Nov 5th? Is he planning to blow up parliament?(slrpnk.net)

Trump wouldn’t know who Guy Fawkes is. US Election Day falls on the Tuesday after the first Monday of November. It’s just a coincidence it happens to be the 5th this year. My comment was mostly a direct reply to OP.

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photonic_sorcerer@lemmy.dbzer0.com

16 points

4 months ago

Why have it on a Tuesday? Why not on a weekend so more people aren’t at work?

Oh, yeah, that’s why.

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Kraven_the_Hunter@lemmy.dbzer0.com

8 points

4 months ago

It’s apparently a hold over from olden times when good Christian farmers weren’t going to skip church to travel to the county seat and vote. So Monday is a travel day and Tuesday is when you vote. Or something like that.

Voting day and daylight savings time are the two immutable objects in American life.

Edit: and both are catering to farmers. Those and corn subsidies are the 3 immutable objects in American life, all catering to farmers.

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Trainguyrom@reddthat.com

2 points

4 months ago

Voting day and daylight savings time are the two immutable objects in American life.

Unless your George W Bush, in which case DST can be rescheduled by 2 weeks and cause everything with automatic time changes but no updates to be manually adjusted twice a year…

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Kraven_the_Hunter@lemmy.dbzer0.com

1 point

4 months ago

Valid point. In my head I was speaking of the existence of DST, not when it changed. But I did use the word “immutable”, so I guess I’m back to 2 of those - Tuesday voting and corn subsidies.

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