Mike Johnson says men need to stop ‘playing video games all day’ and get to work: ‘They’re draining resources’
Mike Johnson says men need to stop ‘playing video games all day’ and get to work: ‘They’re draining resources’
Speaker Mike Johnson defended efforts to attach work requirements to Medicaid, suggesting that young men are wasting their lives "playing video games all day."
"Return the dignity of work to young men who need to be at work instead of playing video games all day."
House Speaker Mike Johnson defended Republican efforts to attach work requirements to Medicaid, suggesting that young American men are wasting their lives "playing video games all day" instead of working.
Johnson's remarks came as House Republicans pushed forward a budget framework that would help finance President Donald Trump's tax cuts, with plans to slash federal spending by trillions. GOP leaders are eyeing $880 billion in reductions to Medicaid, a move critics warn could gut health coverage for millions of low-income Americans.
Hypothesis: Men are leeching government funds and playing video games all day
Proof: Man with government contracts playing POE on plane
How about we all spend 20 hours a week doing actually important jobs, not 40 hours on frivolous bullshit jobs?
What's the point of fighting for freedom if my free time is still dictated by the government?
I have an idea, mike. How about you stop trying to tell people what to do in their lives and trying doing your fucking job? Parasite.
maybe try paying a living wage first.
Quit enjoying your life with games and get back to making me and my billionaire buddies more money you slacker!
As always, what's not said is often more telling that what is.
He values women so little that he doesn't even consider their contribution worthwhile enough to mention. It's fine for them to waste their time playing games all day. (Or he doesn't think women don't play games, which is just as poor)
Fuck you
keeps playing
Then treat workers with dignity you asshat. Pay them well, give them the days off they need, give them a retirement to look forward to, health care, respect their time off, and STFU about what they do on their time off even if it’s just playing video games.
The labor force participation rate for men ages 25-54 is approximately 90%.
Who the hell is he talking about? We're all working already
https://www.bls.gov/emp/tables/civilian-labor-force-participation-rate.htm
'They're Draining Resources'
"Building new power plants and taking all the water just to service broligarchs' AI businesses is fine, though."
He's a waste of air
If you are interested in video games, mental health and the current moral panic about it from an actual scientific perspective... from a scientist who is also a life long fan of video games... and understands them beyond "is too much video game bad?" check out the youtube channel Psychgeist, in particular this recent video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42D9olrXL-s
If Mike Johnson gave a shit about young men, he would be terrified by the speed that mobile phone gambling, especially but not limited to sports gambling is tearing through and destroying the lives of young men in the U.S. I mean, everyone is suffering from it but demographically the whole industry seems aimed at young men.
Fuck you Mike Johnson, video games are art and you don't understand art because you are a boring-creepy ass fascist.
Let me say this emphatically, if you are out there playing video games and not really wanting to go through the hellish process of applying to jobs in the U.S. and decide to play an extremely good video game that is both mentally challenging and also a vehicle for socialization and making friends.... good. The rules of capitalism were supposed to be that if the pay and conditions you are offering employees isn't sufficient vs. the required amount of labor and time, you need to sweeten the deal as the employer, that is how bargaining works?? The fact that people like Mike Johnson always return to this rhetoric the minute the "wisdom of the market" turns not in favor of the rich tells you everything you need to know about Mike Johnson and his ilk.
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Hours - Maky Lavendar 🎵 🎵
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They need to get back to sharing their porn playlist with their kids like good decent American folks.
From time to time the ruling class has to be reminded that, as the bigger of the two classes, the working class could just eat them and start over. If we're not content with the system, we can change it anytime we like. We'll start by trying to get change by ballot box, but if you close that door for us, if you force us too... we absolutely can get change by guillotine.
I hate that a little worm like this shithead has any power whatsoever.
This weird little freak can go fuck himself.
says guy who's job is literally nothing more than draining resources. go fuck yourself cuntface.
Men should stop wasting their time on nonsense like religion. Grow up. You can't leave your life based on a fairy tale.
Now I'm gonna play video games extra hard today. Fuck you, Mike.
Also - I generate more value while taking a shit than this leech has created in his entire life.
