“I will never go Metric!” which was mind boggling the day I remember Grandma saying this. I always thought she took it from the Mark Russell special on PBS in which he did a song to this effect. Then again, she had an opinion about so many things, even if she had no clue on what was entailed.
Almost 50 years later, the US remains stuck with its “Standard” as the default. Carter is the POTUS who continues to receive the blame when it was Ford who signed the bill to have the country converted over by 1986. If you want to blame the peanut farmer from Georgia for something enshittenfied, that would be airline deregulation.