Ex-Trump aide says GOP women disgusted that Katie Britt was put in the kitchen

[Tom of Temecula]

Co-hosts of "The View" were put off by Alabama Sen. Katie Britt's Republican response to President Joe Biden's State of the Union Address.

While the women cracked jokes about the knives behind Britt giving off "Chucky" vibes, what former Trump aide Alyssa Farah Griffin is hearing is that GOP women are furious.

"This was a disaster from start to finish," Griffin said of Britt's speech. "And actually, Katie Britt is a serious person with policy chops and Democratic senators will tell you they respect her.

"But it's Women's History Month. It's International Women's Day and we put the senator in the kitchen! Like women can be wives and moms. But put her in front of a podium! I mean, it was — I was hearing from Republican women everywhere like, what — why did they choose this? Why didn't she say, 'Put me anywhere else?'"

https://www.rawstory.com/katie-britt-republican-women/

June Cleaver wants her kitchen back.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

1. Being "down home-like" did not work out so well.

Because that reinforces the view the MAGA GOP have about women.

[Cha]

61. Right.. Too close to home Optics. lol.. It is Disasterous

for magats response to Pres Biden's Brillian Speech.

And, she up there Lying in the Kitchen.

[tanyev]

2. If only they'd had her making cookies or Chex Mix while giving the rebuttal.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

46. Cookies

[Attilatheblond]

3. GOP thinking that Stepford Wives vote is a very big vulnerability they just can't seem to learn from

Seems likely they are gonna get the biggest wake up call ever pretty damned soon.

[pandr32]

4. That's because they let the MAGA men be in charge.

The senator herself might have brought up the bad optics herself before recording it, but of course ambition blinds one to the obvious sometimes.

[Biophilic]

5. I'm sort of surprised the GOP women were surprised about the kitchen location.

They obviously aren't listening to the men around them. Or, they think because they are republicans they are immune. Wake up sisters. If given half a chance the men will be coming for you too.

[Irish_Dem]

10. Yep. GOP women have not been paying attention.

Or they think they are immune from the anti-female legislation and court rulings.

[misanthrope]

27. That's it

They don't care if it is other women who are relegated to the kitchen as long as they believe it won't be them.

[Irish_Dem]

43. Yes the laws and rules are for other people.

Not them.

[barbaraann]

6. Kinder, Kuche, Kirche

Talking about her children, in the kitchen, wearing a crucifix.

https://chariotjournal.wordpress.com/2020/07/13/kinder-kuche-kirche-the-role-of-women-in-nazi-germany/

[CelticCrow]

12. This!

Straight out of the Nazi playbook... they are so freaking sick!

[ShazzieB]

32. The link about the role of women in Nazi Germany was very appropos, thanks!

That was a cross she was wearing, though, not a crucifix. It's not a crucifix unless there's a little figure "nailed" to it.

I know it's a small detail, but they really are two different things.

[barbaraann]

38. Oh, duh! I did actually know that!

Thank you for the correction! I think most of the Catholics I have known who wear religious jewelry have worn St Christopher necklaces instead of crucifixes.

[Irish_Dem]

7. Professional women do not hold top level meetings in a kitchen.

The US Senate insists that they are the greatest deliberate body in the entire world.

So a US Senator sits in a kitchen, to give a rebuttal to the SOTU speech, the most important political speech of the year.

No wonder women are pissed off.

[Tree Lady]

8. They are obviously going for

the trad wife vote and the men who want that. I can't imagine in these modern times that is a very big percentage of women.

[Kid Berwyn]

9. GOP woman's place is something the voters need to remember in November.

And then Trump and his stooges will learn their place.

[EarlG]

11. I think at this point you are seeing a party which is clearly

getting extremely high off its own supply.

First they lowered the bar below ground level for Joe Biden, insisting to America that he could barely stand up or string two words together, which left them wide open to a rope-a-dope of epic proportions as Biden blew their caricatures out of the water during the extremely high-profile State of the Union address.

Then they had one of their women Senators give the Republican rebuttal while standing in a damn kitchen, which was so condescending it almost felt like trolling.

They even let Biden steal their thunder on the border issue, booing their own bill and than going quiet after he taunted them for it.

This is not a party which seems particularly in touch with the electorate or the political situation they're in.

