Wonkette posts bizarre cease-and-decist letter it received from "Diamond and Silk"

Diamond and Silk are a social media duo famous for supporting Trump and claiming, without evidence, that Facebook "censored" them. Wonkette is a news, politics and culture website. Bianca DeLaRosa writes for it, and recently offered the opinion that Diamond and Silk were notable as "Black White Nationalists" due to their support of Trump's policies and their own ethnicity. Diamond and Silk threatened to sue Wonkette, it claims, over this opinion piece, and the cease-and-decist letter is amazing.

The consensus among lawyers on the internet is that the "Diamond and Silk Legal Team" is probably not, technically, a lawyer. I'm having trouble with the idea that it's even real. The letter is strewn with spelling mistakes and mangled legal talk uttered in the manner of a magical incantation. It seems designed to make you think that someone is pretending to be a lawyer and spewing humiliatingly ignorant threats—an exemplar of Poe's Law, the maxim that it is impossible to distinguish parody from authenticity on the Internet.

Diamond and Silk sent @Wonkette a cease and desist letter and I haven't been this excited to write about something since Bob Murray sued John Oliver for telling him to eat shit. https://t.co/cerFwN3eur

— Needlessly Snarky (@jamielynncrofts) August 29, 2019

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