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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(131,911 posts)
Sat Dec 6, 2025, 01:37 PM Saturday

Stephanie Ruhle Blown Away When Speaker Johnson Says Women Can't Mentally 'Compartmentalize'

MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle could not believe her ears when Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) and his wife offered some retrograde thoughts on women’s brains.

On Friday’s 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 can’t mentally “compartmentalize.” The speaker’s 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.

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Stephanie Ruhle Blown Away When Speaker Johnson Says Women Can't Mentally 'Compartmentalize' (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Saturday OP
And covered with the syrup of hate. ananda Saturday #1
Two heartbeats away from being President. mjvpi Saturday #2
Waffle fries. Perfect description Walleye Saturday #3
That's a main element of religion - to subjugate or weaken women. underpants Saturday #4
Charlie Waffles lapfog_1 Saturday #5
Grassley - republican women are lazy and cannot handle the job. Norrrm Saturday #6
Why the hell is a 92 year old even allowed in the building? Conjuay Saturday #18
Mens' brains are like waffles? WTF? 😯😵‍💫🤔 mwmisses4289 Saturday #7
Nor can men MULTI-TASK. ProudMNDemocrat Saturday #8
"Men's brains are like waffles" GenThePerservering Saturday #9
I bet he can't find the ketchup in the fridge n/t leftstreet Saturday #10
Anyone Raised By a Single Mother Mr.Bee Saturday #11
We single moms and grannies thank you. My spaghetti brain had to fire on all cylinders, eh,, txwhitedove Saturday #15
Women are all individuals viva la Saturday #12
Wifey using her Baby Fundie Voice to explain brains. Jesus wept. Timeflyer Saturday #13
WAFFLES!!!! elleng Saturday #14
Johnson is a nitwit full stop. bronxiteforever Saturday #16
Oh... just "great".... electric_blue68 Saturday #17
What kind of sick, clueless fuckwit insults the nation's women like this? Paladin Saturday #19
Mike Johnson doesn't know anything about women. Iggo Saturday #20

underpants

(194,321 posts)
4. That's a main element of religion - to subjugate or weaken women.
Sat Dec 6, 2025, 01:53 PM
Saturday

Patriarchal control. Women are the maker of life so they ARE more powerful ….unless you can convince everyone, including women, that they aren’t 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

Norrrm

(3,736 posts)
6. Grassley - republican women are lazy and cannot handle the job.
Sat Dec 6, 2025, 02:07 PM
Saturday

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

mwmisses4289

(2,961 posts)
7. Mens' brains are like waffles? WTF? 😯😵‍💫🤔
Sat Dec 6, 2025, 02:37 PM
Saturday

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)
8. Nor can men MULTI-TASK.
Sat Dec 6, 2025, 02:48 PM
Saturday

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.

txwhitedove

(4,306 posts)
15. We single moms and grannies thank you. My spaghetti brain had to fire on all cylinders, eh,,
Sat Dec 6, 2025, 04:43 PM
Saturday

strands to work full time and raise three kids, as well, as 3 grandkids. O.M.G.

viva la

(4,447 posts)
12. Women are all individuals
Sat Dec 6, 2025, 03:15 PM
Saturday

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.

bronxiteforever

(11,025 posts)
16. Johnson is a nitwit full stop.
Sat Dec 6, 2025, 04:45 PM
Saturday

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 Johnson’s 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 Johnson’s climate skepticism is borne out of evangelical “dispensationalist belief”—the 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 they’re not going to care about the environment, they’re not going to care about the coastline, they’re 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. “It’s frightening to see,” he added.

Solet described Johnson as “a zealot” and says if Johnson’s vision were realized in Louisiana, “we would turn into Gilead,” a reference to the fascist ethnostate in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale.

https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/new-house-speaker-mike-johnson-holds-extreme-views-climate-change-and-science

electric_blue68

(25,396 posts)
17. Oh... just "great"....
Sat Dec 6, 2025, 08:23 PM
Saturday

A "let climate disaster happen" because Jesus's Second Coming will arrive faster.
Ughhh! 😑 😬😬

Paladin

(32,149 posts)
19. What kind of sick, clueless fuckwit insults the nation's women like this?
Sat Dec 6, 2025, 08:52 PM
Saturday

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.

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