by Diamond
Mm-hmm, that’s right.
I didn’t like it, so I decided to speak out about it.
Now, most of the time, I would just record from Silk’s cell phone. This time, I remembered that Silk had gotten me an iPad for one of my birthdays. Well, I looked at the iPad, and I noticed that there was a camera on it.
Mm-hmm.
So I got the iPad down, took a coaster holder—one of those little things you put drinks on to preserve your furniture—I took the coasters out, put the iPad in between the prongs, then took a towel and stuffed it in the back to keep it upright.
Hahaha. So you could angle the iPad wherever you needed it to be without it falling over.
Absolutely right. Then I clicked on “Record,” and it recorded me.
Mm-hmm.
Honey, that’s when I went in, all the way, in favor of Donald Trump. I said, “I think I’m stumping for the Trump. I think I want to switch my party.” I was finally paying attention because I was so mad.
I wasn’t just going along to get along. We were doing something that was not normal. No matter how sassy you think you are, you don’t go that far outside the box unless you are convinced that it’s necessary. I was thinking way outside of the box.
Mm-hmm.
I wanted something different, and I saw something different in Donald Trump. It was unfair that they weren’t giving him a fair shot.
That’s right; they sure weren’t.
And so that was the first video that I made regarding the election and my support for Donald Trump.
That was on July 5, 2015.
Right. I did a lot of cussing because I was pissed off.
Mm-hmm.
I was mad at the way things were. I was mad at the system. I was mad at the media, how they were trying to destroy somebody before he even got started. I thought it was totally unfair, and I spoke out about how I felt.
Right.
So after I did the video, I didn’t know how to upload it to YouTube, so Silk had to step in and help, hahaha.
Hahaha, yes, I did.
Silk uploaded the video to YouTube, and it started garnering attention to where HLN emailed because they wanted to interview me.
Right. Now, at the time, we didn’t really understand all of this Internet and email and so forth, hahaha. That particular email was not set up for us to receive a notification, so we didn’t know that HLN wanted Diamond on for an interview.
Mm-hmm.
By the time we got the message, it was too late. I looked at Diamond, and I told her, “You don’t ever have to worry about missing another interview request because I’m setting this up to make sure I get all notifications. So if any one of these stations want you for an interview, we’ll be able to respond in time.”
Keep in mind, I was not doing the videos with Diamond at this particular time.
See, that’s what I love about my sister: she takes care of all the little things, so I don’t have to worry about them.
A lot of other things started happening in the country, and I would make videos on these issues. I was creating videos on any topic that I felt I wanted to address.
That’s right.
Well, some news was coming down the pipeline about Bill Cosby, and I wanted to shy away from it.
Right.
I didn’t really want to talk about it, but Silk did.
Yes, I did. I had an opinion, and I told Diamond I really wanted to talk about Bill Cosby. Diamond didn’t think we should do it, so I didn’t force it.
Then, one night, I was taking a shower, and I had this epiphany in my gut. It hit me so strongly that I really wanted to talk about what was going on with Bill Cosby.
The name of our platform was the same as our Facebook page, The Viewers. We talked about anything and everything.
That’s right.
And that was something that I wanted to talk about.
Right.
So I called Diamond, and I said, “Gurl, I was just in the shower, and this thing hit me in my gut. I really want to talk about Bill Cosby.”
She said, “Well, I just got finished taking my shower too, and something came over me.”
That’s right. I decided we needed to talk about him. Now, remember, it was supposed to be a podcast with three people when all of this first started.
Mm-hmm.
We recorded that first podcast and never did another one.
We never even went public with that podcast.
It doesn’t exist anywhere.
No, it doesn’t.
So I knew Silk was coming to my house so that we could discuss Bill Cosby, but I also reached out to my other sister to see if she wanted to come and be a part of the discussion. She wasn’t interested at all.
Here’s the deal: every time I would do something on video, she would always discourage me and say, “No one’s looking at that; no one is watching you; no one is going to see it.”
So the last time I invited her was when we got ready to do this Bill Cosby video, and she was busy and couldn’t do it.
That’s right.
No problem. Silk and I went ahead and did it.
We did it. I had my notes, and I did my little thing, and I’m so glad that I did. It brought me to where I am today.
That’s right.
At that time, all I know is that we were venting—period.
We were venting and speaking our minds about what we thought.
Now, let me make something clear: What we think about Bill Cosby today is really nobody’s business. The point is, that was when Silk joined the conversation and chimed in with me, sitting right there in my dining room.
That’s right.
We were both there. The few followers that we had on YouTube and Facebook, they loved it because they loved our interaction.
Hahaha.
Now, we couldn’t see our interaction.
Right.
People were telling us that we were so funny, and we couldn’t see it until we went back and looked at it.
Right. A lot of people thought that what we were doing was scripted, but it wasn’t. This is how we act all the time.
It’s just our personalities.
Yes.
You can see us anywhere, and this is how we act. We’re never going to change the way we act.
Yes.
