# It’s March 4, what’s with the flag waving? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [March 5, 2022, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-s-march-4-what-s-with-the-flag-waving/960488 "2022-03-05T00:13:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2022, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-s-march-4-what-s-with-the-flag-waving/960488/1 "2022-03-05T00:13:02Z")
I live in the Twin Cities. All day it’s been flags on bridges and people in their yards or on street corners waving flags at traffic. Some QANON thing? Did Trump do something? ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2022, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-s-march-4-what-s-with-the-flag-waving/960488/2 "2022-03-05T00:23:38Z")
> **[WCCO-TV | CBS Minnesota - Breaking News, NEXT Weather, and Community...](https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/)** > > Latest breaking news from WCCO, the Twin Cities and Minnesota. This is what happens when [people get nostalgic for shitty ‘Seventies movies](https://youtu.be/Sd5ZLJWQmss). I blame Tarantino. Stranger ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2022, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-s-march-4-what-s-with-the-flag-waving/960488/3 "2022-03-05T00:31:27Z")
The fascists are playing dress up. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2022, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-s-march-4-what-s-with-the-flag-waving/960488/4 "2022-03-05T01:55:26Z")
When you have a flag to wave, you gotta march fourth. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2022, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-s-march-4-what-s-with-the-flag-waving/960488/5 "2022-03-05T04:55:05Z")
Thank you, I couldn’t find that. It’s not often you stump Google, but I guess with a question like, ‘why are people randomly waving flags today?’ even Google is like, ‘dunno, bro’. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2022, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-s-march-4-what-s-with-the-flag-waving/960488/6 "2022-03-05T05:31:04Z")
It sounds like your local media decided to ignore them. ---
**Author:** ![PatrickLondon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/patricklondon/32/4422_2.png) [@PatrickLondon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickLondon)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2022, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-s-march-4-what-s-with-the-flag-waving/960488/7 "2022-03-05T07:16:05Z")
Wasn’t March 4th (one of?) the dates forecast for Trump’s resurrection and magical return to office or something of that sort? ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2022, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-s-march-4-what-s-with-the-flag-waving/960488/8 "2022-03-05T12:59:01Z")
Yes, but that was last year. The reasoning (if you want to call it that) had to do with the fact that March 4 was the original inauguration date. It was changed by the 20th Amendment in 1933. ---
**Author:** ![PatrickLondon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/patricklondon/32/4422_2.png) [@PatrickLondon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickLondon)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2022, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-s-march-4-what-s-with-the-flag-waving/960488/9 "2022-03-05T13:25:11Z")
Oh yes. I thought there must be some reason why it rang a bell. ---
**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2022, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-s-march-4-what-s-with-the-flag-waving/960488/10 "2022-03-05T16:19:12Z")
> [@madmonk28](#): > > The fascists are playing dress up. Let’s keep the political pot-shots out of FQ, please. ---
**Author:** ![McCaff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/848f3c/32.png) [@McCaff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/McCaff)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2022, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-s-march-4-what-s-with-the-flag-waving/960488/11 "2022-03-05T20:30:14Z")
I dunno f this is borderline or over-the-line for here, and, if so, nuke it, but there’s a certain irony in seeing an industry hugely depended on government subsidy bemoaning the government. ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/46a35a/32.png) [@Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_T-Bonham.net)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2022, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-s-march-4-what-s-with-the-flag-waving/960488/12 "2022-03-08T07:01:50Z")
> [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](#): > > [WCCO | CBS Minnesota - Breaking News, NEXT Weather, and Community Journalism, Minneapolis-St. Paul](https://minnesota.cbslocal.com/video/6208311-truck-convoy-brings-protest-to-wisconsin-minnesota-border/) They should have been more clear about this. When I saw people on Twin Cities bridges with flags, I thought it was patriotic Americans protesting against the Russians for their invasion. When most of them are Trump followers, so Republicans, supporting the Russians. (Joe McCarthy must be spinning in his grave!)