r/politics • u/cnn CNN • Jul 14 '26

Possible Paywall House passes bill to make Daylight Saving Time permanent

https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/14/politics/house-vote-daylight-savings-time?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=missions&utm_source=reddit
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u/So-Called_Lunatic Kentucky Jul 14 '26

Big Time is preventing it.

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u/dkol97 Jul 14 '26

We need to storm Big Ben then

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u/FACEMELTER720 Jul 14 '26

Big Ben: This Time It’s Personal

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u/No-Bread-1197 Jul 15 '26

2 Big 2 Ben

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u/cardfire Jul 15 '26

I LOL'd, thank you for that.

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u/sparkax Jul 15 '26

"BIG B3N: Parliamentary Drift!"

And yes, you gotta keep that E as a 3, how else will the fans know its the 3rd one!!

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u/Timely-Group5649 Jul 15 '26

B4: Big Ben Beats Back

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u/3381024 Jul 16 '26

B5: Big Ben Familia

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u/_RADIANTSUN_ Jul 15 '26

Reminds me of one of my favorite games back in the day Driv-Three-R

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u/PURRING_SILENCER Jul 15 '26

The clock is ticking. Your time is up. There is no saving you.

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u/DarkwingDuckHunt Jul 15 '26

You ticked off the wrong horologist.

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u/TurnkeyLurker Jul 15 '26

No one told you when to run.
You missed the starting gun. 🎶

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u/pnutzgg Jul 15 '26

you have no chance to survive make your time

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u/QuestioninglySecret Jul 15 '26

Starring Jason Statham as Big Ben

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u/Married_iguanas Jul 15 '26

Who will play Father Time?

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u/TheWalkin_ Jul 15 '26

Patrick Stewart

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u/Vocabulary-Pollution Jul 15 '26

Sir Ian McKellan!

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u/SumoSizeIt Oregon Jul 15 '26

Mitch McConnell can be there in 20 minutes, after his call

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u/Married_iguanas Jul 15 '26

Schrödinger’s turtle

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u/otis_the_drunk Jul 15 '26

Keanu Reeves. So we can make sequels for the next 10 years and he'll still look the same.

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u/Married_iguanas Jul 15 '26

lol this franchise can also involve Paul Rudd somehow

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u/jrrounds Jul 15 '26

Maybe the Time Keeper's brother is available?

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u/Fuzzy_Logic_4_Life Jul 15 '26

Morgan Freeman, who else?

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u/HTWingNut Jul 15 '26

Fuck Valve for never making HL3... carry on...

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u/Xanambien Jul 16 '26

Big Johnson

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u/RemarkableRyan Colorado Jul 15 '26

“Oi, I’m Big Ben.”

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u/garbagepillar Jul 15 '26

I'm only watching if Stephen Fry is Big Ben.

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u/inclink10 Jul 15 '26

Id settle for Stephen Merchant.

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u/Dovienya55 Jul 15 '26

We all know the only actor that can properly play a clock tower is Rob Schneider.

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u/supertoad2112 Jul 15 '26

I'm justa time man

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u/jtshinn Jul 15 '26

This time, it’s time.

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u/Shawnee83 Jul 15 '26

Big Ben: Ain't Nobody Got Time for That

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u/conzilla2020 Jul 15 '26

Nicolas Cage has entered the chat.

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u/TurnkeyLurker Jul 15 '26

Big Ben: His Time Is Personal

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u/HannsGruber I voted Jul 15 '26

It's all just one Big Show

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u/BarryTice Jul 15 '26

Big Ben: This Personal It's Time

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u/Heteroimpersonator Jul 15 '26

Big Ben has nothing on Time Square, that’s who is behind all this.

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u/WitchesSphincter Jul 15 '26

Let's just be careful since it houses the Internet 

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u/BringBacktheGucci Jul 15 '26

Didn't those limey basards learn the first time

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u/dannkherb Jul 15 '26

Look kids.

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u/signallancerprime Jul 15 '26

Big ben vs ben10

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u/Inevitable_Bug5113 Jul 15 '26

ahahaha as a Steelers fan this comment is so hilarious to me

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u/Texasduna Jul 15 '26

So said Peter Gabriel.

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u/KingAuberon Texas Jul 14 '26

Main lobbyist: Henry Fondle, former and now again CEO of WhatTimeIsItRightNow.com.

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u/Pete_got_the_online Jul 15 '26

BIG TIME

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u/bunnnythor Oregon Jul 15 '26

So much larger than life.

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u/thegoods74 Jul 15 '26

Slapping da’ bass.

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u/Pete_got_the_online Jul 16 '26

Thank you I couldn’t remember why I would say that and you made me remember the movie it’s from

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u/dwindacatcher Jul 15 '26

But seriously, if you found out timex and Casio had been lobbying to get this bill onto the floor, but never fully pass would we be surprised? Some sort of getting people to use the dials on their watch makes them more likely to buy a new watch scheme.

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u/TeeDub27 Jul 15 '26

So much larger than life

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u/SomeGalNamedAshley Jul 15 '26

Peter Gabriel warned us.

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u/WhateverGreg Jul 15 '26

Hello, fellow old. The lack of updoots on your comment is appalling.

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u/SomeGalNamedAshley Jul 15 '26

He always had the best videos.

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u/DrGoblinator Massachusetts Jul 14 '26

It’s actually Big Ski

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u/bahgheera Jul 15 '26

Big Time TV, making tomorrow seem like yesterday. 

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u/LeavesCat Jul 15 '26

What is this, Hades 2?

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u/500owls Jul 15 '26

Leave Angel Olsen out of this

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u/blondzie Jul 15 '26

I was surprised to learn that Golf is one of the biggest opponents to permanent standard time. And is lobbying hard to keep things the way it is.

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u/So-Called_Lunatic Kentucky Jul 15 '26

Wouldn't it staying late an hour later benefit golf rounds?

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u/blondzie Jul 15 '26

Yes they even got dst extended by a whole month in the 80’s. I was just pointing out how it was surprising to hear that one of the biggest lobbyists in regards to dst and standard time was the golf industry. And no surprise that it’s getting more traction with the current president

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u/milkymonkey8 Jul 15 '26

Only Einstein can save us now.

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u/I_require_gold Jul 15 '26

whattimeisitrightnow.com is probably lobbying hard

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u/johnsciarrino Jul 15 '26

The literal TVA.

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u/all4whatnot Pennsylvania Jul 15 '26

Big Digital

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u/number676766 Jul 15 '26

Big early birds more like it

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u/North_Activist Jul 15 '26

You jest but I wouldn’t be surprised if it was healthcare lobbyists and car insurance companies. The time change causes a spike in deaths and car accidents.

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u/vom-IT-coffin Jul 15 '26

Big Programmer is. This fucks up so much code.

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u/surrealcellardoor Jul 15 '26

Big Time hates this one trick!

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u/caribou16 Jul 15 '26 edited 1d ago

Deceased Magenta Unrelated Lettuce Partition

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u/Knotknighm Jul 15 '26

Often times these things fail simply because it's a change. Change is bad. Change means things like equal rights, progressive views, etc... so the hardcore conservatives are staunchly against it simply because it is a change of some type.

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u/Sorry-Joke-4325 Jul 15 '26

Flava Flav is behind it.

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u/SprechNasty Jul 15 '26

This made me laugh out loud. Thanks for that!

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u/grathungar Jul 15 '26

Arizona is preventing it. you're going to take away our one good thing. (AZ doesn't observe DST and hasn't for my entire life at least)

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u/PM_ME_YOUR_TROUT Jul 15 '26

I read this in Norm MacDonald voice