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Do an audit of Fort Knox that we never heard about?

Well, what I know is that I'm pretty sure it was the French.

It might have been the British, too.

It was definitely the French.

The French basically called our bluff.

And they just went, OK, we'll take gold.

We got all these dollars.

We'll take gold.

We get an ounce for every $35 that we have.

And we have quite a lot.

And that's when Nixon went, no.

No.

He just basically defaulted in front of the entire world, and he said he's temporarily suspending the convertibility of dollars into gold, and they framed it as like the French are attacking the stability of the dollar.

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.