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GOP senators debate replacing Columbus Day with Juneteenth as a federal holiday
The Hill ^ | July 1 2020 | ALEXANDER BOLTON AND SAAGAR ENJETI

Posted on 07/01/2020 11:50:59 AM PDT by rintintin

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To: rintintin

Just when you thought The Stupid Party couldn’t get more stupid.
Has anyone seen the “Brain Spawn” floating around DC?


101 posted on 07/01/2020 12:51:43 PM PDT by Zathras
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To: rintintin

After Juneteenth, slavery was still legal in the “border states” of Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, Missouri, and parts of Louisiana that had been exempted from the Emancipation Proclamation. Since the Emancipation Proclamation was based on an executive order, Andrew Johnson could have repealed it with the stroke of a pen. The date that should be celebrated is six months later when the Thirteenth Amendment was finally ratified - December 6th. 1865.


102 posted on 07/01/2020 12:57:45 PM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Gone but not forgiven.)
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To: rintintin

Cornball can clutch his chest and keel over.

Worthless POS!


103 posted on 07/01/2020 1:00:46 PM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (Wipe ANTIFA off the face of the Earth. Indict Soros, too...their sugar daddy.)
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To: rintintin

I’m fine with ditching columbus day, it’s just unfortunate that Juneteenth is so close to 4th of July. A day off in August would have been much better.


104 posted on 07/01/2020 1:02:52 PM PDT by CharlesWayneCT
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To: rintintin

Reparation taxes coming next, no doubt.


105 posted on 07/01/2020 1:04:23 PM PDT by Trumpisourlastchance
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To: rintintin

Looks like none of the GOP Senate watched Tucker Carlson’s dire warning for them last night.


106 posted on 07/01/2020 1:05:23 PM PDT by montag813 (Nonsenze)
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To: 1Old Pro

Since they say Jesus was a person of color, Christmas is safe.


107 posted on 07/01/2020 1:05:24 PM PDT by Trumpisourlastchance
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To: rintintin

The Uni-Party is moving fast to ‘erase and replace’.


108 posted on 07/01/2020 1:07:35 PM PDT by DivineMomentsOfTruth ("There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily." -GW)
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To: jeffersondem
In the first place, Juneteenth celebrates the end of slavery in the Confederate States of America, not the United States of America

Good point.
109 posted on 07/01/2020 1:10:05 PM PDT by DivineMomentsOfTruth ("There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily." -GW)
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To: rintintin

Just add it. The more holidays we give Federal workers, the less harm they can do.


110 posted on 07/01/2020 1:31:46 PM PDT by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
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To: HombreSecreto

See my post #102.


111 posted on 07/01/2020 1:32:27 PM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Gone but not forgiven.)
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To: rintintin

Since they lumped Washington’s and Lincoln’s birthdays into a single Presidents Day, maybe they should lump all holidays like this into a single “Official Grievance Groups Day”. Everyone can celebrate it in their own culturally appropriate way.


112 posted on 07/01/2020 1:39:01 PM PDT by rightwingcrazy (;-,)
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To: reg45

See my post #102.


There you go! Yep. Forget Juneteenth.


113 posted on 07/01/2020 1:39:28 PM PDT by HombreSecreto (The life of a repo man is always intense)
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To: rintintin

Pathetic GOP weaklings that need to be removed.

They are probably DNC operatives.


114 posted on 07/01/2020 1:42:10 PM PDT by Enlightened1
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To: rintintin

How ridiculous. Italian Americans have made a great contribution to the history of the United States. Columbus is “their” day to honor a great Italian. Juneteenth—even expressed in an illiterate way—is a nothingburger made-up holiday, just like “Kwanzaa”, a bone thrown.


115 posted on 07/01/2020 1:48:48 PM PDT by EinNYC
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To: EinNYC

I guess Italian-Americans will just have to settle for the Rocky Statue in Philadelphia.


116 posted on 07/01/2020 1:50:33 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: rintintin

No way. Columbus Day is in October. June is ABCDEFGTQXZ month.


117 posted on 07/01/2020 1:51:01 PM PDT by petitfour (APPEAL TO HEAVEN)
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To: jughandle

Biden will claim he discovered the Americas. But Gore might beat him to it lol


118 posted on 07/01/2020 2:28:10 PM PDT by Long Jon No Silver
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To: rintintin

Damn kowtowing, cowering, cowards


119 posted on 07/01/2020 3:01:07 PM PDT by Old Yeller (Eternal lives matter.)
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To: chief lee runamok

I often call most of them feckless, castratos, weak, Vichy, limp and duplicitous...among others.


120 posted on 07/01/2020 3:46:25 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp???)
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