GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy wants to ‘cancel Juneteenth’

[Kamaji]

GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy wants to ‘cancel Juneteenth’

By Victor Nava
August 7, 2023

Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy has called for replacing Juneteenth with Election Day as a national holiday, deriding the celebration of the end of slavery in the US as “useless.”

“Single day voting, on Election Day,” the 37-year-old entrepreneur and longshot 2024 White House contender proposed in a speech before Iowa voters on Saturday. “We will make Election Day a holiday in the United States of America, so there’s no complaints about it.” 

However, Ramaswamy told the crowd that in order to make room for another federal holiday, one of the current 11 would need to be removed from the calendar.

“Cancel Juneteenth or one of the other useless ones we made up,” Ramaswamy said. “You can’t have everything be a holiday, but we’ll cancel one of the other ones and make Election Day a holiday.”

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Source:  https://nypost.com/2023/08/07/vivek-ramaswamy-says-he-wants-to-cancel-juneteenth/

[Fishrrman]

Preach it, Vivek.

This guy has guts.

Can you imagine a white Republican candidate with the intestinal fortitude to say this?

[libertybele]

Preach it, Vivek.

This guy has guts.

Can you imagine a white Republican candidate with the intestinal fortitude to say this?

I disagree.  It doesn't take guts to preach to people what they want to hear.  Ramsy is another O'Bammy in the rough.

[the OlLine Rebel]

I am fully on board with all that.

Juneteenth is a joke.  Obviously a “stick it to them” rush job, catering to BLM miscreants, and a joke just based on the stupidity of the “name”.

And get Election Day back to what it was, before about 10 years ago.

[Maj. Bill Martin]

I disagree.  It doesn't take guts to preach to people what they want to hear.  Ramsy is another O'Bammy in the rough.

 

[Wingnut]

Cancel the negro indolence day would be like saying that guys with balls can play women's sports to a libtard./