{"id":23550,"date":"2025-03-06T20:44:47","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T20:44:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=23550"},"modified":"2025-03-06T20:44:47","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T20:44:47","slug":"elon-musk-sparks-debate-after-asking-americans-to-vote-on-major-change-that-would-affect-entire-us-population","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=23550","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk sparks debate after asking Americans to vote on major change that would affect entire US population"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">You could play a role in the moulding of time by simply voting in Elon Musk&#8217;s latest poll on X, as he&#8217;s asked his 219 million followers to help enact a major change that would affect every single American across the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\"><a class=\"anchor_link__6t7IO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uniladtech.com\/elon-musk\">Elon Musk<\/a>\u00a0is certainly no stranger to conducting polls online, as he&#8217;s previously asked his followers to vote on\u00a0<a class=\"anchor_link__6t7IO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uniladtech.com\/social-media\/twitter\/elon-musk-x-dangerous-change-blocking-feature-392732-20241017\">site-wide changes like the block feature<\/a>\u00a0and even potential foreign policy such as\u00a0<a class=\"anchor_link__6t7IO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uniladtech.com\/social-media\/twitter\/elon-musk-keir-starmer-uk-200015-20250106\">an invasion of Great Britain<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">He has repeatedly platformed his belief in &#8216;vox populi, vox dei&#8217; &#8211; otherwise known as the voice of the people &#8211; and his latest application of this could lead to something that would have ramifications on the everyday lives of everyone the US, as reported by the\u00a0<a class=\"anchor_link__6t7IO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-14467411\/Elon-Musk-Americans-vote-daylight-savings.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Daily Mail<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">Posting a poll on\u00a0<a class=\"anchor_link__6t7IO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uniladtech.com\/elon-musk\">X<\/a>, Musk asked his followers the following question: &#8220;If daylight savings time is canceled, do you prefer: An hour earlier; An hour later.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">If daylight savings time change is canceled, do you prefer<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1897317707579842578?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 5, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">Currently the poll has received 1.2 million votes with four hours still remaining, and the latter &#8216;hour later&#8217; option is winning with around 58% of the vote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">This is far from the first time that Musk has expressed his seeming frustration with daylight savings time, as it&#8217;s a long-held bug bear for him that\u00a0<a class=\"anchor_link__6t7IO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uniladtech.com\/news\/tech-news\/elon-musk-get-rid-daylight-savings-doge-465019-20241119\">he&#8217;s hinted at getting rid of in the past<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">While being the richest man in the world certainly gives you a lot of power, his newly-held position as the head of new federal advisory board DOGE could mean that he&#8217;s never been in a better place to enact his hatred of the lengthy US-based time zone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">If you&#8217;re unaware, daylight savings time stretches between March and November, setting clocks forward an hour to ensure that evenings have more light whereas mornings have less.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">Funnily enough, the result of Musk&#8217;s poll appear to indicate that most actually prefer the functions of daylight savings time anyway, as &#8216;an hour later&#8217; would land the same result, albeit permanently this time.