Too many non-working holidays in America

He's right. This year, everybody's gotta work Christmas.

He says on the holiday dedicated to the freeing of the slaves. It’s no coincidence this the one he complains about.

Kind of telling to be complaining about this on a day which celebrates the end of slavery.

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

They should have the day they voted for. Nothing more, nothing less.
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.
- 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.
- 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.

King Cuck says no more holidays while golfing his presidency away.

All righty then Ebeneezer...

It would be fun to make Trump work a job for 90 days. Nothing major. Maybe answering phones for a help line.

9 to 5 desk job.

Monday through Friday.

If he misses a day he has to "find a new job" and start over.

The dude would fucking CRACK like he was being waterboarded!

And then for evenings and weekends, he has to: do chores around the house, fix shit instead of hiring someone else to do it, pay bills, contact businesses because they billed you incorrectly and you can't afford to pay the extra hundred they're charging you, go grocery shopping, meal prep, do taxes, and all the while be a good husband, father, and person who takes care of themselves.
This should be a requirement for holding public office.
- Which is why it's absolutely insane they use aoc's prior job as a bartender as an insult. Motherfuckers, she's probably the only person in office who actually understands what it means to work.
- Should be a requirement for life. My SO always says everyone should be required to work retail for one week during the holidays. I have to agree.
Yeah, like how he "worked" at McDee's as a fry cook for 2 minutes and then smiled and waved at people for the rest of his "shift".

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.

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.

Doesn't tourism help the economy? You gotta give people time off to be the consumers you want them to be.

I know nurses and other government employees who wouldn't want less mandatory holidays off, you're either off or get holiday pay to work on a Monday!

"the workers don't want it"

The fuck we don't

Cadlillac agrees with Trump. Slave labour is what makes America great and the slaves love it apparently.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xNzXze5Yza8
Imagine being this guy and trying to speak for the working class
- 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.
- And having legal adults stop and think, "Hmm, maybe this day off thing IS kinda woke."
- I'd love a few floating "celebrate your bullshit when you choose" days instead.

No one is forcing anyone to be closed on holidays! There's no law or rule or anything!

Banks don't have to close and work absolute shit hours because they handle money!

You wanna make more money stay open on holidays.

I work in appliance repair I get the 4th thanksgiving and Christmas and new years.

It sucks. But we make more money.

My sleep deprived brain trying to process the 4th thanksgiving. Like, I only get one and this guy gets 4. I’m going to go to sleep now, you should also invest in some commas. :)
- I was thinking he only took Thanksgiving off every 4 years.

life is not created for an economy

One of the country with the least amount of paid vacation in the world. And that's the hill he decides to climb on. He excels at making himself look increasingly moronic.

The only reason they don't have a lower amount of mandatory paid vacation is because it is impossible to go below 0.
- Don't give them ideas.

Said the guy who spends 1/3 of his time golfing

And the fact he posted this on Juneteenth is just coincidence, right?

"The workers don't want it!"
Some people said basically the exact same thing about slaves. That they liked being slaves.

And then he went golfing. True story.

And he flew using US government plane. He has spent millions on just plane rides.
Who is wasting tax payer's money.

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.

America produces way more than enough to allow everyone to live comfortably and enjoy life. But the fruits of all that extra productivity is being 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.

The scarcity of wealth and the need to always work harder and longer hours to barely make it is an illusion maintained to exploit the workers.

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

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.
We have fewer holidays than medieval peasants. Economic historians vary between 150 and 250 work days vs 261 for a Mon-Fri job.

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.

"Yeah, PTO is gay!" - Guy who works part-time at Dollar General.
- 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, or make enough that they don't need to ever worry about being paid vs unpaid when they take holiday.
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^
- Slavery never went away, it's just slightly more regulated now.
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!
- 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.
- 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.

Back to the days of peasants petitioning the lord to restore their holy days

If I remember something from r/ask_historians, is that peasants had a shit ton of holidays and festivals.

Oh yes, all eleven federal holidays will turn into 365 real soon.

...i'm down for cancelling fcking christmas; federal holidays should be secular...
...give us the solstices, equinoxes, and earth day and i'm pretty good; throw in labor day and memorial day if you want to bump it up to the private-sector seven...
- As a Pagan, if you want federal holidays to be secular then solstices and equinoxes couldn't be counted. Many Pagans (not all) observe them as holy days along with Feb 1-2 (Imbolc), May 1 (Bealtaine - there are multiple spellings this one), August 1 (Lammas/Lughnasadh), and Halloween (Samhain). And I'm sure Pagans that celebrate non-European traditions have other days, I just can't speak to them personally.

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!

Europeans don't have 5 weeks of holidays. It of course depends on the country, region, and sometimes city, but usually is between 8 and 11 days of holidays (that everyone gets on the same day, like new years or the respective independence day) and between 4 and 6 weeks of PTO, which every person chooses when to take.
Plus no sick days, if you are sick you stay at home, no quota. Optionally some paperwork if the sickness lasts a bunch of time.

What a fucking moron along with all his voters

They need that tax revenue to make up for all the tax cuts for the wealthy.
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.

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.

I doubt he notices a holiday TBH, it's just the same as the previous day.
- I'm sure the racist ghouls around him were complaining about Juneteenth.

Soon we'll end up having a holiday for every once working day of the year

Damn! Not that the whole bleat isn't awful, but that's one of the stupidest sentences ever in ALL of the ways! 🤦

He's just very forward thinking. In 14000 years you'll be sorry for not heading this warning!

Okay, grandpa. Time for bed.

I didn't even get to take off yesterday. Fuck this guy.

Remember back in the middle ages, when everyone was sporting an axe and knew where the boss's house was?

They also had more days off back then, more time to sharpen that axe.
- More holidays, but when you're a subsistence farmer, those aren't really days off, just days you don't have to work for the rent.
- A lot less workers too to be fair (the plague more than did its work...), so it was a workers market
And worked a lot less than 40 hours a week
- well, worked less than 40hrs a week for an employer. They had a ton of shit to do at home, and if they weren't married, doubly so.
  My grandma used to tell me stories of how long it would take to forage for food before refridgerators

keep up the talk fat man and we'll have a paid holiday for every finger and toe we cut off.

I think any European politician who said anything remotely close to this would see their careers instantly over. How is it possible that saying something like this doesn't cost them votes in the US?

Because they've spent decades demonising and dismantling unions. There's no voice for the workers.
Because republicans have no integrity and have cultivated a base of gibbering idiots who are happy watching others suffer even if it hurts them too
He said this specifically on Juneteenth so that his hateful voters agree, and those that work for businesses that don’t give a day off on Juneteenth get angry at the people who work for companies or the government that do.
- I'd love to see him say this on the 4th of July or Christmas.
His voters love the taste of the boot and the democrats are so shitty that most people just don’t bother to vote
Any non-republican in America who said this would also instantly have their careers end. “Would end a political career” happens multiple times a day for trump though and I’m still waiting for him to be held accountable for anything. Unfortunately, they made “holding people accountable” a bipartisan issue and only one party has any interest in doing it…unless it’s a democrat that needs to be held accountable, then it’s usually bipartisan.

What a piece of shit post. He's using the date to signal solidarity to his racist voters.

What do you mean?
- He posted it on Juneteenth, i.e. the federal holiday that commemorates the end of slavery.
- This was posted on Juneteenth.

Come for the racism, stay for the contempt of working people in general.

OK, start with Christmas Day. I'll wait.

lol if he actually tried this, the speed in which big companies would lobby the fuck out of it would be insane.

300 million people can't have a single fucking day off every once in a while because it will "cost billions", while less than 10 people are hoarding over a TRILLION in wealth.

Sounds like the WH chef staff ran out of chicken nuggies

"MAKE LINE GO UP FOR YOUR OWNERS"

Hoffa and JFK got whacked for less than this.

someone do the fuckin deed already, I'm so fuckin sick of this jackass and all his Republican dumbfucks

Too many non-working presidents and billionaires in your country.

Truer words have not been spoken.

Don’t worry, Don, the “essential workers” won’t be affected.

Golf.

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.

fuck him

This is the first trump post where I saw the members of r/conservative unanimously against the president.

Too bad they'll still support him anyway..

If you want to prevent this from happening get involved in protests and contact your representatives. #nokings #50501

Orangeboi staying true to form and leaning into the idiotic, inaccurate, archaic, and racist “lazy people of color” trope, I see. And on Juneteenth, too. I’m sure that’s part of the subtext he was going for.

Nepal enters chat

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_number_of_public_holidays?wprov=sfla1

From this list, it looks like the US and Vietnam are actually tied for the lowest, with 6 each.
- One of Vietnam's holidays, Tet, last 7 days, though. So that 12 total days off.
- China and Russia with 13, 14.
They work 6 days a week though. So subtract 52 days a year from that 35 and they are 11 days short of the US with 6. They are worse off.
Where's Cuba?
- South of Florida but North of Jamaica.

If Trump tries to take away a federal holiday, that might be what makes somebody finally do it.

You guys are getting days off?

How the fuck does it cost money to keep businesses closed.

American workers is this true?

true that our president is an illiterate, racist, asshole? Yup.

...where there's a whip, there's a way where there's a whip, there's a way. We don't wanna go to war today But the lord of the land says NAY NAY NAY we gonna march alll day, all day, all day.... for where there's a whip there's a way