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.
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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.
Remember, this was a serious contender for president to the media, while they blacked out Bernie.
Snow woman
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yass queen
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The real national bird is the boneless chicken.
Aka the adult chicken nugget.
*May contain bones
* May contain less than 50% chicken
May contain chicken.
OOPS! ALL BONES!™
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Was it not already?
Not technically no, we all apparently thought it was. Now it is official.
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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.
Turkeys: invasive, will absolutely move in and fuck up your shit
Bald Eagle: almost went extinct because it ran out of a particular type of tree.
Turkeys: will eat literally anything under the sun. Grass. Seeds. Other, smaller inferior turkeys. Car bumpers.
Bald eagles: almost went extinct because salmon was in short supply.
Turkeys: big, fat, aggressive birds with absolutely no fucks to give. The Always Sunny crew if they were all birds and not just D.
Bald Eagles: sleek, reclusive, and quiet. Literally sounds like a mouse.
It's turkeys, it was always turkeys. It's not even close.
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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.
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.
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They don’t need universal healthcare.
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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.
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Ah yes, really focusing on the important shit here. I can see why the US is doing so well.
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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.
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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!
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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.
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
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