GOP Senators Vote Unanimously to Make Juneteenth New 'Independence Day,' Despite Just 7% Support From GOP Base

Chris Menahan
InformationLiberation
Jun. 18, 2021

All Republicans in the Senate and the overwhelming majority of Republicans in the House joined with Democrats to make Juneteenth our new "National Independence Day," despite a poll showing only 7 percent of Republicans support the move.

U.S. Senate has unanimously passed a bill to establish Juneteenth as a federal holiday.

The bill now goes to the House. If it passes, Juneteenth will become the 11th federal holiday. https://t.co/y4hFHiOPNj
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) June 16, 2021

14 House Republicans voted No on making Juneteenth a national holiday:
Biggs-AZ
Brooks-AL
Clyde-GA
DesJarlais-TN
Gosar-AZ
Jackson-TX
LaMalfa-CA
Massie-KY
McClintock-CA
Norman-SC
Rogers-AL
Rosendale-MT
Roy-TX
Tiffany-WIhttps://t.co/amUxhSSPcr
— Craig Caplan (@CraigCaplan) June 17, 2021

Today, I had the honor of signing a bill to officially make Juneteenth a federal holiday. With this important step, all Americans can feel the power of the day, learn from our history, celebrate our progress, and grapple with the distance we still have to travel. pic.twitter.com/UN5WgCiAy2
— President Biden (@POTUS) June 17, 2021

Pres. Biden: "Juneteenth marks both a long, hard night of slavery and subjugation and a promise, of a brighter morning to come. This is a day of profound weight and profound power. A day which we remember the moral stain and terrible toll that slavery took on the country." pic.twitter.com/6i4savWrHr
— CBS Evening News (@CBSEveningNews) June 17, 2021

"America First" phonies Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) both voted for the new "National Independence Day."

Paging the "America First Caucus": How is allowing the Democrats to culturally replace July 4 with June 19 putting America First?

Marjorie Taylor Greene, Matt Gaetz Vote To Make 'Juneteenth' National Holiday, Gosar And Mo Brooks Voted Againsthttps://t.co/sqFwJ3e4EH
— Tom Pappert (@realTomPappert) June 17, 2021

Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) mocked Rep. Matt Rosendale (R-MT) for calling out the bill as more CRT garbage:

Kooky https://t.co/O3gPnJCyiR
— Senator John Cornyn (@JohnCornyn) June 16, 2021

Just 7% of GOP voters support making Juneteenth a federal holiday and Cornyn attacks the one Republican opposed, presumably because most GOP politicians have had experimental surgey to remove their backbones https://t.co/iv9qOHNeyl https://t.co/hZtDscf7bV pic.twitter.com/eivHbKJvtL
— Pedro L. Gonzalez (@emeriticus) June 17, 2021

I voted "NO" on S.475. Here's why: pic.twitter.com/L0uQWb0ofr
— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) June 16, 2021

The official name of the holiday is “Juneteenth National Independence Day.” Bless your heart if you think that name wasn’t chosen to divide this country and diminish the Independence Day we celebrate on July 4. https://t.co/yM6fydEyVX
— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) June 18, 2021

Lol. Even though the overwhelming majority of Republicans voted for Juneteenth, they’re still racist, according to AOC. No benefit for the GOP enshrining the CRT holiday https://t.co/aQtzXD73cI
— Scott Greer 6’2” IQ 187 (@ScottMGreer) June 17, 2021

Just last month, Biden's handlers moved to replace Memorial Day with a day of shame commemorating the 1921 Tulsa race riot, which they falsely twisted into the revisionist "Tulsa race massacre."

There was a large spectacle planned to overshadow Memorial Day but it was scrapped at the last minute because "survivors demanded $1 million each to appear and $50 million for reparations fund," which organizers refused to pay.

Stacey Abrams and John Legend’s Tulsa Race Massacre commemoration scrapped after survivors demanded $1 million each to attend https://t.co/A32Osge5lB
— AntifaBook.com (@JackPosobiec) May 29, 2021

Just days later on June 6, Biden refused to honor D-Day and instead tweeted again about the phony "Tulsa massacre."

Biden Tweets About 1921 Tulsa Massacre, Doesn't Make a Peep About D-Day https://t.co/bWUvwEENWF
— Tea Party Patriots (@TPPatriots) June 8, 2021

I met with survivors of the Tulsa Massacre this week to help fill the silence. Because in silence, wounds deepen. And, as painful as it is, only in remembrance do wounds heal. pic.twitter.com/0mLMRAhJiD
— President Biden (@POTUS) June 6, 2021

Juneteenth is just the latest iteration of the same critical race theory garbage focused on demonizing heritage Americans as evil oppressors and erasing our history.

Everything Americans held sacred and everything Americans built must be torn down in the name of fighting "white supremacy."

As CRT pioneer Ashleigh Shackleford bluntly explained, "All white people are racist... You're always going to be racist... Y'all are born into a life to not be human and that's what y'all are taught to do -- to be demons."

Tearing us down is the only purpose of CRT.

It's wildly unpopular and polls show more Americans are turning against it by the day.

A section of a YouGov poll sponsored by the Economist found 58 percent of Americans have an “unfavorable” view of Critical Race Theory (CRT), while 38 percent view CRT favorably. https://t.co/xcq3ec4Ugk
— Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) June 17, 2021

Nonetheless, the GOP is eagerly pushing this very same CRT agenda while claiming to be against it!

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