So, after that, we started putting out videos together.
Mm-hmm.
Well, the thing that was in the news all the time, every day, all day, twenty-four hours a day, was Donald J. Trump.
That’s right. He became the topic of discussion at the watercooler, around the dinner table—everywhere.
So that’s what we discussed, politics.
That’s right.
I remember sitting in my office one night, probably at about 9:00 p.m., and Megyn Kelly was on Fox News.
Mm-hmm.
That was the time Megyn Kelly accused Donald Trump of something so hideous, I won’t even repeat it.
Mm-hmm.
Michael Cohen was mixed up in the discussion, and we did a video defending him.
That’s right.
We didn’t think anything of it. I want you to understand, we didn’t know Michael Cohen from Adam or Eve.
That’s right.
We hadn’t met him at that time; we didn’t know who he was; we just didn’t like the fact that they were accusing Donald Trump of salacious BS. We felt like they were tying Michael Cohen to it in order to demonize a presidential candidate.
Mm-hmm.
So we made a video. We didn’t know Michael Cohen was going to see it.
No, we didn’t.
So rumor has it that Lynne Patton was the one who saw the video first and took it to Michael Cohen.
Right.
When Michael Cohen saw it, he immediately reached out to us via email. He thanked us for supporting Donald Trump, the candidate, and he thanked us for taking up for them.
He sure did.
He wanted to send us some
T-shirts and some campaign gear, and he asked where he could send it to.
Mm-hmm. We gave him our address so he could send it.
That was the end of it. We didn’t think anything else of it. We continued making our videos, speaking about things, and letting people know how we felt.
That’s right.
A lot of people ask us how we knew that Trump was the one. For me, I knew that Donald Trump was the one because he was not like the others. He was not politically correct. He was correct! He was firm, to the point, and he was real.
Right.
And because he was speaking the truth and talking about solving the issues that were plaguing the country, I knew this man was the one. I had no doubt. There’s an old saying that if you doubt, you may as well do without. We weren’t going to do without. I did not want this country to do without whatever this man had to offer. The reason why I say that is because I heard the common sense in his words, and it resonated profoundly with my very existence.
A lot of people are watching the news, and the media is telling you what they want you to hear, and they’re spinning the narrative. Donald Trump didn’t have to do any of that.
Mm-hmm.
He just told it like it was. He said what he meant and meant what he said and didn’t care who liked it or not. He was fearless, not fearful. He didn’t have a problem with calling a spade a spade and being vocal about it. I knew we needed someone like that in this country, instead of what we had become accustomed to having.
Right. So we were making these videos, and one night I just got this inkling in my gut to Google us.
Mm-hmm.
Y’all, we were in so many blogs, it scared the living daylights out of me.
Mm-hmm. Literally.
So that night, I called Silk, and I said, “Gurl, Google us.”
Yeah. When I Googled us, I saw us everywhere.
In so many blogs.
There were so many blogs and places where people were talking about us, I could not believe it—I just could not believe it.
We were shocked, we really were. We only had about ten people on that YouTube channel.
That’s right. Only ten folks.
We had no clue at all that we were making this much noise and people were hearing it. We didn’t realize it until people started telling us, “You said everything that we’ve been wanting to say, but if we say it, we’ll be labeled racist.”
Yeah. That’s right.
Just after this video, Donald Trump was going to the border to assess things.
Yes, he was.
So when I went to my sister’s house, I didn’t know what she was going to say in that particular video. She just started ranting.
What happened was, I was still watching all of the news, and I noticed how people like Montel Williams and Rick Perry were saying the most nasty, salacious things about candidate Trump.
Mm-hmm.
Now, we don’t script our videos.
No, we don’t.
We just go off the cuff about how we feel.
Mm-hmm.
So I said, “Silk, come on over, we’re going to make a video because this is getting ridiculous, and I need to speak out.” By that time, candidate Trump had started on his way to the border because he was adamant about putting up the wall.
That’s right.
Now, back then, we thought it was a fence. Later, we realized that it was a wall.
Hahaha. That’s right.
Well, honey, I talked about Rick Perry, I talked about Montel Williams, and a lot of other ones. Then we got to talking about the border because candidate Trump had been there.
Then, I said, “Let me tell you why he went to that border.”
And I said, “Tell me why.”
“He went down to that border to take measurements because he’s going to put that damn fence up.” Like I said, back then, I thought it was a fence.
That’s because there were already fences up—falling down, rickety old things, with big holes for illegal aliens to walk right through—but that’s what we assumed would be put up.
After that video, y’all were so tickled. That’s when we found out we were in all of these blogs because of that one video saying Donald Trump went down to the border to take measurements.
Yes, that was the video. When I looked online at the different blogs, people were referring to that particular video because we had just dropped that video.
Right.
So, that morning, when I got up, I went into a separate room, and I just turned my face into the corner of the wall and thanked God.
