There is a school of thought on that, made into another movie documentary by Mel Brooks before I was even born. (-:
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OUCH!I too was concerned for their wellbeing afterwards.
And they don't have the option of doing what that lady who left after 20 minutes did.
https://mastodon.scot/@JdeBP/115983497912180622
The Daily Record reported a total of 16 tickets sold in Edinburgh and Glasgow as of this morning. ABC reported 50 pre-booked tickets across the whole of Australia for opening day.
https://dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politics/melania-trump-documentary-sells-just-36641836
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OUCH!They're not far off, either.
I just turned up this. Apparently, 4 people joined The Metro's reviewer on opening night, plus an additional 1 who was apparently another movie reviewer.
So a third of the audience was people who were being paid to watch the movie. (-:
https://metro.co.uk/2026/01/30/sat-a-near-empty-cinema-melania-thought-26612808/
Amusing coincidence: Kimberley Bond also writes features for Cosmo.
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OUCH!The review in @GetCarter 's thread is one of those recycled quotes that actually comes from elsewhere according to Snopes; but lower in the thread people have suggested that the ticket sales for these places can be accounted for *entirely* by the news/magazine movie reviewers who did not have advance screenings.
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It's funny, isn't it, how since 1945 nobody has named a police force "Gestapo".On the original question:
I don't think that the TLA 'ICE' will be stigmatized. TLAs are too ambiguous for that. 'Homeland Security' was a suspect name from the start, but will probably not be, either.
Alas, #DonaldJTrump is too vain and not introspective enough to see that xe has stigmatized the name Trump on any building, public monument, organization, or politician, for a long while beyond xyr death.
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It's funny, isn't it, how since 1945 nobody has named a police force "Gestapo".I'm seeing this (ICE is more Sturmabteilung than Geheime Staatspolizei.) said in quite a few places, of late. Andrew Bossom went into the subject at length last week, for instance.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=BYOeamkqHtc
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