“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.
Return the dignity of work …
… by paying them what they’re fucking worth, asshole.
No no. Dignity is being paid minimum, getting minimal benefits like healthcare.
Don’t want to DRAIN THOSE RESOURCES.
Fucking assclown Johnson.
Sorry Mike, but one of the good things that’s come out of the internet is that it’s made people far more aware of just how much of the value their labor creates goes to paying for the privileged lives of worthless shitheels like you.
Upvoted for usage of the word “shitheel”. Love that word.
Oh are we gonna return to the video games are evil and should be banned era of America? What’s next DnD is turning kids into devil worshippers?
Yes and after that, LSD-laced Disney character stickers being handed out in elementary schools.
Jesus, these fundies were have a different panic every month in the Reagan years.
Ya gotta check your kids Halloween candy for drugs! Even though that has never happened at any time in history other than the guy poisoning his own kids (or step kids?) candy. But every year there’s a big deal about it.
Who gives away drugs? What’s the business model here? How will you get repeat business?
These people don’t think things through!
My wife’s grand father once told her, “Don’t drive through (hippie college town near us) with your windows open because they’ll throw drugs into your car.” Ever since then I rolled down the windows regardless of weather. Never scored free drugs.
Have you tried looking sad when driving around with the windows down preferrably with some sort of signage that says “I am sad, free drugs would make me happy”?
“nobody ever has a stash of cocaine for emergency uses” ISAIP.
Wow, you messed up that and the attribution but I got what you were saying
There’s a ska/punk band called Leftöver Crack, based on this concept
ISAIP: I said as I peed
You must be fun at the urinals
Right? Even if it was a “prank”, you wouldn’t see the result anyway. Nothing about it makes sense.
I mean, banning video games completely is part of Project 2025 and they’ve so far been pretty much following that to the tee.
It’s those damned horror comic books!
I’m British and I know it’s actually video nasties.
These assholes talking about working lol.
They “work” 70(?) Days out of the year. On top of that they spend like 95% of their time telling billionaires what they will do for them if they give them money.
Fuck this pencil-dicked Evil Leave-it-to-Beaver looking motherfucker.
Not defending Mike Johnson here, but there’s supposed to be more to it than just the days in session. About 140 in session days, which allows other days to read and research what you’re legislating on. And then the lengthy recesses are so congressmen can be home to work with and listen to their constituents.
Whether or not it happens like that is a mystery, I guess.
Well, the ‘listening to their constituents’ thing certainly hasn’t been going well lately… what with all the screaming matches, arrests, barely contained open revolts and what not.
They just kinda said those were all fake news and then stopped doing them.
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
Children. That’s why they’re eroding child labor laws.
They call 13 year old girls “young women,” so it stands to reason that they’re talking about getting teenage boys into the workforce for minimum wage here, yeah.
I believe you mistyped “military-aged males”
He wants you to work more for less pay to make more money for the people he actually represents.
Just classic republican nonsense. Bitching about things that don’t exist. But they blast it all over, so people believe it.
This “people should work harder” point is always made by people who haven’t done a honest day’s work in decades.
Seriously, what does Mike Johnson do? Sit around in rooms exchanging shitty ideas with out of touch, untouchable millionaires?
He has an app on his adult son’s phone to track his porn viewing habits. He’s a creep that has no ground to stand on to criticize others.
And vice versa, if I recall.
Yes. Their cult’s obsession of pleasure in general is disgusting. It’s probably why they want everyone else to be as miserable as they are
Um, I assume you typo’d? Does this fix it?
Yes. Their cult’s obsession of demonizing pleasure in general is disgusting. It’s probably why they want everyone else to be as miserable as they are
That stuff is creepy and we shouldn’t tolerate it.
You’re a drain on resources you authoritarian bootlicker.
As a gamer, I believe the appropriate response is, “Suck my dick fag Johnson, your mom’s a cum guzzling whore draining the resources of my balls.”
Or something to that effect.
It’s unfortunate how many self-described “gamers” voted this entire thing in because they hate women and hate accountability and hate responsibility.
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They messed with gamers.
Gamers.
Only a seasoned Xbox Live veteran could phrase that eloquently.
“My dad works for Microsoft!!”
I’ll give up my fantasy worlds when you give up yours. Yours has been far more detrimental to the world.
Fuck you, I’ve worked 8+ hours a day for the past 30 years & I will do whatever the fuck I want in my off time.
Reminder: Mike Johnson has never actually worked a real job.
He’s a hypocrite & if there is a Hell, he’ll be burning right there beside me.
That’s the problem, he doesn’t want people to have an off time.
Stop wasting your life playing vidyagaems. Start wasting your life creating shareholder value.
I’d wager I get more done by 8 AM than Johnson gets done all day.
Bonus: I don’t wake up until 9 AM.
That’s funny. Last I checked, I’m not the one taking recess for f’ing Easter of all things.
no one shut down their job and prevented everyone from working for over a week just because they didnt get their way, either.
Typical republican sophistry
Who TF think medicaid goes to people choosing not to work?
They don’t care. The cruelty is the point.
Once you work, you likely make too much to qualify for Medicaid
I didn’t get the earn income tax credit this year because I earn too much even though I’m dirt poor
Lmao fuck all the way off, Christian Dominionist Captain Narnia
