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Johnny Depp Defeats Amber Heard | Ep. 1507
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Amber Heard is found to be a liar and a slanderer, and the Washington Post does not have clean hands either.
The Star Wars universe unites against the phantom menace of widespread racism, and the American military celebrates Pride Month.
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We begin today with a rather shocking event that took place last night.
So last night was the premiere of the much awaited documentary from Matt Walsh over at the Dailyware, What is a Woman?
And it was the most successful launch in the history of our company.
And we had tens and tens and tens of thousands of people who are simultaneously watching What Is A Woman.
It would have been a far larger number except for the fact that we were then hit at the very beginning of the live stream with a massive denial of service attack.
So a denial of service attack is essentially where your system is flooded with so much fake traffic that it ends up overwhelming the servers and denying other people who are trying to log in their service.
So there were tens of thousands of people who were unable to watch the movie last night because somebody, I'm not going to name names because we don't know yet, Somebody was attempting to prevent you from seeing what is the most important documentary, not only of this year, but I think of the last five or ten years.
Matt, what is a woman documentary?
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And somebody wanted to make sure that you could not see it.
According to our internal investigation over at the Daily Wire, As Jeremy Boring, co-CEO, announced, we've confirmed that DailyWire experienced a significant and sustained DDoS attack meant to disrupt the world premiere of What Is A Woman?
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The event was still the most trafficked live stream in DailyWire history.
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All right, the big news yesterday, aside from all of that, was the verdict coming down in the Johnny Depp Amber Heard trial.
I have talked about this.
Not on the podcast as much as on the radio show.
It was pretty obvious from Amber Heard's testimony that she's a sociopathic liar.
She was on the stand.
She's not a good actress.
Her bad acting was obvious to everyone.
Her story did not make any sort of internal sense.
She said stuff that was contradicted by forensic evidence.
Johnny Depp's testimony was Tended to be confirmed by the forensic evidence that was at his disposal.
Basically, they were accusing each other of abuse.
Johnny Depp's original accusation is that Amber Heard wrote an op-ed in the Washington Post in which she claimed to be a victim of domestic abuse.
Everybody knew that she was talking about Johnny Depp.
And he started to lose massive film roles, tens of millions of dollars in film roles lost.
So he sued Amber Heard.
She then cross-sued him, suggesting that he and his lawyers had lied about her And therefore, she needed to be awarded some sort of defamation damages.
Yesterday, the verdict came down.
According to the UK Daily Mail, Johnny Depp has now won his libel case against Amber Heard, saying he now has his life back after the jury ruled he was defamed and awarded him $15 million.
In a statement after the verdict, Depp said, Six years ago, my life, the life of my children, the lives of those closest to me, and also the lives of the people who for many, many years have supported and believed in me were forever changed.
Six years later, the jury gave me my life back.
I am truly humbled.
After less than three days of deliberation, the jury ruled in favor of all three of Depp's defamation claims against Hurd, finding that she had falsely accused him of domestic abuse.
He was awarded $15 million, $10 million in compensation, $5 million in punitive damages.
Hurd had three countersuit claims.
She only won one of them.
Those were related to statements made by Depp's lawyer suggesting that she and her friends had trashed their apartment before calling the police out.
She was awarded $2 million in compensatory damages out of the $100 million she was seeking and $0 in punitive damages.
None of those dollars are coming directly from Johnny Depp.
The judge later reduced Depp's $5 million punitive damages award to the Virginia maximum of $350,000.
of $350,000. So that means that he kind of nets $8.35 million.
So what does this say?
Well, Amber Heard suggested that this was a setback for all women, which is not true.
It's just a setback for women who are lying.
She put out a statement saying, No, that was not the problem.
That was not the problem, because the reality is that everybody in society immediately snapped to the Me Too, Believe All Women conclusion that Johnny Depp was a spousal abuser, and that is why he was denied parts for solidly six years here.
So the baseline notion that she is somehow the victim of a grander power structure is not true.
She's still an Aquaman, despite the fact that we have verified evidence that she was abusing Johnny Depp.
And that existed long before the trial.
And he didn't get work.
He was basically barred from Hollywood based on her empty accusations.
When I say empty accusations, I mean this is what a jury has now found.
So the idea that she's putting out there is that she is, poor little me, she's a victim.
Johnny Depp is more famous.
No, the problem is that Amber Heard looked like a crazy person during that trial.
