Are You Not Entertained?

When I used to order something from Sears Roebuck, or J. C. Penney, or Montgomery Ward, back in the old days, it usually came a week or two later, in a brown box, and without fanfare.

No Longer!

Now we give Jeffie Bozos $140.00 a year so we can order anything, at anytime, around the clock, and get it to our doorstep within days.  Sometimes hours.  Plus some movies, too.  Without having to pay for shipping.

But I'll bet you didn't realize we're also getting entertainment with our shopping!  Yes, Fellow Patriots, we now get to watch Jeffie's little rockets vaulting a select few into (almost) space.  For a few minutes.  And then return back to Earth, all safe and sound.

Like on Tuesday.  He sent his girlfriend, Lauren Sanchez, an ex-TV helicopter weather girl.  Plus Katy Perry.  Who sings, if you were unaware.  Plus Gayle King, a TV personality of sorts.  Plus 4 other women who we've never heard of.  Girl power, they said.  A "crew" of all women.  Except all they did was sit there, and wait for the rocket to light off.  

And then, WHOOOSH!  They flew up to 93 kilometers (sixty three miles), just past the "Karmen Belt."  The very edge of space.  But not space.  Nope, just real close, and then 4 minues of weightlessness.  Raucous fun, no doubt.  Look at me!  Floating!  And then you come back home.  The multiple parachutes open and you float safely to a soft landing.  They then let you keep your spiffy blue uniform, and probably some keepsakes.  An ashtray and some little pins to wear on their ample chests.  That's it.  

What's all that cost.  Well, just like Jeffie's annual fee isn't cheap, neither is his "E-Ticket" ride.  We're told it's $One Million Dollars per seat.  Of course, his babe flew free.  Did Katy and the others pay?  We'll never know.  But for the price, I'd like to think the whole thing would last longer than 11 minutes.  

It doesn't.

But there's one thing for sure.  We're getting to watch him waste our subscription $Dollars by sending his friends into near-space.  It's entertainment.  And it now comes with the deal.  

You and I are gifting this dude with our $Money and he's blowing it on his little hobbies.  His 554 foot yacht, his "Blue Origin" E-Ticket rides, his 5 private jets, and his girlfriend.  

At least with Elon, you get the full ride.  So much so that he single-handedly returned our stranded astronauts from the Space Station using his Falcon 9 rocket.  And those on the Left repaid him by burning his cars and firebombing his dealerships.  

If Jeff's trying to compete with Elon, using our money, I'd say he's losing...