What the curious nature of the modern “spacer kid” engenders is a complete silence in the public sphere over the blocking of the BFR. But they should be visibly agitating, publicly with banner signs “BFR Must Fly” in major cities and DC. Is this going to happen? Or just the trained silence and complacency?

And oddly enough, this is not an issue that the media will ignore. They’ll be happy to put this crazy fun stuff on their dull repetitive propaganda casts. Crazy fun stuff is fundamentally cool. Stalling the BFR is bad juju. Even kollege kids know this.

WE DON’T NEED NO STINKIN BADGES.

(your edit ok with me Mr.Z.)

Oh, It is way too late for that. Every company in existence in the U.S. has a multitude of government agencies overseeing it, making sure that the laws, regulations, and rules are being obeyed. One of the problems is the overlapping overregulation in which rules, regulations, or laws conflict with each other; you can only obey one by breaking another. This is one of the favorite things of a tyranny — the guarantee that everyone is guilty of something that the tyrant can hold over each of them.

markedup2: I don’t think you and I should spend time arguing over details, when we really are in agreement. I recognize, as you do, that America is no longer the free nation ruled by laws that existed for more than two centuries. My only point is that those laws are still being enforced (though with increasingly less consistency) and if used properly by SpaceX it can still protect itself from outright confiscation. It might even force the nation back into enforcing those laws properly.

But as you correctly note, but not for long, and with a great deal of difficulty. You are correctly underlining my point, and doing it even more forcefully than I.

The feds can simply decide that they do not like a company (or entire industry; re Operation Choke Point) and kill it, though.

I’d like to put your assertion to the test. If Musk were to cancel all Falcon-9 launches, how long do you think it would be until he was forced to launch something for the feds? Say the next ISS resupply mission.

Announce it the day before the next govt launch, whatever that might be.

By the way, I doubt that Biden is even aware of the status of the the Starship vehicle, and more probably even the existence of it! So ask the question to make the Democrat drones on his staff consider if they want to help the boss look bad, again? Not that it’s difficult.

or humanity never leaves Earth

2029 will be too late

It’s not the Biden administration, it’s the entire DC cabal.

Elon has simply not kissed enough DC butt.

Sadly this is how things are done these days. If you want to play you’ve got to pay.

Elon could have easily fixed this but it’s against his nature and now it’s too late. Elon’s a rebel.

As Robert observes, “… the leftist Democrat apparatchiks … now see Elon Musk as a political enemy whom they must squelch in every way possible,” and “[the] actions [by sundry regulatory agencies] tell me that this very leftist Biden administration has no intentions of allowing SpaceX to launch Starship/Superheavy anytime soon. I fully expect the launch license to be significantly delayed, possibly for the rest of this year.”

If The Powers That Be who are currently running this country actually wished for it to remain a leader in space, they would not for a minute put up with this kind of deliberate, well orchestrated obstruction from within its own agencies. If the Apollo program had been conducted in this way we would (like the Russians) probably never have gotten to the moon. But, again, American leadership in space is NOT part of their agenda for this country, and these people do not WANT to have a successful national space program. These people
essentially hate the country and the culture that they rule over, they despise most of its people, and they do not want it to succeed in any way. What part of this does anyone not “get”?

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/sep/05/cancer-cases-in-under-50s-worldwide-up-nearly-80-in-three-decades-study-finds

I blame environmental toxins, plastics, round up, especially “vaccinations” full of mercury… and two dimensional carbon graphene oxide. When they put a needle in your arm you have no idea what’s in it!

Our side has to do a lot better. The Wall Street Journal is basically in silent agreement on the imprisonment of the working class Jan 6 protesters. There has been zero discussion of the extent to which the 1st amendment right to peacefully assemble and petition for redress of grievances provides legal protection from prosecution of rowdy protest activity. And where are the mainstream republican presidential candidates on taking on the establishment for criminalizing politics? Missing in action.

Tactically, on issue after issue, the republicans, my people, are frankly just dumb. Yes, the democrats stole the 2016 election. But then Trump and Fox news focused on foreign ownership of the voting machine manufacturer? It is vote harvesting which brings in millions of votes for party candidates. You have to document case after case where party operatives “encourage” people to vote and deliver their absentee ballots to the poling station. Republicans have to take on the labor unions. What right did they have to sabotage deliveries and put the yellow trucking company out of business? And the UAW demanding more time off and guaranteed employment when they are arguably the reason the big three do not make any passenger vehicles in the US? Republican voters have got to wise up and see that labor unions have done great damage to domestic manufacturing companies and have reduced the number of well paying jobs available to the working class.

All: It astonishes and depresses me no end that, even after the last three years, when we were subjected to blatant falsehoods, blacklists, censorship, mandates (from the Biden administration) based on no data that forced many to take experimental drugs that could not do what they promised and we now know can do great harm, when we see this same Biden administration weaponizing the FBI, the CIA, the Justice Department to spy on their political opponents as well as criminalize free speech and ordinary political opposition, when those same agencies under the control of Biden are now even using their power to put people in prison for decades, simply for expressing dissent, I still have intelligent readers who still cannot imagine corruption and the abuse of power by those in the White House, aimed directly at someone (Elon Musk) who they have even publicly stated they consider their enemy.

It is not like I haven’t documented this abuse of power. All you have to do is spend a few minutes just reviewing the list of my many blacklist columns for the past three years.

And yet, we get comments here that still doubt the duplicity and greed for power of the Biden administration.

It boggles my mind how innocent and naive good Americans have become. Tyranny and dictatorship loom over them with increasing power every single day, and they still refuse to recognize it.

While I don’t quite go to Bob’s level of belief that the Biden administration is leaning on the FAA to slow this down, I don’t believe they even have to. Big agencies like the FAA have been captured by the left, and combine that with the typical glacial pace of any government bureaucracy worker, and it takes ages without even needing a wink and nod, much less any kind of intervention. I bet an audit would show that the man hours involved in the FAA review will end up being less than one percent of what SpaceX has done, and that on any given day, the work consisted of sending a message to another worker, who didn’t look at it until the next morning.

Can the FAA mishap investigation be open and still have issued corrective actions? That sounds like a contradiction in their statement.

No article I’ve seen has mentioned the report from the FAA investigation. The FAA is probably another corrupt institution, so it’s probably safe to assume it’s all LIES.

From Eric Berger on Twitter just a few minutes ago:

The SpaceX Starship mishap investigation remains open. The FAA will not authorize another Starship launch until SpaceX implements the corrective actions identified during the mishap investigation and demonstrates compliance with all the regulatory requirements of the license modification process.

Let me translate: We have been told (and maybe even agree) that SpaceX should not be allowed to launch, and we should come up with whatever ploy we can think of to block it.