The End of Diamond & Silk feat Claire Goforth

Fever Dreams

The Daily Beast

News & Politics, Government

4.4 • 767 Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Ineitha Lynette Hardaway—better known as “Diamond” from the pro-Trump broadcasting duo “Diamond and Silk”—passed away this week, leaving the future of the pair’s popular act in limbo. In this week’s episode of Fever Dreams, hosts Will Sommer and Kelly Weill speculate on what comes next for “Silk”—who was never really the group’s frontman, so to speak. Then, the pair tackle Brazil’s own Capitol riot, which came nearly two years to the day after Jan. 6. In terms of pure aesthetics, the two scenes were incredibly reminiscent of each other: “They had the flags, they had the marching groups, they had the people walking through government chambers, trashing things,” Weill said. But even as this was all going on, former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has been camped out in Florida at the home of an MMA star, signing autographs and meeting with American fans of his Trumpian governing style. The state has become a new nexus for the world’s various right-wing movements in recent years, according to Fever Dreams guest and The Daily Dot political reporter Claire Goforth—and it appears Bolsonaro is angling to stay there and trade in on his popularity with the MAGA base rather than face the music back at home.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Will Summer and welcome to The Daily Beast, Fever Dreams.
0:03.5	I'm a politics reporter at The Daily Beast.
0:05.5	My book on Q&N, Trust the Plan, The Rise of Q&N, and the Conspiracy that Unhinged America will be available in February and is available for a pre-order now.
0:13.5	And I'm Kelly Weil. I am also a reporter at The Daily Beast, and I'm the author of the book Off the Edge, Flat Earthers, Conspiracy Culture, and Why People Will Believe Anything.
0:23.1	On this podcast, we're going to take you on plunges into the sometimes hilarious, sometimes scary fanatics, infecting the way that millions of Americans view the world and how they vote.
0:31.4	Even in the aftermath of the Trump administration, the energy of these conspiracy theorists, grifters, and influencers is still pushing our mainstream
0:39.1	political landscape closer and closer to a breaking point.
0:43.1	Welcome back to Fever Dreams.
0:45.0	I'm Will Summer, joined as always by Kelly Weil.
0:48.2	Kelly, how you doing?
0:49.2	I'm good.
0:49.8	I am so stoked to spend the entire episode discussing Prince Harry's memoir.
0:54.9	Yeah, so we're going to be doing dramatic readings from the bombshell memoir Spare.
0:58.8	We're starting here on his story about his hog, having frostbite at his brother's wedding.
1:03.7	Here we go.
1:04.8	Me little bishop needs a jumper.
1:07.0	Chav nix me mobile.
1:09.7	Just kidding, folks.
1:10.8	But yeah, he really, I got to say, me just briefly,
1:12.9	Prince Harry is really putting it all out there.
1:14.6	He really is.
1:15.3	I respect this kind of like gossip mongering when he doesn't need it.
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