When he was tweeting for his followers to amass and how it was going to get “wild” (from memory I think that’s what he said) on January 6th long in advance I was freaked out but everyone said that was not a big deal.
I still doubt anyone will see this as a big deal the second time :/
YOuRe bEiNg AlArMisT!
Nov 5th is election day.
Well, if that’s not foreshadowing. US Election Day = Guy Fawkes Day.
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.
Why have it on a Tuesday? Why not on a weekend so more people aren’t at work?
Oh, yeah, that’s why.
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.
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…
NOVEMBER 5TH WILL BE ONE OF THE DAYS IN THE HISTORY OF AMERICA!
FEBRUARY 30TH WILL NOT BE!
Maybe not next year but there was one year, in one country. https://www.timeanddate.com/date/february-30.html
AND FEBRUARY 29TH IS THIS YEAR BUT NOT THE NEXT OR THE ONE AFTER THAT UNTIL THE NEXT ELECTION YEAR
The smart thing is to vote early and avoid the ruckus the stupider people will inevitably create around polling places on November 5.
See vote.gov for details
If you have the opportunity, vote-by-mail is genuinely awesome also. I qualify in my state because I’m chronically ill, and it’s one of the few silver linings. I get a ballot in the mail every time an election like clockwork, I have time to do my research and it’s significantly harder to forget.
In California you no longer need to apply for vote-by-mail, they mail a ballot to everyone and you can either mail it back, no stamp needed, or drop it in any ballot box, or take it to any polling place on the day to hand it to a person.
It’s so much better to be able to sit there at a computer or on your phone, looking up the candidates for the smaller offices and marking them as you go.
And you can get phone notifications for when your ballot is received and counted.
Oregon too. There’s also a service where you just give it your voting registration details and an email address and it emails you:
- when your ballot is mailed to you
- when it is received back from you
Same in Michigan. Voters here passed a ballot initiative with a bunch of voting rights protections in 2022, and now you can sign up to be mailed a ballot once, and they keep sending it for every election if that, if you check the box saying you want that. It makes it SO easy to vote, especially for smaller elections that I ordinarily probably wouldn’t pay attention to
Isn’t it amazing how much more likely we are to participate in our democracy once the barriers are taken away?
It’s almost like the people whose wealth doesn’t depend on showing up to a job every day wanted to be the only ones making decisions.
It took a pandemic for the states to even try it, and some states have pulled it back.
The MAGAs are attacking the election system in my state (Georgia) so hard that, at this point, I’m starting to worry about mail-in ballots being fraudulently thrown out because of false claims of signature mismatch.
Yeah, I plan to do in-person early voting rather than take my chances with mail-in voting.
If you do it early enough, it shouldn’t be an issue. I’ve had my vote thrown out because of signature and I just had to confirm it was me. Georgia is gonna Georgia though, they’re going to try stuff at the live polls too.
I voted in Colorado a couple years back. I had moved here several months before. I had all the documents to prove residency. 3 months after the election, I got a letter saying that a (conservative asshole) group had challenged my vote and it was thrown out, and was told I could go to court and prove I was legal to vote but also if I did so it threatened me with jail or fines if it didn’t work. It was 3 months after the election and it had all been counted already, so why tf would I do that?
This is automatic in WA state, and I absolutely love it. Never missed a local or federal election.
people in America forget to vote?
Yes. Often. Our elections are sporadic and weird. And also on a Tuesday
ok ngl that’s pretty inconvenient on a Tuesday…
Yeah, major elections are always the Tuesday following the first Monday of November. Every year but most of the time it’s only significant every two years with President every four (it’s easy to remember because it happens to fall on leap years). Minor elections can happen three other times in the year (I think it’s the Tuesday following the first Monday of February, May, and August, but February and August are so rare that it was blatant election fuckery when my state had a ballot initiative vote last august). Oh and primary elections vary by state and party and are basically never on a major or minor Election Day but tend towards Tuesdays.
Oh and we don’t get off work for it. You can also be purged from the voter rolls without notice.
February and August are so rare that it was blatant election fuckery when my state had a ballot initiative vote last august
Fellow Ohioan spotted?
Yeppppp, thank fuck that attempt to subvert the will of the people failed. I hate our state government
A huge portion of people don’t think about it at all.
do they watch/read any news?
A large number in fact would rather consume entertainment exclusively than be informed at all.
See also: the American diet
During covid my state allowed anyone to sign up for permanent mail in voting ans I love it. Wish every state had it. It’s so convienent.
It’s also a hell of a lot more convenient to fill out a ballot at your kitchen table. You can look up all those downballot no-names you have never heard of.
This is actually one of the reasons they are against mail in or drop off ballots. Educated voters scare the shit out of them.
Well if there’s no consequences, he’s gonna do it again. Every parent to a toddler knows this.
Them: 😴
Holy shit!! He said something that I actually agree with. I didn’t think that would ever happen.
VOTE!!! Volunteer to give rides to those that wouldn’t be able to vote without it. Anything you can do, it will make a difference.
Get ready for armed dip shits at polling stations across America
D for Dementia
That’s good enough for me!
I mean yea? It’s election day for an election that I think both sides consider pretty important. Granted, that’s a bit of hyperbole, but this is a far cry from a call to violence. Harris could say the exact same thing, in fact she’s likely has said something similar.
Saying this is a threat isn’t just an overreaction, it’s downright embarrassing. This is the kind of crap the right shares to try and paint Dems as weak, thin-skinned, idiots.
Trump says so much awful shit that warrants this reaction, but not EVERYTHING does FFS.
Woosh
Is there a joke I’m missing?
Remember remember the fifth of November
Gunpowder, treason and plot.
I see no reason
Why gunpowder treason
Should ever be forgot.
Guy Fawkes, Guy Fawkes, 'twas his intent
To blow up the King and the Parliament
Three score barrels of powder below
Poor old England to overthrow
By God’s providence he was catch’d
With a dark lantern and burning match
Holler boys, holler boys, let the bells ring
Holler boys, holler boys
God save the King!
Nevermind, missed the post title
Yes. Your reaction is a bit dramatic.
IDK if a joke, but it’s a reference to the gunpowder plot.
Maybe the comments here are, but the original tweet has literally zero reference to it. There is no joke in the original tweet, just pearl clutching.
It’s the title of the post? The fifth of November is Guy Fawkes day, Gunpowder Plot.
I think that’s their point, that the joke is flimsy to begin with
Yeah, that’s what I originally assumed, but their response didn’t make sense.
Ah yea, missed the post title. My bad.
Yes… November 5th is the gunpowder plot anniversary made famous (again in NA by the movie V For Vendetta)
Remember, remember the fifth… what?
(mumble mumble)
But it throws the whole thing off, there’s no rhyming!
(mumble mumble)
Oh come on, they can’t be that dense!Remember, remember november the fifth… no, it doesn’t work at all!
(mumble)
From the colonies? Oh, right.
Even more of a coincidence is that the recent UK general election was held on 4th July!
Shut the fuck up. That kind of language is how Stephen Fry gets killed.
Don’t worry, he’ll just have to do some boring fundraiser and in the meantime he’ll have the highest ratings.
Yeah that will serve them for jacking up those tea prices!
