Matt_W
13551
Aha, I did a google search. Apparently this is a play on a Biden gaff that no one but right-wingers cared about. He said something like “It’s a shame that tobacco companies are immune to prostitute… to being sued.”
Who among hasn’t forgotten to delete the prostitutes?
RichVR
13553
Always number two after deleting my browser history.
jpinard
13554
Well good. I hope they kill themselves with it then. I mean, who needs doctors when you have the GOP running things?
According to the article:
So it isn’t that they think ivermectin actually works against Covid, but rather this is a harm reduction program. I have no doubt that Sen. Frank Nicelely of Strawberry Plains will be introducing a bill to create safe injection sites throughout Tennessee.
Scuzz
13557
Maybe people will buy it for their horses.
I have questions! If ivermectin doesn’t work against COVID, how does your pharmacist know how much is the right amount for your COVID? What happens when the buyer just goes to another pharmacy to make sure he has enough? What happens when the families of the dead COVID sufferer sue the pharmacist for not allowing him to buy enough? And so on.
Scotten
13559
Sweet Jesus, we are living in the stupidest timeline.
Hey, we found the voter fraud!
Of course, because it was the right kind of voter fraud — old white guy voter fraud — no jail time.
If it’s over the counter, then it can work like aspirin. You can buy as much as you want. Technically, you can take as much as you want, though a sufficient quantity will kill you. Almost everything has an LD50 - there’s no human specific threshold for ivermectin I could find, but it’s ~ 24mg/kg in primates, so that’s probably a pretty good proxy for humans.
Maybe we’ll get to observe a natural experiment and get those numbers!
Yeah, but “entire tube squeezed over Doritos and mixed with nacho cheese sauce” isn’t a very scientific measurement.
Tennessee legislature doing their part to advance the science!
I hear their community service will be to fill in ballots for deceased neighbors.
The wheels of Justice move slowly until they rust into place.
I think the legislature wanted to give him yet another slap on the wrist. Not for killing another person, everyone knows well connected Republicans in red states are allowed to do that, but for putting together such a lame coverup that they all looked bad.
Sharpe
13568
But now that impeachment goes to die in the state Senate, from my understanding as there’s no way to get the GOP to turn on their own in sufficient numbers to reach a two thirds majority. Unless the State Senate is very different than the State Assembly.
I think if Ravnsborg doesn’t resign in the next few days, that’s a sign he thinks he can make it through the impeachment unscathed. Doesn’t guarantee he’s right, but in small states like SD where everyone in politics knows everyone else the gossip is going to spread fast. Insiders are going to have semi-accurate counts on how the vote will turn out fairly quickly.
dtolman
13570
The SD House is 85% Republican - 59 vs 11 Democrats. So almost half the Republican House voted to Impeach - over the recommendation of the committee to not do so.
Ravnsborg is now suspended from acting as the AG until the Impeachment trial completes - which won’t start until June 21st. They’ll need more than 18 of the 32 Republicans to vote to Convict (along with the 3 Ds)
