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    poo javelinBreanna Edwards
    8/07/17 1:05pm
    So now Barack Obama Day will join the other commemorative days, including Ronald Reagan Day, for which workplaces do not close.

    Hey - lots of workplaces closed for Ronald Reagan. They just never reopened…

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      crouching tigerpoo javelin
      8/07/17 1:09pm

      Does The Root accept COTD nominations? Because this is excellent.

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      Pink Floyd Mayweather IIIpoo javelin
      8/07/17 1:46pm

      Artist’s rendition of poo javelin after dropping that sick burn

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    OnyxBlackmanBreanna Edwards
    8/07/17 1:29pm

    What’s stopping all of us from just making August 4th the black 4th of July? Like, let’s all just take that day off and cookout and have fun.

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      SheeshTheseNamesOnyxBlackman
      8/07/17 4:23pm

      Genius!

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      Nina LemoneOnyxBlackman
      8/07/17 4:23pm

      That’s a really good idea.

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    KojimokoBreanna Edwards
    8/07/17 12:18pm

    I’m just glad the Republicans were there to protect the hard working people of IL from paid, forced time off. They’re the real heroes. /sarcasm

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      Hoyo AfrikaKojimoko
      8/07/17 12:22pm

      Honestly, they opposed Casimir Pulaski Day and there’s no-one in Chicago who embodies the Afrophobia of the GOP than the Polish in that city.

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      crouching tigerKojimoko
      8/07/17 1:08pm

      I think it’s appropriate that R. Reagan Day is a day of work, while President Barack Obama Day is a day of leisure. It perfectly maps onto how Democrats are lazy welfare moochers, and take from those hardworking Republican taxpayers.

      s/ oh so much s/

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    99jg543h00fd323gBreanna Edwards
    8/07/17 1:53pm

    Trump is gonna angrily tweet about this. He hates Obama so much, this is gonna give him a rage-stroke.

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      PaulMooneysTongue99jg543h00fd323g
      8/07/17 2:19pm

      Give him a rage stroke? You promise?

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      jinniPaulMooneysTongue
      8/07/17 4:18pm

      In all fairness, though, how would you know?

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    Cali4lifeBreanna Edwards
    8/07/17 12:51pm

    I celebrate Obama day every day in my heart, which is closed to all future presidents not named Michelle or Barack.

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      99jg543h00fd323gCali4life
      8/07/17 1:52pm

      Same, same.

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      MargraveCali4life
      8/07/17 3:35pm

      What about Sasha or Melia?

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    900turboBreanna Edwards
    8/07/17 3:44pm

    So what? Trump already has his own holiday:

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    Hoyo AfrikaBreanna Edwards
    8/07/17 12:23pm

    Ronald Reagan Day, for which workplaces do not close.

    I chuckled at this because so many workplaces were closed under his administration.

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    Ugh.Breanna Edwards
    8/07/17 12:32pm

    G.O.A.T.?

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      El Generico MejorUgh.
      8/07/17 3:00pm

      Have a star you stupid idiot

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    PaulMooneysTongueBreanna Edwards
    8/07/17 1:27pm

    Fwak Rauner and his ideas. Two years without a budget and how many business and nonprofits did close? #GTFOH

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    scowlybrowspinster---Not just grey, NOW INVISIBLE!Breanna Edwards
    8/08/17 12:03am

    I want this Barack Obama Day Holiday for California, please and thank you.

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