EvilDave

EvilDave quotes: Try substituting the word "reality" every time you say "left". The *only* problem with conservative thinking is that it's mostly stupid.

@gothburz the short version:

I am the Head of Decentralization at World Liberty Financial. My department has four people. We report to three founders. The founders can freeze any wallet on the network at any time for any reason without notice, without appeal, without vote, without disclosure. My job is to ensure this architecture is described, in all public-facing materials, as decentralized. I see no contradiction. We have a slide for that. Third slide. After Mission and before Roadmap. The Token Unlock Agreement is sixty-two pages. Page forty-seven contains the relevant clause. The company may, in its sole discretion, decline to unlock, restrict access to, or freeze any wallet associated with the protocol. Sole discretion. The communications team held a forty-minute call about whether to say sole discretion or appropriate discretion. I suggested sole. It's more honest. I was told that was the wrong reason to choose it but the right word regardless. Everyone signed off. The word sole appears eleven times in the final document. Justin Sun signed the agreement. Then he read it. His entity, Blue Anthem, purchased approximately thirty million dollars in tokens. Non-transferable. He received one billion additional tokens for serving on the Advisory Board. Also non-transferable. The vast majority of all tokens issued have been non-transferable since launch. I want to be clear: non-transferable means you own something you cannot move, cannot sell, cannot pledge, and cannot redeem. It also means decentralized. These are compatible. I wrote the FAQ. On August 31st, 2025, Sun's HTX exchange wallet executed three transfers to Binance. One hundred million USDT at 11:17 AM. One hundred million at 12:41 PM. One hundred million at 3:35 PM. Three hundred million dollars. All UTC. Less than twenty-four hours before the token went live for public trading. That is not a pattern. A pattern repeats irregularly. This was a schedule. September 1st. Public launch. The token opened and fell. Twenty-six percent. Open short positions surged twenty-three percent. The compliance team flagged the correlation. I was not on the compliance team. I was on the Decentralization Assurance team. Different mandate. We assured. We froze his wallet. The clause permits it. Page forty-seven. Sole discretion. We used our sole discretion. That is what sole discretion is for. I noted internally that freezing a single investor's wallet using a centralized kill switch while marketing the protocol as decentralized might present a communications challenge. I was told to update the FAQ. I updated the FAQ. The new FAQ explains that decentralization refers to the protocol's architecture, not its governance, and that governance actions taken in the interest of community protection are consistent with decentralized principles. I wrote that sentence. I believe it. I also laminated it. Sun posted on X. Four times. April 12th through April 15th. He told his four million followers we had a backdoor. He called the freeze function blacklisting. He called the governance votes predetermined. He called the token a personal ATM. He said the protocol was a trap door. First post. 1.7 million views. 6,800 favorites. Second post. 1.2 million. Third. 525,000. Fourth. 460,000. The token fell. His short positions, if he held them, appreciated. He called this transparency. We called it defamation. His counsel told our counsel they would light World Liberty on fire. They said the token would go to shit. Direct quote. Our counsel billed the hour. Clare Locke drafted the complaint. Thirty-eight pages. Two causes of action. Defamation. Defamation by implication. Amount in controversy exceeds $750,000. Filed in Miami-Dade County Circuit Court, Complex Business Litigation Division. Page thirty-eight. The final page. Below the signature block. A certification I was not consulted on: "Generative artificial intelligence was used in the preparation of this filing." A presidential family's crypto venture filed an AI-generated defamation lawsuit against a Chinese billionaire for telling four million people that a decentralized token has a centralized kill switch. The token has a centralized kill switch. It is on page forty-seven. The lawsuit is on page thirty-eight. I see no irony. I am told there is some. Paragraphs two, twenty-two, twenty-four, twenty-six, and twenty-nine of the complaint are redacted. Blacked out. Entirely. These are the paragraphs that explain the internal basis for freezing Sun's wallet. The specific evidence. The timeline of decisions. The names of who authorized what. We are suing a man for telling the public we lack transparency. The paragraphs explaining our actions are redacted. The redactions are standard procedure. I was not consulted on whether standard procedure and transparency are compatible. I would have said yes. I say yes to most things. That is what the Decentralization Assurance Office is for. I was asked at a conference last month what decentralized means in the context of a token where one party can freeze any wallet at any time for any reason without notice or appeal. I said it means the freeze function is documented. The audience wrote that down. Two people nodded. One raised her hand and asked where it was documented. I said page forty-seven. She did not ask a follow-up. Sun is right that we can freeze wallets. We are right that he moved three hundred million dollars to Binance eighteen hours before launch. He is right that governance votes are structured to produce predetermined outcomes. We are right that he threatened to destroy the token's value. He is right that we lack transparency. We are right that he is leveraging that fact for financial gain. Both sides proved the other's case. Neither side filed a motion to dismiss on that basis. The lawyers are billing. The token trades at eight cents. The FAQ has been updated. The freeze function remains active. The AI drafted the complaint. The redactions remain. The protocol is decentralized. I have the slide.

