• iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works
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        3 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.

          • Kraven_the_Hunter@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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            3 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.