Blue Origin Backlash

This is why Kamala lost. She couldn't read the country, never mind the room.

Ditto on the Democratic brass.

As for Joe Biden...can we get someone digitally literate to run for President, someone young who grew up on the internet?

My favorite e-mails are the ones that complain about TikTok. I respond asking if they've ever been on it. NO! I WOULDN'T WASTE TIME ON THAT TRASH! Then how are you going to know what is going on not only there, but amongst the platform's users?

I don't understand the diffidence of the left wing elite. This is one of the reasons so many techies leaned Trump in the last election. You're holier than thou because you went to a good college and have a foreign automobile in the driveway. HUH?

I remember asking my mother what it was like when television came on the scene. I couldn't imagine not having it. I never got a good answer, but now I know...it was akin to before and after the internet.

As for me... I had no interest in computers. Until I got one to write my newsletter in 1986. I became utterly fascinated. How these things work. And if you sat there long enough, you could figure out the answer to any problem. You can still do that today with Google but people treat computers like cars, they don't know what's under the hood, then again, to a great degree they don't need to.

As for the internet... Jeff Gold at Warner Bros. gave me one of the eight free subscriptions to AOL the company got. But what got me to use the software was when Tower Records' "Pulse!" magazine printed my home address in 1992 and I started hearing from college students who wanted to communicate via e-mail. I'll never forget one e-mail thread, this woman was complaining about her boyfriend and after a month I learned SHE'D NEVER MET HIM! That was new back in 1992.

I don't need to recite all my bona fides, all I'll say is I fell into it, I was interested.

So the world has been flattened. Celebrities are no better than the hoi polloi. But too many celebrities don't know this. Hell, I'm not even a celebrity and every day I've got incoming that straightens me out, puts me in my place. That doesn't mean I won't write what I feel, but I do know that no one likes a show-off.

That was the first stage of Instagram. Facebook is still the same. Look at me, this is where I've been, this is what I own! It's funny, you still see some people doing this on TikTok. My favorite is the woman who said she wanted no men to look at her videos, they were for women... Then she went to Florida to shoot a demo for the "Sports Illustrated" Swimsuit Issue. Yes, there are people that out of touch with themselves. Usually they've got a hole in the center that they believe will be filled by fame...but that hole can never be filled.

Gayle King... She's on TV. Remember when you died to be on TV, when you had friends watch the baseball game to see if they could find you in the stands? Anybody can be on TV these days, it means nothing. And Mr. Beast eclipses all of them and he made it via social media (although he did have a game show on Amazon Prime recently).

So who cares you make happy talk for the brain dead on morning television. Doesn't Gayle realize we're laughing at her here?

And now she has broken the cardinal rule of online hate. YOU NEVER RESPOND! How come I know this and she doesn't? Because she's in her bubble.

Katy Perry did what Lady Gaga has just done. Out in the wilderness sans recording stardom recently, they both went back to the garden. This isn't how you do it, YOU GROW! Which is why Gaga's performances with Tony Bennett were such a hit. She was commercially unsuccessful with her recent record and she milked this... If your goal is just to be famous, you're going to be hurting soon.

As for Lauren Sanchez... You leave your husband for his best friend? Who you remake into unrecognizability, after having seen the plastic surgeon yourself? Don't you understand we're laughing at you? You manipulated a rich nerd to be involved with you, you even broke up a family. Do you know people like this? I do, and one thing is for sure, you want to stay away from them, THEY'RE UNTRUSTWORTHY!

As for Bezos himself... He was deep in a hole for so many years he doesn't know what is going on in the outside world. Building a yacht to keep up with the Joneses. At least David Geffen is smart. He got so much blowback after posting a pic of himself on his yacht during Covid that he's been on a media blackout ever since. Furthermore, those who don't look for attention are the true movers and shakers in this world.

Maybe you don't care about the all female Blue Origin flight. That's fine. But the blowback is unbelievable, you can't miss it. This is a story you want to die if you're involved. But Gayle King is pouring gasoline on it, keeping it alive.

I went to a private island not long ago. There was only one rule, NO WRITING ABOUT IT AND NO POSTING OF PICTURES!

That person understood the landscape. Then again, he's a manager of household name acts, he's been interacting with the public for years.

The world has changed. You won in the old game. Can't you admit that things are different and adjust? But these people cannot, they don't want to let go of their shred of celebrity, the aura that they think denotes power. They're kicking and screaming and won't let go.

Like Joe Biden.

So it's no wonder that Trump won. He gave the IMPRESSION that he understood the little guy. Oh, don't crap on me and say this is not true. Don't you understand, public relations and media ARE ALL A MANIPULATION! The big game is not for amateurs.

You can win in the new world.

First and foremost you must have authenticity/credibility. And you have to learn to say no, just like the rock stars of yore. If some rich Republican invites you on his jet and you spend a week on his ranch...when this comes out, your credibility is going to be shot.

You've got to manage your image 24/7. Remember in the heyday of Facebook when all the young people were taking down tags of themselves? They didn't want to leave a paper trail, because in the future they wanted to get a job and they didn't wan to be haunted by the past.

The only reason I'm in touch with the average person is I hear from them each and every day, excoriating me. Do you know how most wealthy or famous people deal with this? THEY DON'T LOOK! They think they're above it. And then when things go south as a result, they're stunned.

Life is a learning process. Just because your cohorts say to do something... They may be more out of touch than you.

An eleven minute ride on a rocket ship? Maybe, if there's almost no publicity. But they were billing it as this big feminist event...

It was like Gal Gadot singing "Imagine" during Covid.

Tone-deaf.

And you can push back, say I don't understand, that you only read physical books and the smartphone is the devil but...

You're just turning into your parents. Remember when you'd play your records for them and they'd soon say to take them off?

But the cohort of baby boomers was so large, they took power from their parents.

But now these same people won't let go. They think since they went to Woodstock, go see the Rolling Stones and iMessage on their phones, they know everything.

Believe me, if the women on the Blue Origin flight knew everything, they never would have signed up to begin with.


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