Trump admits he bypassed federal bidding laws to hand a Lincoln Memorial project to his personal country club contractors. He treats national monuments like his own private real estate properties. The corruption inside the White House is absolutely staggering.

You can't lower gas prices by blurting out the names of a few Democrats. The administration needs to stop its crazed policies that cause so much economic pain. This is happening on Trump's watch because he doubled jet fuel prices by taking our country to war, which drove Spirit out of business. Obviously.

Berlin is banning all Soviet, Russian, and Belarusian flags on May 8th and 9th. Also banned are military uniforms, songs, images of mass murderers Putin, Lukashenko, and Kadyrov, and symbols glorifying the war against Ukraine. All symbols associated with this filthy Russian terrorist, who kills innocent Ukrainians and threatens Germany with war every week, should be banned 365 days a year. But for that to happen, we would need a Chancellor with courage and backbone.

The United States has the largest prison population on earth. Not per capita. Total. More people in cages than China. More than Russia. More than every "authoritarian" state it condemns in its annual human rights reports. 1.8 million people. Disproportionately Black. Disproportionately poor. Disproportionately from the zip codes with the worst schools, the fewest jobs, the most abandoned infrastructure. This is presented as a "criminal justice system." It functions as a labor system. Prison labor, paid between 13 cents and $1.15 an hour in most states, produces goods for McDonald's, Walmart, Victoria's Secret, Whole Foods, and the United States military. The 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery, contains an exception clause: "Except as punishment for crime." That exception has never been closed. It has been expanded. The plantation did not disappear. It received a different name and a legal foundation.

The reporting method ProPublica describes is worth naming because it is increasingly how accountability journalism gets done when access is denied. Hannah Allam spent six months watching every public Gorka appearance - podcasts, niche pro-Trump outlets, conservative think tanks - because those are the venues where he speaks largely unchallenged and where you can track what he claims his strategy actually is. She found months of "imminent" and "on the cusp" with nothing released. She found casualty rhetoric built for audiences who won't push back. She found a promised strategy with no delivery date. When she reached out for comment before publication, Gorka attacked her publicly instead of engaging. The White House called it an attempted smear. The strategy is still not out. The Iran war is two months old. This is what happens when the adults in the room are gone and the person installed in their place has a well-documented hostility to Islam - which is a significant credential problem for someone running counterterrorism doctrine in a conflict with a Muslim-majority nation - and no published framework for how the government identifies and responds to threats. The reporter did her job. The subject confirmed the story by how he reacted to it.

Update It's a lie

He’s seriously out of his mind because Jello is a food that’s easy to digest,hydrating & perfect for post op surgery patients in recovery because their throats are usually dry & sore & Jello is soothing to them.The packages are extremely small too.

I believe that a primary driver of our Iran War strategy revolves around the rapidly disintegrating legacy of President Trump. It should come as no surprise to anyone that Trump campaigned on a few key talking points: 1) Release the Epstein Files 2) Make America Great Again 3) No New Wars At this point, it is clear that there will forever be a massive stain on the Trump legacy as a result of the Epstein cover-up. I don’t think anyone, Democrat or Republican would disagree with that. Make America Great Again is still a belief held by many Republicans, but even this is beginning to falter for many. No new wars… this is where we see this conflict REALLY begin to rupture the foundation of his presidential legacy. It’s not JUST that he campaigned on “No New Wars” and then decided to conduct regime change in Venezuela, launch a massive war against Iran, and repeatedly say “Cuba is next”, it’s that he’s LOSING in Iran. When we look at Venezuela… yes, it directly flew in the face of his “no new wars messaging”, but largely, it has been successful. Not totally. Not completely. But certainly not an abject failure. But Iran… Iran is his Vietnam. Iran is Trump’s Afghanistan-withdrawal disaster. Iran is where his legacy forever becomes: Epstein & Iran And this is why I think it is overwhelmingly likely the United States will return to military strikes in the coming days. The blockade has failed. It has not caused their “oil infrastructure to explode”, it has not caused rapid hyperinflation of the Rial, and it most certainly has not caused massive uprisings that have overthrown the regime. I have beaten this topic to a pulp at this point, so you can reference previous posts for more information on the blockade, but TLDR: ~1.5 months until they are forced to shut-in, and even then, they can do so in a safe and controlled manner. So now, Trump is grasping at straws. The Iranian regime is now even more hardline than they were prior to the start of the conflict. They have TOTAL control over the Strait of Hormuz INSOFAR as it relates to the global economic damage cause by only a small fraction of maritime traffic navigating on a daily basis. If Trump cannot produce a REAL win in Iran, his Presidency will not be remembered for “Making America Great Again”. It will be remembered for the Epstein cover-up and Iran failure.

Raw milk influencers always do the same magic trick: cite breast milk, farm exposure, lactoferrin, immunoglobulins, and purified milk components — then pretend that proves unpasteurized cow milk is a “gut-healing superfood.” It doesn’t. Pasteurization is not “synthetic milk.” It is the reason milk stopped being a routine vehicle for E. coli, Campylobacter, Salmonella, and Listeria. The interesting bioactive compounds in milk do not cancel the pathogen risk. The allergy/asthma data are mostly observational farm-effect data, not a prescription to give children pathogen roulette in a glass. Raw milk is not ancestral wisdom. It is why many kids died before age 5- dead kids don’t get allergies

The guys just never stop. Get it through your (very thick) skulls: the Russians are flailing. They have used everything they could short of nuclear weapons and a full mass mobilization, and they can’t subjugate Ukraine. There is no magic reserve, their economy is flat-lining, their society is disintegrating under relentless pressure from the Kremlin to restrict communications. The can’t even protect their parade, not to mention the fact that they can’t even spare military equipment to showcase there. Russia is a failed state at this point and it will take a generation to dig it out of that hole, and that’s even if the West plays ball and decides to help (again!) These Kremlin shills live in the fantasy of “we haven’t even started yet” when even hardened turbo-Z Russian imperialists are openly saying that the war must be brought to an end because no victory is in sight and the Russian state itself is threatened with an economic crisis of unprecedented proportions. Yet, after a million and a quarter casualties sacrificed in a meaningless war by the Kremlin, the Western useful idiots are still peddling their utter nonsense to gullible audiences.

Pete Hegseth falsely testified to both the House and the Senate last week that troops were deployed to voting places in 15 states under Joe Biden in 2024. Not only were all National Guard activations for the 2024 election ordered by individual states rather than Biden, all 11 states that responded to my inquiries told me that *zero troops* were sent to voting places. The Pentagon declined to comment. Fact check: cnn.com/2026/05/04/pol…

When Russians feel they’re losing, they like to pretend their war has been governed by the laws of armed conflict up to this point, as if Bucha, Irpin, Borodyanka, Mariupol, mass torture, summary executions, rape, the nightly bombing of civilians, the theft of children — not to mention the very invasion itself — were somehow “gloves on” modes of combat.

