Moving Forward. What?

Where are we going?  I have so many questions.  I have for many years.  Way back when Clinton was building the bridge to the 21st century.

I never have seen the bridge.  Not even on a map.   Just like I  have no sense of forward or reverse or travel of any sort which involves people who claim they are "moving us forward"(or words to that effect).

I'm not sure I am all for some things the forward people like.  I'm not comfortable with the prospect of a cashless society.  To me that is a totalitarian state which never had to fire a shot to enslave the population.  You get on the wrong side of anyone with influence and you can be shut down without a chance.

Forward!!! (notice they are moving to the left, but in some circles that would be to the right)

So, if that is what moving forward means, I prefer turning off ahead of time.  Change direction or don't go anywhere.  You are floating on a ball.  There is no up or down, and most of what you see beyond your planet happened before people are known to have even existed.  So throw out time.  We don't know squat about it, in reality.

Like I know reality.

I'm guessing Megyn Kelly will not be White House press secretary.  Too bad.

It is interesting how some people are more OK with the known corruption, lying, irresponsible compromising of military special ops people, etc. than they are the unknown, possibly loose cannon who bickers endlessly with people like Rosie O'D.  The main fallacy is all the talk of Trump being racist, and this and that.  It is phony talk.  He is like a ton of people from that general region.  They are crude and nuts.

But the racist bit is really a stretch.  I will buy loose cannon, likely lunatic, and blindly reactionary over trivia.  It is dangerous to stretch the truth.  We do not know the full truth,  but the fear inspiring nonsense is largely fiction.  It is hard to know where to start because people have gone so thrid world kind of French Revolution lately.  No possible way to do anything but keep your head down, so it seems.

I have no idea what is to come, but those who wanted moving forward actually got it.  No idea where we may be going but I know where we aren't going and that is wherever we used to be headed.  Get it? be headed; beheaded  hahahaha

Oh I forgot. PBUH

War on Fake News; is this a joke?

So, the usual suspects, NBC, ABC, AP, CNN and innumerable other tools to deceive fools are now chirping along with other haters of freedom, i.e. progressives and other logically deprived activists have declared war on FAKE NEWS!!!  Oh no.  Will they be injecting one another with the triad of death penalty drugs, or strapping themselves into electric chairs, or what?

The idea that now poor Facebook and Google are agreeing that maybe they can DO Something! (that is the other battle cry of useful idiots and those who exploit them--we must do SOMETHING!!! [no matter how irrelevant or idiotic.  TSA, as we know it would not have prevented 911.  Homeland security is another abuse, excused by fear.  We were better off without it.

Like the war on drugs masked the war on personal sanctity.  Now we have more drugs and less personal autonomy and protections from governmental abuse.  As much as democrats love laws and government oversight, insight, and control of all, I would think they would have been in love with W for using the crisis to introduce homeland security in all its abusive 4th amendment obliterating splendor. Another tool against the citizenry in case they get frisky.

So now the whole fake news thing has come into its own as a very real threat to free expression.  To opposing views from what powers that be want to use in their never ending meddling into the lives of innocent people.

Many of the fake news things seemed made up by the opposite side from what the meme pretended to support.  If I can act like a total moron while touting Hillary, that hurts Hillary.  So that is what I do because I am not for her.  I play little trick.  It was obvious on both sides of the election hooplah--those who saw only Clinton or Donald as the choices---that there were instances of pretending to be your opponent in order to make them look bad.

The constant meme about Trump is nazi and bigot, etc. is not substantiated.  The fact that he can be boorish and petty at times is documented.  I dread any more feuds like with Rosie--as boorish and annoying as they get.  I am at least glad she is not president.

They do not consider it fake when a network edits quotes and interviews to make it seem like a person supports what they don't or gave an opinion they don't hold.   However if someone gives an opinion about them or their puppeteers, then it must be fake and has to be forbidden.

Don't be fooled.  These people are far more afraid of people becoming informed than being duped by hoax news.  These are the people who made duping the voter a vocation and artform many decades ago.

But because they make the easily pandered to think it is responsible to react to elections like third world banana republics, and OK top suspend respect decency etc., because VICTIM!, this effort will gain some mob support.  Just go poll the people stopping traffic, they'll give the thumbs up.  Violating rights is their forte.  Checking their premises or even knowing what that means, not so much.

