I love you, Sasha! 😆🎉💥 your title — and then your article — said exactly what I was thinking: “How noble” of these women. Bachelorette party on steroids because they can — nothing more. To portray it as any 🇺🇸✅ “one giant step for womankind” ✅ is ridiculous, disgusting.
This whole charade is so contradictory. Not once was Musk’s name mentioned on MSM but instead a space station in Texas. And I bet the whole crew is antiMusk and sold their Teslas. Makes me 🤮 in my mouth.
Right. I didnt much think about it one way or another til SStone wrote this. I dont know what 'serious' spacework Bezos has done, but he's known to send-up famous passengers, like Wm.Shatner.
I'd be kinda surprised if some greenie Thunberg types didn't raise a stink over this frivolity for another reason, pollution, waste of resources, etc.
I don't resent rich guys spending their money any way they want to, but 'celebrating' these women passengers is a lot too much.
How come Drew Barrymore didn’t get invited? I thought she had when I heard the cackling laughter inside that descending tip. And why no helmets to match the SpaceBall rocket-looking schwartz?
Kinda like riding in the pace car for the start of the Indy 500 and telling folks you drove in the Indy 500! Thanks for calling out the publicity stunt for what it was…most folks just saw it and smirked.
One of the richest guys in the world builds a rocket to nowhere and gives some chics a thrill ride on it.
The worst part of the whole episode was listening to them literally screaming all the way back down like they were children on a roller coaster ride.
That was beyond embarrassing.
It may have been ballsy, without doubt to go for that ride, but I can only think of the actual real life astronauts, male and female, who have actually trained, studied and crewed rocket ships who are far more deserving of admiration than this bunch of self-important attention seeking media-mad-mavens.
And Where was all this attention and wonder and amazement at the astonishing rescue of the two stranded real-life astronauts from the space station just over a week ago? Crickets.
That fact made this escapade seem even more like the vain and empty circus show it was.
Totally agree, no attention of the fact that 2 women, highly accomplished Academy graduates ( West Point and Airforce Academy) were the lead pilots on Falcon X rescuing the two Astronauts! These women ( the six Barbies) weren’t even close to their caliber, certainly in their own celebratory careers. I cringe everytime I hear the media call them women astronauts and that this was history—even comparing them to the woman Soviet cosmonaut who was the first woman in space in 1963!
As this comes in I’m on the floor peeing myself laughing as Megyn Kelly, Matt Taibbi, and Walter Kirn are discussing… absolutely fall-on-the-floor funny … 🤣🤣🤣
Um... is it just me? Is my mind just thoroughly gutter-bound? Am I the only one who burst out laughing at the SERIOUS double entendres of James Woods': "I don't care if it lasted one minute. It takes a lot of courage to sit on top of a rocket and be blasted into the stratosphere."😂
To be clear; they are neither astronauts, nor “crew.” Actual astronauts dedicate themselves to years of intensive training. Selection for space missions is based on achievement, not which billionaire you’ve married or befriended. These ladies were no more of a crew than if they’d flown First Class on Air Emirates. Amazing how a few minutes in Near Zero G causes them to spout tearful New Age drivel. Money can but a lot of things, but for this lot, self awareness isn’t one of them.
I love you, Sasha! 😆🎉💥 your title — and then your article — said exactly what I was thinking: “How noble” of these women. Bachelorette party on steroids because they can — nothing more. To portray it as any 🇺🇸✅ “one giant step for womankind” ✅ is ridiculous, disgusting.
Especially when there are real women astronauts who really travel in space and work on the international space station.
Yes! “Faux astronauts” about on a par with “faux Gucci”. Such vacuousness.
Our local news stations gave this more coverage than the rescue of astronauts after months stranded at the space station. Vacuous indeed.
Probably because Musk is part of "Orange Man Bad". I cannot roll my eyes hard enough.
Yup, and this smacks of insecurity
like when someone at the party just has to do something to be noticed,,"Look at ME"
Everything on the Left is about "look at me."
This whole charade is so contradictory. Not once was Musk’s name mentioned on MSM but instead a space station in Texas. And I bet the whole crew is antiMusk and sold their Teslas. Makes me 🤮 in my mouth.
Right. I didnt much think about it one way or another til SStone wrote this. I dont know what 'serious' spacework Bezos has done, but he's known to send-up famous passengers, like Wm.Shatner.
I'd be kinda surprised if some greenie Thunberg types didn't raise a stink over this frivolity for another reason, pollution, waste of resources, etc.
