'Y'all are so f**king unserious': Americans blast Congress for prioritizing bill to make bald eagle the national bird
'Y'all are so f**king unserious': Americans blast Congress for prioritizing bill to make bald eagle the national bird
Was it not already?
turkey
Never had a national bird, according to this article. Thank God our infinitely wise and useful government got on that before they lost all their power to actually do anything meaningful or helpful. 🦅🇺🇸
It's what Franklin wanted. And Franklin had humor and consistent set of morals. And got France to back us up by having sex with so many French women.
I think the Turkey would be better than a bird we have to ADR in the screech of another animal.
Chicken nuggets
I found the reason on Wikipedia
"The bald eagle is an opportunistic feeder."
It's the bird the US leadership most identifies with.
It's not like if they didn't pass this law they would have snuck in Medicare for all - I hate the "Is this a good use of your time" argument.
But it's never a bad time to criticize how ineffective lawmakers are.
Anything other than this would've had an impact on people's lives. They don't need universal healthcare. They need something.
Your comment is a prime example of the nirvana fallacy.
Healthcare for some none, small American flags for others!
this session has been a dud from the start.
a split congress isn't gonna get much of anything worthwhile done, especially not this late in a session.. and extra-especially-not with the ultra hyper-partisanship exhibited by the 'modern' republicant party since at least the 1990s.
want something done? something awesome and good? help get democrats and progressives 75%+ of each chamber of congress, plus 38+ state legislatures.
They don’t need universal healthcare.
Glad to see the needs of the people are being taken seriously as usual.
The 118th Session? Yeah, we don't even have a parallel in all of the history of the US to mark how unproductive this session has been. Like not even during the Civil War was Congress this underwhelming. The 118th Session has set a new low water mark for "things gotten done".
The biggest issue was that the House spent something like ~60% of their time in Committee doing "investigations" that ultimately led nowhere. Like, I'll throw Congress a bone here, if they actually impeached someone with all those investigations, I'd give it to them. But that literally nobody was impeached all those investigations basically go into the "wasted time" column.
And they can't impeach any of them come the 119th session because... New President, new people. So all that time they invested goes to waste. Hell, even Hunter I can't give it to them, because in the end, he got a pardon. And as soon as Trump gives the J6 folks a pardon, all that work the Democrats did becomes wasted as well.
But the 118th spent the vast majority of their time in investigations, so they got so little actually done and passed.
It’s not like if they didn’t pass this law they would have snuck in Medicare for all
I might have been at least somewhat mollified of "Natural Bird" meant "New environmental focus on protecting the species" rather than "National Meme". Might as well make America's national bird the Dodo, given the rate at which we're decimating their ecology.
The bald eagle is well protected as a species. Federal charges for killing one. Course that may change under Trump.
They could get a vote on the record where Republicans voted against healthcare. We got this bird thing though, so that's neat.
This is so true. Can you walk and chew gum at the same time? Listen to a podcast while driving? Even our US Representatives can focus on more than one thing at a time...
Ok sure, but what's one other thing they're focused on that actually helps regular Americans? Biden is pardoning his family members, Pelosi is grinding the gears of progress to a halt with her withered corpse, most of the rest of the DNC are wringing their hands about the past or apparently daydreaming about birds, who knows what the fuck Kamala is up to, and Republicans are gearing up to put a bunch of sexual predators in charge of various government agencies.
Ukraine seems to be getting some money so that's nice I guess. Is there something useful to the American people that I'm missing?
They could have tried to do anything actually beneficial for Americans instead though. Like, think about how many hours of work it took Klobuchar's political peons just to draft the stupid thing. And, they we paid them to do it!! Get fucked Congress.
Dee is my national bird.
I think it's the eyes...
What say you and I go toe to toe on bird law and see who comes out the victor?
i would, but my asshole is in a jar 50 miles away. are you willing to wait?
Actually the Senate passed this in July. It took until now for Congress to pass literally the easiest partisan bill probably because they were waiting to use it as their next shitty rider platform, or because they were too busy wasting time creating a new committee to investigate TikTok.
Investigating TikTok is money well spent, fuck the CCP.
TikTok is shady in how much info it collects and how tailored the feeds it shows people get.
It is not unique about either of those.
Facebook/Google/et. al. being on this coast instead of that coast doesn't mean they shouldn't have exactly the same scrutiny. Literally the only evidence offered that TikTok was in any way special was "we can't tell you but there's classified info that means we should ban it." Which is less than encouraging that the ban is for anything other than because of 'those dang kids' being annoying.
Bet there gong to spend millions to brag about a partisan feel good bill that will distract us from tasty CEO blood.
Ah yes, really focusing on the important shit here. I can see why the US is doing so well.
It is time to dissolve the United States. Once a nation reaches this level of corruption and political dysfunction, it cannot be repaired. Even the nominally liberal party is so utterly corrupted by money that it can no longer keep things from further degrading, let alone actually fix things. We are at our "dissolution of the Soviet Union" moment.
The national government needs to be dissolved in its entirety. Each state needs to be granted full independence. Then individual states can come back together and form whatever new federations or confederations they want.
This nation can no longer be salvaged. It is broken beyond all repair. It's time we put it out of its misery. The alternative is we limp along as a parody of our former self, like the Roman Empire pretending to still be a Republic.
