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[-] miss_demeanour@lemmy.dbzer0.com 371 points 4 days ago

And then he went golfing. True story.

[-] CatDogL0ver@lemmy.world 118 points 4 days ago

And he flew using US government plane. He has spent millions on just plane rides.

Who is wasting tax payer's money.

[-] polyamorypagan69@lemm.ee 25 points 3 days ago
[-] cook_pass_babtridge@feddit.uk 23 points 3 days ago

This isn't entirely true - someone calculated that, on a good year, a peasant could only work 150 days a year towards the rent of their own farmland. Then they have to actually work that land, take care of their animals, and manually do basically every industrial process we take for granted to get food in their belly. They didn't work 150 days a year then go off with a cheque that will sort them out for the rest of the year.

Source: https://www.adamsmith.org/blog/regulation-industry/medieval-peasants-really-did-not-work-only-150-days-a-year/

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[-] ComicalMayhem@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago

wasn't this confirmed false?

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 3 points 2 days ago

Yeah, sure, good luck only working 150 days, or even taking a whole day off, when you're supposed to tend to farmland and animals. That's like having a holiday from being a parent

And? They also had communal+generational help with that.

There was bad stuff too, but we are getting fucked here

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[-] Nangijala@feddit.dk 90 points 4 days 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 44 points 4 days 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

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[-] NoMadLadNZ@lemmy.nz 27 points 3 days ago

Get off the golf course yourself then you orange turd

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[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 222 points 4 days 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 66 points 4 days ago

"Yeah, PTO is gay!" - Guy who works part-time at Dollar General.

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[-] MetalMachine@feddit.nl 37 points 3 days ago

Nah F that, most Americans barley get any paid time off if any. If anything we need MORE.

[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 17 points 3 days 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.

[-] NutWrench@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 days ago

"STFU, Donnie. You're out of your element. "

[-] kreskin@lemmy.world 22 points 3 days ago

Thinly veiled attempt to get rid of juneteenth. So just the usual rightwing racism.

[-] bieren@lemmy.zip 47 points 4 days 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 51 points 4 days 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!

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[-] AniZaeger@lemmy.world 19 points 4 days 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

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[-] Kalysta@lemm.ee 34 points 3 days ago

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.

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[-] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 120 points 4 days ago

"the workers don't want it"

The fuck we don't

[-] renamon_silver@lemmy.wtf 48 points 4 days ago

Imagine being this guy and trying to speak for the working class

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[-] Buske@lemmy.world 36 points 3 days ago

This guy LITERALLY raped a 13 year old back in the day, and only golfs.

[-] DegenerationIP@lemmy.world 20 points 3 days ago

Happens in Germany too right now. People really need to find back to Unions and take more Power over their rights, before they just Cut it off

[-] Muffi@programming.dev 5 points 2 days ago

Same in Denmark. This is our first year without "Store Bededag" (single day holiday), which our useless fucking government decided to remove, as part of their war-consent-manufacturing.

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[-] witness_me@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 days ago

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.

[-] trumpetmouth@lemmy.world 27 points 3 days ago

maybe there are too many non-working presidents right now?

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[-] stevestevesteve@lemmy.world 134 points 4 days ago

What a fucking moron along with all his voters

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[-] UnsavoryMollusk@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago

Is that in project 2025 ? I dont remember but they are on track for sure.

[-] Alaik@lemmy.zip 82 points 4 days 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.

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[-] 96VXb9ktTjFnRi@feddit.nl 36 points 4 days ago

Meanwhile the US have the fewest paid leave days of any country on the planet (source).

[-] polyamorypagan69@lemm.ee 3 points 2 days ago

We are all getting fucked by captaitalism

[-] cecinestpasunbot@lemmy.ml 51 points 4 days ago

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

[-] Angry_Autist@lemmy.world 54 points 4 days 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

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[-] Lucelu2@lemmy.zip 32 points 4 days 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).

[-] FancyPantsFIRE@lemmy.world 103 points 4 days 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.

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[-] VeryInterestingTable@jlai.lu 76 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

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.

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[-] Lucky_777@lemmy.world 21 points 3 days 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.

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[-] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 74 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

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.

[-] EighteenthNerd@lemmy.world 20 points 3 days 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.

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[-] kn0wmad1c@programming.dev 63 points 4 days ago

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

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[-] KingPorkChop@lemmy.ca 38 points 4 days ago

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!

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[-] Doomsider@lemmy.world 34 points 4 days ago

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

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[-] tetris11@lemmy.ml 60 points 4 days ago

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

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[-] drhodl@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago

Says the obese pig to whom EVERY day is a holiday and a reason to golf. I never knew that POTUS was a part time position. America is fucked if there's ever a crisis before 11:00am, on a week end, or on a golfing day......

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