Matt Davies for July 21, 2021

The first handful of astronauts were greeted as above. After that, not so much.

Bezos is not an astronaut

https://www.livescience.com/is-bezos-an-astronaut.html

I’m sure Kim Jong Il did this first… just ask his subjects!

hey jerkface, pay your taxes

He’s already bragging about a $100 million in sales by passengers for future flights. But yeah, this is all about ideology, patriotism, and scientific accomplishments according to their propaganda.

You may leave here for four days in space

But when you return, it’s the same old place

—P. F. Sloan

So it’s better to spend billions of tax payer’s money then billions of one own money? Odd sort of idea.

Reflects how private business (in the U.S.) has taken over the government’s role in reaching space…

Bezos is an astronot.

In 1962 I remember the ticker tape parade for John Glenn, the first American to orbit the earth. Later went to the Seattle’s World Fair in 1962 and got to see the “Friendship 7”. I’m sure John Glenn paid income taxes and taxpayers were happy to think the money was well spent. In 2021 we put a billionaire in space who doesn’t pay income taxes so he could well afford to pay the costs. Times have changed.

Bezos and his group were much less than astronauts as payload.

A person must be either very desperate, or a republican to work for him. Bezo’s, like the French nobles before the Revolution, lives the high life in full view to his underpaid, overworked bladder-bursting employees!

He has achieved the American dream and been damned for it.

Pretty much………

Bezos: Thank you amazon employees and customers for making this possible!

Me, an amazon.com customer: (ᗒ_ᗕ )

He’s no more an astronaut than a package on a Fedex flight is the pilot.

Space, because a 200 foot yacht is not enough.