Juneteenth, another ridiculous federal holiday brought to you by Biden.

@BlueVeins Lincoln freed the slaves with the Emancipation Proclamation. Do we really need a federal holiday for that?

@IM5688 I mean, it wouldn't be ridiculous. I don't think any federal holiday is needed, per se, except election day.

@IM5688 Conservatives keep saying that this country is all about freedom. So shouldn't we celebrate it? Shouldn't we celebrate the inalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness finally being extended to former slaves? (At least in principle.)

@DrWatson Slaves were emancipated 2.5 years before this contrived holiday

@DrWatson yes!!

@BlueVeinsHow many kinds of woke far-left communist are there? Do you have a list? Or maybe a definition. Oh, wait - you're a party political fetishist? Forget it.

@IM5688

He didn’t “free the slaves with the Emancipation Proclamation” in the sense that they were immediately freed from slavery with the force of binding law. He freed them in areas that the Union had not yet subdued., which meant they weren’t *legally freed” in the slave-owing border states under Union control. This was done to refdefine the Civil War, turning from a struggle to preserve the Union to one focused on ending slavery, and set a decisive course for how the nation would be reshaped after the War’s end. African- Americans were freed from slavery with the passage of the 13th Amendment, which brought the full force of codified United States law to bear.