# NEW Stupid Republican Idea of the Day (Part 1) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 22, 2020, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140 "2020-06-22T07:01:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 94
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2020, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/1866 "2020-11-17T00:09:12Z")
Right wing pastor claims that Individual 1, Pence, and himself were protected by God from getting the coronavirus. He admitted that he got coronavirus. > **[After Repeatedly Vowing He'd Never Get COVID-19, E.W. Jackson Reveals He...](https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/after-repeatedly-vowing-hed-never-get-covid-19-e-w-jackson-reveals-he-contracted-the-virus/)** > > From the very beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, right-wing pastor and radio host E.W. Jackson dismissed concerns about the virus and vowed to defy ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2020, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/1867 "2020-11-17T00:26:53Z")
The Georgia Secretary of State says Republican Senators and members of Congress are trying to pressure him to throw out valid ballots. He also said he and his wife are getting death threats. > **[Ga. secretary of state says fellow Republicans are pressuring him to find...](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/brad-raffensperger-georgia-vote/2020/11/16/6b6cb2f4-283e-11eb-8fa2-06e7cbb145c0_story.html)** > > In a wide-ranging interview, Brad Raffensperger expressed exasperation over a string of baseless accusations by President Trump and his allies about Georgia’s vote. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2020, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/1868 "2020-11-17T00:27:11Z")
I guess God is telling the pastor to STFU. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2020, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/1869 "2020-11-17T00:45:12Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > The Georgia Secretary of State says Republican Senators and members of Congress are trying to pressure him to throw out valid ballots. He also said he and his wife are getting death threats. Doesn’t this guy know that he is supposed to put the Party ahead of the Country? The constitution is just a piece of paper. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2020, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/1870 "2020-11-17T00:47:27Z")
So I guess the tradeoff for not having Trump as POTUS may be a sharp rise in domestic terrorism. ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2020, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/1871 "2020-11-17T01:53:11Z")
The Republicans are in charge or redrawing those districts, aren’t they? I suspect you’ll have a long time yet to deal with this fuck. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2020, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/1872 "2020-11-17T01:57:13Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > > [@smithsb](#): > > > > … we have the Proud Boys, nazis, assorted white supremacists … > > I have taken to identifying this herd as the “alt-White”. I prefer calling them “the far white”. (Yes, I just coined it. Please tell me nobody else ninjaed me!) ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2020, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/1873 "2020-11-17T02:00:28Z")
One of the Republicans being Senator Lindsey Graham, ironically the chairman of the Senate Justice Committee. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2020, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/1874 "2020-11-17T02:47:10Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > I prefer calling them “the far white”. (Yes, I just coined it. Please tell me nobody else ninjaed me!) Ooooo! Nice! 👍🏽 ---
**Author:** ![Hamlet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hamlet/32/2818_2.png) [@Hamlet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamlet)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2020, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/1875 "2020-11-17T03:06:21Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > So I guess the tradeoff for not having Trump as POTUS may be a sharp rise in domestic terrorism. The tradeoff of having Trump as POTUS was record increases in hate crimes, that are now at the highest level in a decade. So pick your poison. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2020, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/1876 "2020-11-17T03:27:52Z")
North Carolina’s districts were redrawn by a federal court because of the racist gerrymandering. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2020, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/1877 "2020-11-17T04:18:30Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > > [@Monty](#): > > > > I prefer calling them “the far white”. (Yes, I just coined it. Please tell me nobody else ninjaed me!) > > Ooooo! Nice! 👍🏽 🙇‍♂️ ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2020, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/1878 "2020-11-17T04:28:11Z")
I like this, too. I’ll be using it often, if you don’t mind. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2020, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/1879 "2020-11-17T06:17:01Z")
Have at it! Let’s see if we can spread it around the whole whi…er, wide world. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2020, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/1880 "2020-11-17T06:51:19Z")
Louis Gohmert, Congressman from Crazytown: US Army confiscated voting equipment from a Spanish company in Germany. Narrator: No, they didn’t. > **[False reports claim election servers were seized in Germany](https://apnews.com/article/fact-checking-9754011363)** > > CLAIM: The U.S. Army raided the Frankfurt office of the Spanish election software company Scytl to seize servers that had evidence of voting irregularities in the Nov. 3 U.S. election.  AP’S ASSESSMENT: False. Both the Army and Scytl told The... ---
**Author:** ![casdave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@casdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/casdave)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2020, 8:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/1881 "2020-11-17T08:49:50Z")
That’s gooooooood ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2020, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/1882 "2020-11-17T16:21:22Z")
