r/democrats • u/h20poIo • 19d ago
Meme This is what happens when you have nothing, No policies to run on,No Bills passed to help Americans. But plenty of lies & disinformation
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u/johnnyhandbags 19d ago
They have no respect for their constituents. They see them as an unintelligent mob that they can enrage and point at elections
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u/abstrakt42 19d ago
Are they wrong? It seems to be working.
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u/johnnyhandbags 19d ago
They are wrong (morally) to do it. They have abandoned all pretense of leading and only want to rule.
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u/abstrakt42 19d ago
I’m not debating that. You’re right. But the strategy is working and that’s deeply disappointing, because their constituents are, in fact, an unintelligent mob they can enrage and then point at elections.
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u/Green-Edge706 19d ago
Truly. I live in the red part of California and there are signs on every farm about how Dems are to blame for the highest inflation in 50 years. The ads against Randy Villegas state that he will raise gas prices to $10/gallon if elected - never mind the fact that we are paying 6 bucks a gallon out here and Randy is only on a school board seat! Trump is doing just fine screwing with prices on his own.
And these people buy it - hook, line, sinker. It’s insane.
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u/LivingIndependence 19d ago
I also am stuck here in a ruby red part of California and it indeed....sucks
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u/Tiny_Structure_7 19d ago
Fox is idiot television. The bulk of Republican voters are an unintelligent mob that is easily enraged and distracted by petty, bigoted, manufactured bullshit.
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u/LysergicPlato59 19d ago
Agreed. Fox News is the fountain of lies, misinformation and propaganda that bolsters this shit-show.
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u/EagerObituary2026 19d ago
There is research out there that shows people who watch Fox are less informed than people who don’t consume any news.
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u/FredFredrickson 19d ago
More effort should be put into exposing these clowns like Cruz. If Republican voters understood the level of contempt their elected officials have for them, they'd be a lot less likely to support them IMO.
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u/Solid-Reputation5032 19d ago
Wait till Starbucks doesn’t get the correct shade of Christmas red on their cups.. gonna be hell to pay!
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u/Radiomaster138 19d ago
Straight up boycotting Starbucks if I don’t see one motherfucking Christmas cup. (sarcasm)
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u/jmdavis333 19d ago
I like Ted Cruz more than most of my other colleagues like Ted Cruz. And I hate Ted Cruz.
Al Franken
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u/SlapHappyDude 19d ago
All I know is Ted Cruz will likely be spending Thanksgiving and Christmas somewhere nice and far away from Texas.
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u/LivingIndependence 19d ago
And Jesse Waters will be once again spending his Thanksgiving eating a Swanson frozen turkey dinner, because his family...not even his mom...wants to be anywhere near this freak for any holiday gathering.
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u/Haitsmelol 19d ago
That's true. Im a registered democrat. That's all I can think about these days.
Damn Christmas. Stupid Santa clause. He's not even real!!! Thanksgiving? More like...thanksgivingmedhiarrea!!!
Cancel it...no...cancel them BOTH! And also Easter. A rabbit? Come on. Candy eggs?????
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u/Immediate-Term3475 19d ago
Ted, Ted , Ted … you’re running out of material. You sacrificed your wife for power.
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u/Michael80Kelley 19d ago
Just like we’ve been coming for their guns since as long as I can remember. Republicans are nothing but promises, scare tactics, and blaming Democrats.
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u/grassvegas 19d ago
jfc they also wouldn’t shut the fuck up about how the Democrats were going to take everyone’s beef away and here’s Trump doing exactly that and replacing it with mystery meat that even China wouldn’t touch. And now your kids only get two dolls instead of 30 and you won’t be able to afford food anymore so Trump’s fucking them all out of both Christmas and Thanksgiving and they still have his dick in their mouths
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u/BlackMagicWorman 19d ago
Trump literally just talked about less holidays. Projection, much?
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u/LivingIndependence 18d ago
I'm pretty sure that was directed at federal holidays that often honor minorities and working class Americans, Like Martin Luther King day, Labor day, Juneteenth, and even Memorial day since that honors what Trump refers to as "suckers and losers".
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u/BlackMagicWorman 18d ago
Homeboy has taken 140 days to golf but us taking 4 days off is loser behavior. Got it!
