# NEW Stupid Republican Idea of the Day (Part 4) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 22, 2025, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678 "2025-02-22T21:08:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 24
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2025, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/461 "2025-03-30T12:46:44Z")
Calm down, it’s Arkansas. What did you expect? Just something else for them to stockpile along with their closet full of incandescent bulbs and 55 gallon barrel of bleach. ---
**Author:** ![scudsucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scudsucker/32/14101_2.png) [@scudsucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scudsucker)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2025, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/462 "2025-03-30T13:13:25Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > If I have a severe cut and treat it by drinking a glass of water, _instead of_ applying antibiotics and bandaging I think you miss the “hold my beer” mentality. Water… or sense… it is just not there. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2025, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/463 "2025-03-30T18:46:29Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > > [@iamatractorboy](#): > > > > Sore throat? > > Maybe a little horse. Go to your room, stable genius. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2025, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/464 "2025-03-30T19:05:10Z")
They say beauty is on the inside. So getting the “[Mar-a-Lago](https://www.women.com/1820104/what-mar-a-lago-face-plastic-surgery-trend-explained/)” plastic surgery is perfectly fine. ---
**Author:** ![Cheesesteak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheesesteak/32/3694_2.png) [@Cheesesteak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheesesteak)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2025, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/465 "2025-03-30T19:10:29Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Innocent children also suffer the consequences of their parent’s actions. Is that o.k. with you? No, which is why I will continue to vote for people who like medical realities. 2/3rds of the voting age population is fine with insane asylum rejects running their country/state/county. Maybe you should ask them if they’re OK with children being victims of medical malpractice made mainstream, instead of the people who are outnumbered 2 to 1. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2025, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/466 "2025-03-30T21:26:13Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > If I have a severe cut and treat it by drinking a glass of water, _instead of_ applying antibiotics and bandaging, would you say the same thing? This crap isn’t being used as an additional treatment-it is being used as a _substitute_ treatment, and thus is totally not harmless. This statement is extremely ironic given your username. 🤣 I was replying to an argument that the drug isn’t very harmful by showing a study that documents multiple instances of neurological damage caused by misuse (which is an even greater risk when not used under a doctor’s supervision), and it has even resulted in coma and death. So you should read my “nothing big” comment in that light, and again remember your username. (And this shit certainly isn’t water, unless you’re comparing it to potentially contaminated water.) ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2025, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/467 "2025-03-30T23:46:18Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > They say beauty is on the inside Then, you are recommending the vaginoplasty? ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2025, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/468 "2025-03-30T23:55:52Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > vaginoplasty I don’t think we should be putting plaster up there… ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2025, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/469 "2025-03-31T00:31:31Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > Does one need a prescription to get ivermectin for the horse? Former horse owner here: No, tack and feed stores carry the stuff in syringes for squirting into the animal’s mouth, whether they liked it or not [narrator: they don’t] and normally there’d be no problem getting it, or any other anthelmintic, but during COVID stores I shopped at put up signs on the shelves limiting the amount you could buy, and ivermectin was often in short supply. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2025, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/470 "2025-03-31T00:38:08Z")
> [@EddyTeddyFreddy](#): > > but during COVID stores I shopped at put up signs on the shelves limiting the amount you could buy, and ivermectin was often in short supply. But don’t dare to call the use of Ivermectin during Covid ‘taking the horse paste’! ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2025, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/471 "2025-03-31T00:45:00Z")
> [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > But don’t dare to call the use of Ivermectin during Covid ‘taking the horse paste’! Because that’s inaccurate, heavily implying it’s only used for horses. If it’s done tongue-in-cheek, like calling a salad “rabbit food”, that’s one thing. But a lot of people were spreading misinformation during the pandemic, and mischaracterizing ivermectin was part of it. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2025, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/472 "2025-03-31T00:49:34Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > Because that’s inaccurate, heavily implying it’s only used for horses. Umm, are you saying tack and feed stores are stocking Ivermectin for human use? ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2025, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/473 "2025-03-31T00:52:00Z")
> [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > Umm, are you saying tack and feed stores are stocking Ivermectin for human use? No, I’m saying that’s not the only source or usage of it. Too many times it was reductively and mockingly called “horse dewormer” during the pandemic, to imply that it was insane for a human to ever take it. So the criticism of that terminology was completely worth it, and your snark about that criticism is totally unwarranted and ignorant. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2025, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/474 "2025-03-31T06:07:46Z")
Victoria Spartz (R-IN) gets booed by her own constituents after saying that people who break the law aren’t entitled to due process. > **[Republican congresswoman booed at a town hall in Indiana](https://apnews.com/video/republican-congresswoman-booed-at-a-town-hall-in-indiana-3b53e37d667c46d8a4b5e414cc410e03)** > > As with other town halls held by Republicans across the country, Congresswoman Victoria Spartz was met in her Indiana district by a group of angry constituents who challenged her on the decisions being made by the Trump administration, from... ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2025, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/475 "2025-03-31T19:00:14Z")
“Enjoy your terrorist rag” [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/JLNEopzvaFw/maxresdefault.jpg "US senator says keffiyeh is a ‘terrorist rag’") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLNEopzvaFw) He’s since doubled down on the comment. ---
**Author:** ![iamatractorboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iamatractorboy/32/21261_2.png) [@iamatractorboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamatractorboy)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2025, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/476 "2025-03-31T19:07:55Z")
That is unbelievable. What an utter piece of shit. ---
**Author:** ![Borborygmi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/borborygmi/32/217_2.png) [@Borborygmi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Borborygmi)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2025, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/477 "2025-03-31T19:14:18Z")
Randy Fine, the piece of shit here, is a Florida _state_ senator if that saves anyone some confusion. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2025, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/478 "2025-03-31T20:06:00Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > He’s since doubled down on the comment. It’s not like he suddenly stopped being a racist afterward. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2025, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/479 "2025-03-31T20:43:21Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > Too many times it was reductively and mockingly called “horse dewormer” during the pandemic, to imply that it was insane for a human to ever take it. No, it was called that because that’s what it was. Humans were taking medicine for themselves that was literally intended for horse deworming. That same medicine is also available in a formulation for human use, but humans were still taking the horse formulation. Even if the active ingredient is the same, it’s stupid to take a medicine that’s formulated for one species, and administer it to a different species. ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2025, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678/480 "2025-03-31T20:54:33Z")
Yeah, shelves at animal supply stores were regularly empty during the pandemic. People were and still are literally buying horse de-wormer to use themselves. It is not reductive, though it IS mocking (rightly so), when it is the literal truth of the situation. And before that, there was HCQ. Because it was getting touted as a COVID “cure”, one couple ingested chemicals intended to clean their fish tank. And they’re not the only ones to have poisoned themselves trying homebrew “remedies” based on things they heard from irresponsible officials. > **[Coronavirus: Man dies taking fish tank cleaner as virus drug](https://www.bbc.com/news/52012242)** > > Health officials are warning people not to self-medicate with the common malaria drug. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678.md?page=23) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-4/1014678.md?page=25)