NASA just sent four astronauts to the Moon on Wednesday — the first time humans have left low Earth orbit since Richard Nixon was in the White House. Meanwhile, Democrats just spent 42 days proving they can’t even keep the metal detectors plugged in at LaGuardia.
Truly the party of “science,” ladies and gentlemen. Standing ovation.
The Artemis II mission blasts off from Kennedy Space Center on April Fools’ Day, which feels about right given that the entire Washington establishment has spent a decade telling us America can’t do big things anymore. Four astronauts. 685,000 miles. 8.5 million gallons of rocket fuel. A trip around the far side of the Moon and back. The last time we pulled this off, gas cost 36 cents a gallon and your grandparents were watching it on a TV the size of a shoebox.
And who started this whole thing? Donald Trump. He launched the Artemis program during his first term while every Democrat in Congress was too busy impeaching him over a phone call to Ukraine to notice he was rebooting the American space program. NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman — a guy who actually went to space on his own dime before taking the government job — said it plainly on Sunday: “President Trump created the Artemis program during his first term. It was the first meaningful step since the Kennedy era of getting back to the moon.”
Now in his second term, we’re actually sending people. Funny how things work when Republicans are in charge.
While Trump’s astronauts were suiting up in Florida, Democrats were busy destroying airport security on purpose because they’re throwing a tantrum over ICE doing its job. TSA wait times hit four and a half hours at some airports. FOUR AND A HALF HOURS. Over 480 TSA officers walked off the job. Absence rates spiked to 40% at certain locations. Acting TSA administrator Ha Nguyen McNeill warned Congress they might have to shut down smaller airports entirely.
And Chuck Schumer? He strutted to a microphone and bragged about it. “Democrats held firm,” he preened. “No wavering, no backing down. We held the line.”
Held the line against what, Chuck? Functioning airports? Families trying to make their spring break flights? Business travelers keeping the economy running? Millions of Americans standing in security lines that stretched to the parking garage, and Democrats looked at them and said, “Good — now give us what we want.” At least when Tony Soprano shook down a construction site, he had the decency not to hold a press conference bragging about it afterward.
This is what Democrats want for your country, by the way. This wasn’t one rogue senator having a bad week. The entire party coordinated a 42-day shutdown of airport security — bragged about it on camera — because they want to protect illegal aliens from deportation more than they want you to catch your flight. That’s the modern Democrat agenda in a nutshell.
The contrast between these two stories tells you everything. One party is sending Americans to the Moon. The other party is making grandma stand in line for five hours at O’Hare so they can shield border-jumpers from ICE agents.
Commander Reid Wiseman is a 50-year-old single dad. He lost his wife in 2020 and has been raising two kids on his own ever since. This guy walked into Kennedy Space Center last week and said six words: “Hey, let’s go to the moon!” Lose your wife, raise your kids, strap yourself to a rocket. Meanwhile, Chuck Schumer’s biggest accomplishment this month is making you miss your connecting flight to Denver.
(And CNN won’t give Wiseman five minutes of airtime because Trump’s the one sending him.)
Victor Glover — Navy aviator, mission pilot — will become the first Black astronaut on a lunar mission. You’d think the “diversity and representation” crowd would be doing backflips, but these are the same people who put pronouns in their email signatures and can’t name a single Apollo astronaut. Since Trump gets the credit, expect dead silence from the MSNBC green room. Christina Koch holds the record for the longest single spaceflight by a woman at 328 days. Jeremy Hansen is a Canadian fighter pilot who’ll be the first non-American to leave low Earth orbit. Every one of them has done more dangerous things before breakfast than Chuck Schumer has done in his entire career.
Now — should we talk about the $4.1 billion price tag on this single mission? Oh, you bet we should. The program is years behind schedule and tens of billions over budget because Congress mandated that NASA reuse Space Shuttle-era components instead of building something new and efficient. The same hydrogen leak problems that plagued the Shuttle in the 1980s delayed Artemis this year. Brilliant work from our elected geniuses.
They won’t even land on the Moon this trip — it’s a flyby. And part of the mission involves testing the capsule’s toilet. Four billion dollars to test a space toilet. Your tax dollars, folks.
But even with all the congressional stupidity and bureaucratic barnacles weighing the program down, America is still going back to the Moon. Isaacman declared that “America will never again give up the moon” and announced plans for a $20 billion lunar base. That’s the kind of ambition that built this country — back when politicians spent money on rockets instead of Midnight Stroll Transgender Cafés.
Harrison Schmitt, the Apollo 17 astronaut who was the last man to walk on the lunar surface in 1972, is 90 years old now. He told the Artemis II crew to “be ready for anything unexpected, but have a great time.” That man scooped up Moon rocks with his bare hands half a century ago and he’s still kicking. If we can get him back to the Moon before Schumer figures out how to reopen a TSA checkpoint, we’ll really be cooking.
Democrats could have been part of this moment. They could have cheered American astronauts heading to the Moon while hashing out their DHS complaints like adults behind closed doors. Instead, Chuck Schumer shut down airport security, bragged about it on national television, and his caucus called ICE agents a “deadly militia.” That’s what Democrats bring to the table in 2025 — not ambition, not achievement, just obstruction and tantrums.
Wednesday evening, four Americans are going to ride a rocket taller than the Statue of Liberty toward the Moon. Chuck Schumer will probably be on MSNBC whining about deportation flights. We know which party shut down the airports, and we know which party is reaching for the stars — and we’ll remember both in 2026.
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