Back to the days of peasants petitioning the lord to restore their holy days
this post was submitted on 20 Jun 2025
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And he seriously said this, what the actual fuck. It seemed so absurd that i had to look up, and yeah its there...
Remind me how "all these businesses" can be closed if it's really only the federal government actually takes the day off for federal holidays? Like sure some banks do as well, but most companies just stay open
Here in the real US (I.E not has make up fantasy land that he wants his user base to believe in), most companies were business as usual. As most companies only really close for Christmas and maybe Thanksgiving and Easter.
Not to mention that most Federal workers are salary, and their pay includes holidays, if he were to remove the holidays as part of the package, he would need to spend /more/ money on the workers, so it's not like it would be a plus even in his imaginary world. This is ignoring the fact that a good portion of the federal government is also unionized. so this entire plan would fall short before it even hit the water.
Yeah I wanna say the majority of people have less holidays off these days already. Hell even paid holidays (where the business doesn't close but you get 1.5x pay) seem to be shrinking.
"MAKE LINE GO UP FOR YOUR OWNERS"
Is that in project 2025 ? I dont remember but they are on track for sure.
He's right. This year, everybody's gotta work Christmas.
fuck him
someone do the fuckin deed already, I'm so fuckin sick of this jackass and all his Republican dumbfucks
You know those tropes in old cartoons where overworked factory workers are given a union-mandated 3-minute lunch break? That's the future of America.
Didn't he just create like two new holidays?
Says the man that golf's more than work
From this list, it looks like the US and Vietnam are actually tied for the lowest, with 6 each.
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Sounds like the WH chef staff ran out of chicken nuggies
"STFU, Donnie. You're out of your element. "
More context, he said this on June 19th, the day Juneteenth is celebrated across America.
It's a holiday to commemorate the end of slavery in America.
He obviously doesn't want any holidays related to black people to be celebrated.
Working with people in other countries it really make me jealous they have a notional holiday, seeming every month where the business is closed. Really wish the US had more days like that
We have fewer holidays than medieval peasants. Economic historians vary between 150 and 250 work days vs 261 for a Mon-Fri job.
As far as I can tell the US has only slightly less than an average number of public holidays, but the amount of PTO is close to zero for a lot of people.
EU working time directive requires 28 paid days off per year (including public holidays) as a minimum.
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Yeah Americans have way too many holidays, like two hole weeks per year!
I mean, compare that to the Europeans with their lousy 5 weeks per year, they never take off!
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And here I thought I would get away without seeing trump bitch about juneteenth..
I didn't even get to take off yesterday. Fuck this guy.
Donβt worry, Don, the βessential workersβ wonβt be affected.