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Mock it all you want, "Melania" is the most important documentary since "Pulp Fiction"
The new Jeff Bezos/Brett Ratner documentary about Melania Trump preparing to do what only Frances Cleveland had done before—move back into the White House as First Lady—has been released. I will not be paying money to watch it, though I probably will watch it some day, as I have watched The Birth of a Nation or Tell Your Children (Reefer Madness), as a cultural and historical piece.
A brand new tranche of several million pages of Epstein files documents was dumped into the public domain, only hours before the film. This pile, like the first, has been redacted beyond the specifics of the law, and is not yet the full contents. The Department of Justice has apparently renewed their Adobe Pro subscription, since the cut-and-paste method to remove superimposed color bars no longer seems to work.
The new Epstein files contain more damning content for male members of the English-speaking, global ruling class. Now we have emails from a succession of the Richest Men in the World, in the 2000’s and early 2010’s. Bill Gates requested antibiotics to secretly medicate Mrs. Gates for the STI she might have contracted from Epstein’s Island (though she never visited it), and pick-me boy Elon Musk sent a missive on Christmas morning where he begged to be invited into Epstein’s party circles, as soon as he could dump his kids.
12/24/2012 “Jeffrey Epstein”:
you are welcome to stay or just come for the day, plenty of rroom i will send heli to get you
12/25/2012 Elon Musk:
Do you have any parties planned? I’ve been working to the edge of sanity this year and so, once my kids head home after Christmas, I really want to hit the party scene in St. Barts or elsewhere and let loose. The invitation is much appreciated, but a peaceful island experience is the opposite of what I am looking for.
12/25/2012 Jeffrey Epstein:
Understood , I will see you on st Barth, , the ratio on my island might make Talilah uncomfortable
Can you guess which Richest Man in the World’s emails have yet to appear in the Epstein release?
What the public doesn't know yet is that Melania: The Thinly-Veiled Bribe is just the first of a trilogy. Done up in Pulp Fiction-style, Bezos and Ratner gave us the ending scene/final act, first.
The story arc starts with Melania: The Working Years where we are introduced to a Slovenian woman who will do ANYTHING to get out of her shithole country. Thanks to being recruited by an international sex-trafficking ring and her chance “discovery” by Mr. Jeffrey, Melania makes an American anchor baby, before she becomes a citizen!
Just like with Star Wars, the middle of the trilogy is where all the plot and character development occurs; that’s what MELANIA: Slovenian Ops features.
While American Husband is busy with affairs and The Apprentice 2.0 (Now with celebrities, because Donny doesn't draw anymore) and Anchor Baby is cared for by nannies for weeks at a time, Melania: Slovenian Ops shows her returning to her Eastern European homeland and plotting the Useful Idiot’s post-Obama Presidential election victory. At the very end, we find Trump had no idea Melania fixed Wisconsin for him.
At the end of the second act (and third installment), the truth is revealed. Melania Knauss has been running her own empire, this whole time. The Trump Presidency was fictitious, a brand to hide behind.
Brilliant framing! The Pulp Fiction nonlinear structure analogy actually tracks pretty well here. I remember watching the trilogy structure work in different contxts (Matrix did this kinda backwards too), and framing the Melania doc as Act 3 first is a clever media criticism angle. It makes the 'thinly veiled bribe' arguemnt hit harder when positioned as the payoff before we even know the setup.