Unbelievable.  There are simply tactics I abhor.  I see it on both sides but the mob thing of a billion people harassing one, like at their home or in a theater or with the family is very much a left wing tactic.  All is OK because VICTIM!  I do not like that.

As much as I disdain certain officials, like that Johnny Sutton prosecutor from hell that seemed to be doing GW Bush's bidding, inexplicably.  I would expect he should be exiled from the country, but I would not support a mob at his house, harassing his family or calling him out in a church or theater or even a grocery store.  Do they not see what that slope is?

Talk about a tool for injustice, pumping up a mob your idiot friends or supporters in public, surrounding the opponent is base, potentially cruel, and a small minded way of thinly masking a cruel and sadistic motive.  Maybe you call it revenge.  Wrong way to go about it.

But mobs and looters and people who reason off of false assumptions will continue to stop traffic and be a general nuisance until we just hit the horn, out of courtesy, and put our foot on the accelerator.

They Lied Right to My Face

So, I am at the house of my employ this evening.  Saves fuel and works better to come in work evening, stick around and work morning.

OK.  I decide to see what CNN had to say.  Of course it is still all Trump.  The graphic below the panel says, "Trump's transition team in disarray".  The only one on the show who had actually been there in the middle of it, as a journalist, or as anything, said that there was no disarray, that it was going well.  I did not get the idea that he was a supporter either.

Don Lemon basically called him a liar even though the reports of disarray have no named sources or reporters who were there.  Then they went on with another segment, again scrolling the news scroll, "Trump's Transition In Disarray".   You can bet you'll hear the word "disarray" on every major news outlet, msnbc, cbs, etc.   It just had the feel to it.

So, if you are upset, don't like the guy, does it somehow make it better to lie to the public?  Why is it necessary to lie if the truth is bad enough?  They still do not realize that this is what lost them so much of the country.   If you are not a very slick phony, people will easily detect your phoniness.  That is the case with so many in the news.  Don Lemon included.

I was stunned.  Really.

They also conjectured about nepotism, claiming it is against the rules for a relative or in-law to receive a salaried position in an administration.   At first I thought, "yea, that makes sense".

Then I remembered that John Kennedy appointed his brother, Bobby to the post of attorney general.  Of course CNN didn't back up the statement or explain Bobby.  Just on to something else unrelated, yet the graphic about disarray reappeared.

I do not care how bad a politician, person, etc., is.  But lying in order to manipulate opinion just does not cut it.  It is hard to believe almost anything you see lately.  In the schools and elsewhere it appears that they are manufacturing fake crises.

I'm trying to see if maybe some of the talk is exaggerated regarding various people and events.  It seems to be less that straight out fact.  But I am finding every source to be biased in some way, and not professional enough not to throw in subtle propaganda techniques to shape your viewpoint.

The hysteria, I do understand.  But at this point, nothing constructive will result from it.

Let Them Eat Cake

Really??? San Diego chick and others enamored with marches,

Do you honestly believe than promoting your billions of women march here there and everywhere by comparing it to a women's market protest which ended up being a huge mob rampage in the French Revolution is a good plan?   I am almost speechless.

Probably my sexist, homophobia or xenophobia or phobiphobia and privilege showing.  People just hop on bandwagons and click on dumb no information memes without a single thought.

The French revolution was brutal, unjust, cruel and base.  So they have an illustration which depicts the riot which the French women protesting against prices set off.  Obviously they are just using it because they were female.  They could have been a mob of mass murderers and because they were women these dimwits would claim some bond of sisterhood.

That brings me to a news flash.  These many new groups of victims, like the wannabe French women, are convinced that the bulk of men back each other up and have that same sort of bond, like, "who cares what you did, we're all men so, OK!"  You won't believe this but I swear it is true;  men do not generally back one another like that.   Especially white men.  Some of the elite crowd may--the government workers and some cops.  Normal people are not that way, in general.  But ethnic cops are easily as jerky as white cops for the most part.  It sucks but it is true.

And I know a disclaimer is in order.  Many cops are OK.  Very few cops, if any, are in a situation where the stuff they enforce is not over the top and the methods more entrapment than legit sting, etc.  Participating in no knock raids and such, in which babies and other innocents have been maimed or killed puts your true character and motives in question.  In my mind.  It is wrong but you "are just doing your job".   I have heard cops say that as they are screwing someone over who doesn't deserve it, and they know it.

