The best things I've read for quite a while, thanks so much for these penetrating questions everyone needs to ask😁😂😄 Excellent piece, greatly appreciated, it lifted my heavy spirits.
Your story, Melania, is not Beauty and the Beast. It’s not Lady and the Tramp. It’s definitely not Pretty Woman. It’s cha-ching—a cash transaction.
Not to mention an illegal visa.
And Melania I didn’t know and I’m a victim, too are not things people are gonna want to hear out of your mouth and broken English when you’re trying to apologize.
It has always been capital vs labor, and it’s still capital vs labor. Don’t delude yourself. Our problem is the disparity of wealth, and we’re in exactly the situation we always find when there is great disparity of wealth. This isn’t new. It’s just the newest cycle, and we got complacent. It’s time to correct that.
Meanwhile, It’s another Kent State moment - the murders of Renee Good, who with the words “we don’t hate you” stuck a flower in the barrel of Jonathon Ross’ gun, and Alex Pretti, whose last words were “are you ok?” to the woman he was attempting to protect. Both of them were innocent of any wrongdoing, and the ICE agents involved, whether they pulled the trigger or just stood there, all are guilty of murder. And let’s not forget Keith Porter! And Wael Tarabishi! Keep adding names to the list!
Speaking of which: Shouldn’t there be a warrant out for the arrest of Jonathon Ross based upon his own cell phone evidence? And warrants for every other ICE agent present as accomplices? And warrants for all ICE in the vicinity of the murder of Alex Pretti? And how about the others ICE has murdered? Not to mention all those who have been brutally assaulted and detained? Can culpability be assigned clear up to the White House?
THE COMMON GOOD MANIFESTO
A society built for people, not predators.
We are at our best when we invest in each other.
We are at our worst when we abandon the vulnerable.
This manifesto is how we return to the common good.
I. DIGNITY AND JUSTICE
1. Release the Epstein files — full transparency, no exceptions.
2. Impeach, convict, and imprison Donald Trump and every handler who enabled his corruption.
3. No federal office for any convicted felon.
4. End the weaponization of the justice system against the poor, immigrants, LGBTQ people, and marginalized communities.
II. DEMOCRACY THAT ACTUALLY WORKS
1. Abolish the Electoral College — one person, one vote.
2. Abolish ICE — replace it with humane immigration policy that honors human rights.
3. Ban gerrymandering with a standardized national apportionment method.
4. Two-term limits for every elected office.
5. Mandatory retirement at 70 for all elected officials.
6. Paper ballots only — end the era of hackable voting machines.
III. AN ECONOMY THAT SERVES PEOPLE
1. Restore 1950s-style progressive tax rates — when America was prosperous and fair.
2. Overturn Citizens United — corporations are not people.
3. Eliminate the Social Security payroll cap and tax capital gains for Social Security contributions.
4. $25 minimum wage indexed to inflation.
5. Medicare for All, one unified system — no A/B/C/D maze.
6. Congress receives Medicare, not boutique private insurance.
IV. WORKERS, CREATIVES, AND PUBLIC SERVANTS
1. Big pay raises for social workers, teachers, librarians, artists, and cultural workers — the people who actually hold society together.
2. Universal childcare — because families are the foundation of the nation.
3. Free public university education.
4. Full forgiveness of all student debt.
V. CLEAN GOVERNMENT
1. Root out corruption at every level, starting at the top.
2. Full financial transparency for every elected official, appointee, and senior bureaucrat.
3. Ban lobbying for former officeholders for life.
VI. THE FUTURE WE CHOOSE
We choose a country that values:
• Compassion over cruelty
• Community over greed
• Truth over propaganda
• Shared prosperity over billionaire hoarding
• Democracy over minority rule
• Human dignity over corporate profit
We choose a nation where the common good is not a slogan, but the organizing principle of public life.
And we refuse to apologize for demanding better.
I invite you to adopt this manifesto, add to it, improve it, and share it widely with your friends and elected officials, including school boards, city councils, churches, civic groups, anywhere you can get people to listen. Post it on Substack, send it by email, hell, print it on paper and post it on light poles and bulletin boards. Let’s show the world that we envision a better world that serves people rather than just the oligarchy.
