This is apparently a question in some peoples’ minds. They note that the networks refused to cover Obama’s immigration speech, so why cover Trump’s?
But the answer is obvious. Donald Trump makes the media money.
This is actually the key point about Trump’s second-act life – roughly everything from the moment his Atlantic City casino collapsed in bankruptcy. From that moment on, Donald Trump has mostly been a tool, a product marketed by others to make themselves money.
Trump wasn’t the boss on The Apprentice. Mark Burnett was. Trump doesn’t build anything. He licenses his name for others to use when they’re building a thing.
Hence the enormous coverage of every lying Trump tweet. It doesn’t matter that they are useless in an informational sense: one can’t learn anything from what Trump says or tweets or expectorates out of his fevered head. However, lots of people pay attention to his brain gushings and in the attention economy that drives the media these days, that’s all that matters.
Donald Trump’s life and career are the logical conclusion of “teach the controversy.” Who cares if almost every word out of the man’s mouth tonight is likely to be outright false, deceptive, and bigoted? People pay attention. So media outlets use Trump to sell advertising and suction data about their “users.” He makes them money.
Tom Hardy and Riz Ahmed are reading IGN comments and Riz read the comment that said “ Venom vs. Predator vs. Alien “ and Tom’s immediate reactions was to say “GANG BANG” and then make a face of REGRET™
the dumbest fucking shit that people won’t stop fucking saying is “trans and bi people were added in the lgbt community” and it won’t stop pissing me the fuck off
when were they added? how were they added? who decided this and why did everyone agree? if everyone agreed, why do we still have the drop the t movement and the push to exclude bisexuals? did someone just decree this?
and if we were suddenly added in the 80s/90s, why the fuck were bisexual and trans people creating LGBT organizations and spaces since the beginning of the movement?
“bisexual and trans people have had to fight to stay in the LGBT community and be properly represented for the work we put in” is not the same thing as us being added. “bisexual people and trans people haven’t always had specific terms for ourselves nor clear lines to define our experiences as separate from ‘gay’ experiences, so we only don’t really see ‘bisexual’ and ‘trans’ as included in LGBT organizations by name until recently” is ALSO not the same thing as “randomly The Evil LGs decided to accept the voiceless BTs and added us in on some mysterious date at some mysterious meeting that was never, ever recorded.”
people spewing shit like “well then explain why so many groups were called Gay and Lesbian or The Gay League and we don’t see bi or trans included at all!” BECAUSE GAY AND LESBIAN REFERRED TO BISEXUAL AND TRANS PEOPLE! LANGUAGE EVOLVED AND CHANGED!
idk how DumbFucks ‘R’ Us can understand that modern groups called “GSA” (gay straight alliances) include bisexuals and trans people but somehow think “Gay and Lesbian Group Circa 1950″ does not.
get a fucking clue. and stop using the struggles trans and bi people have had with exclusionism to pretend like the lgbt comunity adds new groups in randomly when we legit haven’t added in shit from the fucking get go, we’ve just created more words to describe our shared experiences.
Many prominent bisexual activists developed their political organizing skills & strategies by organizing through (and even sometimes cofounding) gay & lesbian activism.
To me her clothing is everything, because you immediately know how over-the-top she is, how extra she is. She seems like someone who really wants attention and is commanding attention, which is very important because she’s somebody who is actually hiding.
She’s hiding from all these different iterations of herself, and it’s actually a great protection. She has such a distinct, iconic look that if she looked completely different in each iteration of her life, it’s easier for her to disappear when she looks like something else. So there’s not a lot of variety to her look, and I think that’s what’s really special. - Blake Lively
