Posted on 04/15/2025 5:17:47 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Today, six women decided to “take up space” by training for a couple of days, doing lots of publicity, squeezing into fancy spacesuits, and then taking a Blue Origin rocket into space for a few minutes before returning to Earth.
In the dreamscape of Woketopia, they made history as the first all-female flight crew ever to reach outer space. In actual reality, if you’re lucky, you are engaged to a guy with enough money and his own rocket to gift you with that experience.
To actually make history, you’d need real astronauts who worked all of their lives for that moment. Not those who grace Elle's cover as though something really important is happening here.
It was a joy ride—a luxury few can afford. Maybe there’s nothing wrong with that. I don’t know if I’d have the courage to try, so perhaps just that alone is worthy of praise.
It seemed to me like a wedding present—a thing the guy who has everything gives to the girl who is about to have everything. And in that way, it blows the lid off every other kind of gift. No diamond ring or yacht can top it.
Listening to all of them spout their new-age gobbledegook made me sad. How much more empowerment does a woman like Katy Perry need? She took that ride knowing her young daughter would be watching her, knowing something could go wrong, and her daughter would see her blow up into a million tiny pieces.
And she did it anyway.
We can all breathe a sigh of relief that tragedy didn’t ensue and that they landed safely. Still, I can’t help but see this as somehow symbolic of a world-changing. Bezos wasn’t rescuing stranded astronauts. He wasn’t trying to get us to Mars. He was simply making his bride feel like she mattered.
What feels so over to me, so obviously over, is the way the upper crust or the ruling elites have used virtue signaling to justify everything they do. You want to fly up in a rocket with some of your girlfriends because it’s fun? Do that. Don’t hide behind some phony intersectional female empowerment lie. This wasn’t that.
These billionaire tech bros have so much money and power they don’t know what to do with it. It’s good they didn’t choose tomorrow, April 15th, to launch that rocket. That might have tempted fate, as it was the day the Titanic sank 113 years ago.
Some said the sinking of the Titanic marked the end of the Gilded Age. Perhaps this vanity rocket could be one of the signs that our Gilded Age is nearing its end.
In the 1800s, the wealthy had so much money that they didn’t know what to do with it. They ended up building massive mansions on the Gold Coast....SNIP
That ‘capsule’ looked like a VIP club setting. All they did was take selfies and the kissing the ground was so stupid. I have experienced negative G multiple times while we were ferrying the a/c and is way cool. I was in a skydiving pose with arms extended, bottom of feet facing the ceiling and floating while I watched the seatbelts waving in mid air and I was scream laughing the entire time.
They want my respect? Form a Militant Maga Mom's March and really make headlines.
I can well imagine several journalist were hoping for an ill fated flight with an explosion. Oh, my goodness, how would Trump answer for allowing that! Of course, I would still go about my day happy in contentedness.
It probably doesn’t occur to them just how dependent they are on men. Some women have made it on their own, but Katy Perry and Oprah are not among some of the women. Those two, and probably Gayle King, had to rely on a man, or men, to get where they are in life.
I’m happy for the arrangement myself, because we work together.
Haha! I was going to ask when did Katie Perry turn into Morticia?! lol
Oprah probably wanted to go, but Bezos wanted it to go to space and not just a couple of miles up and run out of fuel. :)
They were as much of the “crew” of that craft as I was part of the crew on my last Delta airplane flight.
“One small step for a woman....”
Very small. The women got SO CONFUSED that they forgot how to get the damn thing into orbit, so the ground controllers had to land it immediately.
Incredible that they’re considered ‘heroes’ by the “who needs a baby” bunch.
Why wasn’t there the same kind of hype for Elon saving the stranded astronauts earlier this month?? (Rhetorical question)
After the 11-minute trip, most lamented not being fully satisfied...
I thought these flights only go to Earths upper atmosphere, not space.
So when is the first all black crew going up?
Ill answer anyway…. Orange Man Bad
And sitting in a roller coaster chair giggling with no responsibilities does not make one an astronaut.
Correct
But
If you can call Bruce Jenner a woman with a woman the truth isn’t going to get in the way of your woke agenda.
Alan Shepard became the first American to fly in space on May 5, 1961. He flew to an altitude of about 120 miles, roughly twice the height of yesterday’s tourist flight.
They were nothing more than ballast.
Trump should invite them all to the White House, in their “uniforms” (space costumes) for a press conference and medal ceremony.
The all-female cargo would likely sound like astronauts as much as Kamala sounded like a competent presidential candidate.
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