Idaho COVID Insanity Shows How Much Worse the GOP Can Get

[babylonsister]

Idaho COVID Insanity Shows How Much Worse the GOP Can Get
HUNGER GAMES
The slightest hint of responsibility is enough to draw primary challenges in the party’s ever-accelerating race to the bottom.
Eleanor Clift
Published Sep. 28, 2021 4:58AM ET


As the morgues and ICUs in Idaho overflow with COVID patients, Republican Governor Brad Little said he would fine businesses with over 100 employees if they enacted a mask mandate.

It’s an insane stance rooted in his desire not to give his challenger, Lt. Gov. Janice McGeachin, any cause to attack him as she guns for his job.

Dying people be damned, as Republicans turn against each other in contests up and down the ballot and across the country to see who can get farthest to the right to claim the Trumpian mantle.

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The Republican primaries are shaping up like the Hunger Games, dystopian battles among the Trumpian faithful. “What you’re seeing are incredible races to the bottom as they one up each other to be the craziest and the Trumpiest in whatever context presents itself,” says Matt Bennett, a co-founder of Third Way, a moderate Democratic group. The fights and the lies can be over mask mandates, or vaccines, or how we teach children about slavery, with all of them tying into the Big Lie that Trump somehow won the election and was cheated out of his supposedly rightful victory.

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[keithsw]

1. Just shameful

The Republicans know no shame about anything. Even death.

[Champp]

2. Idiocracy, Republican style

[gab13by13]

3. Yeah but in dying they are owning the Libs.

How do we rebut that statement? There are tales where families of a loved on who dies from Covid are going to the coroner and demanding that he/she not put down Covid as a cause of death. I guess that way they can put, "He didn't Die From Covid" on the tombstone and own us again.

[Volaris]

22. You cant rebut it; just accept your ownage.

They're winning bigly with all that ownage, and the only thing you can do is wait to see if enough of them owned their lib that we keep control of both chambers.

I know you're trying to make a serious point about the seriousness of the disinformation and its resulting death, but at this point, if they want to protest hospitals along with masks, drink iodine and eat dewormer, I'm pretty sure were past the point where any of us can help them. They're gonna have to smarten up on their own, or die.

We dont have to like it, but it is what it is...

[Vinca]

4. GOP leaders (politicians, influencers like those on Fox, etc.) are really not too sharp.

By and large, they have been vaccinated, but to win the votes of their followers they're doing everything in their power to kill them. I don't get it.

[gab13by13]

6. You don't get it because you have empathy,

they are only killing the unwashed, a small price to pay to make president Biden look bad, to "own the libs."

[Cosmocat]

5. And yet

the american body politic and our society as a whole will continue to view republicans and democrats "the same" and along with that enable their lunacy.

[gab13by13]

8. Exactly,

the American body politic has become Ari Melber who goes out of his way to preach bothsiderism. I can't watch cable news. I only watch Nicolle Wallace, Chris Hayes, and Rachel. I have noticed that Rachel has toned it down a bit. I'm wondering if she was threatened. There was talk of her quitting is why I am wondering.

The MSM is right wing and it controls the narrative. Today we will be treated to an investigation of the Afghan evacuation. Today we will be treated to patriot General Milley be grilled about his phone calls to China. I believe it will be on TV. That didn't take long did it to allow the GQP to publicly bash president Biden's evacuation and bash patriot General Milley who saved our democracy, for now.

[Traildogbob]

12. I feel you

Can’t stand it anymore. Don Lemon on CNN is about all I can take. Gave up on Briana in the AM slot. Can’t stand the male host, Berman, face of concern. Nicole and Don is all I can take, just to see if Trump has unleashed his zombies to kill us, other than that my anger is physically killing me, so I gotta check out. There will be zero accountability for ANY of those assholes. Even Geatz will walk, and keep his committees, probably chair. The block of debt limit last night by Mitch et all…….Both sides, right.

[gab13by13]

13. Maybe Gaetz and MTG

will battle it out for Speaker, if the GQP takes back the House? McCarthy is too far left.

[Traildogbob]

14. 😱😤😡🤬🤬

[C_U_L8R]

7. Republican infestations seem to rid themselves of themselves.

Magat stupidity. More effective than a can of Raid or a bottle of bleach.

[bullwinkle428]

9. "Anyone you can kill, I can kill faster!! I can kill anyone faster than you!!"

"No you can't! Yes I can"
"No you can't! Yes I can"
"Yes I can! Yes I can! Yes I can!"

Who says Idaho can't do Broadway?

[tanyev]

10. May the odds be ever in our favor.

[jaxexpat]

11. "The Big Lie", the common thread for and of the common people.

VERY common people.

[twodogsbarking]

15. My dad would say " if brains were dynamite they couldn't blow their noses."

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

16. Perhaps an extremely effective ad against these Republicans

would be simply showing the photos and names of those who have died from Covid. Not sure to what extent you'd need permission, but if anyone's cause of death from Covid was made public, surely you could do the names.

Heck, maybe the most effective one would be simply the name, age, date of death, and survivors. One would show for a few seconds, then fade, and the next one come on. And so on.

The very end could be something like &quot Current officeholder) refuses a vaccine mandate" Or mask mandate, or both.

[cynical_idealist]

18. Who's stealing all the property of those who die with no surviving family?

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

19. Not sure what exactly you are trying to say.

Each state has specific laws about who gets property of someone who dies intestate, without a will. Which is exactly why everyone should have a will made by the time they're 21 and update it as needed.

Most people have some surviving family, and those with absolutely no relatives, again if they didn't make a will, probably don't care at all who gets their stuff after they die.

All too often people, even here on DU, say they won't bother with a will because they'll be dead and it won't be their problem. All who think that way really should have to serve as executor of an estate. Even when a person has a good, clear will, and nothing complicated about what they own, it take take a surprisingly long time to settle things.

[cynical_idealist]

21. yes

Since so many thousands of people died more than usual and sometimes faster than usual,
I guess there will be many more estates and a huge backlog of processing.
Based on current affairs, it seems the "unethical&quot R) may find some ways to profit from it.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

23. I'm sorry, but not having a will is the problem.

When each of my sons turned 18 I brought them to our attorney and had them write wills. I told them that I didn't care if they willed all of their stuff to a home for unwed cats, but that it needed to go where they wanted.

And wills needed to be updated after various important life events, like marriage, divorce, death of a spouse or heir.

Make a will. Backlog in processing simply isn't an issue.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

24. I guess having a will is hardly considered.

I am a huge advocate of having a will. I've been pestering one friend of mine for several years now, and he's still dragging his feet.

I made each of my sons draft a will when they turned 18. Took them to our attorney, told them I didn't care if they left everything to a home for unwed cats, but they absolutely needed a will.

This paid off, so to speak, when my younger son died in 2017. His will was straightforward. He left everything to his brother. He did have a somewhat sizeable estate because his grandparents had gifted him, and his older brother, every year from when they were born until the grandparents died.

My older son has recently made a new will and a trust. Hooray for him. The only problem is that he leaves everything to his parents, with no younger successors. In the normal course of events he'll outlive us, and needs younger heirs. I've spoken briefly with him about this, but really do need to push much harder.

My will names my son as my heir, with other relatives as successor heirs if he predeceases me.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

17. It's their human sacrifice to their portly orange god.

[Initech]

20. Oh we haven't seen the GOP at their worst yet.

I'm convinced they'd commit genocide against their opposers if they could. Especially if more Marjorie Greenes and Matt Gaetz and Josh Hawleys got elected.