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Watch as Dr. Ben Carson punches back at the leftist book burners with a poem that is hilarious but also makes an excellent point:

MACCALLUM: “Oh, the places Dr. Seuss will go, or maybe won’t go after cancel culture takes a big bite out of his legacy. Online retailer eBay is now telling the Wall Street Journal that they are currently removing the six books that were pulled by the Dr. Seuss Enterprises to prevent future resale.

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Children’s books are now dominating Amazon’s bestseller list. Flying up the list, nine of the top ten are all by Dr. Seuss, so you see how that works.

Joining me now is Dr. Ben Carson, the former secretary of Housing and Urban Development, and founder and chairman of the American Cornerstone Institute. Dr. Carson, I understand you want to express your feelings on this in poetry and I invite you to do so with your poem that you wrote about this now.”

CARSON: “Very good.

I do not like to cancel books. I do not like how that looks.

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I do not like it here, nor there, I do not like it anywhere.

I do not like it in the store, I do not want it anymore.

I do think it’s time past, no longer to have thought a crime.

I do hope one day to see across my country ’tis of thee, books used to read and learn instead of set ablaze to burn.

Our heritage for all to share, little patriots everywhere.

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Our nation’s story rich and vast, our true history taught in class.

A special place for all to be, a place known for its liberty.

Those are the kinds of things that Dr. Seuss did. He encouraged people. He made people believe that everybody was equal. You know, we — it’s appropriate that we’re talking about children’s books. Because as a society, we’re acting like children.

Like a child who is in charge who doesn’t like peas. So he says let’s ban peas, anybody eating peas or growing peas shall be killed. That’s childish thinking. That’s what we’re doing right now and it’s absolutely absurd. And I think the rest of the world is having a good belly laugh.

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It’s time for us to mature to grow up to recognize, you know, America was the beacon of liberty. It was the place where people came so that they could express themselves, so they could believe what they wanted to believe so they could have religious freedoms.

It was a place where we believed that our liberties and freedoms came from God, and not from government. You know, the socialists believe that everything comes from government.

We can’t abide it.”

Comedian and podcaster Joe Rogan has chimed in on the highly-publicized court case between actors and former spouses Johnny Depp and Amber Heard, claiming the latter is ‘full of s**t’.

Depp is suing Heard for $50 million plus legal fees on grounds of defamation, arguing that claims of abuse she made in a 2018 essay published in The Washington Post were false and derailed his career.

The Pirates of the Caribbean star also alleges that he was the victim of abuse at the hands of Heard, who maintains she told the truth in her article and is counter-suing for $100 million.

On Joe’s Tuesday podcast with fellow comedian Jessica Kirson, the pair opened the show by discussing the trial, with Joe tearing into ‘crazy’ Heard.

‘That’s what happens with people like that. People that are just manipulative and full of s**t like that,’ he said.

‘[Comedian Doug Stanhope] knows her. Stanhope’s buddies with Johnny Depp. He wrote something, like an essay about how full of s**t she is, and she threatened to sue him, and I think he had to wind up taking it down.

‘He knows her well… He’s like, ”She’s out of her f**king mind like a crazy actress!’ 

Joe made reference to Heard’s claims she used a specific make-up kit produced by cosmetic brand Milani to cover up bruises allegedly inflicted by Depp in 2016.

The brand refuted her claims, pointing out the make-up kit in question was not released until after the pair had divorced in 2017.

In the latest from the Depp-Heard trial: 

On Joe’s Tuesday podcast with fellow comedian Jessica Kirson, the pair opened the show by discussing the trial, with Joe tearing into ‘crazy’ Heard

Actor Amber Heard leaves the courtroom at the Fairfax County Circuit Court in Fairfax, Va., Wednesday, April 27, 2022

Actor Johnny Depp gestures as he stands in the courtroom during a recess amid his defamation trial against his ex-wife Amber Heard, at the Fairfax County Circuit Courthouse in Fairfax, Virginia, on April 27, 2022

In the first seconds of the Tuesday episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, Joe said: ‘I’m watching this trial, and, like, it’s a cautionary tale about believing in bulls**t, forming a narrative in your head.

‘That’s what I felt like about Anthony Bourdain and his relationship to that crazy woman,’ he said, referencing the late chef and travel documentarian’s tumultuous relationship with Italian film star Asia Argento. 

‘You’re seeing all the crazy come out,’ he concluded.

Yesterday, Depp’s former agent Christian Carino told the court about emails sent to him by Heard after she broke up with Elon Musk.

Heard began dating the Tesla founder around the time of her split with Depp in May 2016 and by August the following year they had broken up.

