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.
“Family Values” has always been code for “Women are Cattle”
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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.
They’re both basically the same word.
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.
That’s how you can tell they lying about their goals.
“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
Is this the guy that’s on Grindr?
Restoring traditional families
Always means women can’t think or speak, and black people work their fields in chains
When they say pro-family it seems like they mean pro-husband and maybe pro-kids
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
Slave labor.
He couldn’t handle a strong woman.
This gay boy is miserable
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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?
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.
