In my most recent newsletter I mentioned that I would be commenting on two manosphere and "influencer" related divorces. The first of course was multi-million follower YouTuber JP Sears getting divorce raped by his wife Amber Sears.
I had a lot of smoke for both of them in that newsletter, and some more today as well. In short JP married a vegan liberal feminist otherwise known as an AWFUL woman (Affluent White Feminist Urban Liberal) and now is getting his ass handed to him. This is not surprising, and he probably deserves it, after submitting to and getting run by his boss queen wife for many years.
She mooched off his business to build her own fake one for years, like the parasite she is, and now she's there for the kill shot in court.
JP also hangs out openly and repeatedly with known mega frauds like the "Liver King". JP himself is allegedly a former liberal/Obama voter, suddenly turned conservative comedian who is "pro freedom". 99% chance that's just for show, a marketing angle to tap into conservative beta male counter culture.
You are the resistance man, now smash that like button and buy my freedom wins t-shirt so my crazy wife can buy more shit we don't need before pegging me in divorce court and turning my son into a trans vegan communist.
As for Tanner and Brikaeli, I have no such smoke for them, as in zero. Tanner has spoken at most 21 Convention and Patriarch Convention events since 2016 and he's been very supportive of the events over the years.
His wife attended several of these with him, and even talked to the women of The 22 Convention in 2020. She was one of the only two women I even allowed to speak at the women's event, which was otherwise an exclusive mansplaining experience pioneered by yours truly.
I have no beef with Tanner, or his wife. Neither one of them are fakes or frauds in my experience. They also have a small army of children, so this divorce is unusual and exceptionally heartbreaking.
Divorce in modern American is fairly common, but divorce with six kids - and number 7 on the way - is rare. I've never even heard of that "in real life" here in Florida.
For those of you who follow Tanner's work you also know that this marks his 2nd divorce, although his first marriage was very short and he did manage to have it undone by his church.
It was tedious and abnormal for the Mormon church to approve that, but they did which was important to him. Him and Brikaeli have been together for like 12-13 years now which makes this even more perplexing.
The average marriage before divorce lasts about 7-8 years. They are significantly beyond that crunch point.
With all this in mind, a bunch of people have been asking me about the divorce, so I'm going to comment pretty candidly and hopefully guys can learn something along the way.
First of all, no I didn't know about this in advance. Tanner kept this close to the vest. In terms of the speakers I talk to regularly, none of them knew about this. The only possible exception might be Jack Donovan, who was closest with Tanner. I haven't asked and don't plan to, that's between them.
My comments here are just based on publicly available information and my own experiences.
In 2022 when Tanner declined to speak at 21 Summit, I did tell Allyssa I was worried Tanner might be getting divorced. This was a gut feeling/shot in the dark at the time. My gut said Tanner not speaking that year had little if anything to do with me and 21 Summit, and was otherwise externally driven.
These a normal conclusions I have to draw when a veteran speaker declines to speak and it's not exactly clear why.
A few of the Patriarch Convention speakers from 2021 did comment to me privately that they were concerned about Tanner generally. That his tone had changed drastically from 2020 to 2021. I didn't notice this personally but trusted they were telling me the truth of what they thought and saw.
Obviously they were correct and Tanner has addressed this explicitly in his tweet/IG post.
Tanner has confirmed she was the one to file, which is very common. Over 70% divorces are filed by women. But why?
If adultery or domestic violence were factually involved, I would definitely give her a pass. Men must have a zero tolerance policy for adultery - sexual treason - and women can either choose a one time pass for their husbands, or choose a zero tolerance policy. Both are acceptable, but zero tolerance is probably best.
As stated, for husbands, zero tolerance with the wife is mandatory and there are no exceptions. Doesn't matter how many kids you have, what your excuses are, what the circumstances are, if you stay with a woman who put another man's penis inside her body, you are an extreme loser, period, and it will never work.
Anyone telling you to stay with a woman who cheated on you is a full blown retard or actively malicious. It will happen again and she will never respect you in the meantime.
While it's possible Tanner and/or his wife cheated, there's no evidence or allegation this happened, and I'm skeptical either one would. For Tanner it's not part of his personality in my experience, and while I know his wife less, this seems unlikely with that many kids running around.
And if she did, I don't see Tanner staying and trying to "fight" for a cucked marriage.
Likewise, I don't see either of them being violent towards each other. Some mainstream news sources suggest that Mormons have a "DV problem", but there's no evidence I've seen to support this.
In 2020 they invited me to their home in Utath. So about 8 months later I took them up on that, and spent a week in Utah visiting them and Jack Donovan who lived there at the time.
I was deeply impressed with their neighborhood and wrote about it here in the newsletter. Definitely had "old America" vibes to it. I spent like 3-4 hours with them and their platoon of kids. Brikaeli cooked an amazing dinner and I remember saying something like "Wow, I need to get a wife again, this food is dope".
I told Tanner and his wife about the reality of my childhood. I watched my mother get the living shit kicked out of her, closed fists, dragged around the floor by her hair bleeding like an animal. Events like this, and police showing up, were a regular occurrence my entire childhood.
