So, China launched the Shenzhou 23 or whatever. Another three cosmonauts – or Taikonauts, or whatever they're calling themselves now – blasted off to their space station. One of 'em's gonna chill up there for a whole year. Big whoop. While we're over here debating pronouns and whether capitalism is literally Hitler, the CCP is busy building space stations and planning lunar bases. Is this the new space race? Or is it just another way for them to flex on us while we're busy tearing down statues of dead white guys? They're up there doing science or, you know, spying on us from low earth orbit. Maybe they are just making TikToks. Who knows? What's the end game? Are we looking at the future of space exploration, or the future where we are all bowing to the CCP's glorious space lasers? Maybe we should ask the Pentagon. Nah, they're probably busy planning sensitivity training for the Navy. The Shenzhou program, meanwhile, continues apace. Launch after launch, they're building a presence in space while we’re busy debating the merits of critical race theory in kindergarten. They're probably laughing their collective communist keisters off. This one-year stint in orbit is supposed to impress us. Guess what? It doesn't. Get woke, go broke, and apparently, China's gonna own the Moon by 2030 while we are busy with 'diversity initiatives' on Earth. The irony is thicker than a socialist's hypocrisy. So, congrats, China. You're winning the space race. Mostly because we stopped trying to win it and decided to focus on feelings instead of freaking rockets. Remember when we landed on the freakin' moon? Now, we get 'woke' astronauts. I'm not even sure if they brought a flag. Probably just a bunch of recycled hemp flags made from recycled materials. I bet they brought gluten-free space food too. And don't even get me started on the carbon footprint... Anyway, back to space: maybe it's time to stop arguing about pronouns and build some real rockets again before the CCP starts colonizing the moon.