Don't like the extra hour of sunlight. Burns my grass.
Posted on 03/17/2023 6:09:14 AM PDT by george76
Yet another scandal at the poorly led Department of Transportation
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Most Americans don't like having to change their clocks twice a year for daylight saving time. An AP-NORC poll from late 2019 found that 71 percent of Americans preferred a permanent year-long time system. There's a bipartisan bill designed to eliminate the controversial "fall back, spring forward," but it's being held up in part because of an unlikely source: Pete Buttigieg, the scandal-plagued secretary of transportation.
The Washington Post reports that Congress is unlikely to pass legislation anytime soon. The Sunshine Protection Act, cosponsored by Sens. Marco Rubio (R., Fla.) and Ed Markey (D., Mass.), needs more support from undecided lawmakers to gain traction.
Alas, some of those undecided members of Congress told the Post they planned to withhold support until the U.S. Department of Transportation, led by Buttigieg, finishes its ongoing review of daylight saving time policies. Presumably due to Buttigieg's inexperience and lackadaisical leadership style, the review is "not expected to be completed until year's end."
Buttigieg's inability to reform our time system has been denounced by critics including Jimmy Kimmel, the left-wing political activist and late-night television host. "The last time Pete [Buttigieg] was on our show, I asked him to end [daylight saving time]," Kimmel said in November 2021. "He said he'd see what he could do. You know what he did? He did nothing. He did nothing at all."
It's not clear if Buttigieg even understands how daylight saving time works. "Here's what 8 a.m. looks like on the western edge of the eastern time zone, a few days before daylight savings kicks in," he wrote on Twitter in November 2018.
"I stand corrected," he tweeted several minutes later. "Daylight Savings is underway, so it's about to kick... out?"
Buttigieg is widely considered (without evidence) to be a rising star in the Democratic Party who will almost certainly be elected president someday. (He won't.)
There are many things to criticize him for, the existence of daylight savings time isn’t one of them.
Pete’s queer........ that’s all
He has no credentials other than queer
This is dumb. And I personally don’t mind Daylight Savings Time.
It’s the changing constantly that most people don’t like. Pick a time and stick with it. A strange anachronism to still do this twice a year.
Blame Benjamin Franklin. He got the idea while serving as the US minister to France. Paris is pretty far north so the sun comes up pretty early in the summer. That made it hard for him to sleep in after partying late the night before.
With the intelligence, awareness and morals of Biden and Harris, why wouldn’t the Dems consider him great material for them?
Don't like the extra hour of sunlight. Burns my grass.
We've all had daylight savings time our entire lives (it started in 1918). When exactly did it become "controversial"?
Twice a year is "constantly"?
Changing the clocks drives the cats crazy , FEED ME FEED ME , LOL
Right, seems rather silly to change the clocks just for 4 months out of the year.
What in the world is the author talking about?
(possibly fake, but accurate)
There are reasons for ditching Buttigieg, but this isn’t one of them. The real blame falls on those who lead the Congress.
For a month every year I am dazed and confused
Changing my clocks takes up no more than about 5 minutes of my time. What is the big deal with that?
And I don’t give a damn about what Booty Judge has to say.
I grew up on a farm and Mom had a name for that time. She refused to change her clocks to - ‘crazy time.’ It has become clear to me in my latter years that this marked the time in society when crazy first took off and entered society’s mindset.
We now experience it today and every day in thousands of different ways. The arrogance of stopping time (Congress) or moving it around is the epitome of crazy.
Why bother giving them the opportunity? Enough with the stupidity, both their's and our's.
I’m gonna lose my lunch over that picture.
Good. The matter of Daylight Saving Time should be left to the states. Tenth Amendment and all that.
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