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Cause Americans want to BBQ not do their civic duty. If you made election day a holiday, voting numbers would Plummet while Americans get drunk and grill burgers
Welcome to Costco, I love you.
Electrolytes?
I’ll give you 3 guesses
- pancakes
- adamantium
- squirrels
(I’m bad at guessing)
You got 2 out of 3 correct.
Yay, C+!
I just need one.
- Money
Wait, you guys are getting President’s Day off work??
Yes. Quite stupidly
This was my thought as well. Too many years of retail has left me with an instinctual hatred for holidays. Like how Labor Day is a holiday for the rich to “celebrate” the working poor who have to work that day.
Yeah, making election day a national holiday doesn’t help those of us who don’t get most holidays off.
Maybe it needs to super-national?
Right. Congress would need to amend the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) to mandate that employers give national holidays off to employees for this to apply to everyone.
Protesting for fair rest days has taken a back seat to letting women marry women and also ensuring women don’t fucking die around childbirth or complications getting there, which seem to be very pressing and fundamental issues we seem to have lost value in solving. Also, issues like black slavery and prisoner slavery and women’s slavery and rapists choosing their kids’ mom’s and something about the overwhelming prevalence of fucking boomsticks in every part of that and everything else, like schools.
It’s like there’s a million mind-numbingly simple things we should have solved trivially with an “of course I’m not a dick” vote that we seem to have stalled on or went backward about, and these are pushing the more nuanced class war issues onto the back back back burner pending their resolution.
Fuck this exhausting shit and the effort to just keep a country going where people are dying and blaming Biden for it. Secede from those richbitch fuckwits and their hillbilly fan base. When all their people are dying and dead, buy the land to settle the debt and then reunify better. We don’t tolerate intolerance, and maybe that means we can’t save this version of the matri-uh, union, and maybe we need to start working on the next.
Maybe OP works at an elementary school 40 years ago.
Though somehow there’s usually a mattress sale.
Is there ever not a mattress sale? And they advertise like crazy.
I’ve been getting it off for years. I know teachers do too, but I’m not a teacher.
Or a bank. Are banks ever actually open?
Cuz America is a backwards ass country
A shit hole country
A third world country in a Prada belt.
Isn’t voting open for much longer than 1 day? Polls are already open…and so is early voting and mail-in ballots, etc. Election Day is just like the last day when (allegedly) the winner is decided. Not really a point for a full-on, everything closed type holiday, or even a “bank holiday” like President’s Day.
Depends on your state and county/parish. Voter suppression and lack of funding means that many “red” states have fewer voting locations and even fewer early voting locations. My family who live in a Republican county in a Republican state have only two vote early locations that are picked to be least efficient (both close to each other on an extreme end and less populated portion of a huge county). They would have to drive 45 minutes to get there in good traffic. It makes it difficult for folks who may be poor and working class to get out.
I’ve been mailing in my ballot for years. Sitting at home and researching each candidate and proposition at my convenience is a game changer. (This year, my ballot had 15 propositions to unravel!) I don’t need to worry about getting to the polls - or dealing with the armed, lingering asshats.
EVERYONE should be mailing in ballots.
Put $500 cash in an envelope and mail it to yourself. If you don’t trust that, drop your ballot in person. I voted yesterday and got to scan my ballot into the machine.
EVERYONE should be mailing in ballots.
Not everyone gets that option from their state.
I think they’re just saying that everyone should have the option and use it.
Maybe.
Regardless, it should be clear that not everyone has this option today. There is no reason we should be saying things like “You have no excuse” like we are elsewhere.
There are more options than their used to be, but not everywhere, not for everyone, and its still not as easily accessed as it should be.
Which sucks.
Only eight states have automatic mail-in voting: California, Colorado, Hawaii, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Vermont, and Washington state, plus Washington DC.
Some states have No Excuse Required mail-in options, while others have Excuse Required mail-in options. I’ve lived in all three types of states. The automatic (blue) state was best, and No Excuse (purple) state made the mail-in request easy, but I had to jump through hoops and lie my ass off to mail my ballot in the Excuse Required (red) state.
Every state should have automatic or No Excuse mail-in ballots.
They absolutely should all be automatic.
We should also, IMO, have it as a holiday. As well as early voting options everywhere. Really everything to encourage participation.
Unfortunately not the case today…
You don’t need to mail in to research candidates.
At least in my state, you can just see who is on the ballot weeks and weeks ahead of time.
We don’t get the day off to vote in MN but you are legally allowed to take time off to go vote (with pay). So when I was in the office, I always voted in the middle of the day right after my lunch hour.
Our boss just took us out to lunch and gave us four hours off the rest of the day to go out and vote, which is probably the most encouragement to vote I think I’ve ever gotten from any boss before. I’m sure I was entitled to it this whole time, but it’s never been encouraged like this before with this boss at any of my other workplaces, if anything, previous bosses probably would’ve talked shit if I said that’s what I wanted to do with my time.
I had a job for a few years with no MLK and no President’s day. That stretch from New Years to Memorial Day was very, very long.
The ruling class wants you to celebrate them more than it wants you to have any influence in their decisions. It’s frighteningly close to HR pizza party logic.
No need to make it a day off, just need to guarantee enough hours to vote (in Canada employers need to adjust your schedule so you have 4h off work while voting stations are open, in most cases they don’t need to do anything because they’re open late enough that after work is 4h)
Meanwhile all the schools in my area are polling places so kids don’t have school.
Forcing many parents to take the day off anyway, but unpaid (or using PTO time, if they have it).
Working as intended. Make voting as difficult and distasteful as possible so we can welcome fascism with big warm hugs. Finally, no more of that voting nonsense.
I do, try living in a blue state.
I live in a red state and have the day off, champ.
Nice, here is an actual relevant map:
https://www.lgbtmap.org/democracy-maps/election_day_holiday_paid_time_off_to_vote
It’s really about split whether or not states will let you leave work to vote
I live in blue state, no day off on election day.
It also helps to have an employer that cares about most holidays.
Businesses like food service can often be five times busier on a holiday. It’s all hands on deck. Even the ones where there isn’t a federal day off like Halloween and Election Day
'cause apparently you guys elect a king every 4 years, with the power to completely change the course of your country, so it’s only right you honour him accordingly
And why is presidents day called Washington’s birthday?
Fred Astaire would explain it to you, but he can’t tell a lie.
Because originally the holiday just celebrated the first US president, George Washington and then they consolidated into Presidents Day so they didn’t have plethora of Dead President Birthday holidays.
We had Washington’s Birthday and Lincoln’s Birthday both as holidays when I was a kid. Lincoln was born in November, so it wasn’t a perfect balance with February, but it was close enough to one.
Yeah and I think they collapsed into president’s day to avoid adding a day for Kennedy.
That would make sense.
Sure, here you go: https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/7329
One of many such bills.
Take a look at the sponsors. I’ll give you 1 guess at which party would vote it down, because it would hurt them in elections.
It’s the same reason Puerto Rico will never be a state.
Or simply vote on the Sundays…
This Sunday is the last day for early voting in Ohio. There’s no voting this Monday but lots more polling places open open on election day Tuesday. I voted yesterday though.