If you watch any of the footage, and again, I'm not a close trial watcher, but producer Savvy definitely is.
She spends every waking moment, including in the middle of the night, she'll just wake up and she'll just watch the old footage of Johnny Depp and Amber Heard.
And she's shown me many of those clips.
We played many of the clips on the show.
Amber Heard appears to be a sociopathic liar.
That is what she looks like on the stand.
She's saying things that are not true.
She's weirdly Looking at the jury, well, she's not a believable or credible witness, in other words.
She says, I'm even more disappointed with what this verdict means for other women.
Oh, is that really what you're worried about?
What it means for other women?
That's what you are?
You're an advocate for other women?
Amazing how in our narcissistic, self-centered society, your story is everyone's story.
If you're having a bad moment, it's because all of society is guilty.
If you did something wrong and people found out you did something wrong, really you're not upset that you got caught.
You're upset on behalf of all of the other women.
You know what the problem is?
When you make false accusations in mainstream newspapers like the Washington Post, undermining the credibility of other women who actually have been spousally abused.
She says, I'm even more disappointed with what this verdict means for other women.
It is a setback.
It sets back the clock to a time when a woman who spoke up and spoke out could be publicly shamed and humiliated.
It sets back the idea that violence against women is to be taken seriously.
No, violence against women is to be taken seriously.
Slander is also to be taken seriously.
One of the things that was always absurd about the Believe All Women Me Too movement Is that women are humans.
Humans lie.
The notion that just because you happen to be a biological woman you therefore are more credible than you would be if you were a man is absurd at baseline.
It also is particularly absurd when the left can't even define, as we have discussed, what a woman is.
So somehow being a woman makes you more believable.
That also includes men who say they are women who are inherently not believable on this particular subject because they are not in fact women.
So it's all incoherent.
It's a logical mishmash.
Amber Heard says, I believe Johnny's attorney succeeded in getting the jury to overlook the key issue of freedom of speech and ignore evidence that was so conclusive that we won in the UK.
I'm sad I lost this case, but I'm sadder still that I seem to have lost a right I thought I had as an American to speak freely and openly.
Now, that was not really the question.
The question is whether what you said met the standard of malice, of actual malice when it comes to slander.
So the rule in the United States It's actually far more strict.
You have to prove far more in order to win a defamation case in the United States than you do in Great Britain.
You don't have to prove malice in Great Britain.
In the United States, you actually have to prove that the person knew what they were publishing at the time was false and did so anyway with malice.
It's not just that they made a mistake, it was with malice, with malicious intent.
And that was proved according to the jury.
Heard's spokesperson told the New York Times that she now plans to appeal the jury's verdict, though it is not clear on what grounds she's going to do so.
To be granted an appeal, Heard would likely need to demonstrate there were errors in the trial or in the presiding judge's reading of the law.
That's going to be extremely difficult.
Heard fans were despondent and accused the jury that delivered the verdict in favor of Depp of sexism.
Of course, because this is always the way that it works.
If you're a woman and you're a liar, then this means that if somebody notices, then this is sexism.
Because after all, everything is just structures of intersectional power.
Several prominent celebrities expressed their support for Depp and chastised Heard on social media, along with many other regular users, of course.
Now, one of the things that is so amazing about this story that really did not get enough coverage is the fact that Amber Heard's original op-ed in this story was written by the ACLU.
That's an amazing thing.
It really is.
The American Civil Liberties Union.
actually helped Amber Heard write an op-ed that was not true.
The Washington Post supposedly vetted this op-ed and then published this op-ed, and now a jury has found that the Washington Post actually created fake news and posted it online.
So I have a question for all of the news checkers over at Facebook.
You gonna ding the Washington Post now?
Or no?
According to The Atlantic, this is Lara Bazelon, professor at the University of San Francisco School of Law, writing a little bit earlier, This year, in mid-May, she wrote specifically about Amber Heard.
She said, By the way, the evidence of his allegations is far more substantial than the evidence of her allegations.
lawsuit against his ex-wife Amber Heard hasn't just tarnished his star and hers with allegations that he beat her and violated with her a bottle or that she severed part of his finger and emptied her bowels in the marital bed. By the way, the evidence of his allegations is far more substantial than the evidence of her allegations. Her allegations seem to be contradicted by physical evidence as well as any lack of credible witnesses. Amid this grotesquerie, says this professor, it might be possible to overlook the bizarre involvement of the ACLU, but the civil right organization's cringeworthy role deserves closer scrutiny
because of its centrality to the case and because it exemplifies the degree to which the ACLU has lost its way in recent years.