The United States is already dead. We're just too afraid to admit it.
Buddy. We are nowhere near where we used to be. We used to call out the soldiers to shoot at striking workers. We used to grow out our hair so we could get paid for voting 3 or 4 times. (Get a shave, get a haircut, lose the mustache and the rest of the hair.) It used to be impossible to convict anyone of killing a black man.
We aren't anywhere near as bad as things have been in the past.
damn we're edge posting today
The problem is that the second the federal government fully collapses and states are left on their own, a majority of them will become captured by megacorporations or China. Red states like Mississippi just fail to function on their own, they would require an entity with seriously sizable funding to subsidize them, and the number of entities that can fit that bill is pretty small. Even if these red states band together...they're the worst states. 5 of them together doesn't equal the income brought in by places like California or New York, who would perhaps instead enjoy a large surplus of state funding they could make use of and maintain individuality in the face of a corporate dystopia.
Not saying I disagree, but the premise is untenable.
Wait, I thought this was already the national bird: 🖕
Or was a close call. I heard that were debating changing the national bird to the Hawk Tuah
Have you heard what they sound like? It isn’t what’s usually depicted in videos.
Colbert Report wouldn't have lied to us!
They sound like freedom! 🇺🇸🎇🧨🐦🔥
Many times it's a hawk, similar to how most coyotes in film and TV make wolf howls. Which is crazy because coyotes chattering is much scarier.
Both parties are very serious...
...About keeping this economy and system exactly as it is, as they bicker over social wedges that don't meaningfully impact quarterly earnings expectations.
They're both paid well by the same oligarchs to do so.
If you wanted to see them scrambling to pass real legislation to protect the government from an incoming administration, you should have elected a leftist. You'd see Democrat and Republican reps holding hands, having sit ins, and desperately chanting we will overcome if an incoming administration was promising to dismantle for profit healthcare, for example.
Don't worry though, they'd never let that happen. They have all the tools they need to prevent such a disaster as they see it. Their bribes would dry up overnight if they lost control of the narrative and their plebs.
The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house.
They're dead serious and doing what they were paid to do.
They weren't paid to protect you, they weren't paid to make your life easier, they weren't paid to represent you at all.
All I can say is... I'm glad it's not the next president who signs it into law.
Actually no I really kinda wish it was so I can get more of him trying desperately to act like he isn't terrified of the eagle brought in for a photo shoot. That shit was priceless
Yea he would switch it to the Chicken Mcnugget
This timeline is suck.
Represented with great honor in this new legislation is the humble American crow – the true reflection of our nation's soul. For what is the bald eagle but a symbol of outdated pomp and a government that's too busy patting itself on the back? The bald eagle, after all, has been perched atop its perch since 1782 – a symbol of a country that's more concerned with conserving its own status than doing anything to actually improve itself.
Meanwhile, the American crow is out here living its best life. It's always scheming, always scrounging for scraps in the garbage of society. It's a bird of the people – and by people, I mean those of us who are still trying to make ends meet while the fat cats at the top continue to feast on the nation's wealth.
It's also a symbol of our nation's laziness. The bald eagle may be proud of its slow, majestic flight, but we're more proud of being able to do absolutely nothing for hours on end without any consequences. We're a country that can't even be bothered to show up to its own problems – and the American crow is the perfect representation of that.
Furthermore, have you seen the state of our national parks? A bunch of underfunded, neglected monstrosities that are more like a symbol of our own institutionalized apathy than anything we'd want to attract. It's like the bald eagle is just trying to pretend we're better than we are.
Meanwhile, the American crow is out here building its own infrastructure – a nest made of whatever it can scrounge up, with twigs and trash and other people's detritus. That's the American way – we don't need no fancy-schmancy 'bald eagle' perched on some government-mandated pedestal; we've got our American crow, proudly wallowing in its own mediocrity.
So let's be real, folks – the next time you see an American crow, that's what we're really looking at. That's what we are as a country: lazy, corrupt, and proud of it.
It would have been cooler if congress lowered the age to qualify for Medicare by one day.
Doesn't seem very fitting. Maybe pick one of those birds that eat eggs from other species, replaces with their own and then their babies destroy the other eggs.
Gonna be a lot more of this crap real soon
they finally changing it from the turkey?
Wasn't the bald eagle already the US's national bird?
If only someone had bothered to research this and write it up in a clear, easy to read fashion. Oh, there's a link along with this post!
If you’re thinking to yourself, “Gosh, I thought the bald eagle was already the United States national bird,” welcome to the club.
i mean, less than ideal time, but this was a long time coming, you should look into the laws surrounding bald eagles, one of the most protected species in the US lol.
maybe I'm out of the loop, but when did people start using "unserious"?
Remember, this was a serious contender for president to the media, while they blacked out Bernie.
Snow woman
She’s still better than what we got with Biden.
yass queen
Biden could protest this nothing bill by refusing to sign it or veto it.
Worst case, he leaves a bit of extra paperwork for Trump.Edit: some context
President has 10 days to sign or veto. If 10 days pass, the bill will become a law if Congress is in session. The bill will die if it is in recess.
Reference: https://explainingthelaw.com/can-congress-override-a-bill-if-the-president-doesnt-sign-it-and-doesnt-return-it-with-objections/