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Once again, social media has proven that people care more about trash like Johnny Depp and Amber Heard than political chaos, eroding currency, and the state of the nation.
And even that set of catastrophic topics still takes a backseat to the melodrama unfolding in the wake of the Depp v. Heard trial in Virginia, where we’re seeing an overwhelming pattern emerge. And, no, I’m not talking about Amber’s near constant reputational beatings on social media (though, that’s an undeniable pattern, too). I’m talking about the women who have come out and distanced themselves from the toxic #MeToo movement.
In two recent New York Post articles (here and here), Ben Kesslen cites the most biting of social feeds that include the likes of Meghan McCain and other once-leaders in the movement, saying things like “#MeToo is dead, and “Helluva Job @ACLU.”
This last quote was an obvious stab at the liberal leaning civil rights institution that helped craft the op-ed in the Washington Post that got Heard Sued in the first place.
Both the ACLU and Amber Heard have become relatively hated sources of deflated gusto in the wake of the decision by seven Virginia jurors to find Heard culpable in the case that awarded Depp $15M in damages.
And who can blame them? Why would anyone want to go down with the sinking ship?
But here’s the thing: If you Sh*t in your partner’s bed and then get caught falsely claiming to be the victim, disappear. Just stop showing your face on TV. Close your social media accounts. Just go hide in your mother’s basement until the storm blows over. Who knows – we may just see a few more Harvey Weinsteins emerge and reinvigorate the movement.
Until then, I have to ask, ‘Why is Amber Heard still doing interviews?’
While the Depp v. Heard trial has trained the eyes of everyday viewers on the shit-show we call mob rule, the #MeToo movement has solidified its failed attempt to be anything other than a soapbox demonstration to bash men.
But if there’s any good news for one demographic of the world, it’s that it’s taught famous people something very different.
That’s right. While most of us poor people are sitting jaw-dropped at the feces-flinging circus that has become our court system, the elites of the world are sitting jaw-dropped for a very different reason. And that reason has them piling through their memories, their social media and probably even their background checks in a frenzied scramble to pluck any evidence of horrible things they’ve done to their past partners.
It’s also rightly scaring the shit out of anyone in Hollywood that’s ever had a drunken night they don’t remember. Because there were always people around who do. And if ever there’s a divorce, or defamation suit, or custody battle, all their ugly, bed-shitting, bottle-chucking, abuse-fallacies will be revealed.
And if this trial has proven anything outside of the fact that Amber Heard and Johnny Depp are both alcoholic scumbags, it’s that the world will show no mercy, no sympathy, and no quarter to famous people who lie and cheat, and claim to be the victim.
In yet another movement on the continuing saga, the former couples’ Hollywood friends are backpedaling in the wake of the hearings, going from their automatic acceptance that Heard’s accusations were true of Depp, and jumping on the MeToo bandwagon.
[Heard trial audio]
That was Depp’s former attorney in closing statements to the jury, pointing out somewhat prophetically that Heard was giving the performance of a lifetime on the stand. I say prophetic here because only just last week she appeared on an interview with NBC’s Savannah Gutherie, in a very unconvincing presentation renewing her claims of abuse.
I just picture Heard standing in front of the mirror, as actors do, and does the whole “deep breath centering technique to clear the mental cache of distractions,” and asks herself, “Okay, what’s my motivation? My motivation is to get $100M from Johnny Depp – the biggest score of any acting gig I’ll ever get.”
But the jury didn’t buy her particular brand of acting on the bench throughout the trial, and, as we all know, is now being forced to pay Depp $15M, which, even after her appearances on major recent blockbusters, she has since said she does not have to give.
In an almost equally unconvincing display of bad acting, Drew Barrymore was seen on Instagram apologizing for criticizing Depp in a former statement that she made.
[Barrymore audio]
But she’s not alone. In the midst of the trial, feminists rallied behind Heard, fomenting the statement, “Believe all women,” eluding to the notion that all women should be believed, regardless of any outcome in court, and no matter what it does to the credibility of the men they accuse.
Referencing this statement on his Ego Death world comedy tour, Chris Rock chanted as if joining the anti-male protesters, “Believe all women. Believe all women. Believe all women. Except Amber Heard.”