The heart of Depp's claim is that Hurd ruined his acting career when she published a 2018 op-ed in the Washington Post describing herself as, quote, a public figure representing domestic abuse, a thinly veiled reference to much-publicized accusations of assault she made against Depp in court filings toward the end of their short-lived marriage.
But Hurd hadn't pitched the idea to the Post.
The ACLU had.
You want the ACLU to back you in the claim that apparently is false?
That you were abusing and that you were abused by a spouse?
$3.5 million to the organization.
The ACLU named her an ambassador on women's rights, but they focus on gender-based violence, which is a really great way of trying to go after your ex-spouse.
And you want the ACLU to back you in the claim that apparently is false, that you were abused by a spouse.
Just give a bunch of money to the ACLU and they will then declare you an ambassador with a focus of gender-based violence.
The ACLU spearheaded an effort to place the op-ed and served as her, 's ghostwriter.
When H.E.R.D.
failed to pay up, it already said the ACLU collected $100,000 from Depp himself and another $500,000 from a fund connected to Elon Musk, whom H.E.R.D.
dated after the divorce.
The ACLU denies it would ever request or solicit donations in exchange for ambassadorships or op-eds.
Uh-huh.
The ACLU's bestowal of an ambassadorship inscribed for higher services upon a scandal-plagued actor willing to pay seven figures to transform herself into a victim's advocate and advance her acting career heard push for a publication date that coincided with the release of Aquaman.
As part of the group's continuing decline, once a bastion of free speech and high-minded ideals, the ACLU has become in many respects a caricature of its former self.
This, of course, is exactly right, but so has a large swath of the left.
The left used to say that free speech mattered and truth mattered, and now neither of those things are true.
Now you're just supposed to shut up and believe.
It's always to shut up and believe.
That, of course, is the cause.
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Now, the members of the media were shocked and appalled by all of this.
A lot of hot takes happening from our nation's media experts.
CNN analyst Joey Jackson said he was shocked and surprised by the verdict.
Joey, your thoughts?
A major victory for Johnny Depp, to be clear.
Apparently, the jury really absorbed, digested those statements, and gave the indication that they rejected Amber Heard, I mean, completely, just about.
We'll get to her case momentarily.
But this is a major victory for him.
I can say that I am very shocked and surprised by the nature of this, by the fact that the jury concluded, after hearing this, that she would be liable.
Okay, so Amber Heard, for her part again, called it a setback.
MSNBC legal analyst Carolyn Pelosi said this will negatively impact the MeToo movement.
Now, again, it shouldn't because the MeToo movement made too much of a claim.
The MeToo movement claimed that basically everyone in the United States has been subjected to sexual harassment or assault.
That is the claim that the MeToo movement made, and they broadened the definition of sexual harassment and assault to include everything from, guy you think is ugly hits on you at a bar, to full-on rape.
And this was all included under the rubric of MeToo.
So you'd have women going on Facebook and talking about, tell your MeToo story, and their MeToo story is, ugly guy said that I looked good in that skirt.
And it's like, well that's, that's really not, I mean, I'm sorry, that is not on the same par as Harvey Weinstein raping people.
For example, but Me Too covered the entire rubric and that was then combined with Believe All Women.
So the idea was any account that you had, completely unverifiable, had to be believed because you were claiming to be a victim.
Well, those claims were always too broad.
They were always way too broad.
It's not that Amber Too blew up the Me Too Believe All Women movement.
It's that it was perfectly stupid to say that you had to believe all women regardless of the nature of the credibility of the actual of the actual testimony in the first place.
It was a dumb claim.
If Amber Heard somehow heard your case with regard to your sexual assault, then I don't know how.
Like, why?
Why is her dishonesty any indicator of your dishonesty?
Why would her honesty be any indicator of your honesty?
Here is MSNBC legal analyst Carolyn Pelosi saying that, as always, it's not just about Amber Heard being a crazy person, it's about you.
Will this set back the broader Me Too movement and women who do want to speak out against abuse?
Look, each trial is supposed to be sort of, you know, not knowing about the larger cultural context that it sits in.
But without a doubt, this will have a massive chilling effect on the Me Too movement, on women speaking out.
