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Tmitsss's avatar

I saw this shortly after the flight and I can’t find the original:

If three minutes in space make you an astronaut I’m a gynocologist.

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Chuck Goldman's avatar

I saw that too. Who knew that now a days you have to remember everybody who ever said anything

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AZCACTUSPETE's avatar

That is a "crack up".... oh.. sorry.

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Robert Brusca's avatar

really-all of 3-minutes?

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Don Reed's avatar

04/18/25: And I'm Soto of the Mets ($700 million and hitting .221!)

Why would we want to send admirable women (Tulsi Gabbard, et al) to the moon when Hillary's already on it?

This Blue SpazAsses space thingy is so pathetic, I think it's an 11-minute trailer for another $250 million dollar Disney-remake box office bomb.

The next Bezos space flight will be packed with his biggest pain-in-the-ass WaPo employees.

In the thirteenth minute of the flight, the earth-to-spaceship intercom will then announce that the ship's on its way to Pluto, which it will then orbit for the next 10,000 years.

And that Taylor Lorenz has been stowed away on board to provide the in-flight entertainment.

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Tmitsss's avatar

I believe I saw this Twilight Zone episode before it banned as too horrible.

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Don Reed's avatar

04/18/25: We find out tomorrow that all of the purported "women" on the flight were their tranny stunt-doubles. Which should surprise Bezos somewhat, seeing as he's been in bed with the helicopter-pilot stunt-double for some time now and hasn't noticed anything amiss (not an unusual result of having sent away for a mail-order bride on Amazon. Bizarre: Gayle King's stunt-double is straight).

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Robert Brusca's avatar

Hilary is on Uranus, although you are probably confused by that because she is Mercurial running around screaming Jumpin' Jupiter, followed by her dog Pluto...or is that Bill? I get confused on this!! Of course she thinks she's God's gift: Venus. More like Satan's dark martial arts master Mars. No wonder she exhibits such planetary instability Blasted aside by Barack unable to beat the loathed Trumpster. Her career has been a fire in the Dumpster- such it is when you go 'Two for one' in the White House.' How arrogant and appalling. She should have gone to space with the Girls - and taken a space walk. I mean 3-minutes- how far could she go? Maybe she would have liked it and stayed? Or sung a Duet with Katy Perry "What a wonderful whacked up woke world"

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Don Reed's avatar

04/20/25: Perhaps she'd be better aligned singing (Oh Our Ears!) with that KC Chiefs groupie about always having picked "The Wrong Guy"! Imagine the degree of iron-sheathed, volcano-fires-forged determination To Get Ahead that was required for her to remain tethered to Bill Clinton. Truly a Mercury Retrograde-dated marraige!

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Jeremy R's avatar

Just saw a report that somebody ran over the ISS mailbox. Coincidence?

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LM Drew's avatar

funny!

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imkitty's avatar

ASTRO-NOTS

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NNTX's avatar

So thinking about this risible stunt, and the reaction to it--even from Lefties and AWFLs (Angry White Female Leftists), seems to me that the message is clear:

"The Age of Celebrity-anything" is ending" (Along with Post WW2 institutions that have outlived their sell by date, for ex. Bretton Woods as updated by Nixon).

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Suzie's avatar

👏👏👏👍

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imkitty's avatar

I can't claim ASTRO-NOTS came from my brain. I saw it on X and should have bookmarked it, or done a screen grab at the time, because I can't find it now.

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Suzie's avatar

Doesn’t matter - it’s an absolute keeper! Love it!

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PatriciaFairbank's avatar

Another grab from other wags that I liked…ASTRO-NUTS. That these vapid women traded on this silly PR trick while the heroic rescue of real space scientists went dark on MSM shows that they deserve every mocking comment they’ve received. Career killer? I hope so.

Jeff Bezos appears to have been left emotionally stunted at 12 y/o and now has perfectly mated with a wind-up toy.

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Reddog's avatar

First, I just don’t like Bezos. Not sure why. But I admire the fact he believed in his marketing idea Amazon and stayed with it until it became the behemoth it is. He's a wealthy guy like Musk, but Musk uses his wealth to create things for people. As far as I know he doesn't own a super yacht. He just creates, to include a whole bunch of offspring. I like Musks business model far more than Bezos. Mr Bezos could have used that flight for the common good but chose to make it a stunt of sorts. Two men who are successful. One cares about the country, the other cares about his inflatable doll.

