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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 /2025/04/03/mike-johnson-melts-down-after-proxy-vote-failure-exposes-magas-pro-family-lie/

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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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.
  
  @TwinTitans ah ok I see. Thought you were saying 5 years was a long time!
  
  Oh yeah ha ha. Definitely not.
  
  That was the case but the past 10 years or so have changed and started going back the other way toward short lived cars.
  Parts that used to be made of metal are now plastic which are cheaper to make, lighter, but also shorter lived as they age. On its surface this shouldn't be a big deal because they're cheap to make so replacement parts should also be cheap. However there are two problems with this line of thinking:
  Labor costs have increased - so even if the cheap part breaks and is cheap to buy the replacement, modern cars require lots of labor to disassemble cars to the point the replacement part can be put in.
  Replacement parts are getting VERY hard to get - this is true of not only cheap plastic parts, but also complicated electronic modules (which may need custom programming to install).
  "Mechanically totaled" is a fairly common phrase auto techs are having to communicate to customers. This means that the cost of repairs is greater than the cost of replacing the entire car with one its same age and condition. This isn't just lower end Kia cars (though they are a big offender here) but many cars across Korean, European, Japanese, and American brands.
  You're correct that today's cars are more reliable than the 1940's and 1950's, but even those cars were serviceable with readily available parts and fairly cheap tools and labor. So when they broke, they could be fixed again. That can't be said for many of today's cars.
- 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.

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