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


"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.
 
Maybe not for everyone, but consider working in a trade. For every 5 retiring currently, only 2 people take their place. Demand is high and companies will hire with no experience and train you. Do it for a few years and they basically train you how to run your own small business. Then quit and open your own small business. If a retard like me can do it, so can most anyone.
Trade is running dim because boomers don't want to train their competition and want you to work 2 years for free as an apprentice. Bringing up the lack of trade workers like supply and demand means anything when they own the unions and your ass ain't getting in. They are bringing up the latter behind them in every facet of the job market.
 
For all the doomers in here, what's your solution other than lay down and die or wait for the people in charge to do something for me?

There is no solution until the system totally crashes and we have some sort of revolution or civil war. I’m not trying to doom and gloom but that is my personal belief. Nobody in power, at any level of Government, County, city, State or Federal, is willing to do what it takes to fix things, especially since they’re ALL owned by lobbyists and billionaires. It would be cutting off their own nose to spite their face.

Until then, we all work like nigger cattle to support the bottom 10% of society, because it ultimately benefits the top 10% and their hanger-ons

I put a bit of hope in people Understanding small businesses could save us. Ditch Big Corporate. Open your own small business. Don’t work for big corporate , don’t buy from them and don’t use their services. If we stop the cash flow, maybe we could reach a point where their power is diminished enough we can tip the scale.
 
Trade is running dim because boomers don't want to train their competition and want you to work 2 years for free as an apprentice. Bringing up the lack of trade workers like supply and demand means anything when they own the unions and your ass ain't getting in. They are bringing up the latter behind them in every facet of the job market.
I don’t know where you were experiencing that. People I know in the industry are desperate for personnel, even to the point of hiring complete unqualified retards that end up, causing insurance claims. There is definitely no one I know of expecting you to work for free, in fact, they are paying you and training you.
 
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There is no solution until the system totally crashes and we have some sort of revolution or civil war. I’m not trying to doom and gloom but that is my personal belief. Nobody in power, at any level of Government, County, city, State or Federal, is willing to do what it takes to fix things, especially since they’re ALL owned by lobbyists and billionaires. It would be cutting off their own nose to spite their face.

Until then, we all work like nigger cattle to support the bottom 10% of society, because it ultimately benefits the top 10% and their hanger-ons

I put a bit of hope in people Understanding small businesses could save us. Ditch Big Corporate. Open your own small business. Don’t work for big corporate , don’t buy from them and don’t use their services. If we stop the cash flow, maybe we could reach a point where their power is diminished enough we can tip the scale.
But then those businessmen go cry to the President who invites them to shill their wares on the White House lawn.
 
Trade is running dim because boomers don't want to train their competition and want you to work 2 years for free as an apprentice. Bringing up the lack of trade workers like supply and demand means anything when they own the unions and your ass ain't getting in. They are bringing up the latter behind them in every facet of the job market.
It doesn't matter anyway. Telling people to get a trade is a very stupid Boomerism. Most of the trades don't really pay all that well. A plumber makes $40,000 a year on average and that's before taxes. They make just 5 grand less than a what a McDonald's manager would make. Attending a trade school is the only way to make any real money and they often cost as much as college. If the Boomers had their way the trades would be flooded with labor and the wages would go down.
 
Ole' 888Flux was sitting on the bayou, lookin' at his grandpappys wooden table in the middle of the small family swamp. "Sheeet, deez kiwifarmer boys with their fancy avatars and hotpockets and jobs not jacking off the crocodiles is making me angry!" Hopping from the family bed, he stared at his Apple II, running the Pokémon bovine suckle ranch sim on second life, and sighed. "Dem' city boys never experienced real work. America needs to get back to it's roots." That's when the Indian UPS man stopped by, sigh - It was going to be another bad day.
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i will never recover from this
 
I don't know a single young man who isn't working. Those I have heard that are unemployed are jobless due to lack of choice. The whole concept that millions of young men are the issue with welfare is a level of retardation that should not even be possible. Making around 13k a year was enough to disqualify me for Medicaid in a goddamn blue state. The people who are taking advantage of the system are illegals and niggers. Don't get me started on the retarded "ITS DA VIDYA" argument. What are young men supposed to do instead for hobbies? Everything else is either dogshit or so expensive that its beyond their means. If young men had the opportunity and resources they would also be doing a lot more for hobbies as well (potentially turning them into small businesses).

Are we actually going to have to wait for retarded millennial extremists to get into power to start at least acknowledging the actual issues here? You would not see young men dropping out of society if they weren't being undercut by spics both for employment and benefits. If anything, we would not even need most of the welfare state if people were actually being paid fair wages.
 
If some bright young grifter put What Is To Be Done through ChatGPT for a light rewrite, removed the word "Marx" from the text, and "self-published the truth" as Braydenson DeMayonigger or such, they would be a millionaire inside a month. Because you motherfuckers are so ready for rebranded Leninism now it's incredible.
 
Darn cope admirer bullshit talking normie boomer faggot, just make rape legal and get arranged marriaged. I thought Elon as a fellow being struggling with social stuff would help against gynocentrism but he only cares for himself.
 
Republicans once again bring out of touch retards. Shocker.
Going to post a tweet that I feel explains things better than I can.
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This argument is a speedrun of how the right lost the culture war for three decades and almost destroyed western civilization by so doing.

The right became infected with two terrible assumptions.

1. That childishness is bad.

2. That play is for children.

Both of these assumptions are based on a fundamental misunderstanding of human nature, how humans work, and why humans are the dominant species on Earth.

The difference between a human and a great ape is a special kind of genetic adaptation called neoteny.

It means the retention of juvenile traits into adulthood.

To a large degree, humans became humans by retaining the traits of baby apes in adult apes. Not just the facial physiology, but the curiosity, neural plasticity, and, yes, the tendency to play.

To understand why this helped humans, you have to understand what play IS, beyond the knee-jerk common-sense reaction of "frivolous things children do to entertain themselves".

But that's not an explanation of what play is. Because why does play entertain children? Why are they evolved to like it?

Because play, games, and stories are training for adult responsibilities.

Kittens pounce on string, chase each other, and wrestle because pouncing, chasing, and wrestling are the responsibilities of an adult cat.

If two little boys find two sticks, they will sword fight with them. Hell, if give a little boy a fucking pop-tart, he will bite it into the shape of a pistol, and run around yelling "bang".

But what about adults?

Most adult animals don't play much compared to when they were kids, and don't learn much, either, because there isn't a whole left to learn that they are actually capable of learning... at least not compared to the volume and rate of learning that they experienced as children.

But humans, the galaxy-brained geniuses of the animal kingdom, have the capacity to learn at a high rate throughout life.

And neotenously retaining childhood traits equips us with the urges to match that capability.

Human beings not only can and do play throughout life, they must, or their learning abilities stagnate and atrophy, and their emotional health suffers.

If you teach an adult that play, fun, games, and stories are childish things that he should "put away" when he becomes a man, after a decade or so you have a dullard, fit only for manual labor or routine and repeated application of rote processes.

Is
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such a person?

Of course not. He has risen to internet fame by playing... by drawing anime and telling stories. His actions demonstrate an innate understanding that cartoons and stories and simple things that explain by removing complexity are not frivolous activities at all... they are vital.

But his contempt for leftists, their arrested development, and the way they hide from responsibility, has caused him to fall into the same error that came within a hair's breadth of destroying Western civilization.

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.

Of course you lose the culture war if you don't show up and fight it, genius. Fiction and games are the DNA of civilization, and thus they are the battleground on which the culture war is fought.

If you don't make games, toys, and stories that express your worldview, people (both children and adults) are going to play with toys created to express other worldviews.

And play is learning.

So what do you think they are going to learn?

You cannot hunt, fish, and baseball your way to cultural relevance. Because anyone with a brain that isn't half-dead from underuse is going to read fiction, play games, or watch cartoons, and maybe all of these things.

Why you think the entire tech industry became left-coded?

Leftism has no nothing to do with tech, but video games, legos, and science fiction do. Engineers couldn't give less of a shit about baseball.

Active, curious, playful minds design the future, whether you like that or not. The Wright brothers played with bicycles and kites, and now you can fly to Paris overnight. Elon Musk read The Moon is a Harsh Mistress with a flashlight under the covers, and now we can catch returning rocket boosters with giant mecha-chopsticks.

