Fort Knox......

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  1. frodoz737

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  2. ETC(SS)

    ETC(SS) The OTHER One Percenter.....

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    Done!
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    It's even from a PHTTTTTT!!!! "trusted source!!" :ROFLMAO:
     
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    I’m thinking trunk needs more gold plating at mirror lagos
     
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    ETC(SS) The OTHER One Percenter.....

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    As a Marine buddy of mine once put it......

    "sucks less...."
     
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    exactly why i was rooting for harris :whistle:
     
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    "I was hoping our intellectual betters might proffer an example of exactly HOW you tell that each and every serialized bar could be inspected"

    Assuming that hope to be true, but without presuming to be better. There are (said to be) 2.291 million kilograms of gold there, apparently as that number of 1-kg bars. The full task would be to weigh and record weight of each, drill out samples to some depth, and perform assays of purity. The how of all that would cost a lot, particularly as security would need to be extensive.

    Who is asking for that, and who would pay for the exactly how?
     
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    Photo op inside the fort, trunk declaring he might have to confiscate the gold, followers cheering, smiling, happy
     
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    A gold stature will be needed for Trump Gaza.

    trump gaza.png

    You see that less gold will be needed as the abdomen has been slimmed.
     
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    he gets to keep the extra
     
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    Official US reserves of gold total 261498926.2 Troy ounces
    Status Report of U.S. Government Gold Reserve - Report as of: February 28, 2021
    With book value of $42.2222 per Troy Ounce, and so totaling $11,041,059,958

    That is $11 billion. It may be an intent of this 'bar' visit to assert a value closer to current price of about $2874 per Troy Ounce
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    A President can make such assertions. With that full boost, Govt asset value of $11 billion would become >$750 billion.

    Whether that moves on to bitcoin action as suggested by Gizmodo's Gault remains to be seen.
     
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    treasury.gov page linked above also indicates about 56% of US gold reserves are in Ft. Knox. If one aspired make to a full audit, additional counting, weighing and assaying would need to be done at several elsewheres.
     
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    ETC(SS) The OTHER One Percenter.....

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    Or?
    They can keep gun-decking the audits.
    I really do not care much.

    With 35 trillion in debt on the books and perhaps a hundred terra-bucks in unfunded liability, worrying about the authenticity of the Ft Knox bars would seem to ME much the same as wondering how much change in under the sofa cushions.
     
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    The man who got to see the gold inside Fort Knox

    A very sad tidbit - if you took all the gold the US has currently stored all over the US - it only amounts to 1.2% of our current disgraceful US National Debt.

    5/30/2024
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    U.S. deficit tops $1.8 trillion in 2024

    1/22/2025
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    Gosh - if we could only find some sort of pattern or trend here (lol).

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    The only time Fort Knox is in danger of being raided is during this presidential term. We know he wants to take home bars, it’s his way.
    What is hard to understand that yearly audits are already done, and senators can schedule a visit to look at the piles?
    According to the Supremes disastrous decision, he could take bars home and not be charged.
     
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    You are a genius,sir!

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    and..., he really needs the money:
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    #58 John321, Feb 28, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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    Who needs a salary when you’re getting deposits to your swiss bank account from dictators all over the globe?
     
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    Is he forgoing charging his Secret Service detail for the use of his properties? If not, is he charging them cost or below rate?

    Last term, he over charged them.
    Trump overcharged Secret Service by 300% for accommodations at his hotels | Donald Trump | The Guardian
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    The Secret Service spent nearly $2 million at Trump properties - CREW | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington

    There is a secure military golf course near DC that he can use instead of his own instead of bilking the Secret Service and increasing costs for others around his properties.
     
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