Okay, again, the cases that have already had an impact on the Me Too movement, again, because it made extraordinarily dumb claims like all women ought to be able to live, I mean, the UVA rape claims that Rolling Stone ran out there that turned out to be completely and utterly false, those, again, if you make a claim that is unsustainable and then the claim falls apart, And that holds true whether you are making a specific claim or whether you're making a general claim.
That shouldn't have any implication for other people who are saying true things.
And yet, of course, we have to go in search of new victims of American society because every individual event is symptomatic of broader American ills.
This is why this thing has become political.
talking point is because basically anyone who watched that trial came away with the impression that Amber Heard was lying. If you spent a lot of time watching the trial or even a passing moment watching the trial, it was pretty clear that Amber Heard is not a person who can be trusted on on anything that she was saying. She was saying things that were she is not remotely credible.
I keep saying it, watch the testimony yourself. In fact, here is a clip of Amber Heard testifying.
You tell me if you find this credible. I wish so much he had said he was joking Because it didn't hurt.
It didn't physically hurt me.
I was just sitting there on this carpet, looking at the dirty carpet, wondering how I wound up on this carpet and why I never noticed that the carpet was so filthy before.
And I just didn't know what else to do.
I didn't know what to say.
I didn't know how to react.
I just sat there thinking, how much time do I have to figure out what I need to do?
Because God, did He just hit me?
So the fact that that lady's not credible, I don't know why that should have any impact on whether you are credible or not.
But again, the entire media is now going to say that Amber Heard should have been rewarded, or at least Johnny Depp should have been denied on behalf of all women, which is the way that they view criminal justice and virtually every justice issue.
It doesn't matter if Kyle Rittenhouse is actually guilty.
In order to quote-unquote protect black people, we have to make sure that Kyle Rittenhouse goes to jail, even though Kyle Rittenhouse was acting in self-defense and shot white people.
Social justice demands that we deny individual justice, which is why you have Monica Hess writing in the Washington Post, quote, I worry about this trial.
After watching nearly every bit of it, I came away feeling deeply dirty for having watched nearly every bit of it.
Wondering where the line is between gawking and bearing witness.
I mean, let's just be honest about this.
The reason people were watching Johnny Depp and Amber Heard is because they were gawking.
I mean, it wasn't because they were bearing witness to anything.
You make excuses all you want.
It's gossip TV, obviously.
I worry that the awful spectacle of this trial might cause alleged abusers to sue their accusers in court, possibly forcing them to relive the alleged abuse.
Well, I mean, if you are hit with an accusation, you do have the right in this country to defend yourself against false accusations.
That is a basic human right.
If someone accuses you of something, you get to defend yourself and face your accuser.
I worry that watching this mess of judgment and humiliation will be seen by non-famous abuse victims as one more reason not to come forward when coming forward is already so hard to do.
Now, again, I don't see the lesson.
I mean, Amber Heard says that the reason Johnny Depp won this case is because Johnny Depp is super famous.
So unless you're a non-famous Abuser, a non-famous abuse victim in a relationship with a famous abuser.
I'm failing to.
And again, there are many, many cases of non-famous abuse victims who make those claims and the abuser goes to jail, right?
This is the case of Harvey Weinstein.
This is the case of Bill Cosby, for example.
And Monica Hess concludes.
Talking about how the relationship between Johnny Depp is about the nature of horrible, sad relationships.
On the stand, Amber Heard described not why their relationship fell apart, but rather why it didn't fall apart for so long.
Why, if it was so terrible, she didn't leave him.
She said each act of violence felt like a coin she was depositing into a piggy bank, an investment in their future relationship.
She said she believed if she deposited enough coins, Johnny would stop hitting her.
That it had to get better, because she didn't see how it could get worse.
She said eventually, there were so many coins in the piggy bank, it was too heavy to move, and she had to, except she didn't stay.
She left, and then she slandered him.
So, there is, there is that.
By the way, hottest take of the day, I'm just going to read you the headline because it's amazing.
Hottest take of the day comes courtesy of Candace McDuffie over at The Root.
Quote, Amber Heard verdict sends a message to black women everywhere.
This is like the New York Times headline, world to end tomorrow, women and minorities hit hardest.
Amber Heard is a white lady, a very rich white lady, sends a message to black victims everywhere.
The fuck?
But that is our society.
It's all about who is the next set of victims that we can focus in on.
Not about individual justice.
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Hollywood is now, they've come up with a new way of defending against making crap content.
