Despite, only this year they will finally make the bald eagle the national bird. Which, I also learned that they are not official symbols until a President signs a document for them to be. It is just a recognized symbol but not official. (Just my opinion but why do they really need a bill for this? What changes would making anything like this official really do?)
Here is a list of other US symbols (article includes links to other countries of the world national symbols, some official, some not made official) if you are interested:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_symbols_of_the_United_States
Bald Eagle for national bird, but honorary mention for the red-tailed hawk, which is the sound people mistakenly associate it with
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.
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.
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.”
No the eagle was the national bird just ridiculous that they have to sign a whole bill for it to be official. Seems like a waste of resources.
How else would it be official though?
Presidential decree could be overturned every time the president changes. If there was an agency that declared things to be official, then they would have to pass a law to grant them the power to do that.
Being official always starts with laws, might as well do the whole thing at once.
Official by tradition or custom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Customary_law
Do we pick it by the species of which we murdered the most?
That’s be homo sapiens then.
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.
I just want the fresh mozz and a warm snuggle.
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.
Countries have national animals, if you look on the list of other countries’ animals, you can see it is usually because they are the most common or most unique in some way.
he must have been wearing a tan suit and everyone just got distracted
Is there anything a Trumpian can’t find offense if a black man has done it ?
you should ask a Trumpian, lol
Buffalo.
I will die on this hill.
European bison were called bison a thousand years before America was discovered by Europeans and is a very close relative (different species). Buffalo is the name of the African animal that is only distantly related (different genus) and has been called bufalus by Europeans since before America was discovered by those same Europeans.
If you are going to die on a hill, might as well call them by the names given to them by people who lived with them for thousands of years before Europeans came here:
in Arapaho: bii (bison cow), henéécee (bison bull)
in Lakota: pté (bison cow), tȟatȟáŋka (bison bull) - we all know how to pronounce that one, thanks to Dances with Wolves.
I’d be cool with calling them tȟatȟáŋka
Hennessey
Where is the home where the buffalo roam? Is it in Senegal?
Was Buffalo Bill called that because he was an African game hunter?
Is it called a buffalo nickel because it has a bison on it?
And I can’t speak for you, but I only see buffalo burger on menus as an alternative option, they seem to have left bison off.
I rest my case. And if you wish to appeal, you can write to me in Buffalo, New York.
Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.
I dunno, Bison Bison Bison (actual taxanomic name) might disagree with you!Don’t you try to buffalo me with your “science!”
Bye son.
left the comments and came back to hand you your fuckin props
If you are on a hill with either a Bison or a Buffalo, the odds of you dying are high.
What if the hill is a buffalo jump?
Both gonna die.