[Johnny2X2X]

13. They knew what they were getting into.

An old woman was walking down the road whan she saw a gang of thugs beating a poisonous snake. She rescued the snake and carried it back to her home, where she nursed it back to health. They became friends and lived together for many months. One day they were going into town and the old woman picked him up and the snake bit her. Repeatedly. "O God," she screamed, "I am dying! Why? I was your friend. I saved your life! I trusted you! Why did you bite me?"

The snake looked up at her and said, "Lady, you knew I was a snake when you first picked me up."

They're in the GOP, they know their arty would strip away all their rights if they had the power to do so. Why would this bother them, they belong to a party that believes in the subjgation and stripping of rights forf women.

[MineralMan]

14. Plus there was the breathy, little girl voice.

They couldn't have missed the mark more thoroughly.

[Pluvious]

55. ICYMI - 1 minute clip / parody

Link to tweet

[MineralMan]

60. Thanks!

[harumph]

15. If she is so "serious" and has "policy chops"...

then why did she consent to be being framed in such a way? What a joke.

[emulatorloo]

35. More important, why did she work on the bi-partisan border bill and then let Daddy Trump tell her to vote against it?

Completely unserious.

[chowder66]

40. Exactly.

[liberalmuse]

16. Trump's VP

This was no mistake. She was dressed like the commander of Gilead’s wife, Serena Joy. This is the GOP version of the Stepford wife.

[Hekate]

17. Claire McCaskill's kitchen looks warm and homey, but this one looked gray & unlived-in...

Perhaps it was a set? And of course, Claire is a retired US Senator speaking for herself, not a sitting Senator giving the most important speech of the year for her Party.

Britt’s opening lines about her “most important job is being a wife and mom” is what had me turning off the sound and mocking her all the way through the rest of her performance. She even had the requisite cross on her necklace.

Lady, you are being paid to be a US Senator. Reference your loved ones in some other way, without denigrating your paid career.

I’m glad at least some of the GOP has the brains to find the whole thing cringeworthy.

[niyad]

49. During covid restrictions, it used to fascinate me to see the various

kitchens of people like Claire, and others who recorded in their kitchens, far more than even those recording in their libraries.

I have not, and most likely will not, watch this travesty, based on what I have read here on DU. She is a disgrace on so many levels.

[Nevilledog]

57. Just a simple kitchen, right?

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Sen. Katie Britt gave the GOP’s response to the State of the Union from her kitchen table, just like everyday “real families.”

Here is the view of the kitchen in her family’s home, a 6,300 square foot house in Montgomery, Alabama (photos as staged by a realtor circa 2018).
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Did they repaint it to be even more beige?

[NanaCat]

18. June Cleaver wasn't the stereotype of a housewife

The show never intended her to be any kind of shrinking violet. More careful viewing makes it clear that she had serious feminist leanings, despite the 50s misogyny:

And remember that she was always the one who saw right through Eddie Haskell, better than anyone. June was always the smartest Cleaver.

Donna Reed was another one who was always much stronger and smarter than one would have expected.

It's sort of weird now to see all of the subtle ways those TV mom actresses were chipping at the edges of the 'stereotypical' housewife image.

[niyad]

50. Thank you for your post, that clip. People tended to overlook that it was

called The Donna Reed Show. . duh.

[TSExile]

58. The Grand Old Patriarchy wouldn't like the real Donna.

Donna Reed was very vocal about her opposition to the Vietnam War and was pro-nuclear disarmament. She organized protests!

[limbicnuminousity]

19. Was hoping she'd open the freezer

to display frozen embryos preserved in ice-trays as part of their IVF overhaul. It would have fit the theme.

[LudwigPastorius]

20. Maybe she needed to be near the onions, so..

her eyes could tear up on cue at the appropriate lines.

[Warpy]

21. Her leg irons didn't stretch to the living room

The kitchen offended them, not the fact that this woman wants all human rights stripped from women.

Republican women are weird.

[Kablooie]

22. Nice of Republicans to let women know their place.

Let's go back to the idyllic 50's, shall we?
And resurrect Joe McCarthy while we're at it!
What a joy!

[twodogsbarking]

23. I like the kitchen. I am a male. Is that allowed?

When you go to a party park your ass in the kitchen. You get to see everyone eventually.

[AllyCat]

25. True. But she is a US Senator talking politics.

And they put her in the kitchen?

