Bald Eagle for national bird, but honorary mention for the red-tailed hawk, which is the sound people mistakenly associate it with
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Bald eagle honestly sounds like a possessed seagull, which I dont think most folks are down with that.
It was at the time Obama was doing a bunch of tribe recognizing and appeasement. It was a good sentiment and was received in a clouded light that the Republicans used to attack Obama. But the thing is that it was well received coming from Obama but it wasn't well received coming from the President of the United States. Lots of people couldn't understand that difference.
i'd like to see it on some of our money. theres a state quater i think i remember seeing a bison or buffalo on.
The eagle not being official is surprising since bald eagles have been protected with a pretty severe fine since 1940.
Are eagles mammals? 🤔
Fuck if I know. I went to private school.
Nooooo...
Also...Benjamin Franklin bitched about the choice of the bald eagle over the turkey?
Canadian dollars are maple coins, Australian dollars are kangaroo coins, American dollars are eagle coins...
.25 and .5 do. Our current dollar coin is a Native American named Sacagawea.
The quarter-dollar coin was minted for a very long time with an eagle on the back but I don't think it has been since 1998 when they started the state quarters program. If I understand correctly the quarter-dollar is currently minted in 5 versions, each depicting a notable American woman on the reverse.
The half-dollar coin is still minted in the 1964 Kennedy/Great Seal design, so it's got the eagle in full Freemason Illuminati regalia with the shield and the olive branch and the arrows and whatever. It's weird that the front of the Great Seal is on the rear of the half-dollar.
The one-dollar coin is still currently minted with Sacagawea on the obverse and a realistic depiction of an eagle in flight on the reverse.
Completing the set:
The ten-cent coin is still Roosevelt plus the olive-torch-oak, no birds.
The five-cent coin has not too long ago updated the image of Jefferson on the front but still features Monticello on the rear.
The one cent coin needs to fucking stop. It's often Abe Lincoln themed but they're doing similar commemorative shit as with the quarter so there's an untold number of things it can currently be. We also lose money every time they make a penny because there isn't a metal worthless enough to make pennies out of.
No longer minted but historically the $10 coin was called an "Eagle" and the pocket watch sized gold $20 coin was called the "Double Eagle." These are no longer minted and since we're off the gold standard there's a couple hundred bucks in gold in a Double Eagle.
But I wasn't being technical; in casual discussions online about exchange rates of the various dollars minted around the world you'll hear people use national symbols or stereotypes or whatever to add a little levity. "It cost more in kangaroo bucks compared to freedom eagle dollars."
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In between bombing seven different countries, Obama found a lot of time to do symbolic, meaningless shit. (Which most US presidents find time to do.)
Biden did an apology tour for native american boarding schools two weeks before election day
This, on the heels of a slew of Felony Mob indictments aimed at Gaza Protesters
The way presidents will flip the history book back 50 years and issue a polite "My bad" while they persecute a new generation of people and scrub out the associated civil rights movement in real time is nauseating. It's less than meaningless. I have to wonder what horrors President Pete Buttigieg will be apologizing for in another twenty years, in between the ethnic cleansing of Panama and the War to Liberate Singapore.
it was atleast an interesting read. like finding out that Biden was president during obamas term for around an hour, lol. so he had his own mini term.
It is interesting, the little quirks of history.
Do we pick it by the species of which we murdered the most?
That's be homo sapiens then.
Probably because we were more focused on the things that mattered. Like his attacks on our immigrant communities, the war crimes he was committing abroad, and his propping up of private healthcare.
No, we were more worried about the color of his suit... Well the news was.
Probably because we were more focused on the things that mattered.
Peanut the Squirrel, a popular OnlyFans account and local NY resident domesticated squirrel, who was euthanized a week before the election to test it for rabbies was wall-to-wall headline news on election day.
Jangle any set of keys loud enough and you can get the handful of remaining living DC journalists to stare in rapt fascination, because its easier and cheaper than doing any amount of meaningful long-form investigative journalism.
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LETS GO BUFFALO!!!
Hey-ey-EY-ey
What about like...humans?
Bison are better mammals than humans. Especially American humans.
Also they were here first.
The civilization that lived in America before the Europeans came were OK before they were genocided.
And the communities that protect the Amazon today are some of the best mammals on earth.
I just want the fresh mozz and a warm snuggle.
he must have been wearing a tan suit and everyone just got distracted
He really picked the animal systematically slaughtered by colonizers for the purpose of starving and controlling the indigenous peoples America genocided. What could be more American I guess
Yes, that's actually why lmao
perhaps it was meant as a way to pay honor to the species rather than forgotten completely?
nahhh, you're probably right. Obama was a malicious sadistic cock sucker of a president that actually took great pleasure in hunting endangered species.
/s
I wasn't suggesting he did this out of malice I was suggesting he did this with zero regard for how it might be viewed by American natives
Edit: did not see the /s but my point stands.
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