Their new way of defending against making crap content is to slander everybody who doesn't like Their content as racist.
So Star Wars has now preemptively done this.
So you remember they did this with The Last Jedi.
So there is a character in The Last Jedi called Rose.
Rose is a terrible character.
Like a really, really bad character that no one cared about and is boring and terrible.
And people noted this.
So immediately, you started to see think pieces about the toxic fandom of The Last Jedi.
The toxic fandom of Star Wars.
It wasn't that they had created a crappy character, a major media conglomerate using the most famous IP in history.
Had made a crappy character and inserted that crappy character into a crappy movie, The Last Jedi.
Now the problem was people didn't like that character and the reason they didn't like the character is because she was Asian, clearly.
Now what was weird is that nobody, except for apparently the Chinese audience, actually cared that Finn, who's a black character, was in The Force Awakens.
I mean, Finn was not hit by an overwhelming wave of American racism in The Force Awakens.
It was just Rose who was hit with supposedly an overwhelming wave of racism, mainly because Finn's character is not nearly as crappy as Rose's character in the sequel trilogy.
So, by the way, when I talk about Chinese racism, what I mean is that Disney, in making The Force Awakens, actually removed, they removed Finn from the Chinese posters because there's so much anti-black racism in China.
Okay, so, this is the new model, apparently, for Disney and the Star Wars universe, is to preemptively declare that if you are, that we know that we made a character who isn't really very likable, but if the character's a minority and you don't like the character, clearly this is because you're a racist.
Clearly.
Okay, so, Star Wars put out a preemptive tweet.
It was a preemptive tweet.
Like, I've yet to see... I'm seeing a lot of talk about the toxic fandom of Star Wars.
I haven't seen anybody beyond people with, like, two Twitter followers tweeting stuff about Moses Ingram.
But Star Wars tweeted out, like the people who run the Star Wars account, quote, We are proud to welcome Moses Ingram to the Star Wars family and excited for Riva's story to unfold.
If anyone intends to make her feel in any way unwelcome, we have only one thing to say.
We resist.
Okay, so that is preemptive, right?
If anyone intends to make her feel in any way unwelcome, we have only... We're not even saying you're being racist to her.
We're saying if you might think about being racist to her by not liking her character, we resist because you're bad.
You're really, really... Now, here's the thing.
Moses Ingram is actually a pretty good actress, and she played Lady Macduff in the Joel Cohen production of Macbeth, and she's very good in it.
She actually is really good.
I haven't seen her performance in obi-wan because i haven't watched a single minute of obi-wan because frankly i find the entire series kind of insulting i don't care what happened to obi-wan between episodes between episodes three and four i don't care at all like it doesn't matter to me that's not an important part of the story
It's just you trying to suck the life out of an old character who has actual name recognition and then drive value for Disney+, which then uses that money in order to indoctrinate kids in the not-so-secret gay agenda according to their own employees.
So I'm, like, not interested, right?
This is why Daily Wire is dumping $100 million into creating kids content.
With that said, That is a preemptive attack on the audience.
And then Star Wars said there are more than 20 million sentient species in the Star Wars galaxy.
Don't choose to be a racist.
Who are these people?
Who are they talking to?
Can they name some names?
Seriously, if there's actual racism out there against this person, and it's not just an egg Twitter profile pic.
With two followers.
Who are these massive racists who are saying that Moses Ingram can't be part of the Star Wars universe?
Who are these people?
But again, they have to preemptively do this because they've done a crappy job with so much of the Star Wars content that I guess this is the new way to avoid the consequences of making bad content and also to generate critical response.
And now the critics will fall into your corner even if what you're making is not particularly good.
As Jim Treacher wrote recently, and he's correct, they're using the Jedi mind trick to make you think there's some huge wave of racism against Star Wars.
Ewan McGregor then cut a video from his car, a personal message from Ewan McGregor.
Like, they went all out on this line.
And again, I'm not, like, where is the giant wave of racism against this person?
You would think that if you're going to generate this amount of blowback against the racist Star Wars base, you'd actually have to show evidence of the racist Star Wars base, en masse rejecting the character, not because she's a crap character, but because she's black.
I find that whole line of argument really hard to believe, considering that maybe the most popular character in the first trilogy, like the original trilogy, is Lando Calrissian, who's the coolest dude in the original trilogy.
Okay, Empire Strikes Back came out in 1980.
That is 42 years ago.