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PatriciaFairbank's avatar

I couldn’t agree more, Reddog. Nice assessment. I do like Mr. Musk, his mom and siblings. I am torn abt Bezos for the reasons you give. I and many of my elder neighbors have become BFF of Prime since Covid. Even though I refused to follow the rules at the time, I eventually have become a fan of deliveries. I do save quite a bit of money on regular household products (close to $1k last year) plus gas in my neighborhood is still $5.00+/gal. So there’s that. Everything from TP to doggie supplies is less. I’m not a Dollar Store shopper bc I’d never get out without things I don’t need. Same with Costco. + not enough storage space for big boxes. And as we old folks say, at our age, “We don’t buy our bananas green.” My mom was a great example. A bargain, coupon shopper post Great Depression, she had a second bedroom neatly shelved and organized with everything from paper goods to peanut butter when she passed. We eventually used it all but I buy what I need bc you never know when your ‘mornin’ will come around’. The kids are OK and don’t have many needs.

If I’m getting low on paper towels I can have an order tomorrow with Prime. Mom wouldn’t have liked losing a social outing to use her green stamps. She was a champion saver.

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Reddog's avatar

I don’t use Amazon if I can find a product elsewhere. My dislike of Amazon is due to his unholly alliance with China, undercutting American and other countries goods. Cheap stuff flooding the market driving businesses offshore to compete. Just not American. People say you can’t find stuff made in America anymore but that isnt true. You just have to look and pay more. Lets bring the jobs back here so everyone competes on a level field.

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VICKI's avatar

Same here, I buy regular bananas 3 at a time but still feel like I have one foot on same peel, so even though I swore I would never buy from Amazon, it's just too easy, too fast and way worth it. But Bezos got very lucky with his idea while I think MUSK is just very clever in so many ways and works hard at everything he does, wink wink. It's his population thing along with his others. Think of the aggravation he is getting trying to Make America a lot of good things again. And suffering for it. which infuriates me. Why aren't these criminal in jail for a long time????

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VICKI's avatar

What's a screen grab? I am still trying to figure out how to use an IPhone after 20 yrs on an Android. it's not going well. This DS article made me laugh out loud many times and it's after midnight and I"m home alone...laughing out loud. OMG Bezos and Sanchez look like they just stepped out of a strip club everywhere I see them. I still can't get over her white inappropriate WH get up. IT should have" got up and went " as they say.....nevermind....

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Liberty Belle's avatar

I think it’s the same thing as a screenshot. If you press on the two buttons on either side of the iPhone (top one where there’s two) at the SAME time, it takes a picture of what is on the screen.

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VICKI's avatar

thanks!

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Jason Leonard's avatar

Astro twats.

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Darren's avatar

Musk is stitching together a global satellite communication system and catching rockets in midair. After four years, Bezos is still running a glorified amusement park ride.

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Playswithneedles's avatar

Their big mistake was not including a “trans woman” on the flight. That would have made the enemedia swoon instead of ridicule the ride.

BTW, the poll makes it clear that Don’s readers are of a certain age group!

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John Swindall's avatar

Bang!

Zoom!

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Greg's avatar

Gives a whole new meaning to that phrase: “To the moon, Alice”. Talk about abuse.

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geraldsd's avatar

Hey now…I’m a very young 67…

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Playswithneedles's avatar

And I’m a very young 72!

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darrell's avatar

#metoo

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Don Reed's avatar

04/18/25: I'm 73 and a "Born Yesterday" bore at cocktail parties.

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JT's avatar

LOL! Yes - we see clearly now.

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Lynette's avatar

LOL. That was my first thought.

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VICKI's avatar

Right, the ones with common sense, brilliance and a sense of humor. That age group!!!

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Shrugged's avatar

"Role models for girls? No, Sally Ride and Suni Williams are. These 6 were passengers."

No, those 6 were cargo like luggage stowed to simply depart and arrive at their final destination with no significant purpose.

The best part of this stunt was consuming the reader comments on the articles that reported it.

