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  • Musk kicks Kanye West off Twitter after he posts Star of David merged with swastika

    Musk kicks Kanye West off Twitter after he posts Star of David merged with swastika

    Musk kicks Kanye West off Twitter after he posts Star of David merged with swastika

    Elon Musk kicked Kanye West off Twitter on Friday “for incitement to violence,” after the rapper posted a picture that showed a swastika interlaced with a Star of David.

    The post came hours after an interview with conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, in which West sparked outrage by declaring his “love” of Nazis and admiration for Adolf Hitler.

    The photo was captioned with the words “Love everyone #lovespeech.”

    West had also shared a picture of a shirtless Musk getting sprayed with water, captioned: “Let’s always remember this as my final tweet.”

    In response, Musk said: “Just clarifying that his account is being suspended for incitement to violence, not an unflattering pic of me.”

    “I tried my best. Despite that, he again violated our rule against incitement to violence. Account will be suspended,” Musk tweeted.

    Musk, who previously called himself a “free speech absolutist,” has repeatedly said he believes all content permitted by law should be allowed on Twitter, and sought to remake the social media organization after he took control in October.

    In an hours-long appearance on Infowars, the show fronted by Jones, West — now known as Ye — wore a black mask completely covering his face, as he ranted about sin, pornography and the devil.

    “I like Hitler,” West said several times.

    Elon Musk speaks at the SATELLITE Conference and Exhibition in Washington on March 9, 2020. (AP/Susan Walsh, File)

    West hid his face completely under a mask that had neither eye nor mouth slits.

    However, Jones addressed him as West as they spoke, Infowars billed the interview as being with West, and at one point Jones took West’s cellphone and posted a tweet on his account that appeared in real-time.

    West, who has hinted he is running for US president in 2024, has spoken openly about his struggles with mental illness, but his erratic behavior has continued to raise concerns.

    The businessman has seen his commercial relationships crumble after a series of antisemitic comments, as the one-time titan of fashion and music appears to have entered a disturbing spiral.

    On Infowars, West drew shocked laughter and even disagreement from far-right host Jones.

    “I see good things about Hitler also,” he told Jones. “This guy… invented highways, invented the very microphone that I used as a musician, you can’t say out loud that this person ever did anything good, and I’m done with that.”

    Hitler did not invent either of those things.

    “I’m done with the classification, every human being has something of value that they brought to the table, especially Hitler,” he said, adding, “I like Hitler.”

    Jones, a serial provocateur who was ordered to pay hundreds of millions of dollars in damages for claiming one of America’s deadliest school shootings was a “hoax,” interjected that “the Nazis were thugs and did really bad things.”

    West did not back down.

    Kanye West seen during an appearance on InfoWars with Alex Jones on December 1, 2022. (screen capture: Twitter; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

    “But they did good things too. We gotta stop dissing the Nazis all the time… I love Nazis,” West said. “I love Jewish people, but I also love Nazis.”

    Hours after the interview, social media platform Parler, a favorite of conservatives for its hands-off approach to moderation, said a deal for West to buy the outfit was off.

    “Parlement Technologies would like to confirm that the company has mutually agreed with Ye to terminate the intent of sale of Parler,” the network said on Twitter.

    “This decision was made in the interest of both parties in mid-November.”

    In October, German sportswear giant Adidas severed its lucrative tie-up with West after the star made anti-Semitic statements, including threatening to “go death con 3 on JEWISH PEOPLE,” using a misspelled reference to US military readiness.

    Paris fashion house Balenciaga and US clothing retailer Gap also ended ties with West, who appeared at a Paris fashion show wearing a shirt with the slogan “White Lives Matter,” a rebuke to the Black Lives Matter racial equality movement.

    West appeared on Infowars alongside Nick Fuentes, the same white supremacist with whom West had dinner last week at former president Donald Trump’s Florida estate, in a meeting that provoked outrage.

