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Posted on 04/03/2026 1:29:01 PM PDT by MarlonRando
Here's the thing, though. When the Telegraph asked Glover about being the first black astronaut to make this journey, his response didn’t exactly follow the usual script.
He said: "It is a big question, and I wanna highlight, I guess maybe one facet of this is the tension, I call it. I live in this, and you know, this dichotomy between happiness that a young woman can look at Christina and just physicalize her, her passion or her interests, or even if it's not something she wants to do, she can just be like, 'Girl power,' and that's awesome.”
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Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier with broken ribs
No more DEI in the government except for this perfectly diverse crew. Surely just a coincidence.
That this was an astronaut’s serious reponse is too scary to credit.
I chose to interpret it as a use of blatant absurdity, riffing on certain Democrat “Ladies of Word Salad”, to evade a racist question through humor.
Affirmative Action Uper Alles.
yeah, maybe he was caught off guard
It's a poisonous question that INEVITABLY arises from "Affirmative Action" or "Diversity" practices. We used to call them "Equal Opportunity Employees", and it is not a compliment. The only way to erase that question is to eliminate AA, EOE, DEI by any name.
Don’t bring back the Saturn-V. We can do better.
DO bring back the “steely-eyed missile men”. We cannot do better.
“ Before DEI it was assumed that everyone made it on merit.”
Except for the red shirt crew. We didn’t know it then, but those were the dei crew, destined to be cannon fodder!
But yeah, a very well trained all female crew wouldn’t bother me one bit
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Until the inevitable dyke fight and the ship crashes into a reef because they were so busy scratching and hair pulling that they forgot the ship was on autopilot and no amount of pushing buttons and twirling dials would make one bit of difference.
They were the right kind of "crazy".
There are other kinds of "crazy", which are very much the wrong kind.
The Saturn V was the greatest feat of engineering in human.
You read a transcript. It sounded OK, and not “street” at all.
If you read further you would have read the part where is he said, this isn’t about women or blacks..but about humans.
It was a fine answer to a very tired and old question.
We used to be a melting pot. Now we are tribes. And that is too bad.
Human history.
It’s all silly woke crap.
I’m sixty seven years old and the race bullshit is now heavier than it was when I was a kid. I don’t listen anymore and I teach my Gen Z the same.
And that allowed people all over the world to say out loud, "We Did It."
So not to rain on the parade but he doubtless has been coached on this reply and has been rehearsing it since he first was picked for the program.
“Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier with broken ribs”
Yup. Those guys were amazing! Cool as cucumbers.
We watch “The Right Stuff” a couple times a year. So impressive.
Yet, it’s the American Flag on the moon. WE did it.
yes, we really don’t have much in common anymore. We used to have a shared history shared desires. Now it’s everybody for themselves.
Saturn-V was great. In the late 1960s.
We can do better ... but in a sense doing better is and will be easier. Knowing that it can be done is a big part of the battle. The men who designed and built the Saturn-V were doing something for the first time. We’re past that hurdle.
We stand on the shoulders of giants.
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