Friday, October 21, 2016

Nasty? Isn't it pot calling the kettle nasty?

Someone had to know the comments by Trump would catch fire. It is what he intended. What no one counted on was the opportunistic economy that came with it.

Women don't like to be attacked. We have all been there.

October 21, 2016
By Madeline Berg

...In a way (click here) that might be aggravating to Trump, the proof of this “nasty” movement can be seen by the measure he seems to care about the most: the money.

In the day following the debate, when Swanky Press introduced its Nasty Woman merchandise, sales jumped 350% from the site’s daily average. Sales at Raygun—a mini-chain based in Des Moines that Clinton has visited and that describes itself as A Prairie Home Companion meets The Onion meets Urban Outfitters—says its sales doubled after making “America Needs Nasty Women” T shirts available Thursday.

And then there’s Janet Jackson. The singer didn’t have to make anything new to benefit from the nasty trend. Her 1986 “Nasty” got new love after the debate; Spotify streams of the song increased 250% after the debate....