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"I know what's best for black people."
-- So many non-black conservatives
I’m all for adding more holidays. A voting holiday is an easy win. No need to replace or remove holidays.
I would love for someone to interview racists who gets Juneteenth off for work. I'd be interested to know how committed some people would be being racist.
Agreed
How useful is Veterans Day or Labor Day? They're all useless. We don't have them for their usefulness.
If you're suggesting cancelling Juneteenth because it "overlaps" ("" because I don't really agree with that) MLK day, wouldn't you cancel MLK day instead? Emancipation was a little more a step forward than the civil rights movement...
Of course, if you consult the experts on cancelling shit, they'd most likely say that Columbus day might be a better fit in the chopping block, and IF we need to "make room on the calendar" (also bullshit) in order to make voting a legit day off (is it not? If someone who works for me asks for time off to vote, I'm going to ask them if they need a fucking ride to the polls... Come on people...), I kinda gotta go with Columbus being the least relevant current federal holiday...
Just my opinion, mind, but cancelling the new shit because "muh traditions" is fucking dumb... Be better...
Columbus day shouldn't exist because he really didn't discover America in the first goddamn place
"But it's for Italians."
Okay, Columbus wasn't from Italy and Italy didn't even exist yet when he was alive..
Meanwhile, Amerigo Vespucci: "Am I a joke to you?"
Even if he did, he didn't mean to. It would be like if we landed on Mars but still celebrated the moon landing.
What did he discover?
a land for sugar plantations
yeah, the Vikings did. we need a Viking celebration day
Technically Columbus Day is now Indigenous People’s Day since Biden changed it in 2021, so something much more worth celebrating IMO
Lol, so they already cancelled it? Meh...
It's funny though... I live smack in the middle of a reservation, and I've never heard of this indigenous people day. I kinda don't think any of the tribe here gives a shit... They have their own government, and at least in our area, thats the only one they give a fuck about :)
The point of virtue signalling isn't to do anything for the people it's ostensibly directed towards.
Hypocrisy: the most Republicanist thing ever.
I'm confused why this guy is getting any attention. He's running the most obvious "fake primary campaign with no intention of winning in order to get a bunch of donations from rubes" con I've ever seen
Most of the GOP field wants Trump to pick them as Vice President. That is why they don't criticize Trump.
This guy doesn't want to be VP. He just wants to con a bunch of donations money and disappear after Iowa.
Flippetyflop hippetibob, do the Politickster!
This is the best summary I could come up with:
“Cancel Juneteenth or one of the other useless ones we made up,” Ramaswamy told an applauding crowd gathered at a welding company here.
Asked by NBC News to clarify whether he thought Juneteenth was a “useless” holiday, Ramaswamy said, “I basically do.”
“We don’t just look back and flog ourselves,” Ramaswamy said in the video June 19, which was posted to his account on X, the social media platform previously known as Twitter.
As the National Museum of African American History and Culture notes, Juneteenth celebrates the anniversary of when Union troops arrived in Galveston Bay, Texas, and announced a quarter-million Black people had been freed by executive decree.
One of his competitors, former Rep. Will Hurd of Texas, who is biracial, criticized Ramaswamy for saying he "hopes to cancel a holiday that celebrates equality and freedom."
On Juneteenth two months ago, the NAACP issued a statement saying, “Today we celebrate our emancipation while also acknowledging that we are still fighting for true freedom.”
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Every holiday is useless. Even Christmas. You need a holiday to gather with family and exchange gifts?
He knows what Trump wants. No other reason.