Former US President Jimmy Carter, 100, dies
Former US President Jimmy Carter, 100, dies
I wanna say a bunch of sappy shit but nothing sounds right. God I wish there were more good people in positions of power. Thanks for all you did President Carter.
He spoke to the American public like they were intelligent caring individuals. And they despised him for it. Immediately, overwhelmingly electing a huckster charlatan that told them they were all wonderful and perfect little children. Many of whom still worship that man to this day. With Trump being his second coming.
We truly never deserved jimmy. But we still desperately need someone like him to this day.
The media had a big hand in Reagan being elected over Carter. Every newscast every night had a clock on the number of days the US hostages were held by the Iranians. This was a constant reminder on what was perceived as Carter's failure. So much so, that Reagan sent George Scholtz, to Iran to make a deal for them to keep the hostages until after the election. Which was the begining of Iran-Contra. Anyway, that was the real reason.
If inclined to donate: Habitat for Humanity
There's also the Carter Center, which does some work that seems increasingly important what with the attacks against free elections lately across the world.
I can count how many I respect in the U.S. on one hand. It's... Something I try not to think about these days.
Everything is in decline, the ignorant just don't know it yet... And there's no way out for those of us stuck in this system. The wealthy can buy their bunkers, but the rest of us will live it.
Elon, Jeff, Trump... They are making a world they will never have to live in.
The last thing he witnessed was the US's fall into true Nazism
Probably saw that, …said “Fuck it. I’m out!”
If we all had an ounce of what that Man was in us, the world would simply be a better place. He talked it. He walked it. He made a real difference before, during, and after his presidency.
Rest well, Mr. Carter!
Maybe the only US president I can think of who seemed like a genuinely good person. But I wasn’t alive during his presidency so I don’t know what things may have happened then.
I was. Though too young to have any solid memories of it. But I remember growing up all the hate and ridicule thrown at him because he dared to treat Americans like they were intelligent adults.
his election in 1976 was the first one i remember. i was in primary school at the time. i got to stay up to watch the news coverage on tv that night.
i've been a dfl'er ever since.
in our own mock elections at school, he won by a wide margin (and again in 1980, as did mondale in 1984). in 1980, i was one of the kids in class assigned to stump for carter for a class project.
he will always be near the top of my list of favorite or 'best' presidents.
He was a little too naive as president. I think that was because he was too wholesome a person to really be in the role. But he did okay. He wasn't a great president, but equally he wasn't terrible. And he didn't deserve the hate and ridiculous he's received since. Especially considering his presidency was seriously undermined by his rivals.
My dad voted for Carter twice and always said Jimmy was too good of a man to be president.
Someone who wanted to not appear that he had a conflict of interest with his businesses...he sold his peanut farm. Boy... If only that amount of transparency was the norm with who will be running the country in a few weeks 🙄
You mean Elon, right? /s but not really
Well kinda, he put the business into a trust. Still it was the right thing to do yo eliminate conflict of interest.
Whaddya mean, the first time he paraded around boxes of blank paper to completely prove he had fully divested.
There are really good reasons to keep secret the totally real documents you’re openly describing & talking about (lol)
To be fair we don’t know if they were blank or official presidential documents like:
Bye Jimmy. Thank you for helping to eradicate the Guinea worm. That alone makes you one of the greatest men to walk the earth.
A life well lived. RIP Jimmy.
words from the Library of Congress "a naval officer, president, and global citizen and advocate for human dignity, racial and gender equality, and democratic values"
https://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2024/12/jimmy-carter-nations-39th-president-passes-away-at-100/
I think that Carter probably regretted in retrospect that he did not sharply criticize Ford for pardoning Nixon at the time and did not campaign at all for a criminal conviction. You can hardly blame him for that, because he was somewhat of a political outsider with ambition at the time. Nevertheless, his silence ultimately helped his successor, Reagan, to set the course for the current situation: The USA, the most militarily powerful nation in the world, in the hands of criminal brutes who cannot be prosecuted by legal means - an economic super power ruled solely by greed. Nevertheless, I think Carter was the last US president who deserved that title. Whoever came after him no longer represented the interests of the American people. I'm saying this as a European that has witnessed the US do nothing else but straight up villain politics for the last 25 years - probably way longer but that was before my time.
I am sad.
The world truly is missing someone who made it objectively better.
He supported and backed the Indonesian government in their genocide in East timor. He also supported the Khmer Rouge.
He wanted to lift sanctions against Rhodesia
He also sent millions of dollars to far right dictatorships, such as in El Salvador.
You liberals love it when polite decorum covers up the sins of the leader.
I was on board with your comment until you had to pull your tankie BS.
You guys realize that you sound like Trumpanzees with your "liberal" comments, right? Do you really want to associated with them? Think before you speak next time.
Damn didn't know east timor was under his presidency.
He was too good for us. Rest well, good sir.
Well. At least he didn't have to live to see fascism take over.
He's with his wife.
Happy for him. Sad for us.
Shit, who's gonna build all those houses?
He helped build like 4300.
I remember reading from somewhere that according to family he was very eager to get to vote one more time and to cast his vote for Harris. So glad he got the chance to do that before going, even though the result wasn't what he probably was hoping for.
He reached max level
I had the opportunity to meet him briefly when he was building houses for habitat. He was the real deal, he was hanging doors and working hard and genuinely wanted to help people. I joked to his secret service dudes that they must've been pretty happy not to have drawn the short straw and been working for 45 and they guffawed and nodded, in a very professional way of course.
Those secret service guys (I assume not Jimmy's) flat out deleted a bunch of pretty important evidence around J6. I think Commander Biden knew the score.
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So long, and thanks for all the cheese.
i remember that stuff. it was actually really good cheese.
Was good president, and great person.
RIP to a good person.
And the world is a little bit worse off without him. I'm glad he doesn't have to watch the fresh hell that is going to come of this country, must have been difficult enough to watch Trump's win.
At least he didn’t have to live to see Trump take office. This lame duck segment was bad enough
He won't wanna see this next bit.
Nooooooooo
MIKE! Did you let Crow get ahold of the voodoo dolls again?!
(Bye, Jimmy. You were a good man.)
Fuck ‘em, and this piece of shit nation he presided over.
Goodbye to bad rubbish,