Anyway, marching women, please do not model yourself after the French revolution.  Maybe get your moveon sponsors or whoever to find another illustration to motivate the downtrodden chicks who are all into this.   I'm glad the window smashers and guillotine loving women are mostly white.  So the majority of this violence is white on white.  That gives us a little break from being sure it is because all black people hate everyone.  Which they clearly don't.  Point is--if you think the news videos and reports are the true picture of life, you may be wrong.   And give black on black violence a rest.   Maybe they quit showing it so much, those stuck in that world won't think it is expected of them to die at 23 and be violent and crazy.

I realize there is a bunch needs changing. Doesn't change the issue at hand.  Have to anticipate the smug and self righteous.  If the left one don't get you, the right one will.  Pow.  They become invested in trying to laugh at people like me, more than disprove or discuss their point.  (see the article re my disdain for public schools).  People hate a point of view which includes very minimal instance of forcing others to do things.  Most of the time that can be avoided.

Just like rap wannabes, we now have rioting 'hood wannabes trying to do the white on white violence thing as a sort of negative image of the black on black.   They have videos of punks and thugs breaking store and car windows for no reason.  Turns out most of them did not even vote in Oregon, or vote at all.  This is astroturf.

Now let's see if the millions of women will follow through on the French Revolution plan.  If so, they will cheer as heads roll.  I forgot what anyone wants.  I think I read it is a demo for safety, safe spaces(it seriously said that), inclusive of people of color, gay, etc.  They never mention people of no color in their talk about being inclusive.  Since they are mostly white, I guess it is like, "Hey, we welcome the Blacks, and the other conditions of birth we are here to save because we are better".   Notice the Trumpian "the"?   It means "are they all operating from one brain and mind?"  Yikes, don't hurt me.

Pushing the concept that all women think alike fell alike, have the same degree of insight, intuition, and other magic is pure and utter nonsense.  And all women's interests are no more the same than all mens'.  Although with men of a certain age you can easily narrow some common overriding interest.

Of course they are.  Anyone in a group like that who thinks differently than self appointed leaders is a traitor.  Off with his head!

Really, dear neo bolshevik kin, and others who love hierarchy, I get it.   I really do.  I just don't think you realize how some of that under the thumb humiliation exists across the board where government is concerned, in modern years.  Like how the democrats made freedom so difficult for Blacks for so long after emancipation.  It is horrible to do that to people.  Generations later, we are into generations of affirmative action, simply allowing one to succeed on merit, etc.   That is improvement.

Why  parts of Africa and Asia still get away with slavery, I do not know.  I would expect activists like Al Sharpton, who is only concerned with race, to at least speak out.  No.

People have exploited these sad and bad events, customs and stretches of history, not to improve things, but to enrich themselves by keeping people sad, poor and angry.  It is only natural, really.  If you were convinced you were a freedom fighter, a liberator of some sort, and then you actually were being listened to and accommodated, you would see your present occupation as becoming obsolete.  To prevent that from happening you need to find some sort of racial thing to exploit and to anger and divide the people.  That is in your interest.  It is cruel what is happening.  Big chunks of the population are avoiding education and refuse to do something about their ignorance.

And it is encouraged.  Much as I dislike public school, you can probably still learn some stuff.  Experimentally verifiable science, math; those things can be learned and are hard to make into political platforms.  The other stuff is really transparent.   The right parent can help a kid game that absurdity.  With no parent, the kid may or may not learn to read well enough that it triggers the ability to think critically.

.Viva la biblioteca!

Why My Resentment Against Government Run (public) Schools?

Aside from the fact that half of Dade county's public school employees were abusive perverts, here are some of my reasons:

From kindergarten through 3rd grade they labeled me as not bright, a dimwit.  A little bit slow.  Then eventually raised hell because I allegedly did not try hard enough--that was when I began acing math tests and they figured out I retained what I read.   Either way, denied real progress, so may as well kept me labeled weak minded child.

They pronounced me tone deaf, never realizing I had no idea what they were asking me re higher or lower pitch.  Still tone deaf, yet I am the first one to stop a group with which I am playing to make them narrow down who has a string or two out of tune.   Players who know me do not argue anymore because I have proven to be right when I say a string is out.

They refused me an advanced class in 6th grade because of who my friends were.  So, associating with other students that weren't their pets landed you on an odd sort of black list.

Not a Dade County school.  This is where I would have rather gone

These reasons and more are why I do not encourage those self aggrandizing teacher memes that public school employees circulate.  Most of my teachers did me more harm than  good.  The good ones were few and far between.  I forgot some of their names but I did appreciate the good ones.

