Minor correction: Daylight Savings Time ends at the end of this year.

Womp womp

In 2022, the United States Senate passed a bill to make Daylight Saving Time permanent. If enacted, this bill would take effect starting in November 2023.

However you have also argued both sides of my concern: that it isn't a problem because the Republicans are in disarray, and that because the Republicans are in disarray and do not care about decorum or customs, a small rogue contingent can ABSOLUTELY make this happen just as I represented it.

I have done no such thing. I have argued that because they're feckless morons they can try.

I can try to take a three foot vertical leap. We both know how it's gonna go, though.

The Senate? The President? They don't have any say over the House and its internal workings.

No, but they have a lot of power over what becomes law, or what gets enacted.

The House often passes things or makes policies or committees that are blatantly wrong/illegal/ineffectual and everyone just shakes their head sadly and ignores their work.

Almost as if it was understood that this was meaningless grandstanding.

But, as we all know, there is no enforcement mechanism in place except for custom; and the Republicans will throw that out without the slightest thought or regret.

You're arguing that the House is the government. The House is a part of the government.

So we are back to the Speaker of the House being appointed in some late-night shenanigans which will give the NPR constitutional scholars conniptions, but will stand because there simply isn't any mechanism in place to make it NOT happen.

There's also no mechanism in place to make it matter, and the act of doing it calls into question the legality of everything that comes after so... the further you step from precedent, the less you have to stand on and the further you go down the road of disregarding precedent, the more the establishment locks things down.

Look at Kevin McCarthy's Republican House as a bunch of beta-testers. Sure - they can do all sorts of insanely stupid shit. But they're doing it with a six vote majority. Without the Senate. Without the presidency. Are things going to be stupid? Mos def. Are they going to be apocalyptic?

Not even vaguely.