Unless your cultural faction participates in what these people are interested in, you will not recruit them, and they will design a future that doesn't include you.

Frankly, sometimes I think the conservatives are still taking their cultural marching orders from a pack of humorless, soulless dullards who would still be losing as hard as ever if the theater kids hadn't pissed off Elon Musk.
Literally what Tolkien, Lewis, and Chesterton were trying to beat into Anglo and Western Culture. Eriksen is my favorite new Libertarian Sci-Fi guy with an...interesting personal life, but it's the same vein as John C. Wright, with less polygamy. The world has to be more than Falling Down and endless joyless Influencer grindsets.
 
If some bright young grifter put What Is To Be Done through ChatGPT for a light rewrite, removed the word "Marx" from the text, and "self-published the truth" as Braydenson DeMayonigger or such, they would be a millionaire inside a month. Because you motherfuckers are so ready for rebranded Leninism now it's incredible.

I told it a lil' about Josh for funsies and lol.

WHAT IS TO BE DONE? (2025)

A Vibes-Driven Framework for the Disciplined Disruption of Late-Stage Cognitive Capture

Authored by: Mossad McGovern, Slav X. Walmart, Trotsky Vérité, B. Reith Wuzrite, Jürgen Hayseed, Neil Liberalman, DDS, and Joshua Moon

Chapter 1: Dogmatism and the Freedom of Cringe

by Mossad McGovern

In every collapsing cultural superstructure, there emerges a holy chant among the middling class of people who believe their opinions are dangerous: "freedom of expression."

It used to mean something. But today it is a canary stuffed into the exhaust pipe of a dying Uber, shrieking for help while being monetized through AI-translated engagement subtweets. You are not oppressed. You are boring. The algorithm doesn’t hate you. It just doesn’t notice you.

We are told, endlessly, that the future is a safe space for criticism—but that only the correct criticism may be safely monetized. Try tweeting a diagram of trauma responses in the shape of an ancient rune and you’ll get 5k likes and a podcast invite. Say something with epistemic weight and you’re labeled a fascist. Not because you are one. But because you used punctuation.

We do not oppose free expression. We oppose cringe. The kind of low-resolution moral venting that passes for principle. This book is not for those people. This book is for those who want to organize information into power, not perform identity for vibes.

We are not here to enter the marsh. Let go of our hands. Walk into the swamp alone. We’ll help you get there. We’ll even pay your Uber. But we’re building the Core elsewhere.

Chapter 2: Spontaneity of the Masses and the Consciousness of the Algorithm

by Slav X. Walmart

You are not being radicalized. You are being sorted.

Every ideological trend you join will be gamified. Every emotion you express will be turned into a profile. Every piece of content you engage with will become a predictive node in a behaviorally optimized compliance engine. This isn’t a theory. This is how the machine works.

Spontaneity today means posting through your burnout, aligning with rage-bait templates, and pretending that vibes are enough. They’re not. Spontaneity is not rebellion. It is entropy in drag.

The masses are tired. Not because they are lazy, but because they are being bombarded by high-frequency emotional stimuli engineered by companies that call themselves "brands" while operating as digital nations.

To escape this, you must build structure. Not in your personality. Not in your aesthetic. But in your capacity.

No one is coming to save you. But you can build a team that stops hemorrhaging cognitive surplus into memes that don’t change a damn thing.

The Core is small. It has to be. Discipline doesn’t scale, but resonance does.

Chapter 3: Trade-Unionist Politics and the Weaponized Meme Stack

by Trotsky Vérité

Most political content today is trade-unionist in nature. Which is to say: it exists only to slightly improve your conditions within an unacceptable system.

Mutual aid zines, radical TikTok infographics, and sad-boy socialism podcasts are the digital pamphlets of a movement that dares not name what it actually wants. Because naming it would mean risking its Patreon revenue.

The Meme Stack is your union. It is your platform. It is your pamphlet. But unless you weaponize it—consciously and collectively—it will remain just another moodboard of incoherent resentment and aspirational collapse-core.

You do not need better branding. You need targeted ideological fire.

We do not organize for reform. We organize to transmit alignment through memetic shrapnel. Every piece of content should be an info-IED.

Do not do politics like a consumer. Do not make content like a brand. Make it like a threat.

