The Frankish Reich Posted 7 hours ago Posted 7 hours ago 1 hour ago, stevestojan said: “Too many non-working holidays in America. It is costing our Country $BILLIONS OF DOLLARS to keep all of these businesses closed.” Weird, seemed to me that all private business were open yesterday. As for "too many holidays" - not too many, but it's time for a re-do. New Year's Day: never got why it was a holiday. Some pagan thing? An excuse for taking a day off after NYE revelry? Get rid of it. Use that day to make Dec 26 a holiday like the UK Boxing Day. Makes more sense. MLK Day: a worthy honor. But the date is bad, just as people are returning to regular life after Xmas. Honor MLK for something that happened during the great federal holiday lull of March/April. There's gotta be some noteworthy date. President's Day: all will be fine when the Super Bowl finally lands on it's obvious spot of the Sunday of that weekend. -- MARCH/APRIL: find a nonreligious excuse to make Easter/Passover a holiday. Or just call it the Easter/Passover Spring holiday. Or put MLK day there. We need a holiday in this time of year. MEMORIAL DAY: needs to be merged with Veteran's Day. A good traditional start of summer day, so keep this one. JUNETEENTH: Who can complain about an extra 3 day summer weekend. But maybe move it to a Friday or Monday closest to June 19? 4th of JULY: no messing with this one. LABOR DAY: brackets summer too nicely to change. Weird that some anti-labor group hasn't lobbied against this. COLUMBUS DAY: controversial, kind of weird (didn't "discover" what is now the USA), bizarro kind of Italian St. Patrick's Day in the NE. Another fine landing spot for that MLK day that we should move. VETERAN'S DAY: Armistice Day, but nobody pretends to celebrate that. So it's a weird non-moving Nov 11. Merge it into Memorial Day and for goodness sake just make the Friday after Thanksgiving the extra late fall holiday. CHRISTMAS: see Boxing Day.
stevestojan Posted 7 hours ago Posted 7 hours ago 27 minutes ago, JDHillFan said: It’s not an excuse. It’s just what he is. No one is surprised by it. The bit about waving Nazi flags is garbage. Give us all a break with that nonsense. Give you a break? Read my post again. I said the small minority of extreme maga. So when those pictures (of Trump flags flying next to nazi flags; which represents a fraction of a percent of all republicans, the same way the purple haired freaks are a small percentage of the left) are shown as “proof of racism” by the whacko left, adding in a president who posts something like that on Juneteenth fuels their (the extreme left’s) fire. And it also fuels those same extreme MAGAs. That was my point. Come on, man. You know I’m not saying the RiGhT iS rAcIsT! What I’m saying is that when the man child pulls crap like this, it only serves to divide, by “validating” the extreme left belief that all republicans are racist, and the extreme right that “see? Even our orange leader thinks we shouldn’t have a holiday for this.” All it does is continue to divide. So I do not believe we should brush it off because an 80 year old man has the self control of a gnat.
JDHillFan Posted 6 hours ago Posted 6 hours ago 1 hour ago, stevestojan said: Give you a break? Read my post again. I said the small minority of extreme maga. So when those pictures (of Trump flags flying next to nazi flags; which represents a fraction of a percent of all republicans, the same way the purple haired freaks are a small percentage of the left) are shown as “proof of racism” by the whacko left, adding in a president who posts something like that on Juneteenth fuels their (the extreme left’s) fire. And it also fuels those same extreme MAGAs. That was my point. Come on, man. You know I’m not saying the RiGhT iS rAcIsT! What I’m saying is that when the man child pulls crap like this, it only serves to divide, by “validating” the extreme left belief that all republicans are racist, and the extreme right that “see? Even our orange leader thinks we shouldn’t have a holiday for this.” All it does is continue to divide. So I do not believe we should brush it off because an 80 year old man has the self control of a gnat. That’s like me saying the “small minority of extreme leftists that will be very pleased with the murder of ICE agents” because the pinheaded Roundybout espouses such. There’s no “small minority” of right-leaning people waving Nazi flags. A handful of dbags does not equate to anything approaching a “small minority”. It’s a dumb thing to say.
stevestojan Posted 4 hours ago Posted 4 hours ago 1 hour ago, JDHillFan said: That’s like me saying the “small minority of extreme leftists that will be very pleased with the murder of ICE agents” because the pinheaded Roundybout espouses such. There’s no “small minority” of right-leaning people waving Nazi flags. A handful of dbags does not equate to anything approaching a “small minority”. It’s a dumb thing to say. What the ***** man? You absolutely see my point. Was “fraction of a percent” not small enough for you? You’re being purposefully argumentative now. The point remains; when you have any number of people who wave nazi flags (extreme right MAGAs), or any number who claim the entire party is racist (extreme left whackos); having the POTUS claim we need fewer holidays - and say that on JUNETEENTH - it adds to the divide. Glad we’re back to calling each other dumb, though. 🙄
JDHillFan Posted 4 hours ago Posted 4 hours ago 3 minutes ago, stevestojan said: What the ***** man? You absolutely see my point. Was “fraction of a percent” not small enough for you? You’re being purposefully argumentative now. The point remains; when you have any number of people who wave nazi flags (extreme right MAGAs), or any number who claim the entire party is racist (extreme left whackos); having the POTUS claim we need fewer holidays - and say that on JUNETEENTH - it adds to the divide. Glad we’re back to calling each other dumb, though. 🙄 I’ve acknowledged it wasn’t helpful in answer to your original question. It’s the trotting out of the Nazi routine in any way, shape, or form that I find absurd. Lefties here have been seeing nazis around every corner for years. It’s tiresome.
stevestojan Posted 2 hours ago Posted 2 hours ago 2 hours ago, JDHillFan said: I’ve acknowledged it wasn’t helpful in answer to your original question. It’s the trotting out of the Nazi routine in any way, shape, or form that I find absurd. Lefties here have been seeing nazis around every corner for years. It’s tiresome. Just as tiresome and absurd as some of your fellow Rs referring to all libs as communists and pedos. But I see your point for sure. Have a good weekend. 👍 1
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