My dad was a violent psychopathic alcoholic who occasionally dabbled in meth, cocaine, and steroids. And he made over $10M in his lifetime, up to $700k a year in the early 2000s. More than enough money to fund these escapades and lawyer fees.
It was wild.
Both Tanner and Brikaeli were speechless and wide eyed hearing this stuff plainly from me for the first time. No one has a perfect childhood, but it was obvious to me by their responses that this was well outside their own experiences and came as a genuine shock to them.
Most people from a background like mine are dead, in jail, or constantly in drug rehab.
Given this, I'm doubtful that DV was involved by either party. The fact that this conflict has been going on for 2.5 years - or longer - also suggests that strongly.
I mention all this because "sex and money" are usually at the root of divorces. This gets dressed up today as women being "unhappy" or "irreconcilable differences".
That's politically correct lawyer speak for: I hate this mother fucker I want out.
As far as money goes, I have no idea what Tanner's business is operating like. But, there's no way in hell getting divorced would help that situation for either of them.
Lawyer fees are gay, court fees are gay, and doubling over your living expenses is like pouring gasoline on a money fire hoping to put it out.
To varying degrees, people who follow Tanner online are genuinely perplexed by his divorce given the above and how much they can conclude about each item from a common sense perspective or whatever they know about his life from social media and public speaking.
Error 404. Does not compute.
So I'm going to provide a different perspective here that will ruffle some feathers.
The first thing I'll share is that to my surprise, Brikaeli blocked me personally on Instagram and unfriended me on Facebook. (Ouch).
Allyssa can see her profiles just fine. I am blocked.
I haven't talked to Brikaeli in a long time, probably since I was at their house in 2021. I've never said a mean word about her in my life, and to my knowledge, the same is true vice versa.
With that said, I am extremist even among extremists. I tend to scare the feminist jezebel even out of the tradest of the trad women. Only extremely high IQ alpha females like Janice Fiamengo or high functioning autistic women can really roll with this goodness.
However, my best guess is that Brikaeli blocking me had little to do with me personally, unless she was deathly afraid of my meme game, which would be understandable. My gut says I was caught up in a wider net of emotional retaliation, a mass blocking of men Tanner had introduced her to.
Manosphere figures being a high block priority would be of zero surprise to me, and POTM would be top of the list.
What I also noticed is that Brikaeli stopped Tweeting about 2 years ago. Manosphere wives maintaining small Twitter accounts in support of their husband is fairly common. Allyssa does it and so does Mrs. Foster.
But like two years ago this suddenly stopped, and while most people don't pay attention to details like this, I do. Brikaeli has since deleted her Twitter account as far as I can tell.
This was the main cause for thinking about divorce in 2022 when Tanner declined to speak. I hoped at the time that Brikaeli was just busy being a mom with a million kids, but in the back of my head I knew that if that wasn't the driving issue, this was intentional, and she was pissed at Tanner in a meaningful way.
Her Tweets never returned, and this lines up perfectly with what Tanner has posted publicly.
I also noticed that like a year ago or so, Brikaeli dyed her hair blondish. This was a bad sign.
Beta males tend to underplay hair color changes. Alpha males know that it always indicates psychological distress or a behavior change.
Colors like green, blue, and pink are obvious signs of toxicity and insanity. Women are like poisonous frogs or snakes in this sense, they are telling you to stay the fuck away or risk immediate injury.
Red is the color of fire, anger, and passion. This change always represents unresolved daddy issues flaring up and revenge sex tours.
Blonde is an attention mechanism, signaling a degree of social and sexual openness. Whether it's "highlights" or a full dye is just a difference of degree.
At some point she also cut her hair shorter. It went from super long (feminine) to just sort of long by today's standards.
Beta males will play this down, but alpha males know the truth. Women are impulsive animals when it comes to their hair, and communicate 80% of their psychological state through their hair.
Shorter hair = more dominance and rebellion. A need for more feelings of security as she detached from Tanner. She didn't go full lesbo obviously, but again, this is a difference of degree.
To Tanner's credit, he married a beautiful woman who made him many beautiful children.
As Andrew Tate commented routinely from 2019-2021, most manosphere goofballs can't claim this. They consistently marry fat women, hideous women, 50 year old single moms, drug addicts, alcoholics, etc.
It's absurd that these people charge money for advice on women when their own women are sewer rat level trash.
Phil Fraudster is a great example of a manosphere beta male larping as an alpha male patriarch.
His wife is one of the most ugly women I have ever met. Daughter of Frankenstein level stuff.
We're talking so low that Conovan Sharpe might even take a pass on that.
Pretty sure he's admitted his wife is on HGH and other butt sex tranny hormones like him and Conovan Sharpe's wife, Miss Piggy, which partially explains what's going on here. (HGH can affect facial bone structure, aka acromegaly).
Manosphere beta male Jeff Putnam is another wonderful example. He married a single mom with 5 kids, and now pretends they are all his. He's also been arrested for beating some of them, along with the wife who was also arrested.
Speaking Mrs. Putnam, I've seen a picture of her. Somehow she manages to be even uglier (and way fatter) than Phil's wife. I didn't think this was possible until I saw her with my own eyes.
Fraudster's wife is at least, not fat.
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