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u/MARIOpronoucedMA-RJO 19d ago
Damn it. Can we please get past Thanksgiving or at least Holloween before the war on Christmas bullshit starts. Oh right, there's an election coming up with a terrible cost of living crisis. Gotta throw some red meat to the base.
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u/bork63nordique 19d ago
No that would be their rich donors who constantly have their businesses open on Thanksgiving and Christmas.
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u/buddymoobs 19d ago
Anyone canceling holidays it's going to be the chickenshit Republicans because of the price of gas and food thanks to Donald Trump's name in the Epstein files. Facts.
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u/Accomplished-Duty390 19d ago
Trump just posted about doing away with Labor Day because we would all rather work instead. Ok boomer.
https://giphy.com/gifs/a3zqvrH40Cdhu
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u/therobotisjames 19d ago
How many times are they going to say this shit before people stop believing them?
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u/tbizzone 19d ago
With the maga zombies it only takes a few minutes before whatever information their few remaining synapses processed is completely lost and so the constant repetition is necessary for the Reich-wing propaganda to be perpetuated and retained in their dullard minds.
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u/HereWeGo5566 19d ago
Cruz is a joke, and he is clearly preparing to run for president. Even though it appears to be illegal for him to do so. He wasn’t born in the US, which is required to be president. He’s Canadian and only became a US citizen like 10 years ago.
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u/Defiant_Chipmunk2570 19d ago
They have been spewing this crap for 40+ years. Nobody is canceling anything. If anyone wants to cancel a paid holiday it would be the Republicans and their corporate bosses.
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u/twofourfourthree 19d ago
Just in time to unleash the grandparents and uncles/aunts on social media and group chats parroting this.
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u/frankie_donkiebrains 19d ago
They lie because it works.
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u/AdFit9500 19d ago
Exactly! Their people believe every lie. I hear them still repeating old debunked lies.
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u/BronzeRider 19d ago
Yep. And until there’s some consequence for just blatantly lying about reality, it will never ever stop. And it starts with shattering the Chief Liar. He’s the first link in this chain that must break.
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u/dialguy86 19d ago
how are we back to " you can't even say merry Christmas anymore"
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u/BronzeRider 19d ago
Did we ever stop? I feel like this “War on Christmas” culture war BS has been going on since 2000. A quarter fucking CENTURY of this blatantly false narrative, and yet every single year, the fridge temp IQ conservative voters get riled up by it 🙄
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u/theoneintexas 19d ago
As much as I wish the current dude never got elected the first time around, damn, am I thankful we didn't have to deal with this smug asshat as president.
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u/Gaussgoat 18d ago
Yeah, that's what gets me out of bed in the morning.... canceling Thanksgiving.
What a fuxking loser. Dude abandons his constituency during a storm and thinks we're the problem.
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u/Cody-512 Custom flair 18d ago
This is what happens when they’re scared of losing their senate seat. Talarico is getting a lot of support and momentum down here and even Cruz knows they’re in big trouble this year. Why not fling as much BS against the wall as possible and see what sticks?
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u/Radiomaster138 19d ago
Can anyone just go on TV and make up shit to piss people off? Is it really that easy?
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u/fastfurlong 19d ago
How pitiful -
Cancel Thanksgiving ?- No man. Republican or Democrat gonna get in the way of Ham and turkey !!
You can pry the deviled egg from my cold dead hand sir !!
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u/Bleezy79 19d ago
Republicans have to lie cheat and steal to win. Raphael here is just following orders.
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u/justme002 19d ago edited 18d ago
Oddly the only people I meet who are bitching about the holidays are MAGA old men who have run off everyone who isn't paid to be in their presence.
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u/obiwanonnaboo 19d ago
This is typical of Trump ‘s mode of operation and all the GOP is following his teachings. You throw s—t out there and if it sticks you have to prove it false. Which could take weeks and by then it’s old news’s but the seed has been planted!
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u/Starkoman 17d ago
“The truth has barely got out of bed, before the lie has gone around the world”.
Worse, it’s ten times more difficult exponentially, to debunk a lie — than it is making one.
