I saw someone else on Jezebel earlier in the year post a really good theory. Essentially, that Trump has such a shitty reputation with most American and european business owners and investors, the only investors he could get were shady Russian oligarchs. He owes them a shit ton of money and they are going to call in…

Two things we know about Trump:

That was how things started out with Nixon, too. The Republicans tried to stand by him for awhile, but as the evidence became more damning, they started abandoning their support (to save their own hides).

You don’t have to be Sigmund Freud to see how’s Trump’s behaviors towards Russia contradict everything about him and totally points to something suspicious.

I thought ball culture meant the gay club scene of the 80's where they had “balls” and invented the dance Voguing. Because when you Vogue, it’s all about posing. I immediately thought of Paris is Burning and how AIDS affected the gay culture in the 80's, NOT the MET Ball.

This deserves a good series. Also, nothing says early 1980s more than this Patrick Nagel portrait of Joan Collins. Words are unnecessary...

I was boycotting Ryan Murphy after Glee. Which is difficult since he makes all the TV and I’m such a sucker for his brand of camp.

“Hmm. Ryan Murphy’s take on “the ball culture world” is something that the world might not need, but hey, who knows.”

Yes, but she won’t alienate her midwestern base. A lot of pop stars won’t, i.e. Beyonce and Jennifer Lopez haven’t made any statements. Beyonce incorporated political messages into a few songs and performances, but a lot of these stars don’t speak up.

Yep. It would be different if Swift never commented on these things - I can accept that she might want to keep political thoughts/opinions to herself to not alienate certain fans or to draw attention she doesn’t want. BUT she has constantly and consistently used feminism to promote herself, which ends up feeling…

I think that’s where I get annoyed with her. She has no problem using feminism to defend herself or to promote her products, but Swift RARELY ever references feminism under any other context. She talks about “girl power” primarily in reference to herself, only extending the idea out to others to make her message more…

I don’t think celebrities are necessarily obligated to voice political concerns, but when TS uses feminism as marketing, I think she somewhat opens herself up to this kind of criticism.

Me and people? You really want to turn this into an us vs them for some reason and also you really dont read what I say do you? I said I have no problem with her releasing the tax returns, yes I was disappointed it didnt show more but I know that is not her fault. It’s not her job to only release info that is damning…

Yep, totally. I only mildly disagree with one thing you’re saying.

White House reaction to tonight’s tax return scoop coming up right now... MSNBC

Disclaimer - I am not a Trump supporter or a Republican.

Yeah, it is pretty much an armchair quarterback analysis... when she’s the quarterback. Those tweets were designed to build an audience Nothing wrong with that, but it could have been done while keeping the disclosure in perspective.

if you believe “the other side” is accurately represented by a bunch of people who act 5 years old by calling someone Cheeto, then I’d say that side has some issues.

It is not the exact same thing done by both sides when we have a reasonable President doing a good job ...and we have birthers, “Obummer is gunna take our guns”, and pictures of Obama with a Hitler stash. None of that was even vaguely connected to reality. Obama was born in Hawaii, did not confiscate guns, did nothing…