Happy Columbus Day!

[Vote for Rusty in 2022]

 

[DaShuckster]

Some people here have griped about ANOTHER federal holiday when Juneteenth became one.

But if Juneteenth didn't 'deserve' to become one, why in the hell do we STILL celebrate "Columbus Day?"

We should've discontinued this antiquated one when we added the new one.

 

[NinjaKnight]

lmao @ rusty, the whiny little bitch snowflake who is soooo offended by a holiday

^^actual pic of rusty today while creating this thread.

 

[UCFBS]

Some people here have griped about ANOTHER federal holiday when Juneteenth became one.

But if Juneteenth didn't 'deserve' to become one, why in the hell do we STILL celebrate "Columbus Day?"

We should've discontinued this antiquated one when we added the new one.

Most companies give this option ... to replace several Holidays with Juneteenth. These things take time to 'settle.'

But since you're a pro-authoritarian, I can understand why you want an edict overnight.

 

[DaShuckster]

Most companies give this option ... to replace several Holidays with Juneteenth. These things take time to 'settle.'

But since you're a pro-authoritarian, I can understand why you want an edict overnight.

Pro-authoritarian? Based on WHAT pray tell?

I suggested that if too many federal holidays was an issue with the addition of Juneteenth, there was an easy way to rectify it.

 

[UCFBS]

Pro-authoritarian? Based on WHAT pray tell?

I suggested that if too many federal holidays was an issue with the addition of Juneteenth, there was an easy way to rectify it.

No, you said you wanted to replace one specific holiday ... that's authoritarian.

 

[DaShuckster]

Pro-authoritarian? Based on WHAT pray tell?

I suggested that if too many federal holidays was an issue with the addition of Juneteenth, there was an easy way to rectify it.

No, you said you wanted to replace one specific holiday ... that's authoritarian.

I guess the people who were grousing about adding Juneteenth as "yet ANOTHER federal holiday" when Juneteenth was added were authoritarian too --- or was their take different?

We now have 12 federal holidays. So, given the argument we shouldn't have "added yet ANOTHER one," (God Bless the Workaholic USA!) which one goes?

New Year's Day, Independence Day, Thanksgiving, or Christmas? Some might argue that Christmas is a religious holiday but I'm pretty sure our folks here (me included) would give them all a 'thumb's up.'

Washington's Birthday (Now Presidents Day), Memorial Day, Veterans Day, and Labor Day? Those all sound like good national holidays to me.

Martin Luther King Jr Day? Now I realize that some of you might question why the heck we need to celebrate the life of America's famous civil rights leader who inspired social change before he was murdered. But it should be pointed out that some people use that same day to celebrate the lives of a pair of famous American traitors, Robert E Lee and Stonewall Jackson, so we pretty much cover the entire political spectrum -- from one end to the other -- with this one.

So what about Columbus Day? I grew up celebrating him for discovering America. But as I got older, I found out he actually landed in the Bahamas. And since humans had lived in the 'New World' for over 15,000 years before Columbus sailed, it would appear he didn't really 'discover' anything either.

So at the risk of sounding too 'authoritarian,' the Columbus Day holiday would seem like the most obvious candidate to replace with something or someone more worthy of a national celebration.