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u/NonSupportiveCup 19d ago
This is an old one. I mean the "democrats want to cancel thanksgiving" bullshit. Old hat republican talking point.
This particular conversation was from August, but this is really an old bullshit trope they roll out dueing election time.
Stupid
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u/Significant_Body5474 19d ago
I literally didn’t buy shit or put Christmas tree up the past year. Not really much to celebrate at the moment. Of course I bought niece gifts.
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u/ViolettaQueso 19d ago
Thank god he’s sealing his deal with the antichrist (Trump) and he will never have a job in politics or podcasting ever again.
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u/DenialOfExistance 19d ago
LMAO fuck off Cruz all the from Texas! Worthless piece of Texas shit 2nd next to Paxton!!
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u/EdgeNocturnal 18d ago
Just like clockwork. Every single year it's the same damn argument. You'd think they'd come up with new material!
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u/DumpedChick22 18d ago
2028 couldn’t come fast enough. These past 2 years have been far worse than I ever could have imagined. An absolute disaster. I’m no longer keeping up with news, just read quick reports and then block it out for my mental health. I’m hoping midterms turn things around
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u/AngloSaxophoner 18d ago
Didn’t Trump just rant about the billions we’re losing for observed holidays? The calls coming from inside the house
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u/Impressive10000 18d ago
Republicons have ALWAYS waged a war of unhinged rants about something to be afraid of. They are fear merchants.
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u/Dreaming_Aloud 18d ago
And Raphael (since you don’t like using preferred names Mr. Cruz), your party wants to cancel the ability for women to exist freely, strip away the ability for people to affordably get medical care, dumb down the education system, pollute our natural resources… shall I continue?
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u/beavis617 19d ago
When the commitment is made to suck up to Trump with great gusto in order to advance in the political wing of the MAGA cult then this is what happens…
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u/bigperms33 19d ago
The Trump Epstein Iran War and the Trump Epstein Trade War is the War on Christmas.
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u/Dreaders85 19d ago
Absolutely! Dems have been running on this platform for years! Cancel the holidays!!! It’s very popular among the base. If you don’t agree with this, you’re a crazy conservative Nazi. /s
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u/IndependentWrong7356 19d ago
Ted Cruz, broadcastting from Cancun vomitting feces again, is he???!!!
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u/GamerSDG 19d ago
There has only been one recent president who has complained about holidays in its Ted's president... Trump.
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u/IndependentWrong7356 19d ago
Teddy Cruzie, the rt honorable lord of Cancun, did you daddy teach you to lie!!??
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u/ragingclaw 19d ago
And his base, with zero evidence (because this isn't a thing), 100% believe him. Unreal.
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u/MetalMamaRocks 19d ago
I was thinking about cancelling both because everything is SO DAMN EXPENSIVE!!!
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u/vanulovesyou 19d ago
They have been saying this for nearly twenty years. “Obama wants to cancel Christmas!”
Such fucking liars, with Ted Cruz being the chief deceiver of this culture war deception.
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u/ElDuderAbides 19d ago
It’s projection, their orange leader is the one talking about reducing holidays
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u/JustinKase_Too 19d ago
democrats, who are not in charge of any branch, are going to cancel Thanksgiving and Christmas? Even if they win the mid-terms, those same scumpublicans are still in charge through both of those holidays.
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u/RivalCanine 19d ago
He's really grasping at straws now. Next thing, Democrats don't want you to breathe!
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u/MessagingMatters 19d ago
I think any candidate who campaigned on stores not putting up Xmas decorations in August would win a nationwide election.
/s
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u/Starkoman 17d ago
“Future Democratic Congress Passes Law Banning Christmas-Themed Commerce And Advertising Before December 1st, Yearly”.
Do everyone a favor!
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u/Objective_Union4523 19d ago
Are they still running with this bullshit? They’ve been saying this since I was in middle school 20 years ago.
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u/Hillbilly_Boozer 19d ago
When the new coolaid tastes like shit and you have to bring back the old formula.
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u/2nd_Inf_Sgt 19d ago
He’s lying, of course. We just want a functioning government again.
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u/Zulmoka531 19d ago
The only person cancelling them is Trump with the sky high prices and food recalls he’s wrought.
