Or health care!

"My fellow Americans, today I announce I will be suspending Congress indefinitely, until I can bring you a Nordic style welfare state." I mean, I wouldn't approve, but at least I would disapprove less.

..or universal free healthcare

If you can apparently tear down entire institutions, why not private health insurance? If you could rewrite the rules, why not remove lobbying? Why is one side cheered by their fans for making things worse, while the other gets booed by their supporters for trying to make things better? Politics.

We Need The Eagle Team!

I love your YouTube Videos! Seriously, could you do a video on what we might be able to do via a Constitutional Convention to stop all this insanity?

Because every time they wield a torch it’s in the name of hate and oppression.

Ironically, that would actually save the US government and people a few billion a year due to having to convert for both imports and exports given that most of the rest of the world uses metric... and it's also technically the official system of the US as well.

I don't think we really need to be a country anymore. Maybe we should just go back to being colonies.

Do we still bother paying federal taxes? It's going direct to Elon Musk which doesn't seem fair.

Yes, but I made sure this year to review my payroll deductions to ensure I don't get a refund next year and instead will certainly owe some. No more interest -free loans of my money for them!

Sadly, not how it works but go for it

that's not how what works?

The federal government is the issuer of the currency, it spends money into existence thru appropriations, any taxes collected are destroyed, since once a dollar pays a tax, it's no longer a dollar. Prepaying taxes was never a loan, it was just you paying ahead of time into a tax, it funded nothing.

@legaleagle.bsky.social I don't think they can even do basic math. I don't see them switching to the metric system. It might be too liberal for them. They're likely going to make adult diapers and wipes cheaper. Trump diaper changes are cheaper for him. Unless he's sparing no expense on tax payer 💵

Because adopting the metric system would be un-American.

They did get rid of minting new pennies, so at least there’s that.

This actually made me laugh so thank you for that 😂 I know it feels like everything is falling apart, but it's fun to make jokes at the expense.

With any luck #Canada will invade. And, as someone who has traveled extensively in that wonderful nation to our north, I've already got the 'k to mph' conversion down. Thinking that the speed limit was 100mph and not 100Kph was a mistake. But also the best way to get through New Brunswick.

Canada uses imperial. Go to any house being built in Canada and look at the tape measures of the contractors. They will all be in inches.

Ya.....our tape measures have metric on one edge and imperial on the other. I've never seen a tape measure with only one, even outside of Canada. Imperial is used basically in cooking and some building (and even then official things like regulations still use metric) Everything else is Metric.

How much do you weigh in kilograms?

Honestly not sure exactly because I don't remember the last time I weighed myself. But somewhere around 64-70.

Is that in pounds, stones or kilos?

As someone who was raised in a metric household (my dad was a big fan - and oddly, not a commie), you can be glad that you run into repeating decimals less frequently than we do. I mean, just in case you wanted to feel good about SAE measurements.

Americans will use anything to measure something in order to avoid the metric system. "How far away is that?" "About 6 blue whales and a giraffe."

I believe the American Customary Unit for sizes/distances of roughly that scale is (American) Football Fields.

Yes. It also depends on what we're measuring. I just pushed it into ridiculous. (Anything to avoid metric.) Also, American football? Is there another kind? ⚽️🎿 😉

I added the caveat for our strangely and tragically yard-less friends overseas (may they eventually learn the error of their ways)

That might even have gotten the Canadians on board.

Question. (Off-Topic) It is illegal to aid a criminal. Trump winning the presidency made all federal indictments go away. Could we prosecute any person who voted for him? Assuming we find post/data showing they knew that would happen if he won.

I mean, we use it in the military. It's better for measuring things in every way.

Also, imperial units are technically defined by metric units. So we technically already use the metric system.

Hottest take yet, all my homies hate the metric system

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