The MAGA crowd in Washington has decided that since Europeans don’t sufficiently appreciate Trump, the American bases on the continent must go. This is the strategic reasoning of a man who burns down his own kitchen. American bases in Europe were never a favour. They are the logistical spine of every war the United States fights east of Gibraltar. Ramstein moves the cargo, Aviano launches the jets, Rota services the ships. Without them the Pentagon does not project power into the Middle East. It projects PowerPoint. The fantasy assumes the alternative is aircraft carriers gliding majestically into the Persian Gulf. That era is ending. A modern carrier is a thirteen-billion-dollar trophy that can be reduced to scrap by a couple of hundred cheap missiles fired from the Iranian coast. China noticed. The other fantasy is that America simply fights from home. Picture the alternative: twenty thousand transatlantic sorties shuttling spare parts, munitions, fuel bladders, mechanics and replacement pilots from Norfolk and Dover to wherever the war happens to be. A C-17 burns through roughly 35,000 dollars of fuel every hour it flies, and the round trip from the American east coast to the Gulf is the better part of a day. Multiply that by every bolt, every missile, every spare engine. The war becomes a sustained airborne traffic jam with the bill arriving by the second. So you need land, specifically land near the war. Modern combat aircraft are not Spitfires you fuel up and send off with a wave. An F-35 demands an entire Walmart of spare parts, a small city of technicians, climate-controlled hangars and a supply chain stretching halfway round the planet. Drones need operators, networks, satellites and a steady diet of components no carrier can store. Modern war arrives by container ship and lives in a warehouse. Close the bases, and Washington loses the warehouses. Lose the warehouses, and the next confrontation with Iran is either fought by phone or fought from Kansas with a flight schedule that bankrupts the Treasury before the first missile lands. MAGA thinks shutting Ramstein punishes Europe. It punishes America. Europe will be inconvenienced. America will be unarmed. And so, after a thousand insults, a thousand sneers, a thousand late-night posts about freeloading allies, Europe is quietly drafting the politest letter in diplomatic history. It thanks America for its service. It wishes the troops a safe journey home. It suggests, with great warmth, that Washington might now turn its attention to its neighbours in Latin America, where a fading superpower can busy itself with whatever a fading superpower busies itself with. Spain had its century. Britain had its empire. The Soviets had their parades. Each ended the same way: as a shadow of itself, with the historians left to argue, volume after volume, about precisely when the rot set in and why nobody noticed in time. America is welcome to join them on the shelf.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ If you like what you read, please follow Gandalv on Substack: @gandalv" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">substack.com/@gandalv

I’ll explain it again… Trump has been a Kremlin asset for many years. He wasn’t compromised over “Miss Russia” contestants, but over something far more serious — something that in many U.S. states could lead straight to the electric chair. Yesterday, the CIA released a report stating that Russia helped him win his first election. Remember when things got heated and the Kremlin urgently recalled its ambassador, fearing arrest? That’s why. For the second election, far more resources were deployed. Musk, already prepared, was pushed to buy Twitter and indirectly acquire a number of media outlets using Russian money. The financial trails allegedly run through Kuwait, which has long-standing ties to money laundering connected to Gazprom. Russia is said to have provided Trump’s campaign with extensive tools and strategies for campaigning and influencing the vote. Back in 2018, Russia decided to make broader use of Trump’s presidential powers and move toward a global redistribution of influence. At the Helsinki summit, Putin reportedly proposed that the U.S. allow the restoration of a “greater Russia” as a counterweight to China. The U.S., according to this version, agreed. It is even suggested that Trump was pressured into signing a document placing Ukraine, Belarus, Georgia, and Armenia within Russia’s sphere of influence, while Sweden and Finland would join NATO, Russia would leave Syria, and the U.S. would withdraw from Afghanistan. This, it is argued, explains why Trump looked pale after the meeting — as if he had just realized the scale of what had happened. After returning to the U.S., discussions among top officials from both parties allegedly concluded that such an arrangement aligned with American interests and should be upheld — likened by some to a modern version of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact. Following the change of administration, at the Geneva meeting in June 2021, President Biden is said to have reaffirmed certain commitments, while insisting on a peaceful path to territorial changes. From there, events accelerated: the U.S. withdrew from Afghanistan in August, and preparations began to shape public opinion in northern Europe toward NATO membership. Russia’s expectations that Zelensky’s rise to power would quickly resolve the “Ukrainian question” did not materialize. As he grew more assertive, it became clear to Moscow that a rapid outcome would only be possible through military means. According to this narrative, Democrats did not anticipate the level of Ukrainian resistance and could not risk being seen as complicit in another genocide. They delayed, assessed risks, and sought to stabilize the situation. Their concern was not only nuclear escalation, but also the potential exposure of alleged agreements. Putin’s repeated claims of being “deceived” increased pressure, and in this interpretation, contributed to internal political shifts in Washington. Trump, it is argued, understands the leverage the Kremlin holds over him and cannot escape it. He will do everything possible to shape a deal acceptable to Moscow. Hopes that he might reverse course are seen as unrealistic. From this perspective, Europe is beginning to grasp the risks of Ukraine’s potential fall and may be forced to take on a leading role in defending the democratic world. This is portrayed not as optional, but necessary — otherwise Europe itself could be torn apart from multiple directions. And as for Ukraine — the belief remains: it will endure and defend its independence.