It was four years before I was born when Lando Calrissian came out as a character in the Star Wars universe.
So I'm just wondering, like, why are we now talking about racism in the Star- Like, Lando Calrissian was the cool- It makes no sense.
Anyway, here's Ewan McGregor doing this routine as well.
This weekend, Star Wars fans made Obi-Wan Kenobi the most watched Disney Plus original series premiere of all time.
And for that, I would say a big thank you.
And it just goes to show what this family can do when we all pull together.
However, it seems that some of the fanbase from this influential fanbase have decided to attack Moses Ingram online and send her the most horrendous, racist DMs.
And I heard some of them this morning and it just broke my heart.
Moses is a brilliant actor, she's a brilliant woman, and she's absolutely amazing in this series.
She brings so much to the series, she brings so much to the franchise, and it just sickened me to my stomach to hear that this had been happening.
I just want to say, as the leading actor in the series, as the executive producer in the series, That we stand with Moses.
We love Moses.
And if you're sending her bullying messages, you're no Star Wars fan in my mind.
There's no place for racism in this world.
Question, where is the massive wave of public racism against Moe Zinger?
You mean like some trolls were trolling people and being jackasses?
I can't believe it.
Shocking to me.
I myself have never received any anti-semitic messages.
Except for literally all of them in 2015-2016.
Like, all of them on the internet.
But this, again, is a preemptive strike on the Star Wars fanbase by suggesting that a substantial portion Shockingly, all the people who don't like this particular series or this particular character, all of them, must be racist.
Which of course is, you know, it is a ginned up controversy because no one is in favor, anyone of sentient mind, no one is in favor of Moses Ingram being hit with racist DMs.
I will also note here that this is the same Star Wars universe that summarily canned Gina Carano for the great sin of saying that people shouldn't be mean to each other.
And by the way, I will mention right here that when they canned Gina Carano and not a single member of Gina Carano's cast, ranging from Pedro Pascal, who had made overt Holocaust references on his own Twitter page.
And that was the ostensible reason why they fired Gina Carano is because she tweeted out a photo of people chasing Jews in the streets.
And she said, when people dehumanize each other, this is what happens.
And she was fired for that.
Pedro Pascal had openly suggested that American immigration policy was similar to Auschwitz.
Nothing.
And Pedro Pascal, when Gina Carano got fired, there wasn't a single member of the Star Wars universe who had the balls to come out and defend Gina Carano.
They all just went completely silent because they're cowards.
They're absolute cowards.
Right?
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Racism bad is very safe territory.
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But again, this is indicative of where we are in the entertainment universe.
The signaling, not to the audience, but against the audience, grows every single day.
Because remember, entertainers exist in real life.
They don't just exist to serve the audience.
They exist among their peer group.
They exist in their echo chamber.
And this is why, for example, in the most absurd tweet of the day, Linda Carter, who is the original Wonder Woman on TV, In the not very good 1970s show.
Representing a character who originated in the comics in 1941.
She tweeted, quote, because it's Pride Month.
And Pride Month means that every single celebrity in the world will now virtue signal about how much they love LGBTQIA plus minus divided by sign hashtag ampersand tilde.
I didn't write Wonder Woman, but if you want to argue that she is somehow NOT a queer or trans icon, you are not paying attention.
Every time someone comes up to me and says that Wonder Woman helped them while they were closeted, it reminds me how special the role is.
Okay, I'm just going to point out that in 1970, no one thought that Wonder Woman was a queer or trans icon.
It just didn't, that notion in 1970 did not exist.
In fact, Wonder Woman, Linda Carter, was on the bedroom walls of millions of teenage boys.
1941, here is a straight woman with extraordinary powers.
2022, this whole time she was a man.
Trans icon?
In what way, precisely?
If by trans icon she just means that the trans movement will find any popular figure and then appropriate it, Or that the LGBT movement generally will do this?
With everything up to and including Spongebob Squarepants and Teletubbies?
I mean, that has happened.
That is a true thing.
But that does not mean that the original character of Wonder Woman was written as a queer or trans icon.
Now again, if it had been written that way, that's fine.
But to try to retcon the idea that a 1941 character, like we're in the middle of World War II, and the authors of the DC Comics are like, what we need here is a trans icon.
And it's all about virtue signaling to a particular group of people who are in the critical base in the major cities, the people that Linda Carter hangs out with at parties.
And that's really all it's about.
