Posted on 02/25/2025 9:28:57 AM PST by PJ-Comix
This heavily medicated liberal thinks that Elon Musk wants to do a "Smash & Grab" of the Ft. Knox gold. However, in order to do such a Smash & Grab there actually has to be gold in Ft. Knox that can be taken. In the past, there have been audits of the "gold" in Ft. Knox but those were actually audits of the seals on the locked compartments supposedly containing gold. Did any of the auditors actually SEE the gold with their own eyes? There is actually a good chance that there is more gold being worn by women in any two block area of New Delhi than actually exists in Ft. Knox.
This highly medicated liberal probably got her impression of Ft. Knox from watching "Goldfinger." Newsflash! All those stacked gold bars sitting out in the open inside Ft. Knox were actually props and the interior of Ft. Knox that was seen was actually a studio set. In fact, the last actual view for the public of gold in Ft. Knox was over 50 years ago in 1974 when cameras were allowed inside Ft. Knox. What happened to the gold in the interim is a big question but at least Team DOGE will hopefully provide the answer as to how much gold (real gold not seals) is in Ft. Knox.
PING!
Wait ‘til he sees all those IOU’s signed by so many lib dem congress crooks.
LOL Project much?
Right, because Elon Musk needs gold from Fort Knox to get rich. Totally makes sense.
That liberal just might be right. Here’s a picture of Musk relaxing at home without his usual make-up on.
Can you imagine.
A presidential signature in pen and ink won’t satisfy these shysters!
PDJT will need to show up in person, and even then, the betas that they are, they’ll vainly try to $&#@ block.
Not true.
I moved gold in 1977 at the Fort Knox Bullion Depository as a temporary Treasury Dept. Employee. A joint Treasury / GAO (Congress) audit was done. We moved two sub vaults from one to another, with the auditors checking all the melts for bar count. A few bars were removed from the main vault, taken upstairs to the lab, a small edge nick removed, and the nick assayed. The bar was then returned to its melt and stored.
About 11% of the gold was so audited that year. Similar audits were done in 1975, 1976, 1978, and a few years thereafter. I didn’t keep track, had moved off, but I know people who did what I did, in all those years.
So the sub-vault seals for two sub-vaults were definitely broken in 1977, then new seals put in place.
As James Bond pointed out, it is impossible to do a “Smash & Grab” of the Ft. Knox gold due to its weight which is why Goldfinger placed a radioactive bomb inside Ft. Knox. That would make all that gold impossible to access for several lifetimes and result in a vast increase in the value of Goldfinger’s gold.
I still suspect DOGE will find much LESS gold in Ft. Knox than has been certified. What is the harm in letting DOGE double check this?
Smash and Grab? The folks I hang out with don’t think there’s anything left to grab.
Even seeing the gold bars means nothing. This audit should be of ownership. A lot of it could have been deeded the property of someone else at some point in the past. This needs a DOGE audit.
None whatsoever, and I was not at all suggesting a full physical audit not be done. Far from it.
It is just that I have actually been there, albeit a long time ago. I have some insight into what was done and how it was done, because I helped do it. And the amount of disinformation / misinformation in all the recent Fort Knox articles / threads is substantial.
You may smash but not sure about the grab, one Gold brick weighs 30 lbs.
BTW, that post of yours, on the impossibility of a smash and grab, is correct.
Moving bulk gold is time consuming and labor intensive. Especially so when the security plan extends beyond the Treasury guards to scrambling a significantly sized military unit with tanks and AFVs.
I think the main question is of ownership. It is entirely possible that it is physically there, but deeded to the Private Federal Reserve, some foreign nations who kept their gold in America, etc.
The 7 year refusal of us to repatriate the German gold a few years ago speaks volumes. It means we didn’t have it, or couldn’t transfer it due to it being loaned out (fractional reserve style) and were scrambling to get it.
That is a separate question from the physical audit as to what is on site, and I concur, there should be an audit of that as well.
Yep. For one thing, a gold-coated tungsten bar makes a pretty good fake solid gold bar. So a decent sample must be tested using conductivity or ultrasound methods.
Do I think Fort Knox is littered with fake gold bars? No. But as the Gipper said…
Does Trump play golf with a Slazenger 1 or a Slazenger 7? :)
Not all the Gold reserves are at Fort Knox. As I recall some of it is distributed to other secure areas. I remember reading an article, I don’t know if it was real or a conspiracy theory, but some of the Gold Reserves were stored in underground vaults below the twin towers. It would make sense to not store all the Gold in one location. During the Cold War targeting Fort Knox with a nuke was a concern.
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