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OldeArtiste's avatar

Suni Williams, along with Butch Wilmore, both GENUINE astronauts, spent NINE MONTHS in that International Space Station, losing bone and muscle due to low gravity and that spiteful old man, Joe Biden, who wouldn't let NASA send Elon Musk's Dragon Capsule to bring those people back

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dts3204's avatar

Yup abandoned by the US Government. No man left behind, yeah right.

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Epstein Did Not Kill Himself's avatar

It's not like Biden hasn't left people behind before. Just remember Afghanistan.

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PatriciaFairbank's avatar

It’s what the Dems do. Never forget Benghazi.

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Reddog's avatar

Not to mention the $50B in arms and equipment that we mow have to buy all over again.

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VICKI's avatar

Left for the Taliban, wasn't that a nice gift????

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Cookie McCall's avatar

what a spiteful old man FJB was and still is - I wish he'd go away forever and I couldn't care less what those 6 "celebrities" did

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Victor Erimita's avatar

Doubt he even knew, not that I’d doubt his meanness if he did. It was the vicious cabal running the administration.

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Reddog's avatar

Biden was the very definition of an entitled taxpayer funded waste.

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VICKI's avatar

Old Plugs has had so much work done on his body he's creepy, and his less than stellar contribution to the taxpayer is a perfect example of why we need term limits or maybe grade cards. I am sick of losers getting rich from our money, corruption is rampant but we were too patriotic to realize it. That's what really ticks me off. When Comey let HRC off free, I had the light bulb moment~our gov is corrupt!

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Reddog's avatar

Agreed. I always knew there was corruption but never imagined this scale. The entire federal system is a scam where they use or waste out taxes for political considerations. It’s worse than a Ponzi scheme. I’d call it akin to the mafia but the mafia pales compared to the federal government. I no longer have any sympathy for those losing their jobs. NONE!

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TeaPartyGal's avatar

Comey detailing what Hillary did, and then bizarrely letting her off the hook, was a defining moment for me too. Still vividly remember watching it live and being stunned that he let her off.

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Reddog's avatar

Yeah, somehow this country’s “it matters meter” is really screwed up. Dems want a drug dealing gang member returned. But they don’t care Trump got the two marooned astronauts back safely or that he is removing illegals and gang members finally. Yep, the meter is broken.

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TeaPartyGal's avatar

Michael Savage saw it first--"Liberalism is a Mental Disorder". For a long time I resisted that as extreme. But the Dems seem dead-set on proving it these days.

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LM Drew's avatar

well said!

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Dermot's avatar

Very nice Don. But I would replace the term "all-female crew" with "all-female coterie"

(crew members have jobs to do)

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Reddog's avatar

Or just baggage.

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Suzie's avatar

👍

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TeaPartyGal's avatar

"Being cargo" is alot like all those very rich people who pay to "climb" Mt. Everest, but essentially end up being carried to the summit and most of the way down by the Sherpas.

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Shrugged's avatar

Perfect analogy. We have been the economic sherpas of the last several decades.

It's time we set them down and walked away leaving them stranded and lost.

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LM Drew's avatar

funny!

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Victor Erimita's avatar

Yes, but their hair, makeup and nails were simply fabulous, darling!

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darrell's avatar

ghes dalling they ver berry posh

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William Coulter's avatar

Maybe next flight Bezos can send up that El Salvadorian gang bang the left is in a snit about and leave him there.

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Shrugged's avatar

A District Judge in Smallville, Somewhere would demand their return by a certain date and John Roberts and his court would support the decision.

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Reddog's avatar

The judges can only delay, they cannot make up law or precedent. As for the court, if your keeping score, we on the right are doing pretty well these days.

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Shrugged's avatar

I agree with your words in theory but have strong contempt for the Judicial branch - which is why the left is resorting to it. The courts and leftist judges write new laws everyday and get away with it because, unless the over-reaching judgement is challenged at the next level, it stands. Much of Trump's problems with lawfare were over-reaching judges that manipulated their position to implement their opinion instead of the law.

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TeaPartyGal's avatar

Just make sure you distinguish between Obama-Biden appointees and all other judges. This is a problem coming from just a specific subset of judges.