Raw milk has something pasteurized does not - we call it bacteria. Discovered years ago, and some cause illness, and some of those illnesses lead to hospitalizations and deaths. But people want you to take a chance on E coli. So they make up things like raw milk includes a magic ingredient that pasteurization (heating at 165 degrees for 12 seconds) removes. There is no such magic ingredient. Why do they want raw milk? Why are they using science to write non science and nonsense.

DIAGNOSIS: “TRUMP” Trump once again declared himself a “damn genius,” supposedly confirmed by doctors. Fine. But what he actually demonstrated—again—is something very different. And this time it happened in Florida. “You know, I’m the only president who’s taken a cognitive test. I don’t think Obama could pass it… And Biden? Give me a break… The first question is very simple. There’s a lion, a giraffe, a bear, and a shark. And the question is: which one is the bear? It’s a very standard test, but the last ten questions are very difficult. Not many people—even in this room—would be able to answer them.” The room, which had been laughing, went quiet—then broke into applause. As if to say: yes, Mr. President, we’re the idiots here, not you. And he kept going. “When I got my results, the doctor said: ‘Wow, I’ve never seen anything like this…’” Let’s slow this down. The test Trump is talking about is the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA). It’s a basic screening tool used to detect possible cognitive impairment—dementia, Alzheimer’s, vascular or Parkinsonian issues. It is not an IQ test. It does not measure “genius.” Recognizing a bear isn’t an achievement—it’s a baseline function. These tasks assess visual recognition, language access, attention, and memory. Failing them can indicate neurological problems like agnosia, where a person sees an object but cannot identify it. Passing them simply means those basic functions are intact. Nothing more. The “very difficult” final tasks? Name as many words as possible starting with a given letter in 60 seconds (11+ is considered normal). Explain what a train and a bicycle have in common (they’re both modes of transport). State the current date. That’s the level. If this feels like a major intellectual victory, that’s not reassuring. So what’s actually happening? Trump is using a medical screening tool to sell an image of brilliance. He’s replacing meaning with performance—turning a routine check of cognitive baseline into “proof” of exceptional intelligence. It’s not just incorrect; it’s manipulative. The real purpose of the test is simple: to determine whether an aging person remains cognitively stable. Now, could this behavior itself point to something? Possibly. In the DSM-5—the global standard for diagnosing mental disorders—there’s what’s known as Cluster B: personality disorders marked by dramatic, emotional, and erratic behavior. One of them is Narcissistic Personality Disorder. It’s defined by a persistent pattern of grandiosity, a constant need for admiration, and a lack of empathy. It affects relationships, judgment, and emotional stability. It occurs in about 1–2% of the population, more often in men, and typically begins in early adulthood. On its own, it doesn’t always require treatment. But it becomes a serious issue when it leads to destructive decisions—especially at the level of state power. And that’s where the real question begins.

Once you are dead from a vaccine preventable disease you cannot un-die from it. It's an irreversible thing.

hi, i'm a sole proprietor/founder in Austria and i earn many many multiples of what i'd earn as an employee, despite "predatory income tax". in fact, i opt out of the many tax optimizations i could use because i like having good schools and as high a standard of living as possible for everyone. the great thing about the EU is that you can just live under any tax regime you like in any of the 27 member states. it's all about trade offs. if poland works for you, fantastic! go build there. and if i may add one more thing: if the CEO of a startup, especially pre-revenue, lives "barely any better than a regular employee" then the system works as intended. fact of the matter is most startups are bad. you are not special because you are trying out a shit idea and fail. but i'll happily pay taxes so you can try your shit idea, fail, and can still live.