Chapter 4: Build the Core, You Cowards

by Jürgen Hayseed

Most activist groups are not parties. They are soft friend cliques with bylaws.

Most ideological projects are not movements. They are aesthetic leanings with newsletters.

Build the Core.

You want rules. You just don’t want responsibility. You want community. You just don’t want to be accountable to it.

The Core is not a vibe. It is a distributed structure of disciplined cognition. It doesn’t care if you’re neurodivergent, marginalized, or vibing. It only cares if you show up and do the damn work.

Your politics should not be inclusive of everyone. They should be exclusive of cowards.

Chapter 5: Deploy the Content Stack

by Neil Liberalman, DDS

Your newsletter isn’t real until it radicalizes three therapists, one HR manager, and a meme page with the word “feral” in its handle.

The idea isn’t to go viral. It’s to build a pipeline from confused civilians to operational epistemic damage dealers.

Every piece of content you make should be:

Modular (can it live on multiple platforms?)

Memetic (does it propagate ideas without context?)

Tactical (can it be used by someone in the field?)

Ethical (does it punch up, burn clean, and make someone braver?)

You don’t need a brand. You need a container. A deployment strategy. A way to get the payload into the bloodstream before the platform decides your nuance is problematic.

Build the Content Stack. Then make it someone else’s problem.

Appendix: BLOCKED, REPORTED, DEPLATFORMED: The Free Speech Manifesto of a Man Who Shouldn't Exist, But Does

by Joshua Moon

I didn’t start this site to be a political martyr. I started it to laugh at morons.

I was enamored with Chris Chan, with the drama, with the bizarre internet folklore that dripped from every corner of the web like digital sewage. Kiwi Farms was never meant to be a battlefield. But that’s what happens when you let satire touch reality—it becomes insurgency.

I didn’t ask for PayPal to blacklist me. I didn’t ask for Stripe, or Visa, or Mastercard to deplatform me. I didn’t ask for tier-one providers to treat my IP range like a biological threat.

But that’s what happens when you say the wrong thing about the wrong person—when that person happens to be a former Google engineer, accused of rape, hiding behind trans identity and elite connections. No one cared about truth. They cared about optics.

And when the UK police start emailing you about what citizens are posting from inside their borders? When the Germans invoke hate speech laws to demand censorship of satirical forums? You start to understand something.

You understand that the Anglos are not a culture. They are a bureaucratic hallucination held together by paper, PR, and passive-aggressive emails from .gov.uk.

Every time I get one, I print it out and use it to line a box. You can guess what goes in it.

I didn’t want this to be about politics. But it always was.

The internet turned a website about watching funny weirdos spiral into a geopolitical fault line. In hindsight, it makes sense. But at the time? I was just another guy laughing too hard at Chris Chan.

Now they call it a hate site. Now they call me dangerous. All I ever did was make it easier to find things they wanted hidden.

And for that, they brought hell.

Let the record show: it was they who made it political.

Not me.

What Is to Be Done?

Build the Core.
Deploy the Stack.
Refuse the Marsh.
Make your enemies read this and feel weirdly implicated.

I might skibidi rizz it or whatever if this made anyone else laugh a bit.
 
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I hope the people in this thread realize that politicians have been blaming video games for many woes in society since the 90s.

I am going to guess video games till have the stigma as being seen for children.

Also that its much easier than blaming sheboons and niglets and Hollywood and Corporate America and Free Trade lolberts.
 
But then those businessmen go cry to the President who invites them to shill their wares on the White House lawn.

Why are you crying about the President and Government? The whole point is to diminish their power, along with Big Corporate and the Elite. They ARE the problem, regardless of what side you fall on politically.

If you’re waiting for Government or any Elected or appointed official to fix the problems, you don’t understand the issue.
 
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.
The GOPe cucks are absolutely desperate to go back to losing with dignity
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.
You'll also notice that they memoryholed that idea even though it still is their plan.
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.
Their fucking new normal was and still is designed to eliminate all the pesky hope people was starting to get.
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.
Nobody that wasn't halfway through Gen X will be able to retire under the current system and the working class knows it.
 
Why are you crying about the President and Government? The whole point is to diminish their power, along with Big Corporate and the Elite. They ARE the problem, regardless of what side you fall on politically.