The rest of the body of reasons to dislike that institution, public education, would take awhile to list, and I'd get worked up.  It was the same ilk that cautions us about privilege and pretends like they embrace "our differences"  who all but killed me for being a little different in how I function and learn.

Nothing has changed.  I see their stamp all over rabid democrat endeavors and that is much of why I have such disdain for that party.  When they behave just like my old teachers did, I react.  Bizarre.  I never realized the connection until recently.  I seriously hate to remember it.  Those days were when I first began to feel completely disassociated with real humans. I was and am not one who really feels like he's whole and in the right place.  And I hate people who constantly have to flaunt their imagined intelligence.  You are not that smart.  Really.  You aren't.  You just have enough smarts and use them in such an annoying way that I feel like slapping those people.  Even the ones I love.,

But they burned into my psyche the idea that I am not ...just that, that I am not

For reasons of some odd phenomena in my life, I underwent extensive testing in adulthood.  Way up into adulthood.   If not for all those tests I would not have enough proof to satisfy me that, by the usual measures, I tend to outscore most teachers I ever had.  Believe me, this does not make life any easier.  And, not that deep down, I still think I am defective and wrong, and a little bit dumb.

Obviously not dumb.  Can't shut me up.  I can't even shut myself up. So not dumb.  Perhaps dimwitted.
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Hit Person

I've figured it out.  I will sock away a little bit of cash or some item, and if I fail to dig out of this mess, I'll contract a hit on myself.  It is just that I feel better with a plan B.  Just in case.

Times are actually that hard many days, lately, but then some things get me all worked up and angry and I figure I'll stick around long enough to vent a little.  People are so full of it when they look at others so damned sure they know they could do so much better with the same raw material.

Often people make these ignorant judgements on people who do not harm them or anyone.  They just don't quite get how to live like the happy sheep who fit this societal mold very well, or who were smart enough to see the game for the manipulative propaganda fest is and beat the system.

I was always sure people could not really be so stupid, duplicitous, conniving, and disloyal as they are.  So I figured I must be all wrong and rebelled against myself   Is that idiotic or what?  True story, though.  Story of my life.  Confused and dazed.

What a difficult thing it is to exist with all the proper permits and updates required.  Once I was all up to date and copesetic with the big Government machine.  Not so much now or most of my life.  It is not malicious.   I just have extreme difficulty with it.  And I hate hate hate government language, which is much like public school language and it hits a nerve.  Big time.

Why bother with wait and see?  I should put notice out that I need a hit person sooner than later.  I do not expect that I will ever change.  If that is the case, then I cannot last long.

Alright, I will give it a try.   Maybe.  I hate this hollow aching bewilderment and dread.  That should be for nitwits and statists.  The ones who make life more difficult for everyone else while pretending to be compassionate or victims or any number of things they aren't.

Big trouble in life---too many people minding too many other people's business.   That and the misguided notion that islamophobia is an irrational fear.
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Post Number Plenty for Today; Always the misfit never the One

Philosophically, I have generally leaned libertarian, or almost anarchist, when it comes to government.  I find paternalistic/maternalistic, mind-your-business governments to be highly intrusive, and somewhat insulting.   Rather stupid people monitoring my behavior and business without cause.

But things are what they are, which is way too complex to redo over night.  And, considering that much of the human race is insanely stubborn when it comes to not being self destructive nutcases, perhaps some armed authority is necessary.

Just look how quickly people rationalize that they are victims so they can loot and riot and shout and get lucky with other protester types looking for a fix.  That's where you go if you are young and looking for sex or drugs.  So, that hasn't changed since 1969.

There was mention of minimum wage somewhere.  I still do not see it as government's job to fix wages.   But I do recall being puzzled by the attitudes of my more wealthy and enterprising peers growing up.

They would be describing some initiative to make money which required some labor.  High profit thing, but I do not recall exactly what was the job.  The general thinking I'm about to convey was encountered many times.    There was always that point where they talk about hiring day labor off the corner and paying some ridiculously low figure.  "Yea, only have to pay them $(hardly anything) per hour!   Make out like a bandit!

And here I am, Mr. No Unions-No Government, asking why pay so little if you make so much.  I'm trying to figure out the formula that pays the most.  Some see that as contradiction. I think not.  Government is a thieving outfit and ripe for corruption by its very nature.

