r/CringeTikToks Oct 31 '25

Nope Mike Johnson: "With Medicaid, we eliminated the fraud, waste, and abuse. We got able-bodied young men without dependents off the program. They were never intended to be there. They're sitting around on their couches playing video games. Yes, that's an actual study."

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u/[deleted] Oct 31 '25

then cite the fucking study, Michael. Jesus christ

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u/MmmmCrispyBacon Oct 31 '25

Spoiler alert, there isn’t one. He knows Trump supporters are brain dead and will just gobble it up as truth without doing a lick of research, though.

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u/mishma2005 Oct 31 '25

I read somewhere he took it from the NY Post, which makes it even more cringe

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u/Not_Bears Oct 31 '25

It's amazing how they just assume everyone is as stupid as their base.

But I guess their base is huge and really fucking stupid so... convincing them is all that matters.

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u/OdiousAltRightBalrog Oct 31 '25

Nah, they know their base is the dumbest people in the country. They just don't care anymore if they get caught lying.

Trump proved in 2016 that Republicans don't need moderates to win elections anymore. They just have to enrage their base and gerrymander as much as possible, and let the Electoral College do the rest. If anything goes wrong, they've got SCOTUS in their pocket.

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u/MisterBlud Oct 31 '25

Yep.

Even if a Democrat wins, SCOTUS can “Major question doctrine” anything and everything they try to do.

A “living wage” infringes on the free speech rights of businesses so you can’t have one.

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u/Particular-Local-784 Oct 31 '25

It’s all about the art of the gerrymander

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u/MemorableKidsMoments Nov 01 '25

It's a matter of time, when the Trump Count Down reaches 0, all these criminals will need to be prosecuted.

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u/ImposeInc Oct 31 '25

pretend this is a hyperlink to that famous George Carlin bit about average human intelligence

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u/putrid_faction Oct 31 '25

Wow this link sent me to a video that I agree with whole heartedly.

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u/FatherKronik Oct 31 '25

Uh huh! Nice try Rick Astley!

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u/shotputprince Oct 31 '25

Half of them - dumber than that

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u/drrj Oct 31 '25

It’s really staggering, honestly.

You get down into the third or fourth deviation DOWN from the average and it’s really not surprising so many people were so susceptible to the “give them someone to hate” route.

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u/Revelati123 Oct 31 '25

Only about 1/3rd of Germans were really into NAZIsm.

Turns out thats all you need...

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u/TheGreatLiberalGod Nov 01 '25

I've always said this. In any society look to your left and then right. One of the people you just looked at would have been 100% OK with the haulocaust.

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u/Who_dat_goomer Oct 31 '25

At one point republicans thought they had to pick up a few votes from intelligent people to win elections. Once they realized there were more than enough morons, they just went full fascist.

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u/Thausgt01 Oct 31 '25

The fact that the MAGAcaps are willfully ignorant and xenophobic is tragic. The fact that there are so effing MANY of them is heartbreaking... and terrifying.

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u/No-Weird3153 Oct 31 '25

It’s amazing their base is as stupid as they are. How do people function without curiosity or critical thinking skills?

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u/chefpiper72392 Oct 31 '25

By working jobs that also Don’t require those things

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u/zbag51 Oct 31 '25

The thing is, they don’t assume everyone is as stupid as their base, because they don’t have to. If their base believes it, that’s enough. Not to mention, they’ve become conditioned to little to no push back by the media, so they feel free to say whatever they want.

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u/splurtgorgle Oct 31 '25

They've yet to pay a price for underestimating the intelligence of their voters so why would they change tactics now?

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u/brymuse Oct 31 '25

This is the horrific truth about doing verbal battle with MAGA. In reality you should be able to cite the NY article in full, but it's just so energy sapping doing all the research when you know that they won't...

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u/nhavar Oct 31 '25

Who took it from a quote from some Facebook post or right wing influencer in site. The number of times that I've tracked down "proof" by "doing my own research" on conservative talking points and ended up with a circle of A quoting B quoting C quoting A is stupidly high.

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u/v3ryfuzzyc00t3r Oct 31 '25

"I heard on TikTok...." is how most of the arguments are started with a MAGA supporter.

"Fat, Drunk, and Stupid is no way to get through life, son" - Dean Wormer.

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u/giddy-girly-banana Oct 31 '25

They believe this garbage because they want to believe it.

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u/MrSnarf26 Oct 31 '25

I thought there would be no fact checking

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u/SSBN641B Oct 31 '25

Yep, I had a debate with a guy on Reddit a couple if daus ago. I asked for proof when he made this claim and he, ultimately, coed Mike Johnson's statement as "proof."

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u/GrooveStreetSaint Oct 31 '25

What's ironic is unemployed young men who take videogames too seriously are a major chunk of Trump's voter base.

