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Mike Johnson's latest tantrum shows how the "pro-family" MAGA just wants women back in the kitchen

www.salon.com

Summary

House Speaker Mike Johnson erupted after failing to block a bipartisan proxy voting bill allowing parental leave for lawmakers.

Despite once voting by proxy himself, Johnson called it "unconstitutional," revealing GOP resistance to family-friendly policies.

Critics say this aligns with Trump-era efforts to push women out of public life, consistent with Project 2025's goal of restoring "traditional families."

Johnson's move, including canceling House activity, exposed the contradiction in the GOP's "pro-family" stance and highlighted deeper hostility to workplace flexibility and women’s equality.

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"Pro-family", "family friendly", "family values", and similar phrases are pretty much all dogwhistles for "Christian values" but not the values that actually help anyone (love thy neighbor, etc).
- These "Christians" would already have shipped Jesus to gitmo.
  Something something bootstraps.
  
  Aside from a funeral and a couple of weddings, I haven't set foot in a church since I moved out on my own. However, I would absolutely sit down for a service where the preacher read passages from the New Testament with the moral of the sermon being "Are we the baddies?"
  
  They would have complained about Jesus feeding the masses because "it's just going to make them lazy".
- You need the Satanic temple for these actual tenets that they supposedly stand for.
  
  That's the satanic temple. The church of Satan is a completely different thing.
- So not really Christian values.
  
  I mean, they are 100% Christian values though they're not Christ's values.
  I like this Jesus fellow, but his fan club is the worst.
  Paraphrased, and can't recall who said it (I thought it was George Carlin but can't find the quote).
  
  Unfortunately, these are mainstream American Christian values. They're not the values of Jesus in the New Testament, but they don't care about that.
- They're dog whistles for needing more babies to keep the pyramid scheme that is our economy afloat.
  Subjugating women, hating the gays, blocking birth control; it's all to pop out more babies.
  
  Endless growth will be the death of us.
- Don't forget "Traditional values" and "Nuclear Family" lol
- And by “Christian values” they mean “White American Evangelical Protestant values”, not anything that has anything to do with what the Christ of the Bible was talking about.
They're never gonna restore "traditional" families if they never support a family being able to actually survive on a single income.
- This. I would love it if my wife had the option to stay home. We're luckier than most, so she probably could, but our budget would be uncomfortably tight if she did. And actually, if she made as much as I do, it'd probably be me staying home and doing the cooking and cleaning and errands. I love that shit and hate work, and the excessive hours I work keep me from helping around the house as much as I would like.
  
  The kind of people we're talking about wouldn't let you stay home with the kids.
  They expect men to be killing themselves in un-safety-regulated jobs for the sake of increasing the wealth of the billionaires while all women stay home playing Suzy Homemaker and popping out white babies.
  That's their vision.
  
  Will you commit to paying alimony when you decide to marry your secretary? Fuck depending on your spouse, thst's insane.
- That's how you can tell they lying about their goals.
- survive on a single income.
  “PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY”!
  Boom, they’ve invalidated the argument. Trickle down & FSD coming at end of year.
"Family Values" has always been code for "Women are Cattle"
- *Chattel
  
  I was referencing the parts of the bible that cover animal husbandry and include how to manage women in the same section as the farm animals.
Serious question: They want all immigrants deported, illegal or not doesn't seems to matter any more. Those "aliens" do the work that the white nobility wouldn't do in the first place. Then they sent women back into the kitchen which will easily cut another 30% of the work force, probably much more. And then the tariffs are supposed to bring back manufacturing jobs (that said white nobility doesn't want to do in the first place). How do they think this is gonna work? cut the majority of your workforce and increase the demand of labor all while preventing higher salaries.
- Prison labour
- Easy, just bring back the 60 hour workweek or child labor.
  
  They're already working on child labor in some states.
- Slave labor.
- Boost manufacturing so there are more machines in which to put my wooden shoes!
  
  The machinery yearns for your sabots
"Anything that doesn't serve my fascist agenda is unconstitutional."
If women are supposed to be in the kitchen, why are most short order cooks men? Checkmate...
Republican leaders are people who would watch The Handmaid's Tale and think they're supposed to agree with the villains
He couldn't handle a strong woman.
I know where Mike Johnson's wife can find some recipes.
Is this the guy that's on Grindr?
- Idk, it's well documented that he has a weird "porn accountability" arrangement with his kid though. Meaning they monitor each other's keystrokes to make sure the other's not stroking their sin stick.
  
  I was being a bit silly, but there was a rumor flying around about a week ago about how he's on Grindr.
  I don't give it much actual credence - but it would not surprise me at all if we did learn it was true....
  
  …This is documented?
When they say pro-family it seems like they mean pro-husband and maybe pro-kids
- pro kids until they are born then they can fuck off and die
  
  Except when they play uncle touchy like Matt Gaetz and the Shitstain-in-Chief
Yeah
"Restoring traditional families"
That probably means they expect me to go to church, negotiate with the businessmans daughter with a dowry, and control the rest of her life while maintaining she shows that she is happy because I technically would feel awful the entire time.
I'm blissfully ignoring what they want as that "traditional" age to marry on purpose. That just makes my stomach churn knowing these freaks
Restoring traditional families
Always means women can’t think or speak, and black people work their fields in chains
Cool, so that means you should also have one car that might last 5 years, no cellphones, computers, and back to radio shows only. You can only live and breathe your job with little to no entertainment.
Yeah, it’s great living in the past isn’t it?
- @TwinTitans @MicroWave I mean I get your point. But how long do you expect a car to last in the US? We have one car and it's a 2012 reg that we bought secondhand in 2018...
  
  I mean, with proper maintenance they can last a very long time. They are incredibly reliable and resilient compared to cars in the 40/50s which is where I imagine the vision these people have is from.
- You can only live and breathe your job with little to no entertainment.
  Not to diminish your point, but back then they still had (often walkable) "third places." That included social clubs -- think the freemasons, shriners, the "water buffalo lodge" from the Flintstones (since that what Millennials and younger are most likely to be familiar with), etc. They also knew their neighbors a lot better than we typically do today: most houses had substantial front porches generating ad-hoc conversions with people walking by, they more frequently had block parties, etc.
  TL;DR: they got a lot of their entertainment though actual in-person human interaction.
America has turned into a sad pathetic joke.
This gay boy is miserable
booker slowed the senate for a day, and Reps Luna+Pettersen canceled work in the house for a week, it's adding up

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