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Reddog's avatar

Don’t disagree with your assessment but a majority of the lawfare results only in delays. The system traditionally fixes most mistakes. The lawfare will eventually cause changes to the law making judges roles more concise and clear. If it weren’t for the overwhelmingly leftist bias in the media, lawfare would not be an issue.

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PatriciaFairbank's avatar

I think they’d find a way to bring him back. They’d love to find a way to make him into a hero.

BTW, 86 is the new 50. If you believe that…

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Reddog's avatar

Age doesnt matter to enjoying life. Too many people dwell on it after reaching senior status. Waste of time and only limits your life choices. The Grim Reaper is going to have to find and catch me first.

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VICKI's avatar

Agree, I said I feel 50 therefore I am. Lots of eye rolling from my kids but one day they will feel the same way.

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MLR's avatar

I’m proud to say that I didn’t know who any of these silly women were, and I still don’t care either.

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PatriciaFairbank's avatar

I have never heard her sing but I admit to having bought one of her drugstore lipsticks. I didn’t believe she was a chemist then any more than an astronaut now.

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Wim de Vriend's avatar

Same here. But it's the American worship of CELEBRITY.

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VICKI's avatar

I don't think it's worship as much as it's shoved down our throats every which way we look and hear by media dolts who are about the same mentality.

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Greg's avatar

That’s the best way.

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Reddog's avatar

Five females and a blow up doll I think.

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Flier's avatar

Ditto.

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VICKI's avatar

You didn't miss a thing and we shouldn't admit that we do know. Nothing there to brag about in that group of ditzes.

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John Swindall's avatar

Their mission!

Too Stupider and beyond!

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donald b welch's avatar

7 minutes ago(Edited)

not sure i 100% agree. the gop is desperately in need of female leadership i know that. take pam bondi. i’m not as sure she is a liberal snake as much as incompetent (for her currant job). i know her background is questionable in florida so perhaps you are right. lisa murkowski is most definitely not a conservative. neither is sue collins. nor was mia love. they’re nothing but trojan horse feminists. mtg is solid but still, every now and then she drops the ball and that’s why she isn’t in trump’s inner circle. look at the women in msm who project (or is that pretend?) to be conservative….dana perino, laura ingrham. nope! karoline leavitt seems like the real deal but she is really young. trump sees her as solid too and you can tell he trusts her. kari lake is solid but doesn’t come across well. the right has an image problem when it comes to female leadership and that’s going to create havac going forward after trump is gone. that image problem is that most gop females come across as masculine. masculine women play well for the democrats but that’s not a good sell for the gop. masculine men aren’t attracted to masculine women and men are the number one demographic of the gop so masculine women (megan kelly, ann coulter, etc etc) struggle. the left is literally saturated (i could list fifty without breaking a sweat) by strong, loud and in charge females and that portends the country careening off a feminist cliff soon (ala western europe), especially if the gop can’t find any competent women for leadership roles. for sure trump has become larger than life but his successor will be provided no such luxury and that will start in the primaries to be sure. at this juncture i wouldn’t bet against aoc.

but that’s just me.

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JT's avatar

'Masculine men aren't attracted to masculine women' - really?? My husband is a masculine male and I (having 8 brothers) have a lot of masculine energy (as I'm told). Pretty big generality. Confident men have no trouble getting along with confident women. What we ALL can't stand are vacuous, vapid and venomous airheads foisted upon us by a culture dripping in Communist woke-ism. The GOP has plenty of competent women. And here's the real question: LEADERSHIP requires moments of ball-busting nerve and conviction. Over the last 50 years, we have become the boiled frog in a pot of namby-pamby, nonconfrontational, self-reflective naval gazing. Because - 'Don't judge' has been twisted into a weapon used to silence and intimidate. The Left uses this all the time and their harpy wenches are good at screeching. It's a tactic to browbeat men in particular. If we want more 'warriors' (men and women) to stand in the breach, it's time to stop being a spectator nation and become a people of action. AOC is a manufactured creature. It's past time for people to take her and the other imbeciles apart - which Sen Kennedy does regularly.

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LM Drew's avatar

a "manufactured creature" is also a fool. I love Sen Kennedy's observations, too.