Stop wasting your life playing vidyagaems. Start wasting your life creating shareholder value.
Get me a job that pays at least minimum wage. Anything less isn't deserving of anyone's effort.
You're a drain on resources you authoritarian bootlicker.
The day Mike quits his cushy job as house speaker and goes to work in the mines is the day I'll join him there
I’ll give up my fantasy worlds when you give up yours. Yours has been far more detrimental to the world.
Many men look at the pain/reward ratio and it's not actually worth it. People are rational: toiling away to at best afford a tiny apartment that takes up half your salary while the other half is spent on food is not alluring. Ironically, this guy is in a position to alter society so the rewards are not so small and instead he chooses moral condemnation as the tool to motivate, as though his castigation will change the equation. He may be an idiot or may be very intelligent and just exploiting the system by saying what people want to hear to distract from the real problem.
Mike Johnson, you know who's "draining resources?"
Your mother.
Lmao fuck all the way off, Christian Dominionist Captain Narnia
I've been working since I was 13. But I think my avocado toast budget just can't be cut any further.
Pay people more work and have them do dignified jobs (ie: not making them pee in a bottle) and you'd have more people working.
Treat people like shit and crash the global economy, not so much.
But it's not like conservatives care about making sense of being consistent. Hang mike johnson.
He hates them because they're fun and he's republican. Sad and pathetic to end up so cross.
‘They’re draining resources’
... from their rich overlords.
That's what he means.
I just finished working four 12 hour shifts dealing with morons and shitty people, Mike. I'll play some god damn video games if I want to.
Mike Johnson, you are cordially invited to fuck all the way off with that delusional bullshit.
When the hell will 'wholly detached rich guy says other people should work harder to make him even richerer' stop being so fucking common? I see like one of these a month minimum these days. Man, fuck every one of these assclowns.
They targeted gamers.
Hes totally a drain on Oxygen ressources. He should stop using it.
Mike Johnson has a very cab forward face. (Look it up, it was a thing.)
Stop selling iPhones ...
What the fuck does that have to with access to medical care you absolute fucking waste of flesh‽
No one is living off of Medicare or Medicaid. No one is able to not work and instead play video games all day because of these programs. All a work requirement does is make it harder for these programs to help the people who need them. Which of course makes it more likely that they will be stu k with deteriorating health issues which will make it harder for them to work.
This is just an attempt to cut benefits for the poor to make room for tax cuts for the rich. It's all about obfuscating the cuts so they can try to dodge accountability.
Fuck you Mike Johnson. You are net drain on humanity. You are actively working to increase suffering and death. Stop pretending to love Jesus because the last time he met someone like you he whipped them and drove them out of the temple.
This must be a sign from God that I need to pursue the American dream of monetized game streaming.
He does understand that neet gamers are the republican base right?
Well, maybe make life not suck so bad then. Make things affordable again? Let’s start there.
Arbeit macht frei - work sets you free
Separation of church and state seems to have been a pretty good idea despite Mike's idiocy in that regard as well. Maybe we also need a separation of economy and government too since their continued mismanagement has destabilized bonds, reduced confidence in US markets due to their manipulation, and an ongoing inability to even create a budget.
Oh so we aren't doing massive layoffs suddenly? /s
This fucking administration...
Deportation for everyone: it's ok, we're saving Jewish people from the mean mean thought criminals.
Gut all beneficial programs: it's ok they're all parasites who play video games all day.
Ironically, straight out of the communist country playbook. Go to Lao even today, there is a midnight curfew because you shouldn't be out late, you should be up early to work!
I'm going to start calling these motherfuckers Don Quixote, they debate strawmen as if they were fighting windmills
Wait... You guys have all been playing video games all day?! Well damn it!
I don't want this dignity shit. I would like instead to have sex all my available time after work if I want to. Otherwise I would like to do other things.
Tell me you are out of touch with saying it
Maybe congress needs to do something themselves. These days they don't seem to be moving at all. On anything.
He should ho share porn with his son again
is he watching gay porn, or is he turns to straight porn as a closeted to "stave off his desires"