I don't resent rich guys spending their money any way they want to, but 'celebrating' these women passengers is a lot too much.
Oh, no. Thunberg won't say anything, she's probably trying to figure out how to get a ride herself. Nobleness and all...
It's a one ride --Disneyesque-- playground for the rich.
That is a hard argument to make when they are intentionally polluting the skies daily.
Yeah, why were these women selected?
They call themselves astronauts.I put a bandage on my cut this morning.I'm a doctor.
Six 'barbies' riding on a rocket. Good for them. Don't make it out to be anything more than a stunt from Bezos. Damn this is lame.
How come Drew Barrymore didn’t get invited? I thought she had when I heard the cackling laughter inside that descending tip. And why no helmets to match the SpaceBall rocket-looking schwartz?
Yes, what a missed opportunity to make a fashion statement.
As in "may the Schwartz be with you"? 😳
Yes, that one! "I see your Schwartz is as big as mine!" ... when cinema was still funny. Mel Brooks is a national treasure.
Six Barbie’s riding in a phallic shaped space craft.
Kinda like riding in the pace car for the start of the Indy 500 and telling folks you drove in the Indy 500! Thanks for calling out the publicity stunt for what it was…most folks just saw it and smirked.
Perfect analogy.
The title for this piece is gold.
It was pure PR stunt signifying not much.
One of the richest guys in the world builds a rocket to nowhere and gives some chics a thrill ride on it.
The worst part of the whole episode was listening to them literally screaming all the way back down like they were children on a roller coaster ride.
That was beyond embarrassing.
It may have been ballsy, without doubt to go for that ride, but I can only think of the actual real life astronauts, male and female, who have actually trained, studied and crewed rocket ships who are far more deserving of admiration than this bunch of self-important attention seeking media-mad-mavens.
And Where was all this attention and wonder and amazement at the astonishing rescue of the two stranded real-life astronauts from the space station just over a week ago? Crickets.
That fact made this escapade seem even more like the vain and empty circus show it was.
Totally agree, no attention of the fact that 2 women, highly accomplished Academy graduates ( West Point and Airforce Academy) were the lead pilots on Falcon X rescuing the two Astronauts! These women ( the six Barbies) weren’t even close to their caliber, certainly in their own celebratory careers. I cringe everytime I hear the media call them women astronauts and that this was history—even comparing them to the woman Soviet cosmonaut who was the first woman in space in 1963!
EXCELLENT POINT re: the Real SpaceX FEMALE astronauts!!
It truly rankles. Argh.
Doesn’t count. Where was the brave trans dood?
My money is one the one to the right.
“Take Up Space” — perfect! 👌🏼
.... and (oddly enough) REALLY damaging the climate.
Come on. It didn't do shit.
It was an expensive amusement park ride.
They actually called it a mission and referred to themselves as astronauts 😂😂😂
It was a mission when Alan Sheppard did it. Not so much now.
As this comes in I’m on the floor peeing myself laughing as Megyn Kelly, Matt Taibbi, and Walter Kirn are discussing… absolutely fall-on-the-floor funny … 🤣🤣🤣
Same....Megyn was off the chain! Hilarious. Sasha's take is fabulous icing on the cake!
Agreed!
They're so embarrassing 😳
“Bezos’s bevy of bimbos blast off”! And I couldn’t care less…
Hmmmmm.....then why post a comment?
While Musk is saving astronauts and $1Trillion, this is the best Bezos/Bozo can do?
Best headline of the year: Faking History: Six Women Take Up Space
Um... is it just me? Is my mind just thoroughly gutter-bound? Am I the only one who burst out laughing at the SERIOUS double entendres of James Woods': "I don't care if it lasted one minute. It takes a lot of courage to sit on top of a rocket and be blasted into the stratosphere."😂
Mary, you're brilliant! My usually gutter-bound mind totally missed that one!!!!
I missed that and thought this from James Woods....oh no.
My love for him has grown immensely.
To be honest with you if someone had come up to me and asked me if I wanted these 6 women shot into space I would have said Hell Yeah!
Sadly, they returned.
I was thinking the full cast of The View might have been more apropos.
XD
At a 45 degree angle.
To be clear; they are neither astronauts, nor “crew.” Actual astronauts dedicate themselves to years of intensive training. Selection for space missions is based on achievement, not which billionaire you’ve married or befriended. These ladies were no more of a crew than if they’d flown First Class on Air Emirates. Amazing how a few minutes in Near Zero G causes them to spout tearful New Age drivel. Money can but a lot of things, but for this lot, self awareness isn’t one of them.