NATIONWIDE CONSTITUTIONAL CARRY WOULD BE BETTER BUT THIS WOULD BE A NICE START: ‘Trump Will Fix It’: Concealed Carry Interstate Reciprocity.

I’M EXPECTING AN EARTH-SHATTERING KABOOM BUT HOPEFULLY, ONLY THE SOUND OF THE LAUNCH AND THE SONIC BOOM FROM SUPER HEAVY’S RETURN: What to expect during SpaceX’s 6th Starship test flight.

A LOT OF LIES FROM 2017-2020 ARE READY FOR RECYCLING: Trump Never Imposed a ‘Muslim Ban,’ and It’s Coming Back.

THIS LOOKS LIKE ONE OF THOSE CURSED PRODUCTIONS ALTHOUGH, TO BE FAIR, DISNEY CURSED ITSELF: Maybe THIS Is the Furious Backpedal That Will Save Disney’s ‘Snow White’ Reboot.

BREAKING: Pennsylvania Supreme Court Tells Democrats to Stop the Steal.

MATT MARGOLIS: This Might Be the Best Defense of Matt Gaetz I’ve Seen.

SPACEX ISN’T SCREWING AROUND WITH TOMORROW’S STARSHIP TEST FLIGHT:

Starship’s upper stage will fly the same suborbital trajectory as the previous flight test, with splashdown targeted in the Indian Ocean.

An additional objective for this flight will be attempting an in-space burn using a single Raptor engine, further demonstrating the capabilities required to conduct a ship deorbit burn prior to orbital missions.

Several thermal protection experiments & operational changes will test the limits of Starship’s capabilities & generate flight data to inform plans for ship catch and reuse.

The flight test will assess new secondary thermal protection materials &will have entire sections of heat shield tiles removed on either side of the ship in locations being studied for catch-enabling hardware on future vehicles.

The ship also will intentionally fly at a higher angle of attack in the final phase of descent, purposefully stressing the limits of flap control to gain data on future landing profiles.

Plus: “Depending on how well Flight 6 goes & the launch site survives the launch & catch attempt, there may be a slightly longer period of time between flight 6 & flight 7. This is also due to the move to a completely new V2 Starship design.”

Traditional space launch’s destructor has not yet taken its final form.

MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: Oh, Thank Goodness — Joe and Mika Survived Their Trip to Trump’s Death Camp.

LAPD “ANGEL COP” DEON JOSEPH:

I held my tongue for a long time, because as an American I believe we should respect the Oval Office and our leaders whether we agree with some of their decisions or not. But I can’t. I look back on the last four years and can only come to one conclusion about the man many pundits said early in this election, should be on Mt. Rushmore. This was one of the most corrupt men to ever sit in the White House. This man, I now believe without reservation, stole the 2020 election. There is no way he got 81,000,000 votes. He could not have campaigned from his basement and been more popular than Obama. With the news of PA counting illegal ballots today, it is ever so clear, Trump at least won the EC in 2020. Biden destroyed our sovereignty by erasing our borders on purpose without our consent. Never asked the American people what we thought. Just flew them in the cover of darkness and told border agencies to stand down. In doing so, put Americans in further danger and strain. Prior to that, hid information from the American people that showed he was more than likely bought and paid for. A completely compromised man who had no business being in political office. While Americans suffered under his bad economy, his family was getting rich and trying to hide how. Engaged in such divisive and inflammatory rhetoric that it almost got his rival killed and weaponized the justice system against him. His words divided us further while claiming to be a uniter. His feckless leadership emboldened and empowered our enemies and lit three proxy wars. He picked an embarrassment of a VP and knew it. His entire cabinet was filled with gaslighters, liars and fear mongers. Mt. Rushmore my butt. This was the worst and most corrupt President in my lifetime. I’ll be glad when he finally shuffles out of the White House. I literally owe George W. Bush an apology [for calling him “the worst president in my lifetime”].

Well said.

FUNNNY, I DON’T FEEL SAD: The Sad Demise of Nancy Pelosi.

ANALYSIS: TRUE.

Get the government out of the way as Milei did, and this can happen in the USA, too. https://t.co/dO5dbkqM6Q

— Tara Servatius (@TaraServatius) November 17, 2024

“Get the hell out of my way!” the wise man once said.

OH MY: Kamala Spent Even More Money on Oprah Than We Originally Heard.

OLD AND COLD: Who will replace JD Vance in the Senate?

The new hotness: Senator and Vice President of the United States: Could J.D. Vance Hold Both Positions at the Same Time?

VICTORIA TAFT: Reality Check for Politico, and Media ‘Scandalized’ by Possible Trump Recess Appointments. “The Wall Street Journal called Trump’s request a ‘scheme’ and ‘anti-constitutional.’ That’s an odd turn of phrase for actions that are explicitly in the constitution under the—wait for it—’The Recess Appointment Clause’ and ‘The Appointments Clause.'”

Yeah, well — the Wall Street Journal ain’t what it used to be.

ASKING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: What’s POTUS Packing? “Donald Trump was issued with one of the rarest gun licenses available in the United States: An unrestricted concealed carry handgun permit in New York City, well known for its very restrictive gun laws in comparison with many other parts of the US.”

UKRAINE WAR: Biden’s Latest Blunder Is an Invitation, Not an Escalation. “Presidentish Joe Biden on Sunday gave the go-ahead for Ukraine to use U.S.-made missiles against targets inside Russia. France and Great Britain quickly followed suit. That’s a dangerous and wrongheaded decision but not for the reason some of my conservative allies believe.”

THE NEW SPACE RACE: Shotwell predicts Starship to be most valuable part of SpaceX.

“The company is incredibly valuable, I think, right now because of Starlink,” she said. “Starlink will add a zero, probably, at least as we continue to grow the Starlink system.”

That growth comes in many different markets, from residential broadband services to maritime and aviation connectivity. SpaceX will begin offering direct-to-device services “within the next month or so,” she said, with an initial version for “very light data” and text messaging.

However, she argued that Starship will be even more valuable to SpaceX in the long run. “Ultimately, I think Starship will be the thing that takes us over the top as one of the most valuable companies. We can’t even envision what Starship is going to do to humanity and humans’ lives, and I think that will be the most valuable part of SpaceX.”

That is based on the belief, she said, that the fully reusable rocket with a payload capacity to low Earth orbit that could exceed 100 metric tons, will “change everything” about spaceflight, and not just with lower launch costs. “Starship is so big that the concept of how we put things in space, how people will travel in space, is totally different.”

The rest of the world has had since 2017 to match SpaceX’s Falcon 9 on reusability and price — and failed. SpaceX is working very hard to make Falcon 9 obsolete with Starship, even before any other company or country catches up to where SpaceX was almost eight years ago.

OHIO: Here Are The Top Contenders to Replace JD Vance in the Senate.

PLEASE, STOP — THEY WON’T LET ME VOTE FOR HIM AGAIN: Ramaswamy outlines DOGE’s vision to bring ‘sweeping change’ to bureaucracy: ‘Restoring… accountability.’

“The failures of the executive branch need to be addressed because the dirty little secret right now is the people we elect to run the government, they’re not the ones who actually run the government. It’s the unelected bureaucrats in the administrative state that was created through executive action. It’s going to be fixed through executive action,” he said.

“Think about the Supreme Court’s environment. Over the last several years, they’ve held that many of those regulations are unconstitutional at a large scale. Rescind those regulations, pull those regs back, and then that gives us the industrial logic to then downsize the size of that administrative state. And the beauty of all of this is that can be achieved just through executive action without Congress. Score some early wins, and then you look at those bigger portions of the federal budget that need to be addressed one by one,” he continued.

Ramaswamy pledged to bring “sweeping change” “as early and as quickly as possible.”

Faster? Please!

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Biden Wants to See How Much Mess He Can Make on His Way Out. “It’s important to remember that every foreign policy move that the Biden-Harris administration makes is boneheaded. There was already going to be a lot for Trump to handle when he gets back to Washington.”

HMM: North Korea may end up sending Putin 100,000 troops for his war.

North Korea may deploy as many as 100,000 troops to aid Russia’s war on Ukraine if the alliance between Pyongyang and Moscow continues to deepen, according to people familiar with assessments made by some Group of 20 nations.

The analysis is one of several on the evolving partnership between Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, said the people, speaking on condition of anonymity to talk about private discussions. They stressed that such a move wasn’t imminent and that military support at that scale — if it occurred — would likely happen in batches with troops rotating over time rather than in a single deployment.

Ukraine’s ambassador to South Korea made a similar assessment earlier this month. Dmytro Ponomarenko said in an interview with VOA that Kyiv expected up to 15,000 North Korean troops deployed to fight in Russia’s Kursk region – and possibly in occupied areas of eastern Ukraine – to rotate every few months.

Spokespeople for South Korea’s Defense Ministry and Presidential Office didn’t respond to requests for comment.

The report is a bit thin, but leaning on Third World s***hole countries like Iran for drones and North Korea for munitions and (so far) 10,000-12,000 soldiers isn’t a great look for a would-be superpower about to complete three years of indecisive warfare against a much smaller opponent.

TOO LATE: ‘I Don’t Want to Be the Freak Show Party’ Say Centrist Democrats.

Democrats can change but the inmates are running the asylum and won’t go quietly.

ALL IS NOT WELL IN THE MIDDLE KINGDOM: Eight killed and 17 wounded in second mass attack in China in a week.

A video circulating online and geolocated by NBC News shows injured people lying on the ground with blood on their clothes and moaning.

Chinese censors were swift to suppress news of the death toll. In less than 30 minutes after police released the statement, the topic could not be found on the trending page of Weibo, China’s X-like platform, while a key word search only yielded limited results.

“It’s so horrifying. Why suppress the trending topic? It won’t change anything,” one user wrote. “It’s truly tragic for those innocent people.”

Can’t stop the signal, Xi.

ALL OF THE ABOVE: Trump’s Energy Policy Will Be ‘Inclusive’ in a Good Way.

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