Diamond eulogy

Especially Tiffany.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

Not even death can stop the grift

Lynette “Diamond” Hardaway, a member of the Diamond and Silk duo who gained national attention for their staunch support for former President Trump, has died at the age of 51.

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“The World just lost a True Angel and Warrior Patriot for Freedom, Love, and Humanity! Please respect the privacy of Diamond’s family!” the Twitter account for the duo posted Monday night.

The tweet did not state a cause of death.

The post included a link for people to give contributions to Richardson aimed at “Preserving Diamond’s Legacy.”

  The Hill

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

Too crazy for Fox

Fox News has cut ties with MAGA vlogging superstars Diamond & Silk, who had contributed original content to the network’s streaming service Fox Nation since shortly after its late 2018 launch.

The sudden split comes after the Trump-boosting siblings have come under fire for promoting conspiracy theories and disinformation about the coronavirus. “After what they’ve said and tweeted you won’t be seeing them on Fox Nation or Fox News anytime soon,” a source with knowledge of the matter told The Daily Beast.

  Daily Beast

By the same token, Fox shouldn't be airing Trump's batshit pressers.

After rising to prominence during the 2016 election, Lynette “Diamond” Hardaway and Rochelle “Silk” Richardson leveraged their newfound celebrity into regular sycophantic appearances on Fox News, resulting in President Donald Trump raving about their performances, featuring them at rallies, and treating them as “senior advisers.”

The social-media personalities were eventually tapped to provide weekly videos for Fox Nation.

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The sisters’ Fox guest spots have also dried up recently. According to a search of TVEyes, a cable-news monitoring system, Diamond & Silk haven’t appeared on the network since a March 6 interview on Fox & Friends and a March 7 hit on the now-defunct Fox Business Network show hosted by Trish Regan, who was also ditched by Fox after her own comments calling the pandemic an “impeachment scam.”

Diamond & Silk have used their heavy social-media presence to be at the forefront of right-wing misinformation about the COVID-19 outbreak. For instance, during their March 30 livestream, the duo claimed that the number of American coronavirus deaths has been inflated to make Trump look bad.

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Silk, meanwhile, baselessly asserted that the disease was “man-made” and “engineered,” wondering aloud if there was a “little deep-state action going on behind the scenes.” She also questioned whether the World Health Organization had a “switch” to “turn this virus on and off?”

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A day after Diamond and Silk’s last Fox Nation episode was posted online, Twitter removed a post from the pro-Trump sisters calling for people to expose themselves to the virus that has now killed more than 55,000 Americans. “The only way we can become immune to the environment; we must be out in the environment,” the since-deleted tweet read. “Quarantining people inside of their houses for extended periods will make people sick!”

They followed up that deleted tweet with an April 10 live stream that featured the pair pushing even more unhinged conspiracies and dangerous commentary, such as saying they’ll refuse to take any coronavirus vaccine that tech giant Bill Gates was involved in because he’s pushing for “population control.”

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During the same broadcast, they also openly wondered whether 5G technology was being used to infect people with coronavirus in an effort to fill “empty” hospitals, suggesting that the “deep state snakes” were building towers in certain areas to “turn things on and off to make sure that certain things go down so those hospital beds can be filled?”

Maybe they can get a gig on OANN.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

Dear Lord

Trump's favorite clowns in the news

Pro-Trump vlogger duo Diamond & Silk are on a legal campaign this week, threatening to sue two bloggers unless they take down unflattering mentions of them.

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The pair’s anonymous lawyer have sent at least two cease-and-desist aimed at stories that mention in Diamond & Silk in connection with racist groups.

One of the targeted blog posts, published on Wonkette, accused the African-American duo of helping to “prop up the most vile white supremacy.” Diamond and Silk’s mystery legal team wrote that the article “deliberately and maliciously slandered and defamed Diamond and Silk and the Diamond and Silk brand by deliberately and maliciously attaching their name to racist context.”

The letter also includes a warning for Wonkette not to post about the letter: "This notice is not to be made public via online sources or any other sources in any manner.”

  The Daily Beast

Can I get a Jesus eye roll gif?

The duo also sent a letter to Grant Stern, an author and investigative reporter who mentioned in a blog post that the duo had appeared on a neo-Nazi show. The letter Stern received is nearly identical to the one received by Wonkette, and it also demands that Stern take down his story or face legal action.

Stern, who has no plans to take down the mention of Diamond and Silk in his story, pointed out the irony of the free speech activists, who once appeared at a House hearing to complain about tech censorship, threatening him over his post.

And here's Wonkette's response to the cease and desist letter:

That's right. THE Diamond and Silk sent us a cease and desist. And it's just as beautiful as we imagined.

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Everything about this letter is incredible and SUPER LEGALLY BINDING. The fact that it was sent to us via email by "robert," with a lowercase "r" and no last name. The subject line, "Cease and Desist Letter for Defamation of Character and Libeling," is just the tip of the iceberg.

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The first paragraph sets the tone:

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Specifically, they didn't like a few particular excerpts, so we'll just go ahead and reproduce those for you, here.

I"'m getting super tired of Diamond and Silk, especially since at this point they've been running this con long enough for me to accidentally remember BOTH of their real Government names, Lynette Hardaway (Fucking Diamond), and Rochelle Richardson (Goddamn Silk). I have long despised both trolls; I've hated their hair, their animal print, their dumb facial expressions, their jiggin' and jivin', but most of all? I have hated the way they prop up the most vile white supremacy in our government, and it's time to start calling that shit out."

"They are the black faces of White Nationalism."

"... hate them for looking so dumb ... "

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Here in the US of A, we have this little thing called the First Amendment. And because of it, you don't get to sue people for being mean to you. In fact, making fun of assholes is a proud American tradition, much like obesity and electing white supremacists.

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And for public figures, which Diamond and Silk unfortunately and undeniably are, it's a lot harder. Public figures have to show that any actual false statements were made "with actual malice."

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The US Supreme Court has been pretty clear throughout the years that political speech, in particular, receives the most protection. That's because "speech concerning public affairs is more than self-expression; it is the essence of self-government." Garrison v. Louisiana, 379 U.S. 64 74-75 (1964).

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In case you were wondering, writing besmirches and "maliciously attaching their name to racist context" are not causes of action in any of the 50 states. Just FYI.

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[If Diamond & Silk actually sued, discovery] would be LIT.

Not only would we get to explore exactly how Quartz and Cotton-Poly Blend prop up white nationalism, we'd get to ask them why they think our articles are false and what kind of sketchy sources they get their money from.

ALLEGEDLY. Not that in any way we'd suggest that Diamond and Silk might have any sources of income they wouldn't want us to know about. Perish THAT thought.

  Wonkette

Never mind the mismatched singular noun/plural verb problem, I like how they capitalized untruthful and deceptive in their opening sentence, and all the other misplaced capitals in their closing:




Is there a Trump school of capitalization all his ass-kissers go to? I know Diamond & Silk don't have German roots.

By the way, Wonkette is an actual lawyer.  (A tediously arrogant one as long as I've known about her, but that's a different story.)

Sad, sad, sad

Diamond and Silk are Trump's go-to black superstar supporters.

Trump retweets those brilliant legal scholars: Diamond and Silk

I wonder who steals the bizarre capitalization scheme from the other, Trump or Diamond and Silk.  Or is this something more widespread that I don't know about?  It's got a German flavor.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.