in the repub party. There are worse ones if you can believe it.

She's the one who proposed making it mandatory for all Americans to attend Sunday church services. She's from Snowflake like Jeff Flake and is also LDS. And a Creationist.
She also once said during a committee hearing about uranium mining that the earth is 6,000 years old.

except if you're a woman. Then the government must step in. Stupid hypocrite.

I'd take that bet.

They use it all they can, because it's easier than thinking...

She's gotta keep saying this crap periodically to keep the Koch money spigots primed.

I kinda like THAT communism. Because apparently decency is communism to them.

I was just exaggerating. You made my point better than I did.

Look it up. I did.

So much for "holy and sacred last frontier of sovereignty is our own body".

Idiot.

hypocrisy, but couldn't at least one of them told her to straighten out her glasses for her official Facebook page photo?

or at least a good brushing out.

Mandrake, do you know they put fluoride in ice cream--children's ice cream?

What goes around, comes around for these RW lunatics!

Next she's going to tell us about the Commie plot with fluoridation of water. I wonder, how is her George C. Scott impression?

n/t

Tripping over each other trying to out-asshole the orange menace.

Then she'll likely sing a different tune.

(Or maybe not, since I guess it would just be "god's will".)

followed by "If we had a functioning government that actually cared about it's people......blah..., blah..."


effin clueless.

He was paralyzed from the neck down. When he recovered his left arm was permanently damaged and he was never able to use it.
He died young from an enlarged heart age 51 as a result of the polio damage. This is what you can look forward to without vaccination. Only a really cruel mother would wish this on her children. Polio is only one of many diseases that could come back.

I'm old enough to remember the "iron lung" treatments. Polio is a horrible, ugly, debilitating condition. I recall the time the whole family went to a community health center on a Sunday to get the sugar cubes - the Sabin Oral Vaccine.

Polio had been eradicated in the human population word wide in the late 70s. How awful that it is making inroads again.

Here in Washington State, we had a huge measles outbreak recently. It spread to Portland, OR and Vancouver, B. C. (Canadians tend not to be anti-vaxxers, but the infection came from outside the Province.) A few years ago, we had an outbreak of Pertussis (whooping cough), FFS.

These anti-vaxxer idiots should be forced to sit bedside of the those dying from the stupidity of this movement.

allowed to attend public schools or leave the house, for that matter. People who don't understand vaccines don't understand infection.

and anti-vax passions. It makes sense. Populists tend to be suspicious and antagonistic toward what they think of as elites, who can be anyone they choose to target their hostility toward, and These days that very much includes our elected Democrats (just read some of the posts right here) and notably experts in medicine and other scientific fields. Populist groups lean heavily anti-science.

Currently the biggest populist leader on the left is Bernie Sanders. He spoke out sensibly FOR vaccinations back in 2015 and got a whole bunch of blowback for that from the kind of people he wanted to appeal to, some of whom are left-wing radical leaning and others who are socially conservative but want all those government benefits for themselves, if not necessarily for undeservings outside their tribe. Like Ms. Townsend here.

Four years later, I see nothing more from him on this topic, yet. It’s understandable if he lets other politicians step forward on this issue, and state governments are dealing with this anyway.

This says far more about the kind of people wannabe populist leaders in many nations are trying to draw from both right and left to create majorities. Sanders couldn’t control the Townsends in 2016, and there’s no reason to think he would be able to as the political climate becomes increasingly unstable.

“The most holy and sacred last frontier of sovereignty is our own body,”

Seems like every week there is a supposedly serious conservative (usually) making some batshit insane arguments against vaccines.

Laurie Roberts, Arizona Republic
Published 1:43 p.m. MT Feb. 28, 2019
Updated 3:14 p.m. MT Feb. 28, 2019

... Townsend’s treatise comes just a day after Gov. Doug Ducey announced he will veto any crazy bills that would expand the number of school children who don’t have to be immunized.

At a time when health officials are increasingly worried about measles outbreaks due to declining vaccination rates among children, the House health committee last week passed a trio of bills aimed at expanding the number of children who don't have to get their childhood shots.

Virtually every major medical group begged our leaders not to bring back utterly preventable diseases, saying, “We implore you not to lead Arizona to the bottom and contribute to the spread of untold disease and human suffering.”

So, naturally, the bills passed on a partyline vote ...

https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/laurieroberts/2019/02/28/rep-kelly-townsend-warns-communist-plot-force-immunizations/3019233002/

a private school, where parents (who actually have the power to make decisions) will promptly deny them entrance.

There is no excuse for how stupid we are at this point in history.

I've "lived" here 35 years, and there's never been a credible challenge to that statement.

get all these stupid and anti-science people? jeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeebus

needs a MAJOR load of money.

Not only does this woman believe what she says, but PEOPLE VOTED FOR HER!!!!!

destroy-the-West campaign.