To the tech community. 1. We lost the ability to go to the Moon when president LBJ killed funding for the second production batch of Saturn V vehicles in 1968 due to "budget" (as the budget exploded by 45% to fund the Vietnam war and the Great Society programs). 2. We lost the fully reusable two stage to orbit (TSTO) Space Shuttle design in 1972 due to the same fictitious budget problems. 3. We lost the "Project Independence" in 1974, which would have built 1,000 nuclear power plants, taking America off the oil teat entirely as a response to the 1973 oil embargo. It was killed with the ouster of president Nixon and fear generated by nuclear disaster movies. 4. We lost the dual truss Space Station Freedom that would have been a low earth orbit base of operations for sustainable lunar development in 1990 due to the same mythical "budget" problems, only saving the program when it became a political prop in 1993 to keep the Russians from supporting the Iran nuclear program. 5. We lost the Moon (Space Exploration Initiative) in 1993, concurrently with the Space Station redesign as a change in political parties that used the budget again as their excuse. 6. We lost the Moon once again in 2008 after a restart in 2005 as a new administration with different priorities cut the NASA budget by $2 billion a year and replaced it with vague talk of an asteroid visit mission. 7. We are in a fight of our lives today over AI and the urge of government control and the false hope by certain AI captains that government control is a good thing. We in the space and nuclear power community have fought for decades to overcome these setbacks to the future. There is a persistent need of a certain political persuasion to stifle technological development. (a certain politician in a book about balancing the Earth called techno optimists as dangerous to society. We see this same thing with Burnie the old and his regressive bill to halt AI advancement. The only battle we decisively won, was against limits on encryption as it was stupid. The government wanted backdoors to all encryption, not understanding that any state level effort could find the backdoor and have access to our houses. We won that then, we must win this now, as AI is not doom, it is a tool, like a shovel, a gun, or a nuclear weapon. All are useless without the intent of a human behind it. They are waging a war, on the political front now, and as of today engaging a former president. We are on the other side. We must win, for the sake of the future, all of our future, as our adversaries have laughed at every time we have done something stupid like this. Over 500 years ago a regressive Chinese Emperor burned Zheng He's ships of exploration, that had gone as far as the Horn of Africa. This reactionary hobbled China and led to hundreds of years of weakness. If we lose now, what is next? The fears of nuclear power again? Abandon the Moon yet again? This time we are not alone in this. This time our adversary, with a keen sense of history and a 500 year old grudge against the west, knows exactly what to do. Victoria in futurum! @AnaEapllc, @DataRepublican, @TommyHicksGOP @pmarca @PalmerLuckey @infantrydort, @OmarJPimentel