# NEW Stupid Republican Idea of the Day (Part 1)

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**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")\
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**Post date:** [January 6, 2022, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-1/911140/9341 "2022-01-06T21:24:34Z")

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I felt a little sorry for him at first, until he began to whine about cancel culture and agreed to sponsor LGB coin.

LBG coin is the ultimate endgame of right wing grift. This scheme cuts out the part where the grifters sell a low value item or pretend to support a conservative cause. It’s _literally_ nothing but “exchange your real money for our worthless money and OWN THE LIBS”.

No wonder NASCAR refused to approve it.

I made a longer post about the scam that is LGB coin in another thread.

> [@Let's go Brandon](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-go-brandon/956266/119):
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> The 15 minutes isn’t up because there is now money to be made. LGB coin. The ultimate grift. You know those collectible coins, those overpriced tacky gold or platinum clad coins adorned with pictures of Elvis or Trump or some other fanboy of the gullible? That was a pretty good grift, but the grifters had to actually expend some effort and a small fraction of their haul to produce and ship cheap POS coin. But the LGB coin has solved that problem for the grifters, because it’s a virtual colle…

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