The list of celebrities that have jumped ship from Heard’s expectation of solidarity in her claims, is both long and extensive, and includes Ireland Baldwin, who condemned Amber Heard as a “terrible person” during the recent trial, Joe Rogan, who spent a huge chunk of a recent podcast discussing how America is “seeing all the crazy come out” in Heard’s performance, and Bill Burr, who, before the trial was over, said he hopes people will apologize to Depp after he’s cleared his name.
Other stars that chimed in on Depp’s defense include Eva Green, Jennifer Anniston, Kate Moss, Howard Stern, and Rob Schneider. And still others, like Ellen Barkin and Julia Fox, are now catching massive amounts of shit for their support of Amber Heard.
But I suppose now they share Depp’s intimate knowledge of what Amber Heard’s shit actually smells like.
I’m so glad that the trial is over, so it will stop dominating the headlines. I know that this is a big loss for the neo-feminist agenda, which is good, and that it’s a big win for men’s rights when it comes to false accusation. But I actually lost a lot of respect for Johnny Depp during the trial. What little of it I could stomach in the weeks that it stole America’s attention away from things that actually matter in the world, I learned so much more about Depp than I ever wanted to know.
Namely, I learned that Depp is just a junkie. Or maybe just one step above a junkie. His alleged use of cocaine and constantly being high, their constant drinking – the only difference between Johnny Depp and my alcoholic, junkie neighbor down the street, is that my neighbor gets up every morning and goes to a job.
If Depp didn’t have hundreds of millions of dollars in the bank, he’d have long since run out of money by now keeping himself tanked on foreign substances. And I’m not actually even blaming Depp. The man is free to do, in his private life, whatever the hell he wants. My greater concern is that people around the world idolize him and his lifestyle.
When there are hero scientists scientists out there curing diseases, and brilliant physicists plotting the future inhibition of Mars, and would-be leaders out there pioneering new, green sources of energy that promise to clean up our air and our oceans, and yet we swoon these junkies – we give more of our attention to these two idiots who get paid to lie in front of cameras for an extraordinary amount of money.
There are so many more important things that America exports other than pants-off-the-ass, hip hop culture, and drunk millionaires in the throes of a grudge match. If we celebrated people making real and positive changes in the world, rather than just people making money, we’d be experiencing such a better quality of life.
We’d see Space-X and NASA with all the funding it needed to find other worlds and connect with other civilizations. We’d see an effort to contain and exploit fission-fusion energy that would solve everything from transportation impasses to energy crises. We’d see focus diverted to people working to end world hunger, and create a world education fund, and criminalize global corruption, and hold corrupt leaders to account, and on and on and on.
And I realize that I just got done writing an article and making a podcast about the very thing that I’m claiming we shouldn’t be paying any attention to. But there’s more to this trial than two Hollywood elites flinging shit at one another.
There is a men’s rights issue at play here that’s gone sorely unnoticed in the courts. Women automatically get custody of kids, women consistently get lighter sentences for the same crimes as men, courts rule in favor of women in the vast majority of criminal cases and on and on and on.
This isn’t to say that there aren’t plenty of men out there that need to be thrown in jail for being exactly what neo-feminists say they are. But this doesn’t mean that there aren’t plenty of women out there falsely accusing men, and abusing the court system to enact spite and vengeance. And the minute we stop accepting the narratives that woke virtue hounds engender and pipe into the cultural narrative, is the minute we start waking up and just treating people as the individual cases that they are.
When we see a victory for Johnny Depp, who’s had to live under a false narrative on the world stage for several years, and it’s still being hailed as a total miscarriage of justice by the woke feminists of the world, this is what it’s like for men who speak out for men’s rights, and for men who dare defend themselves against false accusations in the courts.
And that’s because when people speak out about men’s rights, they’re simply beaten down as wife-abusing, Cromagnon machismo assholes. We’re lumped together as neanderthals without the conscious ability to NOT rape and sexually assault every woman who crosses our path.
It’s an uphill battle for men to get justice in the first place. And when a dozen jury members announce that they unanimously found that Depp was the victim of abuse at both the hands and verbal assaults of Amber Heard who’s been enjoying the benefits of that narrative in her career, we should realize a lot more about this trial than two rich assholes having temper tantrums.
We should clue in on the notion that woke ideologies are not doing anyone any good.