mp of thinking about using crypto to wipe out our debt. Now if you're like me, you said, "Wait, how would you do that? How would you wipe out $35 trillion worth of debt with crypto without making things worse?" Now you might remember that I've asked that question a bunch of times, but not saying how it would happen, but asking if there's any way to make it happen. And the answer that I got from everyone is no, you can't like do it with one magic trick of crypto. You might be able to make crypto your only money and then inflate away the value of the dollar over time and maybe that's literally the only way we'll ever get out of it. So that might happen. But so I went to Grok and I put that story in there and I said, "Is that something that could ever work?" And Grok said, "Not really." So Grok went into all the details but basically said no, you know every way that you could go with that. This is me paraphrasing it but every way you could go with that with some kind of clever crypto thing would make something way worse and would be unacceptable. So no that probably won't happen. But you can see why they're afraid of it because the US has played around with the gold standard, for example, in the past.

Politico is talking about France's government collapsing. A lot of collapsing happening lately. So Joshua Berlinger is writing about this. So I guess Macron has to appoint now his fifth prime minister in less than two years. And there's protests and things are falling apart. So I don't think, I hate to say it, but I don't really see a way that France can survive. Do you? I suppose that would be true of everybody in the medium run, but I don't see a path. I hate to say that because I'm pretty optimistic and I generally don't buy into the oh this country is going down the drain. You know, we've talked about I don't think China's really about to go down the drain. I don't think Russia's really about to go down the drain. And I don't think France is going down the drain this year. But it seems like just demographically they're in an unrecoverable situation. But we'll see.

And I guess Macron is mad at the US for barring visas for most Palestinians. Like that's the biggest problem. He's got 75 cities in lockdown and he's worried about Palestinian visas.

In other news, Israel has reportedly said yes to Trump's suggestion for a Gaza ceasefire. So that would make you think, ah, we're 50% toward peace because at least one side said