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Well there's more drama coming out of the Amber Heard trial. The Johnny Depp. According to witnesses, especially Amber Heard's sister — Heard too? No, Amber's sister. We don't have any reason to dislike her but she was the most direct witness to say that she observed Johnny Depp hitting his face, hitting her sister repeatedly in the face while holding her hair. Now do you believe that? Because do you have any siblings? Does anybody have a sibling? Would you witness a sibling being punched in the face by anybody and then say, well you know that's your business, I don't think I want to get involved? Can you even imagine that? First of all if you saw a sibling getting punched in the face you wouldn't get in the fight? Seriously? Like you wouldn't be right there punching the shit out of Johnny Depp if you saw that happening? Like who wouldn't do that?
So there's something about the sister's testimony that's not quite striking me as believable. Now I hope it's not true because it sounds horrible. And if it's true of course Johnny Depp needs to be responsible for his actions. We don't know the context but I can't imagine any context where that would be appropriate. You know even self-defense. It didn't sound like it was even self-defense really.
So I got a question about that. So then you've got a few other witnesses testifying on her behalf but some of those were contradicted by other people. So what do you think is true based on what would you say at this point? Do you believe that they were violent to each other or that one of them was primarily the violent one? What do you think? Because we have to — well we don't have to but we're judging it from afar based on evidence that's being presented.
Well there's no doubt that Johnny Depp had a substance use situation. I was just reading Eric's comment there on YouTube. All right. I don't know. I think if I had to cast my vote right now I would say that here's a question I would ask: Has Johnny Depp ever been accused of hitting anybody else? Don't you feel that's a valid question under these circumstances? Now that would not prove that he did or did not do anything with Amber Heard but wouldn't you like to know that? Because if I heard that he had ever done this with another woman I would be inclined to think he did it this time too. You know assuming that I believe the original story. If there were two stories that were weirdly similar that would be pretty believable. But I don't know that that's an evidence nor could it be. Do we think that would even be legal to bring that in as a context? I don't know how that works. Can you do that?
So here's a question for you. If Amber, if her actions were so outrageous that she was causing an inebriated Johnny Depp to feel that he needed to hit her, again there's no excuse. So violence cannot be condoned under any circumstance. So if it sounds like I'm defending an abuser that's the opposite of what's happening. So don't take that interpretation. But at some point poking the bear is wrong too, right? There is some level of provocation which will cause anybody to do anything. But let me just put it that way. You take it out of the context of domestic abuse. Just take it completely out of that context. There is some amount of provocation that will make anybody do anything. And we sort of treat it like that doesn't matter. I feel like it does, you know. And maybe that's why you have jury trials so they can take into consideration stuff like that.
Well it seems that the so-called Ministry of Truth is being disbanded
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. The public ran that down. So what was it called? The Disinformation Board. And they were going to tell you what was true and what wasn't. Well it got so much pushback, rightfully so, that they disbanded it and the woman who's in charge of it resigned and they're not going to do that anymore. So no more so-called Ministry of Truth. And totally unrelated news, I don't even know why I bring this u…
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