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

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Nov 5th is election day.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Well, if that's not foreshadowing. US Election Day = Guy Fawkes Day.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

Oh, yeah, that's why.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 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.