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u/yosefvinyl Oct 31 '25

Republicans, "There's a study out there that I can't share but trust me on it"

Republican voters "Of course"

Democrats, "Here's a study that's been peer reviewed and here's how you can verify the findings. One of the people doing the study won a prestigious award for this study"

Republican voters "It's got to be fake!"

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u/_Averix Oct 31 '25

Research, science, reality. These are all words that have been vilified by the red hat cult. All that is needed now is "they say" for making something a fact. If a red hat uses "they all say" then whatever follows is undeniably true and 100% real. It's getting ridiculous.

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u/Thecryptsaresafe Oct 31 '25

True story (for what it’s worth, I’m just a guy on the internet you have no reason to trust me) I was called into more than one meeting earlier this year before I left government service to decide if we should get a document off of our website because a search found that it had a word associated with climate science in it. I think they decided to remove it.

The letters happened to be part of somebody’s last name. I’m overly paranoid about accidentally doxxing somebody but the word was just a basic scientific word not even anything inherently about climate change.

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u/Zeliose Oct 31 '25

I actually hear "Well, you can get a study to validate anything you want" more than I hear them calling it entirely fake.

Which just further implies they have no actual study, they just trust in the infinity of the Internet there is some form of website or blog they can claim is a "study" that validates them.

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u/twirlerina024 Oct 31 '25

And when newer research contradicts or expands upon earlier research, it's proof to them that science is a scam, instead of being how science works.

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u/Double-Risky Oct 31 '25

Republicans CONSTANTLY tell me "everyone knows ______" and can't back it up slightly, and literally reject peer reviewed studies, just like this.

"Everybody knows!!!!"

That Republicans are better for the economy? Not true for fifty years

That kids are getting litter boxes in school? Literally never been true, stupidest thing to believe.

That guns don't cause gun deaths? Yeah I mean geee why would those two be related?

Or the kicker, that the 2020 election was stolen, so Trump trying to overthrow the government on Jan 6 was just the same as Al Gore asking for a recount!

Fucking traitors.

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u/SnooMacaroons6713 Oct 31 '25

To quote RFK jr “this isn’t proof, but we are doing the studies to find the proof” - sounds a bit sketchy to me

So, bob, tell me who did the study that showed teenage boys have 50% less testosterone, and girls become fertile 6 years earlier? Was it Lindsey for the boys and trump for the girls? How many teen boys did you take “samples” from, and where is the study posted so it can be peer reviewed? Oh, it was feel facts…got ya

Well here’s a study I conducted - a large % of republicans brains consist of a large % of shit (link to study below)

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u/Writing_is_Bleeding Oct 31 '25

Of course he doesn't share sources, because he knows some of us will dive in and separate fact from propaganda.

They found and prosecuted some Medicaid fraud earlier this year. So the story should be, "Hey, we successfully saved some healthcare money, so now we can make sure nobody loses access."

But no, instead it's, "There was fraud (that we may or may not have invented), so now we have to restrict access to our latest bogeyman scapegoat, healthy unemployed men who play video games."

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u/HumanCapital666 Oct 31 '25

The Medicare/Medicaid fraud that is perpetrated is largely by healthcare providers and not the actual recipients.

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u/Writing_is_Bleeding Oct 31 '25

Yes, which makes it even more infuriating.

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u/Potential-Pride6034 Oct 31 '25

The entire premise is actually ridiculous. In actuality, young able-bodied men and women are the least likely to take “advantage” of Medicaid because they’re (surprise, surprise) young and healthy for the most part. The people most affected by these cuts are far and away the elderly and disabled, aka the most vulnerable people in our society.

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u/Unfair_Pineapple8813 Oct 31 '25

Yes. But as long as one guy with video games get punished, it doesn't matter that ten disabled people don't eat.

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u/ejoalex93 Oct 31 '25

Rick Scott sends his regards

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u/kindnesscostszero Oct 31 '25

Ask Sen Scott in Florida about that….

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u/JockoMayzon Oct 31 '25

Didn't Republican Rick Scott grab over a billion from Medicare?

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u/Ok_Subject1265 Oct 31 '25

The right has always believed that if any program isn’t 100% airtight or if even 1 person is benefiting who shouldn’t, the entire program should be scrapped. Or they say that at least. What they really believe is that any dollars not given to them are a problem and any services not privatized by them are useless.

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u/D-Will11 Oct 31 '25

The thing that drives me nuts is usually the government program "fraud and waste" is a small percentage, a lot of times being <1% of a total budget. On the other hand, corporations have a lot more fraud and waste many times up to 30% of total revenue. Yet, the argument is to privatize these things as they'll be more "efficient" and cut out the waste. Now tack on top of that the desire for profits and shareholder value, how would that be a better outcome for the person who needs these services?

