'Listening to experts is elitist': Idaho Republicans to strip power from public health officials

[CousinIT]

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[hlthe2b]

1. Good gawd. At this point, let Darwin be proven right.

with respect to these willfully ignorant and dangerous politicos.

[marble falls]

2. Listening to your family doctor is elitist. Listening to your brakes technician is elitist.

[forgotmylogin]

24. I guess "experts" are only right if they agree with what you want to hear.

[pandr32]

26. Sadly, seems so.

[C_U_L8R]

3. The myopia of morons

It's amazing these nitwits can even tie their own shoes without blaming somebody for something stupid.

[underpants]

4. Suddenly my fear of corn returned

I thought I was over that.

[CrispyQ]

6. LOL

[2naSalit]

8. Potatoes! Idaho has potatoes...

And it's full up with them mormons who are the party in power there. I think they have some alleged edict from their president saint who heard gawd tell them they will be fine because they're all saints. And fuck everybody else cuz they ain't saints like us. .. self deportation and all that.

[infullview]

32. I think you may have an extra 'm' in there...

And it's full up with them mormons who are the party in power there.

[2naSalit]

37. Ever been to Idaho?

I meant mormons as in lds church mormons. They own the government in Idaho, try to get a job or start a business in that state while not a mormon, won't happen unless you're a kazillionaire.

[infullview]

38. I know, that was just my weak attemp at humor as in "morons"

I've never been to Idaho, but I imagine the terrain is not much different than being in Aroostook county in Maine

[2naSalit]

39. Oh, I wasn't sure.

But There is little of anything in Maine that is anything like anything in Idaho. I grew up in NE, mostly Maine, NH and MA. Idaho has some of the most spectacular landscape in the US, truly unique, social climate sucks, though. I lived in Idaho longer than I lived in Maine.

[dalton99a]

5. Betcha they only hire unlicensed plumbers and electricians

and use surgeons who didn't go to med school

[2naSalit]

9. They get licensed

by the church, then they are the only ones who get business. Plumbing and house building are kind of funny looking. Lived there for over a decade, I lived in a neighborhood once where all the bathrooms in nearly every house was pink. Bath tubs, sinks, toilets... all pink. It's a strange place to live but what can you expect from a place that has been ruled by a religious organization for a century?

[Thomas Hurt]

7. cuz everyone knows the sympathetic magic of conservative ideology is the real way to a society...

fn idiot

[RAB910]

10. The GOP's war on intelligence continues

[spanone]

11. Well, trump has eliminated the experts in the coronavirus task force...

because don knows more than doctors

[Shrike47]

12. At first I thought this was satire, but alas...

The medical community should decline them as patients. Let them be treated by a neighbor or the school board.

[DFW]

13. Then listening to idiots is the populist thing to do?

Since Idaho obviously has more idiots than experts, the idiots should determine health care in Idaho, and not trained medical personnel. It's the only democratic (small "d" ) way to approach the issue. Poor Frank Church, it's a good thing he never lived to see this.

[LastDemocratInSC]

14. Yeah, the next time you have a dental problem,

go down and see Billy at the tire shop about it.

[SiliconValley_Dem]

15. yeah. Not Sure ruined everything! He should have stuck with Brawndo!

[jayschool2013]

21. It's got

electrolytes!

[Kid Berwyn]

17. Can't have facts ruining their hypocrisy, can we?

An uninformed Bedwetter is still a Bedwetter.

[vlyons]

18. Remind me to never ever think about moving to Idaho

Why Hell! Why don't we just close all the hospitals and suspend all of physicians' licenses too?

*snark*

[Initech]

19. What could go wrong?

[sinkingfeeling]

20. Okay, I'm ready to leave Stupidville and move to a country that values

experts and real education.

[iluvtennis]

22. Seriously. GOPers have gone mad. nt

[bucolic_frolic]

23. Um, does that apply to preachers too?

[keithbvadu2]

25. Letting them have such power was fine until it goes against the cult of Trump.

Letting them have such power was fine until it goes against the cult of Trump.

[Efilroft Sul]

27. That dude's photo reminds me of Marshall Applewhite of the Heaven's Gate cult.

He has that death cult vibe.

[Heartstrings]

28. Wonder which one of his sister wives gave him that haircut

with the mashed potato bowl....

[RhodeIslandOne]

29. Idaho really gets overlooked for how fucking stupid they are

Although at least they haven't installed a Cheney yet.

[infullview]

30. This is right out of the facist playbook.

[BusyBeingBest]

31. Wait...are you telling me you guys don't consult random school board members for

health advice? Next you'll tell me you don't get dentistry from massage therapists...

[jmowreader]

33. The LDS church no longer has the pull it used to have here

I am an Idahoan, born and raised. In the 1970s, you would have been right - South Idaho was effectively North Utah, and North Idaho (where the mining, logging and grain farming is) paid the taxes that supported South Idaho’s root crop farmers.

Then Mark Fuhrman formerly of the Los Angeles Police Department called OJ Simpson The Word That Dare Not Be Said at OJ’s murder trial, and fled to North Idaho. Next thing you know, we’re fuckin’ Doomsday Prepper Central. They call it the American Redoubt. There are places up here (the area around Priest Lake comes to mind) I do not go. There are several properties around me that have been turned into Militia Training Centers...and all of them have three signs: one that says Militia Training Center, one that says Keep Out, and a Trump sign. Usually 4x8.

And...these idiots are taking over Idaho government.

And no, I am not leaving. This is my state. They can’t fucking have it.

[hermetic]

36. It's a lot nicer down south

Boise has a lot going for it, too. But I would not go up into the north now, not for love nor money. Something needs to be done about all the whackos up there. I'll keep my money down here. Maybe we can starve them out.

[haele]

34. Issac Asimov said (sic) "Too many think all men are equal means...

...my opinions are equal to your facts".

[hermetic]

35. Please put down your broad brushes

This came out of a panel of NINE (9) people whose vote was split 5-4, with all Republicans in favor and all Democrats opposed. Yes, the repugs here are totally deplorable but there are still Democrats and people with common sense here. I belong to an online group called Idaho Women for Biden and we now have over 4,000 members! I think we may be on the verge of turning Idaho Blue. And I'd be willing to bet you have a few idiots in your state legislatures, too.