We have the power to change the world. Let’s do it!
This movie was so aggressively written for the wealthy—and so punishing to everyone else—that Montblanc should’ve negotiated an exclusive promo: buy a ticket, get a free pen, just in case you need something elegant so you can gouged your eyes out with while reconsidering your life choices halfway through. Apple will probably jump in next with limited-edition noise-canceling AirPods, engineered specifically to block out dialogue, subtext, and the sound of your own soul quietly trying to leave your body.
—Louis
And all of this was written by dyslexic person and I’m clever and it’s free.
Stephanie:
“The Obama scandal isn’t working this time to protect Trump.”
Felix:
“Tell Melania the next time you see her at pole dancing class to just scream ‘BENGHAZI!’ It’s like the Republicans’ nuclear option.”
Stephanie:
“If they reach for Hillary’s emails again, they’ve officially jumped the shark.”
Felix:
“I would’ve told her myself, but I didn’t want to interrupt the class. She’s teaching it now.”
Stephanie:
“Honestly? I’m not mad. She’s giving me a career option for when this country fully collapses.
Nancy Reagan gave us ‘Just Say No.’ Barbara Bush gave us literacy.
Melania’s out here giving us free pole dancing certification with a focus on upper-body strength and regime change.
That’s the First Lady glow-up we didn’t know we needed.”
I feel so satisfied… thank you for the preview that I didn’t have to pay for…need to save bucks for the homeless and hungry. Unbelievable 🙄
I take my role here seriously, Leslie. 😅
The best things I've read for quite a while, thanks so much for these penetrating questions everyone needs to ask😁😂😄 Excellent piece, greatly appreciated, it lifted my heavy spirits.
TY!
Your story, Melania, is not Beauty and the Beast. It’s not Lady and the Tramp. It’s definitely not Pretty Woman. It’s cha-ching—a cash transaction.
Not to mention an illegal visa.
And Melania I didn’t know and I’m a victim, too are not things people are gonna want to hear out of your mouth and broken English when you’re trying to apologize.
—Louis
Melania Trump
😂
Lol Tent Hole! Love it!
LOL, thanks. I thought that one was a bit of an Easter egg for the most informed survivor advocates.
A little present from S. R. Love it
"I really don't care, do you?"
Biggest grossing? Well, smart money says it’s probably gross, so perhaps.
It has always been capital vs labor, and it’s still capital vs labor. Don’t delude yourself. Our problem is the disparity of wealth, and we’re in exactly the situation we always find when there is great disparity of wealth. This isn’t new. It’s just the newest cycle, and we got complacent. It’s time to correct that.
Meanwhile, It’s another Kent State moment - the murders of Renee Good, who with the words “we don’t hate you” stuck a flower in the barrel of Jonathon Ross’ gun, and Alex Pretti, whose last words were “are you ok?” to the woman he was attempting to protect. Both of them were innocent of any wrongdoing, and the ICE agents involved, whether they pulled the trigger or just stood there, all are guilty of murder. And let’s not forget Keith Porter! And Wael Tarabishi! Keep adding names to the list!
Speaking of which: Shouldn’t there be a warrant out for the arrest of Jonathon Ross based upon his own cell phone evidence? And warrants for every other ICE agent present as accomplices? And warrants for all ICE in the vicinity of the murder of Alex Pretti? And how about the others ICE has murdered? Not to mention all those who have been brutally assaulted and detained? Can culpability be assigned clear up to the White House?
THE COMMON GOOD MANIFESTO
A society built for people, not predators.
We are at our best when we invest in each other.
We are at our worst when we abandon the vulnerable.
This manifesto is how we return to the common good.
