Post

Gayle King Defends 11-Minute Space Flight After ‘Disrespectful’ Backlash: "My question is, have y’all been to space? Go to space or go to Blue Origin and see what they do and then come back and say, ‘This is a terrible thing.'"

rollingstone.comGayle King Defends 'Expensive' 11-Minute Space Flight After 'Disrespectful' BacklashGayle King defends Blue Origin space flight after herself, Katy Perry, and the other participants received backlash for going to space for 11 minutes.

49 reposts478 likes

Whaaaaa, I went to space and no one is giving me the parade and medal I assumed I was getting, even though the backlash against billionaires is torrid, this was a stupid publicity stunt we are minutes away from a recession and at any one point citizens could start to "disappear" Whaaaaaaa

My question is, have you ever made a more idiotic statement? Let’s poll how many of us have our little space vacays already booked! We too shall zip out into space in our fashion-forward jumpsuits! Yes, it’s already in the budget between next month’s rent and a weeks worth of groceries!

maybe we can just yeet her back into space along with the rest. No real loss, hell put bezos on there as well. Might be incentive for Musk to get on a spacex rocket and be yeeted as well.

Dear Ms. King: I sincerely apologize for disrespecting your historic accomplishment of reaching the upper limits of the atmosphere and achieving one of the largest carbon footprints of any living being, all while bolstering the ego of an oligarch. A grateful nation turns its eyes to you. Best, Me

“If y’all were insiders *then* you’d understand.” Yeah Gayle, that’s the problem. (Millions of us outsiders out here waitin’, and waitin’, and ‘waitin’. Privilege something something.)

#GayleKing you’re out of touch!! We are struggling to afford groceries. Go to space are you f-ing kidding!! Women are out here fighting for the right to healthcare. Programs are being cut for the most vulnerable of us while you’re getting a tax break. F-you!! Get a grip on reality looser.

As I was paying $10 for a carton of eggs I thought - 'Thank god I live in a country where Amazon warehouse workers pee in bottles (rather than taking a bathroom break) to meet their quotas. And all so an aging pop star can go to space... courtesy of them making Amazon profitable!" 🙄

Gayle King is worthless! She’s only known because she’s Oprah’s best friend … That’s it … Nothing more! Oprah … Who also brought us Dr. Oz and Dr. Phil…. Seems to me Oprah owes the entire country an apology for making these people famous!

So sickening. At the time, Oprah I imagine didn’t know that “doctor” Phil and Oz would turn out to be raging Trumpers and right wing christo-fascists. But she should damn well speak up and also talk to these people she made famous to stop helping destroy America.

Correct me if I'm mistaken, but didn't the card stack in Monopoly have a Luxury Tax card at one time? But if Blue Origin can fund itself by selling expensive carnival rides, there's probably worse forms of wealth transfer. As long as folks like this are spending (without buying) it's a good thing.

And if the Blue Origin business plan is to offset R&D costs on the backs of folks like her for joyrides - it just puts it that much closer to me someday. Beats making it a tax funded exercise these days I suppose. But I am making assumptions about how it's all funded.

The obscenity of attempting to defend assisting a greedy sociopathic robber baron like Bezos to advance his absurd joyride for the rich project whist exploiting his workers and supporting a fascist regime should haunt all of these deeply disturbed and morally bankrupt crumb maidens for eternity.

I went (virtually), I saw, I saw that the cost is exorbitant and if bezos paid the people a better wage, the ones that made him rich beyond anyones dreams, dumped a few billions to world aid and refused 47, the place would be a lot better. Valentina had to eject on re entry. That is amazing.

No Gayle. Darn. I haven’t been to space yet. But that’s on my bucket list along with heading to the local beach for the weekend. Hope to be able to afford that soon. Oh, it costs $$$millions? Didn’t realize that.

It's a terrible thing to waste money to send useless celebs up there Gayle. You didn't advance humanity or science or anything and your tasteless, tone-deaf fucking comment just shows how utterly idiotic it actually was to send you there.

Rich people taking a rich autopilot thrill ride to the edge of space. They aren't astronauts, did nothing to benefit anyone or further any cause. They simply paid to play. There are legit women astronauts that do actual scientific work

Okay, so she climbed inside Bezos’ flying dick and we’re all supposed to worship her now??? Gayle King has always been a sandwich (or two) short of a picnic.