Someone needs to knock that chip off your shoulder.
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Don’t crinkle your nose at me.
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Also Saint Brendan’s Day.
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Even in unanimity, the aircraft carrier of government takes a long time to execute a turn. I would guess that this will not go into effect until '22.
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It sure as heck wasn’t Samsonite.
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Not so much a thread as a shoestring.
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Not with self-executing laws. Those go into immediate effect when signed into law. If Congress intended to have this effective next year, they’d have put that in the legislation, which they did not.
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Around here, you could just rig up one of those “drinking bird” toys to keep pulling the lever.
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And someone should have called for a roll-call. The RRR’s who declined to object should have been forced to either vote in the affirmative or go on record as opposing it for history, and the electorate, to judge them.
Given Black workers’ disproportionate numbers in the federal workforce, I think there’s gonna be a lot of giving of shits about what it’s for.
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Holidays benefit a lot more folks than just pubic sector. Many private companies follow with either time off, premium pay, or the like.
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Then there are those addictive Middleswarth potato chips that family sends us from PA. (Oops, some drool on my keyboard.)
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And I’m guessing Corporate America will be all for it with “End of Slavery Specials” (plus an additional 10% off for AA). Maybe not, wouldn’t be far to white shoppers (spontaneous orgasms over at Fox).
But yeah, Holidays are popular and Americans love to shop, barbeque and salute the flag. Doesn’t matter which Holiday it is.
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Nah, but I hear that the Insurrectionists are going to demand that we also make April 12th a holiday, Fort Sumter Day commemorating the first time a group of Patriots tried to take back their government from the clutches of the Socialists & Communists who had rejected the Fundamental American Concept of ownership of private property.
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Could just offer them a combo deal, like president’s day, and give them the 19th so they can celebrate their heritage and their hero.
My counter-offer is a week-ish earlier, April 2nd (the evacuation of Richmond, or “Jeff Davis Ran Away” Day).
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Welp, there it is. Passed the House. Unless Sleepy Joe vetoes it, America just got a new Federal Holiday.
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GREAT! Just as long as they make it the second Monday of June so it’s always a three day weekend. Likewise should Independence Day be the first Monday in July instead of always the fourth.
That’s what I was thinking. There’s no argumentative cover to opposing recognition of freedom. It’s not for a person or an abstract concept like, “Freedom to vote on election day,” but is recognition for the end of a horrific crime, delayed as it were by Texan fascist refusniks (reluctant lying former slaveholders). How do you explain your opposition to that?
I guess this is the lowest level of the bar these days.
Agreed. Everybody loves a day off. Maybe Senators figured that even their worst constituents wouldn’t give them too much gaff.
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