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-image_articleImage__eyzAn\">\n<div class=\"article-image_imageWrapper__ANtPE\">\n<div class=\"resizable-image_wrapper__LRQlr\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"article-image_image__XvzgU\" src=\"https:\/\/images.ladbible.com\/resize?type=webp&amp;quality=70&amp;width=3840&amp;fit=contain&amp;gravity=auto&amp;url=https:\/\/images.ladbiblegroup.com\/v3\/assets\/bltb5d92757ac1ee045\/bltf815102bb4608f16\/67c98f51d3aa7e7123c6d80b\/elon-musk-chainsaw-bureaucracy.jpg\" sizes=\"100vw\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.ladbible.com\/resize?type=webp&amp;quality=70&amp;width=640&amp;fit=contain&amp;gravity=auto&amp;url=https:\/\/images.ladbiblegroup.com\/v3\/assets\/bltb5d92757ac1ee045\/bltf815102bb4608f16\/67c98f51d3aa7e7123c6d80b\/elon-musk-chainsaw-bureaucracy.jpg 640w, 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https:\/\/images.ladbible.com\/resize?type=webp&amp;quality=1&amp;width=1080&amp;fit=contain&amp;gravity=auto&amp;url=https:\/\/images.ladbiblegroup.com\/v3\/assets\/bltb5d92757ac1ee045\/bltf815102bb4608f16\/67c98f51d3aa7e7123c6d80b\/elon-musk-chainsaw-bureaucracy.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/images.ladbible.com\/resize?type=webp&amp;quality=1&amp;width=1200&amp;fit=contain&amp;gravity=auto&amp;url=https:\/\/images.ladbiblegroup.com\/v3\/assets\/bltb5d92757ac1ee045\/bltf815102bb4608f16\/67c98f51d3aa7e7123c6d80b\/elon-musk-chainsaw-bureaucracy.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/images.ladbible.com\/resize?type=webp&amp;quality=1&amp;width=1920&amp;fit=contain&amp;gravity=auto&amp;url=https:\/\/images.ladbiblegroup.com\/v3\/assets\/bltb5d92757ac1ee045\/bltf815102bb4608f16\/67c98f51d3aa7e7123c6d80b\/elon-musk-chainsaw-bureaucracy.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/images.ladbible.com\/resize?type=webp&amp;quality=1&amp;width=2048&amp;fit=contain&amp;gravity=auto&amp;url=https:\/\/images.ladbiblegroup.com\/v3\/assets\/bltb5d92757ac1ee045\/bltf815102bb4608f16\/67c98f51d3aa7e7123c6d80b\/elon-musk-chainsaw-bureaucracy.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/images.ladbible.com\/resize?type=webp&amp;quality=1&amp;width=3840&amp;fit=contain&amp;gravity=auto&amp;url=https:\/\/images.ladbiblegroup.com\/v3\/assets\/bltb5d92757ac1ee045\/bltf815102bb4608f16\/67c98f51d3aa7e7123c6d80b\/elon-musk-chainsaw-bureaucracy.jpg 3840w\" alt=\"Looks like daylight savings time could be next on Elon Musk's chopping list (Saul Loeb\/AFP via Getty Images)\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" data-nimg=\"fill\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><cite class=\"image-credit_imageCredit__YMlqS\">Looks like daylight savings time could be next on Elon Musk&#8217;s chopping list (Saul Loeb\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/cite><\/div>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">The replies seem to offer a mixed reception to the poll, with contrasting opinions on what time should be set.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">&#8220;More daylight in awake hours,&#8221; argues one user, seemingly supporting the &#8216;hour later&#8217; option, adding that &#8220;sunlight is healthy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">Another asks &#8220;what is it right now?&#8221; requesting that Musk should &#8220;keep it all the same&#8221; in the end.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">&#8220;How about just pick one and stick with it,&#8221; frustratingly writes one comment. &#8220;I need to stop screwing with my sleep schedule twice a year damnit, sooner is better.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">Whether Musk alone actually has the power to make these changes is still up for debate though, as\u00a0<a class=\"anchor_link__6t7IO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/elonmusk\/comments\/1gqgoiv\/comment\/lwxz4b8\/?utm_source=share&amp;utm_medium=web3x&amp;utm_name=web3xcss&amp;utm_term=1&amp;utm_content=share_button\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">one Reddit user<\/a>\u00a0explains why it might not be within the Department of Government Efficiency&#8217;s remit:<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">&#8220;DST starts and end with an act of Congress, so nothing DOGE can do about it. Unless they were to write about the full-fledged text of a law that enacts their recommendations, and the Republicans are willing to just pass it intact. Ha. Haha.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">That certainly wouldn&#8217;t be too out of the question considering how Trump&#8217;s administration has gone so far, and there&#8217;s nothing to say that the president won&#8217;t just push it all through with a fresh executive order either.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; You could play a role in the moulding of time by simply voting in Elon Musk&#8217;s latest poll on X, as he&#8217;s asked his 219 million followers to &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23551,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23550"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23552,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23550\/revisions\/23552"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}