President Trump Doxxes Senator's Cellphone in Push For Permanent Daylight Saving Time (washingtonsun.com)
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- News link: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/10/03/2211236/president-trump-doxxes-senators-cellphone-in-push-for-permanent-daylight-saving-time
- Source link: https://www.washingtonsun.com/congress/trump-tom-cotton-cell-phone-daylight-saving-time
> When The Washington Sun called the number minutes after Trump's post, a recording said the mailbox was full and could not receive messages...
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> [Senator Tom] Cotton has long detested the idea of making daylight saving time permanent. In a Senate [2]floor speech last year, Cotton said doing so would "make winter a dark and dismal time for millions of Americans," particularly harming kids. The Senate was only able to unanimously pass the bill in 2022 because Cotton was [3]reportedly unaware the vote was taking place, though the measure stalled out from there. The Arkansas Republican didn't back down in a post on Saturday. "Arkansans don't want their kids going to school in the pitch dark, and I'll always put Arkansas first," he [4]posted on X .
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> Trump continued his tear against Cotton soon after. "If Tom Cotton were putting Arkansas first, he would give them an extra hour of daylight and, more importantly, they wouldn't have to run all over their houses, farms, work places, and everywhere else, twice a year, having to change their Clocks, and often forgetting to do so," he [5]posted on Truth.
[1] https://www.washingtonsun.com/congress/trump-tom-cotton-cell-phone-daylight-saving-time
[2] https://www.cotton.senate.gov/news/speeches/floor-speech-on-opposing-the-sunshine-protection-act/
[3] https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/paulmcleod/daylight-saving-time-senate
[4] https://x.com/SenTomCotton/status/2106431601685020768
[5] https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/117378226674711107
good to see (Score:2)
It gives me a little tweak of satisfaction every time twitler burns one of his shameless allies.
No concept of the Golden Rule (Score:5, Insightful)
> Trump Doxxes Senator's [Tom Cotton (R-AR)] Cellphone
Imagine how irate Trump would be if someone did this to him -- or even half the stuff he does to others.
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Or even a tenth. It's spoilt brat hypocrisy all the way down with MAGA.
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>> Trump Doxxes Senator's [Tom Cotton (R-AR)] Cellphone
> Imagine how irate Trump would be if someone did this to him -- or even half the stuff he does to others.
I don't want to "imagine" it - I want to discover it empirically. I want to see him and every well-known adult member of his family - except for Mary - doxxed repeatedly until the only way they can talk privately is either in person or via two tin cans and a long piece of string.
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And rightly so. The senator is not Trump. He is not immune from prosecution like Trump is. So it makes perfect sense that if someone doxxed Trump it should be treated differently than if Trump doxxed a regular American. Trump is a special case with special rights.
I(f you don't like it, maybe don't elect a king?)
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But he's the Chosen One. Jesus Fox Christ says he's Special, so the rules don't apply to him. We muggles get shit
Exercised by anything (Score:5, Interesting)
Why is it that the discussion on almost any issue in the US makes it sound like a bad decision is some sort of existential threat?
Re:Exercised by anything (Score:4, Insightful)
Fear and fake boogey men is keeps republicans in power. Immigrants will take your jobs at at second. A home invasion will happen to you any second. Biden will ban your steaks, Kamala will force windmills in your backyard, etc etc. Vote republican to hurt others and feel safe!
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Because that's the received wisdom: if you don't like a decision, the best way to get it reversed is to yell about how it's going to lead to utter disaster and it MUST be changed at all costs.
Trump is such a dick (Score:4, Informative)
He's full of shit in everything he says.
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> He's full of shit in everything he says.
Start with all parental advice you might ever give your child, take the inverse, and distill it.
Crazy idea here... (Score:5, Insightful)
If you dont want your kids going to school in the dark just change the school hours.
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Or how about those southern states just shift their time zone instead of messing with everyone else.
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> Or how about those southern states just shift their time zone instead of messing with everyone else.
Or how about we all just park the time half-way between Standard and DST, and never change it again?
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That doesn't help at all. Time zones are always needed.
Re:Crazy idea here... (Score:4, Informative)
Or just get rid of daylight savings time instead of making it permanent. Permanent DST is the worst solution.
