I hope you’re sitting down, they believe Cartman was secretly recruited by the military to expose and defeat this cabal. Teflon Don is literally the QAnon messiah.
They believe a “Great Awakening” will occur, followed by “The Storm” which will result in the mass arrest and execution of these elites.
Yes, you read that right, an open execution of all their political enemies.
The ironic bit is that it may have all been fabricated by some random 4Chan trolls just having a laugh at the expense of the gullible.
So, pray tell who might some of these blood-drinking pedophile baby cannibals be?
Would you be surprised if I mentioned names like Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, George Soros, and other big Hollywood names?
Much of the cryptic alleged “Q” messages were understood as prophetic code interpreted almost as if it were Biblical code written by God himself.
Many of the conspiracy theories involved vaccines, masks, the lockdowns, 5G, microchips, JFK, and much more. If you were lucky, you might have even caught some hits from the past like David Icke’s illuminati lizard people walking among us like a scene from John Carpenter’s They Live.
I wish I were making this up but having studied the psychology of conspiracy theories and human cognition for decades, I’ve sadly come to realize that there is absolutely no limit to the insanity that the human brain can entertain and accept as fact.
And these people vote. And they voted for Cartman in large numbers. And Cartman has played footsies with them for years, sharing countless Qanon propaganda posts on Twitter and Truth Social.
When asked what he thought about them, he responded only: “they like me very much” and some other drivel.
It’s also important to note that many of the January 6th insurrectionists were carrying Q symbols.
Needless to say, there is zero evidence for any of the QAnon claims and all of their prophecies have come and gone to no avail. There have also been several serious violent crimes committed by QAnon proponents and the FBI has labeled QAnon a domestic terrorism threat forcing QAnon identification to become less visible. The prevalence of these beliefs in MAGA has also contributed to the erosion of trust in institutions, media, science, and democracy.
The Epstein Scandal
Firstly, in my almost 60 years on this planet I have never seen such an obvious government coverup happen in front of the whole world as the Epstein case.
I can’t claim to know exactly what they’re covering up but that it has something to do with making Cartman look bad seems beyond reasonable doubt.
It’s such an own goal too.
Cartman explicitly promised to make the Epstein files public during his 2024 presidential campaign. He repeatedly asserted that if re‑elected, he would direct the Justice Department (under Attorney General Pam Bondi) to declassify and release the full “Epstein Files,” including a much-discussed “client list.”
His VP, Kenny, also explicitly called for the release of the Epstein files.
Bondi announced in February in various public appearances that the files were “sitting on her desk” and “under review” and would be shortly released.
Also in February a PR stunt showed over a dozen right wing influencers showing off binders reading “The Epstein Files: Phase 1”
The problem was that there was nothing in these binders that was not already in the public domain and public knowledge.
And then…..boom…..fizzle….shut the fuck up! There is nothing to see. You’ll never get anything. Move on. We were just messing with you.
On July 7, 2025, the DOJ/FBI released a memo stating “no client list exists” and no further documents would be released. Epstein killed himself and here’s the video evidence which is modified and shows nothing, but more, it shows nothing with missing time.
I understand why Cartman lied to his gullible flock that he would release the files during the campaign. He threw them red meat. That’s what he does. He knew they had been drooling at the bit for years to see the client list hoping to see all their enemies on it.
But they’re too far gone to care that all of the available evidence was always going to make Cartman number one on that list.
We all know he was great friends with Epstein for years. We know they hunted women together. We know he traveled with Epstein many times. We know Cartman has a long history of sexually abusive behavior. We know he walked into locker rooms of young girls at his pageant to see them naked. We know he admitted that Epstein liked underage girls. But the cult is always blind.
But why the heck did Bondi announce the complete release of the Epstein files without knowing that Cartman would have to shut it down entirely?
Why hold the PR stunt with the binders only to completely reverse course and make it look like an even more obvious cover up?
That makes no sense except in the light of a cabal of incompetent nincompoop misfits that don’t know which foot to put their shoes on or how to coordinate anything more complicated than a coffee break.
So, this has all been a “nothing burger” but it is the fallout from his base and Cartman’s response that is where all the action is.
Here is his response only a day after his administration announces a complete reversal on a promise that he made and which his MAGA/QAnon base has been obsessed with for years; a promise which involved the possible release of the names and possible prosecutions of hugely influential and powerful people in a major sex-trafficking case involving minors.
If you want to know what obvious defensiveness and feigning contempt to cover something up looks like, this is it. There is no way to argue otherwise.
Now, remember that story I told you about how passionate and emotional his QAnon cult members get about this sort of thing? And heck, even if you’re not a cult member, this seems pretty important when it comes to getting justice for some of our most vulnerable citizens and holding our most powerful to account.
And the fallout has been, by far, the most substantial MAGA revolt and threat to his power that I’ve seen in his 10 years as king.
He is already performing his normal Houdini acts of escape, sleight of hand tricks, and normal obfuscation. Why not slap on a few more tariffs or play tough with Putin for a change. How about changing the name of soccer to football.
He even sent out a little skreed admonishing and scolding his flock and told his little “boys and gals” to stop fighting and to leave A.G. Boney alone and get back in line.
But this would not be the Cartman show if he didn’t blame Hillary and Obama so, of course he did. There aren’t any Epstein files but if there are they were fabricated by Killary and Obummer, just like the fabricated Russia, Russia, Russia hoax.
Amirite? Amirite? Can I get a little USA fight song? A “lock her up?” Winning, baby! #Winning. Make America Trump Some More.
And gosh, if Ghislaine was prosecuted for helping in the trafficking, how did they get a conviction without demonstrating there were clients? And didn’t all that happen during his administration? Even the suicide? Those baby-eating Libtards are sure clever to pull all this stuff off.
Do I think this will break the spell or that it signifies his imminent demise? Abso-fucking-lutely not. After all Teflon Don has gotten away with? This is nothing by comparison.
And yet, and yet, his base is apoplectic. The cult really wanted this one!
They had bottles of cheap malt liquor on ice ready to celebrate the beginning of the public executions. Finally, the blood-sucking globalist elite, the Hollywood woke celebrities, Killary, Slick Willie, and Obummer were gonna hang at sunrise.
I think this will blow over and everyone will forget and move on as they always do.
Besides, he has already successfully scapegoated Bondi. They are not disappointed in Daddy. The “Deep State” apparently got to Bondi, Patel, and Bongino. They are now the enemy within and can’t be trusted by his most devout sheep.
It’s also so telling to watch the regulars like Carlson, Dershowitz, D’Souza, and so many other MAGAts all playing the game. They are all either telling the base to move on on instruction from Daddy or creating conspiracy theories to scapegoat anyone but Daddy. Daddy must be protected at all costs.
The revolt is still not over and it’s not perfectly clear what the long term consequences will be. He may still have to pay a political cost for this one because it is the first real major blow emanating from his most loyal followers.
As they say, a cornered animal is always the most dangerous. Whether this is the straw that breaks the camel’s back or not, something else certainly will, given the level of incompetence and all the threats this administration poses.
We all need to worry what a seriously threatened Cartman would be willing and capable of doing if he knows he’s done or if he feels the walls colllapsing in on him.