Americans: we want affordable healthcare
US Government: best we can do is make eagles the official bird. You didn’t even know it wasn’t already, did you?
I had always thought it already was.
So, it was never official? They need a bill for this!?!?
Benny Franklin wanted the Turkey to be our national bird. He felt it was a noble breed. Stupid, but noble.
iirc, it wasn’t named natl. bird bcs you cant eat the natl. bird, and we uh, we like eating turkeys
Sort of lol. The story stems from his writing a letter to a cousin, I think, where it was mostly in jest about how the Bald Eagle is a thief, and a turkey would fight anything (because they are fucking stupid. I’ve seen Tom’s peck and kick at their own reflection in a Ford Explorer door).
They are also rather graceful.
But, I say turkey because, like. Have you ever seen them jumping to get at apples/crab apples?
It’s freaking amazing.
To be fair, the turkey he wanted to be the national bird was not the fat and stupid kind people eat for dinner, it was the angry dinosaur that was around in his day. I still see them around here. They have spurs on their legs that would rip your stomach open if it wanted to do it. You don’t want to fuck with a wild tom.
Another productive day for congress I see.
