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Mike Johnson says men need to stop ‘playing video games all day’ and get to work: ‘They’re draining resources’

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Mike Johnson Says Men Need to Stop 'Playing Video Games All Day' and Get to Work: 'They're Draining Resources'

"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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Mike Johnson Says Men Need to Stop 'Playing Video Games All Day' and Get to Work: 'They're Draining Resources'

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Mike Johnson Says Men Need to Stop 'Playing Video Games All Day' and Get to Work: 'They're Draining Resources'

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Republican Mike Johnson Says Men Need to Stop 'Playing Video Games All Day' and Get to Work: 'They're Draining Resources'

www.latintimes.com /mike-johnson-says-men-need-stop-playing-video-games-all-day-get-work-theyre-draining-580534

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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?
- Problem is there are way more people than there are "important jobs"
  
  That's why you reduce the number of hours.

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.

If the US feels like it needs more workers they should try restoring the social contract

Quit enjoying your life with games and get back to making me and my billionaire buddies more money you slacker!

Fuck you
keeps playing

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)

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.
- They messed with gamers.
  Gamers.
- It's unfortunate how many self-described "gamers" voted this entire thing in because they hate women and hate accountability and hate responsibility.
- "My dad works for Microsoft!!"
- Only a seasoned Xbox Live veteran could phrase that eloquently.

How about do literally fucking anything to make it possible to work in exchange for a living wage, huh? I hope these fascists get sent to concentration camps themselves in the end they fucking deserve it, unlike the Jews did.

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
- 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.
- 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.

'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.
fuck you, pay me - The Philharmonik 🎵 🎵 🎵 🎵
https://thephilharmonik.bandcamp.com/track/pay-me
Hours - Maky Lavendar 🎵 🎵
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3d0bcuokTk
non-acoustic version that bumps 🎵🎵🎵
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyfH8zSfTX4
https://makylavender.bandcamp.com/album/at-least-my-mom-loves-me
- Makes me think of Bukowski's 'The Genius of the Crowd'...this part particularly;
  "...but there is genius in their hatred
  there is enough genius in their hatred to kill you
  to kill anybody
  not wanting solitude
  not understanding solitude
  they will attempt to destroy anything
  that differs from their own
  not being able to create art
  they will not understand art
  they will consider their failure as creators
  only as a failure of the world"
  https://youtu.be/el8BHe18owk

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.

They need to get back to sharing their porn playlist with their kids like good decent American folks.

I hate that a little worm like this shithead has any power whatsoever.
This weird little freak can go fuck himself.

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.

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.
- Soap Box
  Ballot Box
  We're probably here<<
  Ammo box

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.

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

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

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.
- I mean, banning video games completely is part of Project 2025 and they've so far been pretty much following that to the tee.
- What’s next DnD is turning kids into devil worshippers?
  Nah, that's Harry Potter these days. Try to keep up!
- It’s those damned horror comic books!
  
  I'm British and I know it's actually video nasties.

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.

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

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 Trump admin just made their fatal mistake. They. Attacked. Gamers.
- BOTTOM TEXT
- 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.
  
  No they won't? Do you know who makes the best drone fpv pilots in Ukraine?

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.

Is he talking about Elon, or?

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.

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

Fuck you. Pay me.

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

The US has the lowest unemployment rate in history. Who he fuck has time to play games?!
- I like to look at the employment population ratio of those 25-54. We don't need to count college kids, and we don't need to count retired folk. This is a nice, easy measure that doesn't need many judgement calls on who has a job and who wants a job.
  https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNS12300060
  And yup, it's as close to the high as it ever was.
- I usually fall asleep 15 mins into playing because corporate America drains my resources 40+ hours a week.

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.

I’ll give up my fantasy worlds when you give up yours. Yours has been far more detrimental to the world.

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.
- Was annoyed, then confused, then I see what you mean. Yeah, he's got no intention of actually bringing dignity back to the workplace, but some people would be willing to work if jobs were treated in a dignified way. As it is, tipping alone has ruined any possibility that the US would ever let the people "take away" the ability of rich people to have servants.

I‘m curious if he told Elmo the same. The ~~guy~~ nazi who streams gaming content from his private jet 30% of his day, posts shit on shitter 60% of the day and fucks up democracy 20% of the day.
This is what these productivity gurus are referring to when they‘re talking about giving 110% every day
- Being CEO of 7 companies while also being the unelected head of a major government department only leaves a person with 99% of their time available for other stuff.
- I was wondering if the comment wasn’t actually a swipe at that asshole.

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

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.

Big call out by a man with so much free time his son has to monitor his porn usage
- That always disturbed me. It’s disturbing that he mentioned it publicly and doesn’t find anything wrong with it.

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.

Well since its always projection with these losers, I wonder what he's been playing lately that he feels so guilty about.
- Anime-based porn games... Doesn't filter out by his son.

They targeted gamers.

Mike Johnson needs to drain my butt while I drain resources. In other words, eat shit, you fucknutter.
- Devour feculence, Mr Speaker.
  
  The work is mysterious and important

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.

This must be a sign from God that I need to pursue the American dream of monetized game streaming.

Mike Johnson has a very cab forward face. (Look it up, it was a thing.)

‘They’re draining resources’
... from their rich overlords.
That's what he means.

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