That's right, today is Juneteenth. All the slaves in America were ordered freed by Abraham Lincoln back in 1863. Congress in an act of rare sanity, by the House and Senate, passed legislation marking the 19th of June a federal holiday. Juneteenth it is then. President Biden signed the bill on Thursday and that would have been the 17th of June. Summer "officially" begins on Sunday and that would be June 20th. Was the Emancipation Proclamation an 'executive order'? After careful examination of the presidential facts on the matter, the Emancipation Proclamation was in fact an Executive Order. That hardly matters now as Congress made it a federal holiday and the legislation was signed by the President and Biden made it so. 'Make it so number 1'. So now America can move on from race issues and stuff like that there and finally be at peace. Yeah...right. So what about America's First Nation peoples? It isn't like America's First Nation people were ethnically cleansed or were the victims of genocide. Nah...nothing like that. Yeah...right. Anyway, good for the descendants of slavery. They're free at last free at last, thank god ahmight free at last. Or something close to that. Now America can celebrate the official first day of summer and hold a barbecue over an open Western America wildfire. You see the wildfires are popping up like mushrooms in a rainy forest. You can head to one of about two dozen wildfires in the West and cook yourself a hot dog and not your family dog, just to make that clear. Several new wildfires are reported just about every day. Lightning, fireworks, gunfire, and really stupid people are mainly responsible for the fires and it's just about a once upon a time in the west sort of scenario. Did you know that San Francisco Peak is just about to be burned to the ground? Well that is really close to the fact of the matter. Arizona is burning and Nevada is burning and Utah is burning and Colorado is burning and New Mexico is burning and Oregon and Idaho and Montana and oh holy wooden matchsticks, we've gots us fires just about everywhere. But today is Juneteenth so have yourself a barbecue to celebrate and you just might not have to fire up your barbie. That's Australian for barbecue device. Is it Juneteenth in Australia? Probably not as Australia isn't racist or former slave holders. Just you ask Australia's Aboriginal Peoples that were living in Australia long before the whites showed up. Dang white people tend to screw shit up just about everywhere the white people have decided to plant themselves. Can you say colonial genocide? Okay and now we'll move on to the machine art segment of the Juneteenth edition of What The Fuck Is Up With That.
never bring a knife to a gunfight -
tree faced -
so there you have it on this Juneteenth day of June... :]
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