Carino, a talent agent with mega agency CAA and Lady Gaga‘s ex-fiance, appeared by a pre-recorded video deposition and confirmed that Heard and Musk were in a relationship for a time.

Asked if Heard moved on to dating Musk ‘immediately after Johnny Depp’, Carino said yes.

In an email on August 7, 2017, Heard told Carino: ‘Dealing with breakup. I hate when things go public. See I’m so sad,’ in reference to her split with Musk.

Carino replied to Heard: ‘You weren’t in love with him. You told me 1,000 times you were just feeling space.’

Heard began dating the Tesla founder around the time of her split with Depp in May 2016 and by August the following year they had broken up

Johnny Depp’s former agent Christian Carino told the court about emails sent to him by Heard after she broke up with Elon Musk

In another email in the same conversation she said: ‘I hate that yet again a man lets me fall on the spikes by myself.’

Carino said: ‘How so?’

Heard emailed back: ‘They’re mad at me for leaving them and put things like this out there’, in apparent reference to the story being covered in the media.

Carino responded: ‘You could avoid all this if you stop dating uber famous people.’

Asked what he meant in the email, Carino told the court he was trying to tell Heard: ‘If you don’t like being in the press about your personal life don’t date people that are famous.’

Earlier in the day, Depp cracked up with laughter as the doorman of his building described how Amber Heard asked him to investigate an intruder due to scratches on their front door – which were caused by the dog.

Alejandro Romero said that Heard and her friend Rocky Pennington told him that ‘somebody tried to get into my unit’ at the Eastern Columbia Building in West Hollywood.

Appearing in a pre-taped video deposition, Romero said he thought to himself: ‘What? Four inches above the (floor)? The dog was scratching.’

He said: ‘In my head (I’m thinking) you think someone is trying to get into your unit with scratches four inches above the floor?’

At this point Depp started laughing and there was laughter in the public gallery.

Earlier in the day, Depp cracked up with laughter as the doorman of his building (pictured vaping during his deposition) described how Amber Heard asked him to investigate an intruder due to scratches on their front door – which were caused by the dog

Actor Johnny Depp sued his ex-wife actress Amber Heard (pictured yesterday) for libel in Fairfax County Circuit Court after she wrote an op-ed piece in The Washington Post in 2018 referring to herself as a ‘public figure representing domestic abuse.’ 

Romero said: ‘They were so scared. They asked me to go inside the unit to check room by room. I did it, it’s part of my job.’

Romero met Heard on May 25, 2016, four days after the final argument between Heard and Depp before their divorce.

She claims Depp struck her with a mobile phone at the apartment – something he denies.

Romero said that he didn’t see any bruises and cuts on Heard’s face at the time and she was 3ft away from him.

Asked if he would have seen anything, given they were so close and the light was good, he said: ‘That’s correct’.

Depp laughed again as an exasperated Romero said he wasn’t checking if Heard’s ‘eyelashes are not even’.  

On Tuesday, expert witness Dr. Shannon Curry was called to the stand. 

The clinical and forensic psychologist told the court she concluded Heard had traits consistent with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) and Histrionic Personality Disorder (HPD) – two conditions found in people with patterns of emotional instability and attention-seeking behavior. 

The court heard the psychologist diagnosed Heard with two personality disorders found in people with patterns of emotional instability and attention-seeking behavior

The expert’s testimony will help bolster Depp’s claims that his ex-wife falsely accused him of physically and sexually abusing her in a Washington Post op-ed in 2018, and that Heard was allegedly the real abuser

Dr. Curry testified that she was initially hired by Depp’s lawyers early last year to review files in the legal battle between the two feuding exes and identify behavior in their relationship that may be consistent with ‘intimate partner violence’. 

The psychology expert, however, revealed her role would shift several months later in October, when she was asked to provide a psychological evaluation of Heard, 36. 

‘The results of Ms. Heard’s evaluation supported two diagnoses: Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) and Histrionic Personality Disorder (HPD),’ Curry told the court. 

She concluded that Heard ‘grossly exaggerated’ her post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) after her relationship with Depp and said that in the actress’s eyes, the actor went from being ‘idealized to the dumpster.’

Dr. Curry noted that Heard’s BPD was marked by an ‘underlying terror of abandonment’ and somebody with the condition tends to make ‘desperate attempts’ to stop it from happening.

These could be ‘very extreme behaviors’, she said.

Curry added that as a result of these disorders, somebody like Heard could appear charming at the start of a friendship or relationship but could then turn dark easily.

Heard is expected to take the stand in the coming days to begin her highly anticipated testimony.  

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