04/16/2025
There's plenty of ways to describe six wealthy celebrities experiencing zero gravity for 11 minutes, but it's definitely not a moment for women empowerment or a scientific achievement, as the media are so desperate to sell.
No, what we witnessed in Jeff Bezos' for-profit Blue Origin space adventure was perhaps the most conspicuous exploitation of female imagery to bolster the reputations of the oligarchs—almost all of whom are violent men.
Katy Perry said of her flight that she felt 'connected' more than ever and hoped her efforts wouldn't only 'take up space, but to make space.' This sort of faux feminist babble might pass the muster on Good Morning America, but let's recount the ways this spectacle was one of the most audacious displays of power by the billionaire class.
Today is Tax Day, otherwise known as the day that people who make $30-150k fork over a quarter of their income so that the richest people on earth like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos can dodge taxes and pay next to nothing. To be clear, Elon Musk doesn't even want to go to Mars, the whole thing is a massive ploy so SpaceX can collect tens of billions in government handouts every year, all while paying next to zero in federal taxes. When you've dismantled NASA and FAA, made yourself the only provider, and you personally install the president and pick the head of NASA, you can't lose. Easy money.
If the billionaires came out and just said the truth, not a single person would support them. So y'all are going to bilk the public coffers of tens of billions, every year, pay no taxes, and then pilfer off a bunch for yourselves?!?! Who in their right mind would support this? This is where the deceptively curated group of sexy, Brown, Black, Asian, and plastic women assume their expected roles. All the colors of the Girl Power rainbow, with sexy Barbie astronaut spacesuits designed by Bezos' wife and a European fashion designer.
The spectacle doesn't end there...
Elon Musk, Zuckerberg, and the other billionaires have funded and enabled Trump to launch a full scale assault against every woman in this country. Hours before the Rocket launch, the GOP controlled Congress passed the SAVES Act, thereby compromising the voting rights for a vast majority of American women.
As the media praised these empty celebrities, Elon and Trump were firing tens of thousands of women scientists, doctors, cancer researchers, and weather forecasters from NASA, the FAA, the FDA, the NHS, and dozens of other federal agencies who keep our society running. I can't even describe the exact words Elon Musk used to denigrate these essential workers because Facebook classifies it as Hate Speech.
While we're being forced fed billionaire PR and galactic pinkwashing, the most accomplished American heroines, astronauts, and scientists are being scrubbed from government websites and their photos ripped off the walls at NASA.
To be clear, women have been to space. Actual scientists. And their history and memory are being buried to enable the billionaire crime spree. They keep showing rockets going to space like we haven't seen that s**t since the late 1950s. SpaceX is nothing more than privatized NASA. There is literally no valued added. No innovation. Just a straight funnel to a privately controlled company now valued at $300 billion, the new source of Elon's wealth.
Amidst these historic threats and assaults against women in America, we didn't hear a single word of concern from these wealthy celebrities. At the end of the day, they know their place and priority: to keep the vast majority of working people enthralled with the spectacle so we can't see all the ways their handlers oppress us.
This is a story of six absolute bozos who took an 11 minute amusement park joyride, accomplishing nothing except thirsty PR for their predatory billionaire friends.
This isn't feminism. This isn't science. These are awful women who have dedicated their short time on earth covering up the crimes of even more wicked men.