We didn’t know any of it was going to be heard, and we weren’t trying to make anything happen. All we could do was go with the flow. Like I’ve said, if you ever want to make God laugh, tell Him your plans. We didn’t have any plan for any of this. We were speaking sincerely, from the heart.
Mm-hmm. We sure were.
We spoke how we felt about everything. We didn’t know we were resonating with other average Americans.
Nope. We were just venting because it felt good, hahaha.
Hahaha. It sure did; it felt real good.
We were new to politics. Even though we were lifelong Democrats, I don’t ever remember watching a presidential debate or even being interested in whatever was being debated. So the first Republican Party presidential debate I watched was held on August 6, 2015, and hosted by Fox News. Candidate Donald Trump had qualified to participate in the prime time–tier debate because he was polling as one of the top ten candidates.
These were the top ten candidates: real estate mogul Donald Trump, former Florida governor Jeb Bush, Wisconsin governor Scott Walker, Florida senator Marco Rubio, New Jersey governor Chris Christie, retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson, Kentucky senator Rand Paul, Texas senator Ted Cruz, former Arkansas senator Mike Huckabee, and Ohio governor John Kasich. The moderators were Bret Baier, Megyn Kelly, and Chris Wallace. We didn’t know what to expect, but we were excited that our man, Donald Trump, was on the stage.
We sure were. Now, one of Megyn Kelly’s first questions was, “Mr. Trump, one of the things people love about you is you speak your mind, and you don’t use a politician’s filter. However, that is not without its downside, in particular, when it comes to women. You’ve called women you don’t like ‘fat pigs,’ ‘dogs,’ ‘slobs,’ and ‘disgusting animals.’ ”
Then Donald Trump responded, “Only Rosie O’Donnell.”
Y’all, I was fit to be tied. Something inside of me started boiling over. I couldn’t believe what had just come out of Megyn Kelly’s mouth. I was watching The View when Rosie O’Donnell started that whole thing. She didn’t care about Donald Trump’s feelings when she was mocking him, so why should he care about her feelings? If she was woman enough to dish it, she should have been woman enough to take Donald Trump’s reply. As the moderator, why would Megyn Kelly ask that question anyhow? She should have asked a question of substance, not an ignorant question.
How is asking an ignorant question going to bring back jobs and help the economy grow?
When I woke up that next morning, I was still ticked off at Megyn Kelly. I didn’t like the way she had treated Donald Trump. With this being my first time actually watching a debate, I felt like Megyn Kelly deliberately asked Donald Trump certain questions to try to paint him in a negative light. I picked up the phone and called Silk. I told her to get dressed, come to my house, and we were going to do a rant video about what happened at the debates.
I was like, “Okay,” and I was at her house within the hour.
Silk didn’t know what I was going to say, but she was ready. I went off the cuff, and she followed along without missing a beat.
Yes, I sure did. Y’all, Diamond was pissed. We pressed “Record,” and Diamond went off. I had no idea what she was going to say, but she said it the way she felt it. I still laugh today when I see that specific video. Diamond said, “Leave my man, Donald Trump, the hell alone. If you got something to say, you got s
omething you want to tell him, run it by us first, and I’ll let you know if you have permission to come for him. Don’t come for him unless he invites your ass.” I tried to keep from laughing, but it was so hard.
Yes, Silk, I felt it all in my bones. It kept coming to me, word after word. I had to get Megyn Kelly straight. After we finished the video, I had to add the intro and the outro to it. Silk had to then load it to our YouTube account. Instantly, the video started blowing up. The viewership skyrocketed. We couldn’t believe the response that we were getting. Y’all loved it.
We started getting requests for interviews. People were happy that we did this rebuttal to Megyn Kelly.
One day, we were actually sitting in a restaurant eating dessert…
And I was in the middle of eating my apple pie à la mode.
Now, don’t judge us, we love to eat. So we got a phone call letting us know that the video had gone viral. At that time, we didn’t know what “viral” meant. So we replied that we didn’t have a virus or a cold, hahaha.
Hahaha. So when you have a video that gets a certain amount of views in a short amount of time, it’s considered “viral.”
Later on that same day, we received another phone call letting us know that we had made Drudge. We had no idea what the frantic-sounding person on the other end of the phone was talking about, so we replied that we were not on drugs; we don’t do drugs nor do we sell drugs.
Hahaha.
What we didn’t know was that the Drudge Report was a huge news outlet. We found out later that it was the first time that a video sat at the top of the Drudge Report page.
Chapter 7 The Opportunists
If you didn’t make it, you have no right to take it.
We’ve found that anytime you are doing something that could garner attention, there is always an opportunist lurking in the shadows like a dark cloud looking to come and rain on your parade. They come as if they mean you good, but every compliment, smile, and intention is for themselves. We’ve had several experiences with these types of narcissistic sociopaths. We call them “opportunists.”
An opportunist is a person who takes advantage of people and their circumstances with no regard for morals and integrity. They come off as being very friendly, kind, and concerned. They come into your life as though they have the sole purpose of being involved in your life to make it better.