Re: Crazy idea here... (Score:3)
> Or just get rid of daylight savings time instead of making it permanent. Permanent DST is the worst solution.
Or how about we switch to standard time for the winter but use DST for the summer? That way we get light in the morning in winter (which you want), plus light in the evening in summer (which other people want).
(Sorry if this is a goofy answer. It just seems like we already have the solution that works best for people's natural clocks and when the sun is available.)
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If DST were eliminated, the sun would rise at 4:15 am in Chicago in June.
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The unfortunate reality is that it is easier to get people to change their clocks than it is to get them to change the opening hours of any institution (business or otherwise).
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> If you dont want your kids going to school in the dark just change the school hours.
If you don't want your kids living in the dark just change the administration .
FTFY
That's not really an option (Score:3)
You have to get your kids up and make sure they get dressed and get to school. And you have to do that early because you have to get to work.
Now we could build a civilization around something other than work especially given how much automation we keep doing but fuck that right?
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When you move up the school hours you do the same thing to work hours. Problem solved.
Same old song and dance (Score:4, Interesting)
Personally, I think DST should just be removed, but I can grudgingly accept having it permanently on.
The real problem is all the moving parts that make it difficult to just do the smart thing, i.e. change the school system start and end time, if it's a problem . I realize that parents often build routines and work schedules around school, and that those parents just may not have the lee-way to adjust their schedules (business open/close times, approval from boss, etc).
Of course, all those problems still might be easier to solve at the state level than relying Act of Congress.
We already tried it (Score:5, Informative)
We tried year-round DST for a short time in the 70s. It was popular before it was passed, but... very very unpopular after it passed, because the mornings are very very dark and unpleasant. Good thing we learn from history rather than repeating it!
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I was a kid in the 70s. I walked to school (by myself) in the dark many mornings. Daylight savings time would not have prevented that.
Kids don't walk to school now. They are not alone in the dark without protection from the boogeymen and wild animals, freezing in the cold and wet. Parents chauffer them to school and back. Times have changed.
We are also not working the same rigid schedules we were then. School hours were set to allow parents to get their kids off to school before their shift at the fac
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Yeah you have to be a special kind of stupid to think permanent DST is a good idea. We should get rid of it all together, not make it permanent.
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Reminds me of where I live. It was a common trope that we were located well away from any earthquake fault lines until an earthquake destroyed a number of buildings here. Afterwards, the local papers happily reported how there was lots of evidence in the hills and rocks all around of ongoing activity but also past city records of prior events doing damage to dwellings when it was a smaller town. In fact, even the university here has always specialised in earthquake engineering.
It was a known, but public
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Just depends where you live in the time zone. Where I am, even during standard time it's dark in the morning when the elementary kids are getting on the bus.
Re: We already tried it (Score:2)
As opposed to the evenings being dark and unpleasant? Perhaps it's a morning person thing.
Complete insanity (Score:2)
How the mighty have fallen ...
Permanent DST is definitely not the best choice (Score:3)
Some scientific studies have found that permanent DST is about 2/3rds as good as permanent standard time:
[1]https://med.stanford.edu/news/... [stanford.edu]
And others have found that permanent DST is the worst option:
[2]https://www.berkshireeagle.com... [berkshireeagle.com]
Considering Trump is pushing this it's probably lucky that he's not manually adjusting the time zone to suit how he feels with no warning.
[1] https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2025/09/daylight-saving-time.html
[2] https://www.berkshireeagle.com/opinion-columnists/experts-throw-shade-on-permanent-daylight-saving-time/932495
It is not doxxing (Score:2)
When the "doxxed" is an elected representative of the people. Someone paid by taxpayers, with work tools paid by taxpayers, is paid to work for the people. But once again, the media want to portrait anything they disagree as [insert today's narrative here]. Sen Cotton isn't being arrested, as Flock has incorrectly doxxed many others in the country. He's just publicly called out to do what he was put to work for.
Permanent health debuff (Score:2)
It has been proven that DST is bad for your health. Now, why would Trump be behind something that harms all Americans?
Haha (Score:5, Insightful)
Proving once again no one is safe from a tyrant.