For All Pigkind no.2: To Oligarchy, And Beyond!

So, Jeff Bezos thinks he can tug at my old Boomer heartstrings by sending up 90 year-old William Shatner (and his toupee) on Blue Origin's latest suborbital joyride, while continuing to shit on his workers and dodge taxes. Meanwhile, Elon Musk has opened new vistas in whiny excuses for not paying taxes on his obscene wealth by puking up a bunch of balloon juice about Mars and "the light of consciousness". Nice try, guys — but, no. Also a big "no" to these guys at the Space Review trying to spin it as an important insight into the effects of microgravity on old rich and famous people.

My plan is to use the money to get humanity to Mars and preserve the light of consciousness

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 28, 2021

And elsewhere in the Space Review, one of their regulars can't shut up about the "normalization of space tourism" — for anyone who's so goddamn rich they have the price of a long weekend at the ISS lying around under their sofa cushions.

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Boop Boop Bee Doop!

Ever since the 1988 Dukakis tank-driving campaign ad ushered in the modern era of media fuckery, all the way through to Nancy Pelosi's fridge, the Democrats have been the Party Of Just Not Fucking Getting It. F'crissake, the woman who sang the Anthem at CPAC wasn't as tone-deaf as the goddamn Democrats.

Senator Sinema a little too happy for poverty wages to remain pic.twitter.com/ze2T2CGtML

— RootsAction (@Roots_Action) March 5, 2021

And so it was that Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) gave us her own Marie Antoinette moment, live on C-SPAN, as she cast her "no" vote on the minimum wage raise in the current toothless COVID Relief Bill. 

Have this woman's staff and media people just once taken her aside and reminded her that C-SPAN telecasts live from the floor of the Senate, where the whole goddamn planet and their cats can see her feckless hijinks? 

My guess is that people like Sen. Sinema are fully aware, but just don't care — and that this moment is not just indicative of her own attitude, but that of the entire Democratic Party.

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