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Juneteenth is yet another Biden payoff: Another federal holiday is a costly proposition
American Thinker ^ | 06/18/2024 | Victoria White Berger

Posted on 06/18/2024 8:51:36 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

Well, don’t mind me, but, why “Juneteenth?”

It’s akin to everything that Biden has done domestically to buy his way to a second term. (Biden? Second Term? Really?) Very few Americans -- black, white, or indifferent -- have a clue what the mid-June holiday is.

Its off-putting, cutesy title and wandering appearance in June (on a Wednesday, right?) doesn’t really clarify the point of it. It is a safe bet that if CNN wandered around the streets of D.C., or anywhere, asking folks what event in ‘history’ Juneteenth respects, the empty stares and open mouths would astound.

Tomorrow’s ‘holiday,’ we can probably confirm, has something to do with Biden’s DEI priorities, which is to say, his priorities for keeping his Left and his ‘Liberals” in the Democrat fold — or the stock pen.

It also has to do, yet again, with “civil rights” and “slavery.” O.K. Fair enough.

But, given the fact that the Left has been busy under Biden tearing down the history of our country via renaming and destroying monuments — and so on -- how can the American people be supposed to track on what actually happened, anonymously apparently, sometime in June in more than a century past?

No matter. Another strong point in favor of Juneteenth — in fact, its only practical application, is that it provides Biden’s immense bureaucracy/voting bloc with another paid holiday. There is no interest group in the U.S. that has close to the perks now enjoyed by the federal bureaucracy. And mind you, these holidays are doled out — by monetary association -- to the banks, too, and the universities, and many other domestic cohorts who feed on the udders of the feds — which is to say, feed on our burgeoning taxes.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: biden; holiday; juneteenth
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1 posted on 06/18/2024 8:51:36 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Coincidentally, Juneteenth is both the newest and most violent holiday. Guns are to blame. [sarcasm]


2 posted on 06/18/2024 8:54:27 PM PDT by thegagline (Sic semper tyrannis! Goldwater & Thomas Sowell in 2024)
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To: SeekAndFind
It is a good holiday, fair, and due for our original African-American citizens, freed by Lincoln and the Republican party.

Next, we don't have any federal holiday in March, April, and August.

I vote for St. Patricks Day in March.

Easter for April?

August?

Then we'd have at least one federal holiday every month of the year.

3 posted on 06/18/2024 8:54:59 PM PDT by Reno89519 (Trump Please Build the Wall, And Deport Them All. No amnesty for anyone. End H1B!)
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To: SeekAndFind

All I know is that I just saw Elons Falcon burn across the sky. It never gets old!


4 posted on 06/18/2024 8:56:10 PM PDT by HighSierra5 (The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.)
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To: Reno89519

Cesar Chavez is the March holiday, but it is for California a few other states.

Just need one in April and August.


6 posted on 06/18/2024 9:00:01 PM PDT by moviefan8 (The noblest art is that of making others happy. - P.T. Barnum)
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To: thegagline

It only became a holiday because somebody noticed Trump had scheduled a Rally on it, even though nobody outside of Texas had even heard of Juneteenth.


7 posted on 06/18/2024 9:00:23 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Reno89519

June teeth celebrates the end of slavery. The end of slavery was achieved by a million and a half soldiers of the Union Army. So they should be the ones celebrated tomorrow.


8 posted on 06/18/2024 9:02:40 PM PDT by xkaydet65
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To: Reno89519

https://freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3853826/posts?page=1

Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice spoke to CBS’ Margaret Brennan on Sunday (June 5, 2020) to discuss the riots.

Brennan tried to get Rice to admit that the Trump Administration’s failure to contain the lawlessness here is signaling weakness abroad and putting the U.S. in danger.

“Madam Secretary, you know, some of America’s adversaries, Russia, Iran, China, they are using the images of what happened to Mr. Floyd and what is happening in the streets of American cities right now in their own state propaganda. Do you see this racial divide as a national security threat to us?” Brennan asked.

