To justify Medicaid cuts, House Speaker Mike Johnson says the healthcare program leads to "able-bodied young men" playing videogames instead of working.
  • snekerpimp@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    Where are they getting the money for the games? Those are expensive as shit, I’m still making do with games I bought decades ago because I can’t afford new ones.

    How are they eating? Food is fucking expensive, are they getting free food as well?

    How are they paying rent? Have to have a roof over your head and electricity in your walls to play video games all day.

    This mother fucker thinks all guys are like his son, lazy mother fuckers mooching off their parents. What a dumb, ignorant moron.

    • captainlezbian@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0·
      2 years ago

      I think he might be speaking about 16 year old boys. He seems mad that they’re children instead of working father’s.

  • WraithGear@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    He knows this is false. It’s bait, that even i see this time. There really is nothing to see here

  • Thrillhouse@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    People are checking out because the middle class is non-existent. It doesn’t matter how hard you work - the the prospect of getting ahead, owning a home, retirement is out of reach for the vast majority of people.

    People can work hard and stress themselves out or they can check out of the system and achieve largely the same result.

    This is about the failures of late stage capitalism. To claim the issue is free healthcare is gaslighting.

      • Coelacanth@feddit.nuEnglish
        0·
        2 years ago

        Didn’t you know sex is bad? It’s absolutely reprehensible and the only allowable exception is for the purposes of procreation, where you are allowed only to use the missionary position and your lawfully wedded wife is to be completely obscured by a blanket covering her entire body apart from a small hole in her crotch area. You can not look down or touch her body with your hands at any point, you should be reciting prayer the entire time and preferably keep one hand on the Bible during the whole process.

        All other ways to engage with sexual acts and sexuality are unnatural, ungodly and frankly disgusting.

  • Treczoks@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    Just a normal US politician. They lost all connection to reality ages ago. Take his ID papers away and let him survive on minimum wage jobs somewhere where nobody knows his sorry face.

    • whotookkarl@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      Become a congressperson, they get Medicare for life just like every other citizen should have but don’t because Congress will grant it to themselves but not everyone else. If it’s good enough for them it should be good enough to cover us.

    • Buelldozer@lemmy.todayEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      Get elected to the US Congress. They don’t do anything and get 6 figure salaries AND free Healthcare!

  • DarkFuture@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    Hey look, an “elite” with absolutely no concept of how actual reality works, who’s just trying to stir up a base consisting of people with IQs smaller than their shoe size.

    I promise you, if I could stay home all day and play video games by somehow using free healthcare, I’d be doing it.

    • Jarix@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0·
      2 years ago

      Dunno if it is satire, i honestly am struggling to tell these days, but there’s a post that says this fucker routinely plays surgeon simulator while attending meetings…on twitch

  • Jaysyn@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    This is rich coming from someone that has literally never worked a days labor in their lives.

    Young men as a cohort have a 90% employment rate.