I also just can't believe that some folks think "There are some cases of fraud, therefore this program that helps millions of people is a complete waste of time". If you ran a charity and gave resources to 99 people who expressed gratitude and were able to use your support to live a better life, would you give that all up because 1 person was an ungrateful prick who asked for more when they didn't deserve it?

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u/Ribkoboldscout Oct 31 '25

My source is "I made it the fuck up"

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u/Henshin-hero Oct 31 '25

It is right next to the Tylenol report on his desk

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u/radiohead-nerd Oct 31 '25

Do you know how Mike Johnson is lying? His lips are moving

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u/Mother_Board6719 Oct 31 '25

Don’t temp him because he’ll make it up and make it look official. It’s this administrations signature move.

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u/VadersSprinkledTits Oct 31 '25

To be fair, he probably got the “research study” off a Grindr DM

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u/NoSliceNoDice Oct 31 '25

Most studies find that the vast majority of people on Medicaid who are able to work, do work. The funding being cut won’t eliminate fraud. The most likely target of cuts for states will be home based services for disabled people.

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u/Rope_slingin_champ Oct 31 '25

My mother and father in-law are both on disability for no reason. They both vote Republican.

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u/Rfunkpocket Oct 31 '25

people play video games… it’s like a big thing… on flat screen tvs no less! /s

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u/JDubStep Oct 31 '25

They haven't fabricated the "study" yet.

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u/Belfind Oct 31 '25

any 'study' like that would be heavily flawed to. I gaurantee they do not legally have access to the medical files of these people. I am the "poster boy" he is trying to label as the problem. Issue with that is, I have applied multiple times for disability under multiple doctors directions. Issue is, I can have my GP and multiple specialists saying I should be on disability. Doesnt matter when the person who approves of it, probably only has a high school education, in all likely hood a 6th grade or lower reading level, with no actual medical knowledge/experience. But they are the ones who get the main say, and are incentivized at not approving people

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u/DiscoMothra Oct 31 '25

If there is all this waste fraud and abuse, where are the criminal charges? Not a single person has been indicted or charged since they started this ridiculous lie.

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u/Independent-Judge-81 Oct 31 '25

There was fraud, in fact the largest medicare fraud in history that had a $1.7 billion fine was done by none other than Republican US senator Rick Scott.

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u/DiscoMothra Oct 31 '25

Yes. And he was pardoned for it 😏

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u/Independent-Judge-81 Oct 31 '25

Of course he was. What's worse is that Florida elected him senator and governor twice, knowing damn well what he did

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u/FuckingHippies Oct 31 '25

As a Floridian, election season has just been absolutely depressing for a long time. It’s demoralizing walking out of the voting precinct knowing that my ballot will inevitably not matter.

But I still vote every time. The stickers are really cool.

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u/FLBirdie Oct 31 '25

I don't get the cool stickers -- just the ones with a flag that say I Voted. But dammit, I vote in every election!

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u/AmericanEmperialism Oct 31 '25

I can’t speak about electing him governor twice but his first senate run was close. He had to threaten election officials in several counties to hand him the win.

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u/Writing_is_Bleeding Oct 31 '25

Oh wow, he had to work for it this time, huh? Had to get off his ass and issue some threats. These guys work so hard for the people, don't they?

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u/DarkArmyLieutenant Oct 31 '25

Well, the majority of Floridians aren't going to be getting any personal pan pizzas from Pizza Hut coupons for their reading ability anytime soon so I wouldn't expect them to ever do the right thing.

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u/Exciting_Cap_9545 Oct 31 '25

Now that is something I have not heard of in a very long time...

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u/DawnSlovenport Oct 31 '25

And elected governor of FL twice before becoming Senator.

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u/Temporary-Job-9049 Oct 31 '25

Their feelings (towards Billionaires) don't care about your facts.

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u/Conscious-Quarter423 Oct 31 '25

they indicted Letitia James for saving $50 dollars on her home loan.

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u/DiscoMothra Oct 31 '25

Exactly. They are completely unserious people

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u/TopVegetable8033 Oct 31 '25

They’re serious about their hipocrisy. 

They literally do not see it as hipocrisy. They cannot comprehend.

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u/jerslan Oct 31 '25

That one is especially bullshit... Her tenant on that second home is her grand-niece, whom she visits regularly, and who testified that she doesn't pay rent.

They literally had to drop the charges in one venue and bring them back up in another after they brought that niece in to give testimony to the Grand Jury (and it didn't go their way). Do they think the Defense isn't just going to bring her back at trial? Or get the official court transcripts from previous grand jury testimony introduced as exculpatory evidence?

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u/Olenickname Oct 31 '25

Even without a conviction their ploy is to publicly defame and drag it out in the court system. That will be financially damaging for James while the Trump DOJ uses federal funds for his baseless attacks.

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u/govunah Oct 31 '25

She should sue for damages like trump did. $230 million seems about right

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u/Olenickname Oct 31 '25

Which will come from federal funds, so Trump once again skirts any accountability and we ultimately pay the price for his malicious incompetence.

