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Emily Frankman, PhD's avatar

All Hail Bess! Please take over our government, please please please!

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Delia Cunningham's avatar

I fully support all of this but especially the train! Being a person who lives in coastal Maine who also loves to visit NYC I think this is the most critical issue of our time.

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Karin Miller's avatar

President Bess, thank you from the bottom of my heart. I feel loads better. All hail, ye! (Gotta go—my garbage truck is coming.)

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Bonnie's avatar

Now I want Goof to take over. 😆

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Bess Kalb's avatar

Be very careful what you wish for (legos).

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Kati P's avatar

I'm hoping my paid subscription can contribute to this, and maybe one day I will be able to do something similar myself (with the only exception being instead of a Train to Maine it will be a west coast of CA super-bullet-train).

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Peter Borst's avatar

Can't wait for the suggestion box, I got a million of 'em.

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Joy Wilson's avatar

Six thousandaire 💀

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bloombodd's avatar

I purchased multiple copies of that wonderful children’s book and am glad to play my part!

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David's avatar

I really like seeing someone with their priorities straight. Plus trash day(s)? Clutch.

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Jen Coleslaw's avatar

10 friends who are professional environmentalists!

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Bess Kalb's avatar

Feel like they've got this

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Jen Coleslaw's avatar

I added myself in to get to 10. Honestly, I feel good about our chances.

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Amanda Rosenfelt's avatar

there is a children’s book called the train to Maine! We loved it!

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Bethany's avatar

This Substack may be the only good thing in 2025.

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Miranda's avatar

What will you do with all the leftover money tho

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Bess Kalb's avatar

Buy Spain

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Carol's avatar

Coup Club it is! Maybe some one needs to alert the NYT that we are having a coup?!!! Thanks Bess😘

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Lindsey Smith's avatar

That's so funny, I'm ALSO planning a coup with the $50 check my grandma still sends me for my birthday. My #1 coup move will be creating more soft serve stations at the beach. All the beaches in North Carolina offer dozens of ice cream flavors, but they're all of the old fashioned hard-serve variety. In my coup, we're going to ban deep state discrimination against the creamy vanilla soft serve. Kids everywhere will finally have the one thing they all need to thrive: drippy ice cream cones that plop right onto the boardwalk.

Can we start a Coup Club?

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Kelly Jackson's avatar

I mean, what can’t thousandaire moms do? Watch us multitask a coup before lunch

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