US Mike Johnson Says Men Need to Stop 'Playing Video Games All Day' and Get to Work: 'They're Draining Resources' - lol. LMFAOYFNFFAFO even.

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

"Return the dignity of work to young men who need to be at work instead of playing video games all day."​

Morgan Music / Published Apr 11 2025, 1:28 PM EDT

House Speaker Mike Johnson defended cuts to Medicaid, insisting it would "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.

Johnson attempted to sidestep claims of direct benefit cuts, instead blaming "able-bodied young men" for taking advantage of a program he said was meant for single mothers, the elderly, and people with disabilities.

"They're draining resources from people who actually do [need it]," Johnson said. "So if you clean that up... you save a lot of money and you return the dignity of work to young men who need to be at work instead of playing video games all day."

Despite Johnson's insistence that, "No one has talked about cutting one benefit in Medicaid," the work requirement would threaten health care access for millions, including Americans that are temporarily unemployed after being laid off.

A report from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities found that as many as 36 million of the 72 million enrolled in Medicaid could be stripped of coverage under work requirements.

Trump has been promised a quick turn around on the bill, putting the pressure on Johnson and House Republicans to make significant cuts that can be rationalized to voters who stand to lose access to services, or—in Johnson's view—video game time.

 

[Audit]

PL but I remember when my grandmother died and while it was sad. It wasn't the devastating shock a lot of people seem to be afraid of when considering the death of a loved one. She had deteriorated to a point that realistically we'd let her go in our hearts long before the actual death. It doesn't actually do anything for either party to keep people hanging on at whatever cost, especially if you're just going to farm them out to nursing homes anyway.

Likewise, had a granny who just got kept around well after her brain had gone all spongey for a solid decade wrecking the life of her son tending to her. Those last 5-10 years of life can be absolutely worthless yet cost a fortune in maintaining. Until I see magic star trek technology to rejuvenate the body, there comes a time that any medical effort to extend life should be withheld. There's a difference between Logan's Run and not wasting $3 trillion + a year on welfare for olds.

 

[Individualism Incarnate]

And don't be afraid of the wagie jobs, if you aren't a retard, you can work your way up to management and make surprisingly good money.

I have never seen someone get promoted (actually promoted, not just new title with more work but the ssame pay) due to work ethic. I have, however, seen plenty of people promoted because they have the right skin color and genitals.

 

[Jaimas]

No. Now put the tiny screws in my iPhone, wage slave.

Fuck off, that's the intern's job.

 

[The Last Stand]

I hope the people in this thread realize that politicians have been blaming video games for many woes in society since the 90s.

 

[Ah ha']

I hope the people in this thread realize that politicians have been blaming video games for many woes in society since the 90s.

Playing video games excessively is a symptom not the disease.

 

[Fae Supremacist]

Gamergate sisters, I'm having second thoughts about this...

 

[Molag Bal]

This whole discussion is retarded.
To the moralfagging cuckservatives decrying that 'men aren't participating in the workforce'. If you want them to participate in the workforce, just complaining about it is not going to get them to do that. You know what would? Getting them a job. Get a company to hire them and pay them for their work.
>but they're not trained for this or that job
Then train them. Invest in onboarding initiatives, create them whole cloth if necessary and streamline them more than any spiritual predecessors were. Instead of just passing a hiring subsidy - which only lead to fraud anyway - and calling it a day, take active measures. Cut out the corporate middle man and set up much more direct arrangements. I'm talking "you will hire and train this man, we will pay his wage and pay for or provide whatever tuition he needs."
Also the whole getting-them-jobs thing touches on another issue. If the unemployment numbers are above zero, why are you allowing more people from foreign countries to come in and drive up the unemployment numbers even further?
>but the prospective workers are demanding more money than companies are willing to pay for
If the economy was actually hurting for workers, then the companies couldn't afford deny them, could they now? Their options would be either to increase the wage or simply not operate, but that's not the situation the US or any western country is in right now.

I also want to add my own opinion onto the whole issue.
I think the real root cause of this entire problem is that the cost of living is decoupled from the workers' wages. One reason why they don't choose the work life is because you've got basic wagies with 9-5 jobs on barely-above-minimum wage competing for real estate with the richest people from across the world, so of course they can't afford to pay rent, let alone anything else on top of it. In some cases, those rich people from foreign countries aren't even actual physical people but real estate and holdings companies that hold wealth well above that of any of the actual human staff connected to them. You've got banks operating across the globe, some not even from within your own country as with Deutsche Bank, squatting on vast amounts of real estate that could be used to house workers on a more affordable price, why do you allow them to do that?

 

[High Level Rad Waste]

Not like that though. "I'm sorry but I signed an NDA at the position". It's perfectly corporate to satisfy them.

"Contractor" is what I put in the gaps. They generally won't ask. If they do ask you to be more specific, just say no.

 

[Tablet County]

The right abandoned culture. Conservatives stopped making stories and games that expressed their worldview, because they decided games were for nerds, and stories were for manchildren who were too lazy to spend their evenings reading car repair manuals and the Wall Street Journal.

By deciding that play was for queers and commies, the right ceded the creation of art, of stories, of games entirely to, well... commies and queers.

This is the least retarded thing I've read in a while. It's things like this that remind me that the world isn't just full of niggerish mongoloid cavemen and stoic soulless meat robots no matter how hard A&N's userbase tries to convince you otherwise.

 

[BradeRunna]

I don’t know about you, but gamer NEET shutins don’t exactly strike me as the type to be on top of their health. Something trivial like basic hygiene is a typical issue for these people, so I’m not sure they’re the massive drain on medicaid that Senator Bloodfeast is trying to portray them as.

It's not "NEET gamers" it's poor white people on medicaid that have shit tier health because of the shit tier life in America that the Kikes and capitalists created. 40+ hour work weeks if they can even find a job. Having to eat unhealthy poor people food. Using cigarettes and alcohol to cope with the shitty life in America and when that doesn't work they turn to drugs.

That's why I said all that shit RFK Jr. is pushing is BS. If you want to MAHA then solve those problems.

He's a GOPe cuck. You really think he's gonna point out that the real "drain" on the Medicaid system are niggers and, ironically, the "single mothers" that he says the program is for in the first place?

What Mike Johnson said is geared towards a specific audience: the older boomers/GenXers and such who watch the mainstream media outlets and get their information curated that way. He had an interview a few months (weeks?) ago on Fox News where he basically said the same thing. This is all media-market stuff, meant to get demographics "on board" with the program. Other intermediaries, mostly on Twitter, will take to their own respective media markets to go along with the line from above, acting "independently" of the Administration and the Government, basically pointing that niggers are the problem and so Medicaid and Medicare need to be cut, and that young white men need to embrace the warrior spirit or something by voting Red in 2026 and for James Donald Bowman in 2028 so that way we can, for real this time, get whatever we want (we promise.)

In the end, though, niggers won't lose their handouts and young white men were never on the programs at such a high percentage to begin with. They'll just continue to parcel out the Government and sell it off.

Mike Johnson is a massive faggot. Trump did well with young people. But these GOPe cuck faggots won't. The Republicans are going to drive the younger people away with these Boomer tier takes.

Like I said in previous posts. It's white people on the gibs. Poor white people exist. They are the largest recipients of social programs. Poor white people in red states. This idea that it's only niggers is a myth pushed by Boomers in the old far right. I can see it's still going. It ignores the fact that poor white people exist and makes the left seem correct when they say all white people are rich or at least well off and the niggers are the only poor people in the US.

Lucky circumstances would encompass that, lmao.

I don't know why my post is getting optimistic stickers. I was basically saying working hard is only worth it for most people when the rewards are assured. They're not for a lot of people. Which is what people like Mike are purposefully ignoring.

People only work to support themselves. They aren't going to work for fun or promises of some grand prize later on. If they can't support themselves, they won't work. No one is going to live in a cardboard box and work.

Elites yet again shocked that "you will own nothing and be happy" manifests as "you will own nothing and do nothing," since if you don't have a culture worth fighting for, and you don't have any real hope for the future, the only real happiness you can create is entirely self-serving.

We're supposed to just forget and move on, but the impact the COVID era had on the psychology of entire generations can't just be ignored. You're expected to pretend locking kids in their homes while they're supposed to be maturing into adulthood and having them emerge into a fractured society flooded with their appointed replacements had no impact on their psychology. Turns out the "new normal" sucks. Turns out normal was normal for a reason.

Now you have young generations cheering on a CEO assassination and laughing when line goes down. "Why should boomers get to retire when I'll never get to retire?" after all. Have fun with the mess you made, you dinosaur retards.

This was an issue before Covid. Just it's getting worse. Also shitting on white men isn't a new thing. We cause all the world's problems after all.

We’ve got cows that fit this description.

It must suck being the real life version of Gilbert Grapes mom. LOL

 

[Orkeosaurus]

I'll stop playing video games when participating in society as a white male is worth it again.