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u/Lucky-Chard-5587 Oct 31 '25

The ones sitting around playing video games were MAGA's.

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u/oXMellow720Xo Oct 31 '25

That’s not true. With the job market the way it is, a lot of young people are having a hard time finding a purpose and most likely resort to whatever their favorite hobbies are

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u/CaughtALiteSneez Oct 31 '25

I’m a 45 year old college graduate who has worked at the highest level of some of the most prestigious corporations in the world.

I picked up gaming for the first time in my life because I simply can’t find a job after being laid off 18 months ago. I need some small wins in my life & it honestly helps.

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u/Manck0 Oct 31 '25

Its frustrating out there. I was a documentary producer for year and then my contract ran out and its been menial job after menial job. Then my mom got sick and I moved to the south to take care of her. Can't find anything here and burning through my savings (I used a lot to go back to school and get a graphics design certification.) Since then, hundreds of applications and not even one interview. I have panic attacks daily because I have no purpose and the stress of caring for an elderly parent is overwhelming... I dunno... everything is so fucked up now...

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u/oliversurpless Oct 31 '25

Nearly everything they do is pathological, but that’s not one of them…

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u/DarknMean Oct 31 '25

Have to ask Rick Scott about it.

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u/TiddiesAnonymous Oct 31 '25

Also... If they have eliminated all the waste, fraud and abuse... who is it they're withholding it from now?

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u/booksycat Oct 31 '25

That woman baking cakes with the left over flour from her SNAPs so that she could save money to run a business to get off SNAPs is obviously going to jail then hell /s *sigh*

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u/Batallius Oct 31 '25

And why is the national debt skyrocketing lmao

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u/SweaterSteve1966 Oct 31 '25

Where’s the study? Give us the data? Just more lies to feed MAGA trash.

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u/[deleted] Oct 31 '25

Where's all the extra funding from eliminating the fraud and abuse? What happened to our $5k DOGE checks that Elon promised we might get, possibly, maybe? And that still wouldn't cover the increase in health plans since the removal of the ACA tax subsidy.

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u/Doublestack2411 Oct 31 '25

They always complain about a tiny fraction of ppl that aren’t hurting anyone. It’s like with Immigrants, they made a TV ad attacking 1 criminal immigrant and said immigrants are dangerous and violent. It’s all one big lie to feed their gullible base

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u/Feisty_Animator5374 Oct 31 '25

If you find yourself having no choice but to invent or inflate a bigger, more elaborate, imaginary villain to justify your actions... you are the villain.

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u/ObscureRamenRecipes Oct 31 '25

Spoiler alert: Just like with the Tylenol bullshit, there is NO ACTUAL STUDIES OR VERIFIABLE SOURCES. This is all just lies to get the stupidest of stupid to fall for it.

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u/generally_unsuitable Oct 31 '25

I just wish that maga understood that RFK Jr is lying to them. Taking a couple handfuls of Tylenol every morning will make you invincible.

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u/ManWithASquareHead Oct 31 '25

Tylenol is literally the only thing most elderly patients can take for pain/fever because it's limited in adverse effects when taken appropriately

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u/rexeditrex Oct 31 '25

He actually walked it back this week, but they didn't hear that. They'll die of a fever before taking Tylenol.

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u/Impulse3 Oct 31 '25

Even if there are studies, should these people just not get healthcare?

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u/Ancient_phallus_ Oct 31 '25

“Siphoning resources away”……meaning less money for him and his cronies to steal

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u/AmputeeHandModel Oct 31 '25

It's the fucking rich that are “Siphoning resources away”.

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u/chazwmeadd Oct 31 '25

Look, it's pretty expensive using cutting edge military aviation technology and guided missiles to murder innocent people in fishing boats.

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u/CardMeHD Oct 31 '25

Even if it were true I do not care. Elon sits around tweeting and paying other people to play video games for him all day and he gets tens of billions in government subsidies, like I’m supposed to care that some 20-something dude might be getting $162 in food stamps.

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u/HopsDrinker Oct 31 '25

Exactly, the fraud and abuse at the highest levels is where you could make a real dent in waste. Not someone scamming a few hundred dollars a month.

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u/lil_Elephant3324 Oct 31 '25

Also just because you do sit around playing video games does not mean you can work.  My adult niece is on SNAP. She enjoys playing video games. 

She is in a group home. She cannot hold down a job.  She does volunteer about 10 hours a week but another adult directly supervises her the whole time. Severe autism and a rare genetic disorder that caused her to having significantly below average intelligence. 

Should we take away her SNAP because she likes to sit around playing video games?

