Opinion by Mathew Carr (contains spoilers)

Dec. 26, 2025-Jan 3, 2026 — The coincidence of Netflix’s latest episodes of “Stranger Things” released past two weeks and the delayed Epstein files …. is no coincidence at all.

They are both psychological operations….probably deployed simultaneously to create fear and frustration….and to distract.

They are both about child trafficking in part. About violence against kids and an out-of-control military industrial complex.

What both reveal is a deep, dark underworld…where the people are not in charge of their futures and children are in grave danger.

The existence of this underworld is not new.

For instance, whistleblower Whitney Webb has written in detail about it from 2022, stemming from facts from 1942, for instance…showing this underworld has indeed existed for 8 decades or more, at least.

Right wing Republicans in the frame (clearly not the only ones in the frame)

Stranger Things’ new episodes show who is at risk:

The kids

“Stranger Things” is an apparently fictional depiction of a classic American town Hawkins dealing with evil monsters living in an underground just beneath their reality.

The Epstein files is a clear coverup of bad behavior …. that demonstrates how governments have been captured by underworld forces that are acting against the interests of the people.

Instead of regulating bad behavior, governments have been collaborating with the people who are deploying the bad behavior: the mafias and gangsters — the corporate racketeers, the rising prices that erode freedom, the increasing taxes that place duress of mums, dads and kids.

People need to ask, given that the cover up of bad behavior is so clear…why are the people tolerating that obfuscation?

Why is the administration of President Donald Trump, and most western administrations…including the UK …. failing to do what they would said they would do: drain the swamp of the bad behavior.

Indeed, the Trump administration now seems to be trying to widen and seems to be seeking to extend the size and scope of the swamp …to a global scale … by criticising and even sanctioning those who would contain that swamp …the European Union, for instance …which wants to regulate the big-tech and military complex-linked companies.

Unfortunately for the badies…they are now up against the A listers. Consider Winona Ryder, one of the stars of Stranger Things:

Spoiler: she beheads the monster/ one of the monsters in the end (not the corrupt military leader though).

Why else do I say it’s a psychological operation or two?

“Stranger Things”‘s release has been delayed until now. That is a choice by Netflix. It’s a week after the supposed deadline for the release of ALL Epstein files on Dec. 19, by US statute.

It’s at least possible that Netflix leaders aligned with Trump’s plan to ignore the will of the people …the Dec. 19 deadline. (I only have circumstantial evidence of this motive/action …they would not do this ….surely)

Yet, if there if nothing to cover up, there would simply be no need to delay the disclosure, right?

It’s super clear that people in power have decided the people can’t handle the truth …but in fact …the billionaire perpetrators can’t handle the truth getting out!

Just think about this:

If the cover up has been going on for 80 years plus, how could there possibly be nothing to cover up?

It’s quite a leap to think that the people releasing Netflix’s “Stranger Things” have no linkages to those controlling the release of the Epstein files.

Psychological operations?

A week after I wrote that Netflix should not be able to expand its reach….interests associated with President Trump made a bid for Warner Bros, countering a Netflix bid:

Massive Netflix expansion deal fails the world, putting propaganda control into the hands of fewer people

The ability of billionaires to control propaganda needs to be investigated.

Psychological operations shouldn’t be tolerated.

(More to come)