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Don’t Let the Left Ruin Juneteenth’s True Meaning
Daily Signal ^ | June 18, 2024 | Kevin Roberts

Posted on 06/19/2024 5:08:13 AM PDT by DoodleBob

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To: DoodleBob
It’s a portmanteau.

Thanks Doodle, I learned a new word today.

61 posted on 06/19/2024 9:49:39 AM PDT by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC)
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To: Menehune56

Thanks- our verbal SATs will rally now!


62 posted on 06/19/2024 10:15:15 AM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s² )
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To: going hot; cowboyusa

If you’re really anti-communist, then dump Labor Day.


63 posted on 06/19/2024 10:18:17 AM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s² )
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To: Fiji Hill
"I like those neologisms, although I don’t know what a “spork” is. "

A "spork" is a spoon and a fork combined.

64 posted on 06/19/2024 10:21:41 AM PDT by jackibutterfly
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To: DoodleBob

Fine with me.


65 posted on 06/19/2024 11:06:36 AM PDT by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING AMERICA, AND HE WILL HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE HIM!)
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To: DoodleBob

There is no “true meaning” of ‘juneteenth’. It is a completely made up holiday based on lies.


66 posted on 06/19/2024 11:12:28 AM PDT by zeugma (Stop deluding yourself that America is still a free country.)
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To: dfwgator

It only became a holiday because Trump haters saw he had scheduled a rally on it. Even though Juneteenth was unknown outside of Texas.

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Absolutely correct.

It was a perfectly local recognition and celebration of what happened in Galveston at the end of the Civil War. Blacks, whites, and Hispanic Texas knew generally the story of the incident and celebrated in appropriate ways. While taken seriously for it’s importance, the celebrations were low key and centered on families’ different traditions. The vagueness of the date to celebrate made it even better.

I enjoyed this Texas day . . . right up until the non-Texas Left found out about it and weaponized it to postpone a big Trump rally in Tulsa innocently scheduled on that day. I now live in Oklahoma and I assure you I never ever heard of an Okie who knew a thing about it all.


67 posted on 06/19/2024 11:14:11 AM PDT by oldplayer
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To: lonestar67; Pelham

Why do Thaddeus Stevens wannabes here always grab macho southern nicks?

Republicans always effing great

Rah rah


68 posted on 06/19/2024 12:15:38 PM PDT by wardaddy (. A disease in the public mind we're enduring…Alina Habba is fine as grits I'd drink her bathwater)
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To: ClearCase_guy

That’s just not right. July 4 has been Independence Day for as long as I I can remember, but this Juneteenth Day seems to be a bit restrictive. As was said, it is not a holiday for some. That doesn’t sound like much of a federal holiday to me. If I wasn’t retired, I’m pretty sure I’d still be working today; possibly for very little pay while my neighbor very possibly had a day off with full pay. Before they set up these holidays, they should at least make it equitable for working folk, not just SOME working folk.


69 posted on 06/19/2024 1:12:23 PM PDT by oldtech
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To: wardaddy

Keep it, and toss Martin Luther commie day.


70 posted on 06/19/2024 2:44:17 PM PDT by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING AMERICA, AND HE WILL HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE HIM!)
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To: cowboyusa

Don’t forget pride month

Or decade

Or century

Human kind ends on a quaff


71 posted on 06/19/2024 4:43:10 PM PDT by wardaddy (. A disease in the public mind we're enduring…Alina Habba is fine as grits I'd drink her bathwater)
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