[twodogsbarking]

29. Yeah, I got that. She was wearing the "T" too.

[ismnotwasm]

24. Fuck Republican women.

This is what they are voting for.

[Sogo]

26. Not to mention the fact that the type of kitchen she was in is NOT

what the MAGAs enjoy in their own homes.

They're sitting there thinking, "It's hard to imagine her worrying about the price of groceries, when she's sitting there with granite countertops and hardwood cabinets."

[rubbersole]

28. June Cleaver said the first pornographic line on tv in 1957...

"Ward, don't you think you were a little hard on the beaver last night?"

(Please don't kick me off DU. I went to public schools in Florida. )

[calimary]

56. I interviewed her back when I was still working, and I swear -

she absolutely said that. I asked her something about what she thought was a key line for her in the script: "Ward, don't you think you were a little hard on the Beaver?" I got it on tape, and probably still have it in storage somewhere.

I laughed and she smiled widely, acted as though she'd expected that reaction. She'd evidently been asked this before, and this was her answer. OUTSTANDING!!! I already liked her a lot as an actress, but I loved her, as a person, even more after that. It made for an EPIC soundbite!

[niyad]

59. You nearly owed me a keyboard!

[Dem2theMax]

30. In other words, they couldn't have picked better.

They pissed off Republican women.
And they gave all the Democrats a really good laugh, and a skit for SNL!

[RockRaven]

31. "They" put her in a kitchen... like she doesn't have agency.

In the GQP even their criticisms of their own sexism is sexist and infantilizing.

[Freethinker65]

33. Katie agreed to perform the role of the conservative, cross wearing, cleavage baring, needing protection, trad wife.

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Did any GOP female legislator turn down the role? Were any consulted, about the speech, delivery, or optics or were they just insulted on purpose by their mansplaining colleagues?

[Hope22]

39. Whatever role she was playing...

The way her emotions vacillated quickly in a spooky unstable manner made me feel like it was some kind of psychological experiment. Verrry creepy!

[rubbersole]

64. Marsha Blackburn wanted to do it...

...but she was still too upset that Mitch wasn't going to stick around and spank her anymore.

[Renew Deal]

34. It plays with their male dominated base

They are not trying to expand their appeal. Just keep the current rubes motivated.

[Traildogbob]

36. I heard an interesting take

The other day about GQP, who are owned by billionaires and CEO’s, why are the so concerned about getting women pregnant, keeping them pregnant and ending early child care businesses, and public schools, and basically confining them to home and child raising.
Those CEO’s are sick of losing leadership in businesses, to women, they are invading their power. These policies will take that competition away. Man
Control.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

63. They also want women to have

Children so they can work for them and keep profits expanding Funny how child labor laws are being rolled back.

[ShazzieB]

37. I don't blame Republican women for being pissed off, BUT...

If that's how they really feel, they shouldn't belong to the "Barefoot and Pregnant" party!

[Hermit-The-Prog]

52. I couldn't watch more than a few seconds. Did they ever confirm she was barefoot?

[ShazzieB]

53. I don't think so.

But I didn't watch much of it, either.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

54. I always fumble with the remote when I need to hit a button really fast. :D

[BeyondGeography]

41. These women are willfully blind

Their leader is an adjudicated rapist whose MO was captured on the Access Hollywood tape and they’re shocked that Britt was treated with something less than respect. Maybe wake tf up.

[robbob]

42. If "GOP women" aren't already disgusted by the direction their party has taken

then I don’t know what will wake them up.

[GuppyGal]

44. The only 'chops' this lady had was pork ones....what other chops you need in that kitchen?

[getagrip_already]

45. Nothing a good pat on the head snd maybe some flowers wont fix

As long as dinner is ready on time that is.

And the house is clean. And the kids are quiet by 8:00 pm.

[Deep State Witch]

47. So Did She Conceive Her Two Children

Naturally, by IVF, or by Handmaiden?

[Grokenstein]

48. Republicans: "Is this not your natural state?"

[niyad]

51. Golly gee, gop women, where the F'n HELL have you been as your

party is busy destroying the progress and gains women have made? Did you somehow think YOU were safe from the misogyny and hatred?

[Hassler]

62. They're mad because putting her in the kitchen

Is so on the nose of who the GOPee is.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

65. Well Katie can take her Project 2025 BS and shove it‼️

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