Rather than providing the desired response, Rice replied: (emphasis mine)

Well, I’ve always thought that America’s greatest strength is that we are a country where you can come from humble circumstances and do great things, and where, despite our painful history, we’ve worked harder and harder every day, brick by brick, to build a more perfect union for all of us. And I would say to those, particularly in places like China and Russia and Iran, who may want to use this for propaganda, let’s not be absurd.

This is not Tiananmen Square where you’ve mowed down people who disagreed with the government. This is not the invasion of Crimea where you took land from your neighbor. This is not the Green Revolution in Iran where you killed people wantonly because they wouldn’t agree with the theocratic government.

Rice continued, “And I would even say to our friends abroad, in places like Europe, where I’m seeing demonstrations in support of what is happening here, thank you for your support, but please look in the mirror. Please ask yourself, in countries in Europe and countries all across the world, what are you doing about racial and ethnic inequality in your own circumstances? America has gotten better because we have been willing to confront our problems. And we’re going to confront our problems again. We’re confronting them now.

“But I really don’t need to be lectured by Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping about peaceful protest when they have themselves used their own force just because people wanted to criticize the government. That is not what is happening here,” she added.


9 posted on 06/18/2024 9:04:22 PM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s² )
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To: SeekAndFind

More people consider Toyotathon a real holiday…

So there’s that.


10 posted on 06/18/2024 9:04:58 PM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion (🦅 MAGADONIAN ⚔️ )
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To: SeekAndFind

Blacks were freed on December. 5th, 1865. Some black slaves were freed by the Chickawa Nation in 1866.


11 posted on 06/18/2024 9:07:43 PM PDT by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING AMERICA, AND HE WILL HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE HIM!)
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To: xkaydet65

Yes, GOD bless the men in Blue, South and North who fought for Union and freedom.


12 posted on 06/18/2024 9:09:57 PM PDT by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING AMERICA, AND HE WILL HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE HIM!)
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To: moviefan8

Why should Cesar Chavez be an American federal holiday?


13 posted on 06/18/2024 9:23:36 PM PDT by Reno89519 (Trump Please Build the Wall, And Deport Them All. No amnesty for anyone. End H1B!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Juneteenth celebrates Republicans freeing slaves held by Democrats .


14 posted on 06/18/2024 9:31:45 PM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (Have you seen Joe Biden's picture on a milk carton?)
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To: SeekAndFind

“...Its off-putting, cutesy title...”


I don’t find its title all that ‘cutsey’. The official name is ‘Juneteenth, National Independence Day’ And it’s important to remember, despite the symbols on display tomorrow, the slaves didn’t free themselves.


15 posted on 06/18/2024 10:01:02 PM PDT by hanamizu ( )
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To: xkaydet65

That’s right.


16 posted on 06/18/2024 10:25:08 PM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: Reno89519

He doesn’t deserve one at all.


17 posted on 06/18/2024 10:25:29 PM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: HereInTheHeartland

Exactly.


18 posted on 06/18/2024 10:25:41 PM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: SeekAndFind
My advice to my fellow FReepers on how to get through this ‘Juneteenth’ thing is as follows: Remember, and dwell on, two important things: 1) June 19th is also National Martini Day. Gin and Vermouth are both pretty cheap, so you got no excuse. and 2) Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were both executed on this date in 1953. They were a husband and wife Russian spy team who were tried and convicted of Espionage for giving American atomic bomb secrets to the Russians. Aaah for the good old days. Anyway, just dwell on those two things, and you'll make it through tomorrow okay.
19 posted on 06/18/2024 10:54:14 PM PDT by NurdlyPeon (It is the nature of liberals to pervert whatever they touch.)
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To: xkaydet65

they are still not satisfied and will never be


20 posted on 06/19/2024 1:53:03 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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