Anyway, the most exploitative of these people was the wheel of the young Democrats.  He's the one who said you back the winning politician and then they owe you.  He said the rhetoric and "little guy" stuff was just how you get votes but that the real business was done for those who paid.

I still would seek the most pay for those helping me.  I see no purpose for a union if everyone is sane.  But they aren't.  Unions and all the rest just perpetuate trouble.  They idea that you milk your workers for all you can and milk employer for all you can is not good.  The adversarial approach, even to law and justice, has been over rated and extrapolated out to an absurdity.  Like defending a true scumbag rapist or murderer, knowing his guilt but getting him off because you're slick.  That is wrong.  Prosecuting insanely is wrong too.  But they all rationalize, just like the young democrat.

But, I have to wonder sometimes.  Maybe people are so base and small minded and greedy that you have to have unions, and companies have to own politicians to help counter them (though unions own many politicians too).

Now we have people saying you cannot question the rationale of their half truths or acts of aggression if you are white because it shows your privilege.  A genius had to invent that one.  No possible way to discuss the matter with the koolaid addled believer.

So many false or staged events have come down the pike attempting to depict white racism and such that I do not know how many, if any, of the supposed white power hate crimes or events are true.  The videos of beatings circulating don't tend to find the white person doing the punching and ganging up.

I've seen rednecks in action.  Some white, far more, on a percentage basis, are of color.  Sorry but crime stats bear that out.  I get it is complicated but it won't get better if we keep pretending that which is not true.

If I am lying, then let's just get a diverse crowd together and drop them all in different neighborhoods from their own.  I would suggest that it is far less likely anyone gets mugged shot or beat for skin color in the white neighborhood than any of the others.  And I don't even like white people that much.  Just fact.  You know it and I know it.

The point here is not that there are not white bullies.  The point is that they are really the least of the random violence problem and not enough to justify the open season called for by many on all whites who aren't part of the activist program.

Doesn't make any nitwits who really are being idiots less criminal.   Just saying, look at yourself before going off on the white privilege rant.  And if you are white and do that, I think you are a moron who secretly feels guilty for secretly being a racist.  Otherwise why do all these others need your great white hope protection?  Who're you?

So we got the prized victim badge opportunities and white people joining the imaginary fight so they won't get beat up by those they consider inferior, and so certain organizations can group dumbass voters into reliable voting blocs.  That is such an insult, but no one gets it.  You can bet George Soros does.

Oh well.  I would still pay labor as much as I could, rather than as little.  I feel so unrepresented in the world.  Really.  I used to cry sometimes in frustration for being a misfit.  Now I just curse loudly into the wind at no one in particular, "%^&* You!!!  You sorry M^**()$##@'s Go **&^ *&^%*(* and the horse you ride in on!!!"   Or I may just drive by yelling "You big hell!! Dammit!"

The Devil; part 2

After some investigation, I realize just how dangerous the mess could be.  The commenters who seem to take relatively neutral comments and turn them into wild political statements with which they can argue have interesting pages.   Walls, in fb speak, but I refuse to call the damned page a wall.  Since writing my brother's name on a wall as a child, I don't write on walls.

The thinking was, "I really want to write on the wall, now that I can write.  I always get in trouble.  My brother never gets in trouble.  Hey, if I write his name no one gets busted.  A win all around".
Guess what?  It worked exactly as planned.  No one ever said a word to him, and no one blamed me either.  The little fake signature stayed until forever.  It was behind the door a couple of feet off the ground.  "Tommy", it said.

I even tried to make it messy like his handwriting.  I took forever to write anything because it had to be perfect.  This trait did not serve me well when it came to note taking and much else.  That slow writing and reading is still with me, but I compensate and it has improved slightly.

So, talk about your privilege and institutional discrimination, I grew up being the oppressed, unprivileged one in that universe.  Crazy.  Makes me want to go around writing his name everywhere.  Just because.

So, I see things on this one lady's page that indicate it is hopeless if you think these hysterical people will chill.  One thing say that if you say things like "it will be OK", "relax, and see what the guy does when he's in", or protesting and stopping traffic, confronting people for being alleged white Trump supporters is no good"  then "your privilege is showing".