These damn Coastal Elites > “If you were ignorant, anti-American, and anti-Christian enough to vote for Biden, I really don’t want to be your social friend on social media,” the alleged post said. “I wouldn’t hang out with you in real life, I don’t want to hang out with you virtually either. You have corrupted the election. You have corrupted our youth. You have corrupted our country. I have standards and you don’t meet them. Please remove yourself.” > > In a statement posted on its website, Virginia Wesleyan University confirmed Monday that the university had accepted Ewell’s resignation. Ewell had been a professor at VWU since 2008, according to The Virginian-Pilot article. > > Stephanie Smaglo, VWU’s chief marketing officer, told CNN Monday the university had “no additional information at this time.” > [https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/17/us/virginia-wesleyan-dean-resigns-biden-posts/index.html](https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/17/us/virginia-wesleyan-dean-resigns-biden-posts/index.html) ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2020, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/1883 "2020-11-17T16:25:47Z")
Yet another example of someone who felt it necessary to share something unwise on social media. I still don’t understand why people do that. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2020, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/1884 "2020-11-17T16:25:49Z")
Aye, because that’s what the US Army _does_! It performs unilaterally in foreign cities with impunity, taking whatever it wants! YOUR PUNY LAWS & SUPPOSED SOVERIEGNITY MEAN NOTHING! WE ARE THE UNITED STATES ARMY AND WE DO WHATEVER WE WANT! 🙄 Of course an idiot like Gohmert would think that was a real story. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2020, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/1885 "2020-11-17T18:10:36Z")
> **[McConnell’s First Act of Sabotage](https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/11/judy-shelton-and-federal-reserve/617120/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A%2BTheAtlantic%2B%28The%2BAtlantic%2B-%2BMaster%2BFeed%29)** > > The Senate majority leader is rushing to confirm a nominee to the Federal Reserve Board, just in time for her to cause trouble for President-elect Biden. > Sixteen months ago, in the pre-coronavirus summer of 2019, President Donald Trump announced his candidates to fill two vacancies on the Federal Reserve Board of Governors. The nominations, formalized in January, languished in the Senate for months. Now, suddenly, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell wants to cram one of them—but only one of them—through the Senate. > > One of the nominees is a conservative with extensive central-bank experience, broadly respected by monetary-policy experts. The other [campaigned](https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/03/business/trump-judy-shelton-federal-reserve.html) for the job from the lobby of the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C., and is widely regarded as a hyper-partisan extremist. > > Guess which nomination McConnell is now advancing, and [may bring to a vote](https://www.npr.org/2020/11/16/934553035/controversial-fed-nominee-set-to-prevail-in-senate-confirmation-vote-this-week) as early as the end of this week, possibly even this very day? > > The nomination that has gone cold is that of Christopher Waller, the current director of research at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. > > The nomination that McConnell has suddenly taken up again is that of Judy Shelton. > … > > Shelton is noted for her decades-long advocacy of fixing the value of currencies to gold. In 2009, for example, she [wrote](https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB123440593696275773) in _The Wall Street Journal_ : > > > Now is the time to challenge the exclusive monopoly of Federal Reserve notes as currency. Buyers and sellers, by mutual consent, should have access to an alternate means for settling accounts; they should be able to do business using a monetary unit of account defined in terms of gold. > > Advocates of the gold standard often talk about consent and convertibility—the ability of economic actors to switch back and forth from dollars to gold. But that is disingenuous. Americans or anybody else can go to market with every last dollar they own and buy as much gold as they wish. What gold-standard advocates mean by convertibility is that private citizens should be free to convert their dollars into gold at a price set by law, rather than by the marketplace. Congress would pick a price for this one commodity, and then the central bank would forever after raise or lower interest rates to squeeze the dollar into alignment with the price of gold. > > That’s how things were done in the United States from [1873](https://www.usmint.gov/news/inside-the-mint/mint-history-crime-of-1873) until [1934](https://www.reuters.com/article/us-goldstandard/timeline-golds-history-as-a-currency-standard-idUSTRE6A71J120101108), when the domestic gold standard was finally abandoned after causing one horrific economic depression too many. > … > > As one governor among seven, Shelton could do meaningful, but finite, harm. But right now, there are two vacancies on the board. If Shelton is confirmed, she will be one of six, not one of seven. And what if Republicans preserve their majority in the Senate after 2020, and McConnell then decides to extend to the Fed the same no-nominations-by-Democratic-presidents rule he formerly enforced on the federal courts? Richard Clarida’s term on the board expires in the spring of 2022. Shelton will then be one of five. Powell’s term as Fed chair expires early in 2022. If not renominated as chair, Powell may quit the board altogether. Shelton would then be one of four. > > Could McConnell embargo the Fed as he has embargoed the federal courts, with a view of paralyzing monetary policy in order to hurt Democratic chances in the elections of 2022 and 2024? No such thing has ever happened before, but since McConnell gained the leadership of the Senate majority in 2014, it’s been one instance of no-such-thing-has-ever-happened-before after another. **For all their many points of friction, McConnell and Trump have had one point of unity: a deep conviction of the non-legitimacy of government by the other party.** That conviction was sharpened on the courts. Is it now to be perfected at the Federal Reserve, with the American economy joining American law and justice as McConnell’s hostage? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140.md?page=93) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140.md?page=95)