I wonder if they hadn't used the last one for Cowboy Jeff to thank all the plebs for paying for his joy ride, they would have had their engine?

To be clear, the New Shepard tourist rocket does not use the delayed BE-4 engine.

I find the name "New Shepard" super ironic...

as if he ius the second coming to warden his flock into the folds of the oligarchitect's fenced 'garden' of consumerism.

It's named after https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Shepard Note that shepherd is spelled differently.

It's pretty clear that you're only seeing your own biases here.

I know... I was just being fascetious - as he was just so unaware of how cringy he came across..

Every time I hear Blue Origin I start laughing. What a great joke. Can you imagine NASA having to rely on Bozo for a lunar lander? Never going to happen....

This perspective is only available because of SpaceX who showed that something different from the status quo is possible. BO is probably better than most of the incumbents I suspect.