And she can virtue signal as a leader in the movement simply by dint of having donned some very tight clothing in the 1970s and then acted out a character who is neither queer nor trans in the original series.
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Well, this cultural insanity has bled all the way up to the United States military.
So it's Pride Month, which means it's time for the United States military to get in on the act.
So every branch of the United States Armed Services tweeted out some message with regard to LGBTQ plus IA minus divided by sign pride.
This is weird because the entire premise of a military is that we shave your head, we turn you into a person who takes orders, your individuality is set aside virtually entirely, and it's not about personal self-fulfillment anymore.
It is about you becoming part of a cohesive unit that performs a group function.
That is literally what militaries are all about.
An army of individualists is a losing army.
A military made up of people who are predominantly interested in their own sense of fulfillment is a military that is destined to go down in the annals of history as a complete and giant failure.
So that's why it's a little weird.
And the iconography here is so weird.
The U.S.
Marines put out a tweet.
Throughout June, the U.S.
Marine Corps takes pride in recognizing and honoring the contributions of our LGBTQ plus service members.
We remain committed to fostering an environment free from discrimination and defend the values of treating all equally with dignity and respect.
Hey, this is one of the least offensive ones.
It's not really the verbiage here that's particularly stupid.
It is the image.
The image here is really, really dumb.
And one of the reasons that the image is really dumb is because the image, for those who can't see it, is actually just a poster to Full Metal Jacket.
The poster of Full Metal Jacket, if you recall, the Stanley Kubrick film from 1987, is a helmet with a series of bullets in the band of the helmet.
This is the exact same image.
It is a marine helmet, same angle, same image, and there are six bullets that are on the side, six rounds that are on the side of the helmet in rainbow colors.
That is the weirdest iconography.
Because again, the same left that despises the military apparently now thinks the military is great so long as you gay it up.
This is the old meme that bomb dropping from American plane onto foreign territory, very bad.
Paint a rainbow flag on it, now very good.
Are the bullets gay?
Is the military better?
You have to show me why, operationally, the military is better.
Not because gay and lesbian people are in the military.
Anybody who volunteers for the military is doing something that I didn't do.
All credit to them.
But you have to explain to me why military readiness is dependent on the idea that sexual validation lies at the heart of what the military does.
The military is there to deny validation of you.
That is the entire point.
Again, that's the entire premise of every military in human history.
So it's very weird that this is what our United States military has decided to do.
That wasn't the weirdest one.
That was actually the mildest one.
You got this from the US Air Force.
It's a picture of, I assume, a female aviator.
And she, again, I'm assuming her gender because she looks like a woman, but theoretically she could be a dude or a cat.
I don't know, because it's Pride Month and I wouldn't want to assume anything about this person slash cat.
And she has her arm up in the salute and her arm is now emblazoned with the gay pride colors.
Quote, happy Pride Month.
We are the best United States Air Force by leveraging the diverse backgrounds and strengths of each member of our total force.
We are committed to making the Air Force a place where all can reach their full potential.
Hashtag pride.
Question.
Is this what the military is about?
Reaching your full potential?
I was unaware that the military was now Wesleyan University.
It's a strange take.
I thought the military is where we bomb the living crap out of people who are going to do us harm.
We break things and kill people with the U.S.
military.
And we keep the peace by the threat of doing just that in different places.
I was unaware that personal self-fulfillment was the message of the United States military.
It's a weird take.
It's a very, very weird take.
And then we have Liz Allen, who is the State Department Senior Official for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs, serving under Secretary Blinken.
It says, we are celebrating Pride Month at the State Department.
Every day, we seek to advance human rights of LGBTQ plus I people globally.
And then it shows a bunch of different images of the Pride flag everywhere, which again, no flag should be flown at any American facility that is not the American flag.
Because guess what?
It turns out that a lot of the issues that you are standing for here are not widely accepted in the United States, including the idea that men can be women and women can be men.
Meanwhile, you had the NSA.
Now, nothing is creepier than the NSA doing virtue signaling.
So the NSA that is monitoring all of your internet traffic and keeping tabs on you says, happy pride month from the NSA.
So the right to privacy crew, which is what I thought the entire premise of the LGBTQ plus IA movement was.
Now you have the creepiest agency in American government tweeting about it.
Happy pride month from the NSA.
We are celebrating all the diverse voices that contribute to our mission because having pride in who you are and what you do is intelligent.
Is it though?
I love that we have no moral standards.
