• iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works
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    2 months ago

    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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        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. Do 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.

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          2 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…