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MSNBCs Stephanie Ruhle could not believe her ears when Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) and his wife offered some retrograde thoughts on womens brains.
On Fridays edition of The 11th Hour, Ruhle aired a snippet of an interview the speaker and his wife Kelly Johnson did with Katie Miller last month. During the exchange, Mike Johnson said women cant mentally compartmentalize. The speakers wife agreed:
MIKE JOHNSON: Men and women are different in this way, is that men can compartmentalize things.
KELLY JOHNSON: Men brains are like waffles.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/mother-god-stephanie-ruhle-blown-051947590.html
Except for Trump and MAGA Mike. Their brains are like waffle fries.
ananda
(34,199 posts)...
mjvpi
(1,830 posts)Walleye
(43,571 posts)underpants
(194,321 posts)Patriarchal control. Women are the maker of life so they ARE more powerful
.unless you can convince everyone, including women, that they arent mainly by establishing males in and as power.
The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.
😉😜
- Mark Twain.
Johnson and Kelly have publicly spoken about their covenant marriage, a stricter type of marriage that prevents couples from divorcing until at least two years after their wedding and only under certain circumstances. Covenant marriages are also only legal in three states, including Louisiana.
She is a licensed pastoral counselor
After a career as a teacher, Kelly pivoted to working as a pastoral counselor at Onward Christian Counseling Services, where she serves as founder and president. The practice provides religious-based individual, marriage and family counseling to people across Louisiana.
https://people.com/who-is-kelly-johnson-mike-johnson-wife-8383310
lapfog_1
(31,534 posts)Who cut the cheese? Trump did!
Norrrm
(3,736 posts)Grassley - republican women are lazy and cannot handle the job.
Grassley: Workload may keep women off committee
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https://thehill.com/homenews/house/420338-gop-women-face-steeper-climb-in-trump-era/
GOP women face steeper climb in Trump era - 2018
Conjuay
(2,835 posts)mwmisses4289
(2,961 posts)That's not a compliment, honey. You're saying their brains are both crunchy and fluffy- basically, you're implying they are stupid (in the case of your husband, that might even be true).
ProudMNDemocrat
(20,482 posts)When working at a Customer Service desk at an Upscale Grocery store during the latter 1990's, a male co-worker tried to do more than one thing at once. He was unable to and asked me for assistance while I was doing two things at once.
Go figure. Must be the way women's brains are wired was my thought.
GenThePerservering
(3,146 posts)may not be the flex you think it is, MAGA Mikey.
leftstreet
(38,657 posts)Mr.Bee
(1,545 posts)txwhitedove
(4,306 posts)strands to work full time and raise three kids, as well, as 3 grandkids. O.M.G.
viva la
(4,447 posts)Some are very focused, some are very flexible. The problem with "benign" sexists like the Johnsons is they really don't think of women as people.
Timeflyer
(3,569 posts)elleng
(141,926 posts)bronxiteforever
(11,025 posts)The man third in line of the presidency of the most powerful and technologically developed nation on earth believes in the young earth. This article from the Sierra Club magazine gives insight into his idiotic beliefs.
He has gone out of his way to defend in court, and otherwise, groups that believe the earth is 6,000 years old. Sweeney was referring to Speaker Johnsons advocacy on behalf of the Ark Encounter theme park and Creation Museum in Kentucky.
John Delgado, a former Baton Rouge Metro council member who was critical of Johnson when he was still a state representative, said Johnsons climate skepticism is borne out of evangelical dispensationalist beliefthe idea that the end times herald the second coming of Christ. There are people who just want to see the world burn because they are waiting for the next one, Delgado told Sierra. He explained that those who are eager for the Rapture want it [the world] to end sooner.... And so theyre not going to care about the environment, theyre not going to care about the coastline, theyre not going to care about rising ocean temperatures.
Justin Solet, a long-time environmental justice organizer from Louisiana, likewise expressed concern that Johnson is putting a polite face on a terrifying aspect of the Republican platform. Its frightening to see, he added.
Solet described Johnson as a zealot and says if Johnsons vision were realized in Louisiana, we would turn into Gilead, a reference to the fascist ethnostate in Margaret Atwoods The Handmaids Tale.
https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/new-house-speaker-mike-johnson-holds-extreme-views-climate-change-and-science
electric_blue68
(25,396 posts)A "let climate disaster happen" because Jesus's Second Coming will arrive faster.
Ughhh! 😑 😬😬
Paladin
(32,149 posts)Bad enough that Johnson's a worthless supporter of trump's outlandish actions. Helpful clue to Mike Johnson: the year is 2025, not 1955. Time for you to play catch-up, or leave.
Iggo
(49,525 posts)On purpose.