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"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.

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (3 children)

Dude's like 5'2, MAYBE 100lbs soaking wet, and spineless. Fuck off, bitch.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 6 days ago

Men should stop wasting their time on nonsense like religion. Grow up. You can't leave your life based on a fairy tale.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 6 days ago

says guy who's job is literally nothing more than draining resources. go fuck yourself cuntface.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 days ago

Get me a job that pays at least minimum wage. Anything less isn't deserving of anyone's effort.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago (5 children)

Possibly mildly unpopular opinion. I'd probably be happy giving up gaming to work more, say 60 hours a week total, if that meant I could fully support my family on my own income and let my wife do something other than work (if she chooses)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

If I wasn’t salaried I’d be down. But I’d need a new leisure activity since gaming is my main one.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 days ago

Just repeating what the others said, but the 40 hour work week is brutal enough on balancing home and family. When I would pull overtime shifts and work 60-80 hour weeks, only a fool would have been able to look at what was going on and call it reasonable. I'd come home from work, if it was day 6 I would throw the clothes in the wash, crawl into bed, wake up and shower, put on the work uniform, and go back to work.

Food was whatever restaurant or fast food joint a coworker was heading to, and maybe some peanut butter or crackers at home.

I was single then, and no kids or true responsibilities outside of work. It would have been insanity to try and add significant chores and child-rearing to that timetable, and any romance with the partner would be impossible. It doesn't have anything to do with gaming, much less your wife and family.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago

No thanks I would like a work life balance.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 days ago

I'm not sure what your profession is but I worked a relatively easy job and 60 hours killed me, plus killed any semblance of family life I had. You're not home, and when you are you're too exhausted to do anything. With a physically gruelling job I'd imagine it would be even worse l.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago

I doubt you'd be happy with that long term. I had a friend who did that and it burned him out hard, working long hours for a family he hardly had time with. But maybe you're exceptional.

Regardless, it's not easy to find a job like that in this economy.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 6 days ago (1 children)

That's funny. Last I checked, I'm not the one taking recess for f'ing Easter of all things.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 22 points 6 days ago

Fuck you. Pay me.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago

He hates them because they're fun and he's republican. Sad and pathetic to end up so cross.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 6 days ago (2 children)

The Trump admin just made their fatal mistake. They. Attacked. Gamers.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

BOTTOM TEXT

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago (2 children)

If the gamers get spicy, the MAGA Nazi government should produce a game in which gamers can kill the government officials they hate. The gamers will stay inside and play all day. Problem solved.

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[–] [email protected] 56 points 6 days ago (1 children)

This "people should work harder" point is always made by people who haven't done a honest day's work in decades.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Seriously, what does Mike Johnson do? Sit around in rooms exchanging shitty ideas with out of touch, untouchable millionaires?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 6 days ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 days ago (1 children)

And vice versa, if I recall.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 days ago

‘They’re draining resources’

... from their rich overlords.

That's what he means.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago

Well, maybe make life not suck so bad then. Make things affordable again? Let’s start there.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 days ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

"separation of government and economy" is precisely what these assholes are angling for. Regulation is very good actually when it's done on behalf of the people.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

The government regulates the credit card industry without holding a monopoly on using credit cards they create, and regulates the airline industry but doesn't make everyone buy their planes. I'm not arguing against regulation, but I'm also not a fan of monopolies held in public or private sectors.

[–] [email protected] 79 points 6 days ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 41 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Children. That's why they're eroding child labor laws.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 6 days ago

He wants you to work more for less pay to make more money for the people he actually represents.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 6 days ago

Just classic republican nonsense. Bitching about things that don't exist. But they blast it all over, so people believe it.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 days ago

That's the problem, he doesn't want people to have an off time.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 6 days ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I dare him to name a video game.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

Candy crush?

[–] [email protected] 29 points 6 days ago

Is he talking about Elon, or?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Mike Johnson, you know who's "draining resources?"

Your mother.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 6 days ago (1 children)

He had me at "Return the dignity of work".

I don't think that he has any intention to do that, but that would certainly go a long way towards getting people to work like he wants.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 6 days ago

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.

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