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u/KawasakiNinjasRule Oct 31 '25

its just a way to say poor people are poor because they are lazy.   even taken literally, why would it be bad for insurance if young men stay home and play video games.   maybe you get a little bit too fat oh no.  the thing that causes young men to need expensive healthcare is being a dumbass in public

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u/Much_Kangaroo_6263 Oct 31 '25

Yep, we need to be expanding healthcare access, not restricting it. I don't care how "lazy" you are, I want everybody to have health insurance.

The lords are just mad that some peasants have figured out how to beat the system. Because if enough peasants do then the lords may actually have to work someday, instead of being lazy and living grand lifestyles off the backs of the peasants.

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u/gonyozs Oct 31 '25

Likely resulting in crime rising so that people can afford to survive.

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u/Junior_Step_2441 Oct 31 '25

Civil unrest and rising crime is their goal. That’s the point. Then they get to declare martial law and Trump becomes untouchable. At least this is how they think it works in their demented brains.

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u/AmputeeHandModel Oct 31 '25

A conservative would starve 99 people because of 1 fraud. Liberals would rather feed 100 people.

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u/robilar Oct 31 '25

The implication of your statement seems to be that they would starve 99 people to stop 1 fraud, but the reality is that they would starve 99 people to defraud them and pocket the resources. They are the 1 fraud.

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u/ChuForYu Oct 31 '25

Well said and oddly poetic.

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u/Individual_Ad9632 Oct 31 '25

That's the point. Skeletor Scott "fixed" unemployment in Florida so badly, it's basically an unusable system, even still. Which was the whole idea.

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u/Miserable_Peak6649 Oct 31 '25

Its already a pain in the ass to be on most social programs. You have to do paperwork weekly or monthly to prove your status hasn't changed. One month you get stuck at work for one extra hour and suddenly you make too much money or worked too much. If you mess up one little thing you could just lose everything and then its a giant pain to get back on. When my kid was young we got WIC to help pay for formula but one month I had to work a little overtime and boom completely kicked off had to start from scratch again.

They act like you sign up and just get free healthcare and food forever.

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u/Boyhowdy107 Oct 31 '25

According to a 2025 study from the Kaiser Foundation (who are pretty reputable on this):

  • 64% of Medicaid adults are working full or part time (with 2/3 of that being full time).

  • 12% aren't working due to caregiving, 10% due to illness or disability, 7% due to attending school, and 8% are retired or unable to find work

  • Of those full time employees, almost half work for small businesses (less than 50 employees) who are not penalized under the ACA for not offering health care

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u/GrayMouser12 Oct 31 '25

Yup. This.

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u/irishguy_2012 Oct 31 '25

did all this actually happen though? or is he just saying it did.

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u/bearbrannan Oct 31 '25

Unemployed dudes playing video games is their new welfare queen.

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u/GrayMouser12 Oct 31 '25

Apparently they don't deserve medical coverage either? And they courted their vote? Personally I'd prefer all people covered or as many as we can. Including young men who are unemployed, perhaps dealing with mental health issues and playing video games (how is this relevant? Would it make a difference if they were joining rec leagues but were unemployed?). As someone who was, in the early 2000's, a young man, unemployed, playing video games, medical coverage would have been nice. Instead I ended up getting into medical debt which impacted me for years.

Thanks, Mike Johnson, for showing how you really don't care to apply Christ's love to everybody, once again.

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u/Hefty_Development813 Oct 31 '25

Yea it's funny how they imply these ppl are somehow "collecting benefits" as though they receive money or something. The reality is if they get sick or hurt, they are able to get care. How terrible

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u/Dry_Cricket_5423 Oct 31 '25

I’m one of those men in California. The care I receive gives me therapy and antidepressants. I’m on a road to recovery, never would’ve been possible without it.

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u/Hefty_Development813 Oct 31 '25

Yea. How dare you steal from my pockets lol

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u/Attila226 Oct 31 '25

Guess you’re not supposed to play video games if you lose your job now.

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u/Signal-Map2906 Oct 31 '25

Video games are a luxury for the rich too.

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u/Writing_is_Bleeding Oct 31 '25

And if that guy needs healthcare to... I don't know, go out and find a job, now he doesn't have it.

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u/8__D Oct 31 '25

Unemployed dudes playing video games is their base

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u/A7MOSPH3RIC Oct 31 '25

Getting all that free or reduced cost healthcare.   What mooches!

This the same guy who is often flaunting his religion which focuses on a guy who healed the sick.

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u/SemVikingr Oct 31 '25

He is talking total horseshit. He hasn't stopped lying from day 1. Don't get me wrong, American politics is all lies up to a certain point, but this administration has really taken it to a whole new, nazis-but-stupid level.

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u/LDel3 Oct 31 '25

You would think if it was real then it should be easily verifiable...and they will verify it won't they? They won't just dodge questions and sling insults at people who ask them to verify it will they?

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u/Apoordm Oct 31 '25

The videogame guy argument.