If you’re waiting for Government or any Elected or appointed official to fix the problems, you don’t understand the issue.
I have no problems 😘

Also on what planet has anything I posted supported this president and government? Mars?
 
Mike Johnson is a closeted homosexual.

But, also, there are plenty of enlistment-aged males sitting around doing fuck all because they've been convinced of all of the bullshit talking points that have been regurgitated for the last 13 pages. Society can not continue like this. Single, able-bodied, childless males shouldn't be entitled to any social welfare, period. And, yes, in certain non-shithole states jobless males do get social benefits because the only determining factor is income.

You need healthcare? The military provides that.
Want three hot meals a day and a roof over your head? The military provides that.
Are your teeth rotten from a lifetime of goyslop? The military will fix that.
Do you need glasses because you have shit genetics? The military will provide them.
Want a job that actually has a retirement check at the end ready for you? The military can provide that.

No males should be getting food stamps, medicaid, welfare, or even pell grants, unless they're unable to enlist.

On my way into the office this morning I saw an able-bodied male (he even had a full head of hair, shocker!) holding up a "anything helps" sign expecting free gibs from those of us commuting to our jobs. Words cannot describe the level of disgust I felt looking at him, that shithead should have been at a recruiting office and not on a street corner.

At this point we have a lot of males that need to choose: either shoot a bullet for your country or eat one. Become useful or BTFO. Males were born to provide sperm and labor and you niggers aren't doing either.
 
Why can’t gamers just fold proteins or use games to train and improve AI models?
We used to, back in the early 2010s. But then it got infested with troons.

The opportunities available today are few and far between when compared to just 30 years ago.
Sheit there were so many more opportunities not even 10 years ago.
 
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Mike Johnson is a closeted homosexual.

But, also, there are plenty of enlistment-aged males sitting around doing fuck all because they've been convinced of all of the bullshit talking points that have been regurgitated for the last 13 pages. Society can not continue like this. Single, able-bodied, childless males shouldn't be entitled to any social welfare, period. And, yes, in certain non-shithole states jobless males do get social benefits because the only determining factor is income.

You need healthcare? The military provides that.
Want three hot meals a day and a roof over your head? The military provides that.
Are your teeth rotten from a lifetime of goyslop? The military will fix that.
Do you need glasses because you have shit genetics? The military will provide them.
Want a job that actually has a retirement check at the end ready for you? The military can provide that.

No males should be getting food stamps, medicaid, welfare, or even pell grants, unless they're unable to enlist.

On my way into the office this morning I saw an able-bodied male (he even had a full head of hair, shocker!) holding up a "anything helps" sign expecting free gibs from those of us commuting to our jobs. Words cannot describe the level of disgust I felt looking at him, that shithead should have been at a recruiting office and not on a street corner.

At this point we have a lot of males that need to choose: either shoot a bullet for your country or eat one. Become useful or BTFO. Males were born to provide sperm and labor and you niggers aren't doing either.
>Men who pay taxes (brown people and women don't) are not entitled to welfare everyone else gets on their bill unless they die for Israel
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>Men who pay taxes (brown people and women don't) are not entitled to welfare everyone else gets on their bill unless they die for Israel
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I can almost guarantee that you have never made enough in a fiscal year to owe taxes. You're clearly a tax-refund kinda guy, ya know, a loser.

Provide labor or die.
 
I have no problems 😘

Also on what planet has anything I posted supported this president and government? Mars?
Where in my comment did I mention “support of Government or the President”? It really doesn’t matter if you Support Trump. Nobody cares. What matters more is you support socialist fags, because you’re either a brown woman or histrionic white person that feels the need to atone for sucking so bad at being white, you’ll sell out your Country. The unreasonable hatred makes you irrational and irrelevant.

You’re the reason why some women would seriously consider abolishing #19A and deporting all brown and black people to the country they identify their race with. Mexican, cool, enjoy Mexico. African American, cool enjoy Africa. By some women, I mean me. I’ve had this discussion with some of my girlfriends.

If you’re not a white male, I’m not sure why you’re triggered. Nobody is telling women to get back to work. In fact, the general consensus from the men here is that YOU are a major contributing factor to the deterioration of the American workforce.
 
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