I kid you not.  Now you cannot say, hey, ease up, no one can legally hurt you or whatever.  No that shows you know nothing.  The thing is, she is white.  She is also somehow a victim.  I think it is ok to be a white female, or trans of some kind.  Garden variety white male cannot speak or think unless he says exactly what daily kos or other progressive site considers OK.  Even then, he must avoid treading near another's self proclaimed of color only zone.

Bigots of the world unite!!!   Oh, you already have.  I can find you in safe spaces and on progressive sites.  You think just like the worst of the kkk. You should band together.

So, there is no way to reason.  Their current talking points consist of memes explaining why they need to suspend civility--because they think Trump is not civil, so no we must riot.  This is just intellectual laziness.  And that greed for attention and power, and an excuse to damage people or property. Yippee, a sadism fix!  And a masochist fantasy.  wowsers!!!

It Is The Devil

Why do I respond to facebook hysteria?  If you point out the error in being hysterical and demanding the immunity victimhood provides, you are the enemy.  People are too goddam dumb to figure out that this hysteria over lies is just that.

No way to settle them down.  Their "civil rights are directly threatened".  Presumably by the president-elect.   I'll concede that I feel all of our civil rights have been threatened and violated by our own government and an accelerating rate for decades.  But they aren't talking that.

They are too goddam caught up in this manufactured drama to just clear the mind for a second.  Come on, facebook nutjobs.  Having enemies is not a thrilling passtime.  The lack of truth and the reasoning that amounts to convincing the greedy and gullible that their back is against the wall like a cornered animal is a dangerous thing.  They then feel it is justified to do any violent or vandal thing they choose.  Self defense, even though no one has even threatened them.

It is what happens when you say things in a dumbass way, then people exaggerate and lie about what it means, and you go ahead because you have dumbasses who think it is cool.  So we have a battle of nitwits.

I say I do not believe people are coming in the night to attack "off color" people or the colorless.  All of a sudden I am full of privilege and have never known anyone harassed or harmed due to race.  The sick part is, I have.  Inconveniently I have known more people harmed, raped etc. for apparently being white, though I have known victims of white redneck fools too.  Just because you were told Trump is white power, does not make it true.

I suspect both the white power dimwits and frothing at the mouth progressives both buy the story.  Just what the doctor ordered.

The point is, Obama is still president.  Blame him until Jan 20, if you must.  But the "Oh I am an of color victim, because Trump!!"  is pure and simple nonsense.  I think many more of the colorless can claim to be victim because of your reaction to Trump.  So, once again, it is because of Trump, who is not even president yet.

Always Miss The Last One

Almost always.  I missed Clinton even though I did not agree with some of his governmental policies and wars.  With Bush I worried he'd say something that would get mocked, even when he was mostly right.  Did not ultimately like his mideast policy.  Skeptical but not outspoken re Iraq war, but I was openly opposed to first one.  His forming of the homeland security agency was a blow to American style freedom.  Bad bad thing.

Anyway, I already miss Obama and I think he is very much on the wrong side of a lot, and that he's screwed the mideast worse than ever.   I missed Bush when Barack was weighing in on police incidents in other states, with no real knowledge except that maybe there was a black person involved.  He was divisive.  And in the pockets of billionaires who called the shots.  Crazy that people imagine otherwise.

But, I miss Obama because I am afraid of what Trump is liable to say.  When you know a thing you say is ripe for being twisted and used as weapon, do not say it.  Or at least state it differently.  Nothing annoys me more than the little na nah nah nitpickers other than those who can't resist baiting them.

Hell, Donald could start up his tit for tat with Rosie again.  That was embarrassing even before he was running for office.  Both of them are shallow and of that petty kind of New York City redneck attitude.  Obnoxious.  Only a segment of the city is that way but it is a distinctly NYC brand of redneck idiot.  Versions found everywhere to one degree or another.

So, I suppose all I can look forward to is Melania sunbathing on the roof.   I hope she breaks tradition and does not sap the treasury for some dumbass cause like school lunch diets or roadside flowers or whatever.  I don't care if it is a big "save the children" push.  You weren't elected so please butt out!
They never do.  That is bad, too, because the expectation implies a thinly veiled attempt at royalty.

We are not that.  So, first spouses should shut up and do something which does not use tax money or the office to gain prestige power, attention and money for their cause.

So, to you, Melania,  don't go on any tax draining crusades, and stay naked.  We'll get along just fine. It would be OK for you to say the previous power greedy first spouses will not be your role model, that you understand how disrespectful it is to pretend to be an elected official or a queen when one is neither.