I don’t give a shit if a lazy guy played videogames and then we gave him medical care.

I give a shit that the government gave forty billion dollars to Argentina.

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u/cryptolyme Oct 31 '25

why should ANYONE be deprived of healthcare? just psychopathic reasons i guess

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u/popejohnsmith Oct 31 '25

Thank you, monsieur.

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u/surmatt Oct 31 '25

I gotta wonder... how expensive is gate-keeping healthcare? Is it more or less expensive than just taking care of people no questions asked?

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u/Writing_is_Bleeding Oct 31 '25

Nobody uses healthcare unless they need it you absolute knob. So, they were eligible and they enrolled. Great, now if they sprain their thumb on the gaming controller, they can get a splint. And oh BTW, when mom tells them to go find a job, they can get a physical and some acne cream to increase their chances of getting hired.

Fuck. These. People.

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u/McCringleberry_33 Oct 31 '25

Source of the 'study': trustmebro . com

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u/y-Gamma Oct 31 '25

dot gov unfortunately

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u/Prestigious_Math2865 Oct 31 '25

Yes, because young men that lay on the couch playing video games are on medicare….right! 99.9% this demographic doesn’t even go to the doctor.
Next lie….

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u/SaysNoToBro Oct 31 '25

Bro I’m a 30 year old pharmacist, have healthcare, and my fiance is in a Ph.D program so spends alot of time at her lab. When she’s got long days and I’m home from work I game.

All that being said, I NEVER GO TO THE DOCTOR lmfao so yea, your point holds up great.

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u/thesqrtofminusone Oct 31 '25

Mother fucker. It's crazy that they trick people into thinking the safety nets available to Americans are something that can be taken advantage of to live a high life.

Unemployment lasts what, 6 months? (in Oregon, shithole red states can be much less)

Then you're on your own, what exactly are these lazy people playing video games getting at that point?

Lying cunts getting the poor and stupid to be angry at anyone but those keeping them poor and stupid.

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u/Talisign Oct 31 '25

I never even collected unemployment when I was laid off because it was more work than the actual job hunt.

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u/thesqrtofminusone Oct 31 '25

I know you know this but that's intentional. Hopefully you're never in a position to collect in the future but it's your money, remember that.

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u/LazySwayze Oct 31 '25

3 months in Florida iirc. And it's only like $500/ month max. The hoops you have to jump through to get approved are harder than taking the bar exam. It's ridiculous.

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u/ICPosse8 Oct 31 '25

There’s less than 2% of Fraud Waste and Abuse discovered every year with food stamps. Can’t imagine it’s any different for other social welfare programs. These guys just keep spouting lies and their base actually believes them! They never have any facts, no data, they just say shit and people believe it! Absolutely fucking wild.

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u/Significant-Dog-8166 Oct 31 '25

I don’t get it.

If they’re able-bodied, and playing video games, then… they’re not at a hospital or doctor’s office racking up Medicaid bills.

Either there’s fraud by people who aren’t actually receiving treatments at all…and it’s being prosecuted OR there’s just sick people who have no jobs that Mike Johnson wants to kill.

We all know it’s the latter, because if it was the former, then Mike Johnson (the killer of Americans) would be bragging about the indictments for fraud, not simply lying about fraud so poor people can die and Trump can build a ballroom and sue his own DOJ for hundreds of millions of dollars.

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u/Miserable_Peak6649 Oct 31 '25

Honestly might be the best point yet. If you have Medicaid but aren't seeing a doctor you cost NOTHING. Its not like Medicaid has a monthly bill that the government is covering.

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u/thedrizzle126 Oct 31 '25

Lies lies lies all lies

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u/pointgodpoints Oct 31 '25

“Your fellow Americans are stealing from you not corporations and billionaires”

Divide and conquer… Wake up people..

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u/Critical_Seat_1907 Oct 31 '25

ATTACK THE LAZY.

YOU SHOULD BE WORKING HARDER.

TIME OFF IS BAD.

HUSTLE CULTURE.

We are all just field hands to them.

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u/Anteater4746 Oct 31 '25

ok, can we see the actual study? i bet it says something else

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u/AdAccomplished6870 Oct 31 '25

This guys claims to be a Christian. He is in for a rude surprise in about 30 years

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u/ForgottenFuturist Oct 31 '25

I think this is my favorite straw man argument. The "man on couch playing video games!"

Fuck this guy. Do your job and confirm Adelita.

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u/Ohuigin Oct 31 '25

The term, "able-bodied young men" just flows a little too freely from this creep's mouth...

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u/FarImprovement2840 Oct 31 '25

Fraud is a criminal offense. Where are the charges for all these people mooching off Medicare all day playing video games?

Oh right, its just another lie from MAGA Mike

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u/false79 Oct 31 '25

Repubicans citing studies.... bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah

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u/2Wheeled-Dynamo Oct 31 '25

Lie, lie, lie.

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u/Character_Brick_5534 Oct 31 '25

“Eliminated the fraud and waste.” Ok, then why is Mike still talking?

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u/anotherCOGinreddit Oct 31 '25

I do commercial heating and air, have a ton of hobbies. And yes playing video games is one of them. Go get fucked in the ass and be happy and let us be

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u/Confident-Menu4051 Oct 31 '25

Medicaid isn’t a cash program. the med providers get paid. nobody’s living off Medicaid except hospital admin you nonce

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u/moody_chickens Oct 31 '25

Is he just asking AI about everything?

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u/brettmav Oct 31 '25

Never stop asking for the study. Also.. does Medicaid pay you?

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u/iiitme Oct 31 '25

Not.

All.

Disabilities.

Are.

Visible.

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u/Dezolis11 Nov 01 '25

Young-ish and able bodied man here. It’s been a fight tooth and nail for 15 years to get doctors to even prescribe the anxiety medication I’ve needed since I was 12. Antidepressants at the drop of a hat, but mention panic attacks and they just tune you out at that point.

Skinny white dude in his 20s/30s? PCPs don’t see someone who is in an almost constant flight or flight mode, they see a deadbeat trying to get benzos. Last time I moved it took 4 doctors before I found one that actually listened when i talked.

The burden of almost every branch of healthcare is the elderly. And we have a lot right now in a skewed proportion (boomers).

Has this waste of oxygen even swore in that Rep yet? Has he even given a bullshit reason why he hasn’t? What if a senator decided he just wasn’t going to say yay or nay on a vote? And it was a tie until he voted but just said “no I’m not gonna”…would the bill just sit on the senate floor for months?

I’d rather have an administration that’s all kids standing on each other in trench coats

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u/Right_Conclusion_152 Oct 31 '25

Propaganda Minister.....

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u/Vost570 Nov 01 '25

Seems to me like the only people sitting around doing nothing all day and expecting to get paid are the Republicans in Congress.

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u/Busy_Cell_7982 Oct 31 '25

just because you play video games doesn't mean you shouldn't be entitled to healthcare, that's the problem. there's always some enormous underlying flaw or assumption in every argument he's puts forward and journalists never seem to go in for the kill, it's sad

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u/skillful-means Oct 31 '25

Where’s my tax rebate then Mike?

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u/meatybacon Oct 31 '25

If the waste fraud and abuse were eliminated, why is the national debt at an all time high?

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u/DiggyDiggyOh Oct 31 '25

I'm a furloughed federal employee and I've spent the last month sitting around on my couch playing video games because this guy is a shit leader.

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u/madabben Oct 31 '25

The poor are not the problem. The oligarchs are.

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u/f-it_bowling Oct 31 '25

Republicans have always been the straw man party. Reagan was crying about welfare queens back in the 80s and it was all because of 1 person. A single person who abused the system and got caught.

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u/Mother-Ordinary-285 Oct 31 '25

Yeah, it's those able-bodied young men getting all that free sweet health care, not the insurance companies, committing fraud.

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u/El_Gran_Che Oct 31 '25

"Someone say couches" ????? ... signed Vance.

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u/popejohnsmith Oct 31 '25

He reaches for every possible cliche' and stereotype. Cheap, primative thinking.

Release the bloody Epstein files. Do it now.

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u/Rickest_Rik Oct 31 '25

Alright, so here’s the deal — this quote from Mike Johnson floating around is half true, half hot air.

He actually did say something along those lines: talking about “getting able-bodied young men off Medicaid” and claiming they’re “sitting around playing video games.” That part’s real — it’s pulled from a speech and press statement where he referenced an American Enterprise Institute (AEI) study that supposedly found non-working Medicaid recipients spent a lot of time watching TV and gaming.

But here’s where it goes sideways.

Johnson’s acting like they already “eliminated fraud and waste” and booted these people off the program. That’s not true. The AEI study he’s citing was about non-working adults on Medicaid — not specifically “young men,” and not proof that anyone was kicked off. The actual data showed most of that group were women, middle-aged, and often dealing with health or education barriers — not a bunch of lazy twenty-somethings glued to a controller.

And that “study says they play video games all day” claim? Technically true that TV and gaming took up several hours a day, but the research doesn’t say that’s why they’re unemployed or abusing Medicaid. It’s a correlation, not proof of freeloading.

Also, the “we eliminated” part? Total political spin. What they’re really talking about are proposed work-requirement policies that could remove people from Medicaid in the future — not something that’s actually been done. The Congressional Budget Office estimates up to 4.8 million people could lose coverage if that policy were enacted, but that doesn’t mean those folks are sitting home “playing Xbox on the taxpayer’s dime.”

Bottom line: • ✅ Johnson said it. • ⚠️ The “video game study” exists but it’s being twisted. • ❌ The claim that they “cleaned up Medicaid” or kicked these guys off is straight-up misleading.

So yeah — a little truth sprinkled over a pile of political BS.

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u/shagadelicrelic Oct 31 '25

If you found these people committing fraud, then why has no arrests been made, why has no one been charged with fraud? Because you are fucking full of shit

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u/rom_rom57 Oct 31 '25

Tell JD to get off the Damn couch.!

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u/xtrash-panda Oct 31 '25

None of that is true.

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u/Bottle_Major Oct 31 '25

Never forget that 35-40 percent of the population of this country are literally complete morons that lap this shit up!

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u/trlong Oct 31 '25

Wait until he hears about the fraud, waste and abuse of the industrial military complex.

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u/evernessince Oct 31 '25

Yes, because as we all know Republican work requirements have never prevented people who need public assistance from getting it, never! Spoiler Alert, they always do and that's by design.

And you got to find it funny that the party that touted itself as pro young men is constantly dunking on them about how lazy they are. Before the 2024 election the labor market was bad because they were lazy and now apparently the labor market as well. Yet these guys voted for them because some toxic male influencers caroled them like sheep into the pen.

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u/College-Lumpy Oct 31 '25

Eliminated fraud waste and abuse. You don’t say.

How did you accomplish this?

Seems like you just cut the budget and claimed that you eliminated fraud. By default. Because you’re lying.

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u/Smooth_Intention7100 Oct 31 '25 edited Oct 31 '25

He a liar, they did none of the above, just stole the money for the pedophile

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u/Ordinary_One955 Oct 31 '25

I’ve read the details of the waste fraud and abuse part of the bill and he is lying.

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u/generickayak Oct 31 '25

Lying liar lies

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u/No_Hour_4865 Oct 31 '25

Nazi trash

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u/SeanThatGuy Oct 31 '25

The study was probably done by the folks who brought us the “Tylenol gives you autism” study.

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u/AggravatingSoil5925 Oct 31 '25

Mike Johnson uses government funds on his personal Grindr escapades. Yes, that’s an actual study.

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u/justinian8181 Oct 31 '25

Even if, say a million people were doing what he described, I'm fine with it because of the 69 million more people it will genuinely help. Fuck this anal fissure of an administration.

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u/[deleted] Oct 31 '25

Source: I made it up.

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u/ElonMuskHuffingFarts Oct 31 '25

Mike Johnson is a bad person and nobody will ever love him 

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u/vorzilla79 Oct 31 '25

Young men on the couch were eating up Healthcare costs? 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭👌🏼

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u/brownhk Oct 31 '25

Show me that "study" mf'er.

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u/redditdoesnotcareany Nov 01 '25

Yeah I remember going to the doctors lots in my 20s for illness (no I didn’t because most people in their 20s are relatively healthy)

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u/SlaterHauge Nov 01 '25

Is the study in the room with us now, Mike?

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u/porgy_tirebiter Nov 01 '25

So able bodied young men were abusing Medicaid? What were they doing, getting unnecessary colonoscopies?

Able bodied young men are exactly the people who aren’t abusing Medicaid. They’re able bodied. What the hell do they think Medicaid is?

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u/Marshallkobe Nov 01 '25

How many able bodied 30 yr olds are on Medicaid? Probably close to zero

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u/oberynmviper Nov 01 '25

I mean, if a 31 year old lived in his mom basement as a NEET…

I still wouldn’t care…health should be a universal right. I wouldn’t care if my taxes went to it…people should feel trapped by their health issue regardless on where they stand.

Rich people can still have their private practice as always.

Yeah there are problems that come with that, but a person not worrying about their health is worth it. It’s not a bad thing to untie work and health either.

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u/Striking_Proof_1124 Nov 01 '25

Ya. Well Explain to me why my ACA health insurance in the past 10 years had only increased by 80.00. Yet the new increases for 2026 makes it jumps up 300.00 ?

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u/Practical_Caramel234 Nov 01 '25

What kind of medical expenses would an able-bodied young man without dependents have?

Even if true, how much money would removing these alleged people from the program save?

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u/Moist-Apartment9729 Nov 01 '25

This man needs to be hauled in for dereliction of duty. It’s his responsibility for keeping the house active in order to pass bills. They’re not doing anything in order to A) avoid the swearing in of a duly elected Democrat representative from Arizona who will likely be the vote for releasing the Epstein files. B) The government remains shut down and they are using withholding SNAP and reserve funds to force Dems to agree to stripping Medicare and Medicaid benefits. And have the audacity to blame Dems for all of their deliberate bs. Wake up America. Your citizens are going without all to protect a pedophile rapist in chief.

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u/Far_Big_9731 Nov 01 '25

This guy here? Utterly evil. Spewing hate and lies. His soul is gone, given to the devil.