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Really, all they were doing was calling us on our agreement.

We owed it to them.

We're like, we got so much gold, bro.

So Pat Buchanan says, defending his boy, Richard Nixon, he goes, well, what were we going to do at that point?

Let him clean us out of all of our gold and just not be the dominant power?

But I think the retort to that is, yeah.

Like, that's what you should have done.

Because the decision to go off of the gold standard essentially just said, well, now there's no more even pretend limits on government.

You know, this is why Ron Paul, who, happy birthday to the greatest living American hero, just turned 90.

How old is he now?

And I was just at his birthday party a few weeks ago.

And- Dan, you look at you partying with Ron Paul.

Dude, that dude throws it down.

No, I'm just kidding.

It was very nice though to see him.

Tulsi Gabbard was there, which was cool.

But so essentially, right, that was the last restraint on government is that at least even then, even under Bretton Woods when we're cheating, at least there's some feeling of like, well, don't cheat too bad.

because they could maybe try to- Count the gold.

Right, exactly.

But after that, it was off to the races.