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Suzanne-Marie English's avatar

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.

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The Outsider's avatar

Especially when there are real women astronauts who really travel in space and work on the international space station.

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Suzanne-Marie English's avatar

Yes! “Faux astronauts” about on a par with “faux Gucci”. Such vacuousness.

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Heyjude's avatar

Our local news stations gave this more coverage than the rescue of astronauts after months stranded at the space station. Vacuous indeed.

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KARYN TRUITT's avatar

Probably because Musk is part of "Orange Man Bad". I cannot roll my eyes hard enough.

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patr's avatar

Yup, and this smacks of insecurity

like when someone at the party just has to do something to be noticed,,"Look at ME"

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Mimzy Borogroves's avatar

Everything on the Left is about "look at me."

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Ol’ Country Gal's avatar

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.

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Texyz's avatar

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.

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KARYN TRUITT's avatar

Oh, no. Thunberg won't say anything, she's probably trying to figure out how to get a ride herself. Nobleness and all...

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madaboutmd's avatar

It's a one ride --Disneyesque-- playground for the rich.

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Taz R.'s avatar

That is a hard argument to make when they are intentionally polluting the skies daily.

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Mathew David Peckinpah's avatar

Yeah, why were these women selected?

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Carmen Wilson's avatar

They call themselves astronauts.I put a bandage on my cut this morning.I'm a doctor.

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Owain Glyndŵr's avatar

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.

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Matt L.'s avatar

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?

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Beeswax's avatar

Yes, what a missed opportunity to make a fashion statement.

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michael holt's avatar

As in "may the Schwartz be with you"? 😳

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Matt L.'s avatar

Yes, that one! "I see your Schwartz is as big as mine!" ... when cinema was still funny. Mel Brooks is a national treasure.

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KaiKai's avatar

Six Barbie’s riding in a phallic shaped space craft.

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JT's avatar

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.

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MLHVM's avatar

Perfect analogy.

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26+6=One Ireland's avatar

No one cares that you women (can I describe them this way?) are inside a flying penis. I guess the Patriarchy isn't dead quite yet.

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Donald C. Bryan's avatar

Chalk up yet another W for the patriarchy! :D

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Suzie's avatar

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.

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Rhonda Cody's avatar

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!

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Suzie's avatar

EXCELLENT POINT re: the Real SpaceX FEMALE astronauts!!

It truly rankles. Argh.

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Jrod's avatar

Doesn’t count. Where was the brave trans dood?

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James Drouin's avatar

My money is one the one to the right.

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Suzanne-Marie English's avatar

“Take Up Space” — perfect! 👌🏼

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Heather P's avatar

.... and (oddly enough) REALLY damaging the climate.

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William Foster's avatar

Come on. It didn't do shit.

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Commoncents's avatar

It was an expensive amusement park ride.

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Ruth H's avatar

They actually called it a mission and referred to themselves as astronauts 😂😂😂

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Casey Jones's avatar

It was a mission when Alan Sheppard did it. Not so much now.

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Charlene's avatar

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 … 🤣🤣🤣

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madaboutmd's avatar

Same....Megyn was off the chain! Hilarious. Sasha's take is fabulous icing on the cake!

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Charlene's avatar

Agreed!

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L.'s avatar

They're so embarrassing 😳

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Terry Kayser's avatar

“Bezos’s bevy of bimbos blast off”! And I couldn’t care less…

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Too Loose Low Trek's avatar

Hmmmmm.....then why post a comment?

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C Emerson's avatar

They had their 15 minutes of fame and it is over. "Everything woke, turns to sh!t." ~Donald J Trump

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Chana's avatar

While Musk is saving astronauts and $1Trillion, this is the best Bezos/Bozo can do?

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John Seiler's avatar

Best headline of the year: Faking History: Six Women Take Up Space

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Mary Poindexter McLaughlin's avatar

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."😂

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Ariel Ryder's avatar

Mary, you're brilliant! My usually gutter-bound mind totally missed that one!!!!

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madaboutmd's avatar

I missed that and thought this from James Woods....oh no.

My love for him has grown immensely.

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