Steelman Steve

Monday-morning-quarterbacking geopolitics

[Steelman Steve @steelmansteveo]

Happy to say that as of this week, I have officially joined the front lines of the Info War. 5th generational warfare is real, and it's far past time to wage it. Wield truth righteously against those who seek to extinguish it.

[Steelman Steve @steelmansteveo]

@TheAntiGrifter @ForestMommy Yeah GOP still caters to these boomers though... Massive houses they'll sell to fund luxurious lifestyles rather than pass it down to their kids... And the same types expecting young people to subsidize them further by paying for their Social Security checks and healthcare.

[Steelman Steve @steelmansteveo]

@SimplyBitcoin What's funny is he couldn't even coherently articulate the very real financial misdealings of the Trump family under this admin beyond the shitcoinery... Also framing bitcoin's utility to be exclusively in remissions? BTC can do more than drain wealth from our shores and people.

[New California-Flavored Patrick Mooney @patrick_mooney]

"what if you just lived like you were college-poor, forever, without any possible payoff" is a thing Boomers actually think is a reasonable proposition to offer to their children and grandchildren

[PoIiMath @politicalmath]

Sorry, can't train more doctors. People in charge of training doctors says it's not allowed

Best we can do is import doctors who couldn't get into American medical schools while we tell 80% of our best students that they're not allowed to be doctors

[Steelman Steve @steelmansteveo]

@DanCrenshawTX This almost reads like satire and I really wish it were, for your sake. You're a retarded phaggot and your district can't wait until you're out of office. Evil Morty headass.

[Owen Shroyer @OwenShroyer1776]

We've gone from Golden Age to shut up and eat Ramen and refried beans real fast, and that was with minimal push back.

[Steelman Steve @steelmansteveo]

@MattWalshBlog Like your boss?
https://t.co/YvEiYKmOS2

[Ben Shapiro @benshapiro]

I hear that young people are upset about $20 burritos. Okay, young people: a burrito does not cost $20. If you’re paying $20 for a burrito and you’re not independently wealthy, you’re doing life wrong. We have enough problems as a country without insane expectations that the government is going to provide us gourmet-quality burritos.
https://t.co/W91L7uM3UH

[Jeremy Todd @Jtodd601]

Rent is $1700. Electricity is $200+. Used cars are $20k at 12%.
These kids are $60k in debt and bring home $1100 every two weeks from a full time job that’s slowly being replaced by AI or H1B’s.

“Cook at home” is pure boomerslop and why socialism has a foothold you condescending pricks.

[Clint Russell @LibertyLockPod]

Wanna know how I know there's outrage fatigue? Trump made it very clear that he will not be challenging Fauci's pardon because he intends to pardon his whole family.

The biggest crime in world history and he won't pursue it because he and his kids needed to rug pull on a shitcoin.

Or because he needed 100K/mo to sell access to his truth social posts so that whales could front run his weekly Iran TACO announcements.

He has gone from bad to indefensible and there are three camps remaining:

Deep denialists
Paid propagandists
The rest of us.

The problem is that the rest of us are just so overwhelmed by the avalanche of corruption you can't even get adequately mad.

It's like adrenal overload.

I'm tired, boss.

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

The establishment Republicans have arrived to inform you that if you're worried about grocery prices, you're just a "whiney doomer" and really it's fine that prices have gone up by 30 percent because at least you're better off than someone who lived 125 years ago. This is a winning message. I'm sure the voters will respond very well to it. Good stuff, David! You're doing great!

[The Smart Ape 🔥 @the_smart_ape]

people who stored their btc on coldcard got drained because of entropy.

the seed generation was reproducible, anyone could recompute their keys.

so i went through every other hardware wallet to see how they make your seed, and whether the same thing can happen again.

@Trezor: mixes the device's randomness with randomness from your computer, and the device has to prove it used both. even if its chip is fully broken, you're still fine. the best design here by far.

@BitBoxSwiss: 5 separate sources of randomness combined. one bad source can't sink you. open source, reproducible builds, dice supported.

@FoundationHQ: built their own randomness circuit out of plain resistors and capacitors, open source, on top of two other sources. no black-box chip to trust. supports dice.

