"Smart" Amber Heard's leaky boat keeps taking on water, despite her dumb efforts to keep if from sinking completely while the "rats" scurry about helplessly

 

Some people just think they are “smarter” than the rest of us, and some are so intent on “winning” rather than just coming out and admitting they were wrong that they will keep telling lies long after nearly everyone has stopped listening to them. In the end, the only person they have to convince of their own infallibility in the face of reality is themselves.

So naturally we learn that even though Amber Heard, in the face of the triple-whammy of mounting legal debts it is not certain who will pay, uncertainty of success in an appeals process that will likely only confirm her guilt, and put a few more nails into the coffin of her B-list career (I mean, the only reason most people can even name one of her films—Aquaman—is because it is talked about so much) was persuaded to settle with Johnny Depp, she is still unable to go quietly into the sunset of her infamy.

We are learning that the lawsuits and countersuits between the Heard’s insurance companies and between themselves and Heard on who is or isn’t responsible for paying her legal bills is getting messier and messier with every new legal brief. But what I find most interesting is the revelation that Heard—being such a “smart” person—tried to stick it to Depp by allowing Travelers to ignore its own legal payout limits and run-up Heard’s legal debts in the belief that she would win by default with an anti-SLAPP ruling and Depp would be required to pay Heard’s legal bills. 

So certain was Heard of winning on this argument before the trial even began that it certainly came as a “shock” when she received an adverse ruling and she remained the responsible party. We can only say that this again was evidence of “actual malice” on her part, and we can only be too happy to see her evil thrown back in her face.

Heard’s self-belief in her own "genius" has less to do with what most people would call common sense or moral righteousness than it does with "attitude." Sure, people can mouth-off, but that doesn't mean that what they are saying is anything worth listening to. There is a lot we don’t know about Heard that nobody is particularly interested in knowing about, and certainly there are things that she is "smart" enough to try to keep hidden; it is interesting to speculate if her dropping out of high school, leaving the state of Texas, the suspension of her driving privileges for four years and the accidental death of that boy named Logan is all just one big fat “coincidence." 

But Heard has skated on her looks her whole life and she seems to believe that she is just some goddess-like presence that the pagans  treat like any other object of idolatry for whatever “cause” they deem fit to apply to her; but unlike Depp's generosity which clearly comes from the heart, from Heard it smells like self-serving PR stunts or begging for attention from whatever source. Remember that lie she told that Danish talk show about the "donations," and people were dumb enough to believe her based solely on her "word."

Heard of course is quickly moving toward what she obviously hates even more than being “wrong”: being irrelevant, which is what everyone who allowed themselves to be dragged into her cesspool of lies is finding themselves facing. The DUI Guy noted something that Eve Barlow had posted that seems to indicate what happens to Heard’s diehards when they essentially exhaust all their  credibility capital supporting her:

 

This came after Heard essentially kicked Barlow to the curb after leaving Israel for Spain, since we can surmise that Heard was getting bored with the place and didn't share Barlow's Zionist fanaticism, and felt misinformed by Barlow about its delights. But Barlow is just another of a long list of “friends” who is scurrying like rats on Heard's leaky boat when there is no benefit to go down with her; despite their efforts, they either want nothing more to do with her themselves (Raquel Pennington, iO Tillett Wright), or are simply deemed as making things worse for her—particularly those like Michele Dauber, whose troubles at Stanford seem to be growing even as her nauseating and occasionally violent social media outbursts seem to be diminishing, likely because they are causing trouble for her outside Stanford's supportive environment for this.   

Those like Barlow who bemoan the fact that they walk the streets friendless, ignored and occasionally heckled like any “well-adjusted woman” has to "endure" are also joined by the likes of dozens of mainstream “journalists” who think that just because they have an opinion doesn’t mean they don’t have assholes.  There is NBC News social media and technology “expert” Kat Tenbarge, who seems to spend most of her time talking about gender politics. Tenbarge is believed to have circulated a policy-breaking and possibly racist complaint against NBC hiring Camille Vasquez as a legal analyst, which Tenbarge rightly should consider an attempt by the network to “balance out” the impression that her embarrassing shilling for Heard is its “official” stand on the Depp case.

But in the face of the truth that the vast majority of people who have examined the facts of the Depp case accept, people like Heard, Barlow and Tenbarge are the kind of people who only represent a “danger” mainly to themselves. Their power is limited to individuals already compromised by their biases. Even within the context of the fanatical advocacy, their effect on society is limited by such concepts as credibility and due process rights; it is people like Dauber and ambulance-chasing Gloria Allred who represent an actual threat when they are given the power to influence injustice, but as we are seeing, there are limits to how much injustice people are willing to tolerate.

In the Depp case, we are reminded that this is a nation of laws; just because some people don’t like them doesn’t mean that we should throw them all away. As Thomas More responded to Roper’s assertion in A Man For All Seasons that he would cut down every law to get to the “devil”:

Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned 'round on you, where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country is planted thick with laws, from coast to coast, Man's laws, not God's! And if you cut them down, and you're just the man to do it, do you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake!