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jordanlund@lemmy.worldM to politics @lemmy.world · 3 days ago

Mike Johnson Insists It's 'Moral' to Throw People Off Medicaid

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Mike Johnson Insists It's 'Moral' to Throw People Off Medicaid

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jordanlund@lemmy.worldM to politics @lemmy.world · 3 days ago
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Mike Johnson: It's 'Moral' to Throw People Off Medicaid
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House Speaker Mike Johnson claimed adding a Medicaid work requirement to the Republican spending bill has a "moral component."

In related news, author Peter David was just kicked off Medicaid according to his GoFundMe… he subsequently died. :(

https://aiptcomics.com/2025/05/25/peter-david-dead-at-68/

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    The creepy elf on a shelf has a very weird idea of what is moral.

    Checks notes…oh, he’s one of those performative jackass xtians. Completely expected, I guess.

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    “Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me.’

    “They also will answer, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?’

    “He will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.’

    “Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life.”

    Christianity is nothing more than a cudgel for these people.

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      What verse is this if you remember off hand?

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        My comment started with Matthew 25:41, but it’s worth going back to 25:31 for the rest of the passage. The sheep and the goats; the wheat and the chaff.

        Not a Christian, but I want to live my life like the sheep. I think this is the most powerful passage ever written. Matthew has my favorite Jesus.

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    It’s moral to kill Nazis.

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    It’s moral to throw him off a moving train.

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    Is it moral to deny Medicaid to people who earned $5 too much? Because that’s what we’ve been doing forever. The benefit cliff intencentivises people to stay in poverty.

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      It seems like social programs are just poverty treadmills to keep a certain class of people in a quasi underclass system to be abused.

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    That man never ceases to have a punchable face.

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    When Christians use the word “moral” it’s specifically because they know what they are describing isn’t “ethical”

    We need to ban the religious indoctrination of children, because they turn into adults who hear the word moral from con men and assume they’re an ally.

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      I believe some nations ban religion for those under a certain age. As in they aren’t allowed in public places of worship like churches and mosques.

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    Very Christian of you Mike

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    congress first

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    Cut off his medical, then.

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    I think it’s moral to throw Mike off the top of the tallest building we can find.

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    Well, I insist it’s “moral” to throw Mike Johnson off a bridge.

    I personally won’t be doing it, but there’s nothing immoral about it in my book.

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    Evil Steven Colbert.

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      The evil Keebler elf.

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    I say it’s moral to kick this guy in the balls as hard as you can.

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