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VICKI's avatar

I don't agree. Men like the women they like and you know it's visual. Sarah Huckabee shows promise and actually so does Lara Trump. What man in his right mind voted for Maxine Waters or those squad things? I say you put the right women out there and men (real men) will vote for them. Problem is, the sexes are kind of mixed up at this particular time. A lot of men want a mommy so there is that. If she is good looking she has the advantage, etc etc.

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Jeremy R's avatar

What the GOP needs is good male leadership. When the ladies need to step up is when the men are weak. Most women, even the strongest, would rather do their lady things instead of filling the role that a husband and father should be doing. That is how GOD made us, wives and mothers to nurture, men to provide and defend their families. It's a system that has worked for nearly six thousand years when we men do our jobs.

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LM Drew's avatar

AMEN

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Dennis's avatar

Yup. It’s just you.

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TeaPartyGal's avatar

Thanks for saying that, Dennis. dbwelch's comment contained so many dubious stereotypes I didn't know where to start. Better to look at people of either sex as just plain people, and not muddy the waters with prejudiced stereotyping.

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LM Drew's avatar

Yes!

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Dennis's avatar

You’re welcome! Almost worse: no caps or proper punctuation. 😜

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Skinnydip's avatar

Perhaps he is channeling e e cummings?

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Dennis's avatar

I'd say yes except for the lack of either iambic pentameter or tetrameter. This ain't no sonnet. We can give him E.E. points for unconventionality.

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LM Drew's avatar

funny

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LM Drew's avatar

amen

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revmaddog1948's avatar

In conclusion may I suggest the historical Oracle's test for conservative women? Is she Hot looking? Works for me.

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VICKI's avatar

You verified my point...beautiful women have no trouble (assuming they have a little style and a decent brain) for this discussion.

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Reddog's avatar

Dont believe 95% of what you think you know about those GOP women. Not sure what you are using as a yard stick to judge them but it isnt accurate I believe. There simply are no perfect conservatives. There never has been. By your gauge Reagan wouldn’t qualify. In an era where we seem obsessed with celebrity and creating perfect role models, no one is going to measure up by your gauge. Humans are flawed and at times confused people. But in spite of it, we have had dome remarkable leaders that came along at the right time, put bias aside, and did what the country needed. Most people who make a real quantitive difference in life do so in relative darkness. I hope you rethink your appraisal of the current right leaning players. Aside from Collins and Murkowski, two completely clueless women who do not see the big picture, there are some good people in your list.

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revmaddog1948's avatar

I would even say a kind word about Collins, who under extreme pressure came through with a reasoned treatise and a deciding vote on Trump's impeachment.

On the other hand, there are a few living pieces of garbage that I would not throw a lifeline to if they were sinking in a cesspool. May I mention again Bill Gates, Mitch, Adam Schiff, Hillary Clinton, and the CBS Network executives that canceled after 3 years Star Trek.

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Shrugged's avatar

I would consider it an honor to follow the leadership of ANY of the females posting to this site on a weekday basis in a strategic Trump role, all of whom I upvote for their insight that is lacking in my male perspective on life and reality.

Males can only fulfill 95% of the logic and strategic value in running the country. We must find the other 5% and top it off. /s/ (that means the last line was a joke).

It's 50/50. Or 100/100.

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TeaPartyGal's avatar

Suzie's patience may at some time wear thin with me saying this, but I think she would be splendid in public office. She would kick butt, and it would be marvelously entertaining (as well as great for the country)! And I want LuAnn to be the premier of Canada.

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VICKI's avatar

Pam Bondi is fine and has a good reputation in FL but perhaps is a slower starter in the "big time" BUT; I think Karoline Leavitt is exceptional and as young as she is, shows me exceptional talent in every way. Give these new women a minutes to get into the flow of the game.

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Wim de Vriend's avatar

Call me spoiled all you want, but I cannot make it all the way through a lengthy comment without CAPITAL LETTERS.

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VICKI's avatar

The caps can give things emphasis but the misspellings do me in....above see currant for current...does the writer know the difference between the two?

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Wim de Vriend's avatar

It's a fairly common mistake and, to be honest, anybody can make a spelling error while commenting on a forum like this. EVEN I have! My problem is simply that I cannot engage with the breathless stream-of-consciousness rant that his comment amounts to: it's simply too much work, so I ignore it as not worth the effort.

