Daylight savings time ended this morning, and everyone got an extra hour’s sleep as the clocks “fell back” by that amount. Aren’t you all just thrilled to death that your body clock will have to adjust one more time to this atrocity of braindead politics?
It didn’t have to be this way, mind you. The state of Arizona had the intelligence to end the idiocy way back in 1968, and hasn’t participated since then. My home state of Texas came very close to committing a similar act of common sense during the 2011 session of the state legislature. The Senate passed a repeal bill, but a bunch of moderate Republicans in the house banded together with a bunch of liberal Democrats to kill it for reasons I still cannot comprehend and never will. A pox on all their houses for being the morons in the house.
People are so sick and tired of this twice-yearly back and forth monkeying with the clocks that even congress appeared to be on the brink of ending the madness back in March when the U.S. Senate unanimously approved a bill that would have made Daylight Savings Time the permanent official time in the U.S. beginning next year. Unfortunately, the Democrat majority in the House has refused to bring the bill up for a vote. Given that the Senate vote will expire when this congress ends come January, the process of getting it done must start all over again, and no one knows if the new GOP majorities will even consider it.
Nor do we know if the demented old weirdo in the White House would even sign such a bill if presented to him such GOP majorities. The chances seem far more likely that he would instead choose to invent some hyper-partisan excuse to veto it, on the reasoning that it is somehow racist, trans-phobic or an evil plot by the Bad Orange Man and Ultra-MAGA to end our democracy. That would be sadly typical.
In any event, we are stuck with this nonsense for at least one more round of DST time changes in 2023, unless the soon-to-be lame duck House decides to act on it when congress convenes after the elections. Given that Nancy Pelosi is currently more distracted with figuring out why some homeless commie was in her home with her wayward hubby in nothing but his undies, the prospects for change seem sadly unlikely.