I. DIGNITY AND JUSTICE
1. Release the Epstein files — full transparency, no exceptions.
2. Impeach, convict, and imprison Donald Trump and every handler who enabled his corruption.
3. No federal office for any convicted felon.
4. End the weaponization of the justice system against the poor, immigrants, LGBTQ people, and marginalized communities.
II. DEMOCRACY THAT ACTUALLY WORKS
1. Abolish the Electoral College — one person, one vote.
2. Abolish ICE — replace it with humane immigration policy that honors human rights.
3. Ban gerrymandering with a standardized national apportionment method.
4. Two-term limits for every elected office.
5. Mandatory retirement at 70 for all elected officials.
6. Paper ballots only — end the era of hackable voting machines.
III. AN ECONOMY THAT SERVES PEOPLE
1. Restore 1950s-style progressive tax rates — when America was prosperous and fair.
2. Overturn Citizens United — corporations are not people.
3. Eliminate the Social Security payroll cap and tax capital gains for Social Security contributions.
4. $25 minimum wage indexed to inflation.
5. Medicare for All, one unified system — no A/B/C/D maze.
6. Congress receives Medicare, not boutique private insurance.
IV. WORKERS, CREATIVES, AND PUBLIC SERVANTS
1. Big pay raises for social workers, teachers, librarians, artists, and cultural workers — the people who actually hold society together.
2. Universal childcare — because families are the foundation of the nation.
3. Free public university education.
4. Full forgiveness of all student debt.
V. CLEAN GOVERNMENT
1. Root out corruption at every level, starting at the top.
2. Full financial transparency for every elected official, appointee, and senior bureaucrat.
3. Ban lobbying for former officeholders for life.
VI. THE FUTURE WE CHOOSE
We choose a country that values:
• Compassion over cruelty
• Community over greed
• Truth over propaganda
• Shared prosperity over billionaire hoarding
• Democracy over minority rule
• Human dignity over corporate profit
We choose a nation where the common good is not a slogan, but the organizing principle of public life.
And we refuse to apologize for demanding better.
I invite you to adopt this manifesto, add to it, improve it, and share it widely with your friends and elected officials, including school boards, city councils, churches, civic groups, anywhere you can get people to listen. Post it on Substack, send it by email, hell, print it on paper and post it on light poles and bulletin boards. Let’s show the world that we envision a better world that serves people rather than just the oligarchy.
We have the power to change the world. Let’s do it!
Hahahahaha !
OMG I didn't.I will never watch that unless I'm paid to watch it. Don't see that happening.
This movie was so aggressively written for the wealthy—and so punishing to everyone else—that Montblanc should’ve negotiated an exclusive promo: buy a ticket, get a free pen, just in case you need something elegant so you can gouged your eyes out with while reconsidering your life choices halfway through. Apple will probably jump in next with limited-edition noise-canceling AirPods, engineered specifically to block out dialogue, subtext, and the sound of your own soul quietly trying to leave your body.
—Louis
And all of this was written by dyslexic person and I’m clever and it’s free.
Stephanie:
“The Obama scandal isn’t working this time to protect Trump.”
Felix:
“Tell Melania the next time you see her at pole dancing class to just scream ‘BENGHAZI!’ It’s like the Republicans’ nuclear option.”
Stephanie:
“If they reach for Hillary’s emails again, they’ve officially jumped the shark.”
Felix:
“I would’ve told her myself, but I didn’t want to interrupt the class. She’s teaching it now.”
Stephanie:
“Honestly? I’m not mad. She’s giving me a career option for when this country fully collapses.
Nancy Reagan gave us ‘Just Say No.’ Barbara Bush gave us literacy.
Melania’s out here giving us free pole dancing certification with a focus on upper-body strength and regime change.
That’s the First Lady glow-up we didn’t know we needed.”
⬆️ Fantastic
She is indeed multilingual. She can say “Leave money on dresser” in six languages.
I can’t imagine the unique horror of having to sit thru that entire movie. 😳
pass and no comment.
ON IGNORE
Just in case you thought it was real, whole thing a pretty dark satire.
At no time in the history of this country, has a first lady 1. Been a prostitute and 2. Made a movie about herself WHILE STILL IN THE WH.
Good God, why is the country being subjected to this mess. Next in line: Don Jr. Hunting tour for endangered species.
Even if they showed this „Movie“ on a plane, people would still walk out.