Having pride in who you are and what you do is intelligent.
What if you're a bad person and what you do is garbage?
What about that?
This does tie into the fact that the New York City subway system now has notices that say you shouldn't be ashamed of doing heroin.
You should be proud that you're doing it safely.
This ideology is really nefarious.
And here's Homeland Security!
And nothing better than massive, creepy, overfunded agencies of the United States government that are wildly incompetent tweeting about Boys becoming girls.
Today, we mark the beginning of Pride Month.
During Pride, we recognize and celebrate the members of the LGBTQ plus community.
We also mark the progress that has been made and the work that still needs to be done to ensure safety and equality for LGBTQ plus people.
And then you have the ever growing flag.
You have the normal gay pride flag, and then they've added the trans flag, and then they've added black, and they've added brown.
That, by the way, is not the ugliest agglomeration of symbols for LGBTQ+.
We'll get to that in a second.
The United States Space Force put out an image of an astronaut on the moon with a queer pride flag, which is just exciting because the American flag For the left, simple proposition.
The gay pride flag is significantly less controversial than the American flag.
The American flag stands for oppression and evil, which is why you kneel for it during the national anthem, and why it is a good thing to do so, and actually pro-America to do so.
The gay pride flag, if we don't post it at the Vatican, this means that you're a homophobe.
That is the central proposition here.
By the way, the single worst display of all this doesn't come from the United States military.
It's absurd with regard to military forces because, again, it runs directly counter to the mission of the United States military to suggest that your individual sense of sexual fulfillment lies at the heart of the strength of the military.
That's the stupidest proposition in human history.
It was true whether you're talking about straight or gay or anything in between.
It's ridiculous and dumb.
Okay, but put that aside.
If we're just going the aesthetically ugliest Pride display so far this month, and it's very early in the month, it comes courtesy of the Brooklyn Nets.
Okay, so I'm just gonna say, this is the ugliest thing I think has ever been designed.
I don't even know what this is.
It looks like an LGBTQ plus IA minus divided by sign unicorn, simultaneously vomited, and diarrhea-ed wokeness.
That's what it looks like.
I have no idea what this is supposed to be.
I mean, whoever did the graphic design on this thing should immediately be fired.
Unless that would violate their sense of self-fulfillment, in which case I will say that this is maybe the greatest piece of art that I have ever seen.
Well done, Brooklyn Nets.
Honestly, I think it's really indicative of who the Brooklyn Nets were this year.
Namely, a bunch of pieces that didn't really fit together, and they put them together on the court, and then pretended it was going to be a team, and then it got immediately defeated by the Boston Celtics.
So, really, well done there, Brooklyn Nets.
By the way, speaking of Pride Month here, one of the great polarities of Pride Month is watching corporate idiots try to pander to the gay community, but only in America.
One of my favorite things.
So, for example, British Petroleum.
So basically every major American corporation, in order to virtue signal in America and also to try and pry extra dollars out of gay Americans, they've decided to put out pride flag symbols in the United States.
These are transnational corporations.
The minute they step inside an Islamic country, it's gone.
So British Petroleum puts out this symbol.
You can see here's the American symbol, right, surrounded by the rainbow flag because it's Pride Month.
And then there is the Middle East branch.
Oh, what's missing?
Something is missing.
How about BMW?
Well, BMW has the pride flag behind it and its new logo for their American branch.
How about the Middle East branch?
Oh, look, what's missing?
Then there's Cisco.
Well, look at that, Cisco.
It's all pretty and rainbow-y.
And then there's Cisco in the Middle East branch.
Yeah, it's kind of gone.
Credit to Ian Hayworth on this.
Mercedes, they put a rainbow across their Mercedes symbol.
And then in like all the Islamic countries, gone.
Is that cultural tolerance or the simple fact that in the West, the LGBTQ plus I movement feels that it has achieved success and can cram down its values on literally everyone.
And that corporate America is going to pander to exactly that.
And that abroad, they don't have the courage of their own convictions at all.
HP is doing the same thing.
Same thing with Pfizer.
Same thing with Coca-Cola.
Yeah, well, just a monster of, once again, of the fact that when it comes to these corporations, LGBTQI plus people should not find allies in these corporations because these are people who are basically just cowards and they're willing to do whatever they think is going to get them ahead on a given day.
So if you guys are counting on their loyalty for your particular set of principles, Good luck with that.
We'll see how that works out for you.
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