    Thursday’s livestream sparked immediate condemnation from the Republican Jewish Coalition, which dubbed the three men “a disgusting triumvirate of conspiracy theorists, Holocaust deniers, and antisemites.”

    “Given his praise of Hitler, it can’t be overstated that Kanye West is a vile, repellent bigot who has targeted the Jewish community with threats and Nazi-style defamation,” a statement from the group said.

    “Conservatives who have mistakenly indulged Kanye West must make it clear that he is a pariah. Enough is enough.”

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    December 2, 2022 at 07:11AM

  • Kanye “Ye” West Rocked by Totalitarian State

    Kanye “Ye” West Rocked by Totalitarian State

    October 25, 2022 at 05:33AM Kanye West dropped by talent agency

    Hollywood talent agency CAA has stopped representing Kanye West after the rap superstar made a series of controversial social media posts about Jewish people. Film studio MRC has also abandoned a completed documentary on West, saying it “can’t support” his “unacceptable” views.

    Hollywood gossip site Variety confirmed on Monday that West, who also goes by the moniker ‘Ye’, was recently dropped by CAA. The agency, which was previously accused of covering up infamous producer Harvey Weinstein’s sexual abuses, did not release a statement on ending its relationship with West.

    CAA is the second talent agency in as many days to distance itself from West. United Talent Agency, which represented the rapper before he returned to CAA earlier this year, released a statement on Sunday accusing West of “spew[ing] the plague”of anti-Semitism.

    Meanwhile, CEO Ari Emanuel of entertainment firm Endeavor penned an op-ed calling on the entire corporate world, including Apple and Spotify, to sever ties with West. “Those who continue to do business with West are giving his misguided hate an audience,” Emanuel wrote.

    Additionally, a group of MRC studio executives stated on Monday that they will no longer release a completed documentary on West, saying that they “cannot support any content that amplifies his platform.”

    “Kanye is a producer and sampler of music,” they wrote. “Last week he sampled and remixed a classic tune that has charted for over 3,000 years — the lie that Jews are evil and conspire to control the world for their own gain.”

    West has a long history of controversial opinions, and drew flak from his fellow celebrities when he emerged from a social media hiatus in 2018 as a committed supporter of former President Donald Trump. However, the latest furore began when he publicly accused fellow rapper Diddy of being controlled by Jewish people after Diddy criticized him for wearing a shirt with the slogan ‘White Lives Matter’.

    Ye was then booted off Twitter and Instagram for threatening to go “death con 3 On JEWISH PEOPLE,” and threatened with legal action by the family of George Floyd for claiming that he died of a fentanyl overdose. While traces of fentanyl were found in Floyd’s system, his cause of death was officially determined to be cardiopulmonary arrest after former police officer Derek Chauvin knelt on his neck for eight minutes.

    via Infowars

    Adidas is on the hot seat to cut ties with Kanye West

    “I can say antisemitic s*** and Adidas cannot drop me,” Kanye West said during his now infamous tirade against Jews during the Drink Champs Podcast earlier this month.

    With a social media uproar focused on Adidas brewing, Ye’s theory is now being tested.

    Here’s the deal: The list of brands distancing themselves from West is growing by the day. Balenciaga and Vogue publicly cut ties last week, and on Monday talent agency CAA dropped West as a client, and production company MRC said that it’s shelving a documentary on West. Now the scrutiny has shifted to the German sportswear giant and its long-standing partnership with the controversial artist.

    Celebrities including Kat Dennings, Josh Gad and Meg Stalter condemned Adidas for sticking by West. Detlef Schrempf, former NBA sharpshooter and Adidas sponsoree wrote, “I represented the 3 stripes during my career & beyond. @adidas needs to make a statement NOW! Suspend any relationship w/ @kanyewest until he has received psychiatric help, but why wait? End it now. He won’t change #erasethehate.”

    Jonathan Goldblatt of the ADL released a statement Monday aimed squarely at Adidas calling its failure to cut ties with West “pathetic.”

