Speaking of Faux News . . .

Holy crap, this has got to be the stupidest goddamn thing I have ever read in my life.From Tucker Carlson. whose bow tie is evidently choking off the oxygen supply to his tiny brain:TUCKER CARLSON (HOST): Almost every nation on Earth has fallen under the yoke of tyranny -- the metric system. From Beijing to Buenos Aires, from Lusaka to London, the people of the world have been forced to measure their environment in millimeters and kilograms. The United States is the only major country that has resisted, but we have no reason to be ashamed for using feet and pounds. ... JAMES PANERO: I am joining you tonight as an anti-metrite. I ' m taking a stand against the metric system -- the original system of global revolution and new world orders. CARLSON: God bless you, and that ' s exactly what it is. Esperanto died, but the metric system continues, this weird, utopian, inelegant creepy system that we alone have resisted.I fear that even to comment on this is degrading. Satire is obviously obsolete, because this would be great satire but it ' s real. These clowns think they are serious.The metric system was  first created in France after the revolution of 1789, which was not global and did not have any relationship to a new world order. But it did not gain formal international status until an international conferencein 1875, which involved 17 nations, none of them revolutionary, including the United States. As a matter of fact the units of the British Imperial System, which is c...
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