 

[JaneThough]

But will you vote for this again in 2028?

 

[isalaide]

Don't forget about the most important one - correctly choosing which parents you are born to. Pro tip: make sure you pick the ones that drive you home from the hospital in an Audi.

Audi drivers are cunts though. Hold out for the parents with the Porsche or at worst one of those giant BMW SUVs, the ones like a panzer. Those parents have always read a lot of books about the importance of your happiness and shit like that.

 

[Super-Chevy454]

Playing video games excessively is a symptom not the disease.

Along with other symptoms like heavy metal music for example.

 

[Montalbane]

I am seeing in real time the birth of an unholy alliance between the boomergoy right and the feminist left.

Nigger and naggers the whole lot.

 

[JaneThough]

I am seeing in real time the birth of an unholy alliance between the boomergoy right and the feminist left.

Nigger and naggers the whole lot.

White men still think this administration is for them somehow. Remember how he riled a bunch of white men up to attack the capitol, then in the 2 weeks he had to pardon them he chose to let them rot for 4 years? Now they’re coming after your vidya.

Trump may actually say Gamergate in the end. When he orders all NEETs to the El Salvadoran gulag.

 

[Tablet County]

But will you vote for this again in 2028?

>will you vote for this again in 2028?
>will you vote
>vote

 

[AnotherOne]

Much as I hate to take away from the slapfight, I gotta ask, is this even an actual problem? Has anybody here actually known a male NEET that managed to scam the system into paying him enough NEETbux to actually live? Basically all the ones I met live off their parents' largesse. If their parents want to fund them, I don't see what business that is of the state's, unless you want to make the argument that the state should ensure everyone is being 'productive', which sounds like a really shit idea. We know who's actually hoovering up all the welfare money, but Republicans don't like criticizing them for some reason.

The issue isn't that men are getting neetbux. With some unlucky exceptions most NEET men won't need healthcare until they're 40+ so even if they technically qualify for medicaid they'll rarely use it. The issue is that men aren't providing the neetbux for other people. Healthcare-public and private alike-depends on a cohort of healthy people paying for the care of unhealthy people. If 'able-bodied' men rot in their parents basement that system (among many others) is undermined. This imo is the real reason institutions are starting to hand-wring about men being 'left-behind'.

 

[IAmNotAlpharius]

Cutting bennies now would be a bad idea. If the Republicans screw with the gibs they will lose in 2026 and 2028. Trump knows this. But the Boomer republicucks are salivating at the chance to fuck with poor people. They just can't help themselves. It's why I don't like republicans or conservatives either.

I have no problems with bennies so long as it goes to Americans and not foreigners.

The issue isn't that men are getting neetbux. With some unlucky exceptions most NEET men won't need healthcare until they're 40+ so even if they technically qualify for medicaid they'll rarely use it. The issue is that men aren't providing the neetbux for other people. Healthcare-public and private alike-depends on a cohort of healthy people paying for the care of unhealthy people. If 'able-bodied' men rot in their parents basement that system (among many others) is undermined. This imo is the real reason institutions are starting to hand-wring about men being 'left-behind'.

They want people to work and to get nothing in return. They’re angry people aren’t playing along with their plans.

 

[BradeRunna]

But will you vote for this again in 2028?

Will you ever go on a diet?

Along with other symptoms like heavy metal music for example.

I fucking love heavy metal music. Just stuff from the 80's though. Maybe early 90's Metallica.

White men still think this administration is for them somehow. Remember how he riled a bunch of white men up to attack the capitol, then in the 2 weeks he had to pardon them he chose to let them rot for 4 years? Now they’re coming after your vidya.

Trump may actually say Gamergate in the end. When he orders all NEETs to the El Salvadoran gulag.

I bet you have that nasty fat bitch smell so many guys talk about.

The issue isn't that men are getting neetbux. With some unlucky exceptions most NEET men won't need healthcare until they're 40+ so even if they technically qualify for medicaid they'll rarely use it. The issue is that men aren't providing the neetbux for other people. Healthcare-public and private alike-depends on a cohort of healthy people paying for the care of unhealthy people. If 'able-bodied' men rot in their parents basement that system (among many others) is undermined. This imo is the real reason institutions are starting to hand-wring about men being 'left-behind'.

Boomers fucked up the world now they want to whine about how no one wants anything to do about it. Boomers and women.

I have no problems with bennies so long as it goes to Americans and not foreigners.

They want people to work and to get nothing in return. They’re angry people aren’t playing along with their plans.

I want my bennies and I want them now!