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Sat Jun 21, 2025, 09:16 PM Saturday

Michael Cohen - God Hates Lazy--Now Get Back To Work!

You can almost hear it, can’t you? The gentle, nasal whisper of Stephen Miller slithering into the presidential ear canal like a snake that read Atlas Shrugged too many times: “Sir, Americans are resting too much. Too many days off. It’s hurting the GDP.” And before you can say “please don’t cancel Labor Day,” we’ve got a new post on Truth Social: “Too many non-working holidays in America!”

No, seriously. That’s the message coming out of the White House bunker this week, dropped like a moldy sandwich on Juneteenth, of all days—a holiday that, just a few short years ago, passed with overwhelming bipartisan support. But now? Suddenly, it’s public enemy number one. Not because it’s controversial (it isn’t), or costly (it’s negligible), but because somebody—probably the same guy who thought putting kids in cages was sound immigration policy—decided holidays are making America lazy.

Let’s pause for a second and try to absorb the ridiculousness of this. Americans—who already get the least paid time off in the industrialized world—are somehow being blamed for having too many days off. We’re the country that practically worships hustle culture, that celebrates people for working through illness, skipping vacation, and dying at their desks. You know what they call that in most countries? A labor violation.

And yet, here we are, with the president—or more accurately, his dark-arts Rasputin of domestic policy—claiming that our handful of sporadic holidays, days people use to visit family, go camping, sleep in, or just breathe, are a drag on the economy. They say it’s costing “billions.” Of course, there's no data, no math, no report—just the usual fog of vibes, grievance, and projection.

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