Translation: we shouldn’t give black people in america a federal holiday because i am a racist and demented old man who is increasingly irrelevant in society.
Too many non-working holidays in America.
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Kalysta@lemm.ee 2 hours ago
TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
demented old man who is increasingly irrelevant in society.
Trump: And I will make sure I go out with a bang and take everybody with me!
Lucky_777@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Technically, there is no law requiring a company to provide PTO or close on Holidays. Its up to the company, not this stupid bastard.
Buske@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
This guy LITERALLY raped a 13 year old back in the day, and only golfs.
MetalMachine@feddit.nl 1 hour ago
Nah F that, most Americans barley get any paid time off if any. If anything we need MORE.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 13 minutes ago
Yeah, it’s hilarious to hear “workers want less” when what they really mean is less forced unpaid time off, obviously if they want money they’d want to work. I’m sure those people would prefer paid time off to having to work.
EighteenthNerd@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Biggest problem with non-working “holidays” is that they only apply to certain more privileged people who also get paid to not work. Everyone else either sits at home unpaid for the day, or has to work (most often without any additional compensation) to support those who do get the paid day off.
Nangijala@feddit.dk 9 hours ago
As a Dane, I have always been fucking shocked at the slave-like working conditions Americans work under. They barely get any time off as it is. What do you mean too many holidays?
ECB@feddit.org 8 hours ago
The worst part is… If you’ve ever had the pleasure of working with an American company you’ll notice just how unproductive they are.
Obviously the two are closely connected, but it’s always fascinating to me
SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 7 hours ago
Yeah there’s that myth that if you make people work more hours more work will be done. It all makes sense on the spreadsheet!
Reality is the workers are human, humans get tired and you aren’t getting more work out of anyone by making them work more hours. You’re just making someone be at a place longer because you can.
aabrams@lemm.ee 8 hours ago
True efficiency can only be achieved when human labour is finite. Look at the small countries of norther europe.
Fabian@lemmy.zip 7 hours ago
The problem is that in Germany, our Chancellor is currently on the same trip saying that ‘the people don’t work enough’ even though most people (who have a full time job) already work about 40 hours and many woman would like to work more but can’t because there are not enough daycare centres and retirement homes.
EvilCartyen@feddit.dk 7 hours ago
My wife worked for Siemens-Gamesa for a long time, and German managers were always surprised how the Danes would just straight up decline meetings after 16 and leave early if they had to pick up kids.
They didn’t worry about that at all, of course, because their wives generally didn’t work full time.
Bloomcole@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
That’s what they get when you don’t fight for your rights.
Look at it now, semi-fascist for half a year and they’re still basically singing Kumbaya.
They get what they deserve.
bieren@lemmy.zip 6 hours ago
“The workers don’t want it”. He had about as much sense of this as he does of a concept of health care plan.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Workers. Hate. Paid. Holidays.
We’ve been saying it for years, but nobody listens. The liberal nanny state keeps forcing me to stay home, spend time with my family, or even go on vacation, when all I really want to do is stare at spreadsheets for another eight hours.
Enough is enough!
Jankatarch@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Before resting I go to work tired tomorrow. After rest and go to work angry tomorrow. Without tasting freedom for a day or two I would not be angry about losing it. Defund weekends, they are some DEI bullshit!
/sarcasm
F_OFF_Reddit@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
I know right? ALL I want is to make money and not for me but for some idiot who has control of the market and that means that if my labor is worth $200 an hours all I want is to work work work and especially for a fraction of that.
freddydunningkruger@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
In all fairness, Trump is just a moldy, hollowed-out Golem. Every Juneteenth, Stephen Miller shmooshes his shiny dome straight into Trump’s rear end and starts flicking and vibrating his tongue across Donnie’s prostate like it’s a musical instrument carved from rotting cheese, inducing a flurry of nerve impulses that spread through Trump’s spine and into his abnormally short, sticky sausage fingers, where they smear out the latest batch of vile racist garbage.
paperazzi@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
This is the worst thing to read first thing in the morning 🤮
CascadianGiraffe@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Like everything he says/does there is a slight truth buried deep in there.
Some ‘workers’ really don’t want it. They are called corporate middle management. They don’t want the wage slaves to disrupt profit or crowd the spaces that they will be using because management will still take the day off.
AniZaeger@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
The workers don’t want it. What workers actually want is an end to holidays, weekends, and time off in general. I mean, what good is being a “worker” if you’re not working every waking minute of your life? /s
Omgpwnies@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
I know several, they’re type that base their whole identity around their job, and the type to die very quickly after retirement. They also vote conservative.
Stern@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
bring back the 168 hour workweek
miss_demeanour@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
And then he went golfing. True story.
CatDogL0ver@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
And he flew using US government plane. He has spent millions on just plane rides.
Who is wasting tax payer’s money.
96VXb9ktTjFnRi@feddit.nl 7 hours ago
Madison420@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Didn’t he just create like two new holidays?
Lucelu2@lemmy.zip 6 hours ago
Ah yes. The obligatory racist whinging on Juneteenth. Fat lazy bastard who doesn’t get to work before 11 am because he requires “executive time” (tv time).
some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 1 day ago
I hate paid time off. It’s one of the greatest crimes of modern life. I think I’ll campaign to have my union dismantled and my pay cut in half because the current model is clearly ripping off my employer.
Keep in mind that the guy complaining about PTO hasn’t worked a day in his life.
FenderStratocaster@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
“Yeah, PTO is gay!” - Guy who works part-time at Dollar General.
Pika@sh.itjust.works 23 hours ago
FOR REAL THOUGH. Like every person I have ever heard that has complained about PTO, are people who are in positions that either don’t accrue it, or accrue it so slowly that it’s never usable.
Protoknuckles@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
I actually have coworkers who were complaining about a day off, and saying “everybody’s lazy, nobody wants to work anymore”. Take the day off, and shut up!
FenderStratocaster@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
How old are they? I feel like old people have nothing other than their jobs. They never had many hobbies and they never had to raise their kids.
limerod@reddthat.com 23 hours ago
Tell those coworkers to pick up the slack and work on their day-off. Take the off time for you and others so the aggravted workers feel good and pat their backs.
Alaik@lemmy.zip 18 hours ago
Also we should bring back prima nocta for the holy job creators, and really just bring back slavery. I mean, people can’t afford their own homes and such anyway, imagine how much more EFFECIENT it would be if we could cut through the red tape and get similar results.
-Republicans, unironically^
Tja@programming.dev 10 hours ago
Slavery never went away, it’s just slightly more regulated now.
danc4498@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
He says on the holiday dedicated to the freeing of the slaves. It’s no coincidence this the one he complains about.
RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com 4 hours ago
What the hell is a non working holiday? Last I checked everyone with a real job works every holiday.
Mesophar@pawb.social 4 hours ago
What are these “real jobs” you speak of? At the absolutely very least, teachers typically also have off for many federal holidays, are you saying that isn’t a “real job”?
RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com 3 hours ago
If abusing kids was a job the unemployment rate would be damn near 0.
Passerby6497@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
“the workers don’t want it”
The fuck we don’t
renamon_silver@lemmy.wtf 19 hours ago
Imagine being this guy and trying to speak for the working class
SoupBrick@pawb.social 18 hours ago
And having legal adults stop and think, “Hmm, maybe this day off thing is kinda woke.”
Tja@programming.dev 10 hours ago
All he has to do is to climb on a truck once and half of the country will believe he is a regular Joe. Critical thinking has left the building.
excral@feddit.org 9 hours ago
That’s one of the fundamental strategies from the trump playbook: just claim the people want something and if it’s repeated loud and often enough, people will start to believe it. Hopefully not for something as egregious as this, but it has worked in the past.
myrrh@ttrpg.network 17 hours ago
[deleted]AdmiralWhiskersIV@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 hours ago
I’d love a few floating “celebrate your bullshit when you choose” days instead.
sqgl@sh.itjust.works 10 hours ago
Cadlillac agrees with Trump. Slave labour is what makes America great and the slaves love it apparently.
MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 4 hours ago
And here we see this buffoon once again viciously attacking his political enemies…(Flips papers)…
…“Anyone with half a brain who works for a living.”
Angry_Autist@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
The fucker is actively cratering the once biggest economy in the world
and his constituents cheer.
I hope every one of you ‘genocide joe’ objecters who stayed home feel crushing guilt as you watch the country collapse due to your misplaced ideologies
HK65@sopuli.xyz 9 hours ago
Look, on the one hand, I understand your sentiment. On the other hand, these are the voters you have, blaming them won’t get them to the polls, “teaching them a lesson” won’t get them to the polls. As hard as it may be to primary the Dems who are voting for Trump’s picks, who are voting for genocide, who are even trying to pull Trump towards war right now, it is still easier than getting new voters if you’re not into domestic genocide like Trump.
I understand you’re frustrated with voters, but it’s something that you can’t change. Some people will not vote if the options are “one genocide or two genocides”. You can change the politicians, try to get more people like AOC and Bernie and less people like Schumer though.
Angry_Autist@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Then those people are just as culpable for fascism’s rise and I will treat them as such.
rusty shitbox is ALWAYS better than radioactive rusty shitbox that is also on fire
LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 hours ago
I’d like it if Joe and Kamala felt some of that crushing guilt for giving missiles to the “blowing up Palestinian children with missiles brigade”. Why is your gripe with the people who wouldn’t vote for someone committing genocide and not, you know, the people committing genocide?
Just saying the democratic party could’ve not done that. Could’ve changed course on that at any time. And yet every chance you get you angrily point the finger at people who wouldn’t vote for someone committing genocide, and not the people who wouldn’t stop committing genocide. Make it make sense 😅 the election is over, its done, why is your ire still directed towards people protesting against genocide and not the perpetrators of genocide who literally could’ve stopped at any point, any point whatsoever before the election, and yet never did, never once even came close to doing that. The demand for someone to stop committing acts of mass ethnic cleansing is probably the most foundational kind of civil rights advocacy imaginable.
Imagine if Joe had stopped committing genocide, had joined the rest of the world in a united front of condemnation of zionism instead of trying to condemn Trump of bigotry while handing bomb after bomb after bomb right to the IDF. Imagine if he’d done that.
No, you’re right, the democratic party cause is built entirely on token gestures of progressivism not on actually advocating human rights. The american proletariat has never wanted the democratic party to actually fucking doing something, its actually the people asking them to do something who are truly evil!
Tja@programming.dev 10 hours ago
Good thing that at least the genocide stopped immediately, Palestinians now have their own country, the Ukraine war was negotiated on day one, eggs are a buck a dozen and everybody has Healthcare now.
gdog05@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Here’s why everyone is angry. Seemingly at people like you, I’m assuming, who decided not to vote. Democrats weren’t the ones committing the genocide!! They were absolutely enabling it. Supporting it. Israel was committing the genocide and we weren’t voting for their government. And then, on top of that, it was absolutely evident that Trump would make the genocide worse and not voting against him was effectively voting for him. And that’s on you. You did that. There was a slim chance that Kamala could improve the situation and Palestinian lives. Instead, your lack of vote ensured that wouldn’t happen, ensured that more Ukrainians would die, ensured that Africans would die, ensured that American women would die, ensured that millions of Americans will die if there’s a pandemic. And now instead of just fixing the Democratic party for the future, we’re also fighting fascism. So fucking congrats. Your short-sighted high horse didn’t take a harm reduction strategy and many human lives are now gone. You need to fucking own that.
Bloomcole@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
They both have the same sponsors and work for them, not the public.
Bloomcole@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
LOL still seething about the well deserved loss.
As a European nothing gives me more pleasure than watching your country collapse.DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 5 hours ago
I’m always amazed at the sheer ignorance displayed by citizens of the dead empires. You should have learned what a dying empire does from your own history.
Tja@programming.dev 10 hours ago
They should have the day they voted for. Nothing more, nothing less.
cecinestpasunbot@lemmy.ml 13 hours ago
Kind of telling to be complaining about this on a day which celebrates the end of slavery.
rarbg@lemmy.zip 3 hours ago
And here I thought I would get away without seeing trump bitch about juneteenth…
Alaik@lemmy.zip 18 hours ago
We have the least mandated PTO in the developed world and a good portion of the underdeveloped world.
Our federal holidays aren’t even days off for most people. Lol
My opinion of him can’t be lower but man I keep realizing how fucking stupid his supporters are with every one of his asinine comments.
psycho_driver@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Yeah I called Juneteenth getting axed over a month ago and one of my co-workers chimed in that Juneteenth was a Trump holiday. It isn’t, it was signed into law by Biden his first year in office. Trump lied about it while campaigning.
baggachipz@sh.itjust.works 4 hours ago
Yeah I’ll be shocked if it still exists next year. He’ll call it “woke DEI” and his bitches in congress will scramble to be on the wrong side of history yet again.
Strakh@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
stevestevesteve@lemmy.world 1 day ago
What a fucking moron along with all his voters
NatakuNox@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
They need that tax revenue to make up for all the tax cuts for the wealthy.
gofsckyourself@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
It’s likely he doesn’t actually believe it, but instead he’s starting a disinformation campaign so that he can let his lackeys start to start doing some illegal shit because it will benefit him.
Tja@programming.dev 10 hours ago
Nah, he is just that stupid. Doesn’t prevent his lackeys from using the distraction, of course, but he’s just that dumb.
VeryInterestingTable@jlai.lu 20 hours ago
One detail of the country with the least amount of paid vacation in thw world. And that’s the hill he decides to climb on. He excels at making himself look increasingly moronic.
meekah@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
The only reason they don’t have a lower amount of mandatory paid vacation is because it is impossible to go below 0.
Tja@programming.dev 10 hours ago
Don’t give them ideas.
FancyPantsFIRE@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I doubt he cares about holidays at all, but he very much cares about removing a holiday that is specifically relevant to not white people.
I was taking with a family member yesterday and said I’d be shocked if Juneteenth is still a holiday next year.
Pika@sh.itjust.works 23 hours ago
I doubt he notices a holiday TBH, it’s just the same as the previous day.
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
I’m sure the racist ghouls around him complain about the holiday.
PyroNeurosis@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 hours ago
I do hate holidays as a working stiff:
They exist only as a foil to working days- once working days are eliminated, so too will holidays be.
DaddleDew@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
America produces way more than enough to allow everyone to live comfortably. But all that extra productivity is hoarded by a tiny portion of the population while workers are being increasingly stretched and strained to extract as much value from then as possible while paying them as least as possible.
AVengefulAxolotl@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
And he seriously said this, what the actual fuck. It seemed so absurd that i had to look up, and yeah its there…
WaterWaiver@aussie.zone 8 hours ago
$BILLIONS
I mentally read this in the same voice I read $VARIABLE.
exec *>/dev/null
kn0wmad1c@programming.dev 21 hours ago
And the fact he posted this on Juneteenth is just coincidence, right?
drsilverworm@midwest.social 17 hours ago
“The workers don’t want it!”
Some people said basically the exact same thing about slaves. That they liked being slaves.
Doomsider@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
King Cuck says no more holidays while golfing his presidency away.
excral@feddit.org 9 hours ago
See, it’s fine when he goes golfing as he doesn’t directly contribute anything to his or his pals’ wealth. But those workers actually creating wealth, how dare they take days off.
trumpetmouth@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
maybe there are too many non-working presidents right now?
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