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No's avatar

Natalie Winters certainly holds my attention. I wish she'd get rid of that strategically placed banner.

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Lawsy0's avatar

Williams and Wilcox were in space for 9 months. The suborbital Stepford wives were up there for 11 long, hard, grueling minutes. Seems was hardly enough time to pray half the Rosary. The entire flight was shorter than the average bathroom break! Theirs was a STUNT, not a stint. A shunt instead of a shuttle.

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OldeArtiste's avatar

I don't want to be catty (well, yes, I do) but does anyone else believe that Katy Perry is way beyond her "sell by" date like Kamala Harris and Hillary Clinton?

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VICKI's avatar

Who?

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Jeremy R's avatar

No, Bozo can keep her.

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Lawsy0's avatar

Si Señor.

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Dutchmn007's avatar

“The televised event produced Fleming’s best line, “For the first time in the history of flight, barf bags were needed for spectators on the ground.”

Mr Surber - in the future please include LOL Warnings for such upcoming, loaded one-liners: I nearly spewed coffee all over the IPad & the room!

That said, the entire “gals in space” exercise in their ironically overly phallic-shaped vehicle was a prime example of LMAO comic, meaningless frivolity.

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Lawsy0's avatar

If only the TV series "Women in Space" could ever be as funny as "Men in Black."

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Douglas Baringer's avatar

We have probably never heard of the woman who will become "first woman on the moon". That is some time away, but Tulsi is at least a pilot. Good start.

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OldeArtiste's avatar

Well, I think that Taylor Lorenz, Hillary Clinton, AOC, or other female leftist/liberal luminaries could be the first women on the moon - and stay there.

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N.Wallace's avatar

We could make a list and send 2 loads.

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donald b welch's avatar

not sure that is correct douglas. judging by this latest stunt the left is perfectly willing to go all in on theatrics....and women are perfectly willing to play along.

i guess both are predictable to some extent.

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dts3204's avatar

Their question was where are the marguerites and the US Senator?

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Lawsy0's avatar

Lt. Cdr. Kramden, Alice (just a guess).

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donald b welch's avatar

nancy palosi...on a one way ticket.

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VICKI's avatar

Pelosi and Waters...yay!

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geraldsd's avatar

Send that biotch to Pluto…

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Jeremy R's avatar

On a broom.

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Kevin Menard's avatar

Looking at the poll, all I got to say is that the bunch of us are old. Damn old.

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Skinnydip's avatar

True, but it was the funniest answer too!

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Laurie's avatar

I was wondering what percentage of Suberites don't know who Alice is.

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TeaPartyGal's avatar

The only Alice I could think of was from the Arlo Guthrie song "Alice's Restaurant", and I couldn't think what that had to do with the moon.

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LM Drew's avatar

made me laugh out loud!

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Laurie's avatar

A local radio station plays that every Thanksgiving. Our family gathers promptly at 4:00 to listen to it together. A tradition my now middle aged children claim is more important than dinner.

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Chuck Goldman's avatar

When is this feminist bullshit gonna stop! I’m not usually a fan of anything coming out of Britain (literally anything… I think the Beatles are the most over-rated band in musical history) but even I have to raise a glass (don’t get excited it’s Jack Daniel’s) to their SC ruling on trans freaks.

Maybe it starts there!

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Shoveltusker's avatar

If I could post a meme here, I'd go find the New Yorker cartoon from 50+ years ago that depicts two Apollo moon-walking astronauts looking down at the inert form of a woman wearing a dress, face-down on the lunar surface. One says to the other, "It's Alice Kramden!"

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Steve (recovering lawyer)'s avatar

Not to quibble, but these celebranauts were never technically in "space." Unless I have been misinformed, their trip took them to the edge of space, referred to as the Karman Line, but they did not proceed higher. Even People Magazine--that highly esoteric scientific journal--has noted that this flight, as have been all the others, is basically just "space tourism," and has no scientific purpose or benefits. I mean, if William Shatner at age 93 could strap in and frolic about for the same eleven minutes it took these women, how much skill did they need? They contributed about as much to the whole escapade as a potted plant.

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