Note: For a detailed listing of most evidence of Depp’s abuse, shown in both trials, please see this post. Secondly, I reiterate that if anyone thinks they should comment that what is mentioned below does not constitute abuse, they should save their energy and refrain from commenting.

At this point, where Depp’s stans are concerned, I’m convinced he would literally have to punch them in the face to wake them up from their delusion – that of worshipping a gentle, almost saintly man who is now the poster boy for the wrongfully accused, as well as the anti-MeToo movement (though the performative left, ironically, sees him as representing MeToo). This posts seeks to pick their brains a bit – metaphorically, of course.

For some of us watching this circus in relative silence, the verdict was appalling, as it ignored all forms of domestic abuse minus proven severe violence that would require immediate treatment; the rest was irrelevant to the jury. According to the stenographer, jurors kept falling asleep, especially while watching depositions. The only one to constantly pay attention was a female alternate juror who never had a say in the verdict. Leaving Dopey, Sleepy&Co aside, YouTube alone has often been inundated with thousands of pro-Depp comments per video. Many are so similar in both structure and message one would think they were bots. Others however show intense mental acrobatics to defend behaviour that belongs in a zoo.

This is what Women’s Aid, as well as other organisations and public authorities describe as domestic abuse.

Destructive criticism and verbal abuse: shouting; mocking; accusing; name calling; verbally threatening.

Pressure tactics: sulking; threatening to withhold money, disconnecting the phone and internet, taking away or destroying your mobile, tablet or laptop, taking the car away, taking the children away; threatening to report you to the police, social services or the mental health team unless you comply with his demands; threatening or attempting self-harm and suicide; withholding or pressuring you to use drugs or other substances; lying to your friends and family about you; telling you that you have no choice in any decisions.

Disrespect: persistently putting you down in front of other people; not listening or responding when you talk; interrupting your telephone calls; taking money from your purse without asking; refusing to help with childcare or housework.

Breaking trust: lying to you; withholding information from you; being jealous; having other relationships; breaking promises and shared agreements.

Isolation: monitoring or blocking your phone calls, e-mails and social media accounts, telling you where you can and cannot go; preventing you from seeing friends and relatives; shutting you in the house.

Harassment: following you; checking up on you; not allowing you any privacy (for example, opening your mail, going through your laptop, tablet or mobile), repeatedly checking to see who has phoned you; embarrassing you in public; accompanying you everywhere you go.

Threats: making angry gestures; using physical size to intimidate; shouting you down; destroying your possessions; breaking things; punching walls; wielding a knife or a gun; threatening to kill or harm you and the children; threatening to kill or harm family pets; threats of suicide.

Sexual violence: using force, threats or intimidation to make you perform sexual acts; having sex with you when you don’t want it; forcing you to look at pornographic material; constant pressure and harassment into having sex when you don’t want to, forcing you to have sex with other people; any degrading treatment related to your sexuality or to whether you are lesbian, bisexual or heterosexual.

Physical violence: punching; slapping; hitting; biting; pinching; kicking; pulling hair out; pushing; shoving; burning; strangling, pinning you down, holding you by the neck, restraining you.

Denial: saying the abuse doesn’t happen; saying you caused the abuse; saying you wind him up; saying he can’t control his anger; being publicly gentle and patient; crying and begging for forgiveness; saying it will never happen again.

Women’s Aid

In contrast, please read below how these muppets, obsessed with whitewashing Depp’s every action, discuss behaviour they would not tolerate in their own homes (unless they perpetrate it, and it looks like some might). I would also like to assume these hypocrites would not wish such treatment on their daughters, sisters, mothers, female friends etc.

1.The video of a wasted, raging Depp smashing his kitchen, among other acts of vandalism

These are quotes from the National Domestic and Family Violence Bench Book in Australia:

A perpetrator of domestic and family violence may engage in a range of behaviours so as to exert control over or induce fear in the victim. Damaging property may intersect with other behaviours (…), the seriousness of which may intensify as the behaviours combine and escalate. For example, victims experience significantly higher levels of physical violence where the perpetrator has also damaged property.

Instances reported in Australian research demonstrate the various ways perpetrators seek to control, intimidate, threaten, injure, demean or isolate victims by interfering with property, which may in some cases include abuse of pets and assistance animals. (…)

The perpetrator may cut the telephone cord while the victim attempts to call police; or vandalise or wreck household furnishings or personal effects (including mobile phones and other digital devices) and clothing that the victim has paid for or are sentimental to the victim.

According to Depp in Virginia, he couldn’t remember why he was smashing his kitchen that morning; “he must’ve been having a bad day”, indicating this was a habit and by no means a memorable event. For the same purpose, he asked for the date of that recording – unwittingly suggesting he had smashed the same kitchen more than once.

According to his stans, Depp was either engaging in harmless behaviour common to men, or, as many claim, he was taking his rage out on objects, making the moral choice not to hit his wife. Apparently men have to make that choice quite often – the house or the wife. Hitting the wife is naturally the first thought, in these people’s minds, so they look for alternatives. He was a hero and gentleman in this matter, protecting her from himself.

For the next set, please remember Amber had woken up to the sound of furniture being smashed. She then started recording. After smashing some more, when he noticed the device, he grabbed and slammed it. This is what the muppets understood to be happening (especially the one piece of shit, pardon my language, suggesting she was looking to get beaten up that morning):

As Mr Rottenborn pointed out, if you record the violence, you are setting someone up. If you don’t record, it didn’t happen. Either way, it’s all about her and her motivations or reactions, not about the raging baboon. His behaviour doesn’t even factor in. Her snickering at the end, after recording behaviour no one might believe had happened save for that recording, is all that matters to them.

And then, of course, there is the usual justification: it’s OK when a rich person does it. All the time even, in Depp’s case. Plus, if you’re a fairly rich woman being abused by an obscenely rich husband, the only reason you’re staying is clearly money. It’s not like the normal dynamics of an abusive marriage apply to you.

2.Depp’s graphic text, sexually degrading Amber and wishing her dead

Two things need pointed out regarding the text below: first, this was not him venting to a friend; it was sent to her talent agent in attempts to get Amber fired. This is therefore how Depp speaks to those he has a professional relationship with. Secondly, I will point out again that if these hypocrites received or had knowledge of a similar text targeting them or someone close to them, they would justifiably be disturbed. If something like this were sent to their coworker or their boss, even more so.

Note: I used Firefox to screenshot comments. For some curious reason, some comments (especially those containing graphic language) would not download, while others right above or below them would. This happened in several comment sections. I have transcribed some of them as they were horrendous:

“Damn Johnny is a poet. Who knew ppl spend so much time texting soliloquies and monologues? Us normal people keep texts short and to the point.”

John Doe, 6 likes

“Gold digging, low level, dime a dozen, mushy, pointless dangling overused flappy fish market” x’D oh that made me wheezing for a while”

Vanessa Vaz, 47 likes

“sadly She deserves all those sweet words”

yolis catalan, 3 likes

“The last text, the description of Amber is so on-point!”

Meeta Sawant, 15 likes

“Sorry, but not sorry but that last text was friggin hilarious!!! Whoever authored that knows scamber all too well. Made my day.”

LeenBean, 7 likes

“He’s so poetic in the last message.HAHA! It should be turned into a blanket or a flag.”

MateoPapiChulo, 11 likes

3.Depp’s many apologies “for nothing”, as he now claims

This is particularly interesting as every individual has had some experience with substance abuse and violence/aggression; it’s so prevalent that one can’t live in a bubble. Likewise, they are acquainted with abusive relationships; some even claim to have been in one. Apologies from aggressive addicts and abusers in general, promising to change, are extremely common.

Depp was aplogising after specific incidents he himself had caused, admitting to them at the time. Supposedly, in this person’s mind, every aggressive addict/abuser apologises after a massive blunder because their spouse is a narcissist. There’s no way in hell people ever do for things they actually did.

Saying you’ll change and never actually changing is worthless. They all say that, by the way. According to Depp himself, they got along great for months on end when he was sober. It doesn’t sound like she was the one needing to change. This person still managed to turn Depp’s admission of being fucked up – which he would’ve been with or without her – back on Amber.

There is a ton more to say, but for now, it’s very easy to reach a conclusion – the performative public effort to believe and help victims of domestic abuse was never real. There was no substance to it. This issue was merely used at the right time, to elevate the platforms of those who now have made a U-turn, dismissing many forms of abuse, to venerate another “good old boy”.