    Pressure on Adidas increased this weekend after a group of Neo-Nazis placed banners on the 405 highway in Los Angeles saying “Kanye is right about the Jews.”

    “Today on the 405 in Los Angeles. We are waiting @adidas,” read Shannon Watts’ tweet in response to the incident that received more than 100,000 likes.

    Earlier this month after West wore a “White Lives Matter” shirt in public, Adidas said that it was reviewing its lucrative partnership with his Yeezy brand.

    “After repeated efforts to privately resolve the situation, we have taken the decision to place the partnership under review,” the apparel maker said in a statement. “We will continue to co-manage the current product during this period.”

    Bottom line: Since that statement, West has come out and targeted Jews explicitly in shocking public statements, becoming the most prominent openly anti-Semitic public figure in a generation.

    With pressure mounting and West’s hate campaign against Jewish people continuing, it seems the question is when, not if, Adidas will cut ties.

  • SNL Finally Breaks From Years of Woke-tardedness & Comically Highlights The Lunacy of January 6th Committee Hearings

    SNL Finally Breaks From Years of Woke-tardedness & Comically Highlights The Lunacy of January 6th Committee Hearings

    October 18, 2022 at 1:45pm 

    On Saturday night, SNL opened their show with an epically comically smack-down of the January 6th Committee.

    Pete Santilli & Deb Jordan featured the open with commentary about SNL “finally breaking away from the woke-tardedness that has alienated half of their audience.  Additionally, Santilli & Jordan stated that the Jan 6th committee clown show is so outrageous, that even the left is noticing.

    See full episode of The Pete Santilli Show broadcast on Tuesday October 18th, 2022:  DURHAM SLAMS FBI IN DANCHENKO TRIAL CLOSING ARGUMENTS | EP 3169-8AM. 

     

     

  • WOKENESS AT ITS WORST: JPMorgan Chase Kicks Kanye West to the Curb Following Tucker Interview, “White Lives Matter” T-Shirts in Paris, Controversial Twitter Post

    WOKENESS AT ITS WORST: JPMorgan Chase Kicks Kanye West to the Curb Following Tucker Interview, “White Lives Matter” T-Shirts in Paris, Controversial Twitter Post

    October 13, 2022 at 07:10AM WOKENESS AT ITS WORST: JPMorgan Chase Kicks Kanye West to the Curb Following Tucker Interview, “White Lives Matter” T-Shirts in Paris, Controversial Twitter Post

    Last week Kanye West and Candace Owens wore “White Lives Matter” T-shirts at a fashion show in Paris.

    Kanye or “Ye” then went on for an hour-long video interview with Tucker Carlson where he talked about Christ, racism, his career, his goals, etc.

    On Sunday Kanye West tweeted out that he wanted to go “death con 3” on Jews. This got him banned from Twitter.

    Ye wrote,

    “I’m a bit sleepy tonight but when I wake up I’m going death con 3 On JEWISH PEOPLE The funny thing is I actually can’t be Anti Semitic because black people are actually Jew also You guys have toyed with me and tried to black ball anyone whoever opposes your agenda.”

    Then today Kanye “Ye” West received this letter from JPMorgan Chase Bank.

    They told him they were closing his accounts.
    They don’t want him.

    Candace Owens wrote: “Earlier today I learned that @kanyewest was officially kicked out of JP Morgan Chase bank. I was told there was no official reason given, but they sent this letter as well to confirm that he has until late November to find another place for the Yeezy empire to bank.”

    Who’s next?

    Trump? Ron DeSantis? Roger Stone or Steve Bannon?

    As long as Americans stay silent this will continue.

    #BoyCottChase

    via The Gateway Pundit

  • Topher Raps About Country And God: ‘Voting For Democrats Because Everyone Else Doesn’t Fill My Hunger For Knowledge’

    Topher Raps About Country And God: ‘Voting For Democrats Because Everyone Else Doesn’t Fill My Hunger For Knowledge’

    Topher, a Hip-Hop music artist, appeared on the Pete Santilli show on Monday to talk about his inspiration for his Patriotic Conservative Christen music, his great successes, and his support of President Donald J. Trump- all of that which runs deep in his life.

    “Dude, I love your music,” Santilli said after playing a couple of Topher Town music tracks called The Patriot. “I released that song on Dec. 19th and then performed it for Veterans For Trump on Jan. 6th- which was at a site away from the Capitol, so I wasn’t at the Capitol building, but I was performing my song in DC at that time people were there, so that was kind of weird,” Topher said.

    The Christian rappers are resonating with the MAGA crowd- so they are being hidden from the public.

    “We Patriot Christian rappers are being censored now like NWA was back in the 80s, and all we are trying to do is bring the news to the streets and reflect the actual reality to the people,” Topher told Santilli, sitting in front of a couple of Billboard posters, talking about his motivation for keeping his style even as he is being shut out of some of the perks of the music business.

    Topher is a member of ‘Space Force,’ whose tune- ‘Let’s Go Brandon‘ was a chartbuster. Topher with two other Christian rappers, The Marine Rapper, and D-Cure, formed the group ironically, nd got together at the same time Trump started his Space Force. It was a fitting name for them- all three artists have served in the US Military.

    Here is what Toper talked about:

    RALLY AT THE US CAPITOL

    Topher talked about his military service and spoke to Santilli about participating on Jan. 6th, saying,” I was stoked. I’ve never been around so many people; the actual count wa,,s well, over a million. So you just had to be there to see the people there. It was a sea of people; somehow,, I made my way to the VIP, up in the front. Well, I got to see everybody on the front stage giving their speeches,, and it was a beautiful thing. You know, they probably won’t talk about it, but it was black-white people from all races, all cultures,, all languages just there to support President Trump.  And if it wasn’t for malicious attacks and just false narratives being pushed by the media, no media, I guarantee you Trump would have won by a landslide, and I genuinely believe he did once again do that.”
    ON UKRAINE
    “It just didn’t turn out that way, and we have got to do better about going forward. This country is going down fast, and it’s going down bad. I just heard they announced another 12 billion dollars is going to Ukraine. 
    You know, hundreds of billions to Ukraine, and we need money for more Americans. I know we had a Water Crisis here in Mississippi, and I haven’t heard anything about a billion dollars in here to help with their infrastructure. It just goes to show that Ukraine has something on the, on our presidency, which we know they do- for them to continue to get this amount of money and have nothing to show for it.”
    ON J6 PRISONERS
    So it’s just like you, man. I’m just; I feel bad for the political prisoners.  
    CHRISTIAN FAITH 
    “I am pro-family, pro-God, pro-2A, and I voted for my values, but I was not prepared for the blowback.  I dig in deeper the more they try to pull me out. I voted for the first time in 2016.  I started questioning things when I was young when I asked my Mom why she voted Democrat.  That did not fill my hunger for knowledge.  When I started looking for the symptoms, I realized it was the Democrats who did those things.
    ON RAP- CLEAN MUSIC
    You want to hear what Topher has to say about his genre of music and other Christian-Patriot Hip-Hop artists.

    Topher has a new song that dropped this week and we covered that HERE.  Find Topher Town Music: HERE.

  • The People’s Music ‘I Feel Good’:  Underground Hip Hop Blazes Charts With Christian Conservative Values

    The People’s Music ‘I Feel Good’: Underground Hip Hop Blazes Charts With Christian Conservative Values

    Hip Hop artist Topher describes his music as the essence of that same kind of underground Hip Hop/ Old School tunes that was igniting populist political movements in the late 1970s and 1980s before the Music biz got ahold of it all and directed everything to the Marxist – Left.

    “What the Marxists are doing is what I call controlled demolition of our culture. They are controlling the fall of the American people and their families. Hip Hop was music to a lot of fatherless kids at a time when we were also losing a lot of leaders and hip hop became that leadership until it was taken over by horrible messages of the Marxists. Now we want to take that power back, and we are underground,” Topher said about the power of the new Christian patriotic Conservative rappers.

    Toper, an Airforce Veteran who served as Cryptologic Linguist with a specialty in Hebrew, is a part of a Christian patriotic Conservative hip hop movement, and he is about to drop another promised hit, “I Feel Good”, which will be available wherever tunes are sold on Sept 23.

    I Feel Good, Topher said is a song about why he feels good to be a Black American as he recalls the lessons his parents taught him about hard work and the opportunities in the US for hard workers like himself.

    In a recent social media post, Topher chimed in on something deeply offensive to him as a Dad of a little girl, as a Black American, and as a Patriot.

    About that Black Disney mermaid, he is not impressed:

    https://twitter.com/tophertownmusic/status/1570144102049787904?s=20&t=xP097wyECwlP6PmeBacgLw

    Topher talked about the dangerous concept of ‘worshiping skin color over Christ’ and of other people needing to see themselves represented in places before they believed they could do anything for themselves.

    “Can we ever escape racism and raise our children to believe in themselves and work hard for what they desire?” Topher said to me. “Blacks are not being helped by seeing a Black person in a movie. We have to want things for ourselves; that is what my Mom taught me. I made my own way, and that is the grassroots hip hop movement. We had the drive and got it done. The Communists have this idea of representation – meaning that the people have to see themselves to be able to do something. How can we be first doing anything- if we are stuck thinking we can’t do that thing- unless someone who looks like us hasn’t done it before,” he said.

    “How could Obama have been the first Black President if he had waited until someone Black had been President?” Topher said.

    That was the brilliant stuff you can expect from Topher in his tunes too. It is also what he taught his daughter when she wanted to be the little mermaid long before Disney got a Black mermaid.

    “Christ is my Lord and Savior and I think people need to be free and that is what these Christ -centered rappers are all about. I want people to know they can be conservatives and still make money and be good at their craft. We don’t need a label to be an artist and we don’t have to push anyone else’s agenda. You don’t have to give up your values,” Topher said, the man who purchased an expensive birthday party for his little mermaid daughter.

    https://twitter.com/tophertownmusic/status/1571170744666562561?s=20&t=xP097wyECwlP6PmeBacgLw

    “I wanted to give her a very special day and treat everyone well, so we fed everyone really well and had a great time, and my daughter was the little mermaid without needing anyone to tell her she could. She didn’t wait until she saw a Black woman doing it, ” he said about his daughter’s recent special day, which inspired the above post.

    With such huge mountains to climb to get his message about race, as a Black Conservative, how does Toper stay happy, I asked.

    “I rejoice in being alive and I feel happy and positive about the future. I want people to know if you feel bad, come on over here to our side and hear about why we feel better,” he said, encouraging a whole new audience of people to join him.

    Topher is a chart-topper too, which he says is just another opportunity to flip the bird to the music establishment who has censored rappers and other music artists like himself.

    Toper has some ideas that he has put in his music, it is sure to make get censor trigger happy but you can find him on Sept. 23 where tunes are sold.

    I feel happy is a great upbeat and positive tune.

    https://twitter.com/tophertownmusic/status/1570534911836311552?s=20&t=xP097wyECwlP6PmeBacgLw
  • ‘Look To The Father For How To Do Warfare’, Prayer From Trump’s OH Rally

    ‘Look To The Father For How To Do Warfare’, Prayer From Trump’s OH Rally

    President Donald J. Trump appeared in Youngstown, Ohio for a rousing rally to encourage voters to get out in the midterm election in November to support his America First candidates.

    The rally was started off with a prayer by Jeffrey Green, pastor of Touch, Heaven Church, which was well received.

    https://twitter.com/therealnroe/status/1571238548233232386?s=20&t=r0XivkrOkyy5P9J7p0CtIQ

    Good evening, everybody. God bless you. I know you’ve already been praying already but we’re going to pray together to start this great- great rally off.

    Gracious God, our Father, we come humbly before you today, recognizing that you are God and there is none other beside you. You said that when good men remain silent evil men will prevail.

    We repent, oh God. For those of us who might have been little silent and allowed some very evil intention to men to prevail against our nation, against our families, our children and against you, the Church Father, these men seek the confuse our children on gender pit us against each other by race. They also have cursed our nation with open borders where enemies are now able to come in and destroy with drugs. 

    Devices of all sorts of immorality. But You O Lord, are a shield and buckler, we look to you to show us how to do warfare for you said, Father, in your word, not by power, not by might, but by your spirit, saith the Lord. We come to you tonight on this historic and momentous occasion of the, let’s Save America rally to ask for your wisdom and your guidance and direction to reclaim this nation that’s was once dedicated to you.

    We declare today and say we claim it back. In the name of Jesus, the nation has been the foremost propagator of the Gospel, the kingdom message throughout the world. 

    Not the route. This Lord has two hours late. The day is dark. Shared your light on us. We, your people that we might, once again be the nation that stands for righteousness. The city on a hill that cannot be hidden. Like any Nation, we have not always done what was right. But we lifted up our faces and our voices to you, God, and you raised up a standard against that, which was it. As we seek your face now, a Lord help us to rise to this battle, for the soul of this nation, depending only on your love and power to overcome. We cannot do it by our strength, but by yours, but all things to be done by your spirit, Our God, you’re worth says, if my people who are called by my name, shall humble themselves and pray and turn from their wicked ways. 

    Then you will hear from heaven and forgive their sins and heal their land. Lord, we have been turning away. From anything that’s not like you. And we pray, Lord, Heal our land, lord heal our land that you are joining the upon this rally in, in the speakers and in the movement of stands for in the days to come, we will stand for. They know for they didn’t know their God shall do mightily and do exploits.

    We pray these things in the name of the father and the son, the Holy Spirit, which is all in total. The name of The name, which is above all names and everybody said, amen.

  • Verdict: Johnny Depp wins defamation case against Amber Heard

    Verdict: Johnny Depp wins defamation case against Amber Heard

    June 1, 2022 at 03:36PM Verdict: Johnny Depp wins defamation case against Amber Heard

    FAIRFAX, Va. — Johnny Depp won his bombshell defamation case Wednesday against Amber Heard after a Virginia jury substantiated the claim that his ex-wife sullied his reputation and damaged his career when she wrote about becoming a “public figure representing domestic abuse” following the couple’s spilt.

    The panel of seven in Fairfax decided to award the “Pirates of the Caribbean” star a total $15 million in damages after deliberating for about 13 hours.

    Depp, 58, had sued Heard for $50 million over her 2018 Washington Post essay in which she wrote about facing “our culture’s wrath” for speaking out against a powerful man — a warning that seemingly became more prescient with the jury’s decision.

    Early in his testimony, Depp told the jury he brought the lawsuit against the “Aquaman” actress for defamation to “clear my name.”

    “My goal is the truth,” he said on April 19. “One day you’re Cinderella and then in zero point six seconds you’re Quasimodo. I didn’t deserve that and neither did my children.”

    Heard, 36, alleged Depp physically and sexually abused her, recounting harrowing moments in her testimony in which she claimed the widely-beloved star assaulted her, including once forcibly penetrating her with a liquor bottle.

    Depp gestures to fans as he arrives outside the court on May 5.
    Depp gestures to fans as he arrives outside the court on May 5.
    Cliff Owen/CNP
    Camille Vasquez, the lawyer for Johnny Depp, arrives at the Fairfax County Circuit Courthouse on June 1.
    Camille Vasquez, the lawyer for Johnny Depp, arrives at the Fairfax County Circuit Courthouse on June 1.
    EPA
    Johnny Depp's attorney Ben Chew arrives at the courthouse on June 1.
    Johnny Depp’s attorney Ben Chew arrives at the courthouse on June 1.
    REUTERS

    But Depp repeatedly denied the claims.

    “Never did I myself reach the point of striking Ms. Heard in any way nor have I ever struck any woman in my life,” he insisted.

    Over the course of the six-week trial, the actor’s lawyers went to lengths to prove that Depp — not Heard — was the victim of domestic abuse in their doomed relationship.

    Depp’s team also called a slew of witnesses to discuss the reputational damage he suffered as a result of Heard’s essay, including one who said the actor was “canceled” and no longer desirable to family friendly companies like Disney.

    The jury listened to hours of testimony about one particular nasty fight in March 2015, when the couple was in Australia while Depp was filming the fifth “Pirates of the Caribbean” installment.

    The fight ended in Depp losing the tip of his right, middle finger, which he said happened when Heard lobbed a bottle of vodka at him.

    The “Aquaman” actress said her then-husband had been on a multi-day drug and alcohol binge that ended in him cutting off his own finger. In the immediate aftermath of the incident, Depp wrote messages to Heard around their rental house with the blood spewing from his finger.

    Depp did not deny the fact he had long suffered from issues with drugs and alcohol, but maintained he never got violent while abusing the substances.

    Depp waves to supporters as he departs the court.
    Depp sued Heard for $50 million over her 2018 Washington Post essay.
    Cliff Owen/CNP

    “I’d done pretty much all the drugs I was aware of by the time I was 15 years old,” he testified. “It’s never been for the party effect. It’s been for trying to numb the things inside that can plague someone who has experienced trauma.”

    During his verbose testimony, the actor took the jury on a trip down memory lane, depicting himself as a simple boy from the holler who grew up with an abusive mother, easy access to drugs and dreams of becoming a musician.

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    Each day of the trial, hoards of his fans packed the courtroom gallery, and the seats became so in demand people lined up at 1 a.m. to get a chance to see him in the flesh.

    Devotees flew from around the world, telling The Post they were spending tens of thousands of dollars to support the man they believed to be innocent.

    Online, his admirers got hashtags trending like #JusticeforJohnnyDepp and #AmberHeardIsALiar. The trial became the event of the year, watched by millions daily. Depp’s lawyer Camille Vasquez grew her own fan base, and expert witnesses for Heard say their businesses attacked online.

    What’s next for Depp is unclear, but it’s widely believe the actor will take a victory lap and return to the big screen, vindicated and more-popular than ever.

    Still, the trial highlighted his dark side, particularly in text messages he sent about Heard.

    “Hopefully that c—t’s rotting corpse is decomposing in the f——g trunk of a honda civic,” he wrote in a 2016 message

    Amber Heard, left, and her sister Whitney Heard, right, depart outside court
    Heard (left) and her sister Whitney Heard (right) depart court on May 23.
    Cliff Owen/CNP

    In another, Depp fantasized about have sex with Heard’s “burnt corpse” to make sure she was dead. And in one foreboding text, Depp wrote that the actress was “begging for total global humiliation.“

    “She’s gonna get it,” he said.

    “I have no mercy, no fear and not an ounce of emotion, or what I once thought was love for this gold digging, low level, dime a dozen, mushy, pointless dangling overused flappy fish market,” Depp wrote that same year.

    On the stand, Heard tried to show that Depp caused her the “global humiliation” he promised.

    Heard filed for a temporary restraining order against the actor in May 2016, after less than two years of marriage, as she petitioned a Los Angeles court for a divorce.

    Depp had sued The Sun in the UK in 2020 over an article that called him a “wife beater,” and, after losing that case, he was asked to pull out of his role for the film “Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald.”

    After he filed the Virginia suit, Heard countersued him for $100 million dollars, claiming statements made on his behalf by lawyer Adam Waldman that she fabricated the abuse claims ruined her career and made her life hell.

    “People want to kill me,” she said on May 26, in her return to the witness stand. “People want to put my baby in the microwave and they tell me that.”

    US actress Amber Heard looks on in the courtroom at the Fairfax County Circuit Courthouse.
    Heard lost in a defamation court battle lasting over a month with ex-husband Depp.
    BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/POOL/AFP via Getty Images

    Looking directly at the jury, Heard said, “Johnny … promised me that if I ever left him, he’d make me think of him every single day that I live.”

    “In the harassment and humiliation, the campaign against me that’s echoed every single day on social media. And now in front of cameras in this room. Every single day I have to relive the trauma.

    Heard’s team produced scores of photos of the actress’ bruises and injuries from alleged fights with Depp, whose team claimed the wounds were faked, painted on and digitally manipulated.

    “No human being is perfect, certainly not, but I have never in my life committed sexual battery, physical abuse, all these outlandish, outrageous stories of me committing these things,” Depp said in May 25 testimony.

    He called Heard’s statements “horrible, ridiculous, humiliating, ludicrous, painful, savage, unimaginably brutal, cruel, and all false.”

    The trial was chock-full with celebrity name drops, as witnesses listed off names like Tesla billionaire Elon Musk, James Franco, writer Hunter S. Thompson, Winona Ryder, Zendaya, Marilyn Manson, Billy Bob Thornton, Paul Bettany and Keith Richards.

    Notably, the jury Heard testimony from two of Depp’s famous exes, Ellen Barkin and Kate Moss.

    Barkin testified via deposition at the request of Heard’s team, saying that Depp was a “jealous” man who drank all the time and once hurled a wine bottle at her direction.

    Moss was allowed to testify in a last minute shake-up after Heard offhandedly referenced a rumor that Depp pushed the British model down the stairs.

    “He never pushed me, kicked me, or threw me down any stairs,” Moss said in live video deposition from England during the final week of the trial.

    via New York Post

  • Prominent Transgender Activist Touted by New York Times Arrested and Charged with 16 Felonies for Rape and Sexual Abuse of a Boy

    Prominent Transgender Activist Touted by New York Times Arrested and Charged with 16 Felonies for Rape and Sexual Abuse of a Boy

    May 14, 2022 at 08:43AM Prominent Transgender Activist Touted by New York Times Arrested and Charged with 16 Felonies for Rape and Sexual Abuse of a Boy

    Carlos “Raiza Daniela” Aparicio Hernandez, a prominent transgender (biological male) activist from El Salvador touted by the New York Times, was arrested in Utah for raping a boy.

    Hernandez, 36, was charged with 16 felonies for the rape and sexual abuse of a 15-year-old boy.

    Hernandez was busted by police in a sting operation after luring in the young boy by posing online as a 15-year-old girl.

    transgender Carlos “Raiza” Arturo Aparicio Hernandez

    The victim accepted a friend request from Hernandez on Facebook last January believing he was actually a teenage girl.

    The victim invited Hernandez to his home and that’s when he realized he was actually chatting online with a 36-year-old transgender child predator.

    The Post Millennial reported:

    A prominent trans activist who was highly praised by liberal media outlets and institutions is now facing 16 felony charges for the alleged sexual abuse of a minor following a sextortion investigation.

    Carlos Arturo Aparicio Hernandez, 36, of Taylorsville, Utah, a biological male who identifies as a woman named “Raiza”, is accused of the sexual abuse and exploitation of a 15-year-old boy after sending the victim a friend request on Facebook posing as a teenage girl.

    According to charging documents, the 15-year-old victim accepted a friend request on Facebook in January of 2021 from someone he was led to believe was a female his own age. After communicating for months, the victim sent nude photos at the request of Hernandez and was later asked to meet in-person, court documents state.

    The victim invited Hernandez to his home in West Valley City, Utah where he then discovered that the girl he thought he was talking to was a transgender sexual predator.

    Upon arrival, Hernandez forced the boy to engage in “sexual acts” by blackmailing him and threatening to release the minor’s explicit photos if he didn’t comply. Hernandez recorded the assault, charging documents state.

    The two met on three separate occasions following repeated threats from Hernandez, according to court documents.

    Hernandez was given asylum in the US because of the “anti-LGBT discrimination” in Mexico.

    via The Gateway Pundit