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No to DNC/UBI, GOP omnibus bills, or Musk's BTC party. Yes to pro-America tariffs & building a self-reliant economy.

Deconstructing the “Buy American Exclusively” Mandate & Hypocrisy Accusation

Mark Cuban said on April 13, 2025 that “I don’t care who you are. If you are complaining we need tariffs to bring manufacturing and jobs to the USA, and you don’t buy American EXCLUSIVELY , YOU ARE A HYPOCRITE You want to bring manufacturing back, lead by example and get friends and family to do the same”.

He was trying to be anti-Trump. This article refutes all this bullshit.

1. “Complaining” vs. Strategic Threat Mitigation.

The premise incorrectly labels advocacy for domestic manufacturing/tariffs as mere “complaining.” The primary driver, particularly regarding specific sectors (ref: Section 232 – steel, aluminum, etc.), is national security. This involves mitigating strategic dependencies on potentially adversarial nodes in the global supply network. Framing this as complaining ignores the documented risk assessment driving these policy considerations.
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June 20, 2025
Actionable Initiatives for NASA Budget Cuts

AI Data Mining Core (Oracle): Establish an AI center to intensively mine consolidated historical astronomical datasets (all wavelengths). Focus: Find previously missed threat precursors (SNe variability, solar patterns, NEO behavior) and predictive anomalies.

AI Ground Observation Network (Argus): Network existing/low-cost ground telescopes (university, amateur) using AI for optimized scheduling and real-time analysis. Fund essential connectivity/automation upgrades. Focus: Top Priority: NEO detection & rapid orbit confirmation. Also, targeted monitoring of AI-flagged threats (solar activity, SNe candidates) and rapid transient response.

Minimalist SmallSat Monitors (Styx): Design and deploy narrowly focused, ultra-low-cost CubeSats for critical space-based data unobtainable from the ground. Focus: Prioritize essential solar monitoring (vector magnetograms for flare precursors), potentially adding basic transient detection (X-ray/gamma-ray flash alerts).

AI Predictive Simulation Hub (Delphi): Utilize high-performance computing for AI-accelerated simulations of threat phenomena physics. Focus:Model solar flare initiation, SNe/GRB mechanisms, and NEO dynamics to identify critical warning thresholds and improve risk assessment.

Originally Posted on 𝕏 on April 12, 2025
David Gross
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June 20, 2025
Just for Fun: Urgent Recommendation to the Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC): Enhanced Specificity for Use of Proceeds Disclosures

MEMORANDUM

FOR: The Honorable Chair, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

Director, Division of Corporation Finance

Director, Division of Enforcement

FROM: David Gross

DATE: April 4, 2025

SUBJECT: Urgent Recommendation: Enhanced Specificity for Use of Proceeds Disclosures

1. Purpose: This memorandum recommends immediate action (rulemaking or interpretive guidance) to prohibit public companies from using vague terms like “other general corporate purposes” as the primary descriptor for the intended use of capital raised via registered direct offerings, private placements, or shelf registrations.

2. Problem Statement & Background: Current Regulation S-K allows non-specific “general corporate purposes” disclosures. This flexibility is being exploited, contributing to significant retail investor harm. We’ve observed a troubling pattern, particularly acute during the Biden administration, where companies, especially in FDA-regulated sectors like biotech (e.g., Lucira Health, Cue Health) and other industries (e.g., Applied UV, Virgin Orbit, Rockley Photonics, Pacific Coast Oil Trust), raise substantial funds citing vague purposes shortly before collapsing into bankruptcy. This frequently results in devastating losses for individual investors (often $50,000+), while employees lose jobs.
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June 20, 2025
Immediately repeal the federal Real ID Act, replace with StatePass or Nothing

Immediately repeal the federal Real ID Act. Its core danger lies not just in bureaucratic failure, but in its fundamental threat to personal liberty and privacy. Real ID creates the infrastructure for a national tracking system, linking state databases and enabling unprecedented government surveillance of citizens’ movements—precisely the kind of invasive system that evokes deep-seated fears among many Americans, including concerns resembling a “mark of the beast” scenario where government monitors and controls individuals through mandatory identification. This potential for pervasive tracking violates the spirit of the 4th Amendment and must be dismantled.

Replace Real ID with StatePass, a new system of state-controlled secure IDs for domestic travel originating within their borders. Leveraging lessons from Real ID’s troubled history, states will implement StatePass quickly and efficiently. The absolute priority of StatePass is preventing federal surveillance; standards must prohibit centralized databases or features allowing easy federal tracking, focusing instead on secure credentials verifiable locally, not federal data collection. This state-centric approach, where states design, issue, and manage their own StatePass IDs and verification, directly counters the “mark of the beast” concerns tied to federal overreach.

State accountability will be ensured through robust mechanisms. The State Security Assurance Fund (SSAF) is a mandatory pool of state contributions, essentially security deposits, used to levy substantial financial penalties against any state whose faulty StatePass system causes a major security breach originating there. The Interstate Travel Security Commission (ITSC), composed of representatives from participating states, manages the SSAF, investigates security failures to determine penalties, and facilitates voluntary collaboration on StatePass best practices.
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June 20, 2025
MAGA F*cked: Astra (ASTR) Elites Win, Retail Loses

April 2025 statements by founder Chris Kemp only deepen my conviction that public shareholders were deliberately misled while insiders ultimately benefited from the company’s orchestrated failure and privatization.

The buyout price of $0.50 per share represented a near-total loss for those who invested during or after the SPAC merger, when the company claimed a multi-billion dollar valuation. The timing is deeply suspicious: only after the company finalized its take-private transaction in the March-July 2024 timeframe, acquiring valuable assets built with public shareholder funds (including the profitable satellite engine business acquired via Apollo Fusion) for pennies on the dollar through what founder Chris Kemp cynically termed a “Founder Led Acquisition Company” (FLAC) – bullshit terminology for which I have video evidence – did they announce, in May 2024, winning a U.S. Space Force Space Systems Command contract for the ‘Ascent’ mission. This sequence strongly suggests that public investors were used and discarded once the valuable core of the business could be secured privately by the founders, conveniently timed with securing new government contracts.
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June 20, 2025
Knauff Power: Tariffs + Trump Gold Card = America’s Double Whammy

Can the President act decisively on the Gold Card? The precedent set in Knauff v. Shaughnessy (1950) suggests yes. The Supreme Court recognized an “inherent executive power” over immigration matters tied to foreign affairs and national sovereignty. While Congress typically legislates in this area, Knauff indicates the President possesses authority, especially when national security – including economic security – is at stake. Attracting billions in investment for critical technologies certainly qualifies. This inherent authority provides a pathway to implement the Gold Card program swiftly, complementing the national security objectives of the tariffs.

America needs more than just a nudge to reclaim its industrial dominance and secure its future. We need a powerful, two-fisted approach: the strategic pressure of tariffs combined with the magnetic pull of high-value investment. It’s time for the “Double Whammy” – leveraging both Section 232 tariffs AND President Trump’s proposed “Gold Card” program to bring jobs, capital, and cutting-edge innovation roaring back to American soil.
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June 20, 2025
The Crypto Eradication and Corporate Fraud Retribution Act (Hypothetical)
Preamble: To ensure the integrity of financial markets, discourage speculative and potentially illicit activities associated with certain digital assets, and hold accountable high-level corporate executives who defraud investors in smaller public companies, this Act establishes a stringent taxation regime for digital assets and dedicates the resulting revenue exclusively to the prosecution and incarceration of culpable C-suite executives.

Section 1: Taxation of Digital Assets
- (a) Capital Gains and Income: All realized capital gains and income (including staking rewards, mining income, airdrops, and interest) derived from digital assets shall be taxed at a rate of 90%.
- (b) Capital Losses: No capital losses from digital asset transactions may be deducted against gains from digital assets or any other form of income.
- (c) Annual Wealth Tax: An annual wealth tax of 10% shall be levied on the total market value of all digital assets held by a U.S. person (individual or entity) as of December 31st each year, regardless of whether the assets have been sold or generated income.
- (d) Transaction Tax: A 5% excise tax shall be imposed on the fair market value of every digital asset transaction, including purchases, sales, exchanges (crypto-to-crypto, crypto-to-fiat, fiat-to-crypto), and payments for goods or services. This tax is payable by the U.S. person initiating the transaction.
- (e) Reporting: Taxpayers must report all digital asset holdings and every transaction, regardless of value, on their annual tax return with detailed information including dates, values, counterparties (where identifiable), and transaction IDs. Brokers and exchanges must issue detailed 1099 forms for all customer activity.
- (f) Penalties: Failure to comply fully with reporting requirements or tax payments under this section will result in penalties including, but not limited to, a fine equal to 100% of the unreported assets’ value or unpaid tax, plus potential criminal charges including tax evasion. Egregious non-compliance may result in asset forfeiture.
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June 20, 2025