Melanie

My apple eat bear

My last post on the Russell Brand trial reached nearly a million people, and my replies were immediately flooded with defenders insisting this was all just a coordinated establishment hit job. Well, week three just concluded at Southwark Crown Court, and the reality has gotten so much worse for anyone trying to defend him. For the last three years, Brand hid behind a podcast microphone, carefully rebranding himself as a humble, persecuted spiritual outsider. He even got baptized right after the criminal allegations broke to complete the transformation. Then he actually had to take the witness stand under oath, and the entire manufactured persona collapsed in real time. When questioned by his own barrister, Brand put on a loud theatrical performance, throwing around words like "badinage" and "loquacious" to charm the jury. But the moment the prosecution stood up to cross-examine him, the swagger completely evaporated into long, excruciating spells of dead silence. The prosecution didn't even need outside witnesses to tear him apart. They simply opened his own 2007 memoir and read his own confessions back to his face. Jurors had to sit there while the court read passages where Brand explicitly wrote that when he wanted a woman, he would "resolutely remove anything that’s in the way, until I possess the object of my desire." They read his own captions bragging about pretending to be effeminate specifically so women would lower their guard and let him into their hotel rooms. Think about that for ten seconds. He put the playbook in writing himself. As the prosecution pointed out in their closing speech, the jury isn't dealing with a media conspiracy. They are looking at six separate women spanning a ten-year timeline between 1999 and 2009. They didn't know each other. They have no personal or financial benefit to gain, and endless online abuse to endure, by having to sit in a criminal court to describe being assaulted. You can build an army of online defenders and hide behind sudden spiritual conversions all you want. But when your own published books describe treating women as objects to be possessed at any cost, the enlightened guru act is completely finished.

Totally succinct explanation of Leah Files, Candace Owens, and Shawn Ryan debacle. I am team Stew Peters.

Former actor Russell Brand finally took the stand in his rape trial — but he says he’ll be facing the charges and the jury alone. The actor told jurors that he was unable to persuade a “single person” to testify on his behalf. Details: rollingstone.com/culture/cul…

Russell Brand never reintroduced us. But yes, we consider him a part of our love story and joke about the fact that Russell Brand is the reason I was 3 hours late to the dinner. Did you even watch this clip of what I said here or are you just copying and pasting what others are sharing hoping something will land? I told the truth here: I was running late to dinner with George because I was up doing Russell Brand’s podcast. Russell Brand was a leftie back then. George did not meet him then and did not know him otherwise. Are you okay, Nick? It’s perfectly fine to admit you were just entirely wrong about how I met George. People will still like you. Regarding your second question, unfortunately after 2018 we didn’t see John and Irina for years. Not until December of 2024 to be precise. George moved to the states and we started a family here. Men and women do that sometimes.