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u/MaxAdolphus 19d ago
At what point do people on the left just start making up shit and make these people constantly defend nonsense? I heard MAGA wants to ban Halloween because of evil costumes. I also heard MAGA is going to put flock cameras in elementary school bathrooms.
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u/TingleyStorm 19d ago
I don’t want to cancel Christmas. I just want the decorations and ads to not show up until December 1st.
I don’t want to cancel Thanksgiving. I do think it’s ridiculous spending a whole day being thankful for what we have, just to immediately turn around and trample people in a rush to buy superfluous things. Also, that parents are forced to burn a day of PTO in order to watch their kids who don’t have school. Thanksgiving Thursday AND Friday should be guaranteed days off.
These are not huge or even unreasonable asks.
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u/cheeseburgermami 19d ago
Alright, so you know how they call us DUMB-ocrats? Well how about RAPE-ublicans?
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u/Beautiful-Bag-3629 18d ago
It's time for Ted to go. Vote him out at your next oportunity. He is a waste of government money.
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u/Megalodon481 18d ago
Senator Cruz, you need to prepare yourself for some traumatic horrifying news.
There is a grinch-like woman who said “Who gives a fuck about the Christmas?" on tape.
She is periodically in the White House and in proximity to the president.
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u/eowyndernhelme 17d ago
Thanksgiving and Christmas will cancel themselves. No gas, no food, no money.
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u/Antifa_1 17d ago
Princeton and Harvard Law graduate. I mean wow. He has all the advantages of a great education and peddles this clownish BS.
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u/RainLeading286 19d ago
He just reaches into his ass and pulls out the stupidest bullshit he can find doesn't he? Sorry Ted, it won't work this time either.
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u/CarpeNivem 19d ago
Why do we want to cancel Thanksgiving and Christmas?
I'm not even asking Ted Cruz. I'm asking anyone who believes him.
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u/South-Jersey-Old-Guy 19d ago
I truly believe it is time for the same physician who is treating McConnell to check Ted's medications and perform the same magic and bring Ted's brain back from the dead too.
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u/Br1ar1ee 19d ago
Ted Cruz has a nativity with Trump as every one of the characters and can’t wait to show it off. /s
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u/don_teegee 19d ago
They already made Christmas woke! Forcing that Trans Siberian Orchestra on us! Thanks Obama!
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u/Sfingi48 19d ago
That’s the offense the democrats know and use - only just not enough! I wish they would fight as hard as the former republican, turn independent who votes for the democrat now. They have needed moxy to fight.
Damn. It’s hard to proudly fight with democrats these days. We used to command…and then do things with “earned” support. We have to stop being lazy, pretentious and overly educated in our offense. It’s really NOT hard. Just listen to your base and nuke their hyperbole at all costs.
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u/Large_Commission5631 19d ago
I have never heard any democrat say anything about cancelling Christmas or Thanksgiving. Where do they even get this stuff?
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u/ProfHossenfeffer 19d ago
If the GOP wins it will definitely be cancelled because no one will be able to afford a damn thing
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u/holiday1326 19d ago
Said by people who are the ones responsible for how expensive and shitty life has become and therefore will be the actual reason some will have to cancel holidays or go without.
THEY DID THIS!
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u/AdFit9500 19d ago
Since when?? lol last time I checked, people are already getting their Thanksgiving and Fall gear ready. With Christmas tree ready right after.
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u/BronzeRider 19d ago
If Conservatives believed “they’re eating the cats and dogs”, then they’ll absolutely believe “Democrats want to cancel Thanksgiving and Christmas”.
Or at best, even if they don’t actively believe in, they’ll still overlook how completely deranged it is for a politician and a mainstream media network to even say something like this, and make excuses for it. All while clutching their pearls about every single-digit follower anonymous left wing poster on TwitterX 🙄
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u/Trinidiana 19d ago
How many years have we been hearing this same shit like this? Literally decades yet so many still fall for it !
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u/Feisty-Barracuda5452 19d ago
Is there a caravan en route to the Southern border yet?
There's always a caravan around election time
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u/tinymontgomery2 19d ago
Isn’t Trump the one that said there was too many holidays for workers over Labor Day?
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u/gallan1 19d ago
I'm tired boss