@KeystoneWallet: 2 secure chips from 2 different manufacturers, combined. also lets you roll 99 dice and publishes how to check the result yourself.

@Blockstream: jade pulls from 7 things: radio noise, cpu counters, battery, temperature, camera, your input, the app. very hard to break all of them.

@SeedSigner: your dice are the only source. no chip to trust at all. and they ship a guide teaching you to verify their own math. weakest hardware, strongest proof.

@OneKey: secure element plus mcu combined on device, open source firmware. solid, but you can't add your own randomness.

@Ledger: one certified chip (AIS-31, EAL5+). good randomness. but it's a single source, closed source, and you cannot verify any of it. you're trusting them completely.

@Tangem: key is born inside the chip and never comes out. audited by three firms. same trade: strong, and impossible for you to check by design.

@ngrave_official: mixes chip randomness with your fingerprint and room light. clever. but the "EAL7" badge covers one software component, not the whole device.

@ELLIPAL: single certified chip, no software fallback, fails closed instead of guessing. closed source, so take it on faith.

@SafePal: 2 chips mixed. they've never published the details.

@COLDCARDwallet: patched now, and dice on coldcard were always verifiable. but every seed made between 2021 and 2026 is permanently burned.

one source = ledger, tangem, ellipal. that one source fails, everything fails. their answer is to make it excellent and certified. that's exactly the bet coldcard lost.

many sources = trezor, bitbox, passport, jade, keystone. one broken source never reaches your key.

and every one of these claims 128 or 256 bits.

coldcard did too. certification doesn't help either, coldcard's chip was fine, the code just stopped calling it.

the only thing that saves you is being able to check.
roll your own dice. verify the words yourself.

[Ben Avery @benaveryisgood]

Brother, if you can’t handle higher gas prices for a few months so those good old boys can get in there and violate all international laws and drop bombs in residential areas and kill children and kill their parents and triple tap elementary schools then you ain’t American brother

[Bernard Goldsmith Made Lowtax Kill Himself @fleshsimulator]

No knock raids are fucking retarded. If someone is a bad enough dude to warrant a no knock raid, he's a bad enough dude to warrant just sending in a ground branch team to kill him.

"But what if he's innocent" Then you shouldn't no-knock raid him either.

There needs to be a social contract that if someone busts your door down in the middle of the night, you can reasonably assume they're there to kill you.

[MR. OBVIOUS @ObviousRises]

New study finds that a minimum-wage worker in 1971 had a lifestyle similar to someone earning $100k in 2026.

But its actually WORSE than that.

Inflation was 7% in the last 30 years (not 2% as fed claims) $1.60, 7% inflation, 55 years = $66 per hour x 2000 = $132k

Compare that to Silver/Gold and it gets even worse.

In 1971 minimum wage was $1.60 and silver was $1.60 an oz ($70 per oz today) (fits the $66 per hour estimate) Gold was $35 an oz, ($1.60 x 40 = $64) meaning you could buy 1.82 oz of gold with 40 hours of work (minimum wage) today it costs $4265 for one oz, $4265 x 1.82 = 7762.30/40 = $194.05.

In order to have the same purchasing power as someone in 1971 you would have earn a whopping $194.05 per hour, in other words: $403,624 per year.

Note: Only 2% of Americans make more than $400k per year, even if you count dual (household) income that's 3-4%.

[Steelman Steve @steelmansteveo]

@unusual_whales

[Steelman Steve @steelmansteveo]

Move here and your child may even become the greatest pop singer of all time! Just gotta beat him a little.

[BoomerGary1958 @garyboomer58]

Ok you guys apparently don’t like Michigan but I’m telling you there’s towns all over the Midwest with affordable housing

Here’s another small quiet town

[James Stanard @JamesStanard]

@Solvaix Bro only gets paid $60k to operate expensive machinery all day?

[Rylan Mayatt @rylan_mayatt]

When the left is in power, they raid the former president’s home, go through his wife’s panty drawer, and then arrest him.